13 Feb 11
Originally posted by sh76A trilogy, eh? Sounds long and tedious; a faithful adaptation of the book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged_%28film%29
Who wants to chip in to buy No1 and Rwingett a pair of opening weekend tickets each so that they and their significant others (or friends, I'm not picky) can enjoy what no doubt will be the highlight of their weekend?
15 Feb 11
Originally posted by sh76Good grief, no.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged_%28film%29
Who wants to chip in to buy No1 and Rwingett a pair of opening weekend tickets each so that they and their significant others (or friends, I'm not picky) can enjoy what no doubt will be the highlight of their weekend?
Why oh Lord, why?
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15 Feb 11
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Is this another one of those masochist festivals? Rand's extant screenplays were already coma-inducing. The book demonstrated an embarrassingly inadequate level of emotional development. Her life itself was embarrassing. I know teenagers who have a better grasp human relationships. What is the attraction to Rand? Every intelligent Libertarian I have ever known considered her to be the worst thing ever to happen to Libertarian philosophy and among actual philosophers she is only a bad joke.
15 Feb 11
Originally posted by TerrierJackActually, King Vidor's film of The Fountainhead, from a script by Rand, is very stylish and entertaining. But I think that's got more to do with Vidor, a director who was usually able to bring conviction and power to melodrama, than with Rand's original story.
Rand's extant screenplays were already coma-inducing.
Interestingly, We the Living was filmed without Rand's permission in Italy in 1943; the film got the go-ahead as an anti-Communist film, without Mussolini realising that it could also be interpreted as a satire on other forms of totalitarianism, such as his own. After a few weeks in the theatres, Mussolini belatedly realised the truth, and the film was pulled.
15 Feb 11
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Originally posted by TerrierJackFun Fact: Rand despised the Libertarians and felt they owed her money and public, legal acknowledgement for "her ideas".
Is this another one of those masochist festivals? Rand's extant screenplays were already coma-inducing. The book demonstrated an embarrassingly inadequate level of emotional development. Her life itself was embarrassing. I know teenagers who have a better grasp human relationships. What is the attraction to Rand? Every intelligent Libertarian I have e ...[text shortened]... ever to happen to Libertarian philosophy and among actual philosophers she is only a bad joke.
15 Feb 11
Originally posted by Bosse de NageSurely there's only one book of Job?
The Devil switched all Job's books for Ayn Rand.
And besides, I'm pretty sure that Ayn Rand is everything but an example of theodicy.
If she had a biblical book it would be called: Faeces is as faeces does... and the atlas shrugged.
