Stossel: Why Hollywood Was Against the "Atlas Shrugged" Film

The film adaptation of the classic Ayn Rand novel "Atlas Shrugged" is set to hit theaters soon. Why were some liberals trying to stop you from seeing this movie? John Stossel gave Sean Hannity a full report on Fox News Channel.

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[MrSuperneocon]

Ayn Rand is a GREAT CONSERVATIVE PHILOSOPHER !!!

Sure ATLAS SHRUGGED was a BORING movie and the acting was LAME .... BUT the message it carried is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT !!!

That message is : that this world has only a FEW VERY TALENTED PEOPLE (the elites) ... and we must exempt them from taxes.... otherwise: if they leave us ... our economy will grind to a halt !!!!

Make the FLAT-TAX a reality now !!!!

... and make ATLAS SHRUGGED required reading in EVERY high-school !!!

[sniped101]

@tidalwavedave305 isn't a democratic socialist pretty much the way to get to totalitarianism?

[trinitymike]

@MabusZero

"Nothing good ever comes out of a committee, so a call eventually goes out for a single, strong man to step forth and take the reigns[sic]."

And so started the Third Reich, Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam, etc....

[MabusZero]

@sniped101 Correct. As Hayek relates in "The Road to Serfdom", democratic-socialist societies don't work. Nothing good ever comes out of a committee, so a call eventually goes out for a single, strong man to step forth and take the reigns. In this way, democratic-socialist societies quickly slip into socialist dictatorships, with a heavily stratified hierarchy and very little social mobility.

[nowwithmorekick]

@MrSuperneocon The rich don't care about you in the least.They exploit everything they can.The rich are making this country even worse.We do the worst in every subject in school.We have the highest mortality rate because of shitty healthcare and deregulation of pollutants.We are the greatest third world country and the worst first world country. I can talk about stats and how things get worse for everyone as the rich get richer but your probably a dumb ass that believes in our gov's propaganda.

[nowwithmorekick]

@MrSuperneocon We have a deficit. If they get tax breaks that means they are raising yours and my taxes to the extreme. Quilty of life will get worse then it already is in this country.The rich the top 2% own a large majority of money in this country because they pay less and less taxes.The poor are going up and because of that it makes it harder for people to get a peace of the pie and take care of them selves and poor people are booming.

[ktchong]

@MrSuperneocon The movie *was* boring, and the characterization *were* awful... and that is because the source material *was* boring and awful.

Ayn Rand may have been an important philosopher, but a good storyteller she was not.

Why should Atlas Shrugged be a required reading in every high school? That is like saying the Bible should be a required reading in every school. Keep religious and political brainwashing/indoctrination out of schooling.

[BloodofPatriots]

@MrSuperneocon The movie wasn't boring, nor was the acting lame. If you read the book you'll find they did as best they could with the material they had. Rand was a great thinker, but as a storyteller she left a lot to be desired.

[JohnGargo]

Very amusing to see Hannity singing the praises of Ayn Rand and George Orwell given that they were both ardent nonbelievers (did Hannity even read any Orwell?). Of course it's absurd to compare the two authors as as they not only come from opposite ends of the political spectrum but Orwell is a great writer and Ayn Rand couldn't write her way out a paper bag.

Anyone else find it funny hearing Stossel talk about "characters" in Rand's awful books? What characters?

[eventhisidistaken]

@contributor34 "Small", is not normally understood to mean "nonexistent". If government is small and limited, then necessarily, it exists. My perspective is the usual libertarian perspective, which is that government needs to be big enough to maintain order and to address problems of the commons, but no bigger.

[contributor34]

@Redfingers not a "great book". The situations are so contrived. Of course the Ayn Rand philosophy wins out, it has the author contriving the lamest villains and the perfect environment and results for the heroine and hero. Want a good story?! Read Shogun. That is excellent story telling...not crappy propaganda.