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Do you want to stand alone
against the whole world?
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There's no place
for originality in architecture.
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Nobody can improve on the buildings of the
past. One can only learn to copy them.
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We've tried to teach you
the accepted historical styles.
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You refuse to learn. You won't consider
anybody's judgment but your own.
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You insist on designing buildings
that look like nothing ever built before.
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This school has no choice
but to expel you.
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It is my duty as your dean
to say you will never become an architect.
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You can't hope to survive
unless you learn how to compromise.
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Watch me. In just a few short years
I'll shoot to the top...
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...of the profession because
I'm gonna give the public what it wants.
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You'll never get anywhere.
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So you want to work
for Henry Cameron, huh?
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oh, I know. He was a great
architect 30 years ago.
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But he fought for modern
architecture...
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...and he's done for. What do you get?
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Why do you wanna work for me?
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You're setting out to ruin yourself.
You know that?
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I ought to throw you out of here
right now before it's too late.
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I... I wish I'd done this
at your age.
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Why did you have to come to me?
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I'm perfectly happy
with the drooling dolts I've got.
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I don't want any fool visionaries
starving around here.
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You're an egotist. You're impertinent.
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You're too sure of yourself.
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Twenty years ago, I'd have punched
your face with the greatest of pleasure.
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You're coming to work for me
tomorrow morning at 9:00.
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No, no, no.
Now, leave these here. Now get out.
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Wait.
What's your name?
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Howard Roark.
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Paper here. Read all about it.
Paper, mister?
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Get your morning Banner.
Read all about it.
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Morning Banner.
Paper, mister?
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Get your Banner.
Read all about it.
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Morning Banner, sir.
Read all about it.
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Give me that paper.
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Now give me another one.
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Give me all of them.
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I said, give me all of them.
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You... You all think
I'm beaten, don't you?
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That's all the money I've got,
but I can still do this with my money.
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I can still do this...
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Howard. Look at... Look here.
In this paper, won't you...
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It's no use, Howard.
Why don't you give up?
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Come inside.
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It's no use.
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You... You took over
when I gave it up.
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My... My heir, eh?
And look at it.
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You haven't got
any further than I did...
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- ...and you won't.
- We'll see.
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How many years have you
been on your own now?
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And what have you got
to show for it?
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You've done four buildings
in all these years.
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That's quite a good deal
to show for it.
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After the kind of struggle you've had?
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I didn't expect it to be easy,
but those who want me will come to me.
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They don't want you, son. Don't you
understand? This is what they want.
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Gail Wynand's Banner the foulest
newspaper on earth.
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You hold to your own ideas
and you'll starve.
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Gail Wynand gives people
what they ask for:
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The common, the vulgar,
and the trite.
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And he's maybe the most
powerful man living.
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- Can you fight that?
- I never notice it.
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Look. You see those people down there?
You know what they think of architecture?
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I don't care what they think
of architecture or anything else.
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I... I don't want to see
what they'll do to you.
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Me, I am... I'm through.
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I've had enough.
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I don't want any part
of Gail Wynand's city!
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Get me an ambulance.
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Howard, look
at those buildings.
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Skyscrapers, the greatest structural
invention of man.
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Yet they made them
look like Greek temples...
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...Gothic cathedrals and mongrels
of every ancient style they could borrow...
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...just because others had done it.
I told them.
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I told them that the form of a building
must follow its function.
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That new materials demand new forms.
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That one building can't borrow
pieces of another's shape...
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...just as one man can't
borrow another's soul.
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Howard, every new idea in the world
comes from the mind of some one man...
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...and you know the price
he has to pay for it?
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I built that.
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Howard, you do me a favor.
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All my things that you're keeping
for me, I want you to burn them.
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All my... My papers,
my drawings, my contracts.
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- Everything. Burn them, will you?
- Yes.
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I don't want to leave anything
to the world.
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How sorry, I'm leaving you
to face them.
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Howard, it's no use!
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Give in. Compromise.
Compromise now.
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You'll have to later, anyway.
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Why are you saying that to me?
That's not what you did.
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That's why I'm saying it.
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Because it's not what I did.
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Do you want to end up this way?
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It's your future.
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- Do you want it?
- Yes.
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Then may God bless you, Howard.
You're on your way into hell.
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- Hello, Howard.
- Hello, Peter.
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Just passing by. Thought I'd drop in.
I haven't seen you for such a long time.
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Did you know Guy Francon
made me his partner last week?
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No.
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You see, you don't keep track
of my career, but I've watched yours.
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Yes, it's Francon and Keating now.
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I don't have to tell you that Guy Francon
is the leading architect.
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No, you don't have to.
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Remember? I told you once I'd rise.
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- Hello?
- Western Union?
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No. You have
the wrong number.
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Are you waiting for
something, Howard?
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You were telling me
about Guy Francon.
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I was just reminding you
of what I once predicted.
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I hate to see you brought down to this.
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Remember how we started?
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And look at us now.
Haven't you had enough of it?
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Why did you
come here, Peter?
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Because we're old friends...
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- ...and I hate to see you being beaten.
- I'm not.
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oh, it's no use pretending now.
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You haven't had any clients for a year.
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You're wrong, Peter.
For a year and a half.
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Well, you might have a couple
of hundred dollars left and then it's the end.
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I have $ 14 left and...
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...57 cents.
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And all those bills?
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It's an unpaid electric light bill?
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It's a disconnect notice and in the drawer,
you'll find an eviction notice.
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How do you expect to go on?
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That's my concern and not yours.
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Now, don't protest, Howard.
You can pay me back anytime.
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You need it.
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Thank you, Peter.
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I don't need it.
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But I want to help you.
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I don't give or ask for help.
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oh, why don't you drop it?
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- What?
- The pose.
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or the ideals, if you prefer.
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You can't stand alone. Give in.
Learn to get along with people.
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Design the kind of buildings everybody
does, then you'll be rich, famous.
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You'll be admired.
You'll be one of us.
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Is that what disturbs you
about me, Peter?
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That I want to stand alone?
Is that it?
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I don't know.
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Go home, Peter.
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It's getting late.
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- Have you lost your watch, Howard?
- I hocked it.
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Good night.
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Good luck.
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- Hello?
- Mr. Roark?
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- Yes.
- I promised our answer today, Mr. Roark...
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...but unfortunately, the board of directors
hasn't reached a decision yet.
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I know you've been
kept waiting a long time...
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...but the drawings you submitted
for our building are so unusual...
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...that we
find it difficult to decide.
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I think I can promise you
a definite answer tomorrow.
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If not, it'll have
to wait over the weekend...
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...but by Monday we'll know.
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You've been wonderfully
patient with us, Mr. Roark.
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Can you wait
a little longer?
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Yes, I'll wait.
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Thank you.
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Mr. Roark, the commission is yours.
The Board of Directors...
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...of the Security Bank of Manhattan has
chosen you as the architect for our building.
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My congratulations.
You've done a beautiful job.
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The board was quite impressed
by the project.
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It's a tremendous assignment,
an unusual opportunity for an architect.
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You're unknown but you'll be famous
when this is erected.
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It's a chance you've wanted for years.
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- Yes.
- It's yours.
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On one minor condition.
oh, it's just a small compromise...
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...and when you agree to it,
we can sign the contract.
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- What is it?
- Well, of course...
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...we wouldn't alter
your plans in any way.
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It's the ingenuity of your plans
that sold us on the building.
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But its appearance is not
of any known style.
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The public wouldn't like it.
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It'd shock people.
It's too different, too original.
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originality is fine, but why go to extremes?
There's always the middle course.
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So we want to preserve
your beautiful design...
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...but just soften it
with a touch of classical dignity.
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Here.
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We've had this made to show you
our general idea.
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It's very simple. All you do is copy it.
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We want you to adapt
your building like this.
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Now there's a touch of the new
and a touch of the old...
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...so it's sure to please everybody.
The middle of the road.
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Why take chances when you
can stay in the middle?
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You see? It doesn't
spoil anything, does it?
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And we must always compromise with the
general taste. You understand that.
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No.
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If you want my work,
you take it as it is...
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- ...or not at all.
- But why?
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A building has integrity,
just like a man.
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And just as seldom.
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It must be true to its own idea, have
its own form and serve its own purpose.
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But we can't depart from
the popular forms of architecture.
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Why not?
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- Because everybody's accepted them.
- I haven't.
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Do you wish to defy
our common standards?
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I set my own standards.
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- Do you intend to fight against the world?
- If necessary.
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But after all, we are your clients,
and it's your job to serve us.
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I don't build in order to have clients.
I have clients in order to build.
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Mr. Roark, we can't argue about this.
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The decision of our board was final.
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We want these changes.
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Will you accept the commission
on our terms, or not?
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You realize, of course,
your whole future is at stake.
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This may be your last chance.
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Well?
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Yes or no, Mr. Roark?
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No.
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You realize what you're doing?
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Quite.
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Roark, this is sheer insanity.
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Can't you give in just once?
After all, you have to live.
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- Not that way.
- How else?
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Don't you have to work?
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I'd rather work as a day laborer,
if necessary.
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- Well, can you beat that?
- No.
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It was you who recommended
Roark in the first place.
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You chose him.
You said he would be good.
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- Wasn't he?
- You suggested those changes.
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You said he'd accept them.
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oh, yes, so I did.
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I told you, Mr. Gail Wynand wants buildings
that show a classical influence.
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- Then why did you pick this man?
- An experiment, gentlemen.
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A very interesting experiment.
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But what are we going to do?
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Pick another
architect, of course.
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Yes, Mr. Toohey.
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I'm sure you know that I seek nothing
for myself, Mr. Wynand.
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My only motive is a selfless concern
for my fellow men.
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The new building of the Security Bank
is such an important undertaking...
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...and you hold
the controlling interest, Mr. Wynand.
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The board of directors has attempted
to pick an architect quite unsuccessfully.
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They will accept anyone you choose.
239
00:14:44,043 --> 00:14:46,341
And I felt it my duty
to offer you my advice.
240
00:14:46,512 --> 00:14:49,345
- Whom do you recommend?
- The rising star of the profession...
241
00:14:49,615 --> 00:14:52,846
...Peter Keating.
No other architect can equal his ability.
242
00:14:53,019 --> 00:14:55,385
That, Mr. Wynand, is my sincere opinion.
243
00:14:55,555 --> 00:14:56,817
I quite believe you.
244
00:14:56,990 --> 00:14:58,855
- You do?
- Of course, but, Mr. Toohey...
245
00:14:59,026 --> 00:15:01,324
...why should I consider your opinion?
246
00:15:01,495 --> 00:15:04,521
Well, after all, I am
the architectural critic of the Banner.
247
00:15:04,698 --> 00:15:07,030
My dear Toohey,
don't confuse me with my readers.
248
00:15:09,336 --> 00:15:14,000
I... I took the liberty of bringing you
some samples of Peter Keating's best work.
249
00:15:14,174 --> 00:15:15,801
You may judge for yourself.
250
00:15:24,184 --> 00:15:26,778
- If you have seen any of these buildings...
- I have.
251
00:15:26,954 --> 00:15:30,412
They were excellent 2000 years ago
when they were built for the first time.
252
00:15:30,657 --> 00:15:33,751
But surely you're not in favor
of so-called modern architecture?
253
00:15:33,927 --> 00:15:38,125
It's worthless because it's merely the work
of a few unbridled individualists.
254
00:15:38,298 --> 00:15:40,858
Artistic value is achieved collectively...
255
00:15:41,034 --> 00:15:44,470
...by each man subordinating himself
to the standards of the majority.
256
00:15:44,671 --> 00:15:46,935
- I read that in your column yesterday.
- You did?
257
00:15:47,574 --> 00:15:49,064
Thank you.
258
00:15:49,242 --> 00:15:53,508
The greatness in Peter Keating's personality
lies in the fact that there's no personality...
259
00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,671
- ...stamped upon his buildings.
- Quite true.
260
00:15:55,849 --> 00:15:59,752
Thus he represents not himself
but the multitude of all men together.
261
00:15:59,921 --> 00:16:03,914
And produces great big
marble bromides.
262
00:16:04,192 --> 00:16:06,524
I believe I am failing
to sell you Peter Keating.
263
00:16:06,694 --> 00:16:08,184
Why, no.
264
00:16:08,830 --> 00:16:10,730
You're succeeding.
265
00:16:11,833 --> 00:16:13,357
Your Keating is worthless...
266
00:16:13,534 --> 00:16:16,401
...so he's probably
the right choice for that building.
267
00:16:16,804 --> 00:16:18,999
He's sure to be popular.
268
00:16:19,374 --> 00:16:22,207
You wouldn't expect me
to pick a man of merit, would you?
269
00:16:22,377 --> 00:16:25,403
I've never hired a good architect
for any of the banks, hotels...
270
00:16:25,580 --> 00:16:27,980
...or other commercial
structures I've built.
271
00:16:28,149 --> 00:16:32,245
I give the public what it wants,
including your column, Mr. Toohey.
272
00:16:32,420 --> 00:16:34,718
Am I to understand
you will choose Peter Keating?
273
00:16:34,889 --> 00:16:39,155
I really don't care. one of those fashionable
architects is just as inept as another.
274
00:16:41,829 --> 00:16:44,024
I think you have a good idea, however.
275
00:16:44,198 --> 00:16:48,726
I think I will decide according to the advice
of the Banner's "Architectural Experts."
276
00:16:49,103 --> 00:16:50,661
Yes, indeed, Mr. Wynand.
277
00:16:57,278 --> 00:17:01,544
But you're not my only expert,
Mr. Toohey. You have a rival.
278
00:17:04,019 --> 00:17:06,351
I should consult Dominique Francon,
as well.
279
00:17:09,992 --> 00:17:13,018
- Yes, sir?
- Ask Miss Francon to come in.
280
00:17:13,829 --> 00:17:16,491
- Miss Francon and I do not always agree.
- I'm sure of it.
281
00:17:17,766 --> 00:17:20,633
- Yes?
- Mr. Wynand, I know it's inexcusable...
282
00:17:20,803 --> 00:17:22,896
...but Miss Francon is not in the building.
283
00:17:23,072 --> 00:17:26,041
Shall I telephone her home
and ask her to come here at once?
284
00:17:26,208 --> 00:17:27,208
No.
285
00:17:34,349 --> 00:17:35,839
You're not going in person...
286
00:17:36,018 --> 00:17:39,010
You know, Toohey?
one of these days, you'll bore me.
287
00:17:39,955 --> 00:17:42,287
I shall endeavor not to do so
until the right time.
288
00:18:03,579 --> 00:18:04,841
How did you come in?
289
00:18:05,013 --> 00:18:06,344
Your maid let me in.
290
00:18:06,515 --> 00:18:07,778
Without an announcement?
291
00:18:07,951 --> 00:18:10,215
You can't expect her
to share your attitude.
292
00:18:10,386 --> 00:18:13,219
You're the only person in New York
who'd refuse me admittance.
293
00:18:14,491 --> 00:18:16,152
Why did you come here?
294
00:18:16,326 --> 00:18:19,352
I needed you at the office.
I found you absent.
295
00:18:20,697 --> 00:18:24,656
Isn't it unprecedented for you to come
in person after one of your employees?
296
00:18:24,834 --> 00:18:27,860
I hoped you'd take note of that.
I wanted to ask your advice...
297
00:18:28,037 --> 00:18:30,631
...about a matter which
will be of great interest to you.
298
00:18:30,807 --> 00:18:35,005
I must pick an architect for the Security
Bank building. Whom would you recommend?
299
00:18:35,178 --> 00:18:36,543
No one.
300
00:18:36,713 --> 00:18:39,511
I don't know a single architect of ability.
301
00:18:39,682 --> 00:18:42,412
And you're not looking
for ability, Mr. Wynand.
302
00:18:42,585 --> 00:18:44,280
And if I left the choice up to you?
303
00:18:44,854 --> 00:18:46,788
- I wouldn't care to make it.
- No?
304
00:18:47,223 --> 00:18:50,818
Ellsworth Toohey is very anxious
to get the commission for Peter Keating.
305
00:18:50,994 --> 00:18:53,053
Peter Keating is
a third-rate architect.
306
00:18:53,229 --> 00:18:56,392
- Is he? He's your father's partner.
- Oh, yes.
307
00:18:56,566 --> 00:19:00,502
- Aren't you engaged to Peter Keating?
- Yes.
308
00:19:01,137 --> 00:19:04,800
If you found it amusing to tempt me
by offering to help Peter's career...
309
00:19:04,974 --> 00:19:06,566
...you miscalculated.
310
00:19:06,743 --> 00:19:08,904
I have no desire
to help his career.
311
00:19:09,078 --> 00:19:12,981
I was trying to tempt you,
but I didn't find it amusing.
312
00:19:15,085 --> 00:19:17,519
I should like to meet Peter Keating.
313
00:19:18,255 --> 00:19:21,588
Will you have dinner with me this
evening? We'll discuss the commission.
314
00:19:21,759 --> 00:19:24,455
- If you wish.
- Incidentally, I'd have fired anyone else...
315
00:19:24,628 --> 00:19:26,596
...for being absent from the office.
316
00:19:26,764 --> 00:19:28,095
I know it.
317
00:19:28,265 --> 00:19:30,961
- Shall I consider myself fired?
- You want to be?
318
00:19:31,135 --> 00:19:32,966
Don't really care
one way or another.
319
00:19:34,004 --> 00:19:37,496
You know, you could do much more
than write a small column about buildings.
320
00:19:37,675 --> 00:19:40,109
You could make a brilliant career
on the Banner...
321
00:19:40,277 --> 00:19:41,938
...if you asked me for it.
322
00:19:42,112 --> 00:19:44,103
I never wanted a career
on the Banner.
323
00:19:44,281 --> 00:19:47,250
Tell me, what would you
consider as tempting?
324
00:19:47,418 --> 00:19:49,648
I'd like to find
something you could want.
325
00:19:50,054 --> 00:19:51,954
Don't try to, Mr. Wynand.
326
00:19:52,122 --> 00:19:54,283
I'll never want anything.
327
00:19:55,659 --> 00:19:57,991
Do you know what I was doing
when you came in?
328
00:19:58,162 --> 00:20:01,893
I had a statue which I found in Europe,
the statue of a god.
329
00:20:02,066 --> 00:20:03,556
I think I was in love with it...
330
00:20:03,734 --> 00:20:05,531
- ...but I broke it.
- What do you mean?
331
00:20:05,769 --> 00:20:07,532
- I threw it down the air shaft.
- Why?
332
00:20:07,705 --> 00:20:09,297
So that I wouldn't have to love it.
333
00:20:09,473 --> 00:20:13,307
I didn't wanna be tied to anything. I wanted
to destroy it rather than let it be...
334
00:20:13,477 --> 00:20:17,676
...part of a world where beauty and
genius and greatness have no chance.
335
00:20:17,849 --> 00:20:21,080
The world of the mob
and of the Banner.
336
00:20:21,253 --> 00:20:23,983
Do you still want me to have
dinner with you tonight?
337
00:20:25,290 --> 00:20:27,053
More than ever.
338
00:20:35,700 --> 00:20:39,067
It's such a magnificent opportunity.
I'll do my best to please you.
339
00:20:39,237 --> 00:20:42,070
- I take it you want this commission.
- Want it?
340
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,208
I'd sell my soul for it.
341
00:20:44,376 --> 00:20:47,743
That may be the right phrase.
Everything in life has its price.
342
00:20:48,346 --> 00:20:52,442
In this instance, the price is that you
break your engagement to Miss Francon.
343
00:20:59,057 --> 00:21:00,957
My engagement?
344
00:21:01,393 --> 00:21:02,393
Why?
345
00:21:02,994 --> 00:21:04,655
For any reason
you care to imagine.
346
00:21:04,929 --> 00:21:09,127
You may think what you wish about my
motives but that is the condition I demand.
347
00:21:09,634 --> 00:21:11,761
- Dominique?
- No, I'm not going to help you.
348
00:21:12,070 --> 00:21:15,267
I'd like to see it decided
between Mr. Wynand and yourself.
349
00:21:15,707 --> 00:21:18,505
- But would you agree?
- The choice is yours.
350
00:21:19,010 --> 00:21:22,174
our engagement helped you
to become my father's partner.
351
00:21:22,348 --> 00:21:25,078
Mr. Wynand's patronage
will help you much more.
352
00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,486
I'm sure this is a joke, Mr. Wynand.
Things like this aren't being done.
353
00:21:30,656 --> 00:21:32,817
They're done all the time
but not talked about.
354
00:21:33,125 --> 00:21:35,389
I grant you that
I'm behaving abominably.
355
00:21:35,561 --> 00:21:37,791
It's extremely cruel to be honest.
356
00:21:39,565 --> 00:21:40,565
I...
357
00:21:41,667 --> 00:21:43,658
I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
358
00:21:43,836 --> 00:21:46,100
It's simple. You're supposed
to slap my face.
359
00:21:46,472 --> 00:21:48,940
You were supposed to do that
several minutes ago.
360
00:21:49,108 --> 00:21:51,440
No?
You don't wanna do that?
361
00:21:51,777 --> 00:21:54,439
of course, you don't have to
and you don't have to accept.
362
00:21:54,613 --> 00:21:56,808
Would you rather refuse the commission?
363
00:21:57,683 --> 00:21:59,583
- No.
- Fine, Mr. Keating.
364
00:21:59,752 --> 00:22:02,312
Now I think it would be best if you left.
365
00:22:02,488 --> 00:22:05,889
Call up my office in the morning,
and we'll sign the contract.
366
00:22:06,926 --> 00:22:09,622
If that's what you want,
I'm not going to interfere.
367
00:22:10,162 --> 00:22:12,187
We should be grown-up
about it, shouldn't we?
368
00:22:12,932 --> 00:22:15,730
I'm sure we'll have
no trouble, Mr. Wynand.
369
00:22:16,135 --> 00:22:17,602
Good night.
370
00:22:22,375 --> 00:22:24,207
Why did you do this?
371
00:22:24,378 --> 00:22:28,644
Did you believe I'd agree like Peter? Did you
expect to win me by your usual methods?
372
00:22:28,815 --> 00:22:32,808
of course not. I merely wanted to show you
that all men are corrupt, anyone be bought.
373
00:22:32,986 --> 00:22:35,216
And that you're wrong
in your contempt for me.
374
00:22:35,389 --> 00:22:37,482
There is no honest way
to deal with people.
375
00:22:37,657 --> 00:22:40,592
We have no choice except
to submit or to rule them.
376
00:22:40,761 --> 00:22:41,989
I chose to rule.
377
00:22:42,162 --> 00:22:44,096
A man of integrity would do neither.
378
00:22:44,264 --> 00:22:45,629
There are no men of integrity.
379
00:22:45,799 --> 00:22:48,495
I have many years behind me to prove it.
380
00:22:48,668 --> 00:22:50,431
I was born in Hell's Kitchen.
381
00:22:50,604 --> 00:22:53,004
I rose out of the gutter
by creating the Banner.
382
00:22:53,173 --> 00:22:54,970
It's a contemptible paper, isn't it?
383
00:22:55,142 --> 00:22:56,905
But it has achieved my purpose.
384
00:22:57,244 --> 00:22:59,371
- What was your purpose?
- Power.
385
00:22:59,546 --> 00:23:01,605
Why are you trying to justify
yourself to me?
386
00:23:01,782 --> 00:23:03,773
I wasn't trying to jus...
387
00:23:04,484 --> 00:23:05,484
Yes.
388
00:23:05,886 --> 00:23:08,377
- That is what I was doing.
- Why?
389
00:23:08,922 --> 00:23:10,856
I think you know it.
390
00:23:19,132 --> 00:23:20,656
You see?
391
00:23:20,834 --> 00:23:23,564
I suppose I'm one of those freaks
you hear about.
392
00:23:23,737 --> 00:23:26,865
A woman completely incapable of feeling.
393
00:23:28,075 --> 00:23:30,236
I was engaged to Peter Keating...
394
00:23:30,411 --> 00:23:34,108
...because he was the most safely,
unimportant person I could find.
395
00:23:34,782 --> 00:23:36,613
And I knew I'd never be in love.
396
00:23:36,784 --> 00:23:38,445
Haven't you ever loved anyone?
397
00:23:38,619 --> 00:23:40,450
No, and I never will.
398
00:23:40,621 --> 00:23:43,749
If I fell in love, it'd be like
the statue of the Greek god again.
399
00:23:43,925 --> 00:23:46,485
I know it. I accept it.
400
00:23:47,462 --> 00:23:49,589
I want you to marry me.
401
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,626
If I ever decide to punish myself
for some terrible guilt...
402
00:23:55,803 --> 00:23:58,203
- ...I'll marry you.
- I'll wait.
403
00:23:58,372 --> 00:24:00,431
No matter what reason you choose for it.
404
00:24:00,608 --> 00:24:04,237
- Will you let me see you again?
- I'm leaving the city in a few days.
405
00:24:04,412 --> 00:24:06,972
- Where are you going?
- To Father's place in Connecticut.
406
00:24:07,148 --> 00:24:09,241
I'm going there so
I won't have to see anyone.
407
00:24:09,417 --> 00:24:11,282
What are you really seeking?
408
00:24:11,452 --> 00:24:16,651
Freedom: to want nothing, to expect
nothing, to depend on nothing.
409
00:26:40,070 --> 00:26:41,970
Why, Miss Francon.
410
00:26:42,473 --> 00:26:44,668
How do you do?
What are you doing here?
411
00:26:45,142 --> 00:26:46,473
I'm out here for the summer.
412
00:26:46,644 --> 00:26:48,703
Father let me have his house all to myself.
413
00:26:48,879 --> 00:26:52,178
- I thought I'd take a look at this quarry.
- Let me show you around.
414
00:26:52,349 --> 00:26:54,749
This is the best gray granite
in Connecticut.
415
00:26:54,918 --> 00:26:57,045
- Why, last month, we shipped...
- Who's that man?
416
00:26:57,221 --> 00:26:58,813
What man, Miss Francon?
417
00:26:58,989 --> 00:27:00,752
No, never mind.
418
00:28:07,792 --> 00:28:09,692
Why do you always stare at me?
419
00:28:09,861 --> 00:28:12,352
For the same reason
you've been staring at me.
420
00:28:12,530 --> 00:28:14,327
I don't know what you're talking about.
421
00:28:14,599 --> 00:28:17,932
If you didn't, you'd be more astonished
and much less angry.
422
00:28:19,671 --> 00:28:21,138
So you know my name.
423
00:28:21,406 --> 00:28:23,271
You've been advertising it
loudly enough.
424
00:28:24,676 --> 00:28:28,373
You'd better not be insolent.
I can have you fired at a moment's notice.
425
00:28:28,813 --> 00:28:31,941
- Shall I call the superintendent?
- No, of course not.
426
00:28:32,383 --> 00:28:36,752
But since you know who I am, you'd better
stop looking at me when I come here.
427
00:28:36,921 --> 00:28:38,684
It might be misunderstood.
428
00:28:39,791 --> 00:28:41,452
I don't think so.
429
00:29:37,917 --> 00:29:39,517
Come in.
430
00:29:43,055 --> 00:29:45,046
Good evening, Miss Francon.
You sent for me?
431
00:29:45,224 --> 00:29:46,224
Yes.
432
00:29:46,659 --> 00:29:49,059
Would you like to make
some extra money?
433
00:29:49,228 --> 00:29:50,593
Certainly, Miss Francon.
434
00:29:50,763 --> 00:29:54,029
That marble piece is broken
and has to be replaced.
435
00:29:54,201 --> 00:29:56,328
I want you to take it out.
436
00:29:56,736 --> 00:29:58,567
Yes, Miss Francon.
437
00:30:09,216 --> 00:30:11,207
Now it's broken
and has to be replaced.
438
00:30:12,986 --> 00:30:16,387
Would you know what kind of marble this is
and where to order a piece?
439
00:30:16,756 --> 00:30:19,725
- Yes, Miss Francon.
- Go ahead, then. Take it out.
440
00:30:19,893 --> 00:30:21,758
Yes, Miss Francon.
441
00:30:28,635 --> 00:30:30,193
oh, I'm sorry.
442
00:30:30,370 --> 00:30:35,398
You might have thought that I was laughing
at you, but I wasn't, of course.
443
00:30:37,344 --> 00:30:39,938
I didn't want to disturb you.
444
00:30:40,614 --> 00:30:44,106
I'm sure you're anxious to finish
and get out of here.
445
00:30:46,286 --> 00:30:49,551
I mean, because you must be tired.
446
00:30:52,392 --> 00:30:54,485
There must be things
you'd like to talk about.
447
00:30:55,395 --> 00:30:57,387
oh, well, yes, Miss Francon.
448
00:30:57,565 --> 00:30:58,565
Well?
449
00:31:01,535 --> 00:31:05,062
I think this is an atrocious fireplace.
450
00:31:05,973 --> 00:31:09,306
Really? This house was
designed by my father.
451
00:31:09,477 --> 00:31:11,707
There's no point in your
discussing architecture.
452
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,004
None at all.
453
00:31:15,016 --> 00:31:16,711
Shall we choose some other subject?
454
00:31:16,884 --> 00:31:18,545
Yes, Miss Francon.
455
00:31:19,987 --> 00:31:23,718
Generally, there are three kinds of marble:
The white, the onyx and the green.
456
00:31:24,191 --> 00:31:27,024
This last must not be considered
a true marble.
457
00:31:27,194 --> 00:31:30,994
True marble is the metamorphic form
of limestone produced by heat and pressure.
458
00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:34,666
Pressure is a powerful factor.
459
00:31:34,835 --> 00:31:38,601
It leads to consequences which,
once started, cannot be controlled.
460
00:31:39,507 --> 00:31:40,735
What consequences?
461
00:31:42,710 --> 00:31:45,736
The infiltration of foreign elements
from the surrounding soil.
462
00:31:46,347 --> 00:31:50,511
They form the colored streaks
found in most marbles.
463
00:31:54,922 --> 00:31:57,288
This is pure white marble.
464
00:31:57,591 --> 00:31:59,651
You should be very careful, Miss Francon.
465
00:31:59,828 --> 00:32:02,388
To accept nothing but a stone
of the same quality.
466
00:32:02,698 --> 00:32:06,930
This is Alabama marble,
very high grade, very hard to find.
467
00:32:08,036 --> 00:32:09,628
What shall I do with the stone?
468
00:32:09,805 --> 00:32:11,568
Leave it here. I'll have it removed.
469
00:32:11,740 --> 00:32:12,968
All right.
470
00:32:13,141 --> 00:32:17,043
I'll order a new piece cut to measure
and have it delivered to you.
471
00:32:18,447 --> 00:32:20,472
- Do you wish me to set it?
- Yes, certainly.
472
00:32:20,649 --> 00:32:24,483
I'll let you know when it comes.
How much do I owe you?
473
00:32:24,653 --> 00:32:26,177
Keep the change.
474
00:32:26,355 --> 00:32:28,323
Thank you, Miss Francon.
475
00:32:28,857 --> 00:32:31,849
- Good night.
- Good night, Miss Francon.
476
00:32:47,776 --> 00:32:49,300
Come in.
477
00:32:52,247 --> 00:32:54,272
The man sent from
the quarry, Miss Francon.
478
00:32:56,852 --> 00:32:58,183
Who are you?
479
00:32:58,353 --> 00:33:01,186
- Pasquale Orsini.
- What do you want?
480
00:33:01,490 --> 00:33:06,394
The tall guy down at the quarry told me
you got a fireplace you wanted me to fix.
481
00:33:06,763 --> 00:33:09,425
Yes. Yes, of course. I forgot.
482
00:33:09,599 --> 00:33:11,089
Go ahead.
483
00:33:54,510 --> 00:33:56,102
Why didn't you come set the marble?
484
00:33:56,345 --> 00:34:00,372
I didn't think it would make any difference
to you who came, or did it, Miss Francon?
485
00:36:40,346 --> 00:36:42,712
Good afternoon, Miss Francon.
How are you?
486
00:36:45,117 --> 00:36:46,641
There was a man you had here.
487
00:36:47,186 --> 00:36:50,019
A tall, gaunt man who worked a drill.
488
00:36:50,189 --> 00:36:53,181
- Where is he?
- Yes, that one, he's gone.
489
00:36:55,527 --> 00:36:58,826
- Gone?
- Quit, left for New York, I think.
490
00:36:58,998 --> 00:37:01,125
- When?
- Two days ago.
491
00:37:01,300 --> 00:37:03,029
What was his...?
492
00:37:03,869 --> 00:37:06,303
No. No, I don't want to know his name.
493
00:37:06,472 --> 00:37:09,373
- If you want me to find him for you...
- No.
494
00:37:14,713 --> 00:37:16,510
I don't know what to do. I give up.
495
00:37:16,682 --> 00:37:19,116
I've gone the limit. I'm at my wit's end.
496
00:37:19,285 --> 00:37:22,585
- That's not going very far.
- It's all right for you to make cracks.
497
00:37:22,756 --> 00:37:25,884
But I'm in trouble. We need some
excitement to boost circulation.
498
00:37:26,059 --> 00:37:29,995
I've got to invent a crusade and I
don't know what on earth to crusade about.
499
00:37:30,163 --> 00:37:32,529
We start a campaign
against street car monopolies?
500
00:37:32,699 --> 00:37:36,658
We did that two years ago, then we
had a crusade against canned vegetables.
501
00:37:36,836 --> 00:37:38,701
And a crusade against Wall Street.
502
00:37:38,872 --> 00:37:40,635
Now, what else is there to be against?
503
00:37:40,807 --> 00:37:42,672
You're a smart woman,
couldn't you...?
504
00:37:42,842 --> 00:37:46,049
- Sorry, I'm not good at that sort of thing.
- Gail Wynand expects results.
505
00:37:46,208 --> 00:37:47,689
The Banner's got to be active.
506
00:37:47,989 --> 00:37:51,049
I've racked my brain, and I can't think
of anything to denounce.
507
00:37:51,217 --> 00:37:53,185
- I can.
- What?
508
00:37:53,386 --> 00:37:54,386
This.
509
00:37:55,889 --> 00:37:59,188
- Who cares about a building?
- My dear, it depends on how you handle it.
510
00:38:01,261 --> 00:38:05,425
It's an outrage against art and a threat to
public safety. It might collapse any moment.
511
00:38:05,665 --> 00:38:08,225
- Nobody's ever used that structural method.
- Yeah?
512
00:38:08,401 --> 00:38:11,427
The owner of it is Roger Enright,
one of those self-made men.
513
00:38:11,604 --> 00:38:12,901
Stubborn and rich as blazes.
514
00:38:13,073 --> 00:38:14,836
It's always safe to denounce the rich.
515
00:38:15,008 --> 00:38:16,305
Everyone will help you...
516
00:38:16,476 --> 00:38:17,704
- The rich first.
- Yeah.
517
00:38:18,078 --> 00:38:21,138
- Howard Roark, who is he?
- I wouldn't know.
518
00:38:21,348 --> 00:38:24,807
Think what you could do with it.
A super-luxury apartment house going up...
519
00:38:24,985 --> 00:38:27,510
...and there's those poor people
who live in the slums.
520
00:38:27,688 --> 00:38:30,953
We could have some Sunday supplement
stories about beautiful girls...
521
00:38:31,125 --> 00:38:34,458
- ...who are victims of the slums.
- With pictures in three-color process.
522
00:38:34,628 --> 00:38:36,528
You've got something there.
You've got it.
523
00:38:36,697 --> 00:38:40,224
It's a wonderful idea.
I know Wynand will okay it.
524
00:38:43,437 --> 00:38:45,997
You know that this Enright House
is a great building.
525
00:38:46,173 --> 00:38:48,403
Perhaps one of the greatest.
526
00:38:48,576 --> 00:38:51,044
Ellsworth, what are you after?
527
00:38:51,212 --> 00:38:53,476
I daresay nobody knows what I'm after.
528
00:38:53,647 --> 00:38:54,909
They will, though.
529
00:38:55,082 --> 00:38:57,277
When the time comes.
530
00:39:04,892 --> 00:39:06,860
So we've got three wonderful angles:
531
00:39:07,027 --> 00:39:10,724
Highbrow stories about the bad art.
Scare stories about the girders collapsing.
532
00:39:10,898 --> 00:39:12,422
Sob stories about the poor.
533
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,932
We get everybody riled up
without any opposition.
534
00:39:15,403 --> 00:39:17,963
Who'll want to defend it?
It's only a building.
535
00:39:18,139 --> 00:39:20,539
- My first step would be...
- Don't bother with details.
536
00:39:20,708 --> 00:39:22,869
It's good. Go ahead.
Toohey can handle it.
537
00:39:23,043 --> 00:39:26,979
What a surprise and what a lovely contrast
to my usual visitors. Please sit down.
538
00:39:27,148 --> 00:39:29,413
You approved a campaign
against the Enright House?
539
00:39:29,584 --> 00:39:31,643
Yes, of course.
It'll stir up a lot of noise.
540
00:39:31,820 --> 00:39:33,947
I'm sailing next week.
I'll be gone all winter.
541
00:39:34,122 --> 00:39:35,453
This will keep them busy.
542
00:39:35,924 --> 00:39:37,915
Have you seen drawings
of the Enright House?
543
00:39:38,093 --> 00:39:39,093
No.
544
00:39:39,661 --> 00:39:41,652
- Please send for them.
- What for?
545
00:39:41,830 --> 00:39:45,288
That building is a magnificent
architectural achievement.
546
00:39:46,301 --> 00:39:48,326
- Is that of no importance?
- None.
547
00:39:48,503 --> 00:39:50,664
You're willing to destroy it
to amuse the mob...
548
00:39:50,839 --> 00:39:52,898
...to give them something
to scream about?
549
00:39:53,074 --> 00:39:57,841
That is the policy which has made the
Banner the newspaper of largest circulation.
550
00:39:58,013 --> 00:40:00,072
Don't expect me to change it.
551
00:40:00,282 --> 00:40:03,149
You asked me once to tell you
of something I wanted.
552
00:40:03,318 --> 00:40:06,014
I've tried never to ask favors of anyone...
553
00:40:06,188 --> 00:40:08,156
...but I'm going to now.
554
00:40:08,323 --> 00:40:10,951
Please call off this campaign.
555
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,221
Is the architect a friend of yours?
556
00:40:13,395 --> 00:40:16,159
I've never set eyes on him.
I don't know who he is nor care.
557
00:40:16,331 --> 00:40:18,196
Why should you plead for that building?
558
00:40:18,366 --> 00:40:19,890
Because it's great.
559
00:40:20,068 --> 00:40:22,468
There's so little in life
that's noble or beautiful.
560
00:40:22,637 --> 00:40:25,868
I'm pleading for a man's achievement.
I'm pleading for greatness.
561
00:40:26,041 --> 00:40:28,134
Are you reproaching me
for the Banner?
562
00:40:29,144 --> 00:40:31,613
I'm begging you, Mr. Wynand.
563
00:40:32,048 --> 00:40:36,144
Dominique, I would give you
anything I owned...
564
00:40:36,319 --> 00:40:37,946
...except the Banner.
565
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:42,022
My whole life and an unspeakable
struggle have gone to make it.
566
00:40:42,191 --> 00:40:44,682
I will not sacrifice it for anyone on earth.
567
00:40:45,528 --> 00:40:47,723
It's your right to do as you wish.
568
00:40:47,897 --> 00:40:50,661
It's mine to take no part
in what you're doing.
569
00:40:50,833 --> 00:40:53,301
Please accept my resignation
from the Banner.
570
00:40:54,937 --> 00:40:56,529
I'm sorry.
571
00:40:56,706 --> 00:40:59,106
It's quite useless, my dear.
572
00:40:59,275 --> 00:41:02,540
You can't fight me. You have no chance.
573
00:41:03,312 --> 00:41:04,939
I know it.
574
00:41:07,450 --> 00:41:09,247
While so many
are in need of shelter...
575
00:41:09,418 --> 00:41:12,785
...effort is being wasted to erect
a structural monstrosity...
576
00:41:12,955 --> 00:41:14,422
...known as the Enright House.
577
00:41:14,590 --> 00:41:18,185
It is designed by one Howard Roark,
an incompetent amateur...
578
00:41:18,361 --> 00:41:21,524
...who has the arrogance
to hold his own ideas above all rules.
579
00:41:21,697 --> 00:41:25,098
You are architects and you should realize
that a man like Howard Roark...
580
00:41:25,268 --> 00:41:28,567
...is a threat to all of you.
The conflict of forms is too great.
581
00:41:28,738 --> 00:41:31,229
Can your buildings stand
by the side of his?
582
00:41:31,407 --> 00:41:33,705
I believe you understand me, gentlemen.
583
00:41:33,876 --> 00:41:36,277
If you'll sign a protest
against the Enright House...
584
00:41:36,446 --> 00:41:38,744
...the Banner will be glad to publish it...
585
00:41:38,916 --> 00:41:42,477
...and we shall win
because there are thousands of us...
586
00:41:42,653 --> 00:41:45,121
...thousands against one.
587
00:41:45,989 --> 00:41:48,355
More of it. Look.
Letters to the editor.
588
00:41:48,525 --> 00:41:51,722
Thousands of them,
all screaming against that Enright House.
589
00:41:51,895 --> 00:41:53,419
Ellsworth, you're wonderful.
590
00:41:53,597 --> 00:41:57,226
How could you ever foresee
a public trend so well?
591
00:42:18,188 --> 00:42:21,555
- Roark.
- Mr. Enright.
592
00:42:22,259 --> 00:42:23,659
Thanks.
593
00:42:24,528 --> 00:42:27,190
- Don't pay attention to that public howling.
- I don't.
594
00:42:27,364 --> 00:42:30,128
I've been denounced so much,
it doesn't bother me anymore.
595
00:42:30,300 --> 00:42:33,326
I started out in life as a coal miner.
Got where I am by acting...
596
00:42:33,503 --> 00:42:36,631
...on my own honest judgment
whether others liked it or not.
597
00:42:36,807 --> 00:42:39,800
When you grow older, you'll see
that's the only way to succeed.
598
00:42:39,978 --> 00:42:41,206
- I know it.
- They're tough.
599
00:42:41,379 --> 00:42:43,176
They're gonna get tougher, don't worry.
600
00:42:43,348 --> 00:42:44,838
- You'll win.
- I have.
601
00:42:45,817 --> 00:42:48,877
- That's the only defense you need.
- I'll rest on the evidence.
602
00:42:49,053 --> 00:42:50,714
That's exactly what I'm going to do.
603
00:42:50,888 --> 00:42:52,549
I'll be the first tenant to move in.
604
00:42:52,724 --> 00:42:55,488
I'll give a party to celebrate the
opening of Enright House.
605
00:42:55,660 --> 00:42:58,959
I'll invite them: The press,
the architects, the critics. Let them see.
606
00:42:59,130 --> 00:43:01,894
They think we're gonna apologize.
We'll celebrate instead.
607
00:43:12,577 --> 00:43:14,545
I have nothing to say
about this building.
608
00:43:14,712 --> 00:43:18,910
God gave you eyes and a mind to use. If
you fail to do so, the loss is yours not mine.
609
00:43:19,083 --> 00:43:20,448
Don't you want to convince me?
610
00:43:20,618 --> 00:43:23,348
Is there any reason
why that should be my concern?
611
00:43:27,759 --> 00:43:30,751
I dread to think of the fate
of Howard Roark, whoever he is.
612
00:43:30,928 --> 00:43:34,864
- Why? You don't think he's good?
- He's too good.
613
00:43:42,940 --> 00:43:45,501
- Dominique.
- Hello, Peter.
614
00:43:45,678 --> 00:43:48,806
What a pleasure to see you again.
You look more beautiful than ever.
615
00:43:48,981 --> 00:43:52,178
What do you think of this building?
I'm taking a poll of the guests...
616
00:43:52,351 --> 00:43:54,546
- A what?
- A poll of opinion about it.
617
00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:58,315
What for? In order to find out
what you think of it yourself?
618
00:43:58,490 --> 00:44:01,323
We have to consider
public opinion, don't we?
619
00:44:04,897 --> 00:44:07,092
No, don't ever hire an architect
who's a genius.
620
00:44:07,266 --> 00:44:09,461
- I don't like geniuses. They're dangerous.
- How?
621
00:44:09,635 --> 00:44:12,661
A man abler than his brothers
insults them by implication.
622
00:44:12,838 --> 00:44:15,534
He must not aspire
to any virtue which cannot be shared.
623
00:44:15,708 --> 00:44:19,269
I wouldn't know about that intellectual
stuff. I play the stock market.
624
00:44:19,445 --> 00:44:22,175
I play the stock market of the spirit...
625
00:44:22,347 --> 00:44:24,281
...and I sell short.
626
00:44:24,450 --> 00:44:29,149
It's stunning, perfectly stunning, but
I wouldn't want to live in a house like this.
627
00:44:29,321 --> 00:44:32,347
one could never relax and feel homey.
You know what I mean.
628
00:44:32,524 --> 00:44:36,221
- Comfortable and sloppy and, well, homey.
- No, one couldn't.
629
00:44:40,866 --> 00:44:42,891
- Dominique.
- Yes, Father.
630
00:44:43,068 --> 00:44:46,196
I can't understand how my own daughter
can approve of this mess.
631
00:44:46,371 --> 00:44:49,068
This is such uncivilized taste.
Are you going to defend it?
632
00:44:49,242 --> 00:44:51,574
No, I won't try to defend it.
633
00:44:51,745 --> 00:44:55,112
Mr. Francon, that stairway,
it's not bad. It's a clever idea.
634
00:44:55,281 --> 00:44:58,546
I'm designing a building right now
where I can use an idea like this...
635
00:44:58,718 --> 00:45:00,686
...and I'd have to adapt it, of course.
636
00:45:00,854 --> 00:45:04,551
Well, if one gave it some elegance...
You know, a touch of Greek ornament.
637
00:45:04,724 --> 00:45:08,091
The engineering idea is brilliant.
I could use it myself.
638
00:45:36,790 --> 00:45:38,348
Hello. I've been waiting for you.
639
00:45:38,525 --> 00:45:41,983
You're the guest of honor tonight,
in more than just the social sense.
640
00:45:42,162 --> 00:45:44,153
Whom do you want to meet first?
641
00:45:44,330 --> 00:45:47,060
There's Dominique Francon looking at us.
642
00:45:47,233 --> 00:45:48,791
Come on.
643
00:45:54,108 --> 00:45:57,441
Miss Francon, may I present
Howard Roark?
644
00:45:58,078 --> 00:45:59,443
You're...
645
00:45:59,613 --> 00:46:01,808
- ...Howard Roark?
- Yes, Miss Francon.
646
00:46:01,982 --> 00:46:05,008
You don't know it, but Miss Francon
has a connection with you.
647
00:46:05,186 --> 00:46:08,383
She resigned from the Banner to
protest their attack on your building.
648
00:46:08,556 --> 00:46:10,456
- How did you know that?
- I heard about it.
649
00:46:10,624 --> 00:46:13,991
- I didn't want Mr. Roark to know it.
- Why not, Miss Francon?
650
00:46:14,161 --> 00:46:16,652
It was a perfectly futile gesture
on my part.
651
00:46:16,831 --> 00:46:20,460
Dominique won't admit it, but she admires
your buildings. She understands them.
652
00:46:20,634 --> 00:46:23,228
- I expected her to understand them.
- Did you?
653
00:46:23,404 --> 00:46:27,841
- But you didn't know me.
- I used to read your column, Miss Francon.
654
00:46:28,242 --> 00:46:30,767
I admire your work
more than anything I've ever seen.
655
00:46:30,945 --> 00:46:34,403
You may realize that this is not a tie,
but a gulf between us...
656
00:46:34,582 --> 00:46:36,948
...if you remember what you read
in my column.
657
00:46:37,284 --> 00:46:39,309
I remember every line of it.
658
00:46:40,487 --> 00:46:45,356
I wish I had never seen your building.
It's the things that we admire or want...
659
00:46:45,526 --> 00:46:48,188
...that enslave us,
I'm not easy to bring into submission.
660
00:46:49,864 --> 00:46:54,426
That depends upon the strength
of your adversary, Miss Francon.
661
00:46:57,105 --> 00:46:58,105
Well?
662
00:46:58,540 --> 00:47:00,371
Roger, why did you bring him here?
663
00:47:00,542 --> 00:47:02,407
Why did you deliver him
to these people?
664
00:47:02,577 --> 00:47:05,512
Don't you see he doesn't
have a chance against them?
665
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:12,319
Come in.
666
00:47:21,897 --> 00:47:23,524
I expected you to come here.
667
00:47:23,865 --> 00:47:26,857
I didn't know your name.
You knew mine.
668
00:47:27,035 --> 00:47:29,435
But you haven't tried to find me
in all these months.
669
00:47:30,238 --> 00:47:33,002
I wanted you to find me
and have to come to me.
670
00:47:34,409 --> 00:47:36,969
If it gives you pleasure
that you're breaking me down...
671
00:47:37,145 --> 00:47:39,340
...I'll give you a greater satisfaction.
672
00:47:40,181 --> 00:47:41,409
I love you, Roark.
673
00:47:42,350 --> 00:47:45,751
Would it please you to hear
that I've lived in torture all these months...
674
00:47:46,221 --> 00:47:48,781
...hoping never to find you,
wishing to give my life...
675
00:47:48,957 --> 00:47:51,084
...just to see you once more?
676
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,521
But you knew that, of course. That's
what you wanted me to live through.
677
00:47:56,231 --> 00:47:58,961
- Yes.
- Why don't you laugh at me now? You won.
678
00:47:59,601 --> 00:48:02,127
I have no pride left to stop me.
679
00:48:02,305 --> 00:48:05,502
I love you without dignity,
without regret.
680
00:48:06,008 --> 00:48:08,169
I came to tell you this...
681
00:48:08,344 --> 00:48:10,642
...and to tell you
that you'll never see me again.
682
00:48:11,981 --> 00:48:15,246
You want to know whether
you can make me suffer, don't you?
683
00:48:15,418 --> 00:48:17,018
You can.
684
00:48:17,453 --> 00:48:19,648
Roark, you're everything
I've always wanted.
685
00:48:19,822 --> 00:48:23,314
And that's why I hoped
I'd never meet anyone like you.
686
00:48:23,492 --> 00:48:26,359
I'll give you up now myself
rather than watch you destroyed...
687
00:48:26,529 --> 00:48:28,326
...by a world where you have no chance.
688
00:48:28,497 --> 00:48:31,694
- Why are you afraid?
- I know what they'll do to you.
689
00:48:31,867 --> 00:48:34,700
You had the genius
that made the Enright House.
690
00:48:34,870 --> 00:48:37,668
But you were working like a convict
in a granite quarry.
691
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:39,671
- I chose to do it.
- Why?
692
00:48:39,842 --> 00:48:41,275
Don't you know why?
693
00:48:41,444 --> 00:48:44,038
Yes. Because you won't conform.
694
00:48:44,213 --> 00:48:47,478
They'll drive you down again.
Stone quarry's all you can expect.
695
00:48:47,650 --> 00:48:50,278
- I got out of the quarry.
- Did you?
696
00:48:50,886 --> 00:48:53,650
Do you think the Enright House
is your beginning?
697
00:48:54,056 --> 00:48:56,251
It's your death sentence.
698
00:48:56,726 --> 00:48:58,853
Has any other client come to you?
699
00:48:59,028 --> 00:49:00,028
No.
700
00:49:00,796 --> 00:49:02,229
They won't.
701
00:49:02,398 --> 00:49:05,061
They hate you for the greatness
of your achievement.
702
00:49:05,235 --> 00:49:07,533
They hate you for your integrity.
703
00:49:07,704 --> 00:49:11,435
They hate you because they know
they can neither corrupt you nor rule you.
704
00:49:11,808 --> 00:49:14,106
They won't let you survive.
705
00:49:15,412 --> 00:49:17,880
Roark, they'll destroy you.
706
00:49:19,449 --> 00:49:21,849
But I won't be there to see it happen.
707
00:49:35,832 --> 00:49:37,732
Do you want to leave me?
708
00:49:47,077 --> 00:49:51,241
I've loved you from the first moment
I saw you, and you knew it.
709
00:49:51,581 --> 00:49:53,811
You tried to escape from it.
710
00:49:54,418 --> 00:49:57,410
I had to let you learn to accept it.
711
00:49:59,389 --> 00:50:01,687
Are you gonna leave me?
712
00:50:03,660 --> 00:50:04,660
Yes.
713
00:50:05,796 --> 00:50:07,822
I won't stop you.
714
00:50:08,499 --> 00:50:11,229
Roark, don't you see?
I don't want to leave you.
715
00:50:11,402 --> 00:50:12,994
Will you marry me?
716
00:50:13,171 --> 00:50:15,071
I want to stay with you.
717
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:18,106
We'll take a house in some small town,
I'll keep it for you.
718
00:50:18,276 --> 00:50:22,235
Don't laugh. I can. I'll cook, I'll wash
your clothes, I'll scrub the floor...
719
00:50:22,413 --> 00:50:24,438
...and you'll give up architecture.
720
00:50:24,615 --> 00:50:27,175
If you give it up,
I'll remain with you forever...
721
00:50:27,351 --> 00:50:31,481
...but I can't bear to stand by and see you
moving to some terrible disaster.
722
00:50:31,656 --> 00:50:34,523
It can't end any other way.
Save yourself from tragedy.
723
00:50:34,692 --> 00:50:36,592
Take a meaningless job.
724
00:50:36,761 --> 00:50:39,491
We'll live only for each other.
725
00:50:40,731 --> 00:50:43,859
I wish I could tell you
it was a temptation.
726
00:50:44,769 --> 00:50:47,363
Roark, yes or no?
727
00:50:47,638 --> 00:50:48,638
No.
728
00:50:55,213 --> 00:50:58,478
You must learn not to be afraid
of the world, not to take any notice.
729
00:50:58,649 --> 00:51:00,207
I must let you learn it.
730
00:51:00,384 --> 00:51:03,012
When you have,
you'll come back to me.
731
00:51:03,187 --> 00:51:05,451
They won't destroy me, Dominique.
732
00:51:05,623 --> 00:51:07,056
I'll wait for you.
733
00:51:07,225 --> 00:51:08,783
I love you.
734
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:12,761
I'm saying it now
for all the years we'll have to wait.
735
00:51:14,666 --> 00:51:17,658
I'd do anything to escape from you.
736
00:51:42,828 --> 00:51:47,094
I could've expected anything on my return
except to see you coming here to meet me.
737
00:51:47,266 --> 00:51:50,463
If I wanted to delude myself,
I'd think you were impatient to see me.
738
00:51:50,636 --> 00:51:52,228
- I was.
- I'm very happy, my dear...
739
00:51:52,404 --> 00:51:53,564
...no matter your reason.
740
00:51:53,739 --> 00:51:55,900
I'm honest enough to warn you,
you shouldn't be.
741
00:51:56,008 --> 00:51:58,474
I realize that.
What was your reason?
742
00:51:58,644 --> 00:52:02,102
If you found another request to make of me,
I like to be able to grant it.
743
00:52:02,281 --> 00:52:06,775
No. I didn't come to make a request
but to grant you one of yours.
744
00:52:06,952 --> 00:52:08,385
You still wish me to marry you?
745
00:52:08,554 --> 00:52:11,580
More than anything
I was ever capable of wishing.
746
00:52:11,757 --> 00:52:13,691
I'll marry you.
747
00:52:18,298 --> 00:52:21,426
- Don't you want to ask me any questions?
- No.
748
00:52:22,101 --> 00:52:25,127
Thank you.
You're making it easier for me.
749
00:52:25,505 --> 00:52:27,598
Whatever your reason, I shall accept it.
750
00:52:27,774 --> 00:52:30,868
What I want to find in our marriage
will remain my own concern.
751
00:52:31,044 --> 00:52:34,445
I exact no promises
and impose no obligations.
752
00:52:34,614 --> 00:52:38,710
Incidentally, since it is of no importance
to you, I love you.
753
00:52:50,663 --> 00:52:54,258
No, Mr. Roark, there is too much talk
and public resentment against you.
754
00:52:54,434 --> 00:52:58,393
We can't take part in controversies.
We can't afford to arouse antagonism.
755
00:52:58,571 --> 00:53:02,507
I'm sorry, but we find it impossible to
give you the commission for our building.
756
00:53:02,675 --> 00:53:08,079
As one of our directors said, "You can't
expect us to stick our necks out."
757
00:53:08,248 --> 00:53:10,716
No, and I don't expect it.
758
00:54:46,581 --> 00:54:48,412
Hello, Mr. Roark.
759
00:54:48,583 --> 00:54:52,110
I hoped I'd meet you someday,
like this, alone.
760
00:54:52,287 --> 00:54:55,484
- You shouldn't mind talking to me.
- What about?
761
00:54:56,124 --> 00:54:58,149
There's a building
that should've been yours.
762
00:54:58,326 --> 00:55:02,558
There are buildings going up all over the city,
chances refused to you and given to fools.
763
00:55:03,131 --> 00:55:06,862
You're walking the streets while they do
the work you love but cannot obtain.
764
00:55:07,235 --> 00:55:09,135
This city is closed to you.
765
00:55:09,304 --> 00:55:11,135
It is I who have done it.
766
00:55:11,306 --> 00:55:13,900
- Don't you want to know my motive?
- No.
767
00:55:14,542 --> 00:55:18,069
I'm fighting you, and I shall fight you
in every way I can.
768
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:21,449
- You're free to do what you please.
- Mr. Roark, we're alone here.
769
00:55:21,616 --> 00:55:24,813
Why don't you tell me what you think of me
in any words you wish?
770
00:55:24,986 --> 00:55:27,284
But I don't think of you.
771
00:55:35,998 --> 00:55:37,989
It's great, Mr. Roark. It's wonderful.
772
00:55:38,167 --> 00:55:41,432
Ever since I saw the Enright House,
I knew you were the man I wanted.
773
00:55:41,604 --> 00:55:44,437
But I was afraid you wouldn't do
an unimportant gas station...
774
00:55:44,607 --> 00:55:46,632
...for me after doing
skyscrapers.
775
00:55:46,809 --> 00:55:50,210
No building is unimportant.
I'll build for any man who wants me.
776
00:55:50,379 --> 00:55:53,280
Anywhere, so long as I build my way.
777
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:45,828
Your career has been as unprecedented
as your buildings.
778
00:56:46,002 --> 00:56:49,335
I never knew anybody to survive
one of the Banner's smear campaigns.
779
00:56:49,506 --> 00:56:51,906
Everything was against you.
How'd you break through?
780
00:56:52,075 --> 00:56:55,244
- What'd you think of the Banner's campaign?
- It was a vicious appeal to fools.
781
00:56:55,597 --> 00:56:57,609
Haven't you answered
your own question?
782
00:56:57,781 --> 00:57:00,773
But you had years torn out of your life,
wasted by the Banner.
783
00:57:00,951 --> 00:57:04,887
No. All these years, I've found some one
man who wanted my work...
784
00:57:05,055 --> 00:57:08,456
...one man who saw through his own eyes
and thought with his own brain.
785
00:57:08,625 --> 00:57:11,685
Such men may be rare, they may be
unknown, but they move the world.
786
00:57:11,862 --> 00:57:14,524
- How did you look for them?
- I didn't. They called for me.
787
00:57:14,698 --> 00:57:17,758
Any man who calls for me
is my kind of man.
788
00:57:27,544 --> 00:57:29,205
This is probably something very big.
789
00:57:29,379 --> 00:57:32,473
I made an appointment for you,
3:00 this afternoon at his office.
790
00:57:32,782 --> 00:57:35,877
- Whose office?
- He telephoned half an hour ago.
791
00:57:36,053 --> 00:57:39,253
Mr. Gail Wynand.
792
00:58:05,683 --> 00:58:08,151
- I don't think you'll want to work for me.
- Why?
793
00:58:08,319 --> 00:58:12,119
You ought to feel contempt for me
if you've seen the kind of buildings I put up.
794
00:58:12,290 --> 00:58:14,656
- You're honest, aren't you?
- Thank you.
795
00:58:14,825 --> 00:58:17,157
That's the first time
anyone said that about me...
796
00:58:17,328 --> 00:58:19,455
...and it's one of the few times
when I am.
797
00:58:19,630 --> 00:58:22,724
What I want you to build
is not for the public. It's for me.
798
00:58:22,900 --> 00:58:24,424
- What is it?
- My home...
799
00:58:24,602 --> 00:58:27,594
A country house
just for my wife and me.
800
00:58:28,072 --> 00:58:30,199
Did Mrs. Wynand choose me for the job?
801
00:58:30,374 --> 00:58:33,673
No, Mrs. Wynand doesn't know anything
about this. It's my own project.
802
00:58:33,844 --> 00:58:37,803
I've looked at buildings all over the country.
Every time I saw one that I liked...
803
00:58:37,982 --> 00:58:41,680
...and asked who designed it,
the answer was always Howard Roark.
804
00:58:44,523 --> 00:58:49,688
I want you to know that I have
very little respect for anything on earth.
805
00:58:49,861 --> 00:58:52,887
The only thing I worship,
and I've seen so little of it in life...
806
00:58:53,065 --> 00:58:55,533
...is man's ability to produce work
such as yours.
807
00:58:56,735 --> 00:58:58,100
I believe you.
808
00:58:58,270 --> 00:59:00,170
Why do you say that as if it hurt you?
809
00:59:00,339 --> 00:59:01,863
It doesn't.
810
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:04,372
Don't hold them against me,
the things I've built.
811
00:59:04,543 --> 00:59:08,411
Those worthless commercial structures
and papers like the Banner made it possible...
812
00:59:08,580 --> 00:59:11,743
...for me to have a house by you.
They're the means, you're the end.
813
00:59:11,917 --> 00:59:14,477
Don't apologize for your past.
It isn't necessary.
814
00:59:14,987 --> 00:59:16,614
You do have courage, don't you?
815
00:59:16,788 --> 00:59:19,052
No one else would dare
say that to me.
816
00:59:19,224 --> 00:59:22,159
But you're right. I was apologizing.
You see, I need you.
817
00:59:22,327 --> 00:59:26,354
That house means a great deal to me,
and you're the only one who can design it.
818
00:59:26,531 --> 00:59:28,123
What kind of a house do you want?
819
00:59:28,300 --> 00:59:31,895
Far from the city. I bought the land.
A place in Connecticut, 500 acres.
820
00:59:32,070 --> 00:59:34,664
What kind of a house?
The cost, whatever you need.
821
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:38,173
The appearance, whatever you wish.
The purpose...
822
00:59:40,045 --> 00:59:44,540
You see, I want this house because
I'm very desperately in love with my wife.
823
00:59:44,984 --> 00:59:47,214
What's the matter?
You think that's irrelevant?
824
00:59:47,387 --> 00:59:49,184
No. Go on.
825
00:59:49,355 --> 00:59:52,688
I can't stand to see my wife
among other people.
826
00:59:52,859 --> 00:59:55,089
It's not jealousy.
It's much more and much worse.
827
00:59:55,261 --> 00:59:57,525
I can't share her
with anyone or anything.
828
00:59:57,697 --> 01:00:01,326
I want a house
that will be only mine and hers.
829
01:00:01,501 --> 01:00:04,595
Think of it as you would think
of a fortress...
830
01:00:04,771 --> 01:00:06,329
...and of a temple.
831
01:00:06,506 --> 01:00:09,270
A temple
to Dominique Wynand.
832
01:00:09,542 --> 01:00:11,874
I want you to meet her
before you design it.
833
01:00:12,045 --> 01:00:14,605
I've met Mrs. Wynand some years ago.
834
01:00:14,781 --> 01:00:18,217
- You have? Then you understand.
- I do.
835
01:00:19,185 --> 01:00:21,847
Start work at once.
Drop anything else you're doing.
836
01:00:22,021 --> 01:00:23,989
I'll pay whatever...
837
01:00:24,957 --> 01:00:26,219
Forgive me.
838
01:00:26,392 --> 01:00:28,622
Too much association
with bad architects.
839
01:00:28,795 --> 01:00:31,593
I haven't asked you
whether you wanna do it.
840
01:00:33,299 --> 01:00:36,097
Yes. I'll do it.
841
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:43,866
- What's the matter, Gail?
- Good evening, dear. Why?
842
01:00:44,043 --> 01:00:46,944
- You look as if you felt happy.
- I feel as if I were young...
843
01:00:47,113 --> 01:00:50,481
...as I did when I was starting and
believed the road ahead was clean...
844
01:00:50,651 --> 01:00:51,948
...and honesty was possible.
845
01:00:52,119 --> 01:00:54,610
- You want it to be possible?
- Yes. I never realized...
846
01:00:54,788 --> 01:00:56,551
...how much I wanted to find it.
847
01:00:56,724 --> 01:00:59,818
Dominique, you look
very beautiful tonight.
848
01:00:59,993 --> 01:01:03,156
No. That's not what
I wanted to say. It's this:
849
01:01:03,330 --> 01:01:06,197
I feel for the first time
that I have a right to you.
850
01:01:06,366 --> 01:01:08,960
- You thought you hadn't?
- No, and that I'd never earn it.
851
01:01:09,136 --> 01:01:11,627
But now I believe nothing
will take you away from me...
852
01:01:11,805 --> 01:01:13,705
Nothing and no one.
853
01:01:14,108 --> 01:01:15,939
- I don't love you, Gail.
- I know it...
854
01:01:16,110 --> 01:01:18,135
...but you'd never loved anyone else.
855
01:01:18,312 --> 01:01:20,644
- What makes you think so?
- It wouldn't be like you.
856
01:01:20,814 --> 01:01:24,477
You'd never surrender to anyone,
but you don't hate me any longer.
857
01:01:24,651 --> 01:01:29,247
No. I've found we have
a great deal in common, you and I.
858
01:01:29,423 --> 01:01:32,586
We both had strength,
but not courage.
859
01:01:32,860 --> 01:01:35,226
We've committed
the same kind of treason some way.
860
01:01:35,395 --> 01:01:38,364
If I have, I feel as if
I've been forgiven tonight.
861
01:01:38,532 --> 01:01:40,432
- Why?
- I don't know.
862
01:01:40,601 --> 01:01:42,694
You've always wanted
to escape from the world.
863
01:01:42,870 --> 01:01:44,729
Would you like to live in the
country, away from everything...
864
01:01:44,817 --> 01:01:48,433
- ... away from the Banner?
- Yes. Yes, I would.
865
01:01:48,609 --> 01:01:50,304
I'm having a house designed for us.
866
01:01:50,477 --> 01:01:52,378
It will be my greatest gift to you.
867
01:01:52,547 --> 01:01:55,846
If I've been guilty in my life,
this house will vindicate me.
868
01:01:56,017 --> 01:01:59,976
- Who is designing it?
- The only man of genius I ever met.
869
01:02:00,155 --> 01:02:02,089
His name is Howard Roark.
870
01:02:04,025 --> 01:02:05,025
Gail.
871
01:02:05,894 --> 01:02:09,557
Do you happen to remember
why I resigned from the Banner?
872
01:02:09,731 --> 01:02:12,256
It was because of a campaign...
873
01:02:12,700 --> 01:02:15,168
...against the Enright House.
874
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:22,073
Just one of the Banner's
smear campaigns!
875
01:02:22,243 --> 01:02:24,768
Not important enough
to remember, was it, Gail?
876
01:02:24,946 --> 01:02:27,540
You staged so many of them.
877
01:02:27,715 --> 01:02:30,081
You were away on your yacht.
878
01:02:33,388 --> 01:02:36,448
He was just some architect
whom you threw to the mob.
879
01:02:36,991 --> 01:02:40,358
It built circulation. Didn't it, Gail?
880
01:02:40,528 --> 01:02:43,224
When I spoke to him,
he didn't remind me of it.
881
01:02:43,398 --> 01:02:44,729
Why should he?
882
01:02:44,899 --> 01:02:46,457
He knows he's won.
883
01:02:46,634 --> 01:02:50,229
He could afford to be generous.
I don't accept generosity.
884
01:02:50,405 --> 01:02:54,466
I never thought
he could win against you, but he has.
885
01:02:54,642 --> 01:02:57,305
Maybe we're wrong
about the world, you and I.
886
01:02:57,479 --> 01:02:59,811
He's the one who's earned
the right to despise us.
887
01:02:59,982 --> 01:03:03,543
Has he? That's a right
I'll never grant to anyone on earth.
888
01:03:03,719 --> 01:03:06,950
There are no men of integrity, are there?
889
01:03:07,623 --> 01:03:09,090
Well, you've met one.
890
01:03:09,258 --> 01:03:12,659
There aren't.
He's not any better than the rest of us.
891
01:03:13,195 --> 01:03:16,790
- What if he is?
- If he were, I'd break him.
892
01:03:17,032 --> 01:03:19,398
Nobody can break him.
893
01:03:20,603 --> 01:03:22,730
I'll find out.
894
01:03:28,310 --> 01:03:30,835
Why did you accept this commission?
Don't you hate me?
895
01:03:31,013 --> 01:03:32,640
No. Why should I?
896
01:03:32,815 --> 01:03:34,942
- Do you want me to speak of it first?
- Of what?
897
01:03:35,117 --> 01:03:36,482
The Enright House.
898
01:03:36,652 --> 01:03:39,815
You had forgotten that, hadn't you?
Let it remain forgotten.
899
01:03:39,989 --> 01:03:43,117
I know what the Banner has done to you,
but I stand by every word...
900
01:03:43,292 --> 01:03:45,886
- ... in the Banner.
- I haven't asked you to retract it.
901
01:03:46,061 --> 01:03:48,529
Mr. Roark, I was away
at the time of that campaign...
902
01:03:48,697 --> 01:03:50,927
...but my editor was doing
what I had taught him.
903
01:03:51,100 --> 01:03:53,068
Had I been in town,
I'd have done the same.
904
01:03:53,402 --> 01:03:56,929
- That was your privilege.
- You don't believe I would have done it.
905
01:03:57,206 --> 01:03:59,174
- No.
- I haven't asked you...
906
01:03:59,341 --> 01:04:02,072
...for compliments or for pity.
Sit down.
907
01:04:04,214 --> 01:04:07,342
I wish to sign a contract
to make you sole architect...
908
01:04:07,517 --> 01:04:09,644
...for all the future buildings I may erect.
909
01:04:09,819 --> 01:04:11,582
If you accept, you will make a
fortune.
910
01:04:11,755 --> 01:04:14,451
If you refuse, I will see to it
that you never build again.
911
01:04:14,624 --> 01:04:17,422
You may have heard.
I don't like to be refused.
912
01:04:17,594 --> 01:04:20,154
I want you to design
my future commercial structures...
913
01:04:20,330 --> 01:04:22,389
...as the public wishes
them to be designed.
914
01:04:22,565 --> 01:04:25,864
You will build colonial houses,
Rococo hotels...
915
01:04:26,036 --> 01:04:28,334
...and semi-Grecian office buildings.
916
01:04:28,505 --> 01:04:31,497
You will take your spectacular talent
and make it subservient...
917
01:04:31,675 --> 01:04:33,370
...to the taste of the masses.
918
01:04:33,543 --> 01:04:35,511
That is what I want.
919
01:04:36,913 --> 01:04:39,780
of course. I'll be glad to do it.
920
01:04:40,350 --> 01:04:42,250
It's easy.
921
01:05:13,117 --> 01:05:15,108
This what you want?
922
01:05:19,924 --> 01:05:21,289
Good heavens, no.
923
01:05:21,459 --> 01:05:25,395
Then shut up and don't ever let me hear
any architectural suggestions.
924
01:05:27,298 --> 01:05:30,426
I didn't think anyone would waste time
trying to tempt me again.
925
01:05:30,601 --> 01:05:33,126
- I meant it until I saw that.
- I knew you meant it.
926
01:05:33,304 --> 01:05:34,965
You were taking a terrible chance.
927
01:05:35,139 --> 01:05:37,073
Not at all. I had an ally I could trust.
928
01:05:37,241 --> 01:05:39,072
- What, your integrity?
- Yours, Gail.
929
01:05:39,243 --> 01:05:40,710
Why do you think that about me?
930
01:05:41,379 --> 01:05:44,507
Why don't you admit to yourself
what we both knew the moment we met?
931
01:05:44,682 --> 01:05:46,445
- What?
- That we are alike, you and I.
932
01:05:46,717 --> 01:05:49,379
You're saying it about Gail Wynand
of the New York Banner?
933
01:05:49,553 --> 01:05:51,680
I'm saying it.
Gail Wynand of Hell's Kitchen...
934
01:05:51,856 --> 01:05:54,791
...who had the strength and spirit
to rise by his own effort...
935
01:05:54,959 --> 01:05:58,759
...but who made a bad mistake
about the way he chose.
936
01:05:58,929 --> 01:06:01,363
No. You shouldn't deal with me.
937
01:06:01,532 --> 01:06:03,397
You shouldn't remain here.
938
01:06:03,567 --> 01:06:06,559
- You wish to throw me out?
- You know I can't.
939
01:06:06,737 --> 01:06:08,933
Shall I tell you now what I think of this?
940
01:06:09,107 --> 01:06:10,631
You told me.
941
01:06:10,876 --> 01:06:12,867
I'll take this drawing home
to show my wife.
942
01:06:13,045 --> 01:06:15,513
I want her to see it
and to thank you in person.
943
01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:18,342
Will you come
and have dinner with us tonight?
944
01:06:19,551 --> 01:06:21,075
Will you?
945
01:06:22,354 --> 01:06:23,354
Yes.
946
01:06:36,101 --> 01:06:39,161
- Howard.
- Good evening, Gail.
947
01:06:40,972 --> 01:06:42,269
You two know each other.
948
01:06:42,441 --> 01:06:44,671
- How do you do, Mr. Roark?
- And you, Mrs. Wynand?
949
01:06:44,843 --> 01:06:48,643
Thank you for the house you designed for
us. It's one of your most beautiful.
950
01:06:48,814 --> 01:06:51,374
If you like it, I've fulfilled
your husband's order.
951
01:06:51,550 --> 01:06:53,040
What was the order?
952
01:06:53,218 --> 01:06:55,914
To design a house as a temple
to you, Mrs. Wynand.
953
01:06:57,022 --> 01:07:00,651
Shall I accept it as a tribute
from Gail or from you?
954
01:07:00,826 --> 01:07:02,088
From both of us.
955
01:07:03,662 --> 01:07:05,527
I appreciate it.
956
01:07:05,697 --> 01:07:08,962
Particularly since I would have expected you
to refuse the commission.
957
01:07:09,134 --> 01:07:10,134
Why?
958
01:07:10,902 --> 01:07:13,872
Was there nothing in your past
to make you refuse it?
959
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:15,871
- No.
- Thank you, Howard.
960
01:07:16,042 --> 01:07:19,239
I never expected you
to forget and give in.
961
01:07:19,445 --> 01:07:21,606
Isn't Mr. Roark the man you said
you'd break?
962
01:07:21,781 --> 01:07:23,248
I tried it and lost.
963
01:07:24,117 --> 01:07:26,517
Are you admitting defeat?
Both of you?
964
01:07:26,686 --> 01:07:30,816
Do you wish to call it that?
I think it was a victory for both of us.
965
01:07:31,924 --> 01:07:34,188
Your feeling, once granted...
966
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:35,793
...will you ever withdraw it?
967
01:07:36,996 --> 01:07:38,196
Never.
968
01:07:40,466 --> 01:07:42,764
Have you studied the floor plans
of the house?
969
01:07:42,935 --> 01:07:46,701
I should like to know whether
the arrangement of the rooms is convenient.
970
01:07:46,873 --> 01:07:48,636
- The rooms?
- Yes. The living room...
971
01:07:48,808 --> 01:07:52,574
- ...will open to a terrace over the lake.
- Did you notice the windows of our room?
972
01:07:52,745 --> 01:07:57,307
- We'll get the first sunlight in the morning.
- You think I could ever live in that house?
973
01:07:57,483 --> 01:08:01,749
- Why not?
- I can't. Please.
974
01:08:01,988 --> 01:08:03,979
- Don't ask me to live in it.
- Why not?
975
01:08:04,157 --> 01:08:06,125
Dominique, what is it?
976
01:08:06,826 --> 01:08:08,384
Nothing.
977
01:08:08,561 --> 01:08:10,927
only the constant reminder.
978
01:08:11,097 --> 01:08:16,331
- After the Enright House, we have no right.
- Please, forget the Enright House.
979
01:08:16,570 --> 01:08:18,470
Yes, Mr. Roark.
980
01:08:19,506 --> 01:08:22,634
I wouldn't be so frightened if I could
understand. What have I done?
981
01:08:22,809 --> 01:08:24,970
- Why did it happen?
- What are you whining about?
982
01:08:25,145 --> 01:08:28,876
There's no use kidding myself. I've been
slipping ever since Guy Francon retired.
983
01:08:29,049 --> 01:08:32,075
I've had less work each year.
People are dropping me. Why?
984
01:08:32,252 --> 01:08:34,220
You were a fashion, Peter.
Fashions change.
985
01:08:34,388 --> 01:08:37,585
But I was at the top.
Why did I fall like that without any reason?
986
01:08:37,758 --> 01:08:41,626
Don't be astonished, ask yourself,
is there any reason for you to be at the top?
987
01:08:41,795 --> 01:08:44,696
But you used to say
I was the greatest architect living.
988
01:08:45,465 --> 01:08:47,899
Well, I could have had two reasons
for saying it.
989
01:08:48,068 --> 01:08:50,093
Maybe I wanted to honor you...
990
01:08:50,270 --> 01:08:53,364
...and maybe I wanted to dishonor
and discredit all greatness.
991
01:08:53,540 --> 01:08:55,132
I... I thought you were my friend.
992
01:08:55,309 --> 01:08:59,109
of course, I'm everybody's friend.
I'm the friend of humanity.
993
01:08:59,279 --> 01:09:01,770
Now, why did you come here?
What do you want?
994
01:09:03,116 --> 01:09:04,981
Cortlandt Homes.
995
01:09:06,453 --> 01:09:07,681
You're not serious.
996
01:09:08,021 --> 01:09:10,080
If I could get a great project to design...
997
01:09:10,257 --> 01:09:13,021
...like Cortlandt Homes, it would save
my reputation.
998
01:09:13,293 --> 01:09:16,421
But Cortlandt Homes is to be
the greatest of all housing projects.
999
01:09:16,597 --> 01:09:18,758
A model development
for the whole world.
1000
01:09:18,932 --> 01:09:20,230
You can help me, Ellsworth.
1001
01:09:20,401 --> 01:09:23,029
You have influence
on that project with those people.
1002
01:09:23,204 --> 01:09:25,434
Don't forget that this is not
a Wynand project.
1003
01:09:25,607 --> 01:09:27,632
I'm only an unofficial adviser to them.
1004
01:09:27,809 --> 01:09:29,777
As an expert in architecture,
nothing else.
1005
01:09:30,044 --> 01:09:32,035
But just a word
of recommendation from you.
1006
01:09:32,213 --> 01:09:35,114
But, Peter, do you imagine
you could design Cortlandt?
1007
01:09:35,283 --> 01:09:38,275
They haven't found anyone able to do it.
They're stuck.
1008
01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:41,553
Do you know the big problem
in housing? Economy.
1009
01:09:41,723 --> 01:09:44,920
How to design a building
that would rent at the lowest price possible.
1010
01:09:45,093 --> 01:09:47,357
Cortlandt Homes has to be
the most brilliant product...
1011
01:09:47,528 --> 01:09:50,361
...of planning ingenuity
and structural economy ever achieved.
1012
01:09:50,531 --> 01:09:52,055
Do you think you could do that?
1013
01:09:52,233 --> 01:09:54,224
Well, I could try. I'd do my best.
1014
01:09:55,036 --> 01:09:57,527
Your best won't do it, Peter.
1015
01:10:00,508 --> 01:10:02,840
But you may try if you wish.
1016
01:10:07,515 --> 01:10:10,678
Here's all the dope on Cortlandt.
Work out a preliminary scheme.
1017
01:10:10,852 --> 01:10:14,310
Solve the problem. I'll submit it
and push it for all I'm worth.
1018
01:10:14,489 --> 01:10:16,081
You will let me try.
1019
01:10:16,257 --> 01:10:18,817
All our best architects
have tried and failed.
1020
01:10:18,993 --> 01:10:21,928
Nothing can be done in life
without an idea.
1021
01:10:22,430 --> 01:10:25,161
My friends have the land,
the money, the material...
1022
01:10:25,334 --> 01:10:27,529
...but not the man
to originate the idea.
1023
01:10:27,703 --> 01:10:30,433
Howard, I'm a parasite.
I've been a parasite all my life.
1024
01:10:30,606 --> 01:10:32,574
You helped me
with my projects in school.
1025
01:10:32,741 --> 01:10:36,040
Everything I've built was stolen from you
and men like you before us.
1026
01:10:36,211 --> 01:10:37,872
I've never had an idea of my own.
1027
01:10:38,047 --> 01:10:41,642
I've fed on you and hated you for it
and I've come here to ask you to save me.
1028
01:10:42,251 --> 01:10:45,152
- Go on.
- Cortlandt is my last chance.
1029
01:10:45,321 --> 01:10:47,152
I know I can't do it. I've tried.
1030
01:10:47,456 --> 01:10:51,017
I've come to beg you as I did in school
to design it for me.
1031
01:10:51,193 --> 01:10:54,128
To design it
and let me put my name on it.
1032
01:10:54,396 --> 01:10:56,694
Well, there's no reason
you should want to do it.
1033
01:10:56,865 --> 01:11:00,164
If you can solve their problem, go
to them and obtain the commission.
1034
01:11:00,602 --> 01:11:04,902
- Do you think I could get past Toohey?
- No. No, you couldn't.
1035
01:11:05,074 --> 01:11:07,406
He's not the only one.
I'll never be given a job...
1036
01:11:07,576 --> 01:11:10,306
...by any group, board, council,
or committee...
1037
01:11:10,479 --> 01:11:12,470
...but I would like to do this job.
1038
01:11:12,648 --> 01:11:15,242
You'd design Cortlandt for me?
1039
01:11:15,918 --> 01:11:17,647
I might if you offer me enough.
1040
01:11:17,820 --> 01:11:20,482
Howard, anything you ask. Anything.
1041
01:11:20,856 --> 01:11:22,983
Name a motive
that would make me want to do it.
1042
01:11:23,392 --> 01:11:25,519
There's no reason
why you should save me.
1043
01:11:25,694 --> 01:11:28,323
- No.
- But it's a humanitarian project.
1044
01:11:28,531 --> 01:11:30,158
Think of the people in the slums.
1045
01:11:30,333 --> 01:11:33,302
If you can give them decent housing,
you'd perform a noble deed.
1046
01:11:33,503 --> 01:11:35,471
Would you do it just for their sake?
1047
01:11:35,638 --> 01:11:39,096
No. The man who works for others
without payment is a slave.
1048
01:11:39,275 --> 01:11:41,334
I do not believe that slavery is noble.
1049
01:11:41,511 --> 01:11:45,072
Not in any form,
nor for any purpose whatsoever.
1050
01:11:45,248 --> 01:11:47,944
Is there any kind of payment
I can offer you?
1051
01:11:50,053 --> 01:11:51,748
Yes, there is.
1052
01:11:51,921 --> 01:11:53,650
Now, listen to me.
1053
01:11:53,957 --> 01:11:56,858
I've worked on the problem
of low-rent construction for years.
1054
01:11:57,026 --> 01:11:59,790
I've thought of the new inventions,
the new materials...
1055
01:11:59,963 --> 01:12:04,059
...the great possibilities never used
to build cheaply, simply, and intelligently.
1056
01:12:04,234 --> 01:12:06,998
I loved it because it was a problem
I wanted to solve.
1057
01:12:07,504 --> 01:12:09,096
Yes. I understand.
1058
01:12:10,039 --> 01:12:12,940
Peter, before you can do things
for people...
1059
01:12:13,109 --> 01:12:15,771
...you must be the kind of man
who can get things done.
1060
01:12:15,945 --> 01:12:20,939
But to get things done,
you must love the doing, not the people.
1061
01:12:21,117 --> 01:12:24,609
Your own work,
not any possible object of your charity.
1062
01:12:24,788 --> 01:12:29,054
I'll be glad if men who need it find a
better manner of living in a house I build...
1063
01:12:29,526 --> 01:12:33,190
...but that's not the motive of my work,
nor my reason, nor my reward.
1064
01:12:33,564 --> 01:12:38,126
My reward, my purpose,
my life is the work itself.
1065
01:12:38,302 --> 01:12:40,031
My work done my way.
1066
01:12:40,204 --> 01:12:41,569
Nothing else matters to me.
1067
01:12:45,009 --> 01:12:47,671
I've always wanted to build
a large-scale project but I...
1068
01:12:47,845 --> 01:12:50,109
I never hoped to get the chance.
1069
01:12:52,149 --> 01:12:54,379
Now, here's what I'll offer you.
1070
01:12:55,019 --> 01:12:58,216
I will design Cortlandt.
You'll put your name on it.
1071
01:12:58,389 --> 01:13:02,519
You will keep all the fees,
but you will guarantee...
1072
01:13:02,693 --> 01:13:05,389
...that it will be built exactly
as I design it.
1073
01:13:06,096 --> 01:13:09,657
- I see.
- No changes by you or by anyone else.
1074
01:13:10,301 --> 01:13:12,132
That's the payment
I demand for my work.
1075
01:13:12,303 --> 01:13:17,297
My ideas are mine. Nobody else has a right
to them except on my terms.
1076
01:13:17,475 --> 01:13:20,273
Those who need them
must take them my way or not at all.
1077
01:13:20,444 --> 01:13:22,344
All right, Howard.
1078
01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:24,877
I guarantee it.
1079
01:13:25,049 --> 01:13:26,949
I give you my word.
1080
01:13:31,956 --> 01:13:33,514
Everybody would say
you're a fool.
1081
01:13:34,024 --> 01:13:36,357
That I'm getting everything.
1082
01:13:36,928 --> 01:13:41,262
You'll get everything that society can give.
You'll take the money, the fame...
1083
01:13:41,433 --> 01:13:43,901
...and the gratitude and I'll take that...
1084
01:13:44,069 --> 01:13:46,765
...which nobody can give a man except
himself.
1085
01:13:47,873 --> 01:13:50,307
I will have built Cortlandt.
1086
01:13:51,977 --> 01:13:55,174
"After two years of futile attempts
to solve the problems involved...
1087
01:13:55,347 --> 01:13:59,078
...the design submitted by Peter Keating
is an astonishingly skillful solution...
1088
01:13:59,251 --> 01:14:02,709
...that provides the best living quarters
yet devised at the lowest cost. "
1089
01:14:02,888 --> 01:14:05,652
- What on earth are you up to?
- What do you mean?
1090
01:14:05,824 --> 01:14:08,190
Do you think I pick artworks
by their signatures?
1091
01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:09,691
Who designed that project?
1092
01:14:11,029 --> 01:14:12,496
Peter Keating.
1093
01:14:14,332 --> 01:14:16,129
Who designed this?
1094
01:14:16,768 --> 01:14:19,066
- Of course.
- What are you after?
1095
01:14:20,372 --> 01:14:21,805
- Drop it.
- All right.
1096
01:14:22,274 --> 01:14:24,333
I won't try to guess your motive...
1097
01:14:24,509 --> 01:14:27,205
...but I'd know your work anywhere.
1098
01:14:28,446 --> 01:14:31,074
Howard, I never expected
to feel gratitude to anyone...
1099
01:14:31,249 --> 01:14:34,776
...but I'm grateful to you every moment
of the day in the house you built.
1100
01:14:34,953 --> 01:14:37,649
I'm learning so many things
I never expected to feel.
1101
01:14:37,822 --> 01:14:41,418
- What?
- The wonder of ownership.
1102
01:14:41,727 --> 01:14:45,128
I'm a millionaire who's never
owned anything. I've been public property...
1103
01:14:45,298 --> 01:14:46,526
...like a city billboard.
1104
01:14:46,699 --> 01:14:50,032
But this is mine. Here I'm safe.
1105
01:14:50,803 --> 01:14:53,431
Why didn't you come here yesterday?
I missed you.
1106
01:14:53,606 --> 01:14:56,131
- Too much work in the office.
- You're killing yourself.
1107
01:14:56,309 --> 01:14:59,039
- You've worked too hard for years.
- Haven't you?
1108
01:14:59,211 --> 01:15:02,647
Yes. We need a rest, both of us.
1109
01:15:02,815 --> 01:15:05,613
My yacht's been refitted.
I'm planning a long cruise.
1110
01:15:06,018 --> 01:15:08,145
I've meant to for years.
Go with me.
1111
01:15:08,321 --> 01:15:09,583
Gail, is this an obsession?
1112
01:15:09,755 --> 01:15:11,950
What is Mr. Roark to you?
1113
01:15:12,124 --> 01:15:13,489
My youth.
1114
01:15:13,659 --> 01:15:16,651
- Is he what you were in your youth?
- Oh, no, much more than that.
1115
01:15:16,829 --> 01:15:19,559
What I thought I'd be when I was 16.
1116
01:15:19,732 --> 01:15:22,257
I'm sure Mr. Roark
can't go on a yacht cruise.
1117
01:15:23,102 --> 01:15:25,400
Why, yes, Mrs. Wynand,
I'd be glad to go.
1118
01:15:26,472 --> 01:15:30,067
I thought, that you'd never give up
your work for anyone.
1119
01:15:30,476 --> 01:15:33,104
I won't give it up.
I'll take my first vacation.
1120
01:15:33,479 --> 01:15:35,242
You're willing to be away for months?
1121
01:15:35,648 --> 01:15:37,411
I'd enjoy it.
1122
01:15:38,718 --> 01:15:40,982
It's incredible.
I believe you're jealous.
1123
01:15:41,153 --> 01:15:42,484
Wonderful!
1124
01:15:42,655 --> 01:15:45,454
I'm even more grateful to you
if he's made you jealous of me.
1125
01:15:45,626 --> 01:15:47,651
Now, don't frown. I'll fix a drink.
1126
01:15:47,828 --> 01:15:49,056
We'll toast the cruise.
1127
01:15:55,902 --> 01:15:57,102
Roark.
1128
01:15:58,472 --> 01:16:00,099
Roark, don't go with him.
1129
01:16:00,273 --> 01:16:01,831
I can't stand this much longer.
1130
01:16:02,009 --> 01:16:03,601
I am jealous...
1131
01:16:03,777 --> 01:16:07,713
...of you and of every moment you give him,
of your impossible friendship.
1132
01:16:07,881 --> 01:16:12,750
- I don't want you to come here or like him.
- I don't want to discuss it, Mrs. Wynand.
1133
01:16:18,325 --> 01:16:20,589
Howard, that's where I was born,
Hell's Kitchen.
1134
01:16:20,761 --> 01:16:23,059
I own most of it now.
All those blocks.
1135
01:16:23,230 --> 01:16:26,961
I decided when I was 16 that that's
where the Wynand building would stand...
1136
01:16:27,134 --> 01:16:29,659
...and that it'd be
the tallest structure of the city.
1137
01:16:29,836 --> 01:16:31,804
What's the matter?
Do you want to build it?
1138
01:16:31,972 --> 01:16:35,931
- Do you want it pretty badly?
- I think I'd almost give my life for it.
1139
01:16:36,109 --> 01:16:38,236
- Is that what you wanted?
- Something like that.
1140
01:16:38,412 --> 01:16:41,006
I won't demand your life,
but it's nice to shock you.
1141
01:16:41,181 --> 01:16:43,149
I'll start to build it in a few years.
1142
01:16:43,316 --> 01:16:44,943
Do you know how much
it means to me?
1143
01:16:45,118 --> 01:16:47,952
- Yes. I know what you want.
- A monument to my life, Howard.
1144
01:16:48,122 --> 01:16:50,852
After I'm gone, that building
will be Gail Wynand.
1145
01:16:51,025 --> 01:16:54,256
My last and greatest achievement
will also be your greatest.
1146
01:16:54,429 --> 01:16:56,397
The Wynand building by Howard Roark.
1147
01:16:56,564 --> 01:17:00,022
I've waited for it from the day I was born.
From the day you were born...
1148
01:17:00,201 --> 01:17:04,900
...you've waited for your one great chance.
There it is, on the site of Hell's Kitchen.
1149
01:17:05,073 --> 01:17:06,973
Yours from me.
1150
01:17:11,946 --> 01:17:14,073
Please, Mr. Keating,
do let us stop arguing.
1151
01:17:14,248 --> 01:17:17,376
We've engaged Mr. Prescott and Mr. Webb
as your associate designers.
1152
01:17:17,552 --> 01:17:20,043
- What for?
- Well, it's such a tremendous project.
1153
01:17:20,221 --> 01:17:23,782
You can afford to share the credit with two
fellow architects who need a job.
1154
01:17:23,958 --> 01:17:27,223
Don't be selfish.
Besides, three minds are better than one.
1155
01:17:27,395 --> 01:17:29,192
But you've accepted my design.
1156
01:17:29,397 --> 01:17:32,491
Yes, of course. It's excellent,
but we must make some improvements.
1157
01:17:33,568 --> 01:17:36,128
- What improvements?
- Well, the thing's too bare.
1158
01:17:36,304 --> 01:17:37,931
We ought to add a few balconies.
1159
01:17:38,106 --> 01:17:39,368
Balconies? What for?
1160
01:17:39,540 --> 01:17:40,871
To give it a human touch.
1161
01:17:41,042 --> 01:17:43,738
We got to have some kind of trimming
over the entrance.
1162
01:17:44,746 --> 01:17:47,408
I won't allow it. It's my building.
It's my design.
1163
01:17:47,582 --> 01:17:50,210
But why shouldn't we
have any say at all?
1164
01:17:50,384 --> 01:17:52,649
We want to express
our individuality too.
1165
01:17:52,821 --> 01:17:54,049
on another man's work?
1166
01:17:54,223 --> 01:17:56,623
What the heck?
Any man's work is public property.
1167
01:17:57,726 --> 01:17:59,887
I can't let you.
Don't you understand? I can't.
1168
01:18:00,062 --> 01:18:02,622
Well, Peter, why not?
What's the matter?
1169
01:18:02,798 --> 01:18:05,323
You've never fought
with your clients before.
1170
01:18:05,501 --> 01:18:09,528
- Is there anything different in this case?
- They're ruining the building.
1171
01:18:09,705 --> 01:18:12,606
- Oh, I suppose so.
- What do you care?
1172
01:18:13,442 --> 01:18:16,206
You made a contract with me
that Cortlandt would be built...
1173
01:18:16,378 --> 01:18:19,836
...exactly as I designed it, I did
it only on that condition.
1174
01:18:20,015 --> 01:18:22,575
- What's a contract?
- You're old-fashioned, Keating.
1175
01:18:22,751 --> 01:18:25,845
- But I have a contract.
- What are you going to do about it? Sue us?
1176
01:18:26,021 --> 01:18:29,718
Go ahead. Try it.
You'll find that you can't sue us.
1177
01:18:30,225 --> 01:18:31,783
But you had no right to do this!
1178
01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:34,394
- What are rights, Peter?
- Whose rights?
1179
01:18:34,563 --> 01:18:37,896
oh, what's the use of talking?
Let's go to work.
1180
01:18:55,217 --> 01:18:56,446
I couldn't help it, Howard.
1181
01:18:56,619 --> 01:18:58,610
They started making changes
without reason.
1182
01:18:58,788 --> 01:19:00,415
Everybody had authority
and nobody.
1183
01:19:00,590 --> 01:19:03,184
I tried to fight. They pushed me
from office to office.
1184
01:19:03,359 --> 01:19:05,054
- I couldn't help it.
- I suppose not.
1185
01:19:05,228 --> 01:19:08,288
I had no way to reach you.
I was waiting for you to come back.
1186
01:19:08,464 --> 01:19:10,261
I was afraid.
1187
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:11,862
What are you going to do?
1188
01:19:12,035 --> 01:19:14,196
They've got such a setup,
you can't sue them.
1189
01:19:14,370 --> 01:19:16,235
- No.
- Want me to confess the truth?
1190
01:19:16,406 --> 01:19:17,839
- To everybody?
- No.
1191
01:19:18,007 --> 01:19:20,475
Will you let me give you
all the money they paid me?
1192
01:19:20,877 --> 01:19:22,105
I'm sorry.
1193
01:19:23,913 --> 01:19:25,313
Howard.
1194
01:19:26,316 --> 01:19:27,544
What are you going to do?
1195
01:19:28,718 --> 01:19:31,448
You have to leave that up to me now.
1196
01:19:45,668 --> 01:19:47,533
Why did you come here?
1197
01:19:47,704 --> 01:19:49,638
Because I couldn't stand it any longer.
1198
01:19:49,806 --> 01:19:51,330
You've been away for months.
1199
01:19:51,507 --> 01:19:53,475
I had to see you again...
To see you alone.
1200
01:19:53,643 --> 01:19:55,338
Please go.
1201
01:19:56,112 --> 01:19:58,512
Roark, do I mean nothing to you?
1202
01:19:58,915 --> 01:20:01,009
I can't answer you now.
1203
01:20:01,485 --> 01:20:03,783
You stayed away from me for years.
1204
01:20:03,954 --> 01:20:06,286
I tried to forget you. I couldn't.
1205
01:20:06,457 --> 01:20:09,324
- You knew I never would.
- Yes.
1206
01:20:09,493 --> 01:20:12,155
I never thought it'd be Gail
who'd bring you back to me.
1207
01:20:12,596 --> 01:20:14,791
Don't you see why
I can't stand it now?
1208
01:20:14,965 --> 01:20:18,162
Living in a house you designed,
seeing you constantly as a stranger...
1209
01:20:18,335 --> 01:20:20,860
...having no right to look at you,
to tell you that I...
1210
01:20:21,038 --> 01:20:22,562
Don't say it.
1211
01:20:23,207 --> 01:20:24,606
Do you remember?
1212
01:20:24,775 --> 01:20:26,936
You said once that you...
1213
01:20:27,511 --> 01:20:30,275
For all the years we'll have to wait.
1214
01:20:31,548 --> 01:20:33,345
Roark, I know...
1215
01:20:33,517 --> 01:20:36,315
...that you've known
what I felt all these years.
1216
01:20:36,520 --> 01:20:39,614
We can never change it,
neither one of us.
1217
01:20:40,891 --> 01:20:42,119
I'm going to leave Gail.
1218
01:20:42,293 --> 01:20:45,023
You may refuse to see me again,
but I'm going to leave him.
1219
01:20:51,335 --> 01:20:55,567
Before you leave him will you help me
with a problem of my own?
1220
01:20:55,739 --> 01:20:57,934
- Yes.
- Will you do it without asking questions?
1221
01:20:58,108 --> 01:21:00,338
Yes, Roark, anything you want.
1222
01:21:01,679 --> 01:21:03,374
You've seen Cortlandt Homes?
1223
01:21:03,547 --> 01:21:05,982
Yes. I know what they've
done to your work.
1224
01:21:06,584 --> 01:21:11,146
Next Monday night, I want you to drive up
to the side of Cortlandt.
1225
01:21:11,456 --> 01:21:13,014
You must be alone in your car.
1226
01:21:13,191 --> 01:21:15,751
You must make it appear
you were an innocent bystander...
1227
01:21:15,927 --> 01:21:19,454
Roark, I know
what you're going to do.
1228
01:21:21,466 --> 01:21:23,525
This is a test, isn't it?
1229
01:21:23,702 --> 01:21:26,432
Can I equal your courage,
am I still afraid for you...
1230
01:21:26,604 --> 01:21:29,801
...can I help you take the most
terrible chance you've ever...?
1231
01:21:29,975 --> 01:21:32,466
You can guess anything you wish.
1232
01:21:32,644 --> 01:21:37,274
Just listen. When I finish don't tell me
whether you will help me or not.
1233
01:21:37,449 --> 01:21:39,349
If you decide to do it, say nothing...
1234
01:21:39,517 --> 01:21:41,144
...but let me see you do it.
1235
01:21:41,319 --> 01:21:43,719
All right. Go on.
1236
01:21:43,888 --> 01:21:47,380
Drive up to Cortlandt
Monday night at 11:30.
1237
01:22:07,212 --> 01:22:09,545
I ran out of gas.
May I use your telephone, please?
1238
01:22:09,715 --> 01:22:13,014
I'm sorry, ma'am,
but our phone's gone dead tonight.
1239
01:22:14,387 --> 01:22:16,014
Where is the nearest garage?
1240
01:22:17,289 --> 01:22:19,223
Way down the road.
1241
01:22:19,625 --> 01:22:22,526
Would you mind going there
and getting somebody to help me?
1242
01:22:22,695 --> 01:22:25,391
Sure will, young lady. Glad to.
1243
01:23:45,278 --> 01:23:46,802
What do you know
about this?
1244
01:23:46,980 --> 01:23:49,448
Arrest me. I'll talk at the trial.
1245
01:23:49,616 --> 01:23:52,084
We don't have to wait for the trial
to convict him.
1246
01:23:52,252 --> 01:23:55,153
Howard Roark is guilty
by his very nature.
1247
01:23:55,388 --> 01:23:57,754
It is whispered
that he designed Cortlandt.
1248
01:23:57,924 --> 01:24:01,519
- What if he did?
- Society needed a housing project.
1249
01:24:01,695 --> 01:24:04,027
It was his duty to sacrifice
his own desires...
1250
01:24:04,197 --> 01:24:08,497
...and to contribute any ideas we demanded
of him on any terms we chose.
1251
01:24:09,069 --> 01:24:11,060
Who is society?
1252
01:24:11,238 --> 01:24:12,638
We are.
1253
01:24:13,240 --> 01:24:17,109
Man can be permitted to exist
only in order to serve others.
1254
01:24:17,278 --> 01:24:21,180
He must be nothing but a tool
for the satisfaction of their needs.
1255
01:24:21,349 --> 01:24:25,046
Self-sacrifice is the law of our age.
1256
01:24:25,486 --> 01:24:28,614
The man who refuses to submit
and to serve...
1257
01:24:28,789 --> 01:24:30,814
Howard Roark, the supreme egoist...
1258
01:24:31,225 --> 01:24:34,626
Is a man who must be destroyed!
1259
01:24:41,636 --> 01:24:44,730
We have never learned to understand
what is greatness in man.
1260
01:24:44,906 --> 01:24:48,034
Self-sacrifice, we drool,
is the ultimate virtue.
1261
01:24:48,209 --> 01:24:49,767
Let's stop and think.
1262
01:24:49,944 --> 01:24:53,607
Can a man sacrifice his integrity
his rights, his freedom...
1263
01:24:53,781 --> 01:24:58,445
...his convictions, the honesty of his
feeling, the independence of his thought?
1264
01:24:59,053 --> 01:25:01,453
These are a man's supreme possessions.
1265
01:25:01,622 --> 01:25:04,682
To what must he sacrifice them?
To whom?
1266
01:25:04,859 --> 01:25:06,417
Self-sacrifice?
1267
01:25:06,594 --> 01:25:10,963
But it is precisely the self that cannot
and must not be sacrificed.
1268
01:25:11,132 --> 01:25:13,623
A man's self is his spirit.
1269
01:25:13,801 --> 01:25:19,034
It is the unsacrificed self
that we must respect in man above all...
1270
01:25:19,207 --> 01:25:20,835
...and where do we find it?
1271
01:25:21,009 --> 01:25:23,705
In a man like Howard Roark.
1272
01:25:24,079 --> 01:25:26,547
Have that run off and set up
on tomorrow's front page.
1273
01:25:26,715 --> 01:25:28,444
Yes, Mr. Wynand.
1274
01:25:28,617 --> 01:25:30,915
Gail, are you out of your mind,
defending that...?
1275
01:25:31,086 --> 01:25:33,054
Keep still or I'll bash your teeth in.
1276
01:25:33,222 --> 01:25:34,621
The whole city is against him.
1277
01:25:34,790 --> 01:25:37,486
An unpopular cause
is dangerous business for anyone.
1278
01:25:37,659 --> 01:25:39,593
For a popular newspaper,
it's suicide!
1279
01:25:39,761 --> 01:25:43,288
- Public opinion is responsible...
- Public opinion is what I make it.
1280
01:25:43,565 --> 01:25:46,193
For once, I'll fight for what I believe.
1281
01:25:46,368 --> 01:25:50,464
You'll stand alone against everybody
for the first time in your life?
1282
01:25:50,639 --> 01:25:54,200
Yes, for the first time in my life.
1283
01:26:00,182 --> 01:26:02,776
You fool, why did you have
to make such a good job of it?
1284
01:26:02,951 --> 01:26:04,976
Didn't you know broken glass is
dangerous?
1285
01:26:05,153 --> 01:26:07,383
- It didn't hurt.
- The next time you wanna play...
1286
01:26:07,556 --> 01:26:09,547
...the innocent bystander
let me coach you.
1287
01:26:09,725 --> 01:26:11,625
You didn't have to cut an artery.
1288
01:26:11,793 --> 01:26:15,285
Do the police believe that I was only
an innocent bystander?
1289
01:26:15,464 --> 01:26:18,763
Yes, they believe it.
They have to. You almost died.
1290
01:26:18,934 --> 01:26:21,198
They don't know that
you'd risk your life for him.
1291
01:26:21,370 --> 01:26:22,564
- For whom?
- Howard.
1292
01:26:22,738 --> 01:26:25,264
Haven't you always fought
for his work?
1293
01:26:27,443 --> 01:26:30,105
I'm glad you did it
and that it was for him.
1294
01:26:30,280 --> 01:26:31,770
I'm glad he did it.
1295
01:26:31,948 --> 01:26:34,075
- He had to.
- Yes.
1296
01:26:34,317 --> 01:26:37,047
- Have they arrested him?
- He's out on bail.
1297
01:26:37,220 --> 01:26:38,619
- What's he told them?
- Nothing.
1298
01:26:38,788 --> 01:26:40,415
He's refused to make any
statement.
1299
01:26:40,590 --> 01:26:43,718
They all say he's guilty,
but they can find no motive.
1300
01:26:43,893 --> 01:26:45,520
They think he designed Cortlandt...
1301
01:26:45,695 --> 01:26:48,425
- ...but they can't prove it.
- Is the public against him?
1302
01:26:48,598 --> 01:26:50,964
It's the worst storm of public fury
I've ever seen.
1303
01:26:51,134 --> 01:26:54,501
- Are all the newspapers against him?
- Except one.
1304
01:26:54,904 --> 01:26:57,498
Gail, if you'll stand by him today-
1305
01:26:57,674 --> 01:27:00,643
Don't offer me bribes.
It's a battle I've waited for all my life.
1306
01:27:01,010 --> 01:27:03,808
I know how much I have to redeem.
This will be my redemption.
1307
01:27:03,980 --> 01:27:07,006
This time, the Banner
is serving a crusade.
1308
01:27:25,401 --> 01:27:27,301
I was waiting for you to come.
1309
01:27:30,207 --> 01:27:33,370
- Do you want to ask me any questions now?
- No.
1310
01:27:33,544 --> 01:27:36,672
I may be sent to the penitentiary for years.
Does that frighten you?
1311
01:27:36,847 --> 01:27:39,008
No. I'll share whatever they do to you.
1312
01:27:39,183 --> 01:27:42,346
I failed you once
because I was afraid to see you suffer.
1313
01:27:42,519 --> 01:27:44,316
Now I'll stand by you openly.
1314
01:27:44,488 --> 01:27:47,548
I'll take the disgrace, the scandal,
the smears, anything.
1315
01:27:47,925 --> 01:27:49,525
Darling.
1316
01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:50,960
Yes.
1317
01:27:54,031 --> 01:27:57,023
You're Mrs. Gail Wynand.
You're above suspicion.
1318
01:27:57,201 --> 01:28:01,069
Everybody believes you were
at the scene by accident.
1319
01:28:01,238 --> 01:28:04,002
If you let it be known
what we mean to each other...
1320
01:28:04,174 --> 01:28:06,608
...it'll be a confession
that I did it.
1321
01:28:06,777 --> 01:28:08,768
Is that why you asked me to help you?
1322
01:28:08,946 --> 01:28:11,471
In order to stop me
from joining you now?
1323
01:28:11,648 --> 01:28:12,648
Yes.
1324
01:28:13,217 --> 01:28:16,653
Dominique, if I'm convicted...
1325
01:28:16,820 --> 01:28:19,687
...I want you to remain with Gail.
1326
01:28:20,491 --> 01:28:23,085
And you must not tell him about us...
1327
01:28:23,260 --> 01:28:25,421
...because he and you
will need each other.
1328
01:28:25,596 --> 01:28:28,292
All right, if that's what you want...
1329
01:28:28,499 --> 01:28:30,729
...but if you're acquitted?
1330
01:28:30,901 --> 01:28:33,234
We can't speak of that now.
1331
01:28:33,405 --> 01:28:35,100
You'll be acquitted.
1332
01:28:35,273 --> 01:28:37,400
That's not what I wanted
to hear you say.
1333
01:28:38,209 --> 01:28:39,608
If they convict you...
1334
01:28:39,778 --> 01:28:43,544
...if they lock you in jail, if they
never let you design another building...
1335
01:28:43,715 --> 01:28:46,013
...if they never let me see you again...
1336
01:28:46,184 --> 01:28:47,549
...it won't break me.
1337
01:28:47,719 --> 01:28:49,516
I know how to fight it.
1338
01:28:49,687 --> 01:28:51,416
I'm not afraid of them any longer.
1339
01:28:52,524 --> 01:28:55,960
That's what I wanted
to hear all these years.
1340
01:28:58,997 --> 01:29:00,760
- Who designed Cortlandt?
- Let me alone.
1341
01:29:00,965 --> 01:29:02,830
- It's too late, Peter.
- Let me go!
1342
01:29:03,001 --> 01:29:05,799
- Who designed Cortlandt?
- Why do you want to kill Roark?
1343
01:29:05,970 --> 01:29:10,430
I don't want to kill him. I want him in jail,
behind bars, locked, strapped, beaten.
1344
01:29:10,829 --> 01:29:12,838
He'll move as he's told.
He'll work as he's told.
1345
01:29:13,011 --> 01:29:16,469
- He'll obey. He'll take orders.
- Ellsworth, what are you after?
1346
01:29:16,648 --> 01:29:19,082
Power. What do you think is power?
1347
01:29:19,250 --> 01:29:20,842
Whips? Guns? Money?
1348
01:29:21,019 --> 01:29:23,817
You can't turn men into slaves
unless you break their spirit.
1349
01:29:23,988 --> 01:29:26,252
Kill their capacity to think
and act on their own.
1350
01:29:26,424 --> 01:29:29,916
Tie them together, teach them to conform,
to unite, to agree, to obey.
1351
01:29:30,094 --> 01:29:32,722
That makes one neck
ready for one leash.
1352
01:29:32,897 --> 01:29:34,797
Ellsworth.
1353
01:29:35,433 --> 01:29:38,631
You've heard me preaching it for years
but you didn't have the wits...
1354
01:29:38,804 --> 01:29:40,396
...to know what you were hearing.
1355
01:29:40,573 --> 01:29:44,532
Why do you suppose I denounced
greatness and praised mediocrities like you?
1356
01:29:44,710 --> 01:29:46,371
Great men can't be ruled.
1357
01:29:46,579 --> 01:29:48,547
Why did I preach self-sacrifice?
1358
01:29:48,714 --> 01:29:52,309
If you kill a man's sense of personal value,
he'll submit.
1359
01:29:52,485 --> 01:29:54,783
Can you do that
to Howard Roark? No?
1360
01:29:54,954 --> 01:29:57,252
Then don't ask me
why I want to destroy him.
1361
01:29:59,725 --> 01:30:02,660
That's what they mean,
your noble ideals.
1362
01:30:02,828 --> 01:30:04,386
You believed in me.
1363
01:30:04,563 --> 01:30:06,588
Well, what's left of you now?
1364
01:30:06,765 --> 01:30:09,461
Come on.
Who designed Cortlandt?
1365
01:30:11,770 --> 01:30:13,829
Howard Roark.
1366
01:30:15,441 --> 01:30:16,669
on what condition?
1367
01:30:17,476 --> 01:30:20,536
That it must be built
as he designed it.
1368
01:30:21,814 --> 01:30:23,475
Write it down.
1369
01:30:23,782 --> 01:30:26,046
Write a full confession.
1370
01:30:32,124 --> 01:30:35,582
You're a great success, Peter.
You're my best achievement.
1371
01:30:35,761 --> 01:30:38,423
A totally selfless man.
1372
01:30:43,537 --> 01:30:45,937
Selfish? Is that what they call me?
1373
01:30:46,106 --> 01:30:49,507
Well I am. I live by the judgment
of my own mind and for my own sake.
1374
01:30:49,676 --> 01:30:51,200
Let them say what they please.
1375
01:30:51,378 --> 01:30:53,938
By the time you come to trial,
no jury will convict you.
1376
01:30:54,114 --> 01:30:57,606
The public will think what I want them to
think. The Banner will save you.
1377
01:30:57,784 --> 01:31:01,015
Dominique, do you see why
I love the Banner? I hold power.
1378
01:31:01,187 --> 01:31:02,449
Are you sure of it, Gail?
1379
01:31:02,622 --> 01:31:06,683
You'll see the demonstration for yourself.
I rule that city. I've never lost a battle.
1380
01:31:07,260 --> 01:31:10,195
It's your first test
of a real issue, which...
1381
01:31:12,432 --> 01:31:14,127
- Hello?
- Gail Wynand, please.
1382
01:31:14,301 --> 01:31:16,428
- Speaking.
- Gail, this is Alvah.
1383
01:31:16,603 --> 01:31:17,968
Yes, Alvah?
1384
01:31:18,138 --> 01:31:20,231
Keating has admitted
Roark designed Cortlandt.
1385
01:31:20,407 --> 01:31:22,841
- Toohey has a signed confession.
- What?
1386
01:31:23,009 --> 01:31:25,547
It made the front page
of the other daily so we had to go along.
1387
01:31:25,776 --> 01:31:27,117
Stay there. I'll come at once.
1388
01:31:28,982 --> 01:31:30,279
What is it?
1389
01:31:30,483 --> 01:31:32,883
Ellsworth Toohey got a confession
from Peter Keating.
1390
01:31:32,988 --> 01:31:35,578
It's on the front pages tomorrow,
including the Banner.
1391
01:31:35,755 --> 01:31:39,555
I'm not counting on public opinion one way
or the other so don't be afraid for me.
1392
01:31:39,726 --> 01:31:42,456
I'll fight for you
if it takes everything I own.
1393
01:31:53,507 --> 01:31:56,101
When I can't fire anyone on my paper,
I'll close it...
1394
01:31:56,277 --> 01:31:58,336
...and blow your brains out
or mine.
1395
01:31:58,512 --> 01:32:00,946
They've walked out on us.
The whole city room.
1396
01:32:01,115 --> 01:32:03,140
our best boys.
They're Toohey's best friends.
1397
01:32:03,317 --> 01:32:06,684
- They won't work without him.
- Ellsworth Toohey is fired and stays fired.
1398
01:32:06,854 --> 01:32:09,618
I can't understand how Ellsworth
got so much power.
1399
01:32:09,790 --> 01:32:13,487
I never noticed it but he got his gang in
little by little and now he owns them.
1400
01:32:13,661 --> 01:32:17,062
- And I own the Banner.
- Do you, Mr. Wynand?
1401
01:32:17,498 --> 01:32:19,398
So you were after power, Mr. Wynand...
1402
01:32:19,567 --> 01:32:21,831
...and you thought you
were a practical man.
1403
01:32:22,003 --> 01:32:25,370
You left to impractical intellectuals like me
the whole field of ideas...
1404
01:32:25,539 --> 01:32:28,303
...to corrupt as we please
while you were busy making money.
1405
01:32:28,476 --> 01:32:30,944
You thought money was power.
Is it, Mr. Wynand?
1406
01:32:31,712 --> 01:32:33,839
You poor amateur.
1407
01:32:34,015 --> 01:32:36,882
You've never been enough of a scoundrel
for your own ambition.
1408
01:32:37,051 --> 01:32:38,916
That's why I'll be back on this job...
1409
01:32:39,086 --> 01:32:41,953
...and when I am, I'll run this paper.
1410
01:32:42,790 --> 01:32:45,588
When you are. Now get out of here.
1411
01:33:08,283 --> 01:33:11,116
- How clever, my dear.
- Yes, it is, isn't it?
1412
01:33:11,286 --> 01:33:13,015
We must do what we can for the cause.
1413
01:33:13,188 --> 01:33:17,318
I just fired my cook
because I caught her reading the Banner.
1414
01:33:32,941 --> 01:33:35,341
Gail, what are we gonna do?
I can't get anyone.
1415
01:33:35,510 --> 01:33:37,774
They refuse, no matter
what salary I offer.
1416
01:33:37,946 --> 01:33:40,813
Nobody wants to work for the Banner.
Nobody wants to read it.
1417
01:33:40,982 --> 01:33:42,711
How long can we go on like this?
1418
01:33:43,885 --> 01:33:45,614
To the end.
1419
01:33:58,935 --> 01:34:01,165
Gail, give me back
my old job.
1420
01:34:01,337 --> 01:34:03,328
I shall be proud to work
for the Banner now.
1421
01:34:05,408 --> 01:34:06,898
Come on.
1422
01:34:08,811 --> 01:34:12,008
Take these to the back room, pick up
the wire flimsies and bring them.
1423
01:34:12,181 --> 01:34:14,672
Then report to Manning
at the city desk.
1424
01:34:36,906 --> 01:34:38,737
- All returns, eh?
- Yup.
1425
01:34:38,908 --> 01:34:41,672
Gives me the creeps.
Looks just like slabs in the cemetery.
1426
01:34:41,844 --> 01:34:43,539
And they keep growing
every night.
1427
01:34:43,713 --> 01:34:45,544
Guess nobody buys
the Banner anymore.
1428
01:34:45,715 --> 01:34:47,046
They're killing themselves.
1429
01:34:47,216 --> 01:34:51,778
Work night and day and still newspapers
come back unread.
1430
01:34:59,062 --> 01:35:00,324
Ready with it, Mrs. Wynand?
1431
01:35:00,497 --> 01:35:03,933
There's the Sunday makeup.
It's fairly rotten, but it'll have to do.
1432
01:35:04,101 --> 01:35:06,365
I sent Manning home.
He was going to collapse.
1433
01:35:06,537 --> 01:35:09,404
Jackson quit, but we can do
without him.
1434
01:35:09,573 --> 01:35:12,599
Alvah's column was a mess.
I rewrote it.
1435
01:35:12,776 --> 01:35:15,176
Don't tell him. Say Gail did.
1436
01:35:15,345 --> 01:35:17,245
All right.
1437
01:35:54,484 --> 01:35:57,282
It'll be all right, Gail.
It will be all right.
1438
01:35:57,454 --> 01:36:00,754
The Banner is not helping Howard.
It's ruining him.
1439
01:36:00,925 --> 01:36:02,620
It's turning more
people against him.
1440
01:36:02,794 --> 01:36:04,785
He doesn't care about that
but stand by him.
1441
01:36:04,963 --> 01:36:06,863
- Don't give in to them.
- I can't save him.
1442
01:36:07,031 --> 01:36:08,396
He'll win in his own way.
1443
01:36:08,566 --> 01:36:10,761
I can't save him. I have no power.
1444
01:36:10,935 --> 01:36:12,766
I never had any power.
1445
01:36:12,937 --> 01:36:16,998
Nobody's ever listened to me
because nobody's ever respected me.
1446
01:36:17,175 --> 01:36:20,633
I wasn't a ruler of the mob.
I was its tool.
1447
01:36:20,812 --> 01:36:23,440
If you don't give in, you'll save yourself
and the Banner.
1448
01:36:23,615 --> 01:36:25,708
I never ran the Banner. They did.
1449
01:36:25,884 --> 01:36:27,146
The men in the street.
1450
01:36:27,318 --> 01:36:29,616
It was their paper, not mine.
1451
01:36:29,787 --> 01:36:31,345
There's nothing to save now.
1452
01:36:31,522 --> 01:36:34,650
Gail, don't give in to them.
Don't give in.
1453
01:36:36,561 --> 01:36:37,789
You'd better give in.
1454
01:36:37,962 --> 01:36:39,327
We can't permit this to go on.
1455
01:36:39,497 --> 01:36:42,591
After all, we're your board of directors.
We have something to say.
1456
01:36:42,767 --> 01:36:45,702
We've lost all our advertisers
we've lost our public, for what?
1457
01:36:45,870 --> 01:36:48,930
Now, if it were a serious cause,
but for some fool dynamiter?
1458
01:36:49,107 --> 01:36:53,237
What is this, an intellectual issue? Are we
losing our shirts for principles or something?
1459
01:36:53,411 --> 01:36:55,311
Gail, Gail, it's no use.
1460
01:36:55,513 --> 01:36:58,277
We must call Ellsworth Toohey
and take him back.
1461
01:36:58,449 --> 01:37:00,940
We must reverse our stand
on the Cortlandt case.
1462
01:37:01,386 --> 01:37:03,115
We must come out against Roark.
1463
01:37:03,288 --> 01:37:06,315
Wynand, this is final.
Yes or no?
1464
01:37:06,492 --> 01:37:07,925
Give in or close the Banner.
1465
01:37:08,694 --> 01:37:10,685
You'd better give in.
1466
01:37:14,667 --> 01:37:16,225
All right.
1467
01:38:03,949 --> 01:38:06,816
I solemnly ask
of every man who hears this case...
1468
01:38:06,986 --> 01:38:09,922
...to let his own mind
pronounce a verdict upon it.
1469
01:38:10,090 --> 01:38:12,752
You have heard the testimony
of the state's witnesses.
1470
01:38:12,926 --> 01:38:15,656
The confession of Peter Keating
has made clear...
1471
01:38:15,829 --> 01:38:17,990
...that Howard Roark
is a ruthless egoist...
1472
01:38:18,164 --> 01:38:22,863
...who has destroyed Cortlandt Homes
for his own selfish motive.
1473
01:38:23,036 --> 01:38:26,597
The issue which you are to decide
is the crucial issue of our age:
1474
01:38:26,773 --> 01:38:31,005
Has man any right to exist
if he refuses to serve society?
1475
01:38:31,277 --> 01:38:35,043
Let your verdict give us the answer.
1476
01:38:35,615 --> 01:38:37,014
The state rests.
1477
01:38:37,851 --> 01:38:40,513
The defense may proceed.
1478
01:38:46,059 --> 01:38:48,186
Your Honor,
I shall call no witnesses.
1479
01:38:48,361 --> 01:38:50,420
This will be my testimony
and my summation.
1480
01:38:50,597 --> 01:38:53,714
- Take the oath.
- Do you swear to tell the truth...
1481
01:38:53,820 --> 01:38:55,336
...the whole truth and nothing
but the truth...
1482
01:38:55,460 --> 01:38:56,800
- ...so help you God?
- I do.
1483
01:39:00,707 --> 01:39:04,438
Thousands of years ago the first man
discovered how to make fire.
1484
01:39:04,611 --> 01:39:07,842
He was probably burned at the stake,
he taught his brothers to light.
1485
01:39:08,014 --> 01:39:10,312
But he left them a gift
they had not conceived.
1486
01:39:10,483 --> 01:39:12,315
And he lifted darkness
off the earth.
1487
01:39:13,087 --> 01:39:17,285
Throughout the centuries, there were men
who took first steps down new roads...
1488
01:39:17,458 --> 01:39:19,892
...armed with nothing
but their own vision.
1489
01:39:20,394 --> 01:39:24,194
The great creators, the thinkers, the artists,
the scientists, the inventors...
1490
01:39:24,365 --> 01:39:26,458
...stood alone against
the men of their time.
1491
01:39:26,634 --> 01:39:29,034
Every new thought was opposed...
1492
01:39:29,203 --> 01:39:31,899
...every new invention was denounced...
1493
01:39:32,073 --> 01:39:35,304
...but the men of unborrowed vision
went ahead.
1494
01:39:35,476 --> 01:39:39,207
They fought, they suffered
and they paid, but they won.
1495
01:39:39,814 --> 01:39:44,774
No creator was prompted by a desire
to please his brothers.
1496
01:39:44,952 --> 01:39:47,011
His brothers hated
the gift he offered.
1497
01:39:47,488 --> 01:39:50,116
His truth was his only motive.
1498
01:39:50,291 --> 01:39:53,351
His work was his only goal.
1499
01:39:53,627 --> 01:39:56,425
His work, not those who used it...
1500
01:39:56,597 --> 01:40:00,124
...his creation, not the benefits
others derived from it...
1501
01:40:00,301 --> 01:40:02,826
...the creation which gave form
to his truth.
1502
01:40:03,404 --> 01:40:07,397
He held his truth above all things
and against all men.
1503
01:40:08,709 --> 01:40:12,042
He went ahead whether others agreed
with him or not...
1504
01:40:12,213 --> 01:40:15,546
...with his integrity as his only banner.
1505
01:40:15,716 --> 01:40:18,550
He served nothing and no one.
1506
01:40:18,720 --> 01:40:20,711
He lived for himself...
1507
01:40:21,790 --> 01:40:25,157
...and only by living for himself
was he able to achieve the things...
1508
01:40:25,327 --> 01:40:27,591
...which are the glory of mankind.
1509
01:40:27,762 --> 01:40:30,162
Such is the nature of achievement.
1510
01:40:30,999 --> 01:40:34,196
Man cannot survive,
except through his mind.
1511
01:40:34,369 --> 01:40:36,701
He comes on earth unarmed.
1512
01:40:36,872 --> 01:40:41,138
His brain is his only weapon, but the mind
is an attribute of the individual.
1513
01:40:41,343 --> 01:40:44,938
There is no such thing
as a collective brain.
1514
01:40:45,247 --> 01:40:48,944
The man who thinks
must think and act on his own.
1515
01:40:49,351 --> 01:40:53,651
The reasoning mind cannot work
under any form of compulsion.
1516
01:40:53,822 --> 01:40:59,488
It cannot be subordinated to the needs,
opinions, or wishes of others.
1517
01:40:59,661 --> 01:41:02,425
It is not an object of sacrifice.
1518
01:41:02,964 --> 01:41:06,559
The creator stands
on his own judgment.
1519
01:41:06,735 --> 01:41:10,694
The parasite follows
the opinions of others.
1520
01:41:10,872 --> 01:41:12,100
The creator thinks.
1521
01:41:12,707 --> 01:41:14,538
The parasite copies.
1522
01:41:14,976 --> 01:41:18,309
The creator produces.
The parasite loots.
1523
01:41:18,480 --> 01:41:21,939
The creator's concern
is the conquest of nature.
1524
01:41:22,118 --> 01:41:24,678
The parasite's concern
is the conquest of men.
1525
01:41:25,321 --> 01:41:29,382
The creator requires independence.
He neither serves nor rules.
1526
01:41:29,559 --> 01:41:32,926
He deals with men by free exchange
and voluntary choice.
1527
01:41:33,429 --> 01:41:35,420
The parasite seeks power.
1528
01:41:35,598 --> 01:41:39,034
He wants to bind all men together
in common action and common slavery.
1529
01:41:39,502 --> 01:41:43,529
He claims that man is only a tool
for the use of others...
1530
01:41:43,706 --> 01:41:46,300
...that he must think as they think
act as they act...
1531
01:41:46,475 --> 01:41:51,310
...and live in selfless, joyless servitude
to any need but his own.
1532
01:41:51,847 --> 01:41:53,109
Look at history.
1533
01:41:53,282 --> 01:41:56,046
Everything we have,
every great achievement...
1534
01:41:56,219 --> 01:42:00,212
...has come from the independent work
of some independent mind.
1535
01:42:00,623 --> 01:42:03,057
Every horror and destruction...
1536
01:42:03,226 --> 01:42:08,528
...came from attempts to force men
into a herd of brainless, soulless robots.
1537
01:42:08,698 --> 01:42:10,393
Without personal rights...
1538
01:42:10,566 --> 01:42:12,431
...without personal ambition...
1539
01:42:12,635 --> 01:42:15,069
...without will, hope or dignity.
1540
01:42:15,738 --> 01:42:17,433
It is an ancient conflict.
1541
01:42:17,607 --> 01:42:19,438
It has another name.
1542
01:42:19,609 --> 01:42:22,840
The individual
against the collective.
1543
01:42:24,214 --> 01:42:27,081
our country, the noblest country
in the history of men...
1544
01:42:27,251 --> 01:42:29,378
...was based on the principle
of individualism.
1545
01:42:29,753 --> 01:42:32,847
The principle of man's
inalienable rights.
1546
01:42:33,857 --> 01:42:36,792
It was a country where a man was free
to seek his own happiness.
1547
01:42:36,960 --> 01:42:40,418
To gain and produce,
not to give up and renounce.
1548
01:42:40,597 --> 01:42:43,589
To prosper, not to starve.
1549
01:42:43,767 --> 01:42:47,203
To achieve, not to plunder.
1550
01:42:47,738 --> 01:42:51,674
To hold as his highest possession
a sense of his personal value...
1551
01:42:51,842 --> 01:42:56,006
...and as his highest virtue
his self-respect.
1552
01:42:56,179 --> 01:42:58,044
Look at the results.
1553
01:42:58,215 --> 01:43:01,707
That is what the collectivists
are now asking you to destroy...
1554
01:43:01,885 --> 01:43:04,410
...as much of the earth
has been destroyed.
1555
01:43:05,756 --> 01:43:07,246
I am an architect.
1556
01:43:07,424 --> 01:43:10,587
I know what is to come
by the principle on which it is built.
1557
01:43:11,361 --> 01:43:15,058
We are approaching a world
in which I cannot permit myself to live.
1558
01:43:15,999 --> 01:43:18,024
My ideas are my property.
1559
01:43:18,201 --> 01:43:22,501
They were taken from me by force,
by breach of contract.
1560
01:43:22,673 --> 01:43:25,039
No appeal was left to me.
1561
01:43:25,342 --> 01:43:29,143
It was believed that my work belonged
to others to do with as they pleased.
1562
01:43:29,314 --> 01:43:32,010
They had a claim upon me
without my consent...
1563
01:43:32,183 --> 01:43:35,414
...that it was my duty to serve them
without choice or reward.
1564
01:43:36,054 --> 01:43:38,181
Now you know why
I dynamited Cortlandt.
1565
01:43:38,356 --> 01:43:39,823
I designed Cortlandt...
1566
01:43:39,991 --> 01:43:41,618
...I made it possible...
1567
01:43:41,793 --> 01:43:43,158
...I destroyed it.
1568
01:43:43,528 --> 01:43:47,487
I agreed to design it for the purpose
of seeing it built as I wished.
1569
01:43:47,665 --> 01:43:50,498
That was the price I set for my work.
1570
01:43:50,668 --> 01:43:51,965
I was not paid.
1571
01:43:52,337 --> 01:43:56,171
My building was disfigured at the whim of
others who took the benefits of my work...
1572
01:43:56,341 --> 01:43:58,104
...and gave me nothing in return.
1573
01:43:59,110 --> 01:44:01,374
I came here to say
that I do not recognize...
1574
01:44:01,546 --> 01:44:04,174
...anyone's right
to one minute of my life.
1575
01:44:04,349 --> 01:44:07,910
Nor to any part of my energy,
nor to any achievement of mine.
1576
01:44:08,086 --> 01:44:09,485
No matter who makes the claim.
1577
01:44:10,221 --> 01:44:11,813
It had to be said.
1578
01:44:11,989 --> 01:44:14,822
The world is perishing
from an orgy of self-sacrificing.
1579
01:44:15,360 --> 01:44:17,260
I came here to be heard...
1580
01:44:17,428 --> 01:44:20,556
...in the name of every man
of independence still left in the world.
1581
01:44:20,965 --> 01:44:22,626
I wanted to state my terms.
1582
01:44:22,800 --> 01:44:25,667
I do not care to work
or live on any others.
1583
01:44:26,037 --> 01:44:28,597
My terms are a man's right...
1584
01:44:28,773 --> 01:44:31,571
...to exist for his own sake.
1585
01:44:40,519 --> 01:44:43,784
Further, you are instructed
that the extent of the monetary loss...
1586
01:44:43,956 --> 01:44:47,722
...suffered by the owners
is not a matter to be considered by you.
1587
01:44:47,893 --> 01:44:49,793
The liability of the defendant...
1588
01:44:49,962 --> 01:44:51,623
...for any financial loss...
1589
01:44:51,830 --> 01:44:55,231
...is a question to be determined
in a civil suit.
1590
01:44:55,401 --> 01:44:59,098
You are concerned here only
with a criminal action.
1591
01:44:59,638 --> 01:45:01,663
You are to determine
whether the defendant...
1592
01:45:01,840 --> 01:45:03,501
...is guilty or innocent...
1593
01:45:03,675 --> 01:45:07,111
...of the specific crime
with which he has been charged.
1594
01:45:07,513 --> 01:45:10,778
You are the exclusive judges
of the facts...
1595
01:45:10,949 --> 01:45:15,079
...and under the instructions I have given
you, it is your duty and your duty alone...
1596
01:45:15,254 --> 01:45:18,781
...to determine the guilt
or innocence of the accused.
1597
01:46:07,441 --> 01:46:09,136
Your Honor.
1598
01:46:27,627 --> 01:46:29,094
Foreman.
1599
01:46:29,262 --> 01:46:31,890
- Have you reached a verdict?
- We have, Your Honor.
1600
01:46:32,065 --> 01:46:34,898
The prisoner will rise
and face the jury.
1601
01:46:40,474 --> 01:46:41,839
What is your verdict?
1602
01:46:43,043 --> 01:46:44,271
Not guilty.
1603
01:47:10,271 --> 01:47:13,900
I have bought from them the plans,
the site, and the ruins of Cortlandt.
1604
01:47:14,074 --> 01:47:17,271
It's mine now and yours.
You'll rebuild it for me.
1605
01:47:17,444 --> 01:47:18,775
Just as you planned it.
1606
01:47:18,946 --> 01:47:22,848
Mr. Roark, Mr. Gail Wynand wishes to
know whether you could come to his office.
1607
01:47:23,017 --> 01:47:25,611
- Is he on the wire?
- No. It's Mr. Wynand's secretary.
1608
01:47:25,786 --> 01:47:28,050
Yes. Tell her yes.
1609
01:47:44,439 --> 01:47:48,000
Mr. Roark, this interview is necessary
but very difficult for me.
1610
01:47:48,176 --> 01:47:49,643
Please act accordingly.
1611
01:47:49,811 --> 01:47:51,972
Yes, Mr. Wynand.
1612
01:47:55,317 --> 01:47:58,218
Please read this and sign it,
if it meets with your approval.
1613
01:47:58,386 --> 01:47:59,683
What is it?
1614
01:47:59,854 --> 01:48:02,516
Your contract to design
the Wynand building.
1615
01:48:02,691 --> 01:48:04,682
Please listen carefully, Mr. Roark.
1616
01:48:04,859 --> 01:48:06,918
I have closed my newspaper.
1617
01:48:07,095 --> 01:48:09,325
The Banner has ceased to exist.
1618
01:48:09,497 --> 01:48:12,864
I wish to undertake the construction
of the Wynand building at once.
1619
01:48:13,034 --> 01:48:15,969
It is to be the tallest structure
of the city.
1620
01:48:16,137 --> 01:48:18,071
You will design it as you wish.
1621
01:48:18,540 --> 01:48:21,304
You will have full charge
and complete authority.
1622
01:48:21,476 --> 01:48:23,774
But I do not care ever
to see you again.
1623
01:48:24,846 --> 01:48:27,542
Please read the contract and sign it.
1624
01:48:33,455 --> 01:48:35,218
You haven't read it.
1625
01:48:42,831 --> 01:48:45,026
Please sign both copies.
1626
01:48:49,472 --> 01:48:50,996
Thank you.
1627
01:48:54,944 --> 01:48:59,005
This will be the last skyscraper
ever built in New York.
1628
01:48:59,181 --> 01:49:01,206
The last achievement of man on earth...
1629
01:49:01,384 --> 01:49:03,409
...before mankind destroys itself.
1630
01:49:03,586 --> 01:49:06,214
Mankind will never destroy itself,
Mr. Wynand...
1631
01:49:06,422 --> 01:49:08,754
...nor should it think of itself
as destroyed.
1632
01:49:08,924 --> 01:49:11,017
Not so long as it does things
such as this.
1633
01:49:11,193 --> 01:49:13,525
- As what?
- As the Wynand building.
1634
01:49:13,696 --> 01:49:15,391
That is up to you.
1635
01:49:15,564 --> 01:49:17,327
Dead things...
1636
01:49:17,500 --> 01:49:19,024
...such as the Banner...
1637
01:49:19,201 --> 01:49:22,136
...are only the financial fertilizer
that will make it possible.
1638
01:49:22,304 --> 01:49:24,329
It is their proper function.
1639
01:49:24,907 --> 01:49:29,503
I told you once that this building
was to be a monument to my life.
1640
01:49:30,112 --> 01:49:32,376
There is nothing
to commemorate now.
1641
01:49:32,548 --> 01:49:34,743
The Wynand building
will have nothing...
1642
01:49:34,917 --> 01:49:36,851
...except what you give it.
1643
01:49:59,443 --> 01:50:03,641
Build it as a monument to that spirit
which is yours and could've been mine.
1644
01:50:49,960 --> 01:50:51,587
May I see Mr. Roark, please?
1645
01:50:51,795 --> 01:50:53,422
Mr. Roark's way up on top.
1646
01:50:53,597 --> 01:50:54,859
Who's calling, ma'am?
1647
01:50:55,900 --> 01:50:58,334
- Mrs. Roark.
- Oh.
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