The Fountainhead - The Movie

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

MSK:

~ Sorry, I must; her as well as him. She was not a born-lecturer. She was a born-writer. She didn't start lecturing until after she stopped writing (books, anyways.) Same for the Long-Playing intellectual...descendent. --- Now I'm getting confused as to whethr we're talking recording-devices and technology, or people and ideas.

LLAP

J:D

John,

I am talking specifically about Rand's earth-shattering ability to lecture before she was born. Maybe Peikoff couldn't, but he was not Rand.

(It that still seems weird, it is because I am poking light fun at Rand-worshipers.)

Michael

[John Dailey]

MSK:

~ Um, er, I must have missed those. What did she say...then? "Let there be 'thinking'"?

(A non-'worshipping', though 'revering', Admirer)

LLAP

J:D

Edited October 14, 2007 by John Dailey

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

John,

Don't you know anything? Before Rand was born, she proclaimed to the universe, "A shall be A."

And it was so.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

I decided to list the credits for The Making of the Fountainhead as a reference. Each screen shot will be in a different quote box.

THE MAKING OF THE FOUNTAINHEAD

OPENING CREDITS:

Warner Bros. Entertainments Inc.

Presents

A John Little/Robert Anderson

Film

THE MAKING OF

THE FOUNTAINHEAD

CLOSING CREDITS:

Narrated by

JOHN LITTLE

Edited by

JOHN LITTLE

&

ROBERT ANDERSON

Special Thanks

DR. LEONARD PEIKOFF

MIKE MENTZER

And Especially:

DENISE, KEVIN

& STEPHEN ANDERSON

TERRY, RILEY

TAYLOR, BRANDON

& BENJAMIN LITTLE

Northern River Productions Canada Inc.

(www.northernriverproductions.com)

© 2006 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

All Rights Reserved

So long as I had the DVD on, I decided to go ahead and give the full credits for The Fountainhead, also. The link I just gave goes to the IMDB credits page and gives a vastly more complete listing, including many performers and technicians who were not credited on screen.

THE FOUNTAINHEAD

OPENING CREDITS:

WARNER BROS. PICTURES

Presents

GARY COOPER

PATRICIA NEAL

IN

THE

FOUNTAINHEAD

a novel by

AYN RAND

with

RAYMOND MASSEY

KENT SMITH

ROBERT DOUGLAS

HENRY HULL

RAY COLLINS

MORONI OLSEN

JEROME COWAN

A Warner Bros. – First National Picture

Screen Play by

AYN RAND

From her Novel

“THE FOUNTAINHEAD”

Director of Photography

ROBERT BURKS, A.S.C.

Art Director . . EDWARD CARRERE

Film Editor . . . DAVID WEISBART

Sound by . . OLIVER S. GARRETSON

Dialogue Director . . JACK DANIELS

Set Decorator . . . WILLIAM KUEHL

Special Effects by

WILLIAM McGANN, Director

EDWIN DuPAR

HANS F. KOENEKAMP

JOHN HOLDEN, Art Director

Wardrobe by . . . MILO ANDERSON

Makeup Artist . . PERC WESTMORE

Orchestrations . . MURRAY CUTTER

(seal): IATSE (International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators)

(seal): RCA SOUND SYSTEM

(seal): APPROVED mpAA CERTIFICATE No. 13358

The story, all names, characters and incidents

portrayed in this production are fictitious. No

identification with actual persons, living or

dead, is intended or should be inferred.

Copyright MCMXLVIII by Warner Bros.

Pictures, Inc. All rights reserved.

Music by

MAX STEINER

Produced

by

HENRY BLANKE

Directed

by

KING VIDOR

CLOSING CREDITS:

THE END

A WARNER BROS. –

FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE

Michael

[william.scherk]

On 10/12/2007 at 1:05 PM, Selene said:

John Dailey said:

~ No two ways about it: whatever it's 'flaws' as one subjectively evaluates it in mere terms of 'likes-dislikes', this movie, then, as well as now, is heads-and-shoulders of a different and 'higher' calibre than most movies made before, then, and since. I said that Gary Cooper was 'adequate' in handling his part and I praised his co-actors higher re their handling theirs. I must add that, movie-buff that I am, I'm not aware of any other actor that YET can really handle (in a more 'believable' manner, which is not to be confused with "I'd prefer/like-more to see 'X' doing it" ) his part better than he did, regardless that some see Cooper as 'wooden' (not I) in doing it. --- An aside: maybe a thread should be started to distinguish the diff between someone showing passion...and, merely showing scene-chewing emoting.

~ If I didn't make it clear, Cooper was 'adequate'...and playing Roark: that's no small feat. God help the actor who plays Galt in the upcoming Atlas Shrugged.

Excellent observation regarding the "...diff between someone showing...passion...and, merely showing scene-chewing...emoting." Cooper did more with micro-facial actions and his total kinesics than most actors do with a "heart wrenching sob scene". I happened to sit in on my colleauge's "The Art of Oral Interpretation" course many years ago and chose Roark's jury summation as my end term performance project. Coop's cadence was not the best, but his iron certainty as to his principles connected to his legal contractual connection in his summation was stunning in its clarity. It took eight [8] minutes in the movie. I extended the time for cadence purposes when I did it and I was more animated. However, it is an intense speech and one of the most difficult tasks to perform it is to sustain it, which he did.

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