Posted on 02/11/2011 3:00:47 PM PST by BreitbartSentMe
The trailer for Atlas Shrugged Part 1 has finally been released!
My dau. and hubby were stationed at BNAS.
The last year they were there, the base was busy building all new housing, etc.
Not long after, they closed the base. Yep. Wonder who ended up benefit ting from all that gov’t spending?
Houlton and Caribou - brrr ;o) .
Have you seen the documentary done on Houlton a few years ago? It was fascinating! Absolutely incredible, those people! Good stock up there! (Very little liberal stock, I'm thinking. They just aren't the hardy, stalwart kind of folk)
If I recall correctly, at the opening of the book, the conductor on the train Dagny was riding on was whistling a “lost” theme from her favorite composer. We find out later that the composer had vanished and moved to the Gulch, which is the only place the conductor could have heard the music. Methinks that that conductor was John Galt.
The Anonymous Rail Worker that takes his meals with Eddie Willers was Galt.
You actually get used to the cold there ( as I complain about Zero here in Columbus, I’m just getting old.)
I’d love to see the Houlton documentary. Let me know about the details, I’d love to download it
My Uncle was a Houlton town councilman for decades, but he’s now in his 80s.
what about the wind?
I know I don’t mind the cold so much as the biting wind.
It makes a BIG difference, as I’m sure you know.
We have had NO thaw this winter. the snow just keeps piling up. Were it not for my wonderful neighbor raking off my roof and Quonset Hut ‘garage’, they well may have collapsed with the last storm.
I'll take three feet of snow any day.
I was in Woodstock (across from Houlton) in January 2009 at minus 50 and three feet of snow. I'll take it over an inch of solid ice.
Yes, it was totally a question of finances, there is no studio behind it. They are hoping for more financial support for the 2nd and 3rd movies, but are not willing to just turn it over to a ‘studio’ to make the other parts. It seems like most of the cast/crew worked for minimum scale wages because they were all so committed to seeing it done the right way. I think that spirit will carry through on the screen.
Yes, it won’t have the gloss of most of the movies today, they had to do a lot of work with green screens because they didn’t have the budget for huge sets. The larger problem with the dialog is that it is impossible to bring it as a movie and leave the original dialog intact. People don’t have the patience and attention to words in a movie, like they do when reading.
I’m not even doing a good job of explaining it in writing. I think most people today are ‘visual’ learners, I know I for sure am. Anything I see takes precedence over anything I hear. That’s why I’m terrible on the phone, I constantly lose the conversation, because something I see has interrupted the flow.
When I read, the words capture all my attention, and the ‘movie’ is created in my head. There is nothing visual to interrupt. When I watch a movie, what I am seeing, many times, takes my attention away from what I am hearing, and I lose the dialog. There isn’t time in movies for long, dense blocks of language, it would just bog down the flow.
Anyway, I am very hopeful that the movie will just capture the true spirit of Ayn Rand’s story. I’m not going to quibble word choices, or deleted scenes, or added scenes. In re-reading the book again right now, I am recognizing scenes in the book that would just not translate well to a movie. I’m just glad that the attempt was made.
The cast and crew gave their best efforts to this movie. I applaud them for that. If someone thinks they could make the movie better, I invite them to try. The best version will rise to the top, be the most successful, and make the most money. That is the beauty of competition, it forces everyone to put out the best product they can. What else could Ayn Rand ask for?
(sorry to be so long-winded)
Nor have we. BUT, we are forecasted for a week in the 50s starting next Monday. Hopefully, that will advance to you.
I pray to God (sorry, Ayn) that the message of these movies stays faithful to Ayn’s original “Atlas Shrugged”, which I FINALLY finished only a few short weeks ago.
Here’s a taste of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jHuTg0ul1s
and you can get the DVD
https://houltonalumni.site-ym.com/store/default.asp
I can’t find it anywhere else -
Thanks!
It's already "hit the fan." And now we've just had a tectonic-shift of an election last November, and our new control of the House is going to result in what? A measly $100 billion in cuts -- out of a $3 trillion budget!!!
And that's the best our new "leadership" can do, at least until the next election cycle. But there is simply no more time to wait for 2012, no escape. What lies before us now is default on our debt or hyperinflating our way out of it. We'll be well down the road to either one before the 2012 cycle.
That was exactly my thought...April 15th....Hmmmm...How appropriate... :-) They are certainly playing all the angles. I hope Hollywood can ACTUALLY do it JUSTICE! This is one I’ll see...
If I quibble about any of the casting I have seen so far, it would be that Jim Taggart looks too young. (but, then again, everybody is starting to look too young to me)
I'm also surprised to see that they set it in contemporary times, but kept the RR motif.
I also like the actor playing my screen name. He played Dr. "Big Love" Cole (the black Mormon) who tried out for Gregory House's team on the TV show, House MD.
I’ve always envisioned only one actress as Dagny: “Network” era Faye Dunaway. Young enough, old enough, steely enough, and attractive enough. Plus a good actress. I honestly can’t think of anyone else who fits my picture of her.
Hank
I'd have loved Hedy Lamarr.
pingaling
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