The protagonists of the film are one woman and three men: Dagny Taggart, the manager of the largest railway company in the country, Francisco de Anconia, manager of the world's largest copper mining group, the inventor of "Reardon alloy" Hank Reardon, and John Galt, the inventor of the engine that can drive the technological revolution, the three male protagonists become Dagny's lovers in turn, but the main line of the story is far from the bedroom and unfolds in a grand social context ——The robbers and beggars-like management authorities, which reduced capitalism to simple selfishness and evil exploitation, arbitrarily interfered in production and distribution under the pretext of public interest and social welfare. Elites keep disappearing, and only the legend of "Who is John Galt?" floats in the rivers and lakes.
The first Taggart Railway Company suffered huge losses due to the greedy decision of President James. The actual helmsman James' sister, Dagny, joined forces with steel mill boss Reardon to break through the blockade of the National Railroad Union and the plunder of technological achievements by the National Academy of Sciences. , laying rails with new alloys, and building the "John Galt Railway" within 9 months to turn the tide. Social parasites colluding with government and business have issued a series of decrees to intervene and monopolize various industries. Many outstanding entrepreneurs have mysteriously left. Coal, petroleum, steel, consumer goods, electric power, and transportation have become increasingly scarce and disordered. Society needs stronger regulation, and Dagny is struggling to support it in the precarious situation. The first Dagny actor, Taylor Schilling, later played the female lead in "Orange Is the New Black", and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for several consecutive sessions.
In the second film, Dagny and Reardon discover a magical engine during a trip, and Dagny goes to great lengths to find the inventor. In the process, she discovers that the disappearance of those outstanding entrepreneurs is guided by a mysterious force. The second part starts with "Who is John Galt", and Dagney drives the plane to track the escaped "Atlas" "They crashed into the valley and ended abruptly.
The third Dagny piloted a plane into Atlantis, the "Galt Canyon", only to discover that the creators who disappeared in society all lived here. The creators' strike, led by inventor John Galt, aims to stop the "power that turns the world", by drawing away the "Atlas" that drives social growth and production development. They make societies that pursue wrong worldviews and values realize the serious consequences when individuals are not free to create and profit. Ultimately, with the Atlass gone, American society fell apart, and the creators of Atlantis were ready to return to the world.
There are two reasons for the mediocrity of the third film. According to Ayn Rand's script "level construction" theory, "low-level" audiences can be satisfied with appreciating thrilling suspense and love triangle, without preventing "high-level" audiences from realizing the implications. Conflict of ideas. But the third film does not see either the thrilling suspense, nor the conflict of ideas. One is that the characters are too flat. As the mystery of "Who is John Galt?" is revealed, as the leader of the "Atlas" gods, the lively three-dimensional character drama that the audience expects has not come. This is different from the original work. There is a direct relationship. John Galt is the perfect embodiment of Rand's ideal life principles and methods, and is the culmination of Rand's philosophical thoughts. Rand's original intention is not to shape plump characters, but to act as her rationale. The carrier of the egoistic concept, the serious face tells the truth, the characters in the novel are the embodiment of a certain concept, which will damage the character building and make the characters thin and pale. In this way, the characters who always want to use ideals to correct experience, rather than realities, can only be flat, of course, a bit like procedural characters in games, including Rand's Utopia, which also has a strong sense of flatness and lacks deep shadows. Second, John Galt's speech to the nation on intercepted radio waves constitutes the essence of Randism and is the climax of the whole book, which denounces the evils of collectivism and argues for the morality of individualism, rationalism, and capitalism. The sex speech Rand wrote for two years and was 50 pages long, but when it was adapted into a film, due to the figurative nature of the film, it was decided that it could not present a conflict of ideas that was enough to have 18 TED speeches. It is estimated that the screenwriter It's hard to cry, but what everyone wants to see is the aggressive intellectual Ann Rand's radical ethos, and the moral passion of pursuing absolute realm. Your movie has lost this stylized label. If you don't complain about who you complain , so the fate of the third part being nominated by golden raspberry began with Ann Rand, and it was not limited to Ann Rand.
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