Customer Reviews: Atlas Shrugged III: Who is John Galt? Widescreen)Not the book, but has the message. Customer review by Bat. Tree. Man. 2. 0 stars. Bat. Tree. Man. Many will judge Atlas Shrugged by the movie series, but the movies don't come close to doing justice to the three part single volume book. The Walmart price and order was great. The movie was a completion of the series, and overall the full series was a great disappointment with lack of story information and most of all lack of continuity of characters (changing all for each movie!). But how can this book be put in limited one 2- hour movie form per each of 3 parts? This needs to be done in a mini- series of 1. Was this review helpful? Yes(0) No(0) Report. Thank you! You have successfully submitted feedback for this review. Who is John Galt? Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged makes its way to the silver screen after over. Who is John Galt? Galt's Gulch Atlas Shrugged Part III in theaters. 'Atlas Shrugged III: Who is John Galt?' is the final installment of the epic Atlas Shrugged trilogy. It is the follow up to the movies 'Atlas Shrugged I'. · Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who is John Galt? The novel that praises the sanctity of money becomes. It’s the film Atlas Shrugged III: Who is John Galt? Was this review helpful? ![]() Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt': Film Review. Has there ever been a Hollywood adaptation of a major novel as faithful and yet so misguided and downright strange as the three- part version of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged that now comes to a conclusion with the third installment? Independently produced by Rand faithful and marketed almost exclusively to a like- minded audience, the project at the very least embodies a do- it- yourself tenacity the author herself would have vigorously endorsed, as box- office receipts have fallen very short of covering the productions' costs. Self- distributed beginning Sept. That these hymns to the primacy of individualistic capitalism over big government exist at all is due to the money and will power of longtime rights- holder John Aglialoro who, when he was unable to secure studio financing or the participation of major star, forged ahead on his own with Part I. Endorsed by conservative radio hosts and hardly anyone else, the $2. Aglialoro to announce that he wouldn't proceed with further installments. But a year later, Part II appeared and now, another two years on, Part III has arrived, with a stated budget of just one- quarter that of the original, part of it coming from a Kickstarter campaign. The first remarkable aspect of the triptych is how stylistically consistent it is despite having employed three different directors. As such, it stands as a stiff rebuke to the auteur theory (would Rand have approved such an insult to artistic ownership?), as all three films sport a glossy, straightforward blandness of no stylistic ambition whatsoever. And in a stroke that suggests a level of Bunuelian surrealism that even the master himself never approached, each Atlas installment features an entirely different set of leading actors in the main roles. It's hard to imagine that the producers intended this approach from the start — it probably stemmed from the trilogy's stop- and- start production history — but in the event it's instructive how little difference it makes. Taylor Schilling was first and probably best in the leading role of railroad titan Dagny Taggart, but was followed in the part by Samantha Mathis and now Laura Regan. Steel industry leader Henry Reardon has been played by Grant Bowler, Jason Beghe and Rob Morrow; copper mining heir Francisco D'Anconia by Jsu Garcia, Esai Morales and Joaquin de Almeida; Dagny's no- account brother James by Matthew Marsden, Patrick Fabian and Greg Germann, and so on down the line. But this lack of cohesion proves far less bothersome than the fatal fact that Atlas Shrugged was never properly reconceived for a modern audience. Aglialoro and his collaborators committed themselves to transferring Rand's last and most philosophically direct novel onscreen as accurately and reverently as possible. The central obstacle to this ambition is that the book is set in a United States of some 6. 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. Ironically, today's high- tech giants would seem to be perfect examples of genius- driven companies, some of them libertarian- led and none of them partial to regulation). If Atlas Shrugged was to have been filmed at all, it should have been placed in the hands of a visionary director with a fearless artistic and political temperament who might have boldly reimagined it for the modern times or, as the opening title says, "The day after tomorrow."Just as problematic from an ideological point of view is that Dagny's great dream is the creation of an ultra- fast train. 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. This paradox has conveniently been overlooked by the trilogy's band of admirers. The titular mystery man, a common worker who rejects the imposed collectivist mentality, announces that, "I'll stop the motor of the world," then disappears for 1. Dagny from the ruins of a private jet crash. While the nation, now called the "People's State of America," crumbles under the weight of government controls, its intended saviors, centered around the handsome, charismatic Galt (Kristoffer Polaha), philosophize and drink a great deal in a bucolic, Napa- like setting. · Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt? summary of box office results. Atlas Distribution. Atlas Shrugged Franchise: 3: Charts. Chart. Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? But if you purchase the streaming versions, you can still watch The Atlas Society's supplemental material free online. While the fumbling "head of state" (Peter Mackenzie) tries to assume dictatorial powers and track down this Galt fellow, the latter waits for Dagny to see the light and join him, both ideologically and romantically, and prepares to save the world with his new "motor," a small device that will generate the power to supply nearly all the country's needs. That's entrepreneurship even the greenest lefties could get behind. The climax of the novel — and, arguably, of Rand's philosophical and writing career — consists of Galt's address to a despairing nation after he's commandeered the airwaves from the head of state. In the book, this talk consumes 5. Rand's manifesto. But it does rally people on the street, not to mention Ron Paul,Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, who appear in faux broadcast reactions to endorse Galt's philosophy. 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. And so, after a very brief theatrical run, this Atlas Shrugged will shuffle off into the sunset as well, as a missed opportunity to speak to anyone other than the converted, but at least as the culmination of its makers' will. Production: Atlas Productions. Cast: Kristoffer Polaha, Laura Regan, Greg Germann, Eric Allan Kramer, Tony Denison, Mark Moses, Lew Temple, Stephen Tobolowsky, Peter Mackenzie, Larry Cedar, Louis Herthum, Rob Morrow, Joaquin de Almeida. Director: J. James Manera. Screenwriters: J. James Manera, Harmon Kaslow, John Aglialoro, based on the novel by Ayn Rand. Producers: Harmon Kaslow, John Aglialoro. Executive producer: William A. Dunn. Director of photography: Gale Tattersall. Production designer: Jack G. Taylor. Costume designer: Erica Edell Phillips. ![]() Editor: Tony Ciccone. Music: Elia Crimal. Rated PG- 1. 3, 9. · Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? is the conclusion to the epic saga of the producers. Atlas Shrugged III: Who Is John Galt? is an embarrassingly inept conclusion.
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