#ATLAS SHRUGGED MOVIE MOVIE#
It was actually pretty good, and it’s a better review of the movie than this is. But guess what else I found? This review I wrote in 2012 about, you guessed it, Atlas Shrugged: Part I. Since I remembered reading the book a long time ago, I did a search for the title and found it. I just experienced this now when I sat down to write this review about the trilogy. We remember what we choose is important for us, and we forget events and people that had no impact. What had gone completely obscure and murky for him were vivid images for me, completely clear. Today, via email, a good friend from high school asked me about a classmate, and he praised my memory of details from 45 years ago. I am not even going to go into the story line here, since I won’t recommend you watch the movies, but I have to tell you something funny. The most jarring character changes were those for Ellis Wyatt and Francisco d’Anconia. All the characters that played in Part I had roles in Part II, but all the actors were different.Įnter Part III. But that’s where the similarities stopped. Her assistant, Eddie, was still a black man. Yes, Dagny, the protagonist, was still a young blonde woman. All the actors of the main characters were completely different. Then I watched the second movie and I was completely jarred. It would have been much more effective if the movie had played in the original time period, mid 20th century. By placing the story into the age of smartphones, Apple, and Facebook, but still dealing with the subject matter of making a railroad work, just does not play very well. Commercial air travel is still in its infancy. Atlas Shrugged plays in the 1950s, it is about railroads, steel and rust-belt industries in general. Also, it played in the “near future” of 2017 – which for 2011 is reasonably far away. I watched the first movie and it struck me that it was pretty poorly done and that it didn’t do the book justice at all. Go and read Atlas Shrugged, it is worth it, and it will change the way you think about our society.īrowsing the movie offerings on Amazon Prime in pandemic stupor, I came across the Atlas Shrugged Trilogy:Ītlas Shrugged: Part I – came out in 2011.Ītlas Shrugged: Part II – The Strike – 2012Ītlas Shrugged: Part III – Who is John Galt? – 2014 Before I get into the movie review, therefore, here is my plug. Atlas Shrugged is a book you cannot shrug off, and it leaves a mark on you, it alters your thinking, and it is just as relevant in the age of Trump as it ever was, or perhaps more so.
I read the book in 2008 and wrote a review here. The novel is one of the longest written in the English language with 645,000 words and over 1,000 pages. The trilogy is based on the novel by Ayn Rand of the same name. I put trilogy into parentheses because it’s not really a trilogy, but I am getting ahead of myself… In the last few days I watched the “trilogy” movies Atlas Shrugged, parts I, II and III.
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