5/9/2023 0 Comments The fountainhead novel![]() If life were a thousand times longer, it would still be too short to make any similar accommodation with Rand's turgid prose. ![]() I watched four series of The West Wing to confirm I couldn't stand the thing. I have read none of The Fountainhead and only around 150 pages of Atlas Shrugged. (With apologies to people who don't like Marmite.)Ī confession is due. ![]() You either hate her books or you're a maniac. Mentor to a thousand half-bright libertarians, she has – with turgid bullet-stoppers such as Atlas Shrugged – gradually emerged as a literary version of Marmite. The late Ms Rand is something else altogether. The director of Batman Vs Superman and Legend of the Sucker Punch has, not entirely unfairly, come to stand in for all that's wrong with big-budget, fan-servicing comic-book movies. There's something special about both these people. ![]() ![]() It's not just that a much-reviled director is taking on a much-reviled author. The phrase "Zack Snyder's The Fountainhead" reads like the answer to a question involving the words "worst ever…" on Mock the Week. The skinny that's got the cinema world abuzz concerns Zack Snyder's plan to direct a film version of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. Forget the non-news that Danny Boyle will be directing Daniel Craig in the next James Bond film. ![]()
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