Every single Who Is John Galt line delivery was cringeworthy....
The first one, though flawed, was so much better....and the actors were 100 times better
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I'm going to have to agree with Rhino, when she said it to herself I laughed it was that bad. I would rather her have said "Well *beep* At least that's believable in a situation like that. I don't want my last words to be "Who Is John Galt?"
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I wonder....
In modern times shouldn't it be text-shortened to "WJG" kind of like we, in the real world, say WTF?
Honestly, it's a really clumsy line anyway and its inception is pretty hard for me to fathom with regards to it gaining any kind of popularity. Try it with "What's eating Gilbert Grape" and see how far that phrase goes in 20 years. "Who is John Galt" becoming a part of pop culture makes no sense.
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Couldn't agree more with your statement.
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People seemed to use the phrase in the clumsiest of circumstances, like it had replaced the f-word in versatility and ubiquety. They used it to express anger, frustration, hopelessness, as an expletive, as a witty retort (like it was the new "that's what she said"), but mostly it was supposed to express the ultimate unanswerable question (like a replacement for "why are we here?"), usually in response to other unanswerable questions. If a character didn't know something, they'd blurt out "Who is John Galt?" in recognition of the futility of finding the answer. Even for mundane tasks -- "Where are my socks? Oh, who is John Galt?"
It was supposed to mark the point at which characters have given up finding solutions to why things are no longer working. But it was so canned and so forced that it just came out corny and lame. Like someone trying to make a catchphrase happen but it never will. Only all of society doing it.
It came off just as clumsy in the novel.
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Wow. You did an AMAZING job summing that up! Amazing!
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