Writer of Braveheart making "Atlas Shrugged" movie with Jolie (my title)

Variety ^ | 10/17/06 | Pamela McClintock

[Phsstpok]

Oh, lawdie! Not that chick with two first names again. Haven't we seen enough of her?

I'm probably 1,000 posts late, but my response is NO.

There is a big difference in her as eye candy and her "political beliefs."  As if an airhead like her has any.

If he writes a script like what he wrote for Braveheart (screw history, let's make the point the "author of the piece" would make) and she simply performs the part then I will be leased.  Ironically Wallace's Braveheart is on TV right now and they are at the climax of the "Battle of Stirling Bridge."  the author took some liberties with that battle, such as there not be any bridge for the Scots to seize and hold, which was the reason that they won the battle.  Oh well, it didn't advance the message of the film.  I approve of that historical inaccuracy (as well as the one about Wallace being the father of the English Kings grandchild, even though the French Princess involved was five years old at the time of his death).

I want to see results.  I'll blast them for what they do, not what the stupid twits say between films.

[A_perfect_lady]

Atlas Shuddered....

[bannie]

Yea, you're late...but that's ok in here.

:-) I've already been told...and viva la difference!

[Sloth]

By the way, best Objectivist movie ever: The Incredibles.

Heh, The Incredibles certainly has some subversive content.

"Everybody's special."

"... which is just another way of saying nobody is."

[Wuli]

The best part of The Fountainhead is the speech that the character Howard Roark gives as his only defense in his trial for blowing up a building he designed.

Every conservative should frame that speech. It is a total indictment of everything the left stands for.

Some nuggets from the beginning:

"Thousands of years ago, the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light. He was considered an evildoer who had dealt with a demon mankind dreaded. But thereafter men had fire to keep them warm, to cook their food, to light their caves. He had left them a gift they had not conceived and he had lifted darkness off the earth."

"Centuries later, a man invented the wheel. He was probably torn on the rack he had taught his brothers to build. He was considered a transgressor who ventured into forbidden territory. But thereafter, men could travel past any horizon. He had left them a gift they had not conceived and he had opened the roads of the world."

"That man, the unsubmissive and first, stands in the opening chapter of every legend mankind has recorded about its beginning."

"Prometheus was chained to a rock and torn by vultures--because he had stolen the fire of the gods. Adam was condemned to suffer--because he had eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage."

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision."

"Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received--hatred."

"The great creators--the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors--stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The first airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful."

"But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won."

"No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers, for his brothers rejected the gift he offered and that gift destroyed the slothful routine of their lives."

"His truth was his only motive. His own truth, and his own work to achieve it in his own motive. His own truth, and his own work to achieve it in his own way."

[seowulf]

I think the tattoo on her back is just a list of instructions.

Maybe a map to the promised land?

[Sloth]

I have to say it's pretty remarkable for any Hollywood type to mention Mere Christianity as his favorite book.

[RobFromGa]

Ayn Rand ping!

[bannie]

I've heard tattoos in that area referred to as targets.

(I've got a feeling you wouldn't need a map...)

[SAJ]

This twit as Dagny? Thank Heaven I didn't eat a large dinner!

She should more properly be cast as Betty Lake (iirc the character correctly), Jim Taggart's girlfriend who was fond of toe-nail clippers and shish-kebabs.

Amazing that a wonderful film could be and was made from such a broad-scale, and rather more complex, epic as Doctor Zhivago, and yet the film industry (evidently) haven't the first clue among them as to casting for Atlas Shrugged.

Or, perhaps, it's not so amazing.

[Hildy]

It's a great monologue. Better read than spoken...which was the problem with the entire movie.

[razorback-bert]

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.

[thubb]

can't say i've ever read any of rand's works, but if jolie is such a fan one would think that perhaps the philosophy would have sunk in enough to bring her out of 'the dark side'??????

[TWohlford]

"can't say i've ever read any of rand's works, but if jolie is such a fan one would think that perhaps the philosophy would have sunk in enough to bring her out of 'the dark side'??????"

You can't read "Shrugged" and remain a liberal. You might not endorse Rand's philosophies, but she does a great job of destroying liberalism, Socialism and Communism.

[reaganandme]

I can't stand that movie. I get the message and all, but very poorly made.

[FreeKeys]

Thanks for the AYN RAND ping!

[Centurion2000]

You can't read "Shrugged" and remain a liberal.

If that was true then colleges would have already banned the book.

HOWEVER, if you read Shrugged all the way through and are still a liberal at the end of it? You're just a damned lost soul.

[Iwo Jima]

Iwo Jima laughed.

[Billthedrill]

Oooh, yeah. If Hauer never did anything more in his career than utter that speech he'd still be ahead of the game.

As for Jolie, she is a professional actress and so presumably capable of delivering lines she does not understand. We ask too much of actors when we expect them to become what they portray. They expect too much of us to believe that they have when they imagine that they have.