Galt's Gulch

The Fountainhead on TV right now

Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 8 months ago to Movies
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Go to Turner Classic Movies. It is about half over as of 5 PM Eastern time.

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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 8 years, 8 months ago
    This is a movie that sorely needs to be redone, and because of any problems with the original.

    The movie is a classic, but the popular culture does not watch classics anymore. An update would get the work back in front of people again.

    Now... if we only knew a group of people that made film adaptations of Rand's works...
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 8 months ago
      Hollywood has gone remake crazy and I don't really care for a lot I have seen.
      But in the right hands, a remake of The Fountainhead is a great idea.
      I've heard folks say they do not like to watch anything in black-and-white.
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      • Posted by mccannon01 8 years, 8 months ago
        Agreed, allosaur. I grew up with b&w and have no such modern "fear" of it. I've seen some colorized b&w footage of other movies and documentaries, some good and some bad. Perhaps a quality colorized version of the original Fountainhead would be all that's needed. As for remakes, look what "they" did with "The Day The Earth Stood Still". The original b&w far outclasses the PC remake with Keanu Reeves, IMHO.
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        • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 8 months ago
          I actually felt offended by "The Day The Earth Stood Still" remake.
          Colorizing the original Fountainhead strikes me as a very good idea.
          I like the colorized original "King Kong" and the silent original "Phantom Of The Opera."
          I previously enjoyed both in b&w.
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          • Posted by mccannon01 8 years, 8 months ago
            Yes on your feelings towards the remake of "The Day The Earth Stood Still". I am very grateful I didn't spend any bucks to see it at the theater. Also glad I didn't buy the DVD when it first came out. I picked it up from the Walmart $5 bin and wasted the five bucks. I sat back with a few snacks and decided to watch the original and the remake back to back. First the original: Great movie! Well done! Then I watched the remake... I found myself so irritated at the spewing PC garbage tumbling out of my TV, I was actually yelling at the TV! YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!! WTF???!!! The whole thing was nothing more than a Hollywood left wing liberal regurgitation of whatever PC slime they were selling at the moment (not sure if they left anything out!). Even the "great" special effects scene where Gort blows up into a billion nano bugs was nothing more than a remake of a remake of "The Mummy" where all the bugs came spewing out of the mummy and everywhere else. At least the remake is a prime example of what the left wingnuts of Hollywood really think and want the rest of us to think right along with them. Riiiiight!
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            • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 8 months ago
              For me it was just snail mail Netflix rental. I average 4 DVDs a week,.
              I have a brother who gets snail-mailed 2 Blue Rays a week from Netflix in comparison.
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    • Posted by $ CBJ 8 years, 8 months ago
      I vote for a TV miniseries, and for the same reason as the proposed Atlas Shrugged miniseries. There is simply too much plot, character development and philosophical content to do justice to the novels in a single movie (or even three).
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  • Posted by PURB 8 years, 8 months ago
    I watch it almost every time it's on (as I did Sunday) even though I have it on DVD and VCR. (Contact Pen Ultimate Rare Books if you want a serious discount on the VCR tape.) I was astonished to hear Ben Mankiewicz (who pronounces her name correctly) liken Rand to Roark, given what I know of his disdain for her.
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  • Posted by editormichael 8 years, 5 months ago
    One of my Facebook "friends" -- now definitely an ex-friend -- got quite obscene and insulting when I praised the "Atlas Shrugged" Parts I and II.
    I told others who more calmly and civilly disagreed with me, "It's not Ayn Rand's book, but it's Ayn Rand's story."
    And, I pointed out that Rand herself wrote the screenplay for "The Fountainhead," and it also was not the book.
    In fact, I think it was not very good. So I agree it would be nice to see a re-make.
    And sometime soon, I will be watching "Atlas Shrugged" Part III, maybe starting tonight.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 8 months ago
    I've seen it so many times I can pretty much recite the words as the actors speak them. The thing that always impresses me is the perfect casting. I cannot imagine anyone else in the roles.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 8 years, 8 months ago
    Thanks for the heads-up, but I have it on DVD and loaded it into my iTunes library so I can watch it on Apple TV anytime I want without having to fool with the physical disk. Great movie!
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  • Posted by salta 8 years, 8 months ago
    My library has the DVD, have watched it several times.
    I'd like to see a rewrite with modern setting, which would be more appealing to a wider audience. The old movie is probably now only watched by those already interested in Rand.
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