Atlas Shrugged Part III Galt Speech
Posted by deleted 12 years, 8 months ago to Movies
Any opinions or details on how Galt's speech will be handled in the movie? The actual speech is quite lengthy and so may not be exactly reasonable for the movie, but is arguably the best and most important part of the novel. So, how will this be handled? Will it be shortened to appeal to the viewer or kept lengthy for the Objectivist fans?
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Good question. I'll provide a fuller, more complete reply later on when I have time to do so, but for now I'll merely paraphrase old Jack Warner: If you want to send a message, go to Western Union; don't make a movie.
You never have to worry about "keeping a message" or "sending a message" with a movie because then it becomes didactic lecturing rather than entertaining storytelling. Worry about focusing in on the essential story elements like character traits and plot, and you won't need to worry about the message: the message will be there (it cannot NOT be there). Just be concerned with the craft of telling the story and you'll tell it successfully.
I did not see a literal transcription. and although I do see respect for Randian scholars, I did not see a sub-par production. If you have ideas, hey, bring them forward. we have an ear in here. but don't bite the ear that's listening, :)
And in any case, the question from my original post was not "who would pay good money", but "why would anyone pay good money."
So once more:
**WHY**would anyone pay good money to hear three hours of philosophy lecture in a movie theater when what he actually came to the theater for was to see a movie?
As for the speech it could be broken up into parts and as the movie strings along so does the speech but I think the bare bones part should be where it was intended to be.
You're a religious fanatic who loves hearing his favorite passage from Scripture spoken over and over again.
Very laudable, I'm sure. But what does any of that have to do with making a movie? I'll tell you:
Nothing.
"To pay good money" is an idiomatic expression in English. You've never heard it? The word "good" is pleonastic with the word "money."
>> Are you sure you read the book?
Quite sure. Are you sure you've read anything other than Atlas Shrugged? Any books on English idioms, for example?
>> It would be the best thing they ever spent their money on, if they had a brain...
You should tell people that before they decide to spend good money on it; perhaps you'd sell more tickets.
The sign of a competent producer is: "If our movie bombed at the box office AND the critical reviews were uniformaly appalling, perhaps it's something we're doing wrong. Maybe the writing stinks. Maybe the casting was absurd. Maybe the directing was unimaginative. Maybe a combination of all of these things." The sign of an incompetent producer is: "If our movie bombed both commercially and critically, it can only be because the average movie-goer today has no brains. It's not our fault! It's the public's fault! It's the culture's fault! It's modern philosophy's fault. Nothing's our fault! We couldn't help it!!"
I see which side of the argument you're on.
Kelley was hired as an ideological compliance officer, to ensure that the screenwriting and the directing were "consistent with Objectivism."
>>perhaps you are not a capitalist?
I'm even more of a capitalist than the producers. I actually want to see a commercially successful movie version of AS that makes a profit because people want to see it, and not merely a literal transcription of a book, approved by a philosophy professor, and meant for a niche group of Rand's admirers.
>>why are you in here?
You should have asked *that* of the few audience members who paid good money for entertainment in a movie theater.
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