Killing Atlas
February 5th 2007 06:42
The Atlas who Shrugged:Ayn Rand
For a novel whose movie adaptation has not even gone onto the floors, Atlas Shrugged is generating a lot of buzz. Look at this International Herald Tribune's article which fairly describes the number of unsuccesful attempts to film it. The article does not induce confidence. For one, the movie is going to be 2 hours long. For heaven's sake, why film it at all?
And then it's going to star Angelina Jolie. There is more than a sense of dismay in her usual fans that this actress, known for adopting African babies and going on UN paid altruism trips, should do something like Atlas. Well, there's something funny about all this. She reminds me of one of those actresses Ayn described in The Fountainhead, the one who stands on a dead lion and pronounces her opinion on the Roark trial.
the fear is not about a mediocre adaptation. It is about thed need of the liberal junta to run down, to vandalise, to destroy anything that does not fit their agenda. In short, their iconoclasm. They are going to kill Atlas. For the rest of us though, there is still the book.
Pic Courtesy: New York Times
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