I'm like that when I see Iowa license plates

I never fail to get at least 1 comment (usually confusion) when I wear my Galt shirts. :) It warms my heart to see anyone else with a Galt shirt or bumper sticker on a car. In most cases, I HAVE TO talk to the person if I can. Seeing those Galt representations let me know that the world is NOT coming to an end even if we feel like giving up sometimes.

You're not alone. I was out there too. Chose to shrug and am bearing my own cross looking for a new job. I just couldn't deal with the lack of common sense, bureaucracy, and blatant liberalistic ideals in education anymore. It's so sad.

Filming in PA! I'm from PA and have connections to Pittsburgh and outside Philly. I'll be there in a heartbeat! Just saw the info on YouTube. Atlas Shrugged film trilogy: Producers speak

Filming in PA! I'm from PA and have connections to Pittsburgh and Philly! I'd be there in a heartbeat!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwtXTCOKh...

I've been over the printed book and audiobook countless times over the last several years, and considering the hard time the film had in being produced, I'm glad it came around now. It would have been a flash in the pan if it came when the producers secured the rights to it. Now is the time its lesson can be properly taught, and it would be an honor to have anything to do with the creation of the film.

I taught at - in fact, helped found- a private school which stood, mostly, for reasonable values. It changed, and I became disenchanted. They finally fired me for something I didn't do and something I didn't say. I have found that tutoring is a way to keep your mind intact and put your values out in public. Homeschooling groups are also sometimes interested in organizing a specific class for their students [a "book group", if you will, or a philosophy discussion class]. There are opportunities, but it's hard to find them. Keep at it!

Have you looked at the Frank Lloyd Wright house design for Rand yet? It is in the Producer's Lounge....

I first read The Fountainhead (followed by the rest of Rand's fiction and nonfiction) almost 20 years ago now, and Rand's ideas have been a central part of my guiding philosophy and work. As an architect, I've always tried to design the inspiring kind of buildings that she described, and live up to the standards that an honest life requires. I always push myself to my highest aspirations, and have always been successful when I've remained true to what reality requires of us. Would love to help bring this movie to fruition!

well...I guess the gulch does need a farm. John Galt Cheese, John Galt Eggs....the JG Saloon..oh- that's something else. Hmmmmm JG moonshine, JG wine.

john galt milk?

? How's that?

In reply to ShoxTP's list, here's mine (tongue in cheek):

1) I'm an old fart. I'd look like the other old farts who went on strike.

2) I'd probably be a bumbling idiot on screen, but you still need comic relief, right?

3) Nobody has told me I was handsome in a LONG time -- but my grandkids love me!

4) I can think of more than three reasons... :-O

Lee

You bet!!!!!!

Bring it on, brother!

I also liked Morales in Part 2...and hope to see him return in 3!

I am very interested in who will be playing Francisco, Hank & Dagney. The only saving grace in part two was Esai Morales, him as Francisco brought most scenes together(the first Francisco was a cheap filler). It would be a huge mistake not to bring Esai Morales back. As for Hank & Dagney the first movie were the correct choice these 3 actors with the right John Galt(Bruce Willis) will make a blockbuster movie, instead of the mediocre, as was 1 & 2. Also say as close to the passion Ayn Rand wrote this amazing futuristic tale which is no longer a tale but our reality. We also would sit through a 3 an a half hour movie done right, don't slice & dice this last part.

If I just get to clean up or take out the garbage I will feel good to take part of the REVOLUTION !!!!

RT got an interview with the producer of the movie, John Aglialoro. He talk gives some details into the making of part 3 and when the movie will be in theaters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ7m3RlzP...

Ooh...my husband got me the poster too! It's beautiful.

Or join the FB group-Support the Movie Atlas Shrugged- with MichaelAtlasBrown. Everyone there works to update others.

I tried to during my second viewing of AS2, but unfortunately the poster was already down.

I read Atlas Shrugged many years ago because someone said "This is SO you." It is. I couldn't put it down and have reread the book several times. I bought 7 copies this past year and passed them out to friends who could be interested and were interested. Although I don't keep up with the Gulch, I subscribe to many Facebook groups with Rand as their focus. I've read all of her fiction/nonfiction that I've been able to find (with Return to the Primitive as my favorite). I own the jacket, 2 tshirts, have the sticker on my laptop (which I LOVE taking out at the airport), have a Who is JG bumper sticker on my car, and when I left my job (who I believe was run by a direct descendant of some antagonists in AS), I left the sign "I'm leaving it as I found it. Take over, it's yours" and yes, I have the photo.

On a sad note, I'm personally affected by this disease that's taking over the world. As a school teacher of 23 years, I shrugged from public education after being told I'm not a "team player" and not agreeing to follow the plans of inexperienced and ineffectual teachers. Why? "Because if all of the teachers are teaching the same, children and parents know what to expect." You've GOT to be kidding! No, I can listen to anyone ideas, but I think for myself and it has become increasingly hard to THINK in education. For the past several years I've posted her quotes in my classroom and keep a copy on my desk. (I love her quote about the look on a child's face!) So, now I'm faced with applying for private schools in the hopes of being able to teach my students to think and reason instead of regurgitate and follow commands.

Rand stands for reason, logic, power to the people, and gee...the way the world SHOULD work. I'm pretty vocal about my views, I was in the fan video for AS1 and didn't make the AS2 video because the 2nd time I went to see the movie in the theater, the poster was down. :-(

Reading AS was an epiphany that has changed my life forever.

I read Atlas Shrugged for the first time as a teenager. My oldest brother introduced it to my parents, my sister, my other brother and me.

The principles of strong work ethic, integrity and never taking more than you have earned have been the cornerstones of our lives.

It is also my niece's favorite book, and she once got a job promotion because the owner of the company she worked for saw a bumper sticker that said "Who is John Galt?" in the parking lot. He walked around the office in search of the person who owned that car. After speaking with her about the book, he gave her a promotion that same day.

I read Atlas Shrugged again in my 20s, 30s and now reading it again in my 50s. (Missed my 40s somehow).

Each time I've read Atlas Shrugged, the parallels to the real world have become more frightening and infuriating. I'm not a big world-changing industrialist, but I try to do my small part in the world to live honorably as do those heroes of mine.

For like one of Ellis Wyatt's Gulch employees, I too am a truck driver that is diligently working not to remain one.

I read AS when I was 12 and it blew my mind all the way from New York City to Colorado. From then on I fell in love with Ayn Rand and all things related to train travel which I long for a resurgence in our nation. I wonder what Ms Rand would think of what a economic mess we have found ourselves in now. It was always my dream to see AS on the big screen and finally that dream came true. I am a Rand Fan forever!