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  1. A movie "based on" Ayn Rand's play was made in 1941. You can find a review of it on David Hayes website, Movies of Interest to Objectivists. He quotes Ayn Rand commenting on it: "I had nothing to do with its screen adaptation. There is nothing of mine in that movie, except the names of some of the characters . . . The cheap, trashy vulgarity of that movie is such that no lengthier discussion is possible to me." I bring this up to show what Hollywood can do to a movie, when the author has no control over the script. Considering who is involved with the Atlas Shrugged movie, disaster could easily be the result. Suppose they portray John Galt as a tolerationist? Given their predilections, that is a definite possiblity.
  2. What you are describing is more time travel than alternate history. I'd recommend Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
  3. That's the first time I've heard Prinzivalle referred to as a Platonist. I've not really seen much discussion of Monna Vanna online, though. But I agree, just because he's read Plato doesn't make him a Platonist----otherwise I'd be a Platonist, too.
  4. I really need to reread the play, it's been quite a while. Prinzivalle and Monna Vanna were both admirable characters. The father of Guido was also important. But having also read Joyzelle, I definitely like Maeterlinck's ability to dramatize value conflicts. In that way, he is similar to Victor Hugo. I'd recommend Hugo's plays, as well, not just his novels. He wrote 13 plays that I know of. What an era of playwriting, from Hugo to Rostand to Maeterlinck. Ibsen falls in there somewhere as well, but I actually haven't read any of his plays yet.
  5. When Leo found out that Kira had been Andrei Taganov's lover, he felt betrayed and gave up on his life and values completely. Kira never did explain to him that she had only done it for his sake (although she did love Andrei, too). I'm not sure why, perhaps because she did not think Leo would believe her. This is not exactly the same situation as Guido-Vanna-Prinzivalle, of course, but there are certainly points of similarity. I agree on both points. I haven't read Blue Bird, but I'm pretty sure that one is meant mostly for children, at least the movie was.
  6. I'm not sure if you meant Prinzivalle was actually a native Florentine, or just sent by Florence. He is in fact a condottiere, a professional military officer who leads a force of mercenaries, in this case hired out to the Florentines. Prinzivalle met Vanna in Venice as a child, where his father was a goldsmith, so presumably he was a Venetian.
  7. I've read it a couple of times, also. You have to sympathize with Guido's dilemma, which is horrible. It is reminiscent of the situation between Kira, Leo, and Andrei Taganov in We the Living. Leo didn't take that very well, either. I believe Red Pawn also had a similar conflict. Maurice Maeterlinck, the author, wrote quite a few plays. I have 18 of them, I'm not sure if that is all he wrote or not. The only other one I've read so far is called Joyzelle, which is also an excellent drama. Another one is called The Blue Bird, which was made into a movie.
  8. Dating myself, but this woman was my ideal of feminine beauty when I was growing up. The loveliest of Charlie's angels--- Jaclyn Smith
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