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'''Atlas Shrugged, Part 1''' is a 2011 [[motion picture]] adaptation of the first third of [[Ayn Rand]]'s [[Atlas Shrugged|novel of the same name]]. Instead of setting the film in the period of the original novel, this film sets it in an America of 2016, after five more years of the administration of [[Barack H. Obama]] (presumably to be renamed [[Mr. Thompson]]). This film demonstrates the predictive value of ''Atlas Shrugged'' as prophecy, in that its opening scenes include uncanny accurate depictions of actual events that took place six months after the film's theatrical release.
'''Atlas Shrugged, Part 1''' is a 2011 [[motion picture]] adaptation of the first third of [[Ayn Rand]]'s [[Atlas Shrugged|novel of the same name]]. Instead of setting the film in the period of the original novel, this film sets it in an America of 2016, after five more years of the administration of [[Barack H. Obama]] (presumably to be renamed [[Mr. Thompson]]). This film demonstrates the predictive value of ''Atlas Shrugged'' as prophecy, in that its opening scenes include uncannily accurate depictions of actual events that took place six months after the film's theatrical release.
== Plot Summary ==
== Plot Summary ==
* Grant Bowler as [[Henry Rearden]], founder, owner, and President of Rearden Steel
* Grant Bowler as [[Henry Rearden]], founder, owner, and President of Rearden Steel
:* Nikki Klecha as Gwen Ives, his private secretary.
:* Christina Pickes as his mother
:* Christina Pickes as his mother
:* Rebecca Wisocky as Lillian Rearden, his unloving wife
:* Rebecca Wisocky as Lillian Rearden, his unloving wife
* Michael Lerner as [[Wesley Mouch]], Co-ordinator, Bureau of Economic Planning and Natural Resources
* Michael Lerner as [[Wesley Mouch]], Co-ordinator, Bureau of Economic Planning and Natural Resources
:* Rob Brownstein as Eugene Lawson, a member of his staff, who once acquired the [[Twentieth Century Motor Company]] in a [[bankruptcy]] proceeding
* Joel McKinnon Miller as Herbert Mowen, a businessman who refuses to work with Rearden Metal, fearing controversy
* Jon Polito as [[Orren Boyle]], President, Associated Steel Company
* Jon Polito as [[Orren Boyle]], President, Associated Steel Company
* Sylvia Kelegian as Ivy Starnes, daughter of the late Gerald "Jed" Starnes, founder of the [[Twentieth Century Motor Company]]
* Navid Nagahban as [[Robert Stadler]], PhD, Director, [[State Science Institute]]
* Navid Nagahban as [[Robert Stadler]], PhD, Director, [[State Science Institute]]
* Geoff Pierson as [[Midas Mulligan]], founder, owner and President of the Mulligan Bank
* Geoff Pierson as [[Midas Mulligan]], founder, owner and President of the Mulligan Bank
* Jack Milo as Richard McNamara, a contractor
* Jsu Garcia as [[Francisco d'Anconia]], heir and President, D'Anconia Copper, SA ([[Argentina]])
* Jsu Garcia as [[Francisco d'Anconia]], heir and President, D'Anconia Copper, SA ([[Argentina]])
* Paul Johansson as [[John Galt]]
* Paul Johansson as [[John Galt]]
* Michael O'Keefe as [[Hugh Akston]]
* Dave Goryl as Jay Knight, a celebrated newscaster with the "NNT" network.
=== Motivations of the characters ===
=== Motivations of the characters ===
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.
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.
=== Similarities and differences ===
For whatever reason, Atlas Productions decided to set the story in a future America, not the original period. For that reason, though the novel keeps nearly all the characters and their names, it does not keep all the situations.
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! Situation/feature
! Novel
! Film
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| Period
| 1955–58
| 2016-19 and following
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| Favored mode of travel
| [[Railroad]]s, because [[airline]] travel was not yet widespread
| Railroads, because the country has abandoned airline travel. The reason: motor fuel cannot be had for any price less than $37.50 per gallon. One can only imagine what the price of aviation kerosene might be. The opening montage shows the scrapping of a commercial airliner, either the Boeing 727 or the MD-80.
|-
| Favored mode of mass communication
| [[Radio]]
| [[Television]]
|-
| Likely status of the [[United States Navy]]
| Never expanded beyond [[First World War]] levels
| ''Contracted'' to ''before'' [[First World War]] levels. In this scenario, 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 gutted the Navy, so that the once-mighty United States Navy cannot cope with ''one'' man, with ''one'' ship, who seizes foreign-aid cargoes with absolute impunity.
|-
| Nature of the revolutionary motor at the [[Twentieth Century Motor Company]]
| An [[John Galt#The electrostatic motor|electrostatic motor]]
| A '''[[John Galt#The quantum motor|quantum motor]].''' The explanation given in the film is less than accurate; it uses terms like "Casimir Effect" and "Atmospheric vacuum" in an attempt to explain something that the script writers probably did not understand. (Its attempt to substitute [[helium]] atoms for the nanoparticles on which a real quantum motor would depend has earned much of the scorn of [[Mainstream Media]] critics—not that the critics themselves would grasp the concept of a quantum motor.) Nevertheless, a quantum motor, using quantum vacuum and Casimir-Lorentz forces, ''would'' be feasible.
|-
| Foreign affairs
| All governments, other than that of the [[United States]], are "People's States." Therefore, all are in worse shape than is America.
| The [[Middle East]] has "imploded." This suggests that the [[Arab]] countries, and the Republic of [[Israel]], exist in this story just as they exist today. The difference: all trade and other relationships with the [[oil]]-exporting countries have ceased, and even the Petrodollar System has collapsed—totally. Some countries ''do'' rely on whatever handouts the [[United States]] can produce—but United States currency is no longer sufficient. Hence, hard-goods relief shipments—and [[Ragnar Danneskjøld]]'s opportunity.
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The other differences between novel and film are distinctly minor.
=== Art anticipating life ===
=== Art anticipating life ===
== Future plans ==
== Future plans ==
Recently the producers secured outside financing to make ''Atlas Shrugged, Part 2'' despite the losses on ''Part 1''. Other unconfirmed reports state that they intend to make the film longer than the 97 minutes of ''Part 1'', and to replace the cast.
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