A four-year-old girl – the indomitable Lindalee – explains the plot of “Asylum of the Daleks” (so, serious SPOILER ALERT):
Maybe all the viewers who complain that Steven Moffat’s scripts are too complicated should contact this kid and ask her to explain it to them.
Behold, a teaser and a trailer for Atlas Shrugged, Part II. (The teaser is described as a preview of the trailer, but it has different scenes.)
As with Part I, I wish I could find this more intriguing. Adama’s dad looks like an improvement as Francisco, but otherwise it seems just as lackluster as its predecessor – just as much a failure to capture the stylised feel of Rand’s fictional universe. Also, I found the introduction of the term “capitalism” jarring; to my recollection it never appears in the novel.
I love how they call this a defeat for piracy, rather than a victory.
What’s next? Bring the fight to the illegal immigrants by opening the borders – that’ll show ’em!
What do Batman and Francisco d’Anconia have in common?
They’re both inspired by Zorro – a daring crusader for justice who disguises himself as a rich, idle playboy. Plus Batman and Zorro both wear capes, while Rand describes d’Anconia as looking “as if he had a cape waving behind him in the wind.”
So why are ads for the new Atlas Shrugged movie picking a fight with capes generally and Batman specifically?
(I’m assuming it’s mainly Batman that they have in mind, since The Dark Knight Rises is the most recent movie to feature a caped hero; and most of the Avengers don’t wear capes.)
Plus – do they know that the characters in Atlas Shrugged are also not real?
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