Posted by Notcot on Jul 13, 2012 in
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Ayn Rand’s epochal novel first published in 1957 has been a bestseller for more than four decades as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world–and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who needed him most–and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor–and the motive power of every man? Tremendous in its scope this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life–from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy…to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction…to the philosopher who becomes a pirate…to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad…to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains charged with towering questions of good and evil Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s masterpiece. It is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.
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Posted by Notcot on Jul 16, 2011 in
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This box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society’s problem with freedom as Fonda’s and Hopper’s characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can’t help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn’t hold up well) but it retains its original power, sense of daring and epochal impact. — Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
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