Last week, while passing through Sin City (aka Washington, DC), I had the opportunity to attend a screening of Atlas Shrugged, Part One at the Heritage Foundation.
As one whose life took a remarkable turn nearly two decades ago, in part due to Atlas Shrugged, waiting for a movie version of Ayn Rand’s novel to hit the big screen has been an effort at exercising endless patience. However, that patience has paid off with this movie.
Despite the novel being published in 1957, in an era of looters seeking to devour producers—from the White House in Washington to the streets of L.A.—Atlas Shrugged is a movie that speaks to the issues of today. And, just as importantly, it is a faithful adaptation of the novel that Americans surveyed describe as the second most influential novel in their lives (after the Bible).
Following the screening, and in light of all that is going on in Madison and elsewhere, Harmon Kaslow (one of the producers) stated that he would release one of the scenes in which the heroine, Dagny Taggart, confronts the union boss.
Below, courtesy of “The Strike” Productions, Inc., is a first-look at the scene Dagny confronts the union*.
While its April 15th theatrical release is limited for the moment, according to the producers, a blockbuster weekend will see it released in more theaters quickly. So, after you’ve made the mad dash to the post office to get your tax returns filed, grab your date and be sure to see Atlas Shrugged, Part One.
*Thanks to Ben Howe for uploading the clip to Youtube.
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“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776
A strong woman might say something like, "I am so confident in the integrity of the bridge, I plan to ride along with the engineer". A strong woman can listen to objections and negotiate solutions.
Give me a strong woman like Mother Teresa over Ayn Rand, any day. sneakypete, I hate to tell you this but that woman in the video clip is an actress. The part she is playing is a fictional character who is not based on any person who ever lived.
Ayn Rand freaks in college seemed like a cult to me and would thrust this book into my hands to read. I read it and then declared it was boring fiction. I got shocked looks. They never realized reading 'Atlas Shrugged' was a work of fiction - and badly written fiction at that. They treated this work as if it was some truth revealing work of genius. I told them a work can only reveal truth if based on reality with real world models and examples.
Those Ayn Randians I am sure later went on to Wall Street Finance and trusted the theoretical models which when confronted with human nature proved to be as useless as a crystal ball was.
