Guest Guest Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 David Kelley, the president of the Atlas Society, which is dedicated to promoting Rand's ideas, explains that "the older the book gets, the more timely its message." He tells me that there are plans to make "Atlas Shrugged" into a major motion picture -- it is the only classic novel of recent decades that was never made into a movie. "We don't need to make a movie out of the book," Mr. Kelley jokes. "We are living it right now." Ain't that the truth. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146363567166677.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddha-Baby Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 1984 is pretty close too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aphoristically Moderate Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 We do need a movie about it. We are living it but that makes us so close that some of us can't even see it happening. It would be hard to imagine ultra liberal Hollywood producing such a movie though. Maybe we need some courageous politicians to revive the Enumerated Powers Act. This Act was 1st proposed during the 104th Congress (January 1995 to January 1997) by one John Shadegg (Republican, Arizona). It has been proposed in every Congress since, but it may never become law. The idea behind the Enumerated Powers Act is to require any law passed by Congress be accompanied by a statement that specifically identifies what part of the Constitution authorizes it. Such an act could short-circuit any more trillion dollar bailouts because Congress has now abdicated too much of the spending process to the Executive branch and to the Treasury Secretary. http://johnshadegg.house.gov/News/Document...ocumentID=13333 I'm not a Constitutional Scholar, so I may not be correct on everything here, but the responsibilities of Congress are spelled out in Article 1 in the Constitution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_o...es_Constitution Specifically, Article 1, Section 8: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_o...ers_of_Congress It seems that Congress and the President (from both parties) forgot this limitation a long time ago. Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Yeah, we do need that made in to a movie. Hopefully the movie stays true to the book. They'd have to shorten up Galt's speech though, it could take an hour to get through that. @ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 One of my favorite parts in that book is when Hank Reardon is talking to the kid who's loading machinery on the train. Hank asks the kid where the equipment is going. The kid tells him it's headed for Colorado. Then the kids says that he can't understand why all the businesses are relocating to Colorado because out there the government doesn't do anything for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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