"Based on Ayn Rand’s objectivist classic, The Fountainhead. This 1949 film is, to date, the only film adaptation of the novel. Chronicling the exploits of Howard Roark, an individualist young modernist architect, who chooses a life of obscurity over compromising his principles, all the while fighting against the tyrannical collectivist forces dominating his world."
Leading on from the Death Of Particial Neal last night, a shot from my favourite Neal Film - in this scene, star architect Gary Cooper ( Howard Roak) is stripping the decorative features from a model of one of his skyscrapers - a purist - he is continually bullied by lesser architects who want to muscle in on his comissions by provoiding contemporary details, decoration and diluteing / polluting his vision with their own. I've never really thought the politics of this one work the way the author wanted - but it's still a great film - and when I saw it first time aged about 13 I kinda knew it was prophetic for me - lifetime of obscurity due to my complete pathological inability to compromise about anything. Mind you - I never got to rape Patricial Neal, as Gary Cooper does - they would have to remove that from any contemporaty version - she kinda likes it.
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