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!
"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...
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.
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...
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.
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?
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.
After checking out the preview in your link, I went to Netflix, read some posted reviews, made sure there are English subtitles (I have tinnitus) and rented Agora.
Yes, there is a DVD. If yo don't get it in the US, I will buy one for you and give it to Dale in June. It did well in Spain. Christian groups opposed it in the U.S., and it had a very limited theatrical release.
I watched this movie first on a "pirate" streaming service then again on Amazon. I am amazed that this movie was ignored by the public, well done and terrific story. Don't want to sound like a broken record but I repeat my candidate for an objectivist themed movie "A Most Violent Year" because it depicts a man of principles, no matter the consequences.
Well, maybe that is not the right term but off the coast of the UK there are radio stations that play music and do not pay royalties that are referred to as "pirate radio". For awhile there were websites that illegally streamed movies until they were shut down by the FBI and I think the FCC. I called them pirate streamers. Some were so outrageous that they would sneak a camera into a theater and record and stream first run movies the day that they opened.
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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.
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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It is an imaginative movie, complete with it's own made up catch phrases and a lot of really interesting scenes.
Don't want to sound like a broken record but I repeat my candidate for an objectivist themed movie "A Most Violent Year" because it depicts a man of principles, no matter the consequences.