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ATLAS SHRUGGED PART 1 Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel ran 1,200 pages, and she famously rebuffed her publisher, who wanted trims, “Would you cut the Bible?” Apart from its deficiencies as fiction, whatever its philosophical limitations (the rich and able should only help themselves in Rand’s “Objectivism”), the book proves proudly indigestible on film. This is perhaps a fitting tribute to its stubborn writer, who scorned The Fountainhead's not-terrible adaptation and died (in 1982) while laboring on a TV miniseries script for Atlas Shrugged, intended to star her favorite actress, Farrah Fawcett. Here, doe-eyed mannequin Taylor Schilling portrays railway magnate Dagny Taggart, who casts off the shackles of family, mediocrity and compromise to lay her own tracks across Colorado. Aided by steel baron Henry Reardon (Grant Bowler), she also pursues the mystery of why society’s greatest innovators are suddenly going AWOL. While the world crumbles in economic crisis in the year 2016, with gas at $37.50 a gallon, Rand’s free-market superheroes are fleeing to a mountain compound ruled by … just who is this John Galt anyway? (Director Paul Johansson, and we’ll see more of him in Part II.) Those outside the Rand cult will snicker at the wooden acting, cheap effects and constant warnings against wealth redistribution and government regulation (a dog whistle raised to Tea Party ears). But a movie that celebrates high-speed rail, constant boozing and adultery can’t be all bad. With two recent biographies on Rand (a Russian Jew who escaped to Hollywood, then best-sellerdom), hers is the life you want to see filmed, not that of her laissez-faire cartoon heroine. (AMC Rolling Hills, Landmark Regent) (Brian Miller)
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I read Atlas Shrugged when I was about two years old. Even then I knew it was a hilariously bad book.
objectivism is based on the tenet that if people aren't forced to redistribute their earnings, then they will have the ability to help others AS THEY SEE FIT.
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I am so tired of reviews and opinions of Rand's philosophy by people who either have never considered it or just don't get it but feel like authorities because they have seen the movie. Objectivism doesn't advocate the rich and able only helping themselves. It simply says that no person should be forced to help anyone, forced, whether rich and able or not.
Her life WAS filmed--starring Helen Mirren as Rand. Cf. The Passion of Ayn Rand, which was originally on Showtime and is quite good. Eric Stoltz as Nathaniel Branden.
Also, for a good time (ie, a parody of Atlas Shrugged), go here:
Hmm...the reviews are supposed to be objective, not the films. Sounds like maybe a hint of political bias in this one, as if you went into the movie with one mindset: "I'm going to write a bad review." Hollywood is the reason for America's demise: finally a movie with the right logic and it doesn't even get a chance - no budget, and not a single writer giving any positive outlook on a film that was actually very good considering its restraints. The writers, media, and actors are the ones who have all the power: but they are the ones who don't have a clue about markets and economics, or anything that keeps this country running. Not a clue.
...not a single writer giving any positive outlook on a film that was actually very good considering its restraints.
So, what, there should be some sort of affirmative action for the film? Critics should be especially kind to it, not because of the quality of the finished product, but because of the hurdles in its way? Doesn't sound very Objectivist to me.
I think the problem here is that whatever anyone may think of Rand's book or her philosophy, the movie is a complete hackjob. I hear lots of rationalizations for its woeful shortcomings... from semi-logical (lack of budget and promotion) to completely absurd (opposition by shadowy Liberal Hollywood cabals). The fact is that there is simply no excuse for this kind of ineptitude when it comes to film-making. $20 million is a lot of money. Many, many excellent films were made with less both in terms of cash and potential content. There is a great story buried in Rand's unapologetically ponderous tome. The weasels who made "Atlas Shrugged I" were simply incapable of putting it on the screen. Don't blame the media or the actors, blame the director and producers. They're the ones responsible for this road-accident of a film.
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