If Oscars were given for sheer determination, then director Paul Johansson might find himself holding a golden statue. He has done what many over the last half century have tried and failed to do: bring at least part of Ayn Rand's 1,100-plus page 1957 epic, "Atlas Shrugged," to the big screen.
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About Atlas Shrugged: "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
11/7/2024 - 8:03 pm | View Website - Quote by John Rogers: “There are two novels that can ...
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
11/7/2024 - 11:42 am | View Website - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
In 1957, she published Atlas Shrugged , her best-selling work. Rand advocated reason and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism as opposed to altruism. She condemned the immoral initiation of force and supported laissez-faire capitalism, which she defined as the system, based on recognizing individual rights ...
11/6/2024 - 11:17 pm | View Website - Ayn Rand Quotes (Author of Atlas Shrugged)
In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.”. ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged. tags: absolute, compromise, conflict-resolution, evil, indecisiveness, judgement. 688 likes.
11/6/2024 - 8:58 am | View Website - Atlas Shrugged — Reader Q&A
"Atlas Shrugged," on the other hand, is rapidly becoming a one-star read as I plod though it. The "heroes" don't act heroically. Instead, imagine Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark abandoning regular people, and holing up in a gated community. Then exhuming Marie Antoinette, where they can scoff at the common people, and chant "Let them eat cake."
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