Atlas Shrugged (film series)
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"It's called Atlas Shrugged, and judging by the box office figures, so did the audience." —Mr. Mendo's Hack Attack
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A three-part adaptation of the book of the same name by Ayn Rand. The films in the series are:
- Atlas Shrugged: Part I. It was released on April 15, 2011. The film was panned critically and was a flop financially, earning only about $5 million against a reported $20 million budget.
- Atlas Shrugged: Part II, released October 12, 2012. It, too, was critically panned, and it failed to make back more than a third of its $10 million budget.
- Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt? (sometimes called just Atlas Shrugged: Part III) released on September 12, 2014. Like its predecessors, it was savaged by critics and audiences alike, making less than half a million dollars, against its $5 million budget.
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The following tropes are common to many or all entries in the Atlas Shrugged (film series) franchise.
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For tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages.
Note: Any tropes specific to a single film should be moved to the work page for that film once it is made.
- Alternate Timeline: In order to make their world seem enough like the book's original 1930s setting that large parts of the plot still make sense, the films postulate an improbably radical (and fast) cascade of changes to technology, society and economics in the wake of the 2009 financial crisis -- changes that by the release of the first film were already ludicrous and unbelievable.
- Big No: Dagny, after seeing Wyatt's oil fields in flame beyond a sign reading, "I am leaving it as I found it. Take over. It's yours."
- Casting Gag: Possible: One of Dagny's enemies is played by Armin Shimerman -- the actor who was both Quark, an alien whose "Hat" is greed and business prowess, and Andrew Ryan, a parody of Ayn Rand.
- Coincidental Broadcast: Subverted. Eddie calls Dagny and tells her to turn on the TV for a report on a train wreck, but the first channel she turns to is just giving the stock report.
- California Doubling: One of the great things about this movie's depiction of Wisconsin is how it looks nothing at all like Southern California.
- The Other Darrin: The entire cast was replaced for the second film. The entire cast was replaced again for the third.
- Schizo-Tech: Set in 2016, trains reign supreme due to Galt's plan exacerbating the 2011 economic troubles, resulting in oil shortages.
- Sequel Hook: Invoked, as it's supposed to be a trilogy of films.
- Who Are You?: Midas Mulligan's last words before he vanishes.