Architecture Film, The Fountainhead
October 15, 2008 by RenaltiSite
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King Vidor’s film adaption of the book The Fountainhead (by Ayn Rand, 1943) celebrates the achievements of the individual. Architect Howard Roark, the protagonist of the movie, is the (male) genius who strive towards self-fulfillment: he is more willing to destroy his creations rather than to subordinate – the individual struggling against forces of mediocrity. “It is an ancient conflict”, Howard Roark declaims on trial, “It has another name: ‘The individual against the collective.’”.
