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Why Atlas Shrugged Changes Lives
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| April 16, 2011
| Debi Ghate
Posted on 04/16/2011 5:33:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Yo-Yo
I saw it last night and enjoyed it. I don’t think it could have been done any better. The actress who played Dagny was absolutely perfect in every way.
That said, I really don’t think the book works too well as a movie. Rand’s dialogue reads better than it sounds when spoken, and I think they had to leave out so much that somehow the scope of the story seems kind of diminished.
I think people who loved the book will really like the movie. But for someone who has never read it, I can’t imagine this movie will really be a moving experience.
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posted on
04/16/2011 7:05:53 AM PDT
by
Maceman
(Obama -- he's as American as nasi goreng)
To: Publius
IMHO, the book is always better than the movie - can’t think of a single exception.
To: sueuprising
I have never understood the fascination with Rand. She was a pompous atheistWe are fascinated by her ideas. That she didn't always live up to them only shows she was human. Your attitude reminds me of liberals who dismiss the Constitution because some of the signers kept slaves.
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posted on
04/16/2011 7:42:26 AM PDT
by
BfloGuy
To: Kaslin
I first read "Atlas Shrugged" when I was about 17. I had been raised in a thoroughly-Republican family where self-reliance was the primary virtue. The book reinforced what I had considered, up till then, to be little but parental blathering.
I wish people would read more of Rand's non-fiction and her incredible epistemology. Most stop at the virtue of selfishness and think that's all she had to say.
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posted on
04/16/2011 7:46:29 AM PDT
by
BfloGuy
To: Kaslin
I read the book about two years ago and it's AMAZING how her dialog fits modern Obama liberals.
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posted on
04/16/2011 7:59:02 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
To: austingirl
I can think of two, and only two, movies that were better than the books: “A Clockwork Orange” and “Contact.”
Cheers,
Jim
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posted on
04/16/2011 8:01:26 AM PDT
by
gymbeau
(Free Tibet! (Limit two per customer))
To: sueuprising
Your ad-hominem attack on Rand is illustrative of the fact that you clearly don't know what you're talking about. It also means that that you've already lost both the argument and your credibility.
People read Atlas Shrugged for its ideas, ideas which have proven to be one the cornerstones of human freedom. Read the book, then get back to us.
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posted on
04/16/2011 8:05:48 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
("How do we know when the Government is like that guy with the van and the handcuffs?" --Henry Bowman)
To: Kaslin
If, only, the “Road to Serfdom” could be made into a movie.
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posted on
04/16/2011 8:34:08 AM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(Hope and change is share the poverty.)
To: Kaslin
I watched the original version on TNT a while back. It was the most boring movie I’ve ever watched. The acting was pathetic, and the dialog was phony.
I assume this version can’t be any worse.
Has anyone seen the original version and actually enjoyed it?
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posted on
04/16/2011 8:43:39 AM PDT
by
Theo
(May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
To: sueuprising
In answer to your last question...YES.
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posted on
04/16/2011 8:51:38 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Capitalism is the Goose that lays The Golden Egg.)
To: austingirl
“The Natural” by Bernard Malamud....The book was awful...the movie was great.
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posted on
04/16/2011 9:25:05 AM PDT
by
the lastbestlady
(I now believe that we have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.)
To: Yo-Yo
An 18-year old son who recongizes the value of the movie’s message is awesome!
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posted on
04/16/2011 9:32:13 AM PDT
by
balls
(0 lies like a Muslim (Google "taqiyya"))
To: gymbeau
To: the lastbestlady
To: austingirl
DON’T!! The movie is great...the novel is depressing.
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posted on
04/16/2011 10:32:11 AM PDT
by
the lastbestlady
(I now believe that we have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.)
To: austingirl
DON’T!! The movie is great...the novel is depressing.
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posted on
04/16/2011 10:32:18 AM PDT
by
the lastbestlady
(I now believe that we have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.)
To: austingirl
IMHO, the book is always better than the movie - can’t think of a single exception. See Mosquito Coast for the exception that tests[1] the rule.
[1] "To prove" meant "to test" when that proverb was coined!
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posted on
04/16/2011 10:39:27 AM PDT
by
RJR_fan
("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
To: austingirl
Well, ‘twas only my reasonably humble opinion, anyway!
Cheers,
Jim
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posted on
04/16/2011 12:09:07 PM PDT
by
gymbeau
(Free Tibet! (Limit two per customer))
To: Theo
this is the only movie ever made from Atlas Shrugged.
Maybe you saw The Fountainhead? And We The Living was made into a movie in Italy...
To: RobFromGa
Yeah, that must’ve been it. Maybe I’ll give Atlas Shrugged a chance, then. Fountainhead was painful to watch.
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posted on
04/16/2011 12:48:22 PM PDT
by
Theo
(May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
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