Testing Its Metal
A few years ago I heard there'd be a big screen version of Atlas Shrugged, and I doubted it could work. And this was with a potential big budget and big-name cast.
My friend Brian Doherty reviews the film in Reason (many Reasonoids have seen sneak previews) and gives it a qualifed thumbs up. As far as I'm concerned, if it's not a complete train wreck (except for the actual train wreck), I'll be impressed.
The film officially opens April 15th, a symbolic date. It will be rolling out slowly, so keep an eye out because it may be coming to your town. Since the novel is extremely long, this is actually Atlas Shrugged Part One, the first of three planned. I hope they make it to the end. Gotta be better than the Twilight series.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:02 AM
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Unwatchable because its source materail is unreadable?
Two or three years ago NPR had a summer reading series they did, in fact I believe they did it over a number of years and perhaps still are doing it. It involved interviewing celebrities and pseudo celebrities about their reading practices, and they interviewed Richard Posner, who talked about his literature professor mother and lawyer father. What he said was the only thing he read word for word was fiction. Legal briefs particularly don't require much, for the reason LAGuy pointed out years ago, that you have no hope of teaching Posner anything about the law, you can only hope to tell him something about the facts.
In any case, Atlas Shrugged should be read as if it were a particularly bad legal brief about a particularly good argument.
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