The Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden

Author:Barbara Branden
Language: eng
Format: epub

39 Ayn was correct in believing that Pat had mixed feelings about her work. Years later, when William Buckley's conservative National Review published the most violently antagonistic of any review of Atlas Shrugged, Pat denounced Buckley for "his treatment of a woman of Ayn's genius and courage and honor" — and broke with him. She was, her friend Muriel Hall said, "thrilled with Ayn's ability to take an intellectual concept and translate it into fiction; 'I couldn't do that,' she said." But she disagreed with much of Ayn's philosophy — she believed that "Ayn was limiting her talents and taking herself out of the mainstream by that Objectivism philosophy" — and she disliked Ayn's literary style.

40 Critics do not agree that Vidor was a naturalist. In Coop, a biography of Gary Cooper, Stuart Kaminsky wrote: "The Vidor film [of The Fountainhead] is one of the most noteworthy of American films. It is one of the most antinaturalist films imaginable... There is almost no attempt in the film to make the dialogue or scenes conform to the prevailing American goal of 'realism.' ... Symbolism is overt with no apologies... The very decision to ignore so-called realism makes the film a strange and courageous effort, rather like a building by Howard Roark.

41 Many years later, a friend of mine who was a screenwriter arranged a meeting with Ayn to discuss his proposed screenplay of Atlas Shrugged. Before their meeting, I warned him — embarrassed but knowing it was necessary — that if he didn't shave his beard, he had no chance of getting the assignment.

42 The Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal reported that an indignant Frank Lloyd Wright said, after the movie was released: "Any move I make against such grossly abusive caricatures of my work by this film crew would only serve their purpose."

43 In 1950, Variety reported: "Politically intriguing is the word from London that 'The Fountainhead', which preaches rugged individualism, is mopping up in the United Kingdom's industrial areas, where the government is nationalizing the steel industry."

44 When Ayn learned from Henry Blanke that the cut had been made at the order of the front office, it was the end of her relationship with Warner Brothers. Furious, she called Alan Collins to say that when Atlas Shrugged was completed, it was never to be submitted to Warner Brothers.

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