The world wants to know. That fantastic trailer’s got people asking. Nobody’s saying.
According to the film’s official site the filmmakers are distributing it themselves by agreement with individual theater managers. If you want your local moviehouse to show it, it’s up to you to get the ball rolling.
According the the film’s Facebook page theaters in eight cities are lined up. One is in Denver. Nobody’s saying more yet.
Got any updates? Post ’em here!
Hi claire
I was fortunate enough to meet Ms Rand when I was 13 in 1973 … I was not your typical teenager having already read Atlas Shrugged
so I am hopeful this movie does the book justice (most do not)
we talked about gold & architecture
she was not keen on children, but we had a fun talk as she liked that I gave her crap/teased her :>)
jake
Well, technically, it’s just a third of the book. :p
That link to the website seems not to work. Is this what you saw, Claire?
http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/?gclid=CJLe1pbkhacCFQS7KgodtUuQgQ
For those of you who are Hardyville fans, I have found a recipe for Chicken-fried Steak with pan dripping gravy.
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Beef/ChickenFriedSteak.htm
Cook the recipe in a cast iron pan for best taste.
Remember, stay away from One Pickup Truck places
Joel … Hm. All the AS trailer links work for me. But the one you posted is nice, too. 🙂
As to the complete surprise: The movie sans Jolie and Pitt has actually been in the works for a while. The people who owned the film rights to Atlas Shrugged were going to lose them if they didn’t go into production by a certain date — and as that date approached, hopes for a big Hollywood production were still stalled (if not actually regressing). So they rushed to work on this low-budget indie. Everything seemed to indicate it was likely to be nothing but … well, a placeholder for want of a better term. But they sure that trailer proud.
ADDED: Here’s a Forbes article that gives some of the background:
http://blogs.forbes.com/johntamny/2010/12/12/a-name-to-know-in-2011-atlas-shrugged-producer-john-aglialoro/
Ayn Rand was an evil woman whose entire philosophy was based on greed and selfishness:
http://authormichaelprescott.blogspot.com/2005/03/was-ayn-rand-evil.html
Richard
selfishness is a virtue – i would never trust someone, seemingly with your views, that does not have an honest self interest
it is the second handers and altruists that are taking our country down
but hey, if you are vouching for selflessness i’ll gladly give you a po box where you can mail me your life savings … you’ll feel better for being selfless and i’ll feel better for being greedy :>)
jake
“but hey, if you are vouching for selflessness i’ll gladly give you a po box where you can mail me your life savings … you’ll feel better for being selfless and i’ll feel better for being greedy :>)”
Damn, Jake MacGregor, I wish I’d thought of that response!
(BTW, old emails are buried someplace. I’ll try to find them and if I do, I’ll resend. They’re probably obsolete now, anyway. I just wanted to thank you for your kindnesses to me and not do it entirely in the comments sections.)
somehow i suspect my po box will go empty but it gives a new twist to the old lie ‘the check is in the mail’ :>)
a philosopher would say ‘money seeks certainty and altruists have no certainty that they have created any value, thus they must void themselves’
me: altruists are just full of voiding themselves :>)
hope to see the old emails claire – be nice to share photos of rescued pups (we are on #5 mastiff, a great pyr, a newfie/lab mix and an old-man lab)
best
jake
I always love the hypocrisy of the fundamentalist religious right Christians in the Teabagger Party, with a Bible in one hand and a copy of “Atlas Shrugged” in the other.
They might be disappointed to find out their beloved Ayn Rand was an atheist who ridiculed Christianity and called it a forerunner of communism.
Dearest Richard
at least have the grace to laugh when bested :>)
ahhh, and i was so looking forward to paying capital gains off your largesse`
tovarisch!
Jake
{rattle-Thump- bang-clatter-Clunk-thud} … gooch searching through his patented homemade Arsehat Repulsion Tools locker. Mostly made from cardboard and tinfoil … [patents pending …]
AH … There it is …. the “Easy To Wear Self-Righteous Label Throwing Smug Dude Reflector Shield” and … just in time too it appears.
I don’t happen to be a “fundamentalist religious right Christian(s) in the Teabagger Party” but I sure don’t want that slather, that’s being spread around, spread on me.
So how is it, exactly please, that “labeling and denigrating” others is considered a part of “Living Freedom” ?
Did someone leave the back door open again ?
gooch
{shakes head in wonderment ….}
I thought the back door was always open for fans of Backwoods Home magazine and especially for Libertarians.
BTW, not all Libertarians are in the Cult of Ayn Rand (she hated the Libertarian Party anyway) and unlike that right-wing appendage to the Republican Party, called the “tea party,” the Libertarian Party is a real political party.
Richard Clark — The door is open. But the party is full of opinionated people. 🙂
As long as folks stay polite, we’re good.
I expect that a lot of people around here (definitely including me) were greatly influenced by Ayn Rand at some point in their lives and still admire her pathbreaking work. But her foibles and quirks have been widely discussed, too. She was a badly flawed human being, and although I can’t speak for anybody but myself, I doubt there are many people here who believe her to have been a paragon of virtue, or who give much credence to her private opinions.
Ayn Rand, a paragon of virtue? lol! She was a warped individual and her fictional novels were boring rants.
Richard Clark — You’ll notice that nobody posting in this thread has called Ayn Rand a paragon of virtue.
There are even lots of people here (as we know from many past discussions) who consider her novels boring. I’m not among those. I like to read Rand and Atlas Shrugged changed my whole perspective on life when I was 19 — though my perspective on Rand has changed since then.
Since not one, single person here has expressed a point of view worshipping Rand, but at best simply admiring, agreeing with, enjoying, or learning from her works, I’m beginning to wonder why you feel the need to keep grinding that same axe.
Claire – I think it’s important to realize that not all readers of Backwoods Home magazine agree wth Ayn Rand’s philosophy. While it’s certainly your right to blog about anything you want to, isn’t it also our right to disagree? I do enjoy BHM, it reminds me of the “old” Mother Earth News magazine. Unfortunately, Mother Earth News sold out to corporate interests in the late 1980s, and now that magazine is about as boring as “Better Homes & Garden.”
Well, my axe-grinding is over 🙂 Just realize that not all your readers are from the Republican/tea party crowd.
Richard Clark — Of course you have every right to disagree and I haven’t said or done one thing to suppress you. And naturally not all BHM readers like or agree with Ayn Rand’s philosophy. Again, I never said or implied otherwise.
But it’s you who have concluded, against ample evidence, that this particular blog attracts Republicans or Tea Party devotees. And your comments all seem to be addressed to people you assume to be fanatical Rand devotees — who, again, are an unlikely group to be hanging around this blog. There may be some out there. And if so, they’re welcome. But judging by the comments usually left here, I’d say there are few R’s (although there may be some strategic “hold your nose pull the lever” R voters, just as theremay be some “hold your nose and pull the lever” D voters), Tea Partiers, or Objectivists. Certainly my writing wouldn’t attract devotees of those causes, in any case.
So what I’ve been saying from my first response to you is that your comments here appear to be addressed to a group of people who are, in fact, not very common around here.
I originally put the following into the other comment section on Atlas Shrugged: The Movie. I was responding to two comments, not realizing the two were actually in different threads. (Mea culpa of course, but it’s also an artifact of the way the blog admin sees comment– sorted by the time they came in, with less prominent information on which topic folks are actually commenting on.)
My apologies to Richard Clark, who has I’m sure heard enough from me already. But I thought I’d better put this in both threads where it pertains:
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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.
I like Rand and being interested in actual freedom I’m not a repub, demo, or tea partier. Atlas Shrugged made a very large impact on me when I first read it. The second and third time over years hardly diminished it. I really liked We the Living at the time but have never re- read it after many years.