The Fountainhead (DVD) Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall ForumBy Ayn Rand The Fountainhead, adapted by Ayn Rand from her 1943 novel, brings to the screen all the bigger than life characters who've thrilled readers and sparked debate for more than 60 years. Patricia Neal as Dominique, Raymond Massey as Gail Wynand, Kent Smith as Peter Keating and Robert Douglas as Ellworth Toohey, are all here and destined to collide with the unbendable steel that is Roark, played by Gary Cooper in a superb lead performance.
outlining the perils of policies that stifle innovation and the contradiction of trying to revive a nation's productivity by strait-jacketing the very people necessary to revive it
using his personal favorites as a window on the world of poetry
Ayn Rand's answer: Everyone
in theme (from the philosophical to the humorous)
given the opening line of the dialogue
education consists of training in the knowledge and skills necessary for one to function as a mature
Onkar Ghate and Robert Mayhew
and designed to instill terror in his subjects and his enemies
Schopenhauer: the metaphysics of the Will
Happiness as the Normal Condition of Man
Why a Marxist dictatorship should collapse far sooner than a religious dictatorship
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