Outreach: Atlas Shrugged Movie in 2009

[RCA]

Wow! Maybe our numbers will grow stronger after this movie hits!



EDIT: Forgot to post the link.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/

 

[RonPaulVolunteer]

What?

 

[anaconda]

IMDB link

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/

 

[Kludge]

Project is dead. Director quit, and Jolie is pregnant.

Besides, the last attempt at this was terrible. Rand's tomes cannot be brought to film in any less than 5 hours of movie.

 

[lynnf]

check the internet movie database

What?

fyi --

Atlas Shrugged (2009)
Writers:
Ayn Rand (novel) and
Randall Wallace (screenplay)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/

lynn

 

[tonyr1988]

Project is dead. Director quit, and Jolie is pregnant.

Besides, the last attempt at this was terrible. Rand's tomes cannot be brought to film in any less than 5 hours of movie.

Yeah, they've been trying this for like 20 years. It just won't happen. I think they tried originally to do a TV mini-series, it failed, and then there were 500 attempts at a movie. It would be (potentially) nice, but I wouldn't get my hopes up.

 

[AutoDas]

I think a Bioshock movie would be more interesting.

Atlas Shrugged the movie would put kids to sleep.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Too bad...sounds like it might have been good.

Randall Wallace FTW.

 

[mport1]

I still need to read Atlas Shrugged. Its just so long and it seems like there is probably a lot of other more worthwhile things I could read.

 

[TastyWheat]

If Hollywood makes it I'm sure it will lose all of it's meaning.

 

[JRegs85]

I still need to read Atlas Shrugged. Its just so long and it seems like there is probably a lot of other more worthwhile things I could read.

That's exactly what I thought!

Just promise yourself you'll put the time into reading the book, and see what happens in a month...

 

[nate895]

Quite frankly, after reading what they (the objectivists) did to Rothbard for his wife being a Presbyterian, why anyone would to Ayn Rand as a good libertarian is beyond me.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

We shouldn't care about our fellow man, we should simply live to pleasure ourselves. What a wonderful world!!! It is such an astonishing fact her philosophy never caught on beyond a few nobodies in New York.

 

[RPTXState]

If Hollywood makes it I'm sure it will lose all of it's meaning.

Just like V for Vendetta

 

[Kludge]

We shouldn't care about our fellow man, we should simply live to pleasure ourselves. What a wonderful world!

Caring for others is fine so long as you realize that in doing so, you are caring for yourself. It is when you start to expect gratitude that you are a parasitic emotional leech of the needy because you need others to validate yourself in the eyes of other delusional parasites. "Selflessness" is a selfish act. There is no beauty in it. It does not make you more "human". It does not negate poor judgment of the past.

 

[BeFranklin]

Quite frankly, after reading what they (the objectivists) did to Rothbard for his wife being a Presbyterian, why anyone would to Ayn Rand as a good libertarian is beyond me.
.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard23.html

She was weird. Yes I read all her works, including newsletters. She contradicted herself even there, and had affairs and did speed while disclaiming the same.

 

[sevin]

We shouldn't care about our fellow man, we should simply live to pleasure ourselves. What a wonderful world!!! It is such an astonishing fact her philosophy never caught on beyond a few nobodies in New York.

This is the biggest misconception about Objectivism, and I'm tired of people bashing a philosophy they don't understand.

What it really says is we shouldn't HAVE to care about our fellow man, that nobody should be obligated to pay for his neighbor as they do in socialism or communism.

 

[Gaius1981]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard23.html

She was weird. Yes I read all her works, including newsletters. She contradicted herself even there, and had affairs and did speed while disclaiming the same.

What little respect I had for Rothbard has gone away now. He comes across as small and petty, and is consistently being misleading, and twisting the truth.

Rothbard unmasked

 

[Gaius1981]

This is the biggest misconception about Objectivism, and I'm tired of people bashing a philosophy they don't understand.

What it really says is we shouldn't HAVE to care about our fellow man, that nobody should be obligated to pay for his neighbor as they do in socialism or communism.

Yes, that every man is an end in himself, and has the right to exists without sacrificing himself to others against his own will.

 

[Gaius1981]

Rothbard repeatedly talks about "excommunication". Objectivism isn't a political party, but an intellectual movement, and it's only reasonable that if a person doesn't agree with the philosophy which the movement represents, he should no longer be recognized as an advocate of that philosophy, else he would misrepresent it, giving it a bad name. Libertarian critics of Objectivism went overboard with their accusations when "Pope Peikoff excommunicated Greenspan" as they put it, saying that he should have shown more tolerance for Greenspan -- well, they must regret their words now.

 

[Conza88]

What little respect I had for Rothbard has gone away now. He comes across as small and petty, and is consistently being misleading, and twisting the truth.

Rothbard unmasked

ROFL... Objectivity... something the objectivists lack. :o

The Good Life of Murray N. Rothbard by JoAnn Rothbard

3min.50secs (Ayn Rand mentioned +) A story about the plagiarism accusation

The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult by Murray N. Rothbard

I still recommend the book