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Movies with an Objectivist Theme

Posted by Itheliving 9 years, 11 months ago to Movies
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Name as many as you can that I have missed. Not counting Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead OK here is one just now available on BluRay

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  • Posted by WilliamCharlesCross 9 years, 11 months ago
    This one may surprise you--"Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead." Not exactly an Objectivist theme to it, but it is the only movie I've seen (prior to Atlas) with a woman named Dagny as the female lead--or in any role--who at one point tells her lover: "I thought we were making an exception..."

    It is an imaginative movie, complete with it's own made up catch phrases and a lot of really interesting scenes.
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  • Posted by salta 9 years, 11 months ago
    The novelist/screenwriter James Clavell was an advocate for capitalism and free markets, which comes across in all of his work.
    Try the movie "King Rat" (1965 B&W) about a free market operating in a prison camp, and the epic Shogun (TV mini series) about an Englishman surviving in a strange land using only his wits and intelligence. Both novels are excellent.
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  • Posted by coaldigger 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I watched this movie first on a "pirate" streaming service then again on Amazon. I am amazed that this movie was ignored by the public, well done and terrific story.
    Don't want to sound like a broken record but I repeat my candidate for an objectivist themed movie "A Most Violent Year" because it depicts a man of principles, no matter the consequences.
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  • Posted by Itheliving 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It is available on BluRay, DVD and instant view on Amazon. Will check it out. Link for others below.
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  • Posted by Vinay 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oops, I thought that was Kaila's comment. Forget the June giving a copy to Dale (unless Kails can't get it).
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  • Posted by Vinay 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, there is a DVD. If yo don't get it in the US, I will buy one for you and give it to Dale in June. It did well in Spain. Christian groups opposed it in the U.S., and it had a very limited theatrical release.
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  • Posted by Vinay 9 years, 11 months ago
    Belle (2014), On the Waterfront, Dallas Buyers Club, The Counterfeiters,The Imitation Game.
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  • Posted by Vinay 9 years, 11 months ago
    Agora is the quintessential Objectivist movie, its theme is Faith versus Reason., its protagonist a female philosopher-astronomer.
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  • Posted by Itheliving 9 years, 11 months ago
    Come on movie lovers. Where are you. How about Our Man Flint?
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