Barbara Branden Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 I strongly recommend that you go to Youtube and listen to a video of the first part of Galt's speech.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_qQt9IrUc0Barbara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggrad02 Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 (edited) thanks Barbara. Edited September 20, 2007 by Aggrad02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Grieb Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 The Fred Thompson intro was very clever. The whole thing is very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgedonnelly Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 At first I wondered if I had been tricked into watching an ad for Fred Thompson.Really very well done.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 I enjoyed this.Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfonso Jones Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 I strongly recommend that you go to Youtube and listen to a video of the first part of Galt's speech.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_qQt9IrUc0Barbara Thanks for pointing this one out!Alfonso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 This is indeed a good go at visualizing the speech and adding some modern references to it. It's interesting to compare it with the "trailer" that MSK posted some time ago - . Both seem to be the work of clever people working with available, limited, resources.One caveat about such exercises though. Galt's speech occurs towards the end of AS - perhaps 75-80% of the way in? Rand prefaced the speech with a whole lot of narrative and action which brought out and illustrated themes which the speech then summarises and brings together. Readers of this site are almost certainly familiar with that material. Perhaps we need to be a bit careful about unleashing the speech onto unprepared new readers who have not been through the earlier material. I guess it might then seem rather abstract and make less sense - a bit like playing the big tune from the finale of a symphony without going through the earlier movements first. A similar issue might arise with Roark's final courtroom speech in TF, also available on YouTube - - a pretty good performance if you ask me (some disagree), but will it make real sense to someone who doesn't know what went before?So perhaps the idea of a "trailer" - a teaser, a taster, something which may be intriguing if not fully comprehensible first time round - is a good one.Best regardsAdrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrakusos Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 These high school guys do an uneven job.The first two, Hank and Philip in Hank's office near the end, are pretty good.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGZowIOgZesThe second scene, from earlier in the book, with Taggart, Boyle, Larkin and Mouch is not so well acted.Generally, no one is going to stumble on one of these YouTube trailers and be struck by the lightening. Only Objectivists are going to make them and view them, as we did. That said, I expect to see more of this over time, as video production becomes a new form of writing, just as writing superceded public recitation in ancient Athens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matus1976 Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 I strongly recommend that you go to Youtube and listen to a video of the first part of Galt's speech.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_qQt9IrUc0BarbaraGood find, I am glad to see some people doing some productive things out there. I dislike the reader though, he seems to be reading it like "hmm, this is interesting" I've listened to a few different audio version of Atlas Shrugged and Kate Readings version is superb. http://www.booksontape.com/bookdetail.cfm/3857-CD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Rockwell Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Part Two of the speech is now up at YouTube! Check it out:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpo3OoyUUUc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrakusos Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Eric, I am always impressed even by the bad work in that it all takes so much effort. Viewers do not realize what is required to produce any video. Thanks for your efforts. I am also a bit surprised that no one else has commented. I saw this message yesterday the 7th and watched Part 2 a couple of times through. Either no one else did, or no one else found it worth commenting on and I wonder about that, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Rockwell Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Michael,I, too, appreciate how much time and creativity is required to accomplish something like this. I am not the creator of these videos, but I am a fan of his and look forward to the future installments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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