Comparing me to Ben Bernanke is otherwise so bizarre that I don’t really know how to even respond.

Btw, Mann wrote a few things other than short stories. You might want to look into that, so you don’t come off looking so silly.

Given the limited resources, I think it’s good that the director focuses on the relationships and choices made in the story.

However, there is the most important thing to keep in mind here. Ayn Rand was every bit about good and evil. It was more a conviction with her than a belief. It was the heart of her passion, her very being and her life’s work. After all, “Atlas Shrugged” is essentially about the shrugging of an old moral code, self-sacrifice, for a new moral code, rational self-interest and man’s striving for objective standards in the way he deals with his life and his world.

Here is a quote from Ayn Rand as featured on the set of an NBC interview:

“Today the conflict has reached it’s ultimate climax, the choice is clear-cut. Either, a new morality of rational self-interest with it’s consequences of freedom, justice, progress and man’s happiness on earth — or the primordial morality of altruism, with it’s consequences of slavery, brute force, stagnant terror and sacrificial furnaces.”

She meant every word of it. It’s not “beside the point”. It is the point. It’s not easy to understand a profound and revolutionary thinker. Just be honest and do your best. So many of us out here are excited about the prospects of a film. Best wishes.

If that’s the depth of this movie, it will make viewers think Ayn Rand’s work was nothing special and they will dismiss it without the deeper investigation it deserves. I’m happy to see the director’s passion, but his lack of understanding of the philosophy has the power to do more harm than good.

Please, she discuss meta-physic’s from Thales through to Kant.

Then Mr. Johansson”s poorly informed comment regarding laissez-fair capitalism.

The point is not that all people will be industrial heroes like those portrayed in the novel, the point is simply that justice will prevail under such a political system.

Hopefully his omissions in understanding Objectivism will not appear in the movie.

And finally, the sacrificial attitude he takes towards this work. He sounds like a Kamikaze pilot.

Well, my grievances stated. I will definitely watch the movie, and hope that Ayn Rands powerful idea’s are strong enough to shine through Mr. Johanssons efforts.