{"id":14093,"date":"2011-02-12T16:08:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T23:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14093"},"modified":"2011-02-12T19:20:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T02:20:04","slug":"coming-to-the-silver-screen-atlas-shrugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14093\/coming-to-the-silver-screen-atlas-shrugged\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to the silver screen Atlas Shrugged."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could this be a movie for Bloodhounds everywhere?<\/p>\n<p>I know that just about everyone who reads here at BHB has read Ayn Rand and has their opinions on whether she was a brilliant author. I personally find her works Anthem, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged to be some of the most enjoyable reading that I get to partake of. \u00a0I seem to always be reading one of these at any given time.<\/p>\n<p>For many years there have been discussions of how to best bring Atlas Shrugged to the big screen. On April 15<sup>th<\/sup>. 2011 the first installment of the book will be released for all of us to watch. Could this be a movie that will inspire everyone? I know that it is a very tall order to bring a work of such magnitude to the masses. \u00a0I for one will be watching it on opening night. Right after I have mailed my annual documentation to the looters who are taking more and more from me and always wanting more. I love the fact that the movie is opening on Tax Day. The only other day I can think that might have been more fitting was Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the trailer to the movie. I am interested in hearing what you think. Will this be something you will be going to see in the theater in April?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6W07bFa4TzM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could this be a movie for Bloodhounds everywhere? I know that just about everyone who reads here at BHB has read Ayn Rand and has their opinions on whether she was a brilliant author. I personally find her works Anthem, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged to be some of the most enjoyable reading that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,13,393],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-casual-friday","8":"category-video-mamma","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2024,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2024\/atlas-shrugged-is-50-years-old-today-all-work-is-an-act-of-creating-and-comes-from-the-same-source-from-an-inviolate-capacity-to-see-through-ones-own-eyes\/","url_meta":{"origin":14093,"position":0},"title":"Atlas Shrugged is 50 years old today: &#8220;All work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one&#8217;s own eyes&#8230;&#8221;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is philospher David Kelley in the Wall Street Journal. I think BloodhoundBlog presents a nice reflection of this argument, a joyous, fearless, unapologetic pursuit of new ideas.Economists have known for a long time that profits are an external measure of the value created by business enterprise. 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Will this be the event that causes the best and brightest our country has to stop being exactly what we need\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Mother&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11470,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11470\/splendorquest-should-we-celebrate-john-galt-day-on-june-1st\/","url_meta":{"origin":14093,"position":3},"title":"SplendorQuest: Should we celebrate John Galt Day on June 1st?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I wrote this coming on four years ago, one of my last posts to PresenceOfMind.net, my philosophical\/political\/literary home on the web. 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