Atlas Shrugged Part 1 - Trailer

Atlas Shrugged Movie ^

[kalee]

I did at the Fox in Atlanta.

[kalee]

roflol

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Good points.

[ml/nj]

I’m relieved that it will at least be a trilogy.

The problem with a trilogy is that many still think it's a story about railroads at the end of Part One.

ML/NJ

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Advancing digital technology may make "A" listers less and less necessary -- or at least put some downward pressure on their salaries.

Here's what I wrote on that topic, about a year ago:

Just the move from analogue film to digital recording and distribution; will have a drastic effect on the pay of movie stars.

The film stock for shooting a movie & making thousands of prints costs at least $10 million. Every other expense in movie making and distribution is inflated as a result. A movie needs to draw a huge audience, just to break even. Studios have been willing to pay stars seven figures, in order to “guarantee” a large audience.

With digital recording & distribution, the fixed costs of movie making goes down. Therefore, promotion budgets can be smaller, etc. Therefore, the studio can take a chance on using less famous talent & save tens of millions on pay for stars.

More here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451370/posts

When you consider the cost-savings on settings and special effects, thanks to CGI, the rationale for spending megabucks on "stars" becomes even more dubious.

[Tublecane]

That’s a good picture, and it almost convinced me. Then I remembered she is primarily known as a redhead. I don’t recall precisely but I think Dagny’s blonde, and that just doesn’t seem right.

[NoGrayZone]

I like her....just not for Dagny!

[Tublecane]

“He let the others destroy themselves. There’s a difference.”

That’s like saying union strike organizers merely let businesses sit idly. He didn’t just sit back and let it happen; he deliberately and with great effort set out to convince men (and women) of genius and titans of industry to give up. Then, in a nationwide radio broadcast, he goads anyone listening to give up. That’s not “let[ting] the others destroy themselves.”

[eddie willers]

Here's a shot of the actress in character.

Looks like Dagny to me:

[Tijeras_Slim]

You’ve pretty nice considering your retirement plan consisted of wandering down the tracks to an unknown fate. ;)

[ml/nj]

That’s like saying union strike organizers merely let businesses sit idly.

Hardly. Unions PREVENT businesses from hiring replacements and work to organize boycotts of those businesses' products while strikes are ongoing. I wonder if you consider yourself a murderer because you don't do all you can send food and medicine to the Sudan.

ML/NJ

[Larry Lucido]

We sometimes refer to the premises as “starving the beast.” At some point, a productive person chooses to stop acquiescing in his own slavery. I think that’s a better analogy.

We may not be at that point in today’s U.S., but we’re at least arguably closing in on it.

And there are countless examples in other societies where continued productivity would constitute acquiescence in evil. That is the premise in Atlas Shrugged.

[eddie willers]

Actually, I meet a guy named MacGyver and we make jet packs out of fire extinguishers, baking powder and vinegar and retire to Colorado.

[Tublecane]

“Unions PREVENT businesses from hiring replacements and work to organize boycotts of those businesses’ products while strikes are ongoing.”

They use force, which is different. But not in result. The book clearly presents Galt as successful in executing his plan to wreck the U.S. and replace it with a libertarian Utopia. Just because he does it through the power of persuasion instead of the power of coercion does not mean he didn’t do it. Most importantly, this was not done by sitting back, and that’s all I was saying.

“I wonder if you consider yourself a murderer because you don’t do all you can send food and medicine to the Sudan.”

That’s not the same thing, and I think you know it. But just for argument’s sake, I would consider anyone who had successfully convinced everyone in the world to deny the importation of food as having starved the Sudan.

[Tublecane]

“That’s not the same thing”

By which I mean to say that the crisis in the Sudan started by itself—or, in any case, wasn’t started by me—whereas the one in “Atlas Shrugged” is caused by Galt. Not that things were fine before he showed up. But they got markedly worse during his strike.

We’re not dealing with the inevitable decay of collectivism, here. We’re dealing with Galt’s “revolutionary vanguard” deliberately accelerating the decay.

[rbg81]

I just realized another reason why the trailer bothered me. The world in the movie looks too damn polished for AS. In AS, the world is the process of falling apart. Its kind of hard to make that case when people are using high speed trains, cell phones, and computers. Maybe things will change in later installments, but you’ve got to find a way of conveying considerable decay and despair to make the premise credible—the trailer didn’t accomplish that.

[ml/nj]

I would consider anyone who had successfully convinced everyone

Is Rush a destroyer too?

ML/NJ

[eddie willers]

We’re dealing with Galt’s “revolutionary vanguard” deliberately accelerating the decay.

So you're saying they should have continued working because society needs them?

Maybe they should have been compelled....you know...for the greater good.

[BreitbartSentMe]

Exactly right Eddie, they’re trying to say that it the producers have a DUTY to produce for the masses, because the masses are incompetent.

All Galt did was convince the competent to completely comply with the government’s dictates. Desiring to be paid for their labor was labeled as ‘selfish’, so they decided not to be selfish anymore, not to labor on behalf of anyone.

[CutePuppy]

When I do the Audible version, Dagny is always played by a young Barbara Stanwick in my head, I don't know why.

Probably subliminal; maybe because of her involvement with another Ayn Rand's work / movie Fountainhead (1949)? Interesting background at link on Stanwyck's "role" in making it into a movie, though ultimately the role of Dominique went to Patricia Neal.

For the life of me, even though I have a clear picture of Dagny in my head, I can't think of any actress that would live up to her.

I've always envisioned only one actress as Dagny: “Network” era Faye Dunaway... I honestly can't think of anyone else who fits my picture of her.

Try Angie Harmon?