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The Fountainhead (1949) The Fountainhead is a film from 1949, directed by King Vidor and based on the eponymous novel by

The Fountainhead (1949)

The Fountainhead is a film from 1949, directed by King Vidor and based on the eponymous novel by Ayn Rand. This thought-provoking drama explores the themes of individualism, capitalism, and the struggle to maintain creative integrity in a conformist society. Starring Gary Cooper as the enigmatic architect Howard Roark, the film delves into his uncompromising vision for innovative and original designs, all while battling against a collective mindset that seeks to suppress his individuality.

Opposite Cooper, Patricia Neal delivers a captivating performance as Dominique Francon, a complex and conflicted woman torn between her love for Roark and society's expectations. The chemistry between Cooper and Neal is electric, as their characters navigate a world that constantly challenges their beliefs and values.

Accompanied by a powerful score, The Fountainhead captures the essence of Rand's philosophical ideas and brings them to life on the silver screen. To immerse yourself in the soundscape of this remarkable film, you can play and download these sounds here.

A country house just for my wife and me.
A man abler than his brothers insults them by implication.
A man of integrity would do neither.
A model development for the whole world.
A temple to Dominique Wynand.
A totally selfless man.
A very interesting experiment.
A woman completely incapable of feeling.
After all, we're your board of directors. We have something to say.
After I'm gone, that building will be Gail Wynand.
After the kind of struggle you've had?
After two years of futile attempts to solve the problems involved...
All my things that you're keeping for me, I want you to burn them.
All my... My papers, my drawings, my contracts.
All our best architects have tried and failed.
All right, Howard.
All right, if that's what you want...
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right. Go on.
Alvah's column was a mess. I rewrote it.
Am I to understand you will choose Peter Keating?
An unpopular cause is dangerous business for anyone.
And a crusade against Wall Street.
And all those bills?
And he lifted darkness off the earth.
And he's maybe the most powerful man living.
And I felt it my duty to offer you my advice.
And I knew I'd never be in love.
And if I left the choice up to you?
And look at us now. Haven't you had enough of it?
And produces great big marble bromides.
And they keep growing every night.
And we must always compromise with the general taste. You understand that.
And what have you got to show for it?
And you must not tell him about us...
And you're not looking for ability, Mr. Wynand.
Any man who calls for me is my kind of man.
Anywhere, so long as I build my way.
Are you admitting defeat? Both of you?
Are you gonna leave me?
Are you reproaching me for the Banner?
Are you sure of it, Gail?
Are you waiting for something, Howard?
Arrest me. I'll talk at the trial.
Artistic value is achieved collectively...
As an expert in architecture, nothing else.
As one of our directors said, You can't expect us to stick our necks out.
Balconies? What for?
Because it's great.
Because it's not what I did.
Because we're old friends...
Before you leave him will you help me with a problem of my own?
Build it as a monument to that spirit which is yours and could've been mine.
But after all, we are your clients, and it's your job to serve us.
But Cortlandt Homes is to be the greatest of all housing projects.
But he fought for modern architecture...
But he left them a gift they had not conceived.
But I do not care ever to see you again.
But I don't think of you.
But I want to help you.
But I was afraid you wouldn't do an unimportant gas station...
But I was at the top. Why did I fall like that without any reason?
But I won't be there to see it happen.
But I'm in trouble. We need some excitement to boost circulation.
But it has achieved my purpose.
But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
But its appearance is not of any known style.
But now I believe nothing will take you away from me...
But since you know who I am, you'd better stop looking at me when I come here.
But surely you're not in favor of so called modern architecture?
But this is mine. Here I'm safe.
But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people.
But we can't depart from the popular forms of architecture.
But what are we going to do?
But why shouldn't we have any say at all?
But you had no right to do this!
But you had years torn out of your life, wasted by the Banner.
But you haven't tried to find me in all these months.
But you knew that, of course. That's what you wanted me to live through.
But you may try if you wish.
But you used to say I was the greatest architect living.
But you were working like a convict in a granite quarry.
But you're not my only expert, Mr. Toohey. You have a rival.
But you're right. I was apologizing. You see, I need you.
But you've accepted my design.
But, Peter, do you imagine you could design Cortlandt?
By the time you come to trial, no jury will convict you.
Call up my office in the morning, and we'll sign the contract.
Can a man sacrifice his integrity his rights, his freedom...
Can I equal your courage, am I still afraid for you...
Can you wait a little longer?
Can your buildings stand by the side of his?
Certainly, Miss Francon.
Come in.
Come in.
Come inside.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on. Who designed Cortlandt?
Cortlandt Homes has to be the most brilliant product...
Darling.
Dead things...
Design the kind of buildings everybody does, then you'll be rich, famous.
Didn't you know broken glass is dangerous?
Do the police believe that I was only an innocent bystander?
Do you know how much it means to me?
Do you know the big problem in housing? Economy.
Do you know what I was doing when you came in?
Do you remember?
Do you still want me to have dinner with you tonight?
Do you think I pick artworks by their signatures?
Do you think the Enright House is your beginning?
Do you think you could do that?
Do you want to end up this way?
Do you want to leave me?
Do you want to stand alone against the whole world?
Do you wish to call it that? I think it was a victory for both of us.
Do you wish to defy our common standards?
Dominique won't admit it, but she admires your buildings. She understands them.
Dominique, do you see why I love the Banner? I hold power.
Dominique, I would give you anything I owned...
Dominique, if I'm convicted...
Dominique, what is it?
Dominique, you look very beautiful tonight.
Don't be astonished, ask yourself, is there any reason for you to be at the top?
Don't be selfish. Besides, three minds are better than one.
Don't expect me to change it.
Don't forget that this is not a Wynand project.
Don't laugh. I can. I'll cook, I'll wash your clothes, I'll scrub the floor...
Don't offer me bribes. It's a battle I've waited for all my life.
Don't really care one way or another.
Don't say it.
Don't tell him. Say Gail did.
Don't try to, Mr. Wynand.
Don't you have to work?
Don't you know why?
Don't you see he doesn't have a chance against them?
Don't you see why I can't stand it now?
Don't you want to convince me?
Drive up to Cortlandt Monday night at 11:30.
Ellsworth Toohey got a confession from Peter Keating.
Ellsworth Toohey is very anxious to get the commission for Peter Keating.
Ellsworth, what are you after?
Ellsworth, you're wonderful.
Ellsworth.
Ever since I saw the Enright House, I knew you were the man I wanted.
Every horror and destruction...
Every new thought was opposed...
Everybody believes you were at the scene by accident.
Everybody had authority and nobody.
Everybody would say you're a fool.
Everyone will help you...
Everything I've built was stolen from you and men like you before us.
Everything was against you. How'd you break through?
Everything we have, every great achievement...
Far from the city. I bought the land. A place in Connecticut, 500 acres.
Father let me have his house all to myself.
For a popular newspaper, it's suicide!
For all the years we'll have to wait.
For any reason you care to imagine.
For once, I'll fight for what I believe.
For the same reason you've been staring at me.
For the same reason you've been staring at me.
Foreman.
Forgive me.
Freedom: to want nothing, to expect nothing, to depend on nothing.
Further, you are instructed that the extent of the monetary loss...
Gail Wynand gives people what they ask for:
Gail Wynand's Banner the foulest newspaper on earth.
Gail, are you out of your mind, defending that...?
Gail, don't give in to them. Don't give in.
Gail, Gail, it's no use.
Gail, give me back my old job.
Gail, if you'll stand by him today...
Gail, is this an obsession?
Gail, what are we gonna do? I can't get anyone.
Gail.
Generally, there are three kinds of marble: The white, the onyx and the green.
Get me an ambulance.
Get your Banner. Read all about it.
Get your morning Banner. Read all about it.
Give in or close the Banner.
Give in. Compromise. Compromise now.
Give me all of them.
Give me that paper.
Gives me the creeps. Looks just like slabs in the cemetery.
Go ahead.
Go ahead. Try it. You'll find that you can't sue us.
Go home, Peter.
God gave you eyes and a mind to use. If you fail to do so, the loss is yours not mine.
Good afternoon, Miss Francon. How are you?
Good evening, Miss Francon. You sent for me?
Good heavens, no.
Good luck.
Good night.
Good night.
Great men can't be ruled.
Guess nobody buys the Banner anymore.
Had I been in town, I'd have done the same.
Has any other client come to you?
Has he? That's a right I'll never grant to anyone on earth.
Have that run off and set up on tomorrow's front page.
Have you studied the floor plans of the house?
Haven't you always fought for his work?
Haven't you ever loved anyone?
He claims that man is only a tool for the use of others...
He comes on earth unarmed.
He could afford to be generous. I don't accept generosity.
He deals with men by free exchange and voluntary choice.
He doesn't care about that but stand by him.
He held his truth above all things and against all men.
He knows he's won.
He lived for himself...
He must be nothing but a tool for the satisfaction of their needs.
He must not aspire to any virtue which cannot be shared.
He served nothing and no one.
He wants to bind all men together in common action and common slavery.
He was just some architect whom you threw to the mob.
He was probably burned at the stake, he taught his brothers to light.
He went ahead whether others agreed with him or not...
He'll move as he's told. He'll work as he's told.
He'll win in his own way.
He's not the only one. I'll never be given a job...
He's refused to make any statement.
He's sure to be popular.
He's the one who's earned the right to despise us.
Hello, Mr. Roark.
Hello. I've been waiting for you.
Here.
Here's all the dope on Cortlandt. Work out a preliminary scheme.
Highbrow stories about the bad art. Scare stories about the girders collapsing.
His brain is his only weapon, but the mind is an attribute of the individual.
His brothers hated the gift he offered.
His name is Howard Roark.
His truth was his only motive.
His work was his only goal.
How could you ever foresee a public trend so well?
How did you come in?
How do you do? What are you doing here?
How do you expect to go on?
How long can we go on like this?
How many years have you been on your own now?
How sorry, I'm leaving you to face them.
How to design a building that would rent at the lowest price possible.
Howard Roark is guilty by his very nature.
Howard Roark, the supreme egoist...
Howard Roark.
Howard, anything you ask. Anything.
Howard, every new idea in the world comes from the mind of some one man...
Howard, I never expected to feel gratitude to anyone...
Howard, I'm a parasite. I've been a parasite all my life.
Howard, it's no use!
Howard, look at those buildings.
Howard, that's where I was born, Hell's Kitchen.
Howard, you do me a favor.
Howard.
Howard. Look at... Look here. In this paper, won't you...
I admire your work more than anything I've ever seen.
I agreed to design it for the purpose of seeing it built as I wished.
I am an architect.
I am jealous...
I appreciate it.
I believe I am failing to sell you Peter Keating.
I believe you.
I built that.
I came here to be heard...
I came here to say that I do not recognize...
I can still do this...
I can't answer you now.
I can't let you. Don't you understand? I can't.
I can't save him. I have no power.
I can't share her with anyone or anything.
I can't stand this much longer.
I can't stand to see my wife among other people.
I can't understand how Ellsworth got so much power.
I can't understand how my own daughter can approve of this mess.
I chose to rule.
I couldn't help it, Howard.
I daresay nobody knows what I'm after.
I decided when I was 16 that that's where the Wynand building would stand...
I designed Cortlandt...
I didn't expect it to be easy, but those who want me will come to me.
I didn't know your name. You knew mine.
I didn't think anyone would waste time trying to tempt me again.
I didn't think it would make any difference to you who came, or did it, Miss Francon?
I didn't wanna be tied to anything. I wanted to destroy it rather than let it be...
I didn't want to disturb you.
I do not believe that slavery is noble.
I do not care to work or live on any others.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
I don't care what they think of architecture or anything else.
I don't give or ask for help.
I don't have to tell you that Guy Francon is the leading architect.
I don't know a single architect of ability.
I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
I don't know what to do. I give up.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know.
I don't need it.
I don't think so.
I don't want any fool visionaries starving around here.
I don't want any part of Gail Wynand's city!
I don't want to kill him. I want him in jail, behind bars, locked, strapped, beaten.
I don't want to leave anything to the world.
I dread to think of the fate of Howard Roark, whoever he is.
I exact no promises and impose no obligations.
I expected you to come here.
I failed you once because I was afraid to see you suffer.
I feel for the first time that I have a right to you.
I give you my word.
I had a statue which I found in Europe, the statue of a god.
I had no way to reach you. I was waiting for you to come back.
I had to let you learn to accept it.
I had to see you again... To see you alone.
I hate to see you brought down to this.
I have $14 left and...
I have bought from them the plans, the site, and the ruins of Cortlandt.
I have bought from them the plans, the site, and the ruins of Cortlandt.
I have closed my newspaper.
I have many years behind me to prove it.
I have no desire to help his career.
I have no pride left to stop me.
I have nothing to say about this building.
I haven't asked you whether you wanna do it.
I hoped I'd meet you someday, like this, alone.
I hoped you'd take note of that. I wanted to ask your advice...
I just fired my cook because I caught her reading the Banner.
I know how much I have to redeem. This will be my redemption.
I know how to fight it.
I know I can't do it. I've tried.
I know it.
I know it.
I know it. I accept it.
I know what is to come by the principle on which it is built.
I know what the Banner has done to you, but I stand by every word...
I know you've been kept waiting a long time...
I love you without dignity, without regret.
I love you, Roark.
I love you.
I loved it because it was a problem I wanted to solve.
I made an appointment for you, 3:00 this afternoon at his office.
I may be sent to the penitentiary for years. Does that frighten you?
I mean, because you must be tired.
I must let you learn it.
I must pick an architect for the Security Bank building. Whom would you recommend?
I needed you at the office. I found you absent.
I never expected you to forget and give in.
I never had any power.
I never hoped to get the chance.
I never knew anybody to survive one of the Banner's smear campaigns.
I never noticed it but he got his gang in little by little and now he owns them.
I never ran the Banner. They did.
I never thought he could win against you, but he has.
I never thought it'd be Gail who'd bring you back to me.
I never wanted a career on the Banner.
I ought to throw you out of here right now before it's too late.
I own most of it now. All those blocks.
I play the stock market of the spirit...
I quite believe you.
I ran out of gas. May I use your telephone, please?
I realize that. What was your reason?
I really don't care. One of those fashionable architects is just as inept as another.
I remember every line of it.
I rose out of the gutter by creating the Banner.
I said, give me all of them.
I sent Manning home. He was going to collapse.
I shall be proud to work for the Banner now.
I shall endeavor not to do so until the right time.
I should consult Dominique Francon, as well.
I should like to know whether the arrangement of the rooms is convenient.
I should like to meet Peter Keating.
I solemnly ask of every man who hears this case...
I started out in life as a coal miner. Got where I am by acting...
I suppose I'm one of those freaks you hear about.
I think I can promise you a definite answer tomorrow.
I think I was in love with it...
I think I will decide according to the advice of the Banner's Architectural Experts.
I think this is an atrocious fireplace.
I think you have a good idea, however.
I think you know it.
I thought, that you'd never give up your work for anyone.
I told them that the form of a building must follow its function.
I told you once that this building was to be a monument to my life.
I told you, Mr. Gail Wynand wants buildings that show a classical influence.
I tried it and lost.
I tried to fight. They pushed me from office to office.
I tried to forget you. I couldn't.
I want a house that will be only mine and hers.
I want her to see it and to thank you in person.
I want to stay with you.
I want you to design my future commercial structures...
I want you to know that I have very little respect for anything on earth.
I want you to marry me.
I want you to meet her before you design it.
I want you to take it out.
I wanted to state my terms.
I wanted you to find me and have to come to me.
I was afraid.
I was born in Hell's Kitchen.
I was engaged to Peter Keating...
I was just reminding you of what I once predicted.
I was not paid.
I was trying to tempt you, but I didn't find it amusing.
I wasn't a ruler of the mob. I was its tool.
I wasn't trying to jus...
I will have built Cortlandt.
I will not sacrifice it for anyone on earth.
I wish I could tell you it was a temptation.
I wish I had never seen your building. It's the things that we admire or want...
I wish to sign a contract to make you sole architect...
I won't allow it. It's my building. It's my design.
I won't demand your life, but it's nice to shock you.
I wouldn't know about that intellectual stuff. I play the stock market.
I...
I... I don't want to see what they'll do to you.
I... I thought you were my friend.
I... I took the liberty of bringing you some samples of Peter Keating's best work.
I... I wish I'd done this at your age.
I'd do anything to escape from you.
I'd like to find something you could want.
I'd like to see it decided between Mr. Wynand and yourself.
I'd rather work as a day laborer, if necessary.
I'd sell my soul for it.
I'll be glad if men who need it find a better manner of living in a house I build...
I'll be the first tenant to move in.
I'll find out.
I'll give a party to celebrate the opening of Enright House.
I'll give you up now myself rather than watch you destroyed...
I'll invite them: The press, the architects, the critics. Let them see.
I'll let you know when it comes. How much do I owe you?
I'll marry you.
I'll never want anything.
I'll order a new piece cut to measure and have it delivered to you.
I'll start to build it in a few years.
I'll take the disgrace, the scandal, the smears, anything.
I'll take this drawing home to show my wife.
I'll wait for you.
I'm a millionaire who's never owned anything. I've been public property...
I'm begging you, Mr. Wynand.
I'm designing a building right now where I can use an idea like this...
I'm even more grateful to you if he's made you jealous of me.
I'm fighting you, and I shall fight you in every way I can.
I'm glad he did it.
I'm glad you did it and that it was for him.
I'm going there so I won't have to see anyone.
I'm going to leave Gail.
I'm going to leave Gail.
I'm having a house designed for us.
I'm learning so many things I never expected to feel.
I'm not afraid of them any longer.
I'm not counting on public opinion one way or the other so don't be afraid for me.
I'm only an unofficial adviser to them.
I'm out here for the summer.
I'm perfectly happy with the drooling dolts I've got.
I'm pleading for a man's achievement. I'm pleading for greatness.
I'm sailing next week. I'll be gone all winter.
I'm saying it now for all the years we'll have to wait.
I'm saying it. Gail Wynand of Hell's Kitchen...
I'm sorry, but we find it impossible to give you the commission for our building.
I'm sorry, ma'am, but our phone's gone dead tonight.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sure Mr. Roark can't go on a yacht cruise.
I'm sure this is a joke, Mr. Wynand. Things like this aren't being done.
I'm sure we'll have no trouble, Mr. Wynand.
I'm sure you know that I seek nothing for myself, Mr. Wynand.
I'm sure you're anxious to finish and get out of here.
I've always wanted to build a large scale project but I...
I've been denounced so much, it doesn't bother me anymore.
I've fed on you and hated you for it and I've come here to ask you to save me.
I've gone the limit. I'm at my wit's end.
I've got to invent a crusade and I don't know what on earth to crusade about.
I've had enough.
I've had less work each year. People are dropping me. Why?
I've looked at buildings all over the country. Every time I saw one that I liked...
I've loved you from the first moment I saw you, and you knew it.
I've meant to for years. Go with me.
I've met Mrs. Wynand some years ago.
I've never had an idea of my own.
I've never hired a good architect for any of the banks, hotels...
I've never set eyes on him. I don't know who he is nor care.
I've racked my brain, and I can't think of anything to denounce.
I've thought of the new inventions, the new materials...
I've tried never to ask favors of anyone...
I've waited for it from the day I was born. From the day you were born...
I've worked on the problem of low rent construction for years.
If I could get a great project to design...
If I ever decide to punish myself for some terrible guilt...
If I fell in love, it'd be like the statue of the Greek god again.
If I have, I feel as if I've been forgiven tonight.
If I wanted to delude myself, I'd think you were impatient to see me.
If it gives you pleasure that you're breaking me down...
If not, it'll have to wait over the weekend...
If that's what you want, I'm not going to interfere.
If they convict you...
If you accept, you will make a fortune.
If you can give them decent housing, you'd perform a noble deed.
If you can solve their problem, go to them and obtain the commission.
If you decide to do it, say nothing...
If you didn't, you'd be more astonished and much less angry.
If you don't give in, you'll save yourself and the Banner.
If you found another request to make of me, I like to be able to grant it.
If you found it amusing to tempt me by offering to help Peter's career...
If you give it up, I'll remain with you forever...
If you kill a man's sense of personal value, he'll submit.
If you let it be known what we mean to each other...
If you like it, I've fulfilled your husband's order.
If you want my work, you take it as it is...
If you'll sign a protest against the Enright House...
In a man like Howard Roark.
In order to stop me from joining you now?
In this instance, the price is that you break your engagement to Miss Francon.
Is a man who must be destroyed!
Is that what disturbs you about me, Peter?
Is that why you asked me to help you?
Is the architect a friend of yours?
Is there any reason why that should be my concern?
Isn't it unprecedented for you to come in person after one of your employees?
Isn't Mr. Roark the man you said you'd break?
It built circulation. Didn't it, Gail?
It can't end any other way. Save yourself from tragedy.
It cannot be subordinated to the needs, opinions, or wishes of others.
It doesn't.
It had to be said.
It has another name.
It is an ancient conflict.
It is designed by one Howard Roark, an incompetent amateur...
It is my duty as your dean to say you will never become an architect.
It is not an object of sacrifice.
It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all...
It is to be the tallest structure of the city.
It is whispered that he designed Cortlandt.
It leads to consequences which, once started, cannot be controlled.
It made the front page of the other daily so we had to go along.
It might be misunderstood.
It must be true to its own idea, have its own form and serve its own purpose.
It was a country where a man was free to seek his own happiness.
It was a perfectly futile gesture on my part.
It was because of a campaign...
It was believed that my work belonged to others to do with as they pleased.
It was his duty to sacrifice his own desires...
It was you who recommended Roark in the first place.
It will be my greatest gift to you.
It'd shock people. It's too different, too original.
It's a chance you've wanted for years.
It's a contemptible paper, isn't it?
It's a disconnect notice and in the drawer, you'll find an eviction notice.
It's a tremendous assignment, an unusual opportunity for an architect.
It's a wonderful idea. I know Wynand will okay it.
It's always safe to denounce the rich.
It's an unpaid electric light bill?
It's extremely cruel to be honest.
It's getting late.
It's good. Go ahead. Toohey can handle it.
It's great, Mr. Roark. It's wonderful.
It's mine now and yours. You'll rebuild it for me.
It's mine to take no part in what you're doing.
It's no use, Howard. Why don't you give up?
It's no use.
It's not jealousy. It's much more and much worse.
It's on the front pages tomorrow, including the Banner.
It's quite useless, my dear.
It's simple. You're supposed to slap my face.
It's such a magnificent opportunity. I'll do my best to please you.
It's the ingenuity of your plans that sold us on the building.
It's the worst storm of public fury I've ever seen.
It's turning more people against him.
It's very simple. All you do is copy it.
It's worthless because it's merely the work of a few unbridled individualists.
It's your death sentence.
It's your first test of a real issue, which...
It's your future.
It's your right to do as you wish.
Jackson quit, but we can do without him.
Just as you planned it.
Just listen. When I finish don't tell me whether you will help me or not.
Just one of the Banner's smear campaigns!
Keating has admitted Roark designed Cortlandt.
Keep still or I'll bash your teeth in.
Keep the change.
Kill their capacity to think and act on their own.
Leave it here. I'll have it removed.
Let them say what they please.
Let your verdict give us the answer.
Let's stop and think.
Living in a house you designed, seeing you constantly as a stranger...
Living in a house you designed, seeing you constantly as a stranger...
Look at history.
Look at the results.
Look. You see those people down there? You know what they think of architecture?
Man can be permitted to exist only in order to serve others.
Man cannot survive, except through his mind.
Mankind will never destroy itself, Mr. Wynand...
May I see Mr. Roark, please?
Maybe I wanted to honor you...
Maybe we're wrong about the world, you and I.
Me, I am... I'm through.
Miss Francon, may I present Howard Roark?
More than anything I was ever capable of wishing.
More than ever.
Morning Banner, sir. Read all about it.
Morning Banner. Paper, mister?
Mr. Francon, that stairway, it's not bad. It's a clever idea.
Mr. Gail Wynand.
Mr. Roark, I was away at the time of that campaign...
Mr. Roark, Mr. Gail Wynand wishes to know whether you could come to his office.
Mr. Roark, the commission is yours. The Board of Directors...
Mr. Roark, this interview is necessary but very difficult for me.
Mr. Roark, we can't argue about this.
Mr. Roark's way up on top.
Mr. Wynand's patronage will help you much more.
My building was disfigured at the whim of others who took the benefits of my work...
My congratulations. You've done a beautiful job.
My dear Toohey, don't confuse me with my readers.
My engagement?
My friends have the land, the money, the material...
My ideas are mine. Nobody else has a right to them except on my terms.
My last and greatest achievement will also be your greatest.
My only motive is a selfless concern for my fellow men.
My reward, my purpose, my life is the work itself.
My terms are a man's right...
My whole life and an unspeakable struggle have gone to make it.
My work done my way.
My yacht's been refitted. I'm planning a long cruise.
My youth.
Name a motive that would make me want to do it.
Never.
Next Monday night, I want you to drive up to the side of Cortlandt.
No appeal was left to me.
No building is unimportant. I'll build for any man who wants me.
No creator was prompted by a desire to please his brothers.
No matter what reason you choose for it.
No matter who makes the claim.
No one.
No, and I don't expect it.
No, and I never will.
No, don't ever hire an architect who's a genius.
No, I won't try to defend it.
No, Mrs. Wynand doesn't know anything about this. It's my own project.
No, never mind.
No, never mind.
No, no, no. Now, leave these here. Now get out.
No, you don't have to.
No? You don't wanna do that?
No.
No.
No.
No.
No. All these years, I've found some one man who wanted my work...
No. Go on.
No. I didn't come to make a request but to grant you one of yours.
No. I'll share whatever they do to you.
No. I've found we have a great deal in common, you and I.
No. No, I don't want to know his name.
No. That's not what I wanted to say. It's this:
No. The man who works for others without payment is a slave.
No. Why should I?
Nobody can break him.
Nobody can improve on the buildings of the past. One can only learn to copy them.
Nobody wants to work for the Banner. Nobody wants to read it.
Nobody's ever listened to me because nobody's ever respected me.
None at all.
Not at all. I had an ally I could trust.
Not guilty.
Not important enough to remember, was it, Gail?
Not in any form, nor for any purpose whatsoever.
Not so long as it does things such as this.
Nothing can be done in life without an idea.
Nothing else matters to me.
Nothing.
Now give me another one.
Now I think it would be best if you left.
Now I'll stand by you openly.
Now it's broken and has to be replaced.
Now there's a touch of the new and a touch of the old...
Now you know why I dynamited Cortlandt.
Now, don't frown. I'll fix a drink.
Now, if it were a serious cause, but for some fool dynamiter?
Now, listen to me.
Now, what else is there to be against?
Of course not. I merely wanted to show you that all men are corrupt, anyone be bought.
Of course, you don't have to and you don't have to accept.
Of course. I'll be glad to do it.
Oh, I know. He was a great architect 30 years ago.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Oh, it's no use pretending now.
Oh, well, yes, Miss Francon.
Oh, what's the use of talking? Let's go to work.
Oh, why don't you drop it?
Oh, yes, so I did.
On another man's work?
On one minor condition. Oh, it's just a small compromise...
One could never relax and feel homey. You know what I mean.
Only the constant reminder.
Or the ideals, if you prefer.
Originality is fine, but why go to extremes? There's always the middle course.
Our best boys. They're Toohey's best friends.
Our country, the noblest country in the history of men...
Our engagement helped you to become my father's partner.
Paper here. Read all about it. Paper, mister?
Particularly since I would have expected you to refuse the commission.
Peter Keating is a third rate architect.
Peter Keating.
Peter, before you can do things for people...
Pick another architect, of course.
Please act accordingly.
Please call off this campaign.
Please go.
Please listen carefully, Mr. Roark.
Please read the contract and sign it.
Please read this and sign it, if it meets with your approval.
Please sign both copies.
Please, Mr. Keating, do let us stop arguing.
Power. What do you think is power?
Pressure is a powerful factor.
Quite.
Ready with it, Mrs. Wynand?
Really? This house was designed by my father.
Remember how we started?
Remember? I told you once I'd rise.
Roark, do I mean nothing to you?
Roark, don't go with him.
Roark, don't you see? I don't want to leave you.
Roark, I know what you're going to do.
Roark, I know...
Roark, they'll destroy you.
Roark, this is sheer insanity.
Roark, yes or no?
Roark, you're everything I've always wanted.
Roark.
Roger, why did you bring him here?
Self sacrifice is the law of our age.
Self sacrifice, we drool, is the ultimate virtue.
Self sacrifice?
Selfish? Is that what they call me?
Shall I accept it as a tribute from Gail or from you?
Shall I telephone her home and ask her to come here at once?
Shall I tell you now what I think of this?
Shall we choose some other subject?
She resigned from the Banner to protest their attack on your building.
Skysc****rs, the greatest structural invention of man.
So that I wouldn't have to love it.
So we want to preserve your beautiful design...
So we've got three wonderful angles:
So you know my name.
So you want to work for Henry Cameron, huh?
So you were after power, Mr. Wynand...
Sob stories about the poor.