WHAT?!! ATLAS SHRUGGED... a MOVIE?
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It's also one of the greatest books Ive ever read. Very pertinent to our times. If you havent read it, well worth the investment of $10 and 1200 pages of reading.
How theyll make this into a movie i dont know. All the characters are larger than life. I had heard this was in the works for awhile now, with Angolina Jolie as the lead but I guess they went a different direction. Interesting they took the modernist approach to the movie vs the 40s-50s scenes which I always viewed it to be in my mind's eye.
Should be some great RR scenes with trains riding on Rearden Steel...
How theyll make this into a movie i dont know. All the characters are larger than life. I had heard this was in the works for awhile now, with Angolina Jolie as the lead but I guess they went a different direction. Interesting they took the modernist approach to the movie vs the 40s-50s scenes which I always viewed it to be in my mind's eye.
Should be some great RR scenes with trains riding on Rearden Steel...
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Motley
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What? Another train movie? OMG that is awesome!
I thought after Unstoppable came out, it was gonna be another 10 years before we saw another movie about trains.
btw, I just got Unstoppable on blu-ray, and watched it again. And also watched all the extras, which was very cool. And how they made the scene when the two SD40s derailed.
I thought after Unstoppable came out, it was gonna be another 10 years before we saw another movie about trains.
btw, I just got Unstoppable on blu-ray, and watched it again. And also watched all the extras, which was very cool. And how they made the scene when the two SD40s derailed.
Lightstorm
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Haven't read the book, but from that trailer it looks really interesting. Doesn't look like it will be entirely focused on the trains like Unstoppable, so won't have to worry about a bunch of unrealistic stunt scenes thrown in just for entertainment purposes.
When I watched Unstoppable I began to wonder halfway through it whether I was watching a movie about a runaway train or if it was really about the crazy helicopter pilots flying at tree level.
When I watched Unstoppable I began to wonder halfway through it whether I was watching a movie about a runaway train or if it was really about the crazy helicopter pilots flying at tree level.
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It's well worth a read, Light... I highly recommend it.
It'll easily take three movies to do justice to this sweeping larger than life epic of the WAR between American Capitalist producers and liberal socialist parasites.
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The possibility to mess it up willl always be there... but understanding that a movie always falls short of a novel because a movie does not involve your own imagination... it'll be pretty good for what it is.
Greg
It's well worth a read, Light... I highly recommend it.
It'll easily take three movies to do justice to this sweeping larger than life epic of the WAR between American Capitalist producers and liberal socialist parasites.
You're not biased are you?
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You're not biased are you?
No more than everyone else who has opinions. You'll either love the story or you'll hate it, depending on your own bias. Atlas Shrugged was written in a time when railroads defined America, so they will be featured prominently throughout story. Just from the trailer, there ought to be lots of good train footage.
Greg
Charles Smiley
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Atlas, the movie? Is it in N or HO gauge?
No more than everyone else who has opinions. You'll either love the story or you'll hate it, depending on your own bias. Atlas Shrugged was written in a time when railroads defined America, so they will be featured prominently throughout story. Just from the trailer, there ought to be lots of good train footage.
Greg
I was actually referencing your capitalist / socialist comment. But whatever.
Lightstorm
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I've given up on comparing movies to the novels they are based on because more often than not you will be disappointed.The possibility to mess it up willl always be there... but understanding that a movie always falls short of a novel because a movie does not involve your own imagination... it'll be pretty good for what it is.
Greg
A book has so many things that can be left to ones own imagination like you've said that it's impossible to always get it right for everybody. If you've read the book then try to think of the movie as something entirely new based off the same ideas and not something that is trying to copy the book.
I think they are trying to get away from being a copy of the book by changing the time period and making it more modern. Plus making it more modern appeals to the younger crowd.
I'll watch it because the previews appeal to me and it looks like it has an interesting story, with trains
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I know. Both are biases... each one viewing the other as being wrong.
You have a good attitude, Loud.
As those two biases are irreconcileable,
they cannot be resolved by words.
Greg
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Exactly.
There are millions of imaginary versions of the book, one for each person who has read it.
Very perceptive. They came up with a brilliant approach to get around trying to copy the book. I really like their use of fresh face no-name actors so that you don't attach them to any other movie. It's a stroke of genius to appeal to the younger generations because the original generation who read her book is already dying off.
I was a kid when Rand's book first came out in 1957, but when I was older I took great delight in reading it. To date, I've read it three times and have used her book as an "operating manual" in my business for over 30 years.
You may not know this... Atlas Shrugged is a VERY unusual book.
From 2000 through 2008, Ayn Rand's huge 1,000+ page epic's sales averaged a staggering 166,000 copies a year even though the book is over 50 years old.
Now if you think that's amazing sales for an old book from a long dead author...
Since January 2009, more than 600,000 copies have been sold. That's 530,000 more than it sold in its first year of publication!
There's a reason for this. Long ago Rand accurately predicted in Atlas Shrugged exactly what is happening economically in America today, and she also describes exactly what to do about it, so that you will not only just prevail, you'll live a good, productive, meaningful, and happy life.
I'll watch it because the previews appeal to me and it looks like it has an interesting story, with trains
If they do the movie right by faithfully expressing Rand's principles...
...trains will mean a lot more than just trains to you.
Greg
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Charles Smiley
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QUote: "I've given up on comparing movies to the novels they are based on because more often than not you will be disappointed."
Usually they mess it up. The only exception was the original "Planet of the Apes" movie. I read the book a bit after the movie and I really think the movie was better.
Usually they mess it up. The only exception was the original "Planet of the Apes" movie. I read the book a bit after the movie and I really think the movie was better.
