Posted on 12/04/2019 1:19:33 PM PST by V K Lee
A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her.
Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
Provider Samuel Goldwyn
Rating PG-13
Release date 2011
Running time 1:36:49
Language English
Actors
Taylor Schilling
Grant Bowler
Matthew Marsden
Graham Beckel
Edi Gathegi
Jsu Garcia
Michael Lerner
All three are available on YouTube. If you don’t mind the commercial interruptions, you can see all three.
I think the first installment was, by far, the best due to the chemistry between the principles.
What’s scary is the parallels between the premise of the book/film and what’s happening in the country today.
I agree, especially about the third one.
I watched “We The Living” back in the early ‘90s in Vancouver.
It’s Italian- made, produced during WWII with state support.
Once Il Duce realized it was not only anti-Red but anti-Fascist as well, it was hidden until release 25 or so years ago.
It’s an excellent film with well-known Italian stars .
You could probably rewrite it to be about ANY industry. But I agree that the railroad focus does kind of date it.
Turn it to the energy industry, for example.
I did not think they were star quality films, but given the subject matter, I had no problem finding the time to watch all three. Each one had it’s pluses and minuses...
I am a huge fan of her work, even if I find some of her personal views distasteful, and I fully understand the criticisms people have of her style.
Every few years I listen to Atlas Shrugged (Audiobook) and I skip over the lengthy monologue!
The message inherent in the work is well worth the time, even if it is occasionally depressing to see it expressed in real life.
DISCLAIMER: I know that some of these people are too old, or are not conservatives, etc, but as it said, it was one point in time...
That said, I have always found this exercise to be a fun one. Having read the book so often, these faces seem to match the characters in my mind...:)
Dagny Taggart would be one of the two:
or 
Hank Reardon:
Francisco d'Anconia :
Ellis Wyatt :
Jim Taggart :
And, of course, my favorite: Ragnar Danneskjöld :
Eddie Willers :
That would be a good one!
But if you really want to reach “the kids” make it telecom.
BTTT
Many times during the Obama regime that I thought the regime members were using Altas Shrugged as a guide for how the government should work.
Given how things are going today, other than President Trump and some republicans in congress, it seems that the guide for the government is a collaboration between Rand (The Fountainhead and Anthem) and George Orwell (1984 and Animal Farm!)
Given the “woke” idiots, I think maybe Bradbury’s Farenheit 451 isn’t too far off...
Mark
I wouldn’t want Dagny to be too beautiful. I think it would distract from her persona as a tough, smart, principled leader. Maybe Penelope Ann Miller or Angelina Jolie.
And I see someone like Allan Rachins as Dagny’s brother James. Maybe Mads Mikkelsen as Ragnar.
Other than that, I agree with your choices.
Heh, I find it to be a fun exercise...just like everyone thinks they can write a screenplay...we all think we can cast a movie too!
A return, only to say ‘Thank You’ for the link. The memory of the burning oil fields was the last of this movie. In the past 15 or so years, longed to see the final chapter. You made that possible. Again, many thanks.
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