An Open Letter to The Producers and Makers of The Atlas Shrugged Movies.
Today, the third installment of your film adaptation will be shown in theaters across the country.
You, I, and many other people on this board are savvy enough to the Marxists' game of fear, uncertainty, doubt, and agitprop to know what comes next: the savaging.
E.g.: as I write this, the http://IMDB.com page for “Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?” displays a section labeled “People who liked this also liked...” which features the documentary “I Am Eleven” - “The lives and thoughts of children from all around the world. It weaves together deeply personal and at times hilarious portraits of what it means to stand on the cusp between childhood and adolescence.”
I was at the Las Vegas premiere.
I saw the movie twice.
While I was there, a thought occurred to me.
The same thought has likely occurred to you as well, but I wanted to make it plain.
It is finished.
Let me repeat this, because it is important, and it is powerful.
It is finished.
With this third installment, the story of Atlas Shrugged has been told– a story which Hollywood and our Ruling Class Marxists did not want to be told, especially on film.
Despite their best efforts to stand in your way, you have built your John Galt Line... to the benefit of us all.
And likewise, their reaction to this last film will be the reaction of Atlas Shrugged's looters to Rearden Metal: its value is irrelevant because it poses a social danger to them.
So, when the savaging begins, and it will begin, please accept it as a badge of honor: anything that our Marxist Ruling Class feels that they must destroy must have some value.
I am confident that, as with the novel itself, as time passes, this value will be recognized.
Your trilogy will remain a part of the Atlas Shrugged legacy for years to come.
It has been my distinct pleasure, honor, and privilege to be a member of these boards since they first went on line, before the making of Atlas Shrugged Part One.
In that time I have learned that there are Midas Mulligans who are willing to finance The Gulch, and that there are Producers of every stripe who see enough value in it to offer their best effort in fair trade.
Thank you for the investment you have made.
I feel humbled that in some small way, it was an investment in me.
Rick Poach
“Eudaimonia”
You, I, and many other people on this board are savvy enough to the Marxists' game of fear, uncertainty, doubt, and agitprop to know what comes next: the savaging.
E.g.: as I write this, the http://IMDB.com page for “Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?” displays a section labeled “People who liked this also liked...” which features the documentary “I Am Eleven” - “The lives and thoughts of children from all around the world. It weaves together deeply personal and at times hilarious portraits of what it means to stand on the cusp between childhood and adolescence.”
I was at the Las Vegas premiere.
I saw the movie twice.
While I was there, a thought occurred to me.
The same thought has likely occurred to you as well, but I wanted to make it plain.
It is finished.
Let me repeat this, because it is important, and it is powerful.
It is finished.
With this third installment, the story of Atlas Shrugged has been told– a story which Hollywood and our Ruling Class Marxists did not want to be told, especially on film.
Despite their best efforts to stand in your way, you have built your John Galt Line... to the benefit of us all.
And likewise, their reaction to this last film will be the reaction of Atlas Shrugged's looters to Rearden Metal: its value is irrelevant because it poses a social danger to them.
So, when the savaging begins, and it will begin, please accept it as a badge of honor: anything that our Marxist Ruling Class feels that they must destroy must have some value.
I am confident that, as with the novel itself, as time passes, this value will be recognized.
Your trilogy will remain a part of the Atlas Shrugged legacy for years to come.
It has been my distinct pleasure, honor, and privilege to be a member of these boards since they first went on line, before the making of Atlas Shrugged Part One.
In that time I have learned that there are Midas Mulligans who are willing to finance The Gulch, and that there are Producers of every stripe who see enough value in it to offer their best effort in fair trade.
Thank you for the investment you have made.
I feel humbled that in some small way, it was an investment in me.
Rick Poach
“Eudaimonia”
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A toast, "To those who know what is coming, to those who stand on the premise of true Freedom, to those who have added the most meaning to our lives, to Ayn Rand for writing what we already knew but didn't put together...to the value of true friendship...respect and honor to those who walk in her path and know that A=A and Who John Galt is and why he is our hero. To The Gulch for having a forum that we can congregate to discuss those things that absolutely drive us crazy in the real world. To Capitalism !!!"
I feel the quality of the films have been excellent considering their budget. The producers have been true to the meaning and spirit of the book for which I am grateful. The acting has been very good and the different actors playing the characters has had a good effect of not replacing our own imagined visions of the people we have read about.
The problem is the message, bitter medicine to the leaches, looters and cronies. If you eliminate all the people that the message of Atlas Shrugged makes uncomfortable, how big of an audience is left? The hope is that the young, that aren't any of those things yet will be exposed to the message, read the book and join in the movement that will save the US, the best chance individual freedom has ever had.
I expect to sit with my wife of 51 years, with my son, the owner of Fountainhead Irrigation, Inc. and maybe another couple dozen souls to see the concluding chapter. It is a great thing that has been done but any effects may come slowly. When I first read the book almost 50 years ago, I thought it had to change the world and was dismayed that it didn't. It still may but I think it is going to be very painful.