Posted on 08/12/2014 7:56:37 AM PDT by shove_it
Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged is a feature length documentary film that examines the resurging interest in Ayn Rand's epic and controversial 1957 novel and the validity of its dire prediction for America...
(full cast revealed at link plus two teaser vids)
(Excerpt) Read more at imdb.com ...
AS Part 1 was not very good, but AS part 2 was much better and picked up toward the end of the film. I am looking forward to part 3, but don’t expect it to be any block buster hit. The first two parts are on Netfliks
The nearest real life analogy to Rand's "Going Galt" is when the garbagemen go on strike. That's when the world panics.
“The Fountainhead” was very very long as well, but Ayn Rand managed to write a two-hour screenplay version of it.
The busses go on strike and the people take cabs or subways and vice versa. The hospitals go on strike and the death rate can actually go down because fewer people with communicable diseases are swarming the hospitals. The cops go on strike and people go to work earlier, leave earlier and avoid late hours when the criminals are most active.
But the garbagemen go on strike and the city has about four days, max, before it really, really hurts.
I kind of felt the same way as you did about the first two parts.
I don’t think they are the kind of thing that is going to convert anyone, but...as someone who has read and listened to Atlas Shrugged many times, my mind could fill in the blanks.
I thought it was about 100 pages. Either way it was the reading equivalent of beating a dead horse over and over again. The repetition of the same point wanted me to gouge my eyes out.
I thought the first two movies followed the novel well. However, character development was insufficient for viewers who hadn't read the book.
For example, the scene in Part I where Dagny, upon meeting Francisco at a hotel/restaurant, throws a glass of wine in his face. Without reading the book, you would have no context.
Adapting a long complicated book that took place in the years prior 1957 to the world of today on a cheap movie budget is quite a trick. For the audience to get it, it helps to have lived during WWII and the cold war years that followed in the 1940s-50s, experiencing life in the USA before the advent of ‘the nanny state’. Having the experience of traveling cross country by train during those years helps too, before the prevalence of air travel.
Hehehee...I guess we just about narrowed ourselves down there!
But I think you are correct.
Dagny? Is that you? ;-)
I can see how people think that, especially if they didn't read the book. As it is, I like it if only as a set of illustrations to accompany the book. I can't see anyone making sense of it otherwise. It would be choppy. The casting change just adds to the confusion.
I may alone in this but I liked the first cast better. I liked Taylor Schilling as Dagny. They should've given her black hair, but apart from that I thought she nailed it. Especially the final scene at Wyatt's Torch. Loved that scene. Grant Bowler was a good Rearden. The new cast is fine, but there was nothing wrong with the first ones.
I watched the first one and agree that the first cast was better...
The second movie was simply unwatchable...I turned it off after about 10 minutes...
You are not alone. I liked the first cast better as well.
I just watched Atlas Shrugged. Part 1 last night. Part 2 tonight. Thanks to “Matt Kibbe-Freedom Works” on utube.
I love the show even if they changed actors Not boring at all. Can’t wait to see part 3.
Agree. The constant recasting of the major characters is disruptive. Maybe it is because of the budget? Saw AS III today. There were maybe 10 people in the theater, all middle age or older. No young people at all and that is what is needed. The movie is low budget with mostly little known actors and suffers because of it. It is a labor of love, but it needed more of a spark to draw in an audience. It is quite didactic and is almost like an audio book at the beginning. It improves later, but it will not be a financial success nor reach other than the true believers IMO.
Any comments by Freepers who have seen the first showing of the new AS III?
I think I’m going to wait a while and then on a rainy Saturday watch all three from start to finish. At least that is the plan
after seeing Freeper disdain for # 1, I might not make it all the way through
They should have seriously studied (or hired the production team) of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. If you've never seen it, it's set in a fantasy universe with a late 1930s, retro feel with something of an ambiguous date (the antagonist is a war criminal from WWI and the protagonist is a Flying Tigers veteran, but there's no indication WWII had yet started). Somehow they pulled it off. The film had some bigger stars but still operated on a relatively tight budget for a major Hollywood film. While it didn't do all that well at the box office, IMHO, it's still a pretty fine film, and one of it's stronger points is how it created a credible, palpable sense of an earlier era, although a fantasy/fiction one.
“Any comments by Freepers who have seen the first showing of the new AS III?”
Go here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3203437/posts
Thanks for your comment. I’m going to copy & paste it to the thread I posted yesterday reviewing the AS3 movie posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3203437/posts
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