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Music makes the bourgeoisie and the rebels

by DougJ|  March 5, 201110:50 am| 67 Comments

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I think this is a pretty good idea:

6. Have you decided how you’ll tackle John Galt’s epic speech in part three?

Well, I’m looking at a number of different things. Having John Galt give that speech, it might be in a casino environment. It might be that he is at a mountain retreat, rather than being where he is captured, not…that violent scene at the end. But we’re going to take a look. It doesn’t have to copy just that.

No, it absolutely will be a concentrate of entertaining words with a total, philosophic…But, you know, part three could be a musical…like a Les Miserables kind of a musical. That’s part of the impact and I guess I haven’t said this publicly yet, but I’m looking at it completely different if part three is a musical with quality music that’s done in a certain way that people will like. I mean, if you saw the play Les Miserable without the music, and then with the music, you may go in there saying, ‘oh hell, I would never want to see that great book in a musical.’ That’s going to shock a lot of people to see part three be a musical, and part two may be very different from part three and very different from part one. It has to be new, you know…We get a freshness, a vitality about it, and yet it has the same, rock-solid principles and philosophies that we all know and love.

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  1. 1.

    Chris

    March 5, 2011 at 10:55 am

    He’s using Les Miserables as a reference for John Galt? Wow, that’s really sick.

  2. 2.

    Alex S.

    March 5, 2011 at 10:56 am

    Good catch, if he wants to end Atlas Shrugged in a Les Miserables-way he probably also thinks that A Christmas Carol has a sad ending.

  3. 3.

    debit

    March 5, 2011 at 10:56 am

    I don’t want to pay taxes, I just want to sing!

  4. 4.

    H.E. Pennypacker, Wealthy Industrialist

    March 5, 2011 at 10:57 am

    They should do one album-length Rush song just for the speech.

  5. 5.

    Amy

    March 5, 2011 at 10:58 am

    And here’s another species of Astroturf — paying actors to call into Rush, etc. to sound very, very angry. An actor came for an audition and looked into the company.

    Premiere On Call was a service offered by Premiere Radio Networks, the largest syndication company in the United States and a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, the entertainment and advertising giant. Premiere syndicates some of the more sterling names in radio, including Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity. But a great radio show depends as much on great callers as it does on great hosts: Enter Premiere On Call.

    “Premiere On Call is our new custom caller service,” read the service’s website, which disappeared as this story was being reported (for a cached version of the site click here). “We supply voice talent to take/make your on-air calls, improvise your scenes or deliver your scripts. Using our simple online booking tool, specify the kind of voice you need, and we’ll get your the right person fast. Unless you request it, you won’t hear that same voice again for at least two months, ensuring the authenticity of your programming for avid listeners.”

    http://www.tabletmag.com/life-and-religion/58759/radio-daze/

  6. 6.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 5, 2011 at 10:58 am

    Good lord.

  7. 7.

    christian mistermix

    March 5, 2011 at 11:00 am

    This is shaping up to be the next Rocky Horror Picture Show.

  8. 8.

    piratedan

    March 5, 2011 at 11:00 am

    @debit: maybe they’ll use the Holy Grail as their artistic foundation…..

  9. 9.

    pablo

    March 5, 2011 at 11:00 am

    Ain’t gonna be no part 3, or part 2 after part 1 tanks.

  10. 10.

    Svensker

    March 5, 2011 at 11:02 am

    @Chris:

    Ayn Rand was a huge Victor Hugo fan.

    The idea of John Galt, the Musical, is making me laugh. Thanks, Doug “Joe” Hill.

  11. 11.

    AdamK

    March 5, 2011 at 11:06 am

    Imagine taking on a huge, expensive years-long project knowing that no matter what you do, no matter how hard you work, no matter the passion of your denial, in the end the outcome is definitely going to absolutely suck.

  12. 12.

    gbear

    March 5, 2011 at 11:06 am

    The Sgt. Pepper movie and ‘At Long Last Love’ are in danger of losing their Worst Musical status.

  13. 13.

    Chyron HR

    March 5, 2011 at 11:07 am

    @pablo:

    No way! Next you’re going to try and tell us that a Delgo sequel isn’t in the offing.

  14. 14.

    Brian S (formerly Incertus)

    March 5, 2011 at 11:08 am

    In order to live the Galtian dream of focusing on my self-interest above all else, I hereby promise to pirate the fuck out of that movie, and all its sequels, and to distribute them as far and wide as I can.

  15. 15.

    The Republic of Stupidness

    March 5, 2011 at 11:09 am

    @christian mistermix:

    “… the next Rocky Horror Picture Show…”

    Does that mean ‘going Galt’ will now become code for being a cross dresser?

  16. 16.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 5, 2011 at 11:11 am

    UncertaintyVicePrinciple over at Tbogg’s place has already got the lyrics ready to roll for this:

    “I am just a simple architect
    no romance do I seek
    I just wanted forty million dollars
    for my plans I drew last week

    Oh what’s an architect to dooooooo”

    and

    “I can draw, I can draw, I can sinnnngggg!”

  17. 17.

    Kryptik

    March 5, 2011 at 11:11 am

    @Alex S.:

    Hey, remember, folks like Douchehat believe that George Bailey was the real villain of It’s A Wonderful Life’.

  18. 18.

    DonkeyKong

    March 5, 2011 at 11:12 am

    I’m thinking ice capade road show as in Ayn Rand on ice!

  19. 19.

    allium

    March 5, 2011 at 11:12 am

    I hate every moocher I can see…
    From Wesley Mouch to Dave Kelley…

  20. 20.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    March 5, 2011 at 11:12 am

    I was just reading that. Perhaps John Galt does hip hop? Too soon?

    Fortunately I could scroll down to see the bassets again, so it was good.

  21. 21.

    bkny

    March 5, 2011 at 11:12 am

    a musical built to ayn rand and for an audience whose primary entertainment are movies that blow shit up and race cars that go round and round and round… yeah, sounds like a brilliant idea…

  22. 22.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 5, 2011 at 11:13 am

    @christian mistermix:

    “Hey, asshole! Where’s your neck?”

  23. 23.

    Doug Hill

    March 5, 2011 at 11:15 am

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):

    It’s not a bad idea at all.

    I’ve always thought NWA summed up libertarianism perfectly in the the single line “Life ain’t nothing but bitches and money.”

  24. 24.

    Svensker

    March 5, 2011 at 11:16 am

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Muy excelento…but wrong book.

  25. 25.

    RSA

    March 5, 2011 at 11:18 am

    From the source interview with the producer:

    And I bought from him a 15 year option. And I thought it was way too much time, that I would probably get the job done in a year and a half, maybe two years. And I went out and tried to raise some capital and create some interest from people that I knew and that 18 months turned out to be 15 years plus.

    I think this is funny–fifteen years, even covering the dot com boom days, to scare up enough interest and money for the movie.

  26. 26.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 5, 2011 at 11:21 am

    @Svensker:

    Yeah, but gosh, this whole thing just SCREAMS for a Matt Groening take on it.

  27. 27.

    Petorado

    March 5, 2011 at 11:21 am

    This is such a brilliant plan. Since a movie about a 90 page speech on the virtues of absolute selfishness will be ingratiating and suck, turn it into a musical! Because nothing says “teh gay” like a musical, and this way they can blame a sucky movie on gay, liberal, Hollywood elites rather than lousy subject matter. The conservatarian culture of victimhood shall live on.

  28. 28.

    fraught

    March 5, 2011 at 11:24 am

    @pablo: Right. Not even part 1 1/2. Oh, and Charlie Sheen is sounding more like John Galt every day. Winning!

  29. 29.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    March 5, 2011 at 11:24 am

    @christian mistermix:

    with the audience leaving the theater like working class italian kids after seeing a rocky movie.

    which gives me an idea.

    a discreet camera and a homeless guy with a cup around the corner from theaters where this movie opens.

  30. 30.

    Commenting at Ballon Juice since 1937

    March 5, 2011 at 11:31 am

    Maybe they can get Ted Nugent to do the sound track. Wingnut welfare needs to expand to other cultural forms besides print and yelling.

  31. 31.

    cleek

    March 5, 2011 at 11:34 am

    i suppose The Beatles’ “I Me Mine” will play on the closing credits.

  32. 32.

    John Cole

    March 5, 2011 at 11:35 am

    Les Miserables or just plain miserable? I won’t watch to find out.

  33. 33.

    Chyron HR

    March 5, 2011 at 11:37 am

    Hey, kids these days love the Rings of Narnia and all that shit. Why doesn’t John Galt give his speech while doing battle with the evil demon prince By-Tor?

  34. 34.

    chopper

    March 5, 2011 at 11:55 am

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    then he sits and starts furiously drawing and sean connery steps out from behind a door and sings “you’re the man now doooooogggggggggg!”

  35. 35.

    K488

    March 5, 2011 at 12:00 pm

    I’m thinking we’re missing something here – a musical on John Galt’s speech begins to suggest… Is the producer by any chance named Max Bialystock? I just fear that if, say, they actually get Charlie Sheen to do this, it might turn out to be popular.

  36. 36.

    cyntax

    March 5, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    @Brian S (formerly Incertus):

    In order to live the Galtian dream of focusing on my self-interest above all else, I hereby promise to pirate the fuck out of that movie, and all its sequels, and to distribute them as far and wide as I can.

    While I applaud your entrepreneurial spirit, I can’t help but wonder if distribution doesn’t imply demand. You could post that thing up on piratebay and what all else, but I’m thinking it’ll just sit there all sad and lonely like.

  37. 37.

    Redshirt

    March 5, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    I just had a chuckle imagining a certain class of teatards avidly picking up the works of Rand and forcing themselves to read therefrom – and despite the ever growing subconscious feeling its all terrible, they push on, convincing themselves they not only like it, but love it.

    A wonderful dynamic.

  38. 38.

    Dennis SGMM

    March 5, 2011 at 12:16 pm

    @K488:

    “Springtime for John Galt and liberteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…..!”

  39. 39.

    Allan

    March 5, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    Galtspell.

  40. 40.

    debit

    March 5, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    @Allan: This is the dawning of the age of the dollar sign.

  41. 41.

    Carol

    March 5, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    Maybe they will turn part two into a musical as well? Or turn it over to Bollywood because it’s cheaper? Bollywood could do both and without those pesky union actors as well who ask for profits and credits (although just about nobody expects the former, and the latter most actors will delete from the resume)

  42. 42.

    Damned at Random

    March 5, 2011 at 1:05 pm

    Please, please let there be roller skating, like that horrible Olivia Newton-John thing from the disco era

  43. 43.

    Redshirt

    March 5, 2011 at 1:10 pm

    @Damned at Random: Or roller derby, with the proles getting righteous elbows of personal responsibility and invisible hands to the face. For FREEDOM!

  44. 44.

    water balloon

    March 5, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    I wonder how much of Rand’s vehement anti-Christian rhetoric will make it into these movies. There’s a lot of it in her books. I also can’t wait until Ragner, the philosopher/pirate (yes really) gives his big speech naming Robin Hood as literature’s greatest monster.

  45. 45.

    Carol

    March 5, 2011 at 1:29 pm

    Galt, the Road Show! Bigger than Cats! Rollerskating, singing, and dance!

  46. 46.

    Carol

    March 5, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    @water balloon: None, probably. Anti-Christian rhetoric would make it impossible to book anywhere but the indies and a few daring multiplexes.

    Think about it. Hollywood passed on it, and even the indies passed on it as well. Even with a presumably captive audience of libertarians, they couldn’t get anyone to greenlight this project besides an exercise equipment maker. Not even wingnut welfare could get enough sponsors to make it a go.

  47. 47.

    Donut

    March 5, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    @Allan: Allan for the win.

  48. 48.

    Redshirt

    March 5, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    @Carol: Or, conversely, it will have a strong pro-Christian element instead, completely inverting the original theme.

    Picking and Choosing, or outright fabricating, is a wingnut specialty.

  49. 49.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    March 5, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    la cage aux fox
    a funny thing happened on the way to the quorum
    how to succeed in business without any taxes.

  50. 50.

    cthulhu

    March 5, 2011 at 2:19 pm

    @RSA: The producer/writer of this impending flop has no other production credits and is moonlighting from his day job as CEO of Cybex, the exercise equipment manufacturer. It does kind of surprise that, for being a well-known (if flawed) work, that they’ve had trouble scaring up sufficient funding. Their shooting budget for part 1 was a paltry $7M or something like that. With this talk of a possible musical, I am now pretty damn sure that they have no idea what they are doing.

  51. 51.

    Ash Can

    March 5, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    part three could be a musical…

    Awesome.

  52. 52.

    RSA

    March 5, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    @cthulhu: Interesting! I’d guess that a making-of movie might be more interesting than the movie itself.

  53. 53.

    JGabriel

    March 5, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    cthulhu:

    The producer/writer of this impending flop has no other production credits and is moonlighting from his day job as CEO of Cybex …

    His co-writer, Brian Patrick O’Toole, apparently writes a column on video games for Fangoria magazine and his favorite film is Dawn of the Dead.

    Which, to be fair, are probably worthwhile traits when adapting Atlas Shrugged.

    .

  54. 54.

    Jay in Oregon

    March 5, 2011 at 3:15 pm

    @Damned at Random:

    Hey, I liked “Xanadu”!

    (DISCLAIMER: When I was 9. I’ve learned that many beloved movies from my childhood do not hold up well. Flash Gordon, The Pirate Movie…)

  55. 55.

    Carol

    March 5, 2011 at 3:39 pm

    @Redshirt: I did some reading, and yes, now that’s she’s no longer around, I bet there will be a massive rewrite at some point just to make a saleable DVD version.

    Hollywood was interested in the past, but she refused because she hated what they did to The Fountainhead, and insisted on creative control, and was working on a script when she died.

    But a movie like this is inherently the same as Battlefield Earth: so heavy on philosophy and speechifying that unless you practically rewrite the stuff, the stuff overwhelms the action. A public reading would probably be better, or a radio reading, but there’s no money in those things anymore, so they aren’t done.

  56. 56.

    Tara the antisocial social worker

    March 5, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    This Is the Song That Never Ends….

  57. 57.

    JGabriel

    March 5, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    Carol:

    Hollywood was interested in the past, but she refused because she hated what they did to The Fountainhead …

    The screenplay of which, it should be noted, Rand herself wrote.

    .

  58. 58.

    Matt

    March 5, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    I can see it now: the musical number starts up, and every prominent libertarian toolbag shows up in drag. Finally, they can all reveal their TRUE selves, and get bare-ass spankings from the corporate overlords they’ve been fawning over for decades!

  59. 59.

    k488

    March 5, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    @Carol:

    Rollerskating! OK, now we’re talking Starlight Express – music as bad as Cats, and Rollerskating… Wait for it… Trains! Rearden Steel! Taggart Transcontinental! I think they’ve got the best thing going since the musical Carrie, or perhaps The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall. Stand aside, Spiderman; ASIII is going to set new records!

  60. 60.

    Svensker

    March 5, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    @K488:

    Is the producer by any chance named Max Bialystock?

    und Blum!

  61. 61.

    Svensker

    March 5, 2011 at 5:20 pm

    @Carol:

    Maybe they will turn part two into a musical as well? Or turn it over to Bollywood because it’s cheaper? Bollywood could do both and without those pesky union actors

    Benny Lava = John Galt!

  62. 62.

    jayjaybear

    March 5, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    a concentrate of entertaining words with a total, philosophic

    Given the words he’s talking about, this is a physical impossibility.

  63. 63.

    Sko Hayes

    March 5, 2011 at 6:26 pm

    @RSA: You know that a movie project is in trouble when it takes 15 years to raise the money.

    This is going to make Starship Troopers look like Citizen Kane.

  64. 64.

    jayjaybear

    March 5, 2011 at 6:34 pm

    Actually, considering the situational similarities, it’s going to make “Battlefield Earth” look like “Citizen Kane”.

  65. 65.

    John Alfred Taylor

    March 5, 2011 at 9:58 pm

    I know how to tackle Galt’s epic speech–with a flensing knife.

  66. 66.

    SRW1

    March 6, 2011 at 1:22 am

    @christian mistermix:

    This is shaping up to be the next Rocky Horror Picture Show.

    “Your mission is a failure! Your lifestyle too extreme!”?

  67. 67.

    Nicole

    March 6, 2011 at 6:54 am

    So sorry I missed this thread yesterday…

    But, you know, part three could be a musical…like a Les Miserables kind of a musical.

    Yeah, here’s the thing, Mr. Writer-Producer Guy; yes, Les Misérables is a very successful musical adaptation of Les Misérables the novel. And like Atlas Shrugged, Les Misérables the novel is full of endlessly long passages where the author gives you his opinion on stuff, in Hugo’s case, things like slang and the sewers of Paris. And not one of those interminable pontifications made it into the musical. There’s a reason for that. I’ll give you a hint; it rhymes with “Fair Lucking Whoring.”

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