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
Leave your answer in the comments below.
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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One of the challenges in 3 will be how to handle Galt's 2 hour monologue in a powerful way, editing for time, focus & clarity. One of the stumbling blocks in Rand's work in my opinion is that she could have benefited from an editor. Not knocking her writing at all, but what some have attributed to ' wooden acting' which some have alluded to though that was not my experience- is due in my opinion to Rand's style of straightforward characterization. All her stories are means to illustrate a philosophy & tends to hit the 'preachy' button in some.
Others have commented on the tough choices
that Part3 has to handle in terms of length, what to emphasize, what has to be edited. Was sorry to see the PROMINENT CLOCK device that is nowhere to be seen in 1 or 2. Would include but since it wasn't there before... oh well. Summary: Tight screenplay so the story is conveyed DYNAMICALLY & EFFECTIVELY without dragging on & getting the point across without overstatement/ endless repetition. Yes, make people CARE about the characters. There is plenty on the current world stage to allude to without having to get too blatant as to the obvious parallels. Ragnar, Project X, My hope is that viewers who have or have not read her work will come away RE EXAMINING their assumptions & precast perceptions & will perhaps see for the first time, what is unfolding in the world outside the theater. & what the possibilities are... ( besides maybe discovering that Zero Point energy technology is a FACT, not just fiction) Temlakos summarized task well..
Galt's radio address is needlessly tedious and repetitive. Anyone still reading the novel at that point GETS IT ALREADY! And it'll be even worse translated to a visual medium where ALL successful adaptations from print works radically truncate original dialog in favor of telling more of The Real Story in pictures.
I made sci/tech video for a living for 35 years. The trick to making something "dry" and intellectual WORK is to give it some sizzle to go along with the steak. Bt all means do not compromise the message...but please be realistic and use the strengths of the new medium to work FOR you, not against you.
Ayn Rand left intact Roarke's speech in The Fountainhead at the trial, and it was both edge-of-your-seat exciting and breath-taking.
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And Gault's speech!
First, David Mamet only directs material that he has written.
Secon, Mamet has expressed neither sympathy nor antipathy toward Rand and Objectivism. True, he has turned away from liberalism and embraced conservativism and classical liberalism a la Friedrich Hayek, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, and Milton Friedman; but that doesn't suggest he shares your ideas, especially since Rand (and various Objectivist spokespersons) have expressed disagreement and sometimes great hostility toward Hayek and Friedman.
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