I'm not quite so optimistic about this as some others here.
ML/NJ
I don’t recall that line coming from Dagny.
Just from this trailer it looks much worse than not making the movie at all!
Bad dialog, delivered flatly by miscast actors, set in a poor facsimilie of the setting described in the book.
The heroes and heroine should have been cast as dynamic, larger than life individuals, clearly driven with the fulfullment of their purpose in life as their sole force of existance. This movie has no heart and no soul!
I had the exact same reaction to that line....doesn’t ring true. Nor does it sound like a line Dagny would have uttered. I’m sure someone will now prove me wrong and show that it’s a line from the book; but it doesn’t sound right. The way she delivered it sounded like a line from one of those awful Lifetime-Television-For-Women movies my wife watches.
I’m very nervous about this. The book had a profound impact on my life and we know the lefty reviewers will have already written pans before they’ve even seen it. I hate to give them fodder.
Hank
In the film, she says this line to her brother James and it is probably when she agrees to split off the John Galt Line and run it herself with no help from Taggart so that she can save Colorado...
In the book she tells Jim that she expects him to keep the Board off her back and she will give the whole thing back once the crisis is averted.