The effort to portray her as a sinister persona because of her sexuality, is an effort to denigrate the argument along with the person. It dissipates entirely in the face of another frank remark the author of The Fountainhead made when asked for the source of her inspiration in that novel's most turbulent love scene. Her candor reveals this filmography's attempt to present her as a twisted dominatrix as just more of the effort to avoid the argument and attack the thinker. Capitalism cannot be impugned by any rational argument. It has freed us from slavery, drudgery, tyranny, short life spans, pestilence, disease-almost every disagreeable form of oppression, except the blight of Hollywood sophistry.
Movies are a great source of entertainment and escapism.
So long as they stick to this agenda, they excel. Their methods are subtle. But an emotional response is not an argument anymore than a leg jumping in response to the tap of a physician's hammer is an argument. An argument requires facts and reason. An argument responds in kind to its antithesis.