In addition, certain characters are reduced or expanded. Many of the speeches, including the aforementioned one, are reduced. As a result, there’s a sense that she knew that she couldn’t fit a 726-page book into a feature length movie, even though she wanted the speech that Howard Roark makes in court at the end to be in its entirety. Apparently, she had some previous experience in Hollywood as she worked as Junior Screenwriter for Cecile B. This is so because Ayn Rand herself wrote the screenplay. Many of the stuff that’s present in the novel made it into the film as mostly unaltered. The movie itself is a faithful adaptation of the divisive book. That is the 1949 film adaptation of The Fountainhead starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal – a surprisingly well made, albeit imperfect, adaptation of the flawed novel of the same name by Ayn Rand.įor those who haven’t already read my review of the book, here’s my recap: even though I wasn’t a fan of the book and had issues with it, I could see the timelessness of it because it commits itself to the values of individualism wholeheartedly, and certain people will latch onto those ideals. However, in today’s review, I’m going to discuss a movie that hasn’t shown up on the more recent lists, but I think it should be at least considered.

Flicks that appear on them frequently are The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Jaws. Various outlets on the Internet have done many lists about this subject. However, there are instances in which people will assert that the film is better. Whenever a film adaptation of a novel comes out, there will always be people who will say, “The book is better than the movie.”įor a lot of the time, that sentiment is true. Content warning: Suicide and toxic relationships will be discussed in this review.

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