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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 XenokRoy 9 years, 11 months ago
    I watch some movies but about all I am thinking of is the earlier Pixar movies for main stream movies.

    Most today have far more socialism or some other form of collectivism in the forms of rewards and work rather than individualism and the power of the mind.

    I was fan of comic books until my late twenties and then stopped buying them, but rather like the superhero moves. They often have a mix of objectivism and some form of collectivism in them.

    The first Ironman was more objectivism oriented where the other two much less so. It still had the altruistic aspect of weapons manufacturing bad, giving away free power to the masses good, which shoots it down.

    Can anyone think of a superhero movie that is objective at its heart?
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  • Posted by woodlema 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You bet....Does it include all the trimmings, like the Egyptian Sarcophagus's, the gold inliad tiles around the swimming pool, the 17 century ceilings...?
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  • Posted by TheBestWithinUs 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think you mean "Citizen Kane" by Orson Welles, not H. G. Wells. I don't know where the Hurst Castle is but the Hearst Castle is located on the left coast between 'Frisco and LA.

    I dont buy this as an Objectivist movie. Charles Foster Kane got his money through pure accident, which is not true of Hearst.
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  • Posted by woodlema 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    H.G Wells, Citizen Cain...


    R O S E B U D...

    I have been to the Hurst Castle, and have never seen so much priceless wealth on display in every square inch of every room, and only about 20% is ever in the house at any given time...
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  • Posted by ohiocrossroads 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yep, I was going to put up The Incredibles. Strangely enough, I think the character Edna was modeled from Ayn Rand. Maybe it's the haircut and her aggressive way of getting her point across.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 11 months ago
    Hello Itheliving,
    I saw one the other night that had some 'objectivistish" aspects. Magic in the Moonlight, with Emma Stone, Colin Firth... It was about a magician that only believed in empirical evidence and went about exposing fraud of psychics and their mysticism. It was a romantic comedy and the magician was almost taken in by one particular psychic. I don't want to give away too much. :)
    http://www.fandango.com/magicinthemoonli...

    One more: Executive Suite, William Holden...
    The climactic scene.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcEOsGvT...

    Respectfully,
    O.A.
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  • Posted by coaldigger 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, maybe that is not the right term but off the coast of the UK there are radio stations that play music and do not pay royalties that are referred to as "pirate radio". For awhile there were websites that illegally streamed movies until they were shut down by the FBI and I think the FCC. I called them pirate streamers. Some were so outrageous that they would sneak a camera into a theater and record and stream first run movies the day that they opened.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks for the link. I have the book already, but what they call the "movie edition" is still a book, not a dvd. Too bad, its probably a good movie
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  • Posted by 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You can buy them from vendors outside the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at DisneyWorld in Orlando.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 11 months ago
    THX-1138. Close. We might actually be at that point today.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    After checking out the preview in your link, I went to Netflix, read some posted reviews, made sure there are English subtitles (I have tinnitus) and rented Agora.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 11 months ago
    The book ALONGSIDE NIGHT has been made into a movie, but its hard to find. No DVD, and it isnt in theaters a lot. But its a great story.
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