Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged hopes to become the Rocky Horror of the Tea Party?

[NightWatcher]

It's getting horrible reviews and now the producers are turning to the Tea Party zombies, er I mean faithful, for support.

So if Atlas Shrugged turns into a cult classic for the Tea Baggers.....how would their audience participate at the midnight (or 4PM) showings?

Having never read the book, I dont know what characters or actions might suggest participation cues for the audience, but allow me to take a crack at it.


When John Galt appears they could yell "who's that asshole?"
When a Socialist tramples on the freedoms of an individual, they could all wave their BMW key chains in the air and chant "Boo Obama"
When a man pulls himself up by his own bootstraps, they extend their right hand into the sky and chant "Reagan, Reagan"
When the movie's over they'll all race to masturbate before the end credits finish, cry, and drive back to their apartment in their 1986 Chrysler minivan (adorned with Ron Paul, Support the Troops, and Jesus Fish bumper stickers), where they'll eat a cold can Spaghetti O's before going to bed early for work at the Circle K near the closed auto plant.

What else ya got

[KamaAina]

1. The word "Rocky" in the thread title is superfluous

:P

and besides, it doesn't have Susan Sarandon.

[sfwriter]

2. See Randroids fighting! EOM

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. Is there going to be dances associated with this Atlas Shrugged?

Do they get to wear costumes to the showings? It takes more than just getting the audience members who sit on their butts in their seats involved. You need theater and showmanship to draw a crowd back. :)


BTW, you made me laugh! :thumbsup:

[gratuitous]

4. I suspect trains will be involved somehow

But better minds than mine will have to come up with a suitable application.

[virgogal]

5. Slightly off topic but I remember my 17 year old son going into

Boston for one of those midnight showings of RHPS. I thought he was nuts (typical parent).

They loved it and went several times.

[Matariki]

6. All you need to know about Atlas Shrugged, from Roger Ebert...

"I’m on board; pull up the lifeline."

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110414/REVIEWS/110419990
< excerpt >
I feel like my arm is all warmed up and I don’t have a game to pitch. I was primed to review "Atlas Shrugged." I figured it might provide a parable of Ayn Rand’s philosophy that I could discuss. For me, that philosophy reduces itself to: "I’m on board; pull up the lifeline." There are however people who take Ayn Rand even more seriously than comic-book fans take "Watchmen." I expect to receive learned and sarcastic lectures on the pathetic failings of my review.

[Kurovski]

7. K&R. (nt)

[Kingofalldems]

8. She was on Medicare and Social Security I'm told

How will those idiots explain that?

[NightWatcher]

9. Ayn Rand: Welfare Queen

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-ford/ayn-rand-and-the-vip-dipe_b_792184.html


A heavy smoker who refused to believe that smoking causes cancer brings to mind those today who are equally certain there is no such thing as global warming. Unfortunately, Miss Rand was a fatal victim of lung cancer.

However, it was revealed in the recent "Oral History of Ayn Rand" by Scott McConnell (founder of the media department at the Ayn Rand Institute) that in the end Ayn was a vip-dipper as well. An interview with Evva Pryror, a social worker and consultant to Miss Rand's law firm of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin and Winick verified that on Miss Rand's behalf she secured Rand's Social Security and Medicare payments which Ayn received under the name of Ann O'Connor (husband Frank O'Connor).

As Pryor said, "Doctors cost a lot more money than books earn and she could be totally wiped out" without the aid of these two government programs. Ayn took the bail out even though Ayn "despised government interference and felt that people should and could live independently... She didn't feel that an individual should take help."

But alas she did and said it was wrong for everyone else to do so. Apart from the strong implication that those who take the help are morally weak, it is also a philosophic point that such help dulls the will to work, to save and government assistance is said to dull the entrepreneurial spirit.

In the end, Miss Rand was a hypocrite but she could never be faulted for failing to act in her own self-interest.

[TNLib]

10. Wow she sounds like a true teabagger!!

A hypocrite till the end.

[Prof Lester]

11. Most will wait for the comic book

And the tie-ins with fastfood joints.. Can't wait for the Ayn Rant Sippycup! (With built-in ashtray!)