Now it has been announced that Part II of the film will be due in theaters in October 2012 -- just in time for the presidential elections! Great timing.
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"Atlas Shrugged" is a novel written in 1957 by libertarian Ayn Rand, a refugee from communist Russia. She was an ardent believer in free market capitalism and limited government, but she was not your average conservative. Rand was an atheist who opposed American intervention in the Korean and Viet Nam wars, even though she hated communism for the brutal evil that it was.
"Who is John Galt?" is a famous line from the novel; supposedly it became a popular saying meaning "Who knows?" The saying existed only in the novel but has since become a kind of motto for free market capitalists who oppose socialism and government intervention into the marketplace.
John Galt was a capitalist character in the novel, who became disgusted with endless government meddling and intervention in the economy, so he drops out of the economy, stops producing goods and services. He then starts his own private society, hidden in the mountains of Colorado, where pure capitalism reigns. He encourages other capitalists to drop out as well, and soon captains of industry are disappearing along with the wealth they produce. This causes great consternation among the socialists and statists in government, because if no one produces the wealth, there is nothing to appropriate or redistribute.
Today, in our increasingly socialist economy, the producers are dropping out. Not to join private societies in the mountains, but to either take their productivity elsewhere or slow or even stop producing. When this happens, they say that "Atlas is Shrugging" -- a reference to the mythical Atlas who held the world on his shoulders until he said to hell with it and let the orb free fall.
Currently, pundits are wondering if the French rich will cross the Channel and move to England or elsewhere, to prevent the new Bolsheviks from appropriating their wealth. With regard to France we may ask, "Will Atlas shrug?"
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Ayn Rand is not libertarian and more than a conservative. One may agree there are no requirements to specify dates and economic states in the cinema bases versions of Atlas Shrugged. The cinemas with them are not literal. She may not agree with the cinemas. It possible a certain way may be by which there may be praise, like the cinematic biography of Ayn Rand with an academy award nomination. The book and cinemas are not political propaganda.Villains in Atlas Shrugged are not only socialists. Things are to get greater. More freedom advocates are getting praises. Meanwhile it possible to advocate disagreements of various peoples' ways. They, too, may not direct toward action to oust disagreers. There may be types of welcomings. There are specifics. It is a country where it possible to produce disagreeing cinemas. Also books, magazines, newspapers, and song lyrics. There are more specifics.
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