Posted on 02/11/2011 3:00:47 PM PST by BreitbartSentMe
The trailer for Atlas Shrugged Part 1 has finally been released!
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.
May it continue in the same way ;o)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
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.
The price of food, driven in part by the manipulation of corn supplies is a start...
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.
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.
I like the idea that they are making 3 Atlas Shrugs movies similar to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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