Atlas Shrugged Part II Change of QActors
For some reason, 'search' won't work so I cannot directly respond to yesyerday's post converning the reason for the change of actors for Part 2.. The post contained a link that explained it all "Why is there a new cast fo Atlas Shrugged Part 2?"
The answers in short, that many of you may know, are the time constraints and couldn't contract for the same actors when it wasn't known when or if Part 2 would be made. Not only were the actors change but the production crew, as they called it "a clean sweep."
Also, the but more importantly, the movie's focus is on the main character, "the world." For that reason, the casting of actors was secondary.
Also, it seems that Part 3 will yet again cast different actors for the same reasons. The article was written by David Kelley, founder and chief intellectual officer of the Atlas Society. Enough said on my original question concerning the actor changes. But, you have to admit, the actor playing Dagny (Taylor Schilling) in Part I was dead on. But I have to go with the person with the definitive knowledge, David Kelley
Lastly, in the opinion of Kelley, Part 2 was much better with the changes.
The answers in short, that many of you may know, are the time constraints and couldn't contract for the same actors when it wasn't known when or if Part 2 would be made. Not only were the actors change but the production crew, as they called it "a clean sweep."
Also, the but more importantly, the movie's focus is on the main character, "the world." For that reason, the casting of actors was secondary.
Also, it seems that Part 3 will yet again cast different actors for the same reasons. The article was written by David Kelley, founder and chief intellectual officer of the Atlas Society. Enough said on my original question concerning the actor changes. But, you have to admit, the actor playing Dagny (Taylor Schilling) in Part I was dead on. But I have to go with the person with the definitive knowledge, David Kelley
Lastly, in the opinion of Kelley, Part 2 was much better with the changes.
Dave Kelly is great in his explanations.
I am looking fwd to seeing how Eddie Williers and Cheryl Brooks come out. The brilliance of Rand is showing how such normal people -reliable, ethical- suffer under policies claimed to be in their interests, the parasites prosper, while the super heroes can survive.
I'm a provocative type and so I hung up a TP flag. I just like the design and the historical significance. I was surprised it lasted 2 years before someone took it. I didn't care. Like I said, I was surprised it took so long. But that's small stuff,; I wonder what I'll do when the Sh#t hits the fan.
What happens when you try to search? Do you get an error?
Also Blue, you can view all of your posts and comments by clicking on your username in the upper right hand corner of the screen and selecting "Submitted" or "Comments."
On another topic that isn't germain to this discussion, I only watch the Fox News Hours so I can get all the stories. I guess by the mantra "Fox Lies!" they mean that Fox reports news theyd rather not get out. I've stop watching MSM, when I was apolitical, long ago because of the fluff. One can watch the first 5 or 10 minutes of the MSM news' hours and get all the news that's important for the day.
My question is, did the MSM report on the childish action of BHO closing the WH tours. If so, I wonder if they showed the kids facebook video. He's always using kids as props. In this case the kids weren't props but saying or implying on a video pqasted on facebook that the WH is their house and they want to see it.
What BlueNova says makes sense to me.
I do wish tho' that one or two of the characters were a bit rougher and not so smooth, they are meant to be workers not crony talkers after all.
Dagny II like Dagney I is superb. Hank Reardon likewise and being a bit older looking is more realistic.
The same is true in philosophy, and Ayn Rand's brilliance is that she was able to examine a new philosophy that goes against the assumed goodness of Immanuel Kant and Plato, and returns society to look again at Aristotle and John Lock -- along with Adam Smith leap frogging over Karl Marx and the fiscal theories of Kensyian economics that are proven to be failures. David Kelly because of the films is able to explain complex theories to a general audiance because now there is context in the form of a visual story for people to relate to. He did some great work with the clips from AS2, and I'm glad you were able to enjoy them. Enjoy the DVD when you get it. It might appear to be simple as a story relative to other stories but the content is extraordinary once the metaphors are understood. We have David Kelly to thank for that.
BTW, I have surround sound and play it at about 40% (kind of loud). The jet chase scene sounds just blew me away.
But having read the reasons for the changes, I see said the blind man. One of the posters, gave me an enlightening article link on why the character changes, entitled "Why is there a new cast for Atlas Shrugged Part 2?"
May I dare sound sexist but Dagney 1 macthed the part because see is tall, slinky, good looking and nice long gams. Part III will have wholesale changes too becuase it's about the movie's reason d'etra and not the actors.