Tomorrowland : So basically this is Disney's version of Atlas Shrugged…

So basically this is Disney's version of Atlas Shrugged…

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Discuss, people!

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Outstanding. Now all we need is a deck of cards.

Re: So basically this is Disney's version of Atlas Shrugged…

Nope. It may seem so at first, but the ideia behind Tomorrowland and the film is exactly the opposite. If anything it's a heavy criticism towards Ayn Rand.

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That's what I THOUGHT and HOPED it would be; a story about the difference an individual mind can make and everything great about that story...but it just became weak sci fi with a bizarely scattered plot that was just incoherent and weird

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Watching the film today again, it seemed to me it was praising socialism. There was a clear "Rand" character and he was the villain played by Hugh Laurie. He was the one who destroyed Tomorrowland with his philosophy. Tomorrowland was not place where artist and scientist isolated themselves from society, but where people worked towards the common goal that was to make Earth a better place and improve the life of humanity. The governor of Tomorrowland destroyed the place isolating the place and adopting a more selfish philosophy.


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Objectivists can't claim that they invented the concept of rewarding smart people for their efforts any more than Christians can claim they invented the concept of 'murder is bad'.

The difference here is that in Atlas Shrugged, it's implied that the captains of industry are inherent geniuses and they aren't getting their asses sufficiently kissed and run away to hide from society to congratulate themselves in private and take their toys with them. In Tomorrowland the idea is that 'what if there's a place where smart people could brainstorm unmolested and design concepts to better the world'.

See the difference? Rand was saying that we, the 'masses', don't deserve the rich. This film is saying that the world most absolutely deserves to benefit from human creativity and Tomorrowland is where the great minds can build off of each other.

Basically the villain of this film IS the John Galt character that wants to seal an undeserving world away from its potential.
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