Form and Function in The Fountainhead Movie Review

Form and Function in The Fountainhead - Movie Review causaRegardless of the controversy over colorizing old works, of the good intentions of Rands number one fan, regardless of such architects off-key critic as Nancy Levinson, who in an essay on the film balks at its typical Hollywoodization of architects, (29-39) and regardless of the obsession to modernize a storyline or script with the modern color wheel, The Fountainhead in its captain format, condition, and shape is a testament to the themes, metaphors, and symbols, characters, and storyline of the novel by the same name. The film elements and creative choices, that is, result to the ideas expressed by objectivist philosopher and writer Ayn Rand. From the start of the film, the characters are constructed and developed to embody the ideals of Rands message(s). She once said, My philosophy, in essence, is the impression of man as a heroic being with his own happiness as the moral use of goods and services of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity and reason as his only absolute. (www.aynrand.org) Not only does the films central focus-architects and computer architecture-affirm the architectural business, representing real-world players, but the characters, especially the protagonist, reveal Rands outlook Howard Roark represents this concept as an idealistic, principled individualist who refuses to correct to the rules of architectural school (resisting the copying of ancient, classical styles), who works blue collar jobs rather than buy into the popularism that is the architecture business, and who designs what he pleases. As the last ditch effort to grasp his autonomy, even, he destroys his greatest creation. When he is indicted, sued by the state, he makes his climactic stand The creator thinks the parasite copies.