Cast recommendations for Atlas Shrugged: Now Non-Fiction?

Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 3 months ago to Movies
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Does anyone want to put together a cast for "Atlas Shrugged: Now Non-Fiction"?

A place to start would be Glenn Beck's compilation of Obama's czars.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/article...

Mr. Thompson - Mr. Barack Obama
Hugh Akston - Dinesh D'Souza
James Taggart - Jeffrey Skilling (GE CEO)
Do not forget that GE has a trains division.

Starnes' heir - Auto Recovery Czar Ed Montgomery or car czar Ron Bloom

Floyd Ferris - Energy and Environment Czar – Carol Browner
Robert Stadler - former Energy Secretary Stephen Chu

Claude Slagenhop - Green Jobs Czar Van Jones

Tinky Holloway - Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein

Mr. Larkin - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner

Cuffy Meigs - Craig Becker (Associate General Counsel of the Service Employees International Union)

This is a start. I'm very open to suggestion.

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  • Posted by $ winterwind 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    he SHAMBLES around. I know "you're an actor, act like your costume fits" and used it regularly, but I doubt anything will help him physically. ick.
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  • Posted by $ winterwind 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    NO, No, no, no, no no to Jobs. He might have done great and wonderful things later in life, but he and his sidekick STOLE the technology for the desktop computer [among another ideas and products] and I'm sure we can find an honest man for the job. NO.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Like MikeMarotta below, I based my probably incorrect casting on Cage's work in the National Treasure movies where he portrayed someone of intelligence rather well.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I disagree: National Treasure; World Trade Center. You need to understand that actors read lines. They can be kings or paupers, sluts or nuns, generals or privates, lawyers or bricklayers. They read lines. Do not confuse their personal lives with their screen persona. Not everyone who played Edmund was a bastard.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I would not have lumped Ronald Reagan in such company. Reagan was far more thoughtful than the banal Balph Eubank. Joe Biden would probably make a better Balph Eubank. He is constantly talking and never right about anything. I'll agree with you on Newt as Kip Chalmers.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Arguments there. You do not speak for Ayn Rand. I have asked you to clarify the theoretical suppositions and applied realities on intellectual property. We agree that such exists. We do not agree on the specifics because I look to first principles and you look to current US law. As a published author - over 300 magazine and newspaper articles - I live by copyright, but I do not endorse current US copyright laws, which you seem to.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have no doubt he could act well as a looter. Picking a good Galt would be tough, largely because Galt chose to be anonymous for so many years.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am certainly not sold on Donald Trump. Capitalism is a term of the "progressives" - or should I say regressives.
    Trump would consider himself an entrepeneur willing to do what was necessary. JP Morgan would be a much better choice were he still alive.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years, 3 months ago
    George Bush Sr., George Bush, Jr., Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich
    Cuffy Meigs, Claude Slagenhop, Balph Eubank. Kip Chalmers
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  • Posted by MarR 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Nicolas Cage would be an awful Galt. If anything he would be a good looter
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    no way in hell, jbrenner. He is against intellectual property rights. Something Rand would have vehemently denounced.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Steve Jobs and Edward Snowden seem well chosen. Bill Gates opposite Steve Jobs would be interesting - kind of like the Pirates of Silicon Valley (a great movie from 1999).

    For Dagny, I was considering Meg Whitman (of EBay) or Carly Fiorina (formerly of HP). I don't know Marissa Mayer or George Paz. That doesn't mean they are bad choices. Logical choices for actors to play Francisco d'Anconia and John Galt would be Antonio Banderas and Nicolas Cage, but I would like to stick with non-actors.

    Please educate me about Marissa Mayer and George Paz.
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  • Posted by MarR 11 years, 3 months ago
    Hank Rearden: Bill Gates (especially in the 1990's)

    Dagny Taggart: Marissa Mayer (CEO of Yahoo)

    Ragnar D.: Edward Snowden

    John Galt: Steve Jobs

    Francisco d’Anconia: George Paz
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