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Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 (view source)
Revision as of 02:02, November 26, 2011
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* Paul Johansson as [[John Galt]]
* Paul Johansson as [[John Galt]]
=== Motivations of the characters ===
Dagny Taggart obviously wants to save her railroad from financial ruin. The only way to do that, as she sees it, is to restore the quality service that the Taggart name once stood for, and win back customers who have gone elsewhere.
James Taggart wants to trade government favors to save himself the necessity of effort. He couches his motives in altruistic terms, the sincerity of which is unproved at best.
Henry Rearden wants to make money, and is not afraid to say it. But his troubled home life puzzles him. He allows his ungrateful relatives to hang onto him—and then Francisco d'Anconia decides that he wants to know why.
But what game is d'Anconia playing? Why does he deliberately make a thoroughly bad business mistake, just to deliver a sucker punch to politically minded men like Jim Taggart?
John Galt's motives remain the deepest mystery of all. But by film's end, we know his purpose: the complete and utter destruction of American society, or rather the quasi-socialistic state that America has now become, and the supplanting of it with a new civic, economic, and social order. It's name is [[Atlantis (Atlas Shrugged)|Atlantis]], a name that translates as "that which belongs to Atlas."
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