The Fountainhead (1949)
Directed by King Vidor
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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What critics compared The Fountainhead to
Anton Ego, a critic who looks like he runs a funeral parlor for all the dreams he’s murdered, is an Addams Family version of Ellsworth Toohey from Rand’s “The Fountainhead;” when Linguini kisses his colleague Colette, she is so blown away that she drops her can of Mace, which seems like a parody of the famous date rape encounter in “The Fountainhead;” Colette calls false modesty just another way to lie (Rand, in “Atlas Shrugged”: “This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another, the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one’s own greatnessâ€Â); and there is a lone-wolf twist to the Disney lost-child formula.
(Snyder's recent revelation that he wants to direct a version of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead certainly makes more sense now.)
Snyder says that when he’s not working on the next DC comics universe canvas, he spends his creative time mulling over a possible future production of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead.”