Kind of a "slow hunch" I've had lately.

Regarding the Atlas Shrugged movie (part 1 so far), something about that has bothered me, and I've only recently figured out what.

One, Objectivists might come to regret exposing their foundation myth to an audience not already indoctrinated to interpret the story in the way they want. People could very well pick up on the story's absurd or unintentionally funny aspects, especially if the film interests them in reading Rand's novel. For example, I don't think Rand anticipated changes in American culture so that John Galt's adult virginity, love-obsessional stalking and underemployment despite his college education would work against him now as a "heroic" figure; he resembles the sort of character who gets profiled as an unsub threatening hapless women in Criminal Minds and similar police procedurals.

And two, if this film and its still unproduced parts 2 and 3 accurately portray Rand's message, would film audiences drawn from demographic reality embrace a movie which says, in effect, that they deserve to die because they don't meet Rand's fantasy standards for proper human existence?

In other words, if the film manages to inspire the right combination of derision and repulsion in the American people, we might finally see the Ayn Rand puffery put to rest.