All hail Raven West "It's the message, stupid."

That was a great article. The movie did bring in new people, even if they were there only because someone drug them to it the first time.

Has anyone else noticed that so many of those liberal Hollywood actors who deride success, especially success in business always demand multi-million dollar salaries to appear in those staid movies? The do as I tell you, not as I do crowd. They always remind me of Jim Taggart and friends.

Mike made a good point in noting it galvanized the fans of AS. It certainly fired me up, and in turn I passed along copies of AS to friends, who in turn read the book and saw the movies. And this venue is a fantastic forum for like minded people to connect and discuss her ideas, and then some!

To me, it is not that the movies brought any (or very many) NEW people to the ideas of Ayn Rand, but that the movies galvanized those 24 million or so readers who were isolated, dormant, and happy to see the movie, buy the DVD, or get it on Netflix. In short, the production tapped into a potential energy source with kinetic properties capable of doing work by changing mass over a change in time. In other words, you were right.

In a nutshell, delightful. The one thing missing from the review which is commonly lacking in most of the detractors understanding, is that not all wealthy industrialists are bad or good; that there are moochers, looters, cronies, and second-handers both in government and business, but government is worse because it has the sanction to use force.

I know I introduced several people to the movies who had no prior interest... the movies are a great icebreaker.

I have not read the book. I watched the first two movies and was wondering about the third, which brought me to this site. It was the story behind the acting is what drew my attention. It seems to have taken the legend of the Carnegie empire and futurized it. Anyone who has studied Andrew Carnegie's contributions to steel can see how the Hank Rearden character compares to Andrew. Also the political controls that governments have tried to put on technologies throughout history continue to stagnate inventions (the FCC clamping down on many great inventors like Tesla is a great example). I believe the movie uses the SSI as a parity for government groups like the FCC.
The story has allot of real life comparisons of political corruption that make it very interesting to me. But when they replaced all of the actors of the main characters between the 1st and 2nd movie it made the flow between them a little difficult to follow (could that have been a political influence to quite the impact of this series).
It is because of the movies that I will likely buy the book. Does anyone know Al Gat?

You are slipping! ;-)

Did you give it a 'thumbs up', in the upper right corner?

Very nice! congratulations.