Sunday, December 21, 2003

Read the Book

Joshua Zader, who blogs at Mudita Journal, notes and provides a link to an interview with screenwriter James Hart. Hart is evidently working on a new screenplay for "Atlas Shrugged." I’ve never viewed any of Rand’s work that has been turned into a film, and I am somewhat hesitant to do so, based on the visualizations created in my mind, as I read Rand’s books.  I think it may be possible for a good screenplay to be written and then produced as a film, but I do not think justice could be done to "Atlas Shrugged" in a film format.  Many individuals do not want to think that hard.  But that’s just my opinion.

Hart did make one very accurate statement in the linked interview,

"We’re on the threshold of what Ayn Rand predicted,” he noted. “Socialism has crept into everything and we’re penalizing the thinkers, the movers and shakers for being successful. In a way, the world that Ayn Rand created in Atlas Shrugged *is* the United States today."

Posted by John Venlet on 12/21 at 06:46 AM
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