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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 ==
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| Period
| Period
| 1955-58
| 1955–58
| 1916-19 and following
| 2016-19 and following
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| Favored mode of travel
| Favored mode of travel
| Nature of the revolutionary motor at the [[Twentieth Century Motor Company]]
| Nature of the revolutionary motor at the [[Twentieth Century Motor Company]]
| An [[John Galt#The electrostatic motor|electrostatic motor]]
| 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 might not understood. Nevertheless, a qoantum motor, using quantum vacuum and Casimir-Lorentz forces, ''would'' be feasible.
| 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.
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| 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.
The other differences between novel and film are distinctly minor.
=== Art anticipating life ===
=== Art anticipating life ===
In an uncanny example of "art anticipating life," the film's opening montage contains a scene of a public protest march, in which the marchers carry signs saying "A Job is a Right" and "Capitalism Does Not Work." Participants in [[Occupy Wall Street]] have carried signs having similar or identical messages. The remarkable relevant fact is that [[Occupy Wall Street]] followed the release of ''Atlas Shrugged, Part 1'' by about six months.
In an uncanny example of "art anticipating life," the film's opening montage contains a scene of a public protest march, in which the marchers carry signs saying "A Job is a Right" and "Capitalism Does Not Work." Participants in [[Occupy Wall Street]] have carried signs having similar or identical messages. The remarkable relevant fact is that [[Occupy Wall Street]] followed the release of ''Atlas Shrugged, Part 1'' by about six months.
== 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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