The film never quite understood the philosophy that Fountainhead was trying to get across.
The film took the gravitas of an Ayn Rand book and turned it into a campy cult favorite. It’s really a chuckler.Īnthony: It’s unfortunate.
STILLS SLEEPLESS IN SEATLE MOVIE
George: Well, one movie which started as a drama and kind of viewed as a comedy later was The Fountainhead. It just seems to be the perfect character that fits all plots. It is the perfect go-to hero and feature character, whether it’s a drama, a romantic comedy, a romance. Hollywood has a love affair with architects as characters, both in film and television. We have Matt Dillon playing an architect in three separate movies. We have Steve Martin playing an architect twice. George: Wait a second! Wesley Snipes was an architect?Īnthony: Wesley Snipes was an architect in Jungle Fever. I remember that guy.” And then, they start realizing Michelle Pfeiffer was an architect. And everyone says, “Oh hey, I saw that movie. Wesley Snipes in Jungle Fever (1991) Steve Martin in It’s Complicated (2009) Matt Dillon in The House That Jack Built (2018)Īnthony Poon: Most people don’t know, until I start pointing out, that architects have been in hundreds of movies. His talk at Palm Springs’ Modernism Week was about architects in popular culture.
Anthony Poon, our next guest, is an architect, concert pianist, artist, and author. George Smart: Welcome to US Modernist Radio where we talk and laugh with people who enjoy, own, create, dream about, preserve, love, and hate Modernist architecture.
Upper left: Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men (1957) upper right: ) Michelle Pfeiffer in One Fine Day (1996) lower left: Ellen Page in Inception (2010) lower right: Richard Gere in Intersection (1994)
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