Atlas Shrugged: The movie
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 - 10:33am
Didn't see that one coming!
Starring Angelina Jolie as Dagny Taggard and Brad Pitt as John Gant in the main roles. Reportedly, they are fans of Ayn Rand. This is going to be very interesting. I personally hope for something of crossover quality between the Sky Captain & World of Tomorrow and Bioshock. With lots and lots of shooting, explosions, and smoove Brangelina looks. And a smattering social commentary on the side.
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Nopem sorry please don't make it, the past versions have sucked and this one will suck! You can not contain this book in a movie! please move on... and if Brad Pit and Angelina Jolie are actual Rand fans.. haha! I don't think so.
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Ehh *shrugs*.
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This has been a pet project of Jolies for many years now. Maybe even before she met Pit. There's been so many different directors signed up for it that i've lost count.
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I sooooo don't trust Hollywood in any form or fashion to accurately handle turning this book into a movie. The thought makes me ((shudder)).
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It's not that I have a lot of confidence in Hollywood, it's just that I don't think that Atlas Shrugged was much of a novel. As far as philosophies masquerading as stories, I have to vote for Camus (or, for that matter, Moses) before Rand.
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Really? Between Jolie's association with UNHCR and Pitt's with Global Green USA, I don't think Ayn Rand would be a big fan of them.
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Isn't that like being surprised at someone who claims to be a fan of Lord of the Rings because they don't LARP?
Here's the last bit i've seen from back in April from an interview with the current writer/director. Talks about Atlas near the end of the interview.
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I guess my view is colored by the fact that I don't think Ayn Rand's writing is very good outside of the social commentary of it. It's closer to finding out that an L. Ron Hubbard fan is a psychiatrist.
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My opinion is colored by the fact that I've met about four people who really, truly, tried to live Objectivism. They were split between uncaring and unhappy, and each of them left a trail of emotional wreckage behind them that was awesome to behold. Probably all four are in the top five people I simply could not get along with.
Self-centered, self-important, self-aggrandizing, self-ish... Objectivism seems to just give people the idea that they can justify being jerks to other people by pointing to a mediocre novelist with a self-destructive cadre of sycophants who could not even avoid falling out fighting over her legacy.
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Self-destructive cadre of sycophants has an almost lyrical quality to it. It would probably be a fantastic band name.
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Hear, hear! I hate Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Objectivism, and if you wanna call me ignorant for hating them without ever having read the book well...
...I played the video game! So nyah!
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Agreed! Atlas Shrugged is one of the most confusingly written tomes I've tried reading.
This will be a CGI movie with naked likeness of Anthony Hopkins emerging from the water very slowly for the duration of 1.5 hours.
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I don't mean to be a book snob, but Atlas Shrugged isn't really a great story... BioShock got a lot of people to look into it but Ayn Rand was not a very good storyteller.
Of course neither is Dan Brown, but we're only now finally getting over DiVinci Code mania.
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Isn't that the one where he actually bases much of the book on a *lie* about what's printed on a dollar bill? Maybe the single most common US government document, in everyone's pocket, and he *lies* about it? I dunno... That took the willing suspension of disbelief to a whole new level.
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I just got past the part in Tobias Wolf's 'Old School' where Rand comes to the school as a visiting writer. It is hilarious... but the main character's ensuing comedown after a short love affair with The Fountainhead is a well-stated dismissal of her tripe (tripe that hypnotized and basically cost me my friendship with my best childhood pal).
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Well everyone can breathe a bit easier.
Movie is off again. Possibly for good this time.
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Arise, thread!
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I'm hoping this is good, but I will remain skeptical until I see it. There's too many ways a film adaptation can go wrong.
I hold Atlas Shrugged on a pedestal because I was in the middle of a mid-college crisis where I was failing to attain my dream job. It got me to go back to work and returned me to someone I was before falling into a typical college mentality of having fun when you can. It's nice to read about smart people who have worked all their lives to achieve their goals as opposed to the average joe finding out they are amazing at something. It's a too common architecture in American literature that I'm sick of.
I may have to give the book a second reading after seeing the movie. It will be interesting to read it from where am now as opposed to where I was when I first cracked the binder.
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That is a terrible trailer. It's a movie about boring people and trains?
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You read the book? That about sums it up.
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I got through the first 100 pages of that book (it's a thing I do. Books get the first 100 pages for free. Then they have to earn my interest.) and couldn't get over the fact that it was just a love letter to social cannibalism. The thought of a Hollywood glorification of this sort of crap just sounds a bit too much like Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will.
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That's exactly what it is. Although, it seemed like they were trying to make it look like an action movie.
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