I think they missed an opportunity by glossing over the Reardon Aniversary Party. Including the philosopher's and author's statements would have significantly identified the problems with the society.
Representative Jackson's tirade this week about the iPad is a joke that just writes itself!
Wasn't this the party in which Francisco gives his "Money is the Root of All Evil" speech? If so, that would be a shame to not include some reference to that speech!
for those of us that have read the book, we will certainly find flaws in the movie (I thought there were many instances of ‘spoon-feeding’)... however i am hopeful that many people will see the film and then be inclined to read the book, or if the don’t read the book, they may finally ‘get it’...
There were guys from the freestate project handing out flyers too with the saying “WHERE is John Galt?”...
“I think they missed an opportunity by glossing over the Reardon Aniversary Party.”
Actually, I thought the most powerful scene in the entire movie was at that party. Dagny trades Lillian Rearden Dagney’s extraordinarily valuable diamond necklace for Lillian Rearden’s singular Reardon Metal bracelet that Hank Reardon made especially for Lillian from the first pour of Rearden Metal.
This bracelet represented the things most important in the world to Hank Rearden and he gave this priceless object to his wife, who was so shallow and empty-headed she was going to give it to her maid, thinking that common diamonds were more far valuable. Lillian thus rejected not only Hank’s bracelet but Hank himself in her valuation of the bracelet.
Dagney, immediately realizing the true importance of the bracelet, its true rarity, and what it really meant in terms of both accomplishment and to Hank himself, powerfully demonstrated her own boldness, her own sense of values and her own personal power by taking this precious object from the shallow Lillian, thereby taking not only the bracelet itself which was not deserved by the essentially worthless Lillian, but taking Hank from her as well. In effect, Dagney bought Hank from the clueless Lillian, and demonstrated just how much Dagney valued both Hank and his unique accomplishments by the price she paid for the bracelet.
It was a bit too wordy for my taste...