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| Jim Lane of the Sacramento News and Review gave it a mixed review,<ref></ref> calling it "a respectable effort hampered less by its limited budget than by the dogmatic contrivances of Rand’s plot and the straw-man polemics of her wooden, declamatory dialogue. As with Part I, Rand’s detractors will hate the movie as much as they do her, but her fans will be satisfied, both of them for the same reasons." And John Tammy of Forbes.com has a review titled "Why Atlas Shrugged, Part II Is a Must See Film".<ref>http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2012/10/07/movie-review-why-atlas-shrugged-part-ii-is-a-must-see-film/</ref> | Jim Lane of the Sacramento News and Review gave it a mixed review,<ref></ref> calling it "a respectable effort hampered less by its limited budget than by the dogmatic contrivances of Rand’s plot and the straw-man polemics of her wooden, declamatory dialogue. As with Part I, Rand’s detractors will hate the movie as much as they do her, but her fans will be satisfied, both of them for the same reasons." And John Tammy of Forbes.com has a review titled "Why Atlas Shrugged, Part II Is a Must See Film".<ref>http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2012/10/07/movie-review-why-atlas-shrugged-part-ii-is-a-must-see-film/</ref> | ||
| Despite not being screened to critics in advance, the film was noted for positive audience interest. Audiences on Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a . | |||
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2012 American film| Atlas Shrugged: Part II | |
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| Directed by | John Putch |
| Screenplay by | Duke Sandefur Brian Patrick O'Toole Duncan Scott |
| Produced by | Harmon Kaslow John Aglialoro Jeff Freilich |
| Starring | Samantha Mathis Jason Beghe Esai Morales Patrick Fabian Kim Rhodes |
| Cinematography | Ross Berryman |
| Edited by | John Gilbert |
| Music by | Chris P. Bacon |
| Production company | Either Or Productions |
| Distributed by | Atlas Distribution Company |
| Release date |
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| Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $2,005,099 |
Atlas Shrugged: Part II (or Atlas Shrugged: Part II: The Strike ) is a film based on the novel Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It is a sequel to the 2011 film Atlas Shrugged: Part I, continuing the story where its predecessor left off.
It was announced on the film's Facebook page on July 4, 2012 and the film was released on October 12, 2012.
Plot
The film begins with a flashforward in which Dagny Taggart crashes an airplane while following another plane. Dagny says to herself "Who is John Galt?" before crashing into the mountainside.
The film returns to eight months earlier. Dagny is trying to discover how the abandoned prototype of an advanced motor she and Hank Rearden found works. Quentin Daniels, the only capable scientist who has not disappeared yet, agrees to help her from his abandoned university laboratory in Utah.
Dagny's brother James Taggart, president of the family railroad, meets store clerk Cherryl Brooks and brings her to see the performance of a pianist, who disappears during his performance, leaving a note asking "Who is John Galt?" Later, during the wedding of James and Cherryl, Dagny's friend Francisco d'Anconia argues with other guests about whether money is evil, and secretly informs Rearden that his copper mine will suffer a devastating explosion the next day. Rearden spends that night with his paramour Dagny. Later he is confronted about the affair by his wife Lillian, who refuses to grant him a divorce in order to maintain her position in society.
Rearden sells his advanced-material steel to Ken Danagger's coal mining company, and refuses to sell it to the government in defiance of the newly enacted "Fair Share" law that forces businesses to sell to all buyers. The two are charged under the law but Danagger disappears before trial. Rearden makes a statement at trial about the benefits of the pursuit of profit, and is given only a token penalty by the court when it is seen that the crowd supports him. However, the government announces a new law that freezes all employment and productions, and requires all patent rights to be transferred to the federal government. Government bureaucrat Wesley Mouch blackmails Rearden into giving up his Rearden Steel patents, using photos of Rearden and Dagny that would damage Dagny's reputation.
Dagny leaves her COO post at the railroad when her prized John Galt line is dissembled due to lack of business. During her absence, a Taggart Transcontinental train collides with a military train in a tunnel in South Colorado, due in large part to human error by Dagny's poorly-trained replacement. Francisco tries to dissuade Dagny from returning to the railroad to supervise repairs, as he had earlier tried to talk Rearden into leaving his business, but she does nonetheless.
Dagny takes a train to Colorado to show her faith in the railway. The train stops due to an engine failure. The technician who comes to fix it used to work for 20th Century Motor, which produced the motor Dagny found. The technician tells Dagny how the need-based reward system in his company failed, and his coworker John Galt left the company to "stop the motor of the world". Dagny calls Daniels, who tells her that he is quitting. Dagny buys a small airplane nearby, and flies to Utah to try to convince him not to do so. While landing, she sees the scientist get into a plane on the airstrip.
After a pursuit in the air—the opening scene of the film—Dagny's plane crashes in a valley hidden by stealth technology. Dagny crawls to the edge of her crashed plane, where she is greeted by John Galt.
As the screen fades, a quote from the Atlas Shrugged novel is displayed.
Cast
See also: List of Atlas Shrugged characters- Samantha Mathis as Dagny Taggart
- Jason Beghe as Henry Rearden
- Esai Morales as Francisco d'Anconia
- Patrick Fabian as James Taggart
- Kim Rhodes as Lillian Rearden
- Richard T. Jones as Eddie Willers
- D.B. Sweeney as John Galt
- Paul McCrane as Wesley Mouch
- John Rubinstein as Dr. Floyd Ferris
- Robert Picardo as Dr. Robert Stadler
- Ray Wise as Head of State Thompson
- Diedrich Bader as Quentin Daniels
- Bug Hall as Leonard Small
- Arye Gross as Ken Danagger
- Rex Linn as Kip Chalmers
- Larisa Oleynik as Cherryl Brooks
- Thomas F. Wilson as Robert Collins
- Teller as Laughlin
- Sean Hannity as himself
- Juan Williams as himself
- Bob Beckel as himself
- Tamara Holder as herself
Production
Despite the box office failure of Atlas Shrugged: Part I, a private debt sale in early 2012 raised $16 million of the $25 million the producers sought, enabling a budget larger than that of the first film. The production company announced that Part 2 would be released to coincide with the U.S. general election season in fall 2012.
Duncan Scott, who in 1986 was responsible for creating a new, re-edited version of the 1942 Italian film adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel We the Living with English subtitles, joined the production team.
The production company for the second film, Either Or Productions, LLC, is taken from the name, Either-Or, that Rand gave to the middle ten chapters of her novel. An April press release stated the name of the film as Atlas Shrugged, Part 2: Either Or.
Principal photography began on April 2, 2012 with an all-new cast, including Samantha Mathis as the heroine Dagny Taggart, Jason Beghe as the industrialist Henry Rearden, and Esai Morales as the playboy Francisco d'Anconia. Producer John Aglialoro has implied that hiring the cast of Part I for the sequel exceeded the movie's budget, saying "it’s hard to lock people down", and also noting that Taylor Schilling, the actress who played Dagny in Part I, is "a bona fide movie star now". According to a report before the film was released, the film was to be on a 31-day shooting schedule, four days more than that of the first movie, and to undergo two months of post-production.
Reception
Pre-release
Prior to its release at the box office, Atlas Shrugged: Part II was not screened for critics, with producer John Aglialoro questioning "the integrity of the critics". The film was, however, screened for The Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute. Despite not being screened to critics in advance, the film was noted for positive audience interest.
Box office
Atlas Shrugged: Part II earned $692,000 on its premier and $1.7 million its opening weekend, debuting at #11. Despite opening on more than three times the screens of Part I, it did not significantly improve on Part I's opening weekend.
According to Box Office Mojo, box office take totaled $3,204,557 through 10/28/12, showing in 147 theaters nationwide.
Reception
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 5% of 20 professional critics gave Atlas Shrugged: Part II a positive score, with an average rating of 2.9/10. The site's consensus is that the film is: "Poorly written, clumsily filmed and edited, and hampered by amateurish acting, Atlas Shrugged: Part II does no favors to the ideology it so fervently champions". Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 26 based on 11 reviews, which is interpreted as "Generally unfavorable" by Metacritic. Film critics were not impressed with the film based on several reviews: one reviewer gave the film a "D" rating; while the New York Post's Kyle Smith gave the film a "1" rating (of 4), saying "...even if you overlooked the production values from a 1986 porno and special effects like something your nephew cooked up on his Mac, the movie’s “Yay, money!” zingers are just a big bag of sad." The Onion AV club gave the film a grade of "F", citing lack of story progression and poor character designs.
Jim Lane of the Sacramento News and Review gave it a mixed review, calling it "a respectable effort hampered less by its limited budget than by the dogmatic contrivances of Rand’s plot and the straw-man polemics of her wooden, declamatory dialogue. As with Part I, Rand’s detractors will hate the movie as much as they do her, but her fans will be satisfied, both of them for the same reasons." And John Tammy of Forbes.com has a review titled "Why Atlas Shrugged, Part II Is a Must See Film".
References
- http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-atlas-shrugged-20121015,0,3134211.story
- ^ "'Atlas Shrugged Part 2' to start production in April". latimes.com. 2012-02-02.
- ^ "Hannity to debut in 'Atlas Shrugged: Part II". Politico.Com. August 31, 2012. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
- Peter Key (2012-02-06). "Atlast Shrugged: Part 2 Movie Funded". Philadelphia Business Journal.
- Paul Bond (2012-02-02). "'Atlas Shrugged Part 2' Timed to Hit Screens Just Before Presidential Election (Video)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
- ^ The Official Atlas Shrugged Movie Blog: Atlas Shrugged Part 2 Begins Principal Photography
- Weigel, David (Sept. 20, 2012). "The 53 Percent Shrugged".
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Brian Doherty (2012-04-20). "On the Set of Atlas Shrugged Part II". reason.com. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
- ^ McKay, Hollie (October 12, 2012). "'Atlas Shrugged: Part II' kept from mainstream movie critics, but public interest remains high". FoxNews.com. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
- Steinberg, Don (October 5, 2012). "'Atlas Shrugged' Film Banks on Election Fever". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
- http://www.inquisitr.com/363039/atlas-shrugged-part-2-falters-at-the-north-american-box-office/
- http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2012&wknd=40
- http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82399.html?hp=r7
- http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/atlas-shrugged-part-2-box-office-samantha-mathis/
- http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=atlasshruggedpart2.htm
- Rotten Tomatoes
- "Atlas Shrugged Part 2". Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- Baldwin, Danny (October 12, 2102). "Review: "Atlas Shrugged: Part II – The Strike"". CriticSpeak. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - Smith, Kyle (October 12, 2012). "Saw the film & shrugged". NYPost. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
- Tobias, Scott (October 12, 2012). "Atlas Shrugged: Part II—The Strike". The A.V. Club. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
- Atlas Shrugged: Part 2
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2012/10/07/movie-review-why-atlas-shrugged-part-ii-is-a-must-see-film/
External links
- Official website
- Atlas Shrugged Part 2 at the TCM Movie Database
- Atlas Shrugged Part 2 at IMDb
- Template:Allrovi movie
- Atlas Shrugged Part 2 at Box Office Mojo
- Atlas Shrugged Part 2 at Rotten Tomatoes
- Atlas Shrugged Part 2 at Metacritic
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