Atlas Shrugged

"Atlas shrugged" is one of the most revered work of fiction; a masterpiece and a widely celebrated effort of Ayn Rand; that came out in 1957. She was a venerated Russian-American novelist, screenwriter, playwright and a philosopher.

This is my summer 2011 reading list. The three books on my list are how I will be cooling off while the world broils under the summer sun.

These two films, released within a week from each other, are very different in many respects, but they have more in common than what you might think.

The success of "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1," modest by movie blockbuster standards but very respectable for an independent film, seems to be baffling film industry insiders. The film version of the Ayn Rand classic had a lot of things going against it.

A cheap, sloppily edited, and monumentally dull adaptation that requires the audience to endure scene after scene of indecipherable corporate lingo.

Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged," about free-market capitalism, economic collapse, and expanding government, is now a film adaption. Businessman John Aglialoro skipped left-leaning Hollywood to distribute the film himself. Will conservatives bite?

"Atlas Shrugged, Part 1" will be coming out this weekend and it is supposed to be a big hit among conservatives. So will this independent film become a big hit or a big bust?

Did "Atlas Shrugged, Part 1" succeed in reaching its target conservative audience? And will that audience be enough to encourage Hollywood to create more "conservative-friendly" offerings in the future?

"Atlas Shrugged: Part 1" may have been panned by just about every mainstream critic in the United States, but it nevertheless made a respectable first weekend opening, taking in $1,676,917 on about 300 screens across the country.

The novel that captured the imagination of American patriots and freedom lovers for so many decades has finally overcome the obstacles of Hollywood and reached theaters in a glorious combined mystery thriller with a sprinkling of sci-fi.

Readers of "Atlas Shrugged" have waited decades to see it on the big screen, although many suitors and studios have given up along the way. But judging by the ugly reviews for it so far, the results may even be anticlimactic for Ayn Rand worshippers.

"Atlas Shrugged: Part 1" opened at theaters, appropriately enough, on April 15. Low budget and filled with unknown actors though it was, the movie is a magnificent film version of the first third of Ayn Rand's iconic, philosophical novel.

At long last, "Atlas Shrugged" has been turned into a movie - albeit a small one that only includes the first half of the book. Yet Ayn Rand worshippers can finally "go Galt" on the big screen, although everyone else is advised to stay away.

This article shares information about the movie entitled "Atlas Shrugged" and why the Hollywood left didn't want the film made.

More details have emerged, via behind-the-scenes clips, to confirm that the forthcoming movie adaptation of Atlas Shrugged is, in fact, a competent adaptation.

Fifty four years after the iconic book was published about forty years after serious talk began about bringing it to the small or big screen, "Atlas Shrugged" is coming to the big screen. At least, Part 1 of what promises to be a trilogy.

Conservatives have helped Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" live on over the decades. But it took until now to get a movie made from it, albeit a low budget one with no distribution yet. However, the trailer preached to the choir at the CPAC convention.

Ayn Rand's classic "Atlas Shrugged" is coming to a theater near you, and the Tea Party is probably looking forward to it.

"Atlas Shrugged," the philosophic novel by Ayn Rand, is finally before the cameras as a soon to be major motion picture - several major motion pictures, if the plans of the producers come the fruition. The process has been over 30 years in coming.

Have you ever finished a book and thought "That would make a great film!"? I have too. This is a list of three books I would like to see turned into films.

These three books would make fantastic movies. Find out what books would best translate to the screen, how it would be done, and what director and actors would be best used. The books are World War Z, Atlas Shrugged, and Catch-22.

My overview of the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

A brief plot summary and review of Atlas Shrugged plus a look at Ayn Rand's philosophy.

The philosophies in Atlas Shrugged and War and Peace differ in their views on human rationality, reality, the purpose of life, happiness, religion, and free will.

In 1957, Ayn Rand published her epic novel, Atlas Shrugged, a book that seems very relevant to what is happening in the United States--a move toward socialism.