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Atlas Shrugged Part 1 - Trailer
Atlas Shrugged Movie ^

Posted on 02/11/2011 3:00:47 PM PST by BreitbartSentMe

The trailer for Atlas Shrugged Part 1 has finally been released!


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: atlas; atlasshrugged; aynrand; rand; trailer
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To: Bush_Democrat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6-3I9JHllc&feature=player_embedded


161 posted on 02/11/2011 6:20:01 PM PST by maine-iac7
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To: Huck
The theatrical cut of Blade Runner is an incoherent mess. Pretty much unwatchable.

If you're close to NY or LA, keep an eye out for Lawrence. They break out the 70mm print every few years. Definitely worth it, if you can stand theater seating for four hours.

162 posted on 02/11/2011 6:22:39 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Misterioso
So much for the power of the establishment. :•)

May it continue in the same way ;o)

163 posted on 02/11/2011 6:22:39 PM PST by maine-iac7
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Totally agree about Bladerunner—the theatrical cut is unwatchable. Idiot studio execs butchered it. Glad they did a director’s cut. I’m close enough to NYC for Lawrence, but I’m not sure that’s enough to get me to go into the city. I hate it and pretty much never go. And I’m not sure I can sit still for the whole thing.


164 posted on 02/11/2011 6:25:30 PM PST by Huck (one per-center)
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To: buccaneer81
and that is why I'm thankful I got back to my home state and into the boonies long ago.

But I worry sick for my kids and grand-kids - and generations beyond. I fear a 80 year siege like after the Bolshevik Revolution

but I also hold up hope in that WE are not a country of 'gunless' people. Despots have, heretofore, always had to disarm the populace before the takeover.

Lord knows they've tried - but alas. it seems the ONLY thing this regime has been good for is the sale of guns and ammo ;o)

An armed country - particularly one as big as America - will not be easily put down. And the number of people who are preparing for hard times - including gov't control of food (and they are on the brink of that, I could tell you how - but that's another story) - there' WILL be many people who will not bow down quietly.

165 posted on 02/11/2011 6:32:23 PM PST by maine-iac7
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To: buccaneer81
and that is why I'm thankful I got back to my home state and into the boonies long ago.

But I worry sick for my kids and grand-kids - and generations beyond. I fear a 80 year siege like after the Bolshevik Revolution

but I also hold up hope in that WE are not a country of 'gunless' people. Despots have, heretofore, always had to disarm the populace before the takeover.

Lord knows they've tried - but alas. it seems the ONLY thing this regime has been good for is the sale of guns and ammo ;o)

An armed country - particularly one as big as America - will not be easily put down. And the number of people who are preparing for hard times - including gov't control of food (and they are on the brink of that, I could tell you how - but that's another story) - there' WILL be many people who will not bow down quietly.

167 posted on 02/11/2011 6:34:57 PM PST by maine-iac7
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To: Bush_Democrat

Toward the end of the trailer, a woman (Dagny) tosses a drink in a man’s face. Francisco? Hope not. If that’s them, the producer’s grasp of the characters isn’t what it should be.

In the book, Rearden slapped Francisco. Great scene, conveyed character exquisitely.

And who’s Dagny threatening, if he double crosses her? Is that James? Doesn’t ring true at all.


168 posted on 02/11/2011 6:36:14 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (BYOST -- bring your own sark tag. Thank you.)
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To: Bush_Democrat
I first read it back in the 1960s. Immediately after the Kenyans coronation, I pulled it out for another read. Guess what - couldn't do it. Eyesight and concentration has deteriorated to the point where I went to the library and checked out the 32-disk CD set. That is the way to get it in these later years. It is as relevant today as it was in the late 40s-50s.

Obama's Directive 10-289, November 02, 2008

'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years, JANUARY 9, 2009.
169 posted on 02/11/2011 6:42:23 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Huck

Funny, when we walked out of the movie, a friend of mine said “Great movie. I won’t ever sit through the whole thing again.”

We all nodded and agreed. It was a long four hours.


170 posted on 02/11/2011 6:44:47 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Bush_Democrat
Thanks for that link!

It sounds like the director really ‘gets it’ - and the ‘Reardon” actor understands Reardon.

Those are two great portents for good.

Did I understand him to say that this first movie takes up only the first 129 pages of the book? How many in the series?

And he said he never shows Galt’s face??? I can understand that for the bulk of the movie - as Galt is really a ‘shadow’ for most of the book.

But at the end? AT Galt’s Gulch? Is Galt’s Gulch going to be it it? It MUST be. That is in everyones head. We have our own version/vision of a place to ride out the storm, if it can't be stopped.

I get the feeling that all the episodes aren't in the can yet? Does anyone know?

171 posted on 02/11/2011 6:55:46 PM PST by maine-iac7
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To: ladyvet
Reminds me of a B-sticker we saw while dropping off some stuff at Goodwill a few months ago: "Joe Wilson is right".

We did a little handslapping with the gal who had it, all laughing at how her car woudn't get keyed since it went over "progressive" heads.

172 posted on 02/11/2011 7:04:25 PM PST by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: Bush_Democrat

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!


173 posted on 02/11/2011 7:14:17 PM PST by sand lake bar
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To: maine-iac7

I’ve been looking hard at heading back to the land of my relatives and ancestors, too. Aroostook County is as far off the beaten path as anywhere in America. Great people, and I’ve always loved it there.


174 posted on 02/11/2011 7:23:04 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: maine-iac7
including gov't control of food (and they are on the brink of that, I could tell you how - but that's another story)

The price of food, driven in part by the manipulation of corn supplies is a start...

175 posted on 02/11/2011 7:26:35 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Misterioso
So you're saying Ayn Rand is a great dramatic writer in the tradition of Hugo, Victor, O Henry, Franz Kafka, etc?

She is a philosopher, first and foremost, who put her philosophies into passable novels.

It's her ideas that are important. The novels are simply vehicles.

176 posted on 02/11/2011 7:35:56 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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To: Bush_Democrat
Now THAT is what I call "high speed rail"!
177 posted on 02/11/2011 7:39:11 PM PST by magellan
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

I do think that Dagny is threatening James in that clip. I checked back to the scene I was thinking of, when she tells him that she’s leaving Taggart to form her own company to build the John Galt Line with Reardon metal to Colorado. He forces her to agree if it is not successful, she has make her leave of absence permanent, and if she IS successful, she has to sell the line back to Taggart at cost, not take a ‘windfall profit’ from it. She agrees, and then when he starts prattling on about having to get the approvals from Washington, Dagny finally gets angry and tells James he has to keep the ‘washington boys away from her, or else. I assume they decided to give her more of a verbal ‘edge’ here, when in the book that edge was just explained by a violent look in her face. The passage in the book explains quite eloquently, but in the movie the audience might not grasp it just visually.

JMHO, BTW...

Not sure about the scene with the drink in the face, we’ll have to see.


178 posted on 02/11/2011 7:56:08 PM PST by BreitbartSentMe (ATLAS SHRUGGED was supposed to be a warning, NOT a newspaper.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I like the idea that they are making 3 Atlas Shrugs movies similar to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.


179 posted on 02/11/2011 8:05:36 PM PST by techno
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To: Bush_Democrat

Bump


180 posted on 02/11/2011 8:08:04 PM PST by tutstar
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