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| Garth Franklin
Posted on 09/22/2006 3:18:25 AM PDT by everitt12
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I cannot believe that Angelina Jolie, Saint UNICEF herself, has been chosen to play Dagney Taggert. It's ironic if not moronic. I'm not really a Rand follower, but I think if she were alive today Rand would pull the plug on this casting.
I realize Jolie is just an actress, and nice eye candy, but she's also basically a socialist. And when someone in the public eye chooses to lend their name to a cause or endorses a set of values, it colors the way the public recieves their work.
Finally, I believe that the core audiance for this film will be Rand's hardcore readers. They will probably be completly outraged. Somebody start the boycott clock.
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posted on
09/22/2006 3:18:27 AM PDT
by
everitt12
To: everitt12
An actor's job is to be someone they aren't. It's what they get paid for. Relax, eh?
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posted on
09/22/2006 3:20:02 AM PDT
by
Glenn
(Annoy a BushBot...Think for yourself.)
To: everitt12
If she can keep her big mouth shut and not pretend to be an geopolitical analysis that needs to inform us poor slobs of her apparent brilliance and just act and do it well, I have no problem with her being cast as Dagney Taggert.
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posted on
09/22/2006 3:23:10 AM PDT
by
Popman
("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
To: everitt12
Straight to hell with the movie! (Read the book!)
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posted on
09/22/2006 3:26:46 AM PDT
by
Niteranger68
(I gigged your peace frog.)
To: everitt12
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posted on
09/22/2006 3:31:21 AM PDT
by
bonfire
To: bonfire
I'm not sure if anyone has been cast, but Brad Pitt is listed on the IMDB as being in talks to play the part. Honestly, Pitt seems like he would be a good choice for the role. His Tyler Durder is one of the greatest characters in modern film, IMHO. The rest of the cast is still up in the air.
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posted on
09/22/2006 3:42:14 AM PDT
by
everitt12
To: everitt12
"Finally, I believe that the core audiance for this film will be Rand's hardcore readers. They will probably be completly outraged" I don't know anything about her politics, but if she's really a Rand fan, she's not a socialist. She at least comes off as a good personality fit with Dagney.
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posted on
09/22/2006 4:01:45 AM PDT
by
elfman2
(An army of amateurs doing the media's job.)
To: everitt12
Liberals have a funny way they interpret things. Who can read the First Amendment and think that it protects the right to expose oneself in public but does not protect someone from saying a prayer in public?
To: everitt12
"Finally, I believe that the core audiance for this film will be Rand's hardcore readers. They will probably be completly outraged"True.
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posted on
09/22/2006 4:25:01 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Treaty Fetishism: "[The] belief that a piece of paper will alter the behavior of thugs." R. Lowry.)
To: everitt12
... Pitt is also being touted to replace Tom Cruise in the Mission Impossible sequels.....!
To: everitt12
"His Tyler Durder is one of the greatest characters in modern film, IMHO."His name is Tyler Durden.
Signed,
his name is robertpaulsen
To: everitt12
My choices: Jude Law as Hank Rearden and Gwyneth Paltrow as Dagney Taggart.
To: everitt12
I would be more concerned with who writes the screenplay than with who does the acting.
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posted on
09/22/2006 8:32:32 AM PDT
by
oldsalt
(There's no such thing as a free lunch.)
To: everitt12
If Jolie really thinks she's a Rand Fan, she really exposes herself to be totally toopid.
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posted on
09/22/2006 8:39:33 AM PDT
by
Miss Behave
(You can't negotiate with people who want to kill you more than they want to live. ~Caller to Hannity)
To: bonfire
So who is John Galt?
They haven't decided yet but how about James Woods?
Baldwin for Mooch?
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posted on
09/22/2006 8:42:39 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)
To: bonfire
Hee hee . . . you've been waiting forever to ask that in context, haven't you? ;)
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posted on
09/22/2006 8:43:53 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Jeez, and y'all laugh at Texans.)
To: everitt12
I like to mock Brad Pitt as much as the next guy, but I have to admit, he isn't scared to look and act nasty in pursuit of acting excellence.
His "12 Monkeys" character was electrifying. Tyler Durden was magnificent.
He may very well be the John Lithgow of the younger set - such a chameleon, you forget you're watching Brad Pitt.
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posted on
09/22/2006 8:45:04 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Jeez, and y'all laugh at Texans.)
To: robertpaulsen
That was such a visually odd movie! Almost plastic-looking.
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posted on
09/22/2006 8:45:42 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Jeez, and y'all laugh at Texans.)
To: everitt12
She's been selected for a movie role, not for president.
A bit of perspective here.
To: RacerF150
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"Yes, at first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of s--t, I am never reading again."
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posted on
09/22/2006 8:48:00 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
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