Well, whodathunkit? The Atlas Shrugged trailer is out and despite the movie’s nearly non-existant budget and no-name actors, it looks amazingly good. Opens in theaters on — ta da — April 15. Perhaps not at your local multiplex. Definitely not at my local oneplex. But this might be worth traveling to see.
Bonus: Here’s another trailer — made from existing movie clips by a fan who never thought there’d be an Atlas Shrugged movie. It’s pretty darned good, too. Keep in mind that this one has no connection to the actual film that’s coming out:
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaang. Looks BETTER than the book. And the timing couldn’t be better. Kinda gives ya hope (just a smidgen) that maybe we’ll make it after all.
After watching both clips, I have to ask: Are these two different movies?
Sounds like I’ll have to make it a point to see that. As always, skeptical, but as always, willing to be impressed. 🙂
Big Wooly: without meaning to diminish your point, I think there’s actually hope in lots of places, even unlikely places.
America just been schooled — by Egypt
Sure, they’ll probably wind up with a new boss that’s the same as the old boss. The amount of pressure marshalling even now to ensure it will be staggering. But even that cannot undo the example of what happened, and what sort of ideas that might give people everywhere.
If there is another Enlightenment in world history, it will begin with things just like this. What we can do now, is to make sure that people notice.
lwoots, the second one isn’t even a real movie. Just a fan’s wishful thinking. 🙂
That was my point in the perfect timing. I believe current events will allow for more positive reception of revolutionary ideas by the masses as well as the media.
Well…. maybe not the media.
it looks good, but unfortunately it’ll probably be to “brainy”, without enough car chases, shoot outs and casual sex for the average movie goer.
If it’s anything like faithful to the book, you don’t have to worry about casual sex – complete with absurd dialog.
They can add the car chases in post-production, number/intensity based on focus group returns. I’m gonna go wash my fingers with lye now.
But seriously, this movie comes as a complete surprise. Whatever happened to that on again/off again Angelina BigLips vehicle we heard so much about?
Claire, that’s what I get for reading but not comprehending; or a lack of caffeine. 🙂
But, yeah, I especially liked the ending of the 2nd trailer.
Claire
You made my day – thanks for digging this out
Think Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, BP. Does free market in the extreme still sound sexy? Is this really what the world needs? Are we just exercising our freedom to kill all but the richest? Do you really think a Randian model is the best world for your children to grow up in?
banjofiddle … um, what do Monsanto, Dow and the rest have to do with “free market in the extreme”? Egads, they’re hand-in-pocket with government in ways that have been detailed extensively. Some of those companies would barely exist — or would certainly be far less influential — if they weren’t big-time recipients of government contracts, questionable patents, subsidies, and custom-crafted regulations that prop them up while harming other businesses and individuals.
Judging by the responses of banjofiddle and Richard Clark, I’m guessing my AS trailer post has been picked up by either an anti-Objectivist site or an anti-market site. Makes the comments interesting, definitely. But I do hope that before getting too hot under the collar, commenters arriving from that source will take a look at what this site is about. There are very few Objectivists or unquestioning Rand devotees hereabouts. Was Rand everything claimed for her in Richard Clark’s link? Well, probably so. But anybody looking at the history of the arts will notice pretty darned quickly that some tremendously wonderful works have been produced by egomaniacs, bullies, sociopaths, and in a few cases even murderers (study Italian Renaissance art if you doubt it). One can enjoy Rand’s works without endorsing Rand as a person.
Anyhow, comment away. But don’t make knee-jerk assumptions that this site is a hotbed of Randian devotion. Or that being eager to see a movie implies 100% agreement with everything the author if its source material ever did or thought. Or — OMG! — that today’s big, government-sucking corporations in any way resemble free marketeers.
in re the Knee-Jerker’s Guide To Anti-Rand Talking Points Based Upon Mere Noncontemptuous Mention Of One Of Her Fiction Works:
I suspect that conflating appreciation with worship is not so different than misunderstanding non-aggression, and may explain much of both.
Sure, there are two sides to Rand-freak. But sheesh, AS is a fiction story, no less or moreso than any other “worldview” epic.
And Claire is right. Corporations only exist at the whim of the state; the very definition of incorporation is based upon a legal status, privileges and the implicit incentive to influence the inherently coercive political system to one’s own advantage. I’ll save my concern for those who are actually using the guns of the state to threaten people like you and me, now, over the hypothetical “problem” that someone might get an unapproved idea or two from an author who never advocated the use of force against those who disagreed with her.