Talk:The Fountainhead (film)

message: What is a 'starkly realistic' musical score? -Toptomcat 03:17, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: @TallNapoleon says moved the Individual vs. Collective quotation to wikiquote. Might you be good enough to put a link to that new location on the page?
Thanks.
:Sorry, that was in the form of a command--i.e., someone put it on Wikiquote if you want to keep it. I wasn't thinking much... I'll move it there in a bit when I have time. TallNapoleon (talk) 05:53, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to moved quotation? 

message: The previous version of this page stated that Ayn Rand "disliked the picture from beginning to end". I find this highly unlikely, as she praises it throughout her personal correspondence in The Letters of Ayn Rand. The source for the previous statement was a secondary one, but this is "straight from the horse's mouth" so to speak, and I find it unlikely that she would never have expressed her displeasure in writing, if she really did dislike the film. Letters provides records of her evaluation of it from the beginning of scriptwriting until after the film's premiere, and her emotions range from cautious optimism in the beginning to pleasure and gratitude in the end. There were minor conflicts, but they appear to have been resolved and she wrote letters of thanks to Vidor and Warner for their work on the film.
I was unsure how to handle the old content, as it contradicted the author's words so deeply, so I deleted the less likely sentence (in my opinion) and left the more likely one. I apologize if I did not handle citations correctly. --✶♏✶ 00:06, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: What she said about the movie in letters from the time of its production does not mean she didn't have a different perspective afterwards. The quote about disliking it was from a biographical interview done over a over a decade later. So there's not necessarily a contradiction as long as the different timeframes are noted in the text. On that basis I've put the other evaluation back in, because it is soundly sourced and appears in multiple biographies. --RL0919 (talk) 18:27, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Her positive comments in the Letters date to years after the movie. I was unaware that the original comment was supposedly from an interview; I thought it was a secondhand report. Do you know or can you provide the context? --✶♏✶ 02:56, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The three letters quoted in the article are from 1949. Rand did a series of private interviews with Barbara Branden in 1960-61 when Branden was writing the authorized biographical essay in Who Is Ayn Rand?. Jeff Britting used them when he wrote Ayn Rand for the Overlook Illustrated Lives series (the source cited for the negative comments). For what it is worth, Rand's change of heart is explicitly documented in Anne Heller's Ayn Rand and the World She Made. Heller speculates about possible reasons: the fact that an unapproved change was made in the final edit, the movie's lack of financial success, etc. Whatever the reasons, Rand had a change of heart. --RL0919 (talk) 03:18, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Author's reception 

message: According to the article, the style used for Roarke's building is the International Style, which was a surprise to me, as I had always thought it to be more like Art Deco. I'm no expert on the subject, but I think someone who knows more about the subject should double check it and possibly revise that part. __209.179.21.175 (talk) 01:41, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the style of the architecture