AS II Has Arrived!
Posted by fivedollargold 12 years, 8 months ago to Entertainment
d'Anconia edition of Atlas Shrugged II arrived today at my house. Yippee!
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And Arye Gross as Ken Danagger is such a likable guy. I was practically crying after he finished speaking. I want to live in the Gulch with people like that.
O.A.
seen #2 only once, come on usps, where is mine?
ya'll rock on, go NRA...2nd amendment FOREVER
We received ours Monday afternoon. It was the D’anconia copper jacketed blu-ray. The packaging is very nice. If I were you, I would pick up a jewel case for the disc.
Regards,
O.A.
Send that message in to support. You won't regret it.
I've read the book a number of years ago. The casting directors who selected the characters did an excellent job because they matched what I envisioned while reading the book.
But, Becktel's brother playing Wyatt is a hoot. Last night I learned this because Becktel mentioned the movies his brother's movies.
I love your screen name.
I haven't yet received mine either. If it doesn't come by Saturday I am going to go buy a copy locally. I can always pass it on.
Regards,
O.A.
I get the impression that you run a tight ship; that one might expect objective justice n your court, but to address you as the “Honorable DragonLady” in such a venue could be hazardous… :)
Here I feel privileged to be allowed such a courtesy.
In the gulch “we don’t have much government, just a few courthouses…”
I hope you received your DVD and enjoyed the show. I am still waiting…
Respectfully,
O.A.
At least your disc is on the way and you didn’t have to order “capias ad satisfaciendum.”
I can smell the popcorn.
Enjoy!
O.A.
I thank you for your service and rational approach. It seems in today’s world many in the legal profession seem to think that words have flexible meanings and the spirit of the law is not adhered to any more than the letter. Subjectivity seems to reign.
Today people think because we have a more technologically advanced society that they are somehow superior adjudicators of what is just than those who established our system. Nothing could be further from the truth in my opinion. Two plus centuries ago the minds of the founders were more astute and reasoned than the whims of the progressives of today. The basic principles are timeless and no amount of technology can replace the considerable edification the founders possessed. They had no calculators to do their math, no radios or TVs to tell them what to think. They had books to read and several millennia of history to guide them. When I read their words and the words of their influences, I recognize the superior level of their thought and consideration and find the notions of today’s politicians (many who are lawyers) to be greatly inferior.
These same people greatly influence the education and indoctrination of this “touchy/ feely” amorphous, nebulous thinking that is imparted en masse. A is A. There is right and there is wrong. Some may be able to evade it, but not indefinitely.
Perhaps these words from a former president are apropos:
"It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers." Calvin Coolidge
Again, thank you for doing your part to stem the tide of tyranny.
Respectfully,
O.A.
My husband is a lawyer, and he feels as you do. The whole litigious aspect of it appalls him. He, too, worked in large firms in DC and NYC, and was very happy to leave them behind. He went in house with a chemical company here in CT, bringing them through bankruptcy, and was sought out by the company where he now works. I cannot say where that it is in this forum, but he is the GC of a firearms mfg. co. To say that things are intense for him in this present climate would be a very gross understatement. I applaud your efforts, and hope you continue the good fight.
NMA
And I also wanted to extend a welcome to the Gulch! I see you've changed your staus to producer.
txs to Financial backers and cast.
'jake
The 1st cast had chemistry and seemed like they were doing the movie because they wanted to.
The 2nd cast it felt more like they were doing and job for the money and may not have even wanted to be there all the time.
Francisco is one of the changes that really bugged me. The 1st movie he really did seem like a playboy. In the 2nd movie they pick a gangster from Caprica. He is a great actor but no playboy type.
Dagny also really bugged me. She gained 14 years and did not seem to have the zest for getting things done. I know the age thing should not be such a big deal but it just fully changed the perception of the part that was built in the 1st movie.
I thought Taylor Schilling was perfect as Dagny, and looked and behaved just as I'd pictured while reading the book. Whereas I thought Samantha Mathis' demeanor was actually more suited to a portrayal of Eddie Willers than of Dagny. And I thought Mathis had the sincerity, humility, and down-to-earth practicality that Richard Jones seemed to lack.
I agree that Esai Morales didn't quite carry the playboy. Too serious and not cheeky enough, especially at Jim's wedding.
I thought the rest of the cast of ASII did a pretty good job though.
There is an incredible cigar/Scotch bar right in the heart of Charleston. My husband and I went there, probably 16 (yikes!), years ago, and it was just gorgeous inside. Deep leather and velvet club chairs and couches, dark mahogany raised panel wainscoting, high ceilings. Very old school men's club feel.
It's funny camera work was done on this point - deliberately pausing on the ashtray so a freeze-frame would make it obvious what you should notice. I say this because the entire connection with Hugh Akston and the mystery visitor to Danagger isn't covered in the movie. So, semi-pointless...?
Protester grafitti? Or something more significant? John Galt ducking behind something?
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