Posted on 03/25/2011 6:57:20 AM PDT by blog.Eyeblast.tv
On March 23rd we went to the Atlas Shrugged movie premiere at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC. Afterward we were able to catch up with producer Harmon Kaslow and several people who attended the premiere. Here is what they had to say about the movie.
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“Did they leave the sexy sex in?”
I wonder how they did “the Speech” on film.
Freegards
We won’t find out until Part 3. This movie is just the first 3rd of the book, up until the launch of the John Galt Line.
Thanks for the info! That speech is such a central point of the book, and it is SO long that I have a hard time picturing how it would be filmed...
Freegards
“it is SO long that I have a hard time picturing how it would be filmed...”
Well, they managed to get ary Cooper to recite the whole courtroom speech in “The Fountainhead.” That book’s rambling is far pithier (relatively speaking), granted. Nonetheless, it was un-movie-like, boring, obtrusive, and just plain odd.
On the basis of that, I can imagine something similar happening in “Atlas Shrugged, Part III.” Similar, I say, not a perfect reproduction. It’d turn into an Andy Warhol/Kaufman sorta gag to go through the whole thing. What was it, 70 pages? How long would that take to read straight through, without any pauses and related dramatic techniques? I think it says in the book that it took Galt three hours. No way that ever makes it into a movie, not even as a DVD extra.
That would be an awesome joke, if anyone had the guts to do it right. Have the first two movies be full of frenetic F/X action, and pimp the third movie likewise. Then just show black screen while 3+ hours of monologue plays. It ends with the words “we shrugged, suckers”.
Freegards
New theaters have been added, and they say more are to come, so check back.
Houston finally got on the list, albeit just one theater.
Carlos.
I would like to see it. Is it coming to independent theaters, or will it be at the multi-plex theaters?
Here is a link to all the theaters announced so far.
http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/theaters#
Looks like it is playing at a lot of multi-plex theaters such as AMC, along with some of the lesser known chains.
Thank you...
I live far from any of those theaters.
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