RE: 'Atlas' pic mapped
I saw this already. A couple of comments:
Short of making a movie that is 15 hours long and would put everyone in the theater to sleep, I can't imagine any scenario in which Hollywood could successfully transfer the novel to film. Furthermore, there aren't enough aggregate IQ points in Hollywood to understand the novel, let alone create a movie that is faithful to the ideas presented.
The article says Angelina Jolie is a Rand "enthusiast." Once again, this can only be because she doesn't have the vaguest clue what Rand's belief systems included. Rand was a rabid anti-feminist. She called feminism simply another disguised form of Marxism. Jolie spends a lot of time bleating altruistic platitudes while Rand found altruism to be poisonous. I expect Jolie is attracted to Rand's fairly libertine attitudes on sexuality and to her atheism. I feel safe in assuming that Rand would have found Jolie, her lifestyle, and her outlook to be distasteful. Jolie and Dagny Taggart are diametric opposites.
The article also says Brad Pitt is a "fan" of Rand's. One can only wonder how much that has to do with Jolie's interest. I can't imagine any scenario in which a brainless pretty-boy like Pitt could be even remotely interested in Ayn Rand. She did not, after all, ever write any comic books. John Galt would likely find Brad Pitt to be completely despicable.
Hollywood will completely blow this one. They will give center stage to the adulterous affair between Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden, ignoring its purpose in the novel and completely bloating its relative importance in the story. John Galt will be morphed into some kind of international playboy or James Bond character. Jolie will portray Dagny Taggart as some kind of über-feminist. You will see nothing of Rand's blistering indictment of trade unionism through John Galt's character. You will see nothing of her portrayal of creeping government regulation poisonously destroying American industry. There will be nothing of the portrayal of weak-minded corporatists who sow the seeds of their own destruction by embracing the collectivist lie. Galt's Gulch, if it even shows up in the film, will be reduced to some latter-day hippie commune. James Taggart will somehow become a sympathetic character who is done in by his own impotence. Miss Rand will roll in her grave.
I can pretty much assure you that I plan to give this one a miss in the theaters. If I'm bored on some rainy Sunday afternoon when it finally makes its way to HBO, I might watch it, but only if I'm in a particularly easy-going mood.
Short of making a movie that is 15 hours long and would put everyone in the theater to sleep, I can't imagine any scenario in which Hollywood could successfully transfer the novel to film. Furthermore, there aren't enough aggregate IQ points in Hollywood to understand the novel, let alone create a movie that is faithful to the ideas presented.
The article says Angelina Jolie is a Rand "enthusiast." Once again, this can only be because she doesn't have the vaguest clue what Rand's belief systems included. Rand was a rabid anti-feminist. She called feminism simply another disguised form of Marxism. Jolie spends a lot of time bleating altruistic platitudes while Rand found altruism to be poisonous. I expect Jolie is attracted to Rand's fairly libertine attitudes on sexuality and to her atheism. I feel safe in assuming that Rand would have found Jolie, her lifestyle, and her outlook to be distasteful. Jolie and Dagny Taggart are diametric opposites.
The article also says Brad Pitt is a "fan" of Rand's. One can only wonder how much that has to do with Jolie's interest. I can't imagine any scenario in which a brainless pretty-boy like Pitt could be even remotely interested in Ayn Rand. She did not, after all, ever write any comic books. John Galt would likely find Brad Pitt to be completely despicable.
Hollywood will completely blow this one. They will give center stage to the adulterous affair between Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden, ignoring its purpose in the novel and completely bloating its relative importance in the story. John Galt will be morphed into some kind of international playboy or James Bond character. Jolie will portray Dagny Taggart as some kind of über-feminist. You will see nothing of Rand's blistering indictment of trade unionism through John Galt's character. You will see nothing of her portrayal of creeping government regulation poisonously destroying American industry. There will be nothing of the portrayal of weak-minded corporatists who sow the seeds of their own destruction by embracing the collectivist lie. Galt's Gulch, if it even shows up in the film, will be reduced to some latter-day hippie commune. James Taggart will somehow become a sympathetic character who is done in by his own impotence. Miss Rand will roll in her grave.
I can pretty much assure you that I plan to give this one a miss in the theaters. If I'm bored on some rainy Sunday afternoon when it finally makes its way to HBO, I might watch it, but only if I'm in a particularly easy-going mood.
posted by Anonymous | 11:38 AM
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