they should re-make it with actors who remain true to characters within the book.. i felt only peter keating looked as the way potrayed in the book... and the director who can do it wud be i feel, francis ford coppola..
I don't think I'll be able to sit through the movie if it's this unnatural and Hollywood throughout. After having read the book, this trailer is almost painful to watch. In particular, Roark, Toohey, and Dominique are just.. wrong.
Peter Keating "selfish"(?!) wow, if your going to make a movie based on a novel you might want to grasp the Novels themes. Keating was the image of a self-less man
I feel as if they should remake this film and modify it so it looks more how readers picture it. I definitely did NOT see Howard Roark as some elder man... He was in his twenties in the beginning of the damn book, for god's sake! Why would you depict him as such an aged man? He also had bright "orange" hair... None of the characters seemed right.
@cashmeresox You are right about the connection between the book & script. I saw the movie, first, then started but couldn't finish the book because of disappointment. Rand did approve the casting for her book. In real life, Cooper & Neal were romanically involved, and, for some reason, Cooper didn't want her cast in Dominique's role. Their chemistry was great, and they weren't acting.......K
Just read the book today and wow.....that wasn't how I picture it LOL but I feel like it'll be impossible to make a movie just like the book. It's too..powerful
I remember ''The Matrix'' being such a intelligent movie it was surprising it got made. Same with ''The Fountainhead'' much to intelligent of a movie but what great dialogue, unreal.
Ah, the golden age when architecture critics ruled the world! What an absurd pile of shit this is... I'd love to see somebody attempt a movie with a building-destroying terrorist is a hero today!
**The highest tribute to Ayn Rand, is that her critics must distort everything that she stood for in order to attack her. She advocated reason, not force; the individual's rights to freedom of action, speech, and association; self-responsibility not self-indulgence, and a live-and-let-live society in which each individual is treated as an END, not the MEANS of others' ends. How many critics would dare to honestly state these ideas, & say "..and that's what I reject?"
@PickPocketChaz I disagree. Norton has been able to act a diverse set of characters, all who have been intelligent (Death to Smoochy is an exception). I never pictured Howard Roark as purely innocent, but as solemn, strong, reflective, and uncompromising. Maybe it's because I don't completely agree with Ayn Rand's philosophy, but I never thought Roark was the face of pure good/innocence.
@lilliesNbees idk, I've never seen him act in a way that I would like to see Roark portrayed. Not anywhere close. He's been solemn, strong, reflective, and uncompromising but that doesn't mean he displays those values from the same perspective.
(and by innocent I mean he has the strength of value and apathy towards others' opinions that he views the world with a childlike innocence- it's in his relating everything to himself instead of himself to everything)
@MIndMattersMost -Peter Keating was incredibly selfish.*****SPOILERS ***** He killed, blackmailed, Stole, and lied all so that he could be a famous architect. This trailer got it right.
The highest tribute to Ayn Rand, abundantly in evidence here, is that her critics must distort everything she stood for in order to attack her. She advocated reason, not force; the individual's rights to freedom of action, speech, and association; self-responsibility, NOT self-indulgence; and a live-and-let-live society in which each individual is treated as an END, not the MEANS of others' ends. How many critics would dare honestly state these ideas and say, " . . .and that's what I reject"?
So this is totally not how the novel's going. Well, the FEEL I'm getting from the novel. It seems like the novel's mass it too big for just a movie; it should probably be a TV mini series. I feel as if I would miss out if I would watch the movie (knowing the story.)
Ayn Rand demanded that Roark's speech be unchanged from her original plan. The director then condensed the speech because he thought it was too long for a motion picture. It's funny because the situation is parallel to what the court case was actually about: Roark's design for Cortlandt being changed unnecessarily.
Ayn Rand demanded that Roark's speech be unchanged from her original plan. The director then condensed the speech because he thought it was too long for a motion picture. It's funny because the situation is parallel to what the court case was actually about: Roark's design for Cortlandt being changed unnecessarily.
Why the hate? I just finished reading the book and I agree it was great but film is a different medium produced under different circumstances - expecting the exact same experience is pretty silly on reflection.
However, as an adaptation of ideals, I think BioShock might be a better reading of Ayn Rand. But again, different mediums, different requirements.
@bawkbawkluce Yes, I agree this movie should be remade, but not as a movie, as a TV series with about 6 parts, that should be enough to properly build up the story, characters and emotions of all involved. It is a LONG book and making it a two hour movie still wouldn't do it justice.
@SculptedThoughts Probably "selfish" as in wanting to mooch off others for his own gain which is not the same as the person who seeks his own happiness based on his own efforts. The former kind of "selfish", mooching off others for gain, is bad, the latter kind, seeking one's happiness through one's own efforts, is good.
@leizl107 yeah I agree with you I thought they were more younger because the book state that both of them were in their 20s and the characters of the movie seems more in their 30s on the way to 40s. and the book version is way better
The movie was nothing at all like the book. Cooper is a wonderful actor but was certainly not meant to play the role of the young, stoic, inspiring Roark.
Smith was a good Keating, however, Dominique could have been played by some other as well.
All in all, the book is by far better.
Now, if they made a NEWER version of this movie... that I might see. :)
@shrutiable If in 100 yrs we are not all living in caves, Ayn Rand may be considered the genius of the 20th century. The great lesson of Atlas Shrugged is that we may trade in money or blood. There are no other choices regardless of what the limp politicos tell us.
what i really detest about this trailer is they make it out to be a love story which it's not. It's philisophical experience not a romance but i am a sucker for a love plot...but that's not what the fountainhead is all about this trailer gave 2% of what it is really about how howard would not compromise his ideas for any man as said in the beginning (i know it's much more than that but that's all i got from the trailer...)
I remember in the film 'Dirty Dancing' they threw in some kind of a sly dig at some aspect of Rand's philosophy when the rich asshole kid held up a copy of The Fountainhead to justify his behavior. I've been intending to eventually read The Fountainhead to see if I could figure out the point they were trying to make. Poor reason to read a book I guess..lol But a book so influential would be well worth reading.
@PerennialLucidity I am...but I wanna be an angsty objectivist intellectual just like you. So I'm chain smoking and reading Nietchzsche and Anthem at the University Starbucks. Who was John Galt again? I forget.
I wish they would remake this movie. It would surely be one of the greatest one. But I doubt that it is possible. The novel is too great to be transformed into a movie. Howark Roark the greatest! :)
*chuckles* I'm reading this book right now...I'm halfway, but it certainly doesn't seem quite as dramatic as this :) "Hers was a love that couldn't be denied!" Haha.
When they have a big cursive "Denied!" on the bottom of the screen and Dominique on the top of it, I nearly died laughing - and I'm only halfway through the book!
Ayn Rand was such a shitty philosopher. Objectivism is very contradictory to human nature (which is inherently collectivist). Go figure Rand died alone.
Funny how the trailer said that Peter Keating was "Selfish and weak...".
Yes he was weak, but the point was that he was self-LESS. And in Ayn Rands words "The self-less is the mind-less."
Like the scene in the movie when Toohey is able to dominate Keating simply by his will, he smiles cruelly and says to him "You're my greatest achievement Keating, the truly selfless man...."
Keating was not selfless...thats what Rand wanted to portray him as...one average,selfish human being whom the world things is so perfect.....while Roark is perfect in ever nature....and this world is so disilluded to notice that except for few like Dominique and Heller and Mallory.
@MIndMattersMost philosophically we know him to be the true form of "selfless" the book defined, however, for the general term of "selfish" fit him for the general opinion too.
I would be slightly suspect of any modern remake they'd try to do of "The Fountainhead", the same as I'd be suspicious of any version they'd try to do of "Atlas Shrugged". Not in the kind of political atmosphere that's so prevalent right now...they'd twist it to the hilt! They'd ruin it! *sigh* Maybe in 50 years or so. Good old Ayn Rand :) Just finished reading "Atlas Shrugged" and have totally fallen in love...makes me glad to be alive!
I am sorry to dispute Peterfirthfan but he did not make her abort that child. It was of her own doing because of what her mother and family back home would think of her. If you read her book "As I Am" you will discover that.
You either don't know that Ayn Rand wrote the screenplay to this film, or that she didn't care what people like you thought about how it would "blashpheme" the book.
Au contraire fis de pute. I know perfectly well that Ms.Rand was involved in the production of this film, my sole contention is that to option so masterful a paean to human freedom is to buy into what she professed in those volumes to despise. Up yours.
Oh my god. Please read the book first, this movie is NOTHING close to what I had in mind. Oh, and the actors are much too old. They should do a remake of this movie, CAREFULLY, so as to do it justice.
You are nothing to talk in such terms about a giant in Hollywood. If anything, this pathetic declaration projects who you are, because it has nothing whatsoever to do with Gary Cooper. Cooper was a man of infinite integrity, and I wouldn't doubt in a second that Rand insisted that Warner Brothers sign him to play Howard Roark. Hell, he would have made a PERFECT Hank Reardon or John Galt, had a film of Atlas Shrugged been made shortly after it's publication.
"The man who refuses to submit and to serve is a man who must be destroyed!" The trouble is, statists today (maybe then) would not state their evil agenda in such obvious, blunt terms. They would accuse Howard Roarke of wanting to hurt the poor and the environment and being funded by rich oil companies. The usual playbook. I thought this in terms of drama rather than politics and philosophy, seeing this movie when I was very young and unsophisticated.
Could have been a great movie ... but turned into a piece of shit by terrible acting, bad casting and a script that could never do the book justice from the need to compress it.
"[T]railer for King Vidors screen version of The Fountainhead with a script by Rand herself. Can you imagine how difficult it was for the actors to get their lines out and try to sound convincing saying them?!?! (Its one or the other!)"
*dry chuckly* I'm assuming they used "selfish" instead of "selfless" because they felt their audience at the time would not understand it the other way around. Remember the climate of the times...then, too, they probably did not have the adequate cinematic means of fully portraying the themes of the book.
I do not doubt Gary Cooper is a handsome and charming individual, but isnt Roark supposed to be in his 20s at the beginning and in his 40s at the end? I don't think I (or anyone) read the book for the romance, i think we read it for the struggle. Wilkins, if you want one of Rand's characters to die, read 'We the Living', the girl dies at the end.
I absolutely hated the end of the novel... I think Howard should've died, or Peter Keating shouldve committed suicide or something... The story as a whole was decent, but too many repetitive conversations... Oh well, Ayn Rand didn't write it for us to read anyway...
brad pitt (the collectivist) bought the rights to atlas shrugged. hmmm.... for what purpose. so the movie never gets made? or so brad can give people a bad idea on purpose about what objectivism is all about. fuckin liberal filth. kinda like the jews down at wall st gave capitalism a bad rep so people turn to the obamas and mike moores to spread this marxist filth all over the place.
Lol. Kind of like Anne Rice books and the awful movie versions...I don't blame them at all. Although, in a way I think the sort of black-and-white-old-movie vibes give a sense of the books themes...I don't know. I think any version of the books would have to be done as series, VERY carefully by a very good producer/director/writer who understood the books on a deep level. Hence, not in this decade :P
What the fuck was that? Howard Roark is suppose to have red hair. Everyone in that trailer just completely shattered the original descriptions presented in the book. Isn't the idea of turning the book into a movie a little ironic too??
No your a piece of crap.....why don't you go and save your money for will ferrles 900th moronic film or adam sandlers 10,0000th. Real Cinema is dead becasue of idiots like that and idiots like you who buy tickets to it.
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personally i love abortions, there's nothing funnier than a fetus getting scrambelled and sucked out, lol.
And also i think women should have free choice and not some religous nut you thinks they can speak for eveyone because they have god on there side, go fuckyourself.
That is SUCH a Christian attitude. It's not even worth wasting my breath on a person like you. Gary Cooper was in many ways more human than you will ever be.
Thank you for the trailer. It may not be one of Gary's best films but it's entertaining nevertheless.
PeterFirthFan: You know, I regret having commented on your idiotic portrayal of Gary Cooper, because ALL of the idiotic portrayals you have spread throughout this show that it only dignifies you to do so, and that was never my intent. You deserve only to be left alone, seething in your hate and ignorance
They should remake the movie. I hate old school movies like that. I'm not trying to be a noob (because I am also not much of a fan of today's popular movies.)
The book is amazing.
I'm going to school for Architecture and found that this book got me back into the love of buildings.
Just, if you can, PLEASE don't devise the generic glass buildings springing across the country. Art-deco era established a generation, and now we're culture-less in our post-modern phase.
You kno I'm in the middle of reading this book and has got me gripped. Went to sleep about 2am feeling hatred for that bastard Toohey and what he was doing to our man Roark. The film looks a bit disappointing....I don't know.
Too late for Architecture, I am am in the the not-so-cut-throat world of accountancy. Thank you for the heroic note bit, I was concerned that Roark will end up losing everything and would be a lesson in 'don't f*ck with capitalism because it has no humanity'.
"Mind is an attribute of the individual there is no such thing as a collective mind"
This small quote gets at the heart of the misgued nature of Rand's philosophy, if you truly believe that your mind is something you created, and your invention, your ideas are your own then you have no choice but to follow the self-justifying, self righteous philosophies of this profoundly mediocre mind
Ha way to insult perfectly good philosophy without stating what is wrong with it. There is no collective mind, no collective intelligence. If some friends and I came together and made a collectivist club no matter how much we try we will fail in combining our minds into one entity, we will all be individuals no matter what we attempt to do, even if I totally conquer somone intellectually to copy all my beliefs they are still an individual because they find what I caused them to believe rational
i have read about the first 100 pages of this book. wow its one of the most philosophical books i have read, the characters especially Howard has something that people just feel for him hopefully i will finish this book soon. not like so many other books that i started and did not finish
I know; it's funny because he's a person who a lot of people would give everything to be, yet his hidden depths radiate the words "false" and "fraud."
Roark is a human being at its fullest potential; even though he doesn't have charm, or an outgoing personality, he is truly flawless.
I tried reading a bit last year, but didn't get into it so much. But then I read "Anthem" and loved it, and then just now I read !! "Atlas Shrugged" !! in all its awesomeness...try that one out! The first chapters were a little dry, but once you get into the story it is BEYOND AMAZING! I have to go give "The Fountainhead" a try now...and then I'm going to read everything else Ayn Rand ever wrote :)
who else is watching this just so they can bullshit the essay and apply to the 10000 dollar scholarship?
TheComedyNerd 2 days ago
they should re-make it with actors who remain true to characters within the book.. i felt only peter keating looked as the way potrayed in the book... and the director who can do it wud be i feel, francis ford coppola..
abhinandrd 3 days ago
This is all wrong....
condogwow 3 weeks ago
I don't think I'll be able to sit through the movie if it's this unnatural and Hollywood throughout. After having read the book, this trailer is almost painful to watch. In particular, Roark, Toohey, and Dominique are just.. wrong.
JukkiJukkiLime 3 weeks ago
And I don't mean that in a good way
dawgg981 3 weeks ago
Peter Keating "selfish"(?!) wow, if your going to make a movie based on a novel you might want to grasp the Novels themes. Keating was the image of a self-less man
dawgg981 3 weeks ago
"Peter Keating - selfish, weak." Hahahahaha :)
fab006 2 months ago
and Dominique had really straight hair!!! and Roark's hair is compensated bcos b&w is all they have had.
I WONDER WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THESE FILMMAKERS LONG AGO...
atchoo10 3 months ago
I feel as if they should remake this film and modify it so it looks more how readers picture it. I definitely did NOT see Howard Roark as some elder man... He was in his twenties in the beginning of the damn book, for god's sake! Why would you depict him as such an aged man? He also had bright "orange" hair... None of the characters seemed right.
I demand a remake!
cashmeresox 3 months ago
@cashmeresox You are right about the connection between the book & script. I saw the movie, first, then started but couldn't finish the book because of disappointment. Rand did approve the casting for her book. In real life, Cooper & Neal were romanically involved, and, for some reason, Cooper didn't want her cast in Dominique's role. Their chemistry was great, and they weren't acting.......K
kaymcclain1 2 months ago
Just read the book today and wow.....that wasn't how I picture it LOL but I feel like it'll be impossible to make a movie just like the book. It's too..powerful
sillytommychannel 5 months ago
I would look to see Howard's orange hair.
Marz10747 6 months ago 6
I can't imagine in this days any actor or actress with the inner power to represent Roark , Dominique or Toohey,
didovsky 8 months ago 4
umm, have you seen fight club?
sritter88 8 months ago
I remember ''The Matrix'' being such a intelligent movie it was surprising it got made. Same with ''The Fountainhead'' much to intelligent of a movie but what great dialogue, unreal.
steviecom 8 months ago
Ah, the golden age when architecture critics ruled the world! What an absurd pile of shit this is... I'd love to see somebody attempt a movie with a building-destroying terrorist is a hero today!
terminalpictures 9 months ago
Sounds like one big budget proto-Ed Wood movie. Ed wood was entertaining but this looks plain silly! lol. Even the novel is laughable.
CosmoShidan 9 months ago
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**The highest tribute to Ayn Rand, is that her critics must distort everything that she stood for in order to attack her. She advocated reason, not force; the individual's rights to freedom of action, speech, and association; self-responsibility not self-indulgence, and a live-and-let-live society in which each individual is treated as an END, not the MEANS of others' ends. How many critics would dare to honestly state these ideas, & say "..and that's what I reject?"
notbestfriends 9 months ago
It's Indiana Jones!
god0fgod 9 months ago
The new Atlas Shrugged movie will be the Fountainhead uncorked.
mustang607 9 months ago
@mustang607 or the burial.
burlearth 9 months ago
Thumbs up if you just can't imagine Gary Cooper as Howard Roark
fightinside1 10 months ago 13
If I were to cast the remake of this movie. I would have Howard Roark be Edward Norton.
lilliesNbees 10 months ago
@lilliesNbees That's ridiculous. Norton tries way too hard to act 'edgy', you need someone who acts innocent and intelligent.
PickPocketChaz 9 months ago
@PickPocketChaz I disagree. Norton has been able to act a diverse set of characters, all who have been intelligent (Death to Smoochy is an exception). I never pictured Howard Roark as purely innocent, but as solemn, strong, reflective, and uncompromising. Maybe it's because I don't completely agree with Ayn Rand's philosophy, but I never thought Roark was the face of pure good/innocence.
lilliesNbees 9 months ago
@lilliesNbees idk, I've never seen him act in a way that I would like to see Roark portrayed. Not anywhere close. He's been solemn, strong, reflective, and uncompromising but that doesn't mean he displays those values from the same perspective.
(and by innocent I mean he has the strength of value and apathy towards others' opinions that he views the world with a childlike innocence- it's in his relating everything to himself instead of himself to everything)
PickPocketChaz 9 months ago
@MIndMattersMost -Peter Keating was incredibly selfish.*****SPOILERS ***** He killed, blackmailed, Stole, and lied all so that he could be a famous architect. This trailer got it right.
jconner228 10 months ago
The highest tribute to Ayn Rand, abundantly in evidence here, is that her critics must distort everything she stood for in order to attack her. She advocated reason, not force; the individual's rights to freedom of action, speech, and association; self-responsibility, NOT self-indulgence; and a live-and-let-live society in which each individual is treated as an END, not the MEANS of others' ends. How many critics would dare honestly state these ideas and say, " . . .and that's what I reject"?
notbestfriends 10 months ago
wow I tell ya, the movies back then were more romantic than the ones now... they had more meaning, more content
Mwaterfall 10 months ago
@Mwaterfall Yea, thats because they have to make movies today, that can keep the average individual's attention.
gcamiloc092 10 months ago
lol.. .looks like a satire of the book to me
imreallyjin 11 months ago
So this is totally not how the novel's going. Well, the FEEL I'm getting from the novel. It seems like the novel's mass it too big for just a movie; it should probably be a TV mini series. I feel as if I would miss out if I would watch the movie (knowing the story.)
angiecarranza 11 months ago
In a world of losers who hate being dependent, comes an artist who dares to glorify those that produce, that create, that win.
TheGoalSetter 11 months ago 2
Keating is selfish according to the definition as how most define it.
freddymart 11 months ago
Ayn Rand demanded that Roark's speech be unchanged from her original plan. The director then condensed the speech because he thought it was too long for a motion picture. It's funny because the situation is parallel to what the court case was actually about: Roark's design for Cortlandt being changed unnecessarily.
pacifiedfools 11 months ago
Ayn Rand demanded that Roark's speech be unchanged from her original plan. The director then condensed the speech because he thought it was too long for a motion picture. It's funny because the situation is parallel to what the court case was actually about: Roark's design for Cortlandt being changed unnecessarily.
pacifiedfools 11 months ago
That being said, fading to the kiss at 1:27 was still horribly cheesy. X)
Muskot 1 year ago
Why the hate? I just finished reading the book and I agree it was great but film is a different medium produced under different circumstances - expecting the exact same experience is pretty silly on reflection.
However, as an adaptation of ideals, I think BioShock might be a better reading of Ayn Rand. But again, different mediums, different requirements.
Muskot 1 year ago
this is a movie that should be remade. not all these other crap wastes of money classified as "movies". please someone remake this movie please?
bawkbawkluce 1 year ago
@bawkbawkluce Yes, I agree this movie should be remade, but not as a movie, as a TV series with about 6 parts, that should be enough to properly build up the story, characters and emotions of all involved. It is a LONG book and making it a two hour movie still wouldn't do it justice.
witheringsun 11 months ago
hilarious! the video does'nt match with the book
aditisimpson 1 year ago
"Peter Keating... selfish (?), weak..."
What the hell.
SculptedThoughts 1 year ago
@SculptedThoughts Probably "selfish" as in wanting to mooch off others for his own gain which is not the same as the person who seeks his own happiness based on his own efforts. The former kind of "selfish", mooching off others for gain, is bad, the latter kind, seeking one's happiness through one's own efforts, is good.
Allocator2008 1 year ago
my gahd, thats so not the roark or dominique i imagined! i wish i didntnt bother looking this up.
leizl107 1 year ago
@leizl107 yeah I agree with you I thought they were more younger because the book state that both of them were in their 20s and the characters of the movie seems more in their 30s on the way to 40s. and the book version is way better
saraizxcv 1 year ago
Did they seriously turn "The Fountainhead" into a romance...you've to got be kidding me
hallnoat 1 year ago
exactly how did RUSH turn this into 2112??????????????/
redc338able 1 year ago
@redc338able Actually 2112 is more based on Rands Novel Anthem.
TheGojira84 1 year ago
The movie was nothing at all like the book. Cooper is a wonderful actor but was certainly not meant to play the role of the young, stoic, inspiring Roark.
Smith was a good Keating, however, Dominique could have been played by some other as well.
All in all, the book is by far better.
Now, if they made a NEWER version of this movie... that I might see. :)
mission2marsden 1 year ago
Jesus christ-what awkward dialogue.
angrydead 1 year ago
This movie is a dramatic exaggeration, but at the end in design and architecture there is the inventive creator, and then, there are the parasites ~
isabelops 1 year ago
HAHAHHA omigod i laughed so hard at the whip scene...i just started reading the book....i feel like they should make a new movie
aisha894 1 year ago
could this trailer be any more dramatic? haha
stads24 1 year ago
fuck you ayn rand
and ur dumb 800 page book about a stupid ass architect.
xShutupNerdx 1 year ago
@xShutupNerdx Now read Atlas Shrugged, 1100 pages :D
It's actually pretty good xD
Homero4real 1 year ago
@xShutupNerdx well you know when people get mad at you.. it's all because they can't be what you are. haha
rotundable 1 year ago
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@rotundable um, you're not making any sense
xShutupNerdx 1 year ago
The film was fucking awful. The talentless Cooper was at his most wooden and he was far too old for the part.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready yes he was too damn old...you could see rinkles...the book states that howard roawk was like 22 yrs old or sumthin
aisha894 1 year ago
its not every day that you come across some thing like this... and someone like her!!
AMAZING WORK!!!
i am reading atlas shrugged..
i am looking 4ward to read this one...
GREAT WORK>.....
shrutiable 1 year ago
@shrutiable If in 100 yrs we are not all living in caves, Ayn Rand may be considered the genius of the 20th century. The great lesson of Atlas Shrugged is that we may trade in money or blood. There are no other choices regardless of what the limp politicos tell us.
doughtymqan 1 year ago
@doughtymqan i agree with you. well at least she is one of the genius of the 20th century .
Because i am not aware of all the great works of 20th century..
but i must say the book makes you think...
shrutiable 1 year ago
...just depressing how they could ruin a tremendous book so entirely!
ElleisAL 1 year ago
That's just terrible...way to ruin my favorite book, Hollywood...
XMasterXSnipsX 1 year ago
AWESOME IMPLIED RAEP LOL
heresyisprogress 1 year ago
@heresyisprogress Rather more than implied, methinks. :P
balrogthane 1 year ago
Atlas Shrugged, the movie, is now in production!
Can't wait.
notbestfriends 1 year ago
why does roark have brown hair? i mean, its black and white, but you can still tell...
lovemily01 1 year ago
... what have they DONE to it?!
omgfreakay 1 year ago
what i really detest about this trailer is they make it out to be a love story which it's not. It's philisophical experience not a romance but i am a sucker for a love plot...but that's not what the fountainhead is all about this trailer gave 2% of what it is really about how howard would not compromise his ideas for any man as said in the beginning (i know it's much more than that but that's all i got from the trailer...)
sskkiittzzoo 1 year ago
...when i read the book i imagined charlie from "it's always sunny in philadelphia" as roark...
Benjammac69 1 year ago
I remember in the film 'Dirty Dancing' they threw in some kind of a sly dig at some aspect of Rand's philosophy when the rich asshole kid held up a copy of The Fountainhead to justify his behavior. I've been intending to eventually read The Fountainhead to see if I could figure out the point they were trying to make. Poor reason to read a book I guess..lol But a book so influential would be well worth reading.
ThePhantomBlacksmith 1 year ago
@ThePhantomBlacksmith idiot.
PerennialLucidity 1 year ago
@PerennialLucidity I am...but I wanna be an angsty objectivist intellectual just like you. So I'm chain smoking and reading Nietchzsche and Anthem at the University Starbucks. Who was John Galt again? I forget.
ThePhantomBlacksmith 1 year ago
@ThePhantomBlacksmith idiot
PerennialLucidity 1 year ago
@PerennialLucidity My we're cranky. Tuff night at Starbucks?
ThePhantomBlacksmith 1 year ago
I wish they would remake this movie. It would surely be one of the greatest one. But I doubt that it is possible. The novel is too great to be transformed into a movie. Howark Roark the greatest! :)
ruddinfhd 1 year ago 2
*chuckles* I'm reading this book right now...I'm halfway, but it certainly doesn't seem quite as dramatic as this :) "Hers was a love that couldn't be denied!" Haha.
00ErgoProxy00 1 year ago
When they have a big cursive "Denied!" on the bottom of the screen and Dominique on the top of it, I nearly died laughing - and I'm only halfway through the book!
BroadwayMistress 1 year ago
Dominique makes me laugh in this trailer. As well as Roark. i cant imagine anyone taking this movie seriously having read the book
rubicscube007 1 year ago 33
Ayn Rand was such a shitty philosopher. Objectivism is very contradictory to human nature (which is inherently collectivist). Go figure Rand died alone.
juliaisafilmbuff123 1 year ago
Funny how the trailer said that Peter Keating was "Selfish and weak...".
Yes he was weak, but the point was that he was self-LESS. And in Ayn Rands words "The self-less is the mind-less."
Like the scene in the movie when Toohey is able to dominate Keating simply by his will, he smiles cruelly and says to him "You're my greatest achievement Keating, the truly selfless man...."
MIndMattersMost 1 year ago 33
Keating was not selfless...thats what Rand wanted to portray him as...one average,selfish human being whom the world things is so perfect.....while Roark is perfect in ever nature....and this world is so disilluded to notice that except for few like Dominique and Heller and Mallory.
toxicerose 1 year ago
@MIndMattersMost lol i thought the same thing when i watched this movie, they should try harder not to contradict themselves .
poopster102 1 year ago
@MIndMattersMost philosophically we know him to be the true form of "selfless" the book defined, however, for the general term of "selfish" fit him for the general opinion too.
AiryBri 10 months ago
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I see what you mean.
MIndMattersMost 10 months ago
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I see what you mean.
MIndMattersMost 10 months ago
Now that trailer was fucking hilarious! Thanks for posting.
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FrankCIanton 2 years ago
"Peter Keating: Selfish, weak."
Selfish?
tkloppel 2 years ago 2
@tkloppel LOL. haha. i didnt notice that. thanks for pointing out =)
rubicscube007 1 year ago
I'm surprised they hav'nt done a remake of this movie. Like they did of everything else.
norb1937 2 years ago
@norb1937 They were going to, with Angelina Jolie in it, but she got pregnant. (how irrational of her)
cecikierk 2 years ago 2
lol!
toxicerose 1 year ago
I would be slightly suspect of any modern remake they'd try to do of "The Fountainhead", the same as I'd be suspicious of any version they'd try to do of "Atlas Shrugged". Not in the kind of political atmosphere that's so prevalent right now...they'd twist it to the hilt! They'd ruin it! *sigh* Maybe in 50 years or so. Good old Ayn Rand :) Just finished reading "Atlas Shrugged" and have totally fallen in love...makes me glad to be alive!
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caseyBeddoe 2 years ago
people did not know how to act back then i've read the book and this trailer looks like a murder
BlackHelicopterz 2 years ago
I am sorry to dispute Peterfirthfan but he did not make her abort that child. It was of her own doing because of what her mother and family back home would think of her. If you read her book "As I Am" you will discover that.
ladyofsouth 2 years ago
Patricia Neal: what a honey.
rerite2 2 years ago
Why does it have this monumental musical score of religious and historical epics of this epoch?
It's a story about a 20th century architect, not Jesus or Spartacus.
hyperseauton 2 years ago
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Sail0rIo 2 years ago
wow. one part showed keating next to roark and keating was at least ten years younger, while in the book he is two years older! disappointment..
RAVeNAROUS 2 years ago
It balsphemes the book to even conceive a film based on it.
xburningheavensx 2 years ago
A miniseries/series would be necessary to visualize the book properly.
Kikarok 2 years ago
You either don't know that Ayn Rand wrote the screenplay to this film, or that she didn't care what people like you thought about how it would "blashpheme" the book.
yohannbiimu 2 years ago
Au contraire fis de pute. I know perfectly well that Ms.Rand was involved in the production of this film, my sole contention is that to option so masterful a paean to human freedom is to buy into what she professed in those volumes to despise. Up yours.
xburningheavensx 2 years ago
Oh my god. Please read the book first, this movie is NOTHING close to what I had in mind. Oh, and the actors are much too old. They should do a remake of this movie, CAREFULLY, so as to do it justice.
hautxtalons 2 years ago
Gary Cooper was a talentless piece of shit.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
You are nothing to talk in such terms about a giant in Hollywood. If anything, this pathetic declaration projects who you are, because it has nothing whatsoever to do with Gary Cooper. Cooper was a man of infinite integrity, and I wouldn't doubt in a second that Rand insisted that Warner Brothers sign him to play Howard Roark. Hell, he would have made a PERFECT Hank Reardon or John Galt, had a film of Atlas Shrugged been made shortly after it's publication.
yohannbiimu 2 years ago
I'm glad the talentless, wooden actor Cooper died of cancer at only 60.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
@PeterFirthFan Yawn........... Boring and sick!!
Enjoy your last days on YouTube! Cocksucker!!
FrankCIanton 2 years ago
@PeterFirthFan So you KEEP telling us!! LOL
You talentless wanker and pervert!!
PeterFirthFanny 2 years ago
"The man who refuses to submit and to serve is a man who must be destroyed!" The trouble is, statists today (maybe then) would not state their evil agenda in such obvious, blunt terms. They would accuse Howard Roarke of wanting to hurt the poor and the environment and being funded by rich oil companies. The usual playbook. I thought this in terms of drama rather than politics and philosophy, seeing this movie when I was very young and unsophisticated.
axecalibore 2 years ago 2
Could have been a great movie ... but turned into a piece of shit by terrible acting, bad casting and a script that could never do the book justice from the need to compress it.
ZELIG500 2 years ago 2
i love gail, roark and dominique
shellzzie 2 years ago
"[T]railer for King Vidors screen version of The Fountainhead with a script by Rand herself. Can you imagine how difficult it was for the actors to get their lines out and try to sound convincing saying them?!?! (Its one or the other!)"
-- Richard Metzger
MisterJayEm 2 years ago
"Peter Keating, Selfish, Weak!"
LOLOLOLOLOL
Anyone acquainted with the book will laugh at this nonsense.
DantesObjective 2 years ago 3
@DantesObjective Youcan be one or the other but not both
Invirtuo 2 years ago
*dry chuckly* I'm assuming they used "selfish" instead of "selfless" because they felt their audience at the time would not understand it the other way around. Remember the climate of the times...then, too, they probably did not have the adequate cinematic means of fully portraying the themes of the book.
FirebirdSinging26 1 year ago
I do not doubt Gary Cooper is a handsome and charming individual, but isnt Roark supposed to be in his 20s at the beginning and in his 40s at the end? I don't think I (or anyone) read the book for the romance, i think we read it for the struggle. Wilkins, if you want one of Rand's characters to die, read 'We the Living', the girl dies at the end.
BeatenByCats 2 years ago
I absolutely hated the end of the novel... I think Howard should've died, or Peter Keating shouldve committed suicide or something... The story as a whole was decent, but too many repetitive conversations... Oh well, Ayn Rand didn't write it for us to read anyway...
wilkins3316 2 years ago
i think the ending was an absolute justice to the story.....if would be too obvious and predictable if Keating had killed himself or Roark had died.
toxicerose 1 year ago
hahaha "Every vivid moment!"
jakeupstudios 2 years ago
The book was amazing but this looks dreadfu.
What the hell happened?
imsohappy 2 years ago
They cast a far too old Gary Cooper, who didn't have the talent to play the part anyway.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
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Ayn Rand wrote the screenplay herself, so blame her.
quadvideotape 2 years ago
wow this is just so off it's not even funny
alittlestupid13 2 years ago
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EmilyCan0 2 years ago
Ayn Rand wrote the screenplay, numbnuts.
quadvideotape 2 years ago
brad pitt (the collectivist) bought the rights to atlas shrugged. hmmm.... for what purpose. so the movie never gets made? or so brad can give people a bad idea on purpose about what objectivism is all about. fuckin liberal filth. kinda like the jews down at wall st gave capitalism a bad rep so people turn to the obamas and mike moores to spread this marxist filth all over the place.
MrUncomfortableTruth 2 years ago
lol
Cameljockey213 2 years ago
did he really?
LPH69 2 years ago
supposedly cause this movie was such a failure, ayn rand didnt let anyone make any of her other books into movies
superjeannes 2 years ago
Lol. Kind of like Anne Rice books and the awful movie versions...I don't blame them at all. Although, in a way I think the sort of black-and-white-old-movie vibes give a sense of the books themes...I don't know. I think any version of the books would have to be done as series, VERY carefully by a very good producer/director/writer who understood the books on a deep level. Hence, not in this decade :P
FirebirdSinging26 1 year ago
wow... making the fountainhead into a romance movie.
I should have known
fairkid15 2 years ago 2
What the fuck was that? Howard Roark is suppose to have red hair. Everyone in that trailer just completely shattered the original descriptions presented in the book. Isn't the idea of turning the book into a movie a little ironic too??
jms91 2 years ago 2
I couldn't agree more, on both counts
treslucinda 2 years ago
I imagined Roark being slimmer in my mind. At Toohey being fatter. Whatever, Hollywood.
drpants 2 years ago
Toohey was described as being very thin in the book.
neoblake 2 years ago
With a sunken chest, no doubt.
MaterialGod 2 years ago
Cooper was BADLY miscast.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
Wrong! He was perfectly cast! A great film! A classic book!
TheHarmonicWheel 2 years ago
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The fucking CUNT abortionist was a talentless wooden actor and he was FAR too old.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
Why bring your father into a discussion about the movie "The Fountainhead"?
TheHarmonicWheel 2 years ago
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I'm just saying I am glad that the bisexual MURDERER Gary Cooper died a slow, painful, agonizing death from CANCER at only 60.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
00:35 so funny!
community647 2 years ago
They do need a remake. People these days just want to see robots and dumb shit.
pSychOAtDawn 2 years ago 3
Ya, People want to see movies where they do not have to think. Thinking takes effret.
nero8289 2 years ago
I know how did we go to this beautiful piece of cinema to something like high school musical, i feel so let down....
goodvibesallround 2 years ago
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This film is a piece of fucking CRAP.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
No your a piece of crap.....why don't you go and save your money for will ferrles 900th moronic film or adam sandlers 10,0000th. Real Cinema is dead becasue of idiots like that and idiots like you who buy tickets to it.
goodvibesallround 2 years ago
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I'm glad Gary Cooper died of cancer, the fucking CUNT abortionist.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
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personally i love abortions, there's nothing funnier than a fetus getting scrambelled and sucked out, lol.
And also i think women should have free choice and not some religous nut you thinks they can speak for eveyone because they have god on there side, go fuckyourself.
goodvibesallround 2 years ago
That is SUCH a Christian attitude. It's not even worth wasting my breath on a person like you. Gary Cooper was in many ways more human than you will ever be.
Thank you for the trailer. It may not be one of Gary's best films but it's entertaining nevertheless.
BSDDomi 2 years ago
BTW, I mean PeterFirthFan
BSDDomi 2 years ago
Nice how the bisexual Cooper forced Patricia Neal to abort his child in 1950.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
PeterFirthFan: You know, I regret having commented on your idiotic portrayal of Gary Cooper, because ALL of the idiotic portrayals you have spread throughout this show that it only dignifies you to do so, and that was never my intent. You deserve only to be left alone, seething in your hate and ignorance
yohannbiimu 2 years ago
Greatest novel ever but not the best movie. Needs a remake.
AhmedAliShah1 2 years ago 11
They should remake the movie. I hate old school movies like that. I'm not trying to be a noob (because I am also not much of a fan of today's popular movies.)
The book is amazing.
I'm going to school for Architecture and found that this book got me back into the love of buildings.
liverbitz91 2 years ago 2
Just, if you can, PLEASE don't devise the generic glass buildings springing across the country. Art-deco era established a generation, and now we're culture-less in our post-modern phase.
LifeinaRaindrop 2 years ago
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lordhighexecutioner 2 years ago
Architects today could learn from this movie. Most of my colleages are prostitutes and mistresses for developers and contractors.
architectdesigner11 2 years ago
You kno I'm in the middle of reading this book and has got me gripped. Went to sleep about 2am feeling hatred for that bastard Toohey and what he was doing to our man Roark. The film looks a bit disappointing....I don't know.
Makkers1 2 years ago
Thank you for the reply. I hope you are not considering a career in Architecture because this movie represents reality.
The film ends on a heroic note.
Take care my Academic Friend
architectdesigner11 2 years ago
Too late for Architecture, I am am in the the not-so-cut-throat world of accountancy. Thank you for the heroic note bit, I was concerned that Roark will end up losing everything and would be a lesson in 'don't f*ck with capitalism because it has no humanity'.
Makkers1 2 years ago
same here. I'm reading it for AP Lit, and I hate Toohey, but feel worse for Wynand than Roark for some reason.
UchihaAtHeart 2 years ago
I am not that far into it. Dominique's just got married to Keating and her dad's at the house for dinner.
Makkers1 2 years ago
This should have been a tv mini-series.
intrepidlikes 2 years ago
my fav boook
athinanca 2 years ago
What if they made a Pynchon book into a movie? That'd be crazy!
RoulfYelrab 2 years ago
the man who dose not submitt must be destroyed
perksy10001 2 years ago
"Mind is an attribute of the individual there is no such thing as a collective mind"
This small quote gets at the heart of the misgued nature of Rand's philosophy, if you truly believe that your mind is something you created, and your invention, your ideas are your own then you have no choice but to follow the self-justifying, self righteous philosophies of this profoundly mediocre mind
inceak 2 years ago 2
Ha way to insult perfectly good philosophy without stating what is wrong with it. There is no collective mind, no collective intelligence. If some friends and I came together and made a collectivist club no matter how much we try we will fail in combining our minds into one entity, we will all be individuals no matter what we attempt to do, even if I totally conquer somone intellectually to copy all my beliefs they are still an individual because they find what I caused them to believe rational
TheLateAndrewRyan 2 years ago
i have read about the first 100 pages of this book. wow its one of the most philosophical books i have read, the characters especially Howard has something that people just feel for him hopefully i will finish this book soon. not like so many other books that i started and did not finish
jzh101 2 years ago
I'm reading the book, too, I'm about 300 pages in. It's great. But I really hate Peter Keating, he's so pathetic!
beattific89 2 years ago
I know; it's funny because he's a person who a lot of people would give everything to be, yet his hidden depths radiate the words "false" and "fraud."
Roark is a human being at its fullest potential; even though he doesn't have charm, or an outgoing personality, he is truly flawless.
MoonLightFacade 2 years ago
I tried reading a bit last year, but didn't get into it so much. But then I read "Anthem" and loved it, and then just now I read !! "Atlas Shrugged" !! in all its awesomeness...try that one out! The first chapters were a little dry, but once you get into the story it is BEYOND AMAZING! I have to go give "The Fountainhead" a try now...and then I'm going to read everything else Ayn Rand ever wrote :)
FirebirdSinging26 1 year ago