Selene Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Maybe we should do Atlas as a Porgey and Bess Opera... Lotsa dancin and singin .... Just your regular inner city "Warsaw "ghetto" motiff and we can make all the black folk Jewish. A kinda light hearted Atlas...more sensitive and understanding of the victims, with. or. without sanctions. There could be a rap section, a kinda inner city Ho down... A... Saw I and really enjoyed it. First Dagny was excellent as far as I was concerned. When they stabbed her in the back, I vowed by my life and my love of it, that I would not see II or III. Glad I didn;t. Post Script: They really wrote in riots in the street around Hank's trial? Despicable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 I think they could have made a decent Classic Comic (in three parts) out of Atlas.--Brantso why not a movie?--money needed = money men needed (Howard Hughes had some talent and a lot of money and control) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf DeVoon Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 I think they could have made a decent Classic Comic (in three parts) out of Atlas.--Brantso why not a movie?--money needed = money men needed (Howard Hughes had some talent and a lot of money and control)Over my head. What is a Classic Comic?Howard Hughes made terrible movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 I think they could have made a decent Classic Comic (in three parts) out of Atlas.--Brantso why not a movie?--money needed = money men needed (Howard Hughes had some talent and a lot of money and control)Over my head. What is a Classic Comic?Howard Hughes made terrible movies.Just Google it. You'll get much better info than I could give you.HH made them his way. You could also say he made some terrible airplanes. They almost killed him. The Hercules was ridiculous as an idea and out the door (but I loved it anyway). He also ended up a complete nut case.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf DeVoon Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Nowadays we call it a 'graphic novel.' Maybe a Japanese manga version would work, half-naked Dagny, more torture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 ... half-naked Dagny, more torture. Which half? Top or bottom...left or right ... front or back .... Oh, Saint Ayn help me make this a rational decision based on values... then Dagny bent over to pick up a flower and the rest is a blur... Film at 11! A... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikee Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 "...rational decision based on values..."Bottom half.[Hey, you asked for rational...'more torture->spanking->bottom half': what could be more rational?]I don't start these things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backlighting Posted September 30, 2014 Author Share Posted September 30, 2014 ... half-naked Dagny, more torture.Which half? Top or bottom...left or right ... front or back ....Oh, Saint Ayn help me make this a rational decision based on values...then Dagny bent over to pick up a flower and the rest is a blur...Film at 11!A...lol There goes the coffee on the desk.No blurs here though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 ... half-naked Dagny, more torture. Which half? Top or bottom...left or right ... front or back .... Oh, Saint Ayn help me make this a rational decision based on values... then Dagny bent over to pick up a flower and the rest is a blur... Film at 11! A...lol There goes the coffee on the desk. No blurs here though. Plausible deniability.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf DeVoon Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Atlas 3 official website: 85 theaters 65 theaters 13 theaters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backlighting Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 Atlas 3 official website: 85 theaters 65 theaters 13 theatersWow, 13 theaters here in LV? or is it nationwide?(not). Pathetic, or as JMac often said "You cannot be serious"-J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf DeVoon Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 AlabamaAlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColorado (2) Highlands Ranch, Lakewood [Denver suburbs]ConnecticutD.C.DelawareFlorida (1) Oviedo [pop. 33,342]Georgia (2) Newnan [Atlanta], Snellville [pop. 18,242]HawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesota (1) Oakdale [st. Paul suburb, pop. 27,378]MississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevada (3) Las Vegas [2], Reno [1]New MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexas (1) PlanoUtah (1) Lehi [near Salt Lake, pop. 47,407]VermontVirginiaWashington (2) Kennewick [pop. 73,917], Tukwila [seattle suburb, pop. 19,107]West VirginiaWisconsinWyoming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 If you get into your private jet you may yet make a showing--somewhere.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 I started digging and, on TV Tropes, there is a category called Character Filibuster. Lots and lots and lots of example, some better than others (and some weak). Galt's speech is considered there the granddaddy of them all.One author I did not see mentioned was Marquis de Sade (but maybe I missed it). I read Justine when I was younger (those were the days ). Back then I remember I got real tired of the three part formula after a while:1. Escape and capture2. Long-ass philosophical discussions3. Show time It repeats like that over and over.btw - The Grand Inquisitor parable in The Brothers Karamazov is practically a philosophical rant à la Galt.MichaelJust to keep the "literature with long speeches by people other than Rand" idea alive, today I heard a lecture on a book from the 1940's, Native Son by Richard Wright.I have not read this book (yet), which is about the travails of a poor black man who murders two women in the 1930's, one white and the other black. The lecturer said that in the third part of the book, the trial, there is a 30 page speech presented by the lawyer where the novel grinds to a halt.That didn't stop the sales. Apparently this was the first fiction bestseller by a black man, so it is a milestone.If anyone is interested in reading about it, there is a good article on Wikipedia.Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 The perfect novel for The Book of the Month Club and its enlightened or wanted to be enlightened readers. It then morphed into the perfect novel for college students courtesy of their (Marxist) professors. White people are to be guilty of black people crimes via racial guilt extirpating an individual's actions?--Branta great book of its time now simply poison: great for whites, especially white racists who got culturally run over in the following decades culminating in the fulminating 1960s, but the inertia helped result in the Great Society and the entitlement of perpetual victimhood now a black icon foisted off on blacks by race hustlers and accepted by most as their right and due because of slavery, Jim Crow and KKK lynchingsas a black truck driver once told me, "I had the misfortune to be born in America"--(not that I won the lottery of just being born much less of being born in the greatest country on earth) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backlighting Posted October 4, 2014 Author Share Posted October 4, 2014 The following comments are from the widely distributed Las Vegas Weekly Magazine (+online). Just about every hotel, 7-11, Walmartand Starbucks distributes them, no charge. Considering the amount of people visiting here at any one time, I'd say that's a plus. Get them to the book thru publicity generated by the Magazine's review/ letters to the editor.http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/ae/film/2014/sep/10/film-review-atlas-shrugged-who-is-john-galt/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf DeVoon Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Atlas 3 Domestic Total as of Oct. 2, 2014: $846,704won't even top $900,000 gross ($500,000 net) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Yeah, however think about how much those collectible Atlas III CD's will bring at the local Collectible Atlas CD Skeet Range as targets...http://youtu.be/UYxfeeqo6eo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backlighting Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Still playing here.http://www.fandango.com/regalvillagesquarestadium18_aaesd/theaterpage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 I always liked the stretch in which Dagny ends up killing the guard. It dramatizes the Rand idea that thinking for oneself is necessary for life, with stress on the absoluteness of life or death.No, it does not dramatize that idea. That may be what Rand intended, but, as written, it dramatizes Dagny being a bully, ignoring the guard's individual context -- the nature of his job, the reality of his rank and his lack of specific knowledge and power -- and wasting valuable time dishing out a forced morality lesson that is being applied totally illogically. The scene was a mistake, or, as Ellen says, an unnecessary indulgence. It contradicts both the morality and the aesthetic tone of the novel.JFrankly, I wish the guard had said to Dagny, "Are you here to rescue him? I want to help."--BrantAmerican guards are much better people than Soviet guards, even in ASReviewing the entirety of this old thread, I found this gem. Heh.--Brantdamn, I'm good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 What if the guard had revealed himself not to have evaded "the responsibility of consciousness" but, "I'm sorry lady. I can't let you in"?--BrantAnd not a bad follow up.--Brantegomaniac(that's enough; I'm not going through the remaining 200 posts) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf DeVoon Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 I liked Stephen's Sept 2014 comment above --dramatizes the Rand idea that thinking for oneself is necessary for life, with stress on the absoluteness of life or death-- because I like thinking for myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Troy Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Yeah that's a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan_bayne Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 A silenced rifle? that never misses from 400 yards?No-one's yet made a rifle that never misses ... but silenced, lethal and accurate at 400 yards? Sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf DeVoon Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 A silenced rifle? that never misses from 400 yards?No-one's yet made a rifle that never misses ... but silenced, lethal and accurate at 400 yards? Sure.And Ragnar could have nuked Boyle's steel mills from a Los Angeles-class sub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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