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The Fountainhead (1949) The Fountainhead is a film from 1949, directed by King Vidor and based on the eponymous novel by

The Fountainhead (1949)

The Fountainhead is a film from 1949, directed by King Vidor and based on the eponymous novel by Ayn Rand. This thought-provoking drama explores the themes of individualism, capitalism, and the struggle to maintain creative integrity in a conformist society. Starring Gary Cooper as the enigmatic architect Howard Roark, the film delves into his uncompromising vision for innovative and original designs, all while battling against a collective mindset that seeks to suppress his individuality.

Opposite Cooper, Patricia Neal delivers a captivating performance as Dominique Francon, a complex and conflicted woman torn between her love for Roark and society's expectations. The chemistry between Cooper and Neal is electric, as their characters navigate a world that constantly challenges their beliefs and values.

Accompanied by a powerful score, The Fountainhead captures the essence of Rand's philosophical ideas and brings them to life on the silver screen. To immerse yourself in the soundscape of this remarkable film, you can play and download these sounds here.

A country house just for my wife and me.
A man abler than his brothers insults them by implication.
A man of integrity would do neither.
A model development for the whole world.
A temple to Dominique Wynand.
A totally selfless man.
A very interesting experiment.
A woman completely incapable of feeling.
After all, we're your board of directors. We have something to say.
After I'm gone, that building will be Gail Wynand.
After the kind of struggle you've had?
After two years of futile attempts to solve the problems involved...
All my things that you're keeping for me, I want you to burn them.
All my... My papers, my drawings, my contracts.
All our best architects have tried and failed.
All right, Howard.
All right, if that's what you want...
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right. Go on.
Alvah's column was a mess. I rewrote it.
Am I to understand you will choose Peter Keating?
An unpopular cause is dangerous business for anyone.
And a crusade against Wall Street.
And all those bills?
And he lifted darkness off the earth.
And he's maybe the most powerful man living.
And I felt it my duty to offer you my advice.
And I knew I'd never be in love.
And if I left the choice up to you?
And look at us now. Haven't you had enough of it?
And produces great big marble bromides.
And they keep growing every night.
And we must always compromise with the general taste. You understand that.
And what have you got to show for it?
And you must not tell him about us...
And you're not looking for ability, Mr. Wynand.
Any man who calls for me is my kind of man.
Anywhere, so long as I build my way.
Are you admitting defeat? Both of you?
Are you gonna leave me?
Are you reproaching me for the Banner?
Are you sure of it, Gail?
Are you waiting for something, Howard?
Arrest me. I'll talk at the trial.
Artistic value is achieved collectively...
As an expert in architecture, nothing else.
As one of our directors said, You can't expect us to stick our necks out.
Balconies? What for?
Because it's great.
Because it's not what I did.
Because we're old friends...
Before you leave him will you help me with a problem of my own?
Build it as a monument to that spirit which is yours and could've been mine.
But after all, we are your clients, and it's your job to serve us.
But Cortlandt Homes is to be the greatest of all housing projects.
But he fought for modern architecture...
But he left them a gift they had not conceived.
But I do not care ever to see you again.
But I don't think of you.
But I want to help you.
But I was afraid you wouldn't do an unimportant gas station...
But I was at the top. Why did I fall like that without any reason?
But I won't be there to see it happen.
But I'm in trouble. We need some excitement to boost circulation.
But it has achieved my purpose.
But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
But its appearance is not of any known style.
But now I believe nothing will take you away from me...
But since you know who I am, you'd better stop looking at me when I come here.
But surely you're not in favor of so called modern architecture?
But this is mine. Here I'm safe.
But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people.
But we can't depart from the popular forms of architecture.
But what are we going to do?
But why shouldn't we have any say at all?
But you had no right to do this!
But you had years torn out of your life, wasted by the Banner.
But you haven't tried to find me in all these months.
But you knew that, of course. That's what you wanted me to live through.
But you may try if you wish.
But you used to say I was the greatest architect living.
But you were working like a convict in a granite quarry.
But you're not my only expert, Mr. Toohey. You have a rival.
But you're right. I was apologizing. You see, I need you.
But you've accepted my design.
But, Peter, do you imagine you could design Cortlandt?
By the time you come to trial, no jury will convict you.
Call up my office in the morning, and we'll sign the contract.
Can a man sacrifice his integrity his rights, his freedom...
Can I equal your courage, am I still afraid for you...
Can you wait a little longer?
Can your buildings stand by the side of his?
Certainly, Miss Francon.
Come in.
Come in.
Come inside.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on. Who designed Cortlandt?
Cortlandt Homes has to be the most brilliant product...
Darling.
Dead things...
Design the kind of buildings everybody does, then you'll be rich, famous.
Didn't you know broken glass is dangerous?
Do the police believe that I was only an innocent bystander?
Do you know how much it means to me?
Do you know the big problem in housing? Economy.
Do you know what I was doing when you came in?
Do you remember?
Do you still want me to have dinner with you tonight?
Do you think I pick artworks by their signatures?
Do you think the Enright House is your beginning?
Do you think you could do that?
Do you want to end up this way?
Do you want to leave me?
Do you want to stand alone against the whole world?
Do you wish to call it that? I think it was a victory for both of us.
Do you wish to defy our common standards?
Dominique won't admit it, but she admires your buildings. She understands them.
Dominique, do you see why I love the Banner? I hold power.
Dominique, I would give you anything I owned...
Dominique, if I'm convicted...
Dominique, what is it?
Dominique, you look very beautiful tonight.
Don't be astonished, ask yourself, is there any reason for you to be at the top?
Don't be selfish. Besides, three minds are better than one.
Don't expect me to change it.
Don't forget that this is not a Wynand project.
Don't laugh. I can. I'll cook, I'll wash your clothes, I'll scrub the floor...
Don't offer me bribes. It's a battle I've waited for all my life.
Don't really care one way or another.
Don't say it.
Don't tell him. Say Gail did.
Don't try to, Mr. Wynand.
Don't you have to work?
Don't you know why?
Don't you see he doesn't have a chance against them?
Don't you see why I can't stand it now?
Don't you want to convince me?
Drive up to Cortlandt Monday night at 11:30.
Ellsworth Toohey got a confession from Peter Keating.
Ellsworth Toohey is very anxious to get the commission for Peter Keating.
Ellsworth, what are you after?
Ellsworth, you're wonderful.
Ellsworth.
Ever since I saw the Enright House, I knew you were the man I wanted.
Every horror and destruction...
Every new thought was opposed...
Everybody believes you were at the scene by accident.
Everybody had authority and nobody.
Everybody would say you're a fool.
Everyone will help you...
Everything I've built was stolen from you and men like you before us.
Everything was against you. How'd you break through?
Everything we have, every great achievement...
Far from the city. I bought the land. A place in Connecticut, 500 acres.
Father let me have his house all to myself.
For a popular newspaper, it's suicide!
For all the years we'll have to wait.
For any reason you care to imagine.
For once, I'll fight for what I believe.
For the same reason you've been staring at me.
For the same reason you've been staring at me.
Foreman.
Forgive me.
Freedom: to want nothing, to expect nothing, to depend on nothing.
Further, you are instructed that the extent of the monetary loss...
Gail Wynand gives people what they ask for:
Gail Wynand's Banner the foulest newspaper on earth.
Gail, are you out of your mind, defending that...?
Gail, don't give in to them. Don't give in.
Gail, Gail, it's no use.
Gail, give me back my old job.
Gail, if you'll stand by him today...
Gail, is this an obsession?
Gail, what are we gonna do? I can't get anyone.
Gail.
Generally, there are three kinds of marble: The white, the onyx and the green.
Get me an ambulance.
Get your Banner. Read all about it.
Get your morning Banner. Read all about it.
Give in or close the Banner.
Give in. Compromise. Compromise now.
Give me all of them.
Give me that paper.
Gives me the creeps. Looks just like slabs in the cemetery.
Go ahead.
Go ahead. Try it. You'll find that you can't sue us.
Go home, Peter.
God gave you eyes and a mind to use. If you fail to do so, the loss is yours not mine.
Good afternoon, Miss Francon. How are you?
Good evening, Miss Francon. You sent for me?
Good heavens, no.
Good luck.
Good night.
Good night.
Great men can't be ruled.
Guess nobody buys the Banner anymore.
Had I been in town, I'd have done the same.
Has any other client come to you?
Has he? That's a right I'll never grant to anyone on earth.
Have that run off and set up on tomorrow's front page.
Have you studied the floor plans of the house?
Haven't you always fought for his work?
Haven't you ever loved anyone?
He claims that man is only a tool for the use of others...
He comes on earth unarmed.
He could afford to be generous. I don't accept generosity.
He deals with men by free exchange and voluntary choice.
He doesn't care about that but stand by him.
He held his truth above all things and against all men.
He knows he's won.
He lived for himself...
He must be nothing but a tool for the satisfaction of their needs.
He must not aspire to any virtue which cannot be shared.
He served nothing and no one.
He wants to bind all men together in common action and common slavery.
He was just some architect whom you threw to the mob.
He was probably burned at the stake, he taught his brothers to light.
He went ahead whether others agreed with him or not...
He'll move as he's told. He'll work as he's told.
He'll win in his own way.
He's not the only one. I'll never be given a job...
He's refused to make any statement.
He's sure to be popular.
He's the one who's earned the right to despise us.
Hello, Mr. Roark.
Hello. I've been waiting for you.
Here.
Here's all the dope on Cortlandt. Work out a preliminary scheme.
Highbrow stories about the bad art. Scare stories about the girders collapsing.
His brain is his only weapon, but the mind is an attribute of the individual.
His brothers hated the gift he offered.
His name is Howard Roark.
His truth was his only motive.
His work was his only goal.
How could you ever foresee a public trend so well?
How did you come in?
How do you do? What are you doing here?
How do you expect to go on?
How long can we go on like this?
How many years have you been on your own now?
How sorry, I'm leaving you to face them.
How to design a building that would rent at the lowest price possible.
Howard Roark is guilty by his very nature.
Howard Roark, the supreme egoist...
Howard Roark.
Howard, anything you ask. Anything.
Howard, every new idea in the world comes from the mind of some one man...
Howard, I never expected to feel gratitude to anyone...
Howard, I'm a parasite. I've been a parasite all my life.
Howard, it's no use!
Howard, look at those buildings.
Howard, that's where I was born, Hell's Kitchen.
Howard, you do me a favor.
Howard.
Howard. Look at... Look here. In this paper, won't you...
I admire your work more than anything I've ever seen.
I agreed to design it for the purpose of seeing it built as I wished.
I am an architect.
I am jealous...
I appreciate it.
I believe I am failing to sell you Peter Keating.
I believe you.
I built that.
I came here to be heard...
I came here to say that I do not recognize...
I can still do this...
I can't answer you now.
I can't let you. Don't you understand? I can't.
I can't save him. I have no power.
I can't share her with anyone or anything.
I can't stand this much longer.
I can't stand to see my wife among other people.
I can't understand how Ellsworth got so much power.
I can't understand how my own daughter can approve of this mess.
I chose to rule.
I couldn't help it, Howard.
I daresay nobody knows what I'm after.
I decided when I was 16 that that's where the Wynand building would stand...
I designed Cortlandt...
I didn't expect it to be easy, but those who want me will come to me.
I didn't know your name. You knew mine.
I didn't think anyone would waste time trying to tempt me again.
I didn't think it would make any difference to you who came, or did it, Miss Francon?
I didn't wanna be tied to anything. I wanted to destroy it rather than let it be...
I didn't want to disturb you.
I do not believe that slavery is noble.
I do not care to work or live on any others.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
I don't care what they think of architecture or anything else.
I don't give or ask for help.
I don't have to tell you that Guy Francon is the leading architect.
I don't know a single architect of ability.
I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
I don't know what to do. I give up.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know.
I don't need it.
I don't think so.
I don't want any fool visionaries starving around here.
I don't want any part of Gail Wynand's city!
I don't want to kill him. I want him in jail, behind bars, locked, strapped, beaten.
I don't want to leave anything to the world.
I dread to think of the fate of Howard Roark, whoever he is.
I exact no promises and impose no obligations.
I expected you to come here.
I failed you once because I was afraid to see you suffer.
I feel for the first time that I have a right to you.
I give you my word.
I had a statue which I found in Europe, the statue of a god.
I had no way to reach you. I was waiting for you to come back.
I had to let you learn to accept it.
I had to see you again... To see you alone.
I hate to see you brought down to this.
I have $14 left and...
I have bought from them the plans, the site, and the ruins of Cortlandt.
I have bought from them the plans, the site, and the ruins of Cortlandt.
I have closed my newspaper.
I have many years behind me to prove it.
I have no desire to help his career.
I have no pride left to stop me.
I have nothing to say about this building.
I haven't asked you whether you wanna do it.
I hoped I'd meet you someday, like this, alone.
I hoped you'd take note of that. I wanted to ask your advice...
I just fired my cook because I caught her reading the Banner.
I know how much I have to redeem. This will be my redemption.
I know how to fight it.
I know I can't do it. I've tried.
I know it.
I know it.
I know it. I accept it.
I know what is to come by the principle on which it is built.
I know what the Banner has done to you, but I stand by every word...
I know you've been kept waiting a long time...
I love you without dignity, without regret.
I love you, Roark.
I love you.
I loved it because it was a problem I wanted to solve.
I made an appointment for you, 3:00 this afternoon at his office.
I may be sent to the penitentiary for years. Does that frighten you?
I mean, because you must be tired.
I must let you learn it.
I must pick an architect for the Security Bank building. Whom would you recommend?
I needed you at the office. I found you absent.
I never expected you to forget and give in.
I never had any power.
I never hoped to get the chance.
I never knew anybody to survive one of the Banner's smear campaigns.
I never noticed it but he got his gang in little by little and now he owns them.
I never ran the Banner. They did.
I never thought he could win against you, but he has.
I never thought it'd be Gail who'd bring you back to me.
I never wanted a career on the Banner.
I ought to throw you out of here right now before it's too late.
I own most of it now. All those blocks.
I play the stock market of the spirit...
I quite believe you.
I ran out of gas. May I use your telephone, please?
I realize that. What was your reason?
I really don't care. One of those fashionable architects is just as inept as another.
I remember every line of it.
I rose out of the gutter by creating the Banner.
I said, give me all of them.
I sent Manning home. He was going to collapse.
I shall be proud to work for the Banner now.
I shall endeavor not to do so until the right time.
I should consult Dominique Francon, as well.
I should like to know whether the arrangement of the rooms is convenient.
I should like to meet Peter Keating.
I solemnly ask of every man who hears this case...
I started out in life as a coal miner. Got where I am by acting...
I suppose I'm one of those freaks you hear about.
I think I can promise you a definite answer tomorrow.
I think I was in love with it...
I think I will decide according to the advice of the Banner's Architectural Experts.
I think this is an atrocious fireplace.
I think you have a good idea, however.
I think you know it.
I thought, that you'd never give up your work for anyone.
I told them that the form of a building must follow its function.
I told you once that this building was to be a monument to my life.
I told you, Mr. Gail Wynand wants buildings that show a classical influence.
I tried it and lost.
I tried to fight. They pushed me from office to office.
I tried to forget you. I couldn't.
I want a house that will be only mine and hers.
I want her to see it and to thank you in person.
I want to stay with you.
I want you to design my future commercial structures...
I want you to know that I have very little respect for anything on earth.
I want you to marry me.
I want you to meet her before you design it.
I want you to take it out.
I wanted to state my terms.
I wanted you to find me and have to come to me.
I was afraid.
I was born in Hell's Kitchen.
I was engaged to Peter Keating...
I was just reminding you of what I once predicted.
I was not paid.
I was trying to tempt you, but I didn't find it amusing.
I wasn't a ruler of the mob. I was its tool.
I wasn't trying to jus...
I will have built Cortlandt.
I will not sacrifice it for anyone on earth.
I wish I could tell you it was a temptation.
I wish I had never seen your building. It's the things that we admire or want...
I wish to sign a contract to make you sole architect...
I won't allow it. It's my building. It's my design.
I won't demand your life, but it's nice to shock you.
I wouldn't know about that intellectual stuff. I play the stock market.
I...
I... I don't want to see what they'll do to you.
I... I thought you were my friend.
I... I took the liberty of bringing you some samples of Peter Keating's best work.
I... I wish I'd done this at your age.
I'd do anything to escape from you.
I'd like to find something you could want.
I'd like to see it decided between Mr. Wynand and yourself.
I'd rather work as a day laborer, if necessary.
I'd sell my soul for it.
I'll be glad if men who need it find a better manner of living in a house I build...
I'll be the first tenant to move in.
I'll find out.
I'll give a party to celebrate the opening of Enright House.
I'll give you up now myself rather than watch you destroyed...
I'll invite them: The press, the architects, the critics. Let them see.
I'll let you know when it comes. How much do I owe you?
I'll marry you.
I'll never want anything.
I'll order a new piece cut to measure and have it delivered to you.
I'll start to build it in a few years.
I'll take the disgrace, the scandal, the smears, anything.
I'll take this drawing home to show my wife.
I'll wait for you.
I'm a millionaire who's never owned anything. I've been public property...
I'm begging you, Mr. Wynand.
I'm designing a building right now where I can use an idea like this...
I'm even more grateful to you if he's made you jealous of me.
I'm fighting you, and I shall fight you in every way I can.
I'm glad he did it.
I'm glad you did it and that it was for him.
I'm going there so I won't have to see anyone.
I'm going to leave Gail.
I'm going to leave Gail.
I'm having a house designed for us.
I'm learning so many things I never expected to feel.
I'm not afraid of them any longer.
I'm not counting on public opinion one way or the other so don't be afraid for me.
I'm only an unofficial adviser to them.
I'm out here for the summer.
I'm perfectly happy with the drooling dolts I've got.
I'm pleading for a man's achievement. I'm pleading for greatness.
I'm sailing next week. I'll be gone all winter.
I'm saying it now for all the years we'll have to wait.
I'm saying it. Gail Wynand of Hell's Kitchen...
I'm sorry, but we find it impossible to give you the commission for our building.
I'm sorry, ma'am, but our phone's gone dead tonight.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sure Mr. Roark can't go on a yacht cruise.
I'm sure this is a joke, Mr. Wynand. Things like this aren't being done.
I'm sure we'll have no trouble, Mr. Wynand.
I'm sure you know that I seek nothing for myself, Mr. Wynand.
I'm sure you're anxious to finish and get out of here.
I've always wanted to build a large scale project but I...
I've been denounced so much, it doesn't bother me anymore.
I've fed on you and hated you for it and I've come here to ask you to save me.
I've gone the limit. I'm at my wit's end.
I've got to invent a crusade and I don't know what on earth to crusade about.
I've had enough.
I've had less work each year. People are dropping me. Why?
I've looked at buildings all over the country. Every time I saw one that I liked...
I've loved you from the first moment I saw you, and you knew it.
I've meant to for years. Go with me.
I've met Mrs. Wynand some years ago.
I've never had an idea of my own.
I've never hired a good architect for any of the banks, hotels...
I've never set eyes on him. I don't know who he is nor care.
I've racked my brain, and I can't think of anything to denounce.
I've thought of the new inventions, the new materials...
I've tried never to ask favors of anyone...
I've waited for it from the day I was born. From the day you were born...
I've worked on the problem of low rent construction for years.
If I could get a great project to design...
If I ever decide to punish myself for some terrible guilt...
If I fell in love, it'd be like the statue of the Greek god again.
If I have, I feel as if I've been forgiven tonight.
If I wanted to delude myself, I'd think you were impatient to see me.
If it gives you pleasure that you're breaking me down...
If not, it'll have to wait over the weekend...
If that's what you want, I'm not going to interfere.
If they convict you...
If you accept, you will make a fortune.
If you can give them decent housing, you'd perform a noble deed.
If you can solve their problem, go to them and obtain the commission.
If you decide to do it, say nothing...
If you didn't, you'd be more astonished and much less angry.
If you don't give in, you'll save yourself and the Banner.
If you found another request to make of me, I like to be able to grant it.
If you found it amusing to tempt me by offering to help Peter's career...
If you give it up, I'll remain with you forever...
If you kill a man's sense of personal value, he'll submit.
If you let it be known what we mean to each other...
If you like it, I've fulfilled your husband's order.
If you want my work, you take it as it is...
If you'll sign a protest against the Enright House...
In a man like Howard Roark.
In order to stop me from joining you now?
In this instance, the price is that you break your engagement to Miss Francon.
Is a man who must be destroyed!
Is that what disturbs you about me, Peter?
Is that why you asked me to help you?
Is the architect a friend of yours?
Is there any reason why that should be my concern?
Isn't it unprecedented for you to come in person after one of your employees?
Isn't Mr. Roark the man you said you'd break?
It built circulation. Didn't it, Gail?
It can't end any other way. Save yourself from tragedy.
It cannot be subordinated to the needs, opinions, or wishes of others.
It doesn't.
It had to be said.
It has another name.
It is an ancient conflict.
It is designed by one Howard Roark, an incompetent amateur...
It is my duty as your dean to say you will never become an architect.
It is not an object of sacrifice.
It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all...
It is to be the tallest structure of the city.
It is whispered that he designed Cortlandt.
It leads to consequences which, once started, cannot be controlled.
It made the front page of the other daily so we had to go along.
It might be misunderstood.
It must be true to its own idea, have its own form and serve its own purpose.
It was a country where a man was free to seek his own happiness.
It was a perfectly futile gesture on my part.
It was because of a campaign...
It was believed that my work belonged to others to do with as they pleased.
It was his duty to sacrifice his own desires...
It was you who recommended Roark in the first place.
It will be my greatest gift to you.
It'd shock people. It's too different, too original.
It's a chance you've wanted for years.
It's a contemptible paper, isn't it?
It's a disconnect notice and in the drawer, you'll find an eviction notice.
It's a tremendous assignment, an unusual opportunity for an architect.
It's a wonderful idea. I know Wynand will okay it.
It's always safe to denounce the rich.
It's an unpaid electric light bill?
It's extremely cruel to be honest.
It's getting late.
It's good. Go ahead. Toohey can handle it.
It's great, Mr. Roark. It's wonderful.
It's mine now and yours. You'll rebuild it for me.
It's mine to take no part in what you're doing.
It's no use, Howard. Why don't you give up?
It's no use.
It's not jealousy. It's much more and much worse.
It's on the front pages tomorrow, including the Banner.
It's quite useless, my dear.
It's simple. You're supposed to slap my face.
It's such a magnificent opportunity. I'll do my best to please you.
It's the ingenuity of your plans that sold us on the building.
It's the worst storm of public fury I've ever seen.
It's turning more people against him.
It's very simple. All you do is copy it.
It's worthless because it's merely the work of a few unbridled individualists.
It's your death sentence.
It's your first test of a real issue, which...
It's your future.
It's your right to do as you wish.
Jackson quit, but we can do without him.
Just as you planned it.
Just listen. When I finish don't tell me whether you will help me or not.
Just one of the Banner's smear campaigns!
Keating has admitted Roark designed Cortlandt.
Keep still or I'll bash your teeth in.
Keep the change.
Kill their capacity to think and act on their own.
Leave it here. I'll have it removed.
Let them say what they please.
Let your verdict give us the answer.
Let's stop and think.
Living in a house you designed, seeing you constantly as a stranger...
Living in a house you designed, seeing you constantly as a stranger...
Look at history.
Look at the results.
Look. You see those people down there? You know what they think of architecture?
Man can be permitted to exist only in order to serve others.
Man cannot survive, except through his mind.
Mankind will never destroy itself, Mr. Wynand...
May I see Mr. Roark, please?
Maybe I wanted to honor you...
Maybe we're wrong about the world, you and I.
Me, I am... I'm through.
Miss Francon, may I present Howard Roark?
More than anything I was ever capable of wishing.
More than ever.
Morning Banner, sir. Read all about it.
Morning Banner. Paper, mister?
Mr. Francon, that stairway, it's not bad. It's a clever idea.
Mr. Gail Wynand.
Mr. Roark, I was away at the time of that campaign...
Mr. Roark, Mr. Gail Wynand wishes to know whether you could come to his office.
Mr. Roark, the commission is yours. The Board of Directors...
Mr. Roark, this interview is necessary but very difficult for me.
Mr. Roark, we can't argue about this.
Mr. Roark's way up on top.
Mr. Wynand's patronage will help you much more.
My building was disfigured at the whim of others who took the benefits of my work...
My congratulations. You've done a beautiful job.
My dear Toohey, don't confuse me with my readers.
My engagement?
My friends have the land, the money, the material...
My ideas are mine. Nobody else has a right to them except on my terms.
My last and greatest achievement will also be your greatest.
My only motive is a selfless concern for my fellow men.
My reward, my purpose, my life is the work itself.
My terms are a man's right...
My whole life and an unspeakable struggle have gone to make it.
My work done my way.
My yacht's been refitted. I'm planning a long cruise.
My youth.
Name a motive that would make me want to do it.
Never.
Next Monday night, I want you to drive up to the side of Cortlandt.
No appeal was left to me.
No building is unimportant. I'll build for any man who wants me.
No creator was prompted by a desire to please his brothers.
No matter what reason you choose for it.
No matter who makes the claim.
No one.
No, and I don't expect it.
No, and I never will.
No, don't ever hire an architect who's a genius.
No, I won't try to defend it.
No, Mrs. Wynand doesn't know anything about this. It's my own project.
No, never mind.
No, never mind.
No, no, no. Now, leave these here. Now get out.
No, you don't have to.
No? You don't wanna do that?
No.
No.
No.
No.
No. All these years, I've found some one man who wanted my work...
No. Go on.
No. I didn't come to make a request but to grant you one of yours.
No. I'll share whatever they do to you.
No. I've found we have a great deal in common, you and I.
No. No, I don't want to know his name.
No. That's not what I wanted to say. It's this:
No. The man who works for others without payment is a slave.
No. Why should I?
Nobody can break him.
Nobody can improve on the buildings of the past. One can only learn to copy them.
Nobody wants to work for the Banner. Nobody wants to read it.
Nobody's ever listened to me because nobody's ever respected me.
None at all.
Not at all. I had an ally I could trust.
Not guilty.
Not important enough to remember, was it, Gail?
Not in any form, nor for any purpose whatsoever.
Not so long as it does things such as this.
Nothing can be done in life without an idea.
Nothing else matters to me.
Nothing.
Now give me another one.
Now I think it would be best if you left.
Now I'll stand by you openly.
Now it's broken and has to be replaced.
Now there's a touch of the new and a touch of the old...
Now you know why I dynamited Cortlandt.
Now, don't frown. I'll fix a drink.
Now, if it were a serious cause, but for some fool dynamiter?
Now, listen to me.
Now, what else is there to be against?
Of course not. I merely wanted to show you that all men are corrupt, anyone be bought.
Of course, you don't have to and you don't have to accept.
Of course. I'll be glad to do it.
Oh, I know. He was a great architect 30 years ago.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Oh, it's no use pretending now.
Oh, well, yes, Miss Francon.
Oh, what's the use of talking? Let's go to work.
Oh, why don't you drop it?
Oh, yes, so I did.
On another man's work?
On one minor condition. Oh, it's just a small compromise...
One could never relax and feel homey. You know what I mean.
Only the constant reminder.
Or the ideals, if you prefer.
Originality is fine, but why go to extremes? There's always the middle course.
Our best boys. They're Toohey's best friends.
Our country, the noblest country in the history of men...
Our engagement helped you to become my father's partner.
Paper here. Read all about it. Paper, mister?
Particularly since I would have expected you to refuse the commission.
Peter Keating is a third rate architect.
Peter Keating.
Peter, before you can do things for people...
Pick another architect, of course.
Please act accordingly.
Please call off this campaign.
Please go.
Please listen carefully, Mr. Roark.
Please read the contract and sign it.
Please read this and sign it, if it meets with your approval.
Please sign both copies.
Please, Mr. Keating, do let us stop arguing.
Power. What do you think is power?
Pressure is a powerful factor.
Quite.
Ready with it, Mrs. Wynand?
Really? This house was designed by my father.
Remember how we started?
Remember? I told you once I'd rise.
Roark, do I mean nothing to you?
Roark, don't go with him.
Roark, don't you see? I don't want to leave you.
Roark, I know what you're going to do.
Roark, I know...
Roark, they'll destroy you.
Roark, this is sheer insanity.
Roark, yes or no?
Roark, you're everything I've always wanted.
Roark.
Roger, why did you bring him here?
Self sacrifice is the law of our age.
Self sacrifice, we drool, is the ultimate virtue.
Self sacrifice?
Selfish? Is that what they call me?
Shall I accept it as a tribute from Gail or from you?
Shall I telephone her home and ask her to come here at once?
Shall I tell you now what I think of this?
Shall we choose some other subject?
She resigned from the Banner to protest their attack on your building.
Skysc****rs, the greatest structural invention of man.
So that I wouldn't have to love it.
So we want to preserve your beautiful design...
So we've got three wonderful angles:
So you know my name.
So you want to work for Henry Cameron, huh?
So you were after power, Mr. Wynand...
Sob stories about the poor.
Solve the problem. I'll submit it and push it for all I'm worth.
Start work at once. Drop anything else you're doing.
Stay there. I'll come at once.
Stubborn and rich as blazes.
Such is the nature of achievement.
Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.
Sure will, young lady. Glad to.
Take a meaningless job.
Take these to the back room, pick up the wire flimsies and bring them.
Tell me, what would you consider as tempting?
Thank you, Miss Francon.
Thank you, Peter.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks.
That building is a magnificent architectural achievement.
That depends upon the strength of your adversary, Miss Francon.
That house means a great deal to me, and you're the only one who can design it.
That I want to stand alone? Is that it?
That I'm getting everything.
That is the policy which has made the Banner the newspaper of largest circulation.
That is up to you.
That is what I want.
That is what the collectivists are now asking you to destroy...
That it must be built as he designed it.
That makes one neck ready for one leash.
That marble piece is broken and has to be replaced.
That may be the right phrase. Everything in life has its price.
That new materials demand new forms.
That one building can't borrow pieces of another's shape...
That was the price I set for my work.
That, Mr. Wynand, is my sincere opinion.
That's all the money I've got, but I can still do this with my money.
That's exactly what I'm going to do.
That's my concern and not yours.
That's not what I wanted to hear you say.
That's quite a good deal to show for it.
That's the first time anyone said that about me...
That's what I wanted to hear all these years.
That's what they mean, your noble ideals.
That's why I'll be back on this job...
That's why I'm saying it.
The appearance, whatever you wish. The purpose...
The Banner has ceased to exist.
The Banner is not helping Howard. It's ruining him.
The Banner's got to be active.
The board of directors has attempted to pick an architect quite unsuccessfully.
The board was quite impressed by the project.
The common, the vulgar, and the trite.
The confession of Peter Keating has made clear...
The creator requires independence. He neither serves nor rules.
The creator stands on his own judgment.
The creator thinks.
The decision of our board was final.
The defense may proceed.
The engineering idea is brilliant. I could use it myself.
The Enright House.
The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors...
The greatness in Peter Keating's personality lies in the fact that there's no personality...
The individual against the collective.
The infiltration of foreign elements from the surrounding soil.
The issue which you are to decide is the crucial issue of our age:
The liability of the defendant...
The man sent from the quarry, Miss Francon.
The man who thinks must think and act on his own.
The men in the street.
The new building of the Security Bank is such an important undertaking...
The owner of it is Roger Enright, one of those self made men.
The parasite copies.
The parasite follows the opinions of others.
The parasite seeks power.
The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.
The principle of man's inalienable rights.
The prisoner will rise and face the jury.
The public will think what I want them to think. The Banner will save you.
The public wouldn't like it.
The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion.
The state rests.
The tall guy down at the quarry told me you got a fireplace you wanted me to fix.
The whole city is against him.
The world is perishing from an orgy of self sacrificing.
The world of the mob and of the Banner.
The Wynand building by Howard Roark.
The Wynand building by Howard Roark.
The Wynand building will have nothing...
Then may God bless you, Howard. You're on your way into hell.
Then report to Manning at the city desk.
There are buildings going up all over the city, chances refused to you and given to fools.
There are no men of integrity, are there?
There are no men of integrity.
There aren't. He's not any better than the rest of us.
There is no honest way to deal with people.
There is no such thing as a collective brain.
There is nothing to commemorate now.
There must be things you'd like to talk about.
There was a man you had here.
There's a building that should've been yours.
There's Dominique Francon looking at us.
There's no place for originality in architecture.
There's no point in your discussing architecture.
There's no reason why you should save me.
There's no use kidding myself. I've been slipping ever since Guy Francon retired.
There's nothing to save now.
There's so little in life that's noble or beautiful.
There's the Sunday makeup. It's fairly rotten, but it'll have to do.
These are a man's supreme possessions.
They all say he's guilty, but they can find no motive.
They don't know that you'd risk your life for him.
They don't want you, son. Don't you understand? This is what they want.
They form the colored streaks found in most marbles.
They fought, they suffered and they paid, but they won.
They had a claim upon me without my consent...
They hate you because they know they can neither corrupt you nor rule you.
They hate you for the greatness of your achievement.
They haven't found anyone able to do it. They're stuck.
They refuse, no matter what salary I offer.
They started making changes without reason.
They think he designed Cortlandt...
They think we're gonna apologize. We'll celebrate instead.
They were excellent 2000 years ago when they were built for the first time.
They were taken from me by force, by breach of contract.
They will accept anyone you choose.
They will, though.
They won't destroy me, Dominique.
They won't let you survive.
They won't.
They'll drive you down again. Stone quarry's all you can expect.
They're done all the time but not talked about.
They're gonna get tougher, don't worry.
They're killing themselves.
They've got such a setup, you can't sue them.
They've walked out on us. The whole city room.
Think of it as you would think of a fortress...
Think of it as you would think of a fortress...
Think of the people in the slums.
Think what you could do with it. A super luxury apartment house going up...
This city is closed to you.
This is a test, isn't it?
This is Alabama marble, very high grade, very hard to find.
This is probably something very big.
This is pure white marble.
This is such uncivilized taste. Are you going to defend it?
This is the best gray granite in Connecticut.
This last must not be considered a true marble.
This may be your last chance.
This school has no choice but to expel you.
This time, the Banner is serving a crusade.
This what you want?
This will be my testimony and my summation.
This will be the last skysc****r ever built in New York.
This will keep them busy.
This.
Those who need them must take them my way or not at all.
Those worthless commercial structures and papers like the Banner made it possible...
Thousands of them, all screaming against that Enright House.
Throughout the centuries, there were men who took first steps down new roads...
Thus he represents not himself but the multitude of all men together.
Tie them together, teach them to conform, to unite, to agree, to obey.
To accept nothing but a stone of the same quality.
To achieve, not to plunder.
To design a house as a temple to you, Mrs. Wynand.
To design it and let me put my name on it.
To gain and produce, not to give up and renounce.
To give it a human touch.
To hold as his highest possession a sense of his personal value...
To the end.
To what must he sacrifice them? To whom?
Too much association with bad architects.
True marble is the metamorphic form of limestone produced by heat and pressure.
Twenty years ago, I'd have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.
Wait. What's your name?
Was there nothing in your past to make you refuse it?
Watch me. In just a few short years I'll shoot to the top...
Way down the road.
We are.
We both had strength, but not courage.
We can never change it, neither one of us.
We can't permit this to go on.
We can't speak of that now.
We can't take part in controversies. We can't afford to arouse antagonism.
We could have some Sunday supplement stories about beautiful girls...
We did that two years ago, then we had a crusade against canned vegetables.
We don't have to wait for the trial to convict him.
We get everybody riled up without any opposition.
We got to have some kind of trimming over the entrance.
We have never learned to understand what is greatness in man.
We have no choice except to submit or to rule them.
We have to consider public opinion, don't we?
We must call Ellsworth Toohey and take him back.
We must come out against Roark.
We must do what we can for the cause.
We must reverse our stand on the Cortlandt case.
We ought to add a few balconies.
We should be grown up about it, shouldn't we?
We start a campaign against street car monopolies?
We want these changes.
We want to express our individuality too.
We want you to adapt your building like this.
We'll live only for each other.
We'll take a house in some small town, I'll keep it for you.
We'll toast the cruise.
We've committed the same kind of treason some way.
We've engaged Mr. Prescott and Mr. Webb as your associate designers.
We've had this made to show you our general idea.
We've lost all our advertisers we've lost our public, for what?
We've tried to teach you the accepted historical styles.
Well I am. I live by the judgment of my own mind and for my own sake.
Well, after all, I am the architectural critic of the Banner.
Well, I could have had two reasons for saying it.
Well, I could try. I'd do my best.
Well, if one gave it some elegance... You know, a touch of Greek ornament.
Well, Peter, why not? What's the matter?
Well, there's no reason you should want to do it.
Well, what's left of you now?
Well, you might have a couple of hundred dollars left and then it's the end.
Well, you've met one.
Well?
Well?
Well?
Well?
What a pleasure to see you again. You look more beautiful than ever.
What a surprise and what a lovely contrast to my usual visitors. Please sit down.
What are you going to do?
What are you going to do?
What are you really seeking?
What consequences?
What do you know about this?
What for? In order to find out what you think of it yourself?
What I thought I'd be when I was 16.
What I want to find in our marriage will remain my own concern.
What I want you to build is not for the public. It's for me.
What is it?
What is this, an intellectual issue? Are we losing our shirts for principles or something?
What is your verdict?
What kind of a house do you want?
What kind of a house? The cost, whatever you need.
What man, Miss Francon?
What man, Miss Francon?
What shall I do with the stone?
What the heck? Any man's work is public property.
What was his...?
What was the order?
What's the matter? Do you want to build it?
What's the matter? You think that's irrelevant?
When I can't fire anyone on my paper, I'll close it...
When I spoke to him, he didn't remind me of it.
When the time comes.
When you are. Now get out of here.
When you have, you'll come back to me.
Where is the nearest garage?
While so many are in need of shelter...
Whips? Guns? Money?
Who are you?
Who designed that project?
Who designed this?
Who is society?
Who'll want to defend it? It's only a building.
Who's calling, ma'am?
Whom do you want to meet first?
Why are you saying that to me? That's not what you did.
Why are you trying to justify yourself to me?
Why did I preach self sacrifice?
Why did you come here, Peter?
Why did you come here?
Why did you come here?
Why did you deliver him to these people?
Why did you do this?
Why didn't you come here yesterday? I missed you.
Why didn't you come set the marble?
Why do you say that as if it hurt you?
Why do you suppose I denounced greatness and praised mediocrities like you?
Why do you think that about me?
Why do you wanna work for me?
Why don't you admit to yourself what we both knew the moment we met?
Why don't you tell me what you think of me in any words you wish?
Why not?
Why should he?
Why should you plead for that building?
Why take chances when you can stay in the middle?
Why, no.
Why, yes, Mrs. Wynand, I'd be glad to go.
Why?
Why?
Will you accept the commission on our terms, or not?
Will you come and have dinner with us tonight?
Will you let me give you all the money they paid me?
Will you marry me?
Will you?
Without personal rights...
Work night and day and still newspapers come back unread.
Would it please you to hear that I've lived in torture all these months...
Would you do it just for their sake?
Would you know what kind of marble this is and where to order a piece?
Would you like to live in the country, away from everything...
Would you like to make some extra money?
Would you mind going there and getting somebody to help me?
Would you rather refuse the commission?
Write a full confession.
Write it down.
Wynand, this is final. Yes or no?
Yes or no, Mr. Roark?
Yes, Alvah?
Yes, for the first time in my life.
Yes, I'll wait.
Yes, indeed, Mr. Wynand.
Yes, it's Francon and Keating now.
Yes, Miss Francon.
Yes, Mr. Roark.
Yes, Mr. Toohey.
Yes, Mr. Wynand.
Yes, Mr. Wynand.
Yes, of course. It'll stir up a lot of noise.
Yes, of course. It's excellent, but we must make some improvements.
Yes, Roark, anything you want.
Yes, there is.
Yes, they believe it. They have to. You almost died.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes. Because you won't conform.
Yes. I know what they've done to your work.
Yes. I understand.
Yes. I'll do it.
Yes. Tell her yes.
Yes. We need a rest, both of us.
Yes. Yes, of course. I forgot.
Yet they made them look like Greek temples...
You approved a campaign against the Enright House?
You are architects and you should realize that a man like Howard Roark...
You are concerned here only with a criminal action.
You are the exclusive judges of the facts...
You are to determine whether the defendant...
You asked me once to tell you of something I wanted.
You believed in me.
You can afford to share the credit with two fellow architects who need a job.
You can guess anything you wish.
You can help me, Ellsworth.
You can.
You can't expect her to share your attitude.
You can't fight me. You have no chance.
You can't stand alone. Give in. Learn to get along with people.
You can't turn men into slaves unless you break their spirit.
You chose him. You said he would be good.
You could make a brilliant career on the Banner...
You didn't have to cut an artery.
You don't know it, but Miss Francon has a connection with you.
You fool, why did you have to make such a good job of it?
You had forgotten that, hadn't you? Let it remain forgotten.
You had the genius that made the Enright House.
You have heard the testimony of the state's witnesses.
You have influence on that project with those people.
You have to leave that up to me now.
You haven't got any further than I did...
You haven't had any clients for a year.
You haven't read it.
You hold to your own ideas and you'll starve.
You insist on designing buildings that look like nothing ever built before.
You know that this Enright House is a great building.
You know, Toohey? One of these days, you'll bore me.
You know, you could do much more than write a small column about buildings.
You left to impractical intellectuals like me the whole field of ideas...
You made a contract with me that Cortlandt would be built...
You may have heard. I don't like to be refused.
You may judge for yourself.
You may realize that this is not a tie, but a gulf between us...
You may refuse to see me again, but I'm going to leave him.
You may refuse to see me again, but I'm going to leave him.
You may think what you wish about my motives but that is the condition I demand.
You might have thought that I was laughing at you, but I wasn't, of course.
You must be alone in your car.
You must learn not to be afraid of the world, not to take any notice.
You must make it appear you were an innocent bystander...
You poor amateur.
You realize what you're doing?
You realize, of course, your whole future is at stake.
You refuse to learn. You won't consider anybody's judgment but your own.
You said he'd accept them.
You said once that you...
You see, I want this house because I'm very desperately in love with my wife.
You see, you don't keep track of my career, but I've watched yours.
You see?
You see? It doesn't spoil anything, does it?
You should be very careful, Miss Francon.
You shouldn't remain here.
You staged so many of them.
You stayed away from me for years.
You thought money was power. Is it, Mr. Wynand?
You told me.
You tried to escape from it.
You two know each other.
You want to know whether you can make me suffer, don't you?
You were a fashion, Peter. Fashions change.
You were away on your yacht.
You were supposed to do that several minutes ago.
You were taking a terrible chance.
You were telling me about Guy Francon.
You will build colonial houses, Rococo hotels...
You will design it as you wish.
You will keep all the fees, but you will guarantee...
You will let me try.
You will take your spectacular talent and make it subservient...
You wouldn't expect me to pick a man of merit, would you?
You... You took over when I gave it up.
You'd better give in.
You'd better give in.
You'd better not be insolent. I can have you fired at a moment's notice.
You'd design Cortlandt for me?
You'll be acquitted.
You'll be admired. You'll be one of us.
You'll get everything that society can give. You'll take the money, the fame...
You'll have to later, anyway.
You'll never get anywhere.
You'll see the demonstration for yourself. I rule that city. I've never lost a battle.
You'll stand alone against everybody for the first time in your life?
You're a great success, Peter. You're my best achievement.
You're a smart woman, couldn't you...?
You're an egotist. You're impertinent.
You're coming to work for me tomorrow morning at 9:00.
You're Mrs. Gail Wynand. You're above suspicion.
You're not going in person...
You're not serious.
You're saying it about Gail Wynand of the New York Banner?
You're setting out to ruin yourself. You know that?
You're succeeding.
You're the guest of honor tonight, in more than just the social sense.
You're the only person in New York who'd refuse me admittance.
You're too sure of yourself.
You're unknown but you'll be famous when this is erected.
You're walking the streets while they do the work you love but cannot obtain.
You're willing to be away for months?
You're wrong, Peter. For a year and a half.
You're...
You've been advertising it loudly enough.
You've been away for months.
You've been wonderfully patient with us, Mr. Roark.
You've done four buildings in all these years.
You've got something there. You've got it.
You've heard me preaching it for years but you didn't have the wits...
You've heard me preaching it for years but you didn't have the wits...
You've never been enough of a scoundrel for your own ambition.
You've never fought with your clients before.
You've seen Cortlandt Homes?
Your best won't do it, Peter.
Your career has been as unprecedented as your buildings.
Your contract to design the Wynand building.
Your feeling, once granted...
Your Honor, I shall call no witnesses.
Your Honor.
Your Keating is worthless...
Your maid let me in.
Your own work, not any possible object of your charity.
Yours from me.
A what? A poll of opinion about it.
After the Enright House, we have no right. Please, forget the Enright House.
All returns, eh? Yup.
And I own the Banner. Do you, Mr. Wynand?
Are all the newspapers against him? Except one.
Aren't you engaged to Peter Keating? Yes.
As what? As the Wynand building.
But I have a contract. What are you going to do about it? Sue us?
But would you agree? The choice is yours.
But you didn't know me. I used to read your column, Miss Francon.
Can you fight that? I never notice it.
Do you intend to fight against the world? If necessary.
Do you think I could get past Toohey? No. No, you couldn't.
Do you want it pretty badly? I think I'd almost give my life for it.
Do you want it? Yes.
Do you want me to speak of it first? Of what?
Do you want to ask me any questions now? No.
Do you wish me to set it? Yes, certainly.
Dominique. Hello, Peter.
Dominique. Yes, Father.
Don't ask me to live in it. Why not?
Don't give in to them. I can't save him.
Don't pay attention to that public howling. I don't.
Don't you want to ask me any questions? No.
Don't you want to know my motive? No.
Drop it. All right.
Everything. Burn them, will you? Yes.
For whom? Howard.
Gone? Quit, left for New York, I think.
Good night. Good night, Miss Francon.
Have they arrested him? He's out on bail.
Have you lost your watch, Howard? I hocked it.
Have you reached a verdict? We have, Your Honor.
He had to. Yes.
He'll obey. He'll take orders. Ellsworth, what are you after?
Hello, Howard. Hello, Peter.
Hello? Gail Wynand, please.
Hello? Mr. Roark?
Hello? Western Union?
How clever, my dear. Yes, it is, isn't it?
How did you know that? I heard about it.
How did you look for them? I didn't. They called for me.
How do you do, Mr. Roark? And you, Mrs. Wynand?
Howard Roark, who is he? I wouldn't know.
Howard. Good evening, Gail.
I can. What?
I chose to do it. Why?
I didn't want Mr. Roark to know it. Why not, Miss Francon?
I don't like geniuses. They're dangerous. How?
I don't love you, Gail. I know it...
I don't think you'll want to work for me. Why?
I don't want you to come here or like him. I don't want to discuss it, Mrs. Wynand.
I expected her to understand them. Did you?
I got out of the quarry. Did you?
I know it. They're tough.
I meant it until I saw that. I knew you meant it.
I see. No changes by you or by anyone else.
I take it you want this commission. Want it?
I thought I'd take a look at this quarry. Let me show you around.
I threw it down the air shaft. Why?
I was. I'm very happy, my dear...
I wouldn't care to make it. No?
If you have seen any of these buildings... I have.
If you wish. Incidentally, I'd have fired anyone else...
Is he on the wire? No. It's Mr. Wynand's secretary.
Is he what you were in your youth? Oh, no, much more than that.
Is he? He's your father's partner. Oh, yes.
Is that of no importance? None.
Is that what you wanted? Something like that.
Is there anything different in this case? They're ruining the building.
It didn't hurt. The next time you wanna play...
It's too late, Peter. Let me go!
Miss Francon and I do not always agree. I'm sure of it.
My first step would be... Don't bother with details.
No. Fine, Mr. Keating.
No. I haven't asked you...
No. Want me to confess the truth?
Nobody's ever used that structural method. Yeah?
Not that way. How else?
Of course. What are you after?
Oh, I suppose so. What do you care?
Pasquale Orsini. What do you want?
Please send for them. What for?
Public opinion is responsible... Public opinion is what I make it.
Roark. Mr. Enright.
Shall I call the superintendent? No, of course not.
Shall I consider myself fired? You want to be?
Sorry, I'm not good at that sort of thing. Gail Wynand expects results.
Speaking. Gail, this is Alvah.
Take the oath. Do you swear to tell the truth...
That is what I was doing. Why?
That was your privilege. You don't believe I would have done it.
That's the only defense you need. I'll rest on the evidence.
The rich first. Yeah.
The rooms? Yes. The living room...
Then why did you pick this man? An experiment, gentlemen.
They won't work without him. Ellsworth Toohey is fired and stays fired.
To everybody? No.
Too much work in the office. You're killing yourself.
Toohey has a signed confession. What?
Wasn't he? You suggested those changes.
We'll get the first sunlight in the morning. You think I could ever live in that house?
Well, can you beat that? No.
Well, can you beat that? No.
What are rights, Peter? Whose rights?
What for? Well, it's such a tremendous project.
What if he did? Society needed a housing project.
What if he is? If he were, I'd break him.
What improvements? Well, the thing's too bare.
What is it? My home...
What is it? Well, of course...
What makes you think so? It wouldn't be like you.
What on earth are you up to? What do you mean?
What was your purpose? Power.
What, your integrity? Yours, Gail.
What? The pose.
What? The wonder of ownership.
What'd you think of the Banner's campaign? It was a vicious appeal to fools.
What's a contract? You're old fashioned, Keating.
What's he told them? Nothing.
What's the matter, Gail? Good evening, dear. Why?
When? Two days ago.
Where are you going? To Father's place in Connecticut.
Where is he? Yes, that one, he's gone.
Who cares about a building? My dear, it depends on how you handle it.
Who designed Cortlandt? Let me alone.
Who designed Cortlandt? Why do you want to kill Roark?
Who is designing it? The only man of genius I ever met.
Whom do you recommend? The rising star of the profession...
Whose office? He telephoned half an hour ago.
Why did it happen? What are you whining about?
Why not? I can't. Please.
Why, last month, we shipped... Who's that man?
Why? I don't know.
Why? You don't think he's good? He's too good.
Will you let me see you again? I'm leaving the city in a few days.
Yes, Miss Francon. Go ahead, then. Take it out.
Yes, sir? Ask Miss Francon to come in.
Yes? Mr. Wynand, I know it's inexcusable...
Yes. Will you do it without asking questions?
Yes. I know what you want. A monument to my life, Howard.
You do? Of course, but, Mr. Toohey...
You have? Then you understand. I do.
You look as if you felt happy. I feel as if I were young...
You thought you hadn't? No, and that I'd never earn it.
You want it to be possible? Yes. I never realized...
You wish to throw me out? You know I can't.
You're free to do what you please. Mr. Roark, we're alone here.
You've worked too hard for years. Haven't you?
...57 cents.
...about a matter which will be of great interest to you.
...and as his highest virtue his self respect.
...and asked who designed it, the answer was always Howard Roark.
...and blow your brains out or mine.
...and gave me nothing in return.
...and he's done for. What do you get?
...and honesty was possible.
...and I hate to see you being beaten. I'm not.
...and I sell short.
...and I'd have to adapt it, of course.
...and it's one of the few times when I am.
...and live in selfless, joyless servitude to any need but his own.
...and maybe I wanted to dishonor and discredit all greatness.
...and of a temple.
...and only by living for himself was he able to achieve the things...
...and semi Grecian office buildings.
...and that it'd be the tallest structure of the city.
...and there's those poor people who live in the slums.
...and to contribute any ideas we demanded of him on any terms we chose.
...and to tell you that you'll never see me again.
...and under the instructions I have given you, it is your duty and your duty alone...
...and we shall win because there are thousands of us...
...and when I am, I'll run this paper.
...and where do we find it?
...and you hold the controlling interest, Mr. Wynand.
...and you know the price he has to pay for it?
...and you won't. We'll see.
...and you'll give up architecture.
...anyone's right to one minute of my life.
...are only the financial fertilizer that will make it possible.
...armed with nothing but their own vision.
...as I did when I was starting and believed the road ahead was clean...
...as much of the earth has been destroyed.
...as the public wishes them to be designed.
...away from the Banner? Yes. Yes, I would.
...because he was the most safely, unimportant person I could find.
...before mankind destroys itself.
...but I can't bear to stand by and see you moving to some terrible disaster.
...but I would like to do this job.
...but I'm grateful to you every moment of the day in the house you built.
...but if you're acquitted?
...but just soften it with a touch of classical dignity.
...but let me see you do it.
...but Miss Francon is not in the building.
...but my editor was doing what I had taught him.
...but that's not the motive of my work, nor my reason, nor my reward.
...but the drawings you submitted for our building are so unusual...
...but the men of unborrowed vision went ahead.
...but they can't prove it. Is the public against him?
...but unfortunately, the board of directors hasn't reached a decision yet.
...but who made a bad mistake about the way he chose.
...but you'd never loved anyone else.
...by a world where you have no chance.
...can I help you take the most terrible chance you've ever...?
...effort is being wasted to erect a structural monstrosity...
...every new invention was denounced...
...exactly as I designed it, I did it only on that condition.
...except what you give it.
...for all the future buildings I may erect.
...for any financial loss...
...for being absent from the office.
...for me after doing skysc****rs.
...for me to have a house by you. They're the means, you're the end.
...Gothic cathedrals and mongrels of every ancient style they could borrow...
...having no right to look at you, to tell you that I...
...his convictions, the honesty of his feeling, the independence of his thought?
...his creation, not the benefits others derived from it...
...hoping never to find you, wishing to give my life...
...how much I wanted to find it.
...Howard Roark? Yes, Miss Francon.
...I destroyed it.
...I made it possible...
...I want you to remain with Gail.
...I'll marry you. I'll wait.
...if they lock you in jail, if they never let you design another building...
...if they never let me see you again...
...if you asked me for it.
...if you remember what you read in my column.
...in the Banner. I haven't asked you to retract it.
...in the name of every man of independence still left in the world.
...is a question to be determined in a civil suit.
...is a threat to all of you. The conflict of forms is too great.
...is guilty or innocent...
...is man's ability to produce work such as yours.
...it won't break me.
...it'll be a confession that I did it.
...just as one man can't borrow another's soul.
...just because others had done it. I told them.
...just to see you once more?
...known as the Enright House.
...like Cortlandt Homes, it would save my reputation.
...no matter your reason.
...nor should it think of itself as destroyed.
...of planning ingenuity and structural economy ever achieved.
...of the profession because I'm gonna give the public what it wants.
...of the specific crime with which he has been charged.
...of you and of every moment you give him, of your impossible friendship.
...on my own honest judgment whether others liked it or not.
...one man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain.
...or not at all. But why?
...or other commercial structures I've built.
...part of a world where beauty and genius and greatness have no chance.
...Peter Keating. No other architect can equal his ability.
...so he's probably the right choice for that building.
...so help you God? I do.
...so it's sure to please everybody. The middle of the road.
...stamped upon his buildings. Quite true.
...stamped upon his buildings. Quite true.
...stood alone against the men of their time.
...such as the Banner...
...suffered by the owners is not a matter to be considered by you.
...that enslave us, I'm not easy to bring into submission.
...that he must think as they think act as they act...
...that Howard Roark is a ruthless egoist...
...that it was my duty to serve them without choice or reward.
...that it will be built exactly as I design it.
...that provides the best living quarters yet devised at the lowest cost.
...that we find it difficult to decide.
...that you've known what I felt all these years.
...the Banner will be glad to publish it...
...the creation which gave form to his truth.
...the design submitted by Peter Keating is an astonishingly skillful solution...
...the great possibilities never used to build cheaply, simply, and intelligently.
...the innocent bystander let me coach you.
...the whole truth and nothing but the truth...
...thousands against one.
...to corrupt as we please while you were busy making money.
...to exist for his own sake.
...to give them something to scream about?
...to know what you were hearing.
...to let his own mind pronounce a verdict upon it.
...to the taste of the masses.
...was based on the principle of individualism.
...who are victims of the slums. With pictures in three color process.
...who had the strength and spirit to rise by his own effort...
...who has the arrogance to hold his own ideas above all rules.
...why should I consider your opinion?
...will open to a terrace over the lake. Did you notice the windows of our room?
...with his integrity as his only banner.
...without personal ambition...
...without will, hope or dignity.
...you miscalculated.
...you've waited for your one great chance. There it is, on the site of Hell's Kitchen.