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Atlas Shrugged Part III

Posted by sdesapio 13 years, 3 months ago to Entertainment
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Headed back from LA. Very productive script meeting. Atlas Shrugged Part 3 is going to be EPIC. THIS is the one.

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  • Posted by copperbabe13 13 years, 3 months ago
    Can't wait for ATLAS III Will you be keeping the same cast this time? I really liked Taylor Schilling as Dagney. Also, could we get in on having our names at the end of the movie titles? That would be SO sweet! Let me know, guess the metal of the third movie will be Galt Gold! Enjoying seeing my heroes come alive!
    Much love to all, gives me a bit of hope, a safe haven from the world of Obama. Hugs to all. Copperbabe13.
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    • Posted by khalling 13 years, 3 months ago
      copper-
      how can you love us? you just got here! :)
      and why would our names be in the credits of the film, if we didn't have anything to do with making the film?? have you read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand-and if so what did you think?
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      • Posted by copperbabe13 13 years, 3 months ago
        k halling... Oh, I usually love everybody! I just meant that for instance, in the Lord of the Rings...because we were in the "fan club" they put all our names at the end of the credits...so it was very cool, made us feel good because we had cheered them on. Yes, I first read Atlas when I was 15 years old. ( i liked the sexual trists and I knew about her living in communist Russia...so yes I was intrigued at such a young age!) I read Anthem then too...but never read the Fountainhead. I liked Atlas, although I thought she could have said her message in maybe fewer chapters! (long book) lol I sort of lived at the library because I did not have a very good home life, so books were my escape. How about you?
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        • Posted by khalling 13 years, 3 months ago
          I also lived at the library-because I lived in such a small town, it was the way to "escape." It is interesting and I think unusual to go on to Anthem next. I am trying to think how a 15 year old would react to it. I started with Fountainhead freshman year college. I guess I was too busy trying to impress my english teacher father with how much Dostoyevsky I cram in my head (instead of Hugo, sigh) and Eugene O'Neill plays. dark, dark times :)
          you would really enjoy the Fountainhead. and to think all those libraries were compliments of Carnegie-as it should be
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        • Posted by sdesapio 13 years, 3 months ago
          RE: "I liked Atlas, although I thought she could have said her message in maybe fewer chapters"
          It's actually a pretty common sentiment copperbabe. Don't let the locals here in the Gulch scare you away. We have a pretty protective bunch - which you'll come to find is a good thing. Stick around for a while. You're going to fit right in.
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          • Posted by fivedollargold 13 years, 2 months ago
            While reading AS, I marveled at how beautifully she wrote, in a second language no less. With that said, she really needed a strong editor, or perhaps the willingness to listen to one. She rambled on at times. A hundred pages or more could have been cut and the message would have been the same, and the story much improved.
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            • Posted by overmanwarrior 13 years, 2 months ago
              I understand what you said about the editor. But I'll have to say I'm glad Atlas Shrugged is the way it is. It's so rare that so much passion ends up on the printed page--especially these days. I've been through that process a few times and while tightening up the story is good, it's not always best. I don't think the reader of a book wants to fly through just so they can get to the next book, so editors tamper too much and get bent out of shape over word count too much. I think the Money Speech and the John Galt speech are unique literary pieces that are special because of their length, and scope.
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            • Posted by khalling 13 years, 2 months ago
              five dollar, I have not taken alot of philosophy courses, but read enough to know that AS is philosophy and novel mixed. screws hugely with literary novel style, as we know it, until someone else breaks out of it (style). Erika Holzer talked about Rand's ability to know every word, comma etc. placement in the book and why. extraordinary feat for such a big book. I'd quote it, but I want to tempt you to download the book, "Ayn Rand: My Fiction-Writing Teacher."
              I'd love to see her as a guest poster/speaker in the Lounge.
              Go read the beginning of "Absolam, Absolam!", Faulkner, and tell me you aren't itching to put some periods in those sentences, as any good editor might. There are specific and deliberate reasons. Is there anyone more specific and deliberate than Rand? :)
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  • Posted by Permart 13 years, 2 months ago
    By the way, don't be afraid to shoot extra scenes or extended scenes to include more of the book. You can always put those on a bonus CD for AS lovers who don't mind watching the longer version.
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  • Posted by Permart 13 years, 3 months ago
    I am conservative libertarian and my wife is liberal progressive, yes--ouch! It took a while but I got her to watch parts 1 and 2 with me. She liked the stark style of the movie but recoiled at the message beating into her constantly. Her key objection was to the portraying government as the source of evil. I tried to explain that the real issue was the compulsion, but it was lights out for any further discussion. I do not yet know how to bridge this divide.
    I appreciate all of the work that has gone into the making of these movies.
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  • Posted by vido 13 years, 3 months ago
    What metal will the AS3 BluRay box be made from ? I surmise, it can only be gold, after Rearden'metal and D'anconia copper. Gold is the only other metal given importance in the book, and probably the best choice.
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  • Posted by robert_beecher1 13 years, 3 months ago
    I thought part II was a little choppy in it's editing, the story line not really flowing as smoothly as in part I. All the actors did a damn fine job. Overall a damn fine rendition of a great book. I hope part III is as epic as expected.
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  • Posted by LionelHutz 13 years, 3 months ago
    I'm eager to see how they handle Dagney's tour of Galts Gulch, the testing of Project X, and the lights going out in New York City.

    I foresee them having problems with John Galt working for Taggert. He's supposed to have been having lunch conversations with Eddie this entire time, and that's completely been lost in translation to the movie.

    They are going to have a horrendous problem compressing "This is John Galt Speaking"!

    Looking forward to part 3 !
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    • Posted by eskslo 13 years, 3 months ago
      Agreed. What were your thoughts on how they handled the money speech by Francisco and reardens court scene in part 2
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        Posted by writer806 13 years, 3 months ago
        I thought it was painful to watch. At one point I fell asleep. The acting was horrible and the sets looked like there were on a sound stage on the backlot of MGM. It was such a wonderful book. It makes the first part look like it is Oscar worthy!
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    • Posted by LionelHutz 13 years, 3 months ago
      Oh - and Ragnar's appearance where he gives Mr Reardon his gold bar, and his speech about how his goal in life right now is to destroy the popularly held noble image of Robin Hood. But they're going to have a devil of a time tying him into the story at this point. His role so far as I can remember in the movies has been a headline in a newspaper.
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      • Posted by overmanwarrior 13 years, 2 months ago
        I can't wait for this. True about Ragnar, but John Galt so far has only been a ghostly figure. This could work very effectively since they at least did include Ragnar as a newspaper headline.
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      • Posted by UncommonSense 13 years, 3 months ago
        Will they do the scene with James, and the fallout with Cheryll? Including her suicide? If the film producers don't somehow include her internal conclusions that led her to jumping, it might get lost on folks who didn't read AS.
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    Posted by C_S 13 years, 3 months ago
    Then the script will meet the reality of a severely constrained production budget. And the next round of recasting.
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