# Angelina Jolie as Dagny Taggert
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**Created:** [December 23, 2008, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/angelina-jolie-as-dagny-taggert/60185 "2008-12-23T10:00:13Z")
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2008, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/angelina-jolie-as-dagny-taggert/60185/1 "2008-12-23T10:00:13Z")
> **[Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/)**
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> Directed by Paul Johansson. With Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Matthew Marsden, Edi Gathegi. Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden form an alliance to fight the increasingly authoritarian government of the United States.
Atlas Shrugged as a movie. I’m excited and pre-disappointed. Not a snowballs chance in hell that a movie could do that novel justice, but I’m still looking forward to the movie.
Make your predictions:
Francisco D’Anconia: ??? Clive Owen?
Henry Reardon: ???
John Galt: Brad Pitt
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### Author:  [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2008, 10:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/angelina-jolie-as-dagny-taggert/60185/2 "2008-12-23T10:18:07Z")
Francisco: Benjamin Bratt?
Hank: Daniel Day Lewis?
Who is John Galt?
2hrs cannot possibly portray a fraction of the essence of this novel :lol:
> [@fry](#):
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> Atlas Shrugged as a movie. I’m excited and pre-disappointed. Not a snowballs chance in hell that a movie could do that novel justice, but I’m still looking forward to the movie.
:word:
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2008, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/angelina-jolie-as-dagny-taggert/60185/3 "2008-12-23T10:19:05Z")
This forum requires cliffs for any posts over 3 sentences. You really think you’re going to get a good discussion about Atlas Shrugged? I’m struggling to get through that beast.
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### Author:  [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/angelina-jolie-as-dagny-taggert/60185/4 "2008-12-23T10:21:17Z")
I hope the movie isn’t as terrible as we expect…but I can’t imagine it being good enough to do the book justice…
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/angelina-jolie-as-dagny-taggert/60185/5 "2008-12-23T10:21:46Z")
Intellectual Darwinism. :tup:
:lol: Jay I’m honestly afraid of you reading Atlas Shrugged. It may push you off the conservative deep end. LOL hang in there though. The first 1/4 of the book is slow, but once the plot starts to form you can’t put it down.
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### Author:  [@fiend540](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fiend540)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2008, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/angelina-jolie-as-dagny-taggert/60185/6 "2008-12-23T10:36:15Z")
I can’t think of any book based movie that was better than the book itself.
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### Author:  [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2008, 10:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/angelina-jolie-as-dagny-taggert/60185/7 "2008-12-23T10:37:25Z")
Maybe the Godfather series? I haven’t read the books yet though…
There are at least movies that do the books justice. Godfather, Lord of the Rings…
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2008, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/angelina-jolie-as-dagny-taggert/60185/8 "2008-12-23T10:39:21Z")
> [@Fry](#):
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> Intellectual Darwinism. :tup:
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> :lol: Jay I’m honestly afraid of you reading Atlas Shrugged. It may push you off the conservative deep end. LOL hang in there though. The first 1/4 of the book is slow, but once the plot starts to form you can’t put it down.
Maybe by the end of the book I’ll go halves on a bunker with Blue Eyes and start working on my manifesto.
Manifesto… such a cool word. Who wouldn’t want to write one?
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2008, 10:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/angelina-jolie-as-dagny-taggert/60185/9 "2008-12-23T10:40:24Z")
:lol: I never thought of that, but you’re right.
Can I rent a room in your bunker?
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### Author:  [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2008, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/angelina-jolie-as-dagny-taggert/60185/10 "2008-12-23T10:59:08Z")
> [@brent\_strong](#):
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> Maybe the Godfather series? I haven’t read the books yet though…
Nope. (PS: Pick up Puzo’s _Last Don_ when you’re done).
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### Author:  [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/angelina-jolie-as-dagny-taggert/60185/11 "2008-12-23T11:04:24Z")
I’ve got the books on my Kindle, just finishing the Foundation series first. While we’re at it though, what order do the Puzo books go in?