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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #25 on: November 05, 2010, 03:30:08 PM »
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I thought it was "Filipino".
Filipino, Philipino and Pilipino are all "correct".
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #26 on: November 05, 2010, 04:43:51 PM »
I guess I did. I thought he was Argentine.  (Also, I thought it was "Filipino.")

His mother died when Buenos Aires (sp) was attacked. 
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #27 on: November 05, 2010, 09:52:52 PM »
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #28 on: November 05, 2010, 10:54:25 PM »
His mother died when Buenos Aires (sp) was attacked.  

Yes, she'd taken the "tube" there for a day-trip of shopping. (I think the implication was that it's a the sub-continental supersonic subway system. Like a gravity assist Vactrain that actually cuts a chord-line straight inside the sphere of the Earth.)

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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #29 on: November 06, 2010, 12:21:25 AM »
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The bugs of the book had spacecraft, nukes, weapons etc.

I mean that they were fighting bugs.
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #30 on: November 06, 2010, 11:25:23 AM »
I mean that they were fighting bugs.

Ah, then yes.  =)
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #31 on: November 09, 2010, 11:49:34 PM »
40% done now, and I must say Ms. Rand's sexual proclivities are not quite what I would have expected. I wasn't really expecting much sex in this book, but I would have figured Rand for more of a feminist, mutual-respect, "no means no" kind of gal. Her actual idea of sex is more like "'No' means a real man wouldn't bother to ask. You pathetic looter."

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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #32 on: November 10, 2010, 08:06:30 AM »
 :lol: I like it...

yes, apparently Ayn was a horny little devil. Research finds she was a Russian girl. That explains it. Watch any Bond flick involving a Russian spy girl and you can see how horny they all are.
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #33 on: November 21, 2010, 01:47:03 AM »
The clock has struck 8. The Speech is about to begin. I'm gonna get some shut-eye before I open the book again.
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #34 on: November 21, 2010, 01:57:34 AM »
40% done now, and I must say Ms. Rand's sexual proclivities are not quite what I would have expected. I wasn't really expecting much sex in this book, but I would have figured Rand for more of a feminist, mutual-respect, "no means no" kind of gal. Her actual idea of sex is more like "'No' means a real man wouldn't bother to ask. You pathetic looter."


I thought the rape stuff was in Fountainhead? Or am I running on low speed?
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #35 on: November 21, 2010, 08:29:38 AM »
I thought the rape stuff was in Fountainhead? Or am I running on low speed?
Don't feel bad, I could never keep them straight either.  =D
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #36 on: November 21, 2010, 12:33:57 PM »
I thought the rape stuff was in Fountainhead? Or am I running on low speed?

I don't know about the Fountainhead. I haven't come across any actual rape in AS yet, although I suppose some might read it that way. It's just that Dagny seems to enjoy a rough, dominant partner that treats her like a sexual device in the bedroom.

Not trying to preach against it. Just surprised me, is all.
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #37 on: November 21, 2010, 01:19:02 PM »
I don't know about the Fountainhead. I haven't come across any actual rape in AS yet, although I suppose some might read it that way. It's just that Dagny seems to enjoy a rough, dominant partner that treats her like a sexual device in the bedroom.
 

And by this time you've gotten far enough to know she drops her lover without a pang as soon as she encounters the Alpha Objectivist.
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #38 on: November 21, 2010, 02:10:13 PM »
And by this time you've gotten far enough to know she drops her lover without a pang as soon as she encounters the Alpha Objectivist.

 =D True dat.
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #39 on: November 21, 2010, 03:34:02 PM »
I'd be willing to bet they're going to turn Atlas Shrugged into some avant garde piece of junk that 20-something year old hipsters will swoon for.


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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #40 on: November 21, 2010, 11:23:10 PM »
Oh, wait, der. She is an objectivist, so she digs on objectification. Sometimes I am just so slow.
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #41 on: November 22, 2010, 12:22:09 AM »
I don't know about the Fountainhead. I haven't come across any actual rape in AS yet, although I suppose some might read it that way. It's just that Dagny seems to enjoy a rough, dominant partner that treats her like a sexual device in the bedroom.

Not trying to preach against it. Just surprised me, is all.

Heh.  You should try reading We The Living.

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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #42 on: November 22, 2010, 01:45:41 PM »
My sister lost my copy of the book a few years ago.  Right after I bought it.
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #43 on: November 22, 2010, 01:50:59 PM »
My sister lost my copy of the book a few years ago.  Right after I bought it.
I am still angry.

So?

Stop yer bellyachin'.  There's enough copies out there that you should be able to pick one up, just lying on the street.
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #44 on: November 22, 2010, 02:31:31 PM »
I have been to several bookstores since.  Haven't seen it.
Guess I'll have to order it from the nets when I get some monies together.
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #45 on: November 22, 2010, 02:37:09 PM »
I have been to several bookstores since.  Haven't seen it.
Guess I'll have to order it from the nets when I get some monies together.

Next time you're in the NoVa region, let me know and I'll loan you my copy (assuming I still have it...).

You just pay return shipping.

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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #46 on: November 22, 2010, 02:45:37 PM »
Just checked to see if it's available on either the Kindle or Nook.  It is, but at twice the price of the paperback.

I don't get it.  Why would any publisher do this?  It's the 3rd book in a row where they wanted just as much for the digital copy as they did either the paperback, or, in the case of "The Gun" the actual hard cover edition.

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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #47 on: November 22, 2010, 05:10:05 PM »
Stop yer bellyachin'.  There's enough copies out there that you should be able to pick one up, just lying on the street.

There was quite a rash of interest in the book, a year or so ago. May not be that many loose copies about these days. The used-book dealer from whom I purchased my copy told me it was getting hard to find.

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My dear sir, must you go on so?

Switch to decaf, maybe?

You keep using this word "mystic." I do not think it means what you think it means. If you're gonna rant at such length against religion, try not being so ignorant of the subject.

Dang. Mad respect for what you're trying to do, but the more you talk the less mad respect I can muster.  =|
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #48 on: November 22, 2010, 05:12:49 PM »
Uh, did you not KNOW that AS was a massively anti-Christian book before you picked it up?
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Re: Atlas Shrugged Movie update
« Reply #49 on: November 22, 2010, 05:20:10 PM »
I did not, and I'm not so sure it is. I prefer not to research works of fiction before reading them, so all I knew about was the anti-socialist angle. I knew she was an "Objectivist," but I didn't have much idea what she meant by that.

I'm not sure if AS qualifies as anti-Christian. Galt/Rand are definitely attacking some kind of religion(s), but it doesn't seem to be Christianity.  ;)
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