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Movies with an Objectivist Theme

Posted by Itheliving 10 years, 3 months ago to Movies
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Name as many as you can that I have missed. Not counting Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead OK here is one just now available on BluRay
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  • Posted by cranedragon 10 years ago
    Although the Transformers movies don't have a consistent ethical core [except a healthy distrust for government of all stripes] any movie with a hero that stands firm and says "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings" has my vote!
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  • Posted by robertmbeard 10 years, 3 months ago
    "A Knight's Tale," from 2001, starring Heath Ledger. It's about a peasant squire who poses as a nobleman in order to be allowed to participate in jousting contests (which he wins). It's a story about the triumph of a determined individual who "changes his stars." It also has a fair amount of good comedy throughout...
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    • Posted by Itheliving 10 years, 3 months ago
      Wasn't it Chaucer who lost all his clothes and was walking around naked? I saw this in the theater when HL was a new teen heart throb. In the scene where he is tied up and beaten by the villain the girls behind me gasped in paid with each lash of the whip.
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      • Posted by robertmbeard 10 years, 3 months ago
        I think you're right that Chaucer was nude and confused when first introduced in the story, but I don't remember all of the details. My main memory of the movie was the frequent line "change your stars" -- talking about an individual improving his/her lot in life...
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  • Posted by XenokRoy 10 years, 3 months ago
    Rudy,

    Great show, if you have not seen it do so. One of my favorites and definitely based on the true story of the triumph of the individual.
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  • Posted by craigerb 10 years, 3 months ago
    A great movie with an individualistic theme is the "Western" They Came to Cordura, with both Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth honoring their values.
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  • Posted by Stormi 10 years, 3 months ago
    Don't forget Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and maybe The Last Hurrah with Spencer Tracy. I am having trouble thinking of movies with female leads which are objectivist in nature. I see traces of strong independent thinking women in Liz Taylor characters, like parts of the Sandpiper or Butterfiled 8, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but not all out whole movies.
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  • Posted by BradA 10 years, 3 months ago
    Not a movie but the Starz Pirate series Black Sails is the ultimate Objectivist society. Each pirate is an individual acting in his or her own best interests. They choose to join crews based on their own perception of what will profit them the most. The crews act democratically and vote (on a very regular basis) WRT leadership and ventures to pursue. Assets (albeit stolen for the most part) are regularly bartered for and traded. Is anyone else following this series?
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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 3 months ago
    one of my favorites is "King Rat" -- the story of
    capitalism in a wartime prison situation. -- j

    p.s. we should also mention John Wayne's
    "MacLintock" where John sets 'em straight.
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  • Posted by WilliamCharlesCross 10 years, 3 months ago
    This one may surprise you--"Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead." Not exactly an Objectivist theme to it, but it is the only movie I've seen (prior to Atlas) with a woman named Dagny as the female lead--or in any role--who at one point tells her lover: "I thought we were making an exception..."

    It is an imaginative movie, complete with it's own made up catch phrases and a lot of really interesting scenes.
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