I’ve seen the scenes that have been posted. I like the fact that the actors are no-name. Famous actors would have carried to much baggage into the film. I think the actress playing Dagney has pulled it off (again, based just on what little I’ve seen).
The combination of art deco and modern decor I think strikes the right balance for a book that was written in the late 40s but which speaks to conditions as they are today.
Can’t wait to see it.
“The combination of art deco and modern decor I think strikes the right balance for a book that was written in the late 40s but which speaks to conditions as they are today.”
I too love the notion of a futuristic world setting with atavistic throwbacks to the past. Putting the film into this ficitonal future allows some of the environment to be updated, thereby making the film more relevant to today’s events.
A similar environment worked effectively in “Brazil” and a similar idea was used in the 1995 film “Richard III”, the classic Shakespearean play about a murderously scheming king which the film staged in an alternative fascist England setting, though in this case the “future” that Richard III was set in was still the past for us.