Paul Johansson. More like this. Storyline Edit. It was great to be alive, once, but the world was perishing. Factories were shutting down, transportation was grinding to a halt, granaries were empty--and key people who had once kept it running were disappearing all over the country. As the lights winked out and the cities went cold, nothing was left to anyone but misery.
No one knew how to stop it, no one understood why it was happening - except one woman, the operating executive of a once mighty transcontinental railroad, who suspects the answer may rest with a remarkable invention and the man who created it - a man who once said he would stop the motor of the world.
Who is John Galt? Rated PG for some sexuality. Did you know Edit. Trivia In the late s, NBC had plans to bring the novel to television as one of the multi-part mini-series popular at the time. Ayn Rand wanted Farrah Fawcett to star, but the project never materialized. Goofs In the beginning, showing a train at sunset, the train's cars switch from two-story to one-story, then back to two-story. Quotes Ellis Wyatt : Who the hell are you?
User reviews Review. Top review. Loved it - entertaining and true to the book. I am not in the film industry so maybe I didn't catch some editing issues since I thought the move was great. Ayn wrote Shrugged in such a cinematic way, it was great to see the sweeping landscapes, witty banter, and some steamy scenes come to life on the big screen.
It was really great to see some beautiful scenes of the rail and steel industry. The actors were excellent, especially the main characters. Bowler and Schilling nailed it. Now, I'm a huge fan of the book, so I'm a bit biased towards the story, but I thought the movie was entertaining, paced well and held true to key aspects of dialogue and scenes. I think people will enjoy it even if they haven't read the book, and hope it inspires people to read the book. From the sounds of it, Part 2 and 3 are a go and will be released Tax Day and Important Quotes Explained.
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Purchase Go to BN. Take a Study Break. The central obstacle to this ambition is that the book is set in a United States of some 60 years ago, when the dominant industries Rand chose to focus on included railroads, steel and valuable metals.
Setting the action in the present day but continuing to pretend that those businesses represent the height of American economic power is absurd; either the action needed to be set in period or different industries should have been substituted that would make sense today. In the real world, such means of transportation has long since become the norm in Europe and Asia but not in the United States, where the stiffest opposition comes from conservatives, who have lined up against such projects because they are seen as government boondoggles.
Some subsequent torture of the revolutionary by government goons — Galt is conspicuously placed in crucifixion position — looks both silly and unconvincing, as does his escape with Dagny into the night. James Manera Screenwriters: J. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day.
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