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Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 (view source)
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== Novel adaptation ==
== Novel adaptation ==
This film obviously has its basis in [[Ayn Rand]]'s original novel, ''[[Atlas Shrugged]].'' More specifically, it covers the first third of the novel. It begins with a wreck on the Rio Norte Line and ends with the horrific lighting of "Wyatt's Torch," a series of shale-oil well fires that will keep burning for years afterward.
This film obviously has its basis in [[Ayn Rand]]'s original novel, ''[[Atlas Shrugged]].'' More specifically, it covers the [[Atlas Shrugged#Non-contradiction|first third]] of the novel. It begins with a wreck on the Rio Norte Line and ends with the horrific lighting of "Wyatt's Torch," a series of shale-oil well fires that will keep burning for years afterward.
For whatever reason, Atlas Productions decided to set the story in a future America, not the original period. Rand wrote for an era that did not yet know commercial airline travel. The producers of this film set it in an era that has ''abandoned'' commercial airline travel. And also an era in which the American left has achieved its dream of slashing the budget for the American armed services. Only they get more than they bargained for: they have cut the Navy, it seems, to pre-[[First World War]] levels, so that the once-mighty [[United States Navy]] cannot cope with ''one'' man, with ''one'' ship, who seizes foreign-aid cargoes with absolute impunity.
For whatever reason, Atlas Productions decided to set the story in a future America, not the original period. Rand wrote for an era that did not yet know commercial airline travel. The producers of this film set it in an era that has ''abandoned'' commercial airline travel. And also an era in which the American left has achieved its dream of slashing the budget for the American armed services. Only they get more than they bargained for: they have cut the Navy, it seems, to pre-[[First World War]] levels, so that the once-mighty [[United States Navy]] cannot cope with ''one'' man, with ''one'' ship, who seizes foreign-aid cargoes with absolute impunity.