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Bringing ‘unfilmable’ books to the screen
Colin Covert, Star-Tribune (Minneapolis)
Atlas Shrugged movie |
Atlas Shrugged |
Less fruitful are movies slavishly faithful to the source's form but not its spirit, taking as many words as possible from the page and putting them on the screen. That Classics Illustrated style torpedoed the screen version of Ayn Rand's sociopolitical manifesto "Atlas Shrugged," making a novel of ideas into a didactic talkathon.
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