We The Living: Trailer to the new DVD version of the 1942 film based on Ayn Rand's novel

[PeterFormaini]

Perfect casting of Kira! Great overall 'feel' - very close to how I pictured it while reading the novel. Can;t wait to order it and view it in full!

[SuperKiki1019]

objectivism = evil

[LuvUdamon]

@SuperKiki1019 Collectivism=Evil

Socialism=Evil

ALL RELIGIONS=EVIL

[appraiserjv1]

This is a one of the best film's i've ever seen. So much better than the naturalist, no-plot abomination that the Atlas Shrugged movie became. This is romanticism at it's best. One look from Kira is worth about 3 pages of dialog.

[Gamer2Addicted]

I like that the dialogue was taken almost verbatim from the book.

[archie977]

what re ayn rand novel movies in english?

[LunaticFringe20]

OH MY GOD A KNEE...That must've turned quite a few heads in a mainstream movie in fascist Italy.

[Miauriceful]

@LunaticFringe20

I see, you don't know nothing about fascist era movies.

[LunaticFringe20]

@Miauriceful I see, you don't know nothing about poorly place humour/joking.

[megaswenson]

The Italian sounds Neapolitan or Sicilian. Wonderful book. Kira's struggle until the very end is the purest thing... We'll get the DVD.

[Miauriceful]

@megaswenson

Italian sounds like italian and this is very good italian.

[DirtinSky]

What a wake-up this trailer is for showing me how Powerful Women where portrayed back in the day. The utter garbage spewed out of hollyweird will never match the power of that lady here. The strength in her words has bowled me over and I've fallen in love.

What she had to sacrifice for her true one love was stunning~

[NicoletteZephyrxXx]

1:27 ANDREI!!!

[RuflessRecords]

Looks good, the Democrats had this banned because we were pretending that the murderous offal in Soviet Russia were good guys during WW2.  "Uncle Joe" Stalin lol.

[TexasJoe1985]

Italian? How authentic?

[mntccd]

Alida Valli would have made a great Dagny Taggart. It's hard to think of who could carry the role now. Angelina? Blecch.

[tarded2much]

The only good communist is a dead communist.

[amaduli]

@tarded2much I'm wearing that shirt right now, the one with che in a pool of blood.

[salvelluto]

Alida Valli: bellissima & bravissima!

[shampoovta]

I would watch that. It looked good.

[whoo689]

Italy was making movies about Ayn Rand's novels as early as 1942??? wow!

Didn't the rise of Ayn Rand's Objectivism and popularity of her books start around the 50s or 60s, about the time that the modern conservative movement started to gain steam?

[Beethovens7th]

This is a seriously beautiful movie. I know the DVD costs $40 because it's so rare, but I recommend people buy it. They really understood and respected the meaning of the book.

[asphyxiafeeling]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!

[ipwnallnubscuzirock]

This. Is. Awesome.

[corenothing]

I need this.

[jawayetti]

*yawn*

[Elasaltaculos]

Kira Argounova is beautiful

[Beethovens7th]

An amazingly well done screen adaptation. Had me in tears.

And Alida Valli is a babe.

[benjaminbartholomew]

Still waiting on Atlas Shrugged to hit the big screen :(

But perhaps this will hold me over :)

"Our stairs are slippery and there are four floors to climb, so be careful when you come to arrest me."

I need to modify this for my own use, it's fantastic.

[jwoodswce]

@benjaminbartholomew

You might also enjoy "Love Letters" with Joseph Cotton and Jennifer Jones.

[Beethovens7th]

@jwoodswce "Love Letters" is great!

And Jennifer Jones is a babe too! :)

[abarzilai664]

@benjaminbartholomew You may be in for a long wait, hollywood is fanatically leftist.

[RD2ification]

@benjaminbartholomew

Would you trust hollywood to make Atlas Shrugged any way? Savor the story you relish in your mind, it is probably closer to what she intended than anything that will be produced on celluloid or the likes.

[benjaminbartholomew]

@RD2ification While you are probably right, I can still hold out hope. Oh course I am also waiting on a cinematic version of Enders Game and I will probably never see that either :(

[JETZcorp]

@RD2ification But the average person doesn't like reading books, especially gigantic super scary monster books like Atlas Shrugged. I think this is helping to keep the ideas of the book behind more closed doors than are necessary. With a movie, even one fairly watered-down, more people will get exposed to the basic tenets of Ayn Rand's philosophy, and hopefully explore further.

[rentonsentinel]

@RD2ification - Just imagining a Hollywood hatchet job on A.S. is enough to make me wanna puke.  Angelina Jolie as Dagny, Sean Penn as Francisco, Alec Baldwin as Hank. You know they will try to do it at some point.

[Xenophage2112]

@rentonsentinel GROSS

[Xenophage2112]

@Xenophage2112 I mean, GROSS at the idea of Sean Penn playing Francisco!

[tpsisokayiguess]

@rentonsentinel "In 1992, [John] Aglialoro paid $1 million for the film rights to make an Atlas Shrugged movie.  Today he is an executive producer of the forthcoming production, in association with Lionsgate Entertainment."

It will possibly be released next year, with Vadim Perelman as director, and, indeed, Angelina Jolie as Dagny. It may be horrible... but I'm psyched for the experience nontheless.

[AmazingCharles]

@benjaminbartholomew

Yes.

It will surely be amusing to watch men listening to a radio broadcast for two hours.

[benjaminbartholomew]

@AmazingCharles You read my mind ;)

[someguywithanaccount]

@benjaminbartholomew In a way I hope Atlas Shrugged never hits the big screen. I hate to think of how it will almost certainly be distorted, disgraced, smeared, downplayed, altered, and maligned by hollywood and the media. That, and the fact that movies are almost never as good as the books they are based on.

[QSpark]

@robinsoncrucify (scoffs) who hasn't?

This is a great movie and a great book.

[bynumjimmy]

@robinsoncrucify

Nice use of your time. Very clever.

[DeraJa]

@robinsoncrucify YAY!