I think it is because of the time line used. If the book time line had been used, probably no one of color in any management position. As a modern time line, people of color would more prevalent in management as they are today.

The important question is, "Who is Eddie Willers?" We might find the answer right in the first few lines of the book, where he claims that the John Galt question does not bother him, when it clearly does. He's not the person most of us think he is.

Why black? They needed a non-white character to make Rand balanced and to show that she adheres to current notions of political and racial correctness. Why Eddie? He's supposedly harmless. What if they had used Wesley Mouch instead?

I've never been pleased with the AS movies.

Man oh man, would I pay to see Rand tear Ketanji Brown Jackson a new one.

A book author can demand editorial control, at least until copyright expires. (Notice how Amazon had to wait for "Lord of the Rings" to be in the public domain before they could create their woke version because the family would not give permission.)

Given Rand's commentary on aesthetics it's a wonder anyone fit her visualization of the story well enough to be cast in it (while she was still around to exercise control if she wanted it).

Casting moocher characters as the races who commonly behave that way today would have made more sense, but perhaps she felt she needed to prove she wasn't racist.

My take on this is that the physical description between the book and film is a minor issue due to the fact that this was a self-funded project. What I appreciate is that in casting, the way the actors portrayed their characters accurately, as each character evolves. I’m sure that had they been able to cast actors to multiple parts of the films. I was disappointed the first time I saw the films, (for context I didn’t start watching until Part III came out and I saw it in the theater) but after watching all 3 films multiple times I started appreciating what they had to do to tell the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFZzC...
LOL!
But seriously? Yeah.

I thought they all looked like a hunting pack of Alabama allosaurs. Do y'all mean they didn't?

Now these days it is with some link or with a video~~THAT'S how you prove you not only have an opinion but you're also dead-on right.

Actually, he asked Trump where the lobby was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWhk9...

And the movie's deranged anti-Trump director Chris Columbus begrudgingly had to admit that the scene was indeed a fan favorite:

"The scene was originally considered for removal, but after a test screening in Chicago, audiences reacted positively. Columbus said the crowd “cheered and cheered” during the moment, prompting him to keep it in the final cut."

Why are all the Firemen in the Ukraine Russian?
Russians and Fire Engines - both red and... Firemen are always Russian to the fire. - Vaudeville during the cold war

Ukraine: A Nazi State. Their three arm stylized swastika leaves no doubt in any rational person's mind.

In 2014, the CIA ousted the duly elected president, installing a cocaine snorting comedian who plays the piano with his dick.
After years of genocide in the Russian speaking Donbas region, Putin committed to the quote "De-Nazifacation" of Ukraine.

Ukraine, being the most corrupt nation on the European continent: Trafficking in Drugs, Weapons (including bio-weapons), humans (including children), money laundering, every piece of filth known to man.
The players who prop-up this state and child of satan, clearly have interests that have nothing to do with legalities... they are as dirty and corrupt as Zelenskyy.

You know for a fact, the first American boot on the ground in that hellhole will be hit in a false flag attack, blaming Russia.

I am so done with this P.O.S. tar-baby.
I don't care if Putin bombs them back to the stone age, murdering every last one of them down to the last soul. Good riddance and move on.

Other than that, I have no strong feelings on the matter.

Thanks, mcc. Missed that and never saw the movie. 👍

Impalement, not prison for treason.
(But I agree, the treasonous, murdering scum will skate until a live Henry Bowman acts on behalf of honest people.)

John Galt didn't look anything like Ayn Rand depicted him either! However, I never liked her description of him anyway, and (to my mind) the guy they used was a big improvement.

The media would report:
"Trump was Questioned about Epstein by the FBI for hours!" Trump Flew on his plane, etc. etc.

Clinton? Oh, he's not important any more... Gheesh.

BTW, is the giant Winnie the Pooh... A XI references (LOL), and that's why it had to be Redacted...

Finally, can we call any of these redacted people out for the CLEAR and OBVIOUS Black Face???

Asking for a friend...

There was a time in the Gulch that this was Heresy!
I am happy you posted it. One MUST look at such things.
Finally, there is so much going on. Russia has great resources, and the Dictators who control most of the governments/people (even higher than our deep state). Want those resources.

We moved NATO borders closer to Russia this whole time, and put missiles aimed at them, every time.

I've said it before. I never thought I would utter this phrase:
"I am grateful to the President of Russia for showing intelligent restraint!"

Imagine redoing the movie, using AI generated Caricatures' of modern Senators and Congressman?

I remember my daughter watching it with me and the grocery store scene really struck her. She recognized it as "now"... She read the book after...

None of the characters in the book were black, which was normal for its time. The movies were set in the 21st century, when an all-white cast would have been unrealistic.

What struck me was that the only black character was Eddie, who was basically Dagny's stooge. If they could have found an unknown with the acting chops of a young Denzel Washington, he's have made a good Ellis Wyatt. And surely a couple of the bureaucrats could have been black.

Ditto.

Not to mention Afghanistan.

I'm wondering how Putin can live with ordering so many Russian soldiers to go get killed.
And for what?
Having written the above~~~all the Americans who got killed for what now amounts to nothing for too damn long in our lost Vietnam War just swam into me dino's head.

Good article. Thanks for posting.

If the Russian military couldn't run over Ukraine in about 4 weeks, there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell it could have overrun Europe. Besides, like I've said before, why would the Russians want to take custody of a bunch of failing welfare states?

+1 to that, OUC!

Thanks. I couldn't even recall what he said to Trump.