“never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine”
Yet ask a buncha guys to fork out six figures for their movie. :P
I also appreciate this quote:
"despite the free market repeatedly determining it would rather not have any Atlas Shrugged movies, producers Harmon Kaslow and John Aglialoro boldly refused to relinquish their rational self-interests to a world that would dare take their ideas from them"
oh, almost certainly. Even with their kickstarter they're putting an order of magnitude less money into vol. 3 than into vol. 2. They can't possibly pay for another round with the same people. Unless they want to revert to cast v. 1.0.
Well, it's $5,000 to be an extra, so I guess it would be something like $15,000 for a chance to audition, and what up and coming objectivist starlet wouldn't make an investment like that.
I like how they try to fig-leaf by claiming that their begging for cash is all just a publicity stunt. First, suuuuure it is. Second, yes, dudes, the problem with your first two movies was definitely lack of publicity.
from comments: I liked "Shruggers gonna mooch".
“The Atlas Shrugged Kickstarter campaign is of course a voluntary value-for-value exchange. You are not obligated to contribute,”
EXACTLY. What is the difference, pray, between feeling "morally obligated" to give to poor people and feeling "morally obligated" to give to rich people?
I feel kind of bad for them, like when you see someone making an ass of themselves and want to crawl under your chair in vicarious embarrassment. At the same time, I sort of admire their brazenness. They must know everyone who hears about this is laughing at them, but on they go with their terrible movie. If they had any shame, they would have stopped after the first one flopped.
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Date: 2013-09-25 12:36 am (UTC)Yet ask a buncha guys to fork out six figures for their movie. :P
I also appreciate this quote:
"despite the free market repeatedly determining it would rather not have any Atlas Shrugged movies, producers Harmon Kaslow and John Aglialoro boldly refused to relinquish their rational self-interests to a world that would dare take their ideas from them"
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Date: 2013-09-25 01:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-25 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-25 10:37 am (UTC)But I won't, because I don't give money to moochers.
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Date: 2013-09-25 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-25 10:21 pm (UTC)I mean, I won't, because I'm too busy, but it would be funny as hell.
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Date: 2013-09-26 01:24 am (UTC)If only.
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Date: 2013-09-26 01:35 am (UTC)It would just be me, staring dead-eyed at the camera, for half an hour. Wearing an ugly necklace.
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Date: 2013-09-26 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-25 01:57 am (UTC)from comments: I liked "Shruggers gonna mooch".
“The Atlas Shrugged Kickstarter campaign is of course a voluntary value-for-value exchange. You are not obligated to contribute,”
well THAT'S a relief.
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Date: 2013-09-25 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-25 10:38 am (UTC)I need to know.
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Date: 2013-09-25 12:43 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-09-25 10:40 am (UTC)There won't be a premiere here.
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Date: 2013-09-25 10:06 pm (UTC)Because I will do anything to get a good blog post. Anything.
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Date: 2013-09-25 02:26 am (UTC)On the other hand I hope everyone involved dies in a fire.
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Date: 2013-09-25 10:36 am (UTC)Irony!
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