What would you consider the number one priority in the making of Atlas Shrugged Part III?
We want to hear from you. What would you consider the number one priority in the making of Atlas Shrugged Part III?
A. Casting
B. Getting the message of Atlas Shrugged right
C. Cinematography
D. Special Effects
E. Hiring the right Director
F. Other
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A. Casting
B. Getting the message of Atlas Shrugged right
C. Cinematography
D. Special Effects
E. Hiring the right Director
F. Other
Leave your answer in the comments below.
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Casting is not that important, it's the screenplay and the direction that will make or breakPart III.
Thanks,
Oz
Dagny... Julianne Moore, Bridget Moynaham, Scarlett Johansson (well.. Scarlett doesn't fit the profile but I love her)
Rearden... Gerard Butler or Russell Crowe
Francisco... Robert Downey Jr. (and no one else)
Ragnar... Chris Hemsworth (awful actor, but fits the viking profile) or Guy Pierce
I think you have done great with getting the message of Atlas Shrugged across in both parts. I'm sure it will be the same for the third. I am really looking forward to the completion of the series.
Dagny = Diana Rigg
Francisco = Ricardo Montalban
Hank = Richard Burton
Eddie = Richard Jaekel
John Galt = Peter O'Toole
It must be made clear to the low-information voters of America that altruism doesn't work and will eventually kill mankind's freedom, knowledge, prosperity, ambition, and self-worth. It must, however, be done on a level they can understand. This book shows and, hopefully, the movie will show that altruism is a blueprint for failure and total chaos. The movie should also demonstrate that the individual's freedom is what will ensure the group's survival. Casting is also very important. Try to get the original Dagny back.
In order to insure the message is on target you must have a director that will keep it on target, and cast that understands the message so they stay on target as well. No one should be involved that does not understand the message and agree with it.
I also think that since you changed actors on the second one you should change it up for the third. Do not attempt to gain continuity when there is none (other than the story and ideal) between the first two.
Atlas Shrugged--The casting was wrong in both 1
and 2--It's very important that the characters look
like Ayn Rand intended them to look.
Ayn Rand wrote with great passion--there is no
passion in either of the first two installments.
maybe you should all wtch The Fountainhead
that was cast and portrayed perfectly to the novel. Maybe because Ayn was there to oversee it. The role that was portrayed the best, was Ellis Wyatt--I was so waiting to see Atlas,
and was so let down. I went to see Ayn every time she spoke at Harvard--She was a woman of great conviction and great passion in her beliefs. Dagny-Hank-Eddie and Lillian were all nothing like the characters in the book. The message is so important, but without passion it means nothing--just another Hollywood movie.
I pray God will give you wisdom,courage, and passion for no.3. So many readers of her work have waited so long for Atlas to be made into a film. Thank you for your efforts--I will be anxious
to see what you do. Abundant blessings,
Dagny DiBona
A. Casting
Dagny 1 was beyond excellent; Francisco 2 was terrific, as was Rearden 2. Unfortunately, as I understood the rumors, Dagny 1 priced herself out of the market after AS1. Real Shame... try crowdsourcing to pay her tariff in 3?
B. Getting the message of Atlas Shrugged right
Well, what are movies for? Most are for entertainment or escape; rarely for education or persuasion nowadays. Try to take older "movies with a message" as examples...
C. Cinematography
Well, hell, it has to look good, and I have no complaints with the cinematography in 1 OR 2. Some scenes could have been longer; some shorter, but that's true of virtually every movie, eh?
D. Special Effects
Good in 1, excellent in 2, but that train in 2 could not take those turns at those speeds. Please try to obey some of the laws of physics, ok?
E. Hiring the right Director
Of course! One of my major gripes about AS1 was the lame delivery of some of Eddie Willers' first lines. Director Fail. Human beings don't say those things, and if they do, they don't do it that way. Stilted. Would have cost pennies to reshoot those few scenes.
F. Other
C'mon... again, what's the purpose of the movie? Entertainment? If so, lots of special effects, action scenes and bodice-ripping.
If you're trying to put a message across, what is it and to whom, and plot a strategy and stick to it.
And if the purpose is to influence people to change their minds and "see things in a different light," well, A through E plus good screenplay writing all have to be there.
I vote for trying to make the movie a "mind-changer" and attitude-influencer, and I think that means doing less pruning of the original work.
And, if 1 and 2 are never remade to correct imperfections, I certainly pray that some TV mogul will have the cojones to put AS into a serial with at LEAST four or six episodes... maybe eight! Let it all flow. And have the commercials support the message, too!
Looking forward to 3 impatiently... +af in NC.
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