condensed??? A is A.
Posted on 01/13/2007 4:28:30 PM PST by mjp
Back in the 1970s, Albert S. Ruddy, the producer of "The Godfather," first approached Ayn Rand to make a movie of her novel "Atlas Shrugged." But Rand, who had fled the Soviet Union and gone on to inspire capitalists and egoists everywhere, worried aloud, apparently in all seriousness, that the Soviets might try to take over Paramount to block the project.
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condensed??? A is A.
Leftists do not block such things- they take them over and corrupt them.
Look what they did to "Superman" last year.
Beware what you say in jest; it may come back to haunt you.
That will be a very tough movie to squeeze into two hours. And you thought Tolkien fans were obsessives for exactly following the books, just wait until Rand's fans see what was removed or changed to make Atlas Shrugged fit.
Indeed, there were enough fellow travelers in Hollywood that the Soviets wouldn't need to interfere in throttling Rand's movie.
Every Rand book that I have read I have started out saying HOW GOOD IT WAS - but I never finish the books because always in the middle of the story - the hero always says that he doesn't believe in GOD! That's a big turn off. Are they going to do the same here?
Rand was correct as you are correct - communist influence in Hollywood has always been there - something would of happened to the movie - the CPUSA had many in high places and today although they are not part of the fringe CPUSA the ideas of Marx are still shared by many in the media.
Remember the movie DIRTY DANCING when the CAD medical student waiter who was after BABY shows her the book that he was reading - ATLAS SHRUGGED - by RAND, as if that was another black mark on his lousy personality.
I do celebrate RAND for her anti communism. Its when she starts the atheist crap that I get turned off.
I'll tell you what the real problem is going to be coming up with a screenplay. It'll be that the dialogue coming from Rand's villains sounds like normal Hollywood cocktail conversation and that the actors aren't going to realize that they're bad guys. Anyone who's read some of the cant coming from the DNC, for example, and has said to himself, "Hmm...those exact same words came from James Taggart" will know exactly what I mean.
" Its when she starts the atheist crap that I get turned off."
Ayn was a super-rationalist. It's hard to embrace invisible men in the sky while holding everything else up to scrutiny.
Thanks for dredging up depressing thoughts. :-(
The screenplay has been written by Randall Wallace who was nominated for an Oscar for his Braveheart writing...but was also nominated for a Razzie (Worst Screenplay) for his Pearl Harbor script.
LOL...I enjoyed Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead, but you hit that one correctly.
Yeah, that's it. A "super-rationlist."
Rocks for brains.
I've not seen the film, but my impression was that it was Perry White who made the remark rather disparagingly about Superman.
Also, what is the history of the saying? In the 1940's Max Fleischer cartoons Superman fights for Truth and Justice, but I believe he fought for the American Way as well in both radio dramas that preceded those cartoons and television dramas that followed them.
"Ayn was a super-rationalist"
That, and I think she saw how the so-called priests, ministers, and their churches actively collaborated with the repressive regimes in the book. (Liberation theology , anyone?)
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