Posted on 04/28/2011 11:29:15 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Lately, there have been duelling stories in the entertainment press about the future of ”Atlas Shrugged.” With disappointing box office returns, the producers have been asked if they will go ahead and complete the franchise and in one interview we’re being told there will be no trilogy and in another we’re being told that there will. To clear the air, I reached out via email and “Atlas” producers John Aglialoro and Harmon Kaslow were both good enough to respond with exclusive quotes that should help to calm fears of “Atlas” fans everywhere.
Most surprising, though, was the revelation CNN, CNBC, and MSNBC are refusing to broadcast 15-second “Atlas” spots. What’s that about?
“I’m going to get a picture of Roger Ebert and Peter Travers and the rest of them so I can wake up in the morning and be reminded what we’re up against,” Aglialoro wrote in an email. “They’re revitalizing me with their outrageousness.” Aglialoro went on to state he had been “misunderstood” when he said the critical drubbing the film took “influenced him to abandon the second and third films in the Atlas Shrugged franchise.” He confirmed that he has ”no intention to go on strike.”
That should come as very good news to the many, many people who obviously enjoyed the film and found it to be something special. Personally, I’ve never seen such polarized reviews before. The critics savaged it and yet everyone who sent a revew into us loved it. The most interesting thing I’ve noticed is that no one was on-the-fence about the film. No one said, “Yeah, it was okay.” People either passionately embraced Part 1 or passionately didn’t. You don’t see a lot of movies like that. So, for those of you who loved it…
“Make no mistake, we want to make...
(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
Not sure what it's about. Nobody watches them anyway so it saved them some money.
In N. Korea they are called “Minders” same thing.
“I desire an original “Blade Runner”.”
Your desire confuses me. Do androids dream of electric sheep?
just goes to show the ‘gate keepers’ are progressives and they are doing everything they can to keep anything like Atlas Shrugged from getting to the public
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You are absolutely correct.
Buchanan was pilloried by the voodoo Republicans when he said that the nation is involved in a culture war. However, he could not have been more correct in that declaration. The weapon used to invade our homes, strip our property, reduce our liberty and now even loot our medicine cabinets is indeed the choke hold on our culture, and we are indeed facing nothing less than a war in the full press cultural attack from the left.
Our principal problem is our own submission to the left, and their knowing quisling allies among the voodoo Republicans. Recognize them as the malignant enemies that they are, and resist them. They are our enemy, and this is a war.
There is -nothing- they will not take away from us if we yield that power to them, and that power is yielded at the cultural level first, and then the laws reflect the culture.
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be
much easier to deal with.”
(Ayn Rand, ‘Atlas Shrugged’ 1957)
I am going tomorrow afternoon, it is playing in Freeport, IL at the Lindo Theater!
ping
“Meanwhile, ads for “Freddie Gets Fingered: 3-D” run non-stop on PMSNBC and CNN...”
That’s because they think the movie is about homosexuals.
It's your loss. Too bad for you that your teacher didn't ask you to read The Fountainhead or We the Living instead. Or if you prefer non-fiction, there is The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution.
My children read “Anthem” in high school & although I loved her novels
I thought “Anthem” was horrendous. “We the Lining” wasn’t as preachy or near as long as “Atlas Shrugged” & would probably have wider appeal but is out shadowed by her other works.
You lost the intellectual "right" to criticize her work, by not reading "The Fountainhead", "We The Living" and "Atlas Shrugged".
Why trumpet your ignorance? It's not something to be proud of. "Gee, I got bored after reading the first three article of the Consitiution, so I stopped, but I still have a strong opinion on the 2nd and 9th amendments". How does that sound?
It really is time to go Galt.
The gate keepers are communists. The government and the media are overrun with them.
With the liberals, it’s always all-out war. They can’t even accept a movie.
I haven't seen the film so I don't know the quality of it. I'm waiting for it to come out on DVD.
Yes, it is -- and has always been debated hotly. But she was pro-capitalist, pro-hard-money, pro-individualist and pro-freedom. Any one of those, let alone all of them together, would have been enough to get her works banned from the liberal media.
Liberals hate her guts, I know that.
Just a minute ago I read a liberal comment calling a young lady who works for the Goldwater institute a “Dagny Taggert wannabee” meant as an insult of course.
I thought Anthem sucked beans too.
Amazing to consider that she learned English as a second language and produced such work.
If the producers can get this out to DVD and Blu-Ray in the next few months with a $20 to $25 price, they’ll sell a ton of them and easily make up the balance of the production costs. A good angle for them to pursue would be an Amazon.com only sales channel, as Amazon has shown time and again they are about free and unfettered markets and against government intrusion into the operations of their business. I’d recommend they cut the Hollywood establishment, including the normal distribution channels out of the release on the basis that they didn’t support it in the theaters so why should they profit from the DVD sales.
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