Firefly (Serenity)

Fountainhead, Star Wars, V for Vendetta, Matrix, Trading Places, Silverado, Hunger Games, Dr Strangelove, CitizenFour, Braveheart, Death Wish, Harry's War, We're Here to Help (NZ), The Patriot,1776

So, how does this person explain Eddie Willers?
A respectable worker who is not a genius. And the
sense of life of Cherryl Brooks, (who is later
driven to suicide after she marries James Tag-
gart?) No, Ayn Rand promoted greatness; that
does not mean that everybody has to be phenomenal, but that everyone should do the
best he can, and preserve his own self-respect.

The first "Spaghetti Western," A Fistful of Dollars" was about making money off idiot bad guys before getting rid of them all.
Back in the 60s that movie's appearance in the USA was held up for about a year due to being successfully sued by the Japanese makers of "Yojimbo," about a masterless samurai or Ronin, who wandered into a town and with a sword did exactly the same thing Clint Eastwood shortly later did with Colt .45.
Sergio Leone had to pay for not even giving any credit to the story he ripped off. That's capitalism too in a way.
I like both movies regardless..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_1iT...

I'm surprised We the Living didn't get mentioned yet. Great movie, so engrossing I forgot I was reading subtitles. I haven't seen it yet, but it seems Alongside Night would qualify, too, based on the book. Also most films by Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) are heavily pro-individual and anti-government, see http://original.antiwar.com/Dan_Sanch...

"Blade" is a great libertarian movie. The whole thing is a allegory about Thomas Sowell's life. A half vampire (someone who started down the path to communism) is offered redemption by killing (proving wrong) the vampires (communists) and their minions (liberals). It's no coincidence that most of the "evil" vampires have British and Russian accents, and that they die when exposed to sunlight (the truth).

Final scene in "Executive Suite." It should be presented to ALL graduating seniors (in whatever school), with it being mandatory for business majors.
- The original "Rocky." Seeming "loser" and most of the losers surrounding him, as he and they become winners.
- "Hombre." A superb work of art featuring (likely unintentional) what happens to a strong independent soul when it reluctantly attempts to act on the moral premise of altuism.
- "The Miracle Worker" (Bancroft and Duke version). Anyone who is not moved by Bancroft's character and the scene in which Helen Keller makes the crucial mental connection is simply a "dead soul."

I would describe all of them as Art promoting not only "Objectivist" or libertarian views, but the proper values of life itself!

Number 1 on my list is always Executive Suite from 1954.
I wonder what Rand thought of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcEOs...

Brazil (Terry Gilliam) is a semi-comedic 1984. Very, very good.

I like the comedy, Real Genius with Val Kilmar. It is anti government power/bureaucracy, and pretty entertaining.

Someone here turned me on to "Still Mine", a true story with James Cromwell. That is pretty good too.

Atlas Shrugged 1 - 3
The Fountainhead
Star Wars (all of them)
Soilent Green
1984
Logan's Run
The Island of Dr. Morrow
Braveheart
Wag the Dog
The Last Samurai
John Adams

Definitely the Hunger Games franchise. And now things are getting interesting. I don't care what the critics say: the producers did well to tell the Mockingjay story as two films. Together they make the second half of the story: outright civil war.

Enemy of the State

Flash of Genius, True Grit (both orig and re-make), The Fountainhead...

I will add more as they make their way through the fog of age and memory. 1) Hombre. 2) Our Man Flint

Shenandoah, Fahrenheit 451, Paint Your Wagon, Office Space, Animal Farm, Divergent, The Mouse That Roared, Farewell to the King, The Man Who Would Be King........ am I showing my age?

Don't forget Legends of the Fall!

Once again, Weekend at Bernies gets snubbed.

This is specifically for KH since he asked about Peter Schwartz articles about libertarianism
see his peice in the huffington post http://huff.to/1Fsixit
also go to his web site PeterSchwartz.com and search "libertarianism for two other peices.

Two great westerns come to mind: Shane and The Big Country.

Idiocracy. Now there's an individual that made a difference, and his beneficiaries tried to kill him for it.
The Carpetbaggers. George Peppard as Jonas Cord, a man driven by the vision of growing his business.

Yet another way to show the difference between a Lib and an Obj.ist. When lacking sound principles, who knows what movies will look appealing.

I reject the notion (in the article) that Atlas Shrugged is a pure libertarian film.
See the previous blog on Obj.ism vs Lib.ism for further clarification.

The Last days of Sophie Scholl

One of my favorites with "2 against the world" is African Queen. Bogart and Hepburn are unbeatable.

Rocky Balboa (2006)

Rocky Balboa's inspirational speech to his son
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkJLT...

dangerous beauty