Saving The Gulch
If Part III of Atlas Shrugged is done well, it can save the trilogy. That means everything, but especially context: Dagny Taggart is like Howard Roark in The Fountainhead, a rock standing against the storm. In Atlas Shrugged, Rand acknowledged that even a rock cannot stand forever, so she introduced Atlantis as a refuge. It is an essential device, inseparable from John Galt, and perhaps even more important than the Objectivist message itself, since the story makes clear that the ideas cannot be implemented without the place. I am hoping that the script does something to make Atlantis credible in a way the novel did not. Any ideas?
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- 2Posted by overmanwarrior 11 years, 7 months agoGetting to John Galt and the Gulch is the point of the rest of the story, then pulling it away again in the third act to reveal the contrast in the John Galt speech. People who don't know the Atlas story will find review of Parts One and Two clearer after they've seen Part 3Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink|
- 1Posted by fivedollargold 11 years, 7 months agoNot sure I agree with you on the place being more important than the message, but you do raise an interesting point.Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink|
- 1Posted by LWinn 11 years, 7 months agoGood. Think about it and let me know the result.Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink|
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