Is Ayn Rand hidden in here?

[BaalChatzaf]

[Reidy]

Maybe. Her occupation, glasses and hairdo are unmistakably Edith Head. Her stature recalls Linda Hunt. The accent and vocabulary might be Rand. Another, remoter possibility is Lotte Lenya in the early 60s movie of From Russia with Love.

[Jonathan]

The accent and vocabulary might be Rand.

The accent, vocabulary, and attitude.

J

[Francisco Ferrer]

I think we can rule out Ayn Rand. As Reidy points out, the appearance and occupation are lifted directly from costume legend Edith Head.

 

As for the voice, director Brad Bird provided the vocal himself and has said that he was going for "half Japanese and half German."

 

An early 1950's interview with Head (at 0:36):

 

 

[BaalChatzaf]

Maybe. Her occupation, glasses and hairdo are unmistakably Edith Head. Her stature recalls Linda Hunt. The accent and vocabulary might be Rand. Another, remoter possibility is Lotte Lenya in the early 60s movie of From Russia with Love.

What about the house on the hill. Rand might have lived in something like that.

But I think it is mostly Edith Head.

[Reidy]

In fact she did live in such a house; http://www.architecturaldigest.com/architecture/archive/neutra_slideshow_072001

When the movie came out the LA Times ran an article noting that The Incredibles.is an exception to the rule that movies usually associate modern architecture with evil characters. LA Confidential is a case in point. The villain lives (and dies) in Neutra's Lovell house, his most famous.