Atlas Shrugged: The Movie
Offline Has anyone else heard about Brad Pitt's and Angelina Jolie's attempts to bring Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" to the big screen? Apparently Jolie and escpecially Pitt are both fans of Rand, and have wanted to be involved in a cinematic adaptation of the book for years. Jolie has signed up to play Dagny Taggart and I think Brad Pitt is supposed to play John Galt.
I never thought about this before, but considering some of Brad Pitt's other movie roles where he's had a degree of creative control over his characters (I'm thinking specifically of "12 Monkeys" and "Fight Club"
his characters seem to have similar philosophies as some on Rand's. In this sense, "Fight Club" can almost be a seen as a response to "Atlas Shrugged." Tyler Durden is something of the Anti-John Galt. I hope the movie gets made. I'd be interested to see if they can pull this off.
“It is true that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. It is equally true that in the land of the blind, the two-eyed man is an enemy of the state, the people, and domestic tranquility… and necessarily so. Someone has to rearrange the furniture.”
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Dislike Rand's dogmatic philosophy, but would definitely be interested in the movie. One of these days I'll have to read Atlas Shrugged. I got about half way through Fountainhead and lost interest. A friend gave me a book on her philosophy; it was founded on so many unfounded assumptions I again lost interest. Still I did get a bit out of it. I just had to provide my own foundations where hers were missing or weak.
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She was way too capitalistic for my tastes.
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"I guess it's time to ask if you live under high voltage power transmission lines which have been shown to cause stimulation of the fantasy centers of the brain due to electromagnetic waves?" - Me
"God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks please. Cash and in small bills." - Robert A Heinlein.
Has anyone else considered the similarities of John Galt and Tyler Durden? They lead radically different lifestyles, but they come to roughly the same conclusions, at least about what has to be done to change things. Durden seems to be working class (I know he's technically a figment of the narrator's imagination, but consider him as a character), but it is implied that he chooses to live in squalor. John Galt is a wealthy capitalist. But they both rally their respective social classes to similar aspirations, though Durden's (and the narrator's) sense of alienation is far more existential than Galt's intellectual isolation.
“It is true that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. It is equally true that in the land of the blind, the two-eyed man is an enemy of the state, the people, and domestic tranquility… and necessarily so. Someone has to rearrange the furniture.”