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To: LindyBill who wrote (421983)	4/15/2011 6:15:22 AM
From: ig	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793903

I have seen the film, at an advanced screening arranged by the producers, and I am afraid that it is a pale shadow of the book. A friend of mine calls it "a Roman copy of a Greek original," a reference to the Roman empire's penchant for copying Greek sculptures of gods and heroes If he knew his Rand, Tracinski would know this is an allusion to something Howard Roark said in The Fountainhead. ========================================== "Shall I tell you what’s rotten about [the Parthenon]?" "It’s the Parthenon!" "Yes, God damn it, the Parthenon!" "Look, the famous flutings on the famous columns – what are they there for? To hide the joints in wood – when columns were made of wood, only these aren’t, they’re marble. The triglyphs, what are they? Wood. Wooden beams, the way they had to be laid when people began to build wooden shacks. Your Greeks took marble and they made copies of their wooden structures out of it, because others had done it that way. Then your masters of the Renaissance came along and made copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Now here we are, making copies in steel and concrete of copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Why?"

To: LindyBill who wrote (421983)	4/15/2011 10:38:13 AM
From: miraje	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793903

the movie was originally set to open only in a dozen small "art" theaters in a few big cities. That was about six weeks ago. Then something remarkable happened. I don't think it's remarkable at all, when you consider that the novel it's based on was published in 1957 and still remains on best seller lists more than half a century later. Like the Energizer Bunny, it just keeps going and going.. I suspect that this Atlas movie will be quite a financial success for its creators and that as a result, the production of the next two segments will reap the benefits. The core message of Atlas shines such a beacon for freedom, liberty and personal responsibility, the best of humanity, in so many ways, that any perceived flaws in the novel or its author (and there are some), pale in comparison. If this country is to have any sort of future growth and prosperity, it will be due in large part to embracing Ayn Rand's clear vision of the conditions necessary for achieving same.. BTW, I find it rather amusing that the statists in the MSM and places like the lefty boards here on SI are treating the release of this movie either with silence (mostly) or condescending derision..