I understand you.
It all boils down very basically to what is good and what is evil and what's the difference.

I don't recall the Nixon-era E.O. being more than temporary, unlike the current unspecified duration, but I guess it won't matter if soros' party is able to divide, by whatever means (race war, invasion, religious war), And lastly, I'd only bet on your analysis, not against it.

Worth some thought. BT

True. BT

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They understand. Hitler understood. Stalin understood. They all understand the world they like rests on the works of producers. They all understand without producers the world makes no progress. They all don't care. They all live in their moments. They all take what they can and force their wills upon everyone they can and they all don't care whether the clock that runs the world runs down because, it won't run down until after they're long gone.

Hitler didn't die wishing he'd not killed the most creative and hard working people in his country. He didn't care that he'd burned the world down. He died wishing he'd been able to kill more of them.

Rand's message is simple. Understanding it takes almost no thought. Accepting it takes virtue. Clinton, Warren, Sanders don't lack understanding, they lack virtue.

One cannot teach virtue to an adult. One must sneak it in on them and help it grow inside. We can do that, just as leftists have done their best to destroy it, we can plant it and help it grow again, as long as the plantee doesn't know that's what we're doing.

I'm not so sure that they do understand. Between their lust for wealth and power and their Marxist ideology, the concepts of Rand are so alien to them, that, while they understand the words, the premises and concepts get squeezed into an idea juicer and come out the other end with entirely different meanings.

Thank you. Precisely right.

My first impulse, when people told me we couldn't cut down old growth forests because spotted owls couldn't live in new growth trees was to ask:

Do you believe in evolution as an ongoing process?

They'd always answer yes. After which I'd say:

Then isn't extinction the proper course for an owl too stupid to move to another tree?

Just a thought. Socialism's programs are not only morally wrong, but they dont work. I think before people will generally accept the morality elements, they have to be shown the failures of those programs. Thats where they are living day to day. The socialists always point to practical issues when they denigrate capitalism and promote socialism. We need to do the same.

It just has to be a series. But to make it as you describe it will require a really excellent writer with a deep understanding of the content. While the book has the room to exploit ideas, getting them into the film and still entertaining, is a daunting task. Good luck! Our whole family is excited and looking forward to the best.

AS1 was good. AS2 and AS3 were not up to the standard of moviemaking today.

Venezuela today could easily be the story of atlas shrugged, but in today's world. There is a lot of shrugging going on for sure, and a lot of dislocations in the economy caused by the supreme IDIOT Maduro and his cronies.

People today need to submit socialism to the practical test of whether it works. Socialism's polities seems to get a "get out of jail card" all the time, instead of being trashed for the failures they result in. That needs to stop. Obamacare needs to be trashed because it doesnt work. Free college ideas need to be trashed because they dont work. Government student loans need to be trashed because they only brought people into debt and artificially inflated the costs of college TSA needs to be trashed because its just stupid. A TV series could do that, and needs to be done.

here is the challenge...for each point you want to make from the book...you have to go into the background and reason for each idea presented AND make it entertaining...
Now that is a challenge...insightful and entertaining...but it is the only way to grab the audience's mind and help them to understand the importance of ideas...fulfilled by the hero(ine) and the villan...

You point of using emotion is exactly on point and illustrates why progressives win the argument every time. While conservatives/libertarians quote rational facts and figures to make their case, progs use emotion.
The logging industry knows all about this. They will exhaustively cite the value and renewability of wood for creating a better world, then the progs will simply ask how one thinks the birds and squirrels feel when their homes are being cut down. End of argument.

One, very long, movie?

As much as this sounds like a good idea, I doubt that once you got in to Venezuela, you wouldn't likely be able to get out.

As a wheelchair user who worked on a phd for 12 years rather than settle for loitering. I loved the films but would like to see more. One thing I would hope to keep is eddie willers being saved. I know what ayn meant by leaving him behind but his morality deserves better

I agree. I thought John Adams was masterful. So much so that I own the DVD.

Rand was more of an accurate intellectual A will become B prophet in my opinion.
Her human behavior prediction was based on history but she was writing a 1984 genre science fiction.

I would like to see the movie become the target of one of those "History vs. Hollywood" pieces they do on the History Channel, because the story was somewhat dated before it ever reached the bookstores. For example, everything in the "Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Law" had already been enacted as federal regulations before then.

As for "Directive 10-289", there has been an Executive Order in place since the Nixon administration that gives the president those powers and more, simply by declaring an emergency. It lets him/her seize factories and re-allocate goods as was done during WW2.

How much do you want to bet those powers don't get used if Soros manages to start the race war he's been trying to provoke?

I loved AS, and enjoyed the movies, a lot, even though the story is told the wrong way. It has got to be a love story to catch the publics imagination.
It needs a woman (Dagny) to chase a man (Galt) and the backdrop is the world around them. Otherwise you are making a documentary, or a science show, or worse an economics lesson or a philosophy sideshow. Get " Melanie Anne Phillips, co-creator of Dramatica." to help you out here guys. She can fix it. Best wishes CM

I really wish that Atlas Shrugged were portrayed as a TV series. There are lots of deep characters, conversations, flashbacks, philosophical concepts, etc. and it all takes a very long time to tell the story. This is of course why Ayn Rand wrote in such detail about everything and it took 12 years to write. How can a few movies possibly do this justice?

Most books I have read have taken me a few hours over a few days, or weeks if I'm really busy. Reading Atlas Shrugged is an entirely different endeavor. It was such a time commitment to read this book and it took me so many months of slowly digesting the story that it became a transformative experience in my life. All I read for an entire year was this book until I finally finished it. At the beginning it felt like starting a marathon. I knew there were many miles ahead of me. Towards the end I was feeling the rush of having committed myself to completing such a great work of literature and also the excitement from the plot building to the finish. When the book ended I was sad to not have any more pages to read. I realized that this chapter in my life was over. I could read the book again but it wouldn't be like that first time. I had this realization that blinders had been removed and I saw the world in a whole new light.

I relay this story to illustrate that it is impossible to recreate this emotional, transformative experience in a person by exposing them to a few hours of movies. It just ain't gonna hold a candle to the book. I truly believe that a TV series in 3 seasons corresponding with the parts of the book would allow the producers, writers, and actors to tell the story to the audience and have the intended impact on them. Isn't that why Game of Thrones has been so popular? What if they had rushed through all the stories and characters and done it in a few movies? It wouldn't have been nearly as good. It would've just been another, forgettable summertime action flick with lots of special effects. Can someone name a single movie in recent memory that changed their life?

This may sound crazy but I suggest a double feature. The Fountainhead and Atla Shrugged.
The original Fountainhead was good, but missed on several key points. Remake it true to the book and then remake AS, truer to the book's spirit and drive. Fountainhead to set the stage and Atlas shrugged to make the play.
What say you in the Gulch? Is it a good idea?

I think a remake, if done well, would be great.

Scott:

I sympathize with your assessment. Just before Part 1 was released, I was asked by Producer Harmon Kaswell to write a review (he sent me an advance copy). My review is here: http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/uncategor...

I'm an employment lawyer by trade, but I am quite actively involved - and, I believe, skilled - in communicating Ayn Rand's philosophy to the general public in ways that are implicit and attractive, rather than explicit and academic. I have been forced to learn that skill by way of being a political party leader for the last 14 years. I understand the general public; I know what they grasp, and how they grasp it...and what bores them or puts them off.

I've given considerable thought to what is needed for a successful Atlas Shrugged movie, and what should be avoided.

If you are interested in my assistance, I'm a phone call away: (#DELETED BY ADMIN).