Imagine, Howard Roark is on trial for blowing up the public housing project he designed for his cuck friend Peter after realizing Peter changed the designs to include luxuries like a shared laundry room and playground for children. Howard makes a passionate plea to the judge that communism is bad and he was in the right to blow up the public housing project he designed. And the judge gives him the electric chair, the final shot is Howard saying "that's all folks" as a bag is put over his ginger face and he starts to fry, then a black circle closes in on his face and the words "THE END" appear on the screen. If anyone here is interested filming this scene pm me, I'll pay for plane tickets and I know of a couple abandoned courthouses that this could be shot in.

  • medium_adult_son [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If Zach Snyder makes The Fountainhead as accurately as he did Watchmen, I don't know how it would be recieved. It's easier to translate graphic novels and comics to the screen, but this interpretation of Ayn Rand would come straight from the Snyder brain.

    Most people ended up thinking Rorschach was a 100% good guy in the film version of Watchmen, but Americans are trained to think in black and white terms and Snyder made him look cool. Would he make Roark look cool?

    There's only so much a movie can do to portray socialism/collectivism as bad without looking cartoonish, especially when the contradictions are increasing in the 2020s. And the climax is the protagonist blowing up a fucking housing project because someone didn't respect his "creative vision" lol, this isn't capeshit where the hero saves the world.

    A book can use prose to make the reader feel that any action by the protagonist is justified, but if the movie isn't subtle about that it will be mocked for being libertarian propaganda. It has already been delayed due to public pushback. I'd rather the libs not treat the release of this movie as a horrible act, their hero Stacey Abrams said Atlas Shrugged was their favorite book after all.