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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.
130
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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.
139
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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.
224
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- Wasn't he?
- You suggested those changes.
225
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You said he'd accept them.
226
00:14:00,133 --> 00:14:01,726
Oh, yes, so I did.
227
00:14:01,902 --> 00:14:06,135
I told you, Mr. Gail Wynand wants buildings
that show a classical influence.
228
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- Then why did you pick this man?
- An experiment, gentlemen.
229
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A very interesting experiment.
230
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But what are we going to do?
231
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Pick another
architect, of course.
232
00:14:17,317 --> 00:14:18,478
Yes, Mr. Toohey.
233
00:14:27,260 --> 00:14:30,094
I'm sure you know that I seek nothing
for myself, Mr. Wynand.
234
00:14:30,263 --> 00:14:33,495
My only motive is a selfless concern
for my fellow men.
235
00:14:33,867 --> 00:14:37,326
The new building of the Security Bank
is such an important undertaking...
236
00:14:37,504 --> 00:14:39,905
...and you hold
the controlling interest, Mr. Wynand.
237
00:14:40,073 --> 00:14:43,908
The board of directors has attempted
to pick an architect quite unsuccessfully.
238
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They will accept anyone you choose.
239
00:14:46,046 --> 00:14:48,345
And I felt it my duty
to offer you my advice.
240
00:14:48,515 --> 00:14:51,349
- Whom do you recommend?
- The rising star of the profession...
241
00:14:51,618 --> 00:14:54,850
...Peter Keating.
No other architect can equal his ability.
242
00:14:55,021 --> 00:14:57,388
That, Mr. Wynand, is my sincere opinion.
243
00:14:57,557 --> 00:14:58,820
I quite believe you.
244
00:14:58,992 --> 00:15:00,858
- You do?
- Of course, but, Mr. Toohey...
245
00:15:01,027 --> 00:15:03,326
...why should I consider your opinion?
246
00:15:03,497 --> 00:15:06,524
Well, after all, I am
the architectural critic of the Banner.
247
00:15:06,700 --> 00:15:09,033
My dear Toohey,
don't confuse me with my readers.
248
00:15:11,338 --> 00:15:16,003
I-- I took the liberty of bringing you
some samples of Peter Keating's best work.
249
00:15:16,176 --> 00:15:17,804
You may judge for yourself.
250
00:15:26,186 --> 00:15:28,781
- If you have seen any of these buildings--
- I have.
251
00:15:28,955 --> 00:15:32,414
They were excellent 2000 years ago
when they were built for the first time.
252
00:15:32,659 --> 00:15:35,754
But surely you're not in favor
of so-called modern architecture?
253
00:15:35,929 --> 00:15:40,128
It's worthless because it's merely the work
of a few unbridled individualists.
254
00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:42,860
Artistic value is achieved collectively...
255
00:15:43,036 --> 00:15:46,473
...by each man subordinating himself
to the standards of the majority.
256
00:15:46,673 --> 00:15:48,938
- I read that in your column yesterday.
- You did?
257
00:15:49,576 --> 00:15:51,067
Thank you.
258
00:15:51,244 --> 00:15:55,511
The greatness in Peter Keating's personality
lies in the fact that there's no personality...
259
00:15:55,682 --> 00:15:57,674
- ...stamped upon his buildings.
- Quite true.
260
00:15:57,851 --> 00:16:01,754
Thus he represents not himself
but the multitude of all men together.
261
00:16:01,922 --> 00:16:05,916
And produces great big
marble bromides.
262
00:16:06,193 --> 00:16:08,526
I believe I am failing
to sell you Peter Keating.
263
00:16:08,695 --> 00:16:10,186
Why, no.
264
00:16:10,831 --> 00:16:12,732
You're succeeding.
265
00:16:13,834 --> 00:16:15,359
Your Keating is worthless...
266
00:16:15,535 --> 00:16:18,403
...so he's probably
the right choice for that building.
267
00:16:18,805 --> 00:16:21,001
He's sure to be popular.
268
00:16:21,374 --> 00:16:24,208
You wouldn't expect me
to pick a man of merit, would you?
269
00:16:24,377 --> 00:16:27,404
I've never hired a good architect
for any of the banks, hotels...
270
00:16:27,581 --> 00:16:29,982
...or other commercial
structures I've built.
271
00:16:30,150 --> 00:16:34,246
I give the public what it wants,
including your column, Mr. Toohey.
272
00:16:34,421 --> 00:16:36,720
Am I to understand
you will choose Peter Keating?
273
00:16:36,795 --> 00:16:37,585
I really don't care.
274
00:16:37,704 --> 00:16:41,181
One of those fashionable architects
is just as inept as another.
275
00:16:43,830 --> 00:16:46,026
I think you have a good idea, however.
276
00:16:46,199 --> 00:16:50,728
I think I will decide according to the advice
of the Banner's "Architectural Experts."
277
00:16:51,104 --> 00:16:52,663
Yes, indeed, Mr. Wynand.
278
00:16:59,279 --> 00:17:03,546
But you're not my only expert,
Mr. Toohey. You have a rival.
279
00:17:06,019 --> 00:17:08,352
I should consult Dominique Francon,
as well.
280
00:17:11,992 --> 00:17:15,019
- Yes, sir?
- Ask Miss Francon to come in.
281
00:17:15,829 --> 00:17:18,492
- Miss Francon and I do not always agree.
- I'm sure of it.
282
00:17:19,766 --> 00:17:22,634
- Yes?
- Mr. Wynand, I know it's inexcusable...
283
00:17:22,802 --> 00:17:24,896
...but Miss Francon is not in the building.
284
00:17:25,071 --> 00:17:28,041
Shall I telephone her home
and ask her to come here at once?
285
00:17:28,208 --> 00:17:29,642
No.
286
00:17:36,349 --> 00:17:37,840
You're not going in person--
287
00:17:38,018 --> 00:17:41,011
You know, Toohey?
One of these days, you'll bore me.
288
00:17:41,955 --> 00:17:44,288
I shall endeavor not to do so
until the right time.
289
00:18:05,579 --> 00:18:06,842
How did you come in?
290
00:18:07,013 --> 00:18:08,345
Your maid let me in.
291
00:18:08,515 --> 00:18:09,778
Without an announcement?
292
00:18:09,950 --> 00:18:12,215
You can't expect her
to share your attitude.
293
00:18:12,385 --> 00:18:15,219
You're the only person in New York
who'd refuse me admittance.
294
00:18:16,489 --> 00:18:18,151
Why did you come here?
295
00:18:18,325 --> 00:18:21,352
I needed you at the office.
I found you absent.
296
00:18:22,696 --> 00:18:26,656
Isn't it unprecedented for you to come
in person after one of your employees?
297
00:18:26,833 --> 00:18:29,860
I hoped you'd take note of that.
I wanted to ask your advice...
298
00:18:30,036 --> 00:18:32,631
...about a matter which
will be of great interest to you.
299
00:18:32,806 --> 00:18:37,005
I must pick an architect for the Security
Bank building. Whom would you recommend?
300
00:18:37,177 --> 00:18:38,543
No one.
301
00:18:38,712 --> 00:18:41,511
I don't know a single architect of ability.
302
00:18:41,681 --> 00:18:44,412
And you're not looking
for ability, Mr. Wynand.
303
00:18:44,584 --> 00:18:46,280
And if I left the choice up to you?
304
00:18:46,853 --> 00:18:48,788
- I wouldn't care to make it.
- No?
305
00:18:49,222 --> 00:18:52,818
Ellsworth Toohey is very anxious
to get the commission for Peter Keating.
306
00:18:52,993 --> 00:18:55,053
Peter Keating is
a third-rate architect.
307
00:18:55,228 --> 00:18:58,392
- Is he? He's your father's partner.
- Oh, yes.
308
00:18:58,565 --> 00:19:02,502
- Aren't you engaged to Peter Keating?
- Yes.
309
00:19:03,136 --> 00:19:06,800
If you found it amusing to tempt me
by offering to help Peter's career...
310
00:19:06,973 --> 00:19:08,566
...you miscalculated.
311
00:19:08,742 --> 00:19:10,904
I have no desire
to help his career.
312
00:19:11,077 --> 00:19:14,980
I was trying to tempt you,
but I didn't find it amusing.
313
00:19:17,083 --> 00:19:19,518
I should like to meet Peter Keating.
314
00:19:20,253 --> 00:19:23,587
Will you have dinner with me this
evening? We'll discuss the commission.
315
00:19:23,757 --> 00:19:26,454
- If you wish.
- Incidentally, I'd have fired anyone else...
316
00:19:26,626 --> 00:19:28,595
...for being absent from the office.
317
00:19:28,762 --> 00:19:30,094
I know it.
318
00:19:30,263 --> 00:19:32,960
- Shall I consider myself fired?
- You want to be?
319
00:19:33,133 --> 00:19:34,965
Don't really care
one way or another.
320
00:19:36,002 --> 00:19:39,495
You know, you could do much more
than write a small column about buildings.
321
00:19:39,673 --> 00:19:42,108
You could make a brilliant career
on the Banner...
322
00:19:42,275 --> 00:19:43,937
...if you asked me for it.
323
00:19:44,110 --> 00:19:46,102
I never wanted a career
on the Banner.
324
00:19:46,279 --> 00:19:49,249
Tell me, what would you
consider as tempting?
325
00:19:49,416 --> 00:19:51,647
I'd like to find
something you could want.
326
00:19:52,052 --> 00:19:53,953
Don't try to, Mr. Wynand.
327
00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,282
I'll never want anything.
328
00:19:57,657 --> 00:19:59,990
Do you know what I was doing
when you came in?
329
00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,892
I had a statue which I found in Europe,
the statue of a god.
330
00:20:04,064 --> 00:20:05,555
I think I was in love with it...
331
00:20:05,732 --> 00:20:07,530
- ...but I broke it.
- What do you mean?
332
00:20:07,767 --> 00:20:09,531
- I threw it down the air shaft.
- Why?
333
00:20:09,703 --> 00:20:11,296
So that I wouldn't have to love it.
334
00:20:11,471 --> 00:20:15,306
I didn't wanna be tied to anything. I wanted
to destroy it rather than let it be...
335
00:20:15,475 --> 00:20:19,674
...part of a world where beauty and
genius and greatness have no chance.
336
00:20:19,846 --> 00:20:23,078
The world of the mob
and of the Banner.
337
00:20:23,249 --> 00:20:25,980
Do you still want me to have
dinner with you tonight?
338
00:20:27,287 --> 00:20:29,051
More than ever.
339
00:20:37,697 --> 00:20:41,065
It's such a magnificent opportunity.
I'll do my best to please you.
340
00:20:41,234 --> 00:20:44,068
- I take it you want this commission.
- Want it?
341
00:20:44,237 --> 00:20:46,206
I'd sell my soul for it.
342
00:20:46,372 --> 00:20:49,740
That may be the right phrase.
Everything in life has its price.
343
00:20:50,343 --> 00:20:54,439
In this instance, the price is that you
break your engagement to Miss Francon.
344
00:21:01,054 --> 00:21:02,955
My engagement?
345
00:21:03,389 --> 00:21:04,823
Why?
346
00:21:04,991 --> 00:21:06,653
For any reason
you care to imagine.
347
00:21:06,926 --> 00:21:11,125
You may think what you wish about my
motives but that is the condition I demand.
348
00:21:11,631 --> 00:21:13,759
- Dominique?
- No, I'm not going to help you.
349
00:21:14,067 --> 00:21:17,265
I'd like to see it decided
between Mr. Wynand and yourself.
350
00:21:17,704 --> 00:21:20,503
- But would you agree?
- The choice is yours.
351
00:21:21,007 --> 00:21:24,171
Our engagement helped you
to become my father's partner.
352
00:21:24,344 --> 00:21:27,075
Mr. Wynand's patronage
will help you much more.
353
00:21:29,115 --> 00:21:32,483
I'm sure this is a joke, Mr. Wynand.
Things like this aren't being done.
354
00:21:32,652 --> 00:21:34,814
They're done all the time
but not talked about.
355
00:21:35,121 --> 00:21:37,386
I grant you that
I'm behaving abominably.
356
00:21:37,557 --> 00:21:39,788
It's extremely cruel to be honest.
357
00:21:41,561 --> 00:21:42,995
I....
358
00:21:43,663 --> 00:21:45,655
I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
359
00:21:45,832 --> 00:21:48,097
It's simple. You're supposed
to slap my face.
360
00:21:48,468 --> 00:21:50,937
You were supposed to do that
several minutes ago.
361
00:21:51,104 --> 00:21:53,437
No?
You don't wanna do that?
362
00:21:53,773 --> 00:21:56,436
Of course, you don't have to
and you don't have to accept.
363
00:21:56,609 --> 00:21:58,805
Would you rather refuse the commission?
364
00:21:59,679 --> 00:22:01,580
- No.
- Fine, Mr. Keating.
365
00:22:01,748 --> 00:22:04,308
Now I think it would be best if you left.
366
00:22:04,484 --> 00:22:07,886
Call up my office in the morning,
and we'll sign the contract.
367
00:22:08,922 --> 00:22:11,619
If that's what you want,
I'm not going to interfere.
368
00:22:12,158 --> 00:22:14,184
We should be grown-up
about it, shouldn't we?
369
00:22:14,928 --> 00:22:17,727
I'm sure we'll have
no trouble, Mr. Wynand.
370
00:22:18,131 --> 00:22:19,599
Good night.
371
00:22:24,370 --> 00:22:26,202
Why did you do this?
372
00:22:26,372 --> 00:22:28,137
Did you believe I'd agree like Peter?
373
00:22:28,661 --> 00:22:30,663
Did you expect to win me
by your usual methods?
374
00:22:30,810 --> 00:22:34,804
Of course not. I merely wanted to show you
that all men are corrupt, anyone be bought.
375
00:22:34,981 --> 00:22:37,212
And that you're wrong
in your contempt for me.
376
00:22:37,383 --> 00:22:39,477
There is no honest way
to deal with people.
377
00:22:39,652 --> 00:22:42,588
We have no choice except
to submit or to rule them.
378
00:22:42,755 --> 00:22:43,984
I chose to rule.
379
00:22:44,157 --> 00:22:46,092
A man of integrity would do neither.
380
00:22:46,259 --> 00:22:47,625
There are no men of integrity.
381
00:22:47,794 --> 00:22:50,491
I have many years behind me to prove it.
382
00:22:50,663 --> 00:22:52,427
I was born in Hell's Kitchen.
383
00:22:52,599 --> 00:22:55,000
I rose out of the gutter
by creating the Banner.
384
00:22:55,168 --> 00:22:56,966
It's a contemptible paper, isn't it?
385
00:22:57,136 --> 00:22:58,900
But it has achieved my purpose.
386
00:22:59,239 --> 00:23:01,367
- What was your purpose?
- Power.
387
00:23:01,541 --> 00:23:03,601
Why are you trying to justify
yourself to me?
388
00:23:03,776 --> 00:23:05,768
I wasn't trying to jus--
389
00:23:06,479 --> 00:23:07,708
Yes.
390
00:23:07,881 --> 00:23:10,373
- That is what I was doing.
- Why?
391
00:23:10,917 --> 00:23:12,852
I think you know it.
392
00:23:21,127 --> 00:23:22,652
You see?
393
00:23:22,829 --> 00:23:25,560
I suppose I'm one of those freaks
you hear about.
394
00:23:25,732 --> 00:23:28,861
A woman completely incapable of feeling.
395
00:23:30,069 --> 00:23:32,231
I was engaged to Peter Keating...
396
00:23:32,405 --> 00:23:36,103
...because he was the most safely,
unimportant person I could find.
397
00:23:36,776 --> 00:23:38,608
And I knew I'd never be in love.
398
00:23:38,778 --> 00:23:40,440
Haven't you ever loved anyone?
399
00:23:40,613 --> 00:23:42,445
No, and I never will.
400
00:23:42,615 --> 00:23:45,744
If I fell in love, it'd be like
the statue of the Greek god again.
401
00:23:45,919 --> 00:23:48,479
I know it. I accept it.
402
00:23:49,455 --> 00:23:51,583
I want you to marry me.
403
00:23:54,594 --> 00:23:57,621
If I ever decide to punish myself
for some terrible guilt...
404
00:23:57,797 --> 00:24:00,198
- ...I'll marry you.
- I'll wait.
405
00:24:00,366 --> 00:24:02,426
No matter what reason you choose for it.
406
00:24:02,602 --> 00:24:06,232
- Will you let me see you again?
- I'm leaving the city in a few days.
407
00:24:06,406 --> 00:24:08,966
- Where are you going?
- To Father's place in Connecticut.
408
00:24:09,142 --> 00:24:11,236
I'm going there so
I won't have to see anyone.
409
00:24:11,411 --> 00:24:13,277
What are you really seeking?
410
00:24:13,446 --> 00:24:18,646
Freedom: to want nothing, to expect
nothing, to depend on nothing.
411
00:26:42,061 --> 00:26:43,962
Why, Miss Francon.
412
00:26:44,464 --> 00:26:46,660
How do you do?
What are you doing here?
413
00:26:47,133 --> 00:26:48,465
I'm out here for the summer.
414
00:26:48,634 --> 00:26:50,694
Father let me have his house all to myself.
415
00:26:50,870 --> 00:26:54,170
- I thought I'd take a look at this quarry.
- Let me show you around.
416
00:26:54,340 --> 00:26:56,741
This is the best gray granite
in Connecticut.
417
00:26:56,909 --> 00:26:59,037
- Why, last month, we shipped--
- Who's that man?
418
00:26:59,212 --> 00:27:00,805
What man, Miss Francon?
419
00:27:00,980 --> 00:27:02,744
No, never mind.
420
00:28:09,782 --> 00:28:11,683
Why do you always stare at me?
421
00:28:11,851 --> 00:28:14,343
For the same reason
you've been staring at me.
422
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,318
I don't know what you're talking about.
423
00:28:16,589 --> 00:28:19,923
If you didn't, you'd be more astonished
and much less angry.
424
00:28:21,661 --> 00:28:23,129
So you know my name.
425
00:28:23,396 --> 00:28:25,262
You've been advertising it
loudly enough.
426
00:28:26,666 --> 00:28:30,364
You'd better not be insolent.
I can have you fired at a moment's notice.
427
00:28:30,803 --> 00:28:33,932
- Shall I call the superintendent?
- No, of course not.
428
00:28:34,373 --> 00:28:38,743
But since you know who I am, you'd better
stop looking at me when I come here.
429
00:28:38,911 --> 00:28:40,675
It might be misunderstood.
430
00:28:41,781 --> 00:28:43,443
I don't think so.
431
00:29:39,905 --> 00:29:41,533
Come in.
432
00:29:45,044 --> 00:29:47,036
Good evening, Miss Francon.
You sent for me?
433
00:29:47,213 --> 00:29:48,476
Yes.
434
00:29:48,648 --> 00:29:51,049
Would you like to make
some extra money?
435
00:29:51,217 --> 00:29:52,583
Certainly, Miss Francon.
436
00:29:52,752 --> 00:29:56,018
That marble piece is broken
and has to be replaced.
437
00:29:56,188 --> 00:29:58,316
I want you to take it out.
438
00:29:58,724 --> 00:30:00,556
Yes, Miss Francon.
439
00:30:11,203 --> 00:30:13,195
Now it's broken
and has to be replaced.
440
00:30:14,974 --> 00:30:18,376
Would you know what kind of marble this is
and where to order a piece?
441
00:30:18,744 --> 00:30:21,714
- Yes, Miss Francon.
- Go ahead, then. Take it out.
442
00:30:21,881 --> 00:30:23,747
Yes, Miss Francon.
443
00:30:30,623 --> 00:30:32,182
Oh, I'm sorry.
444
00:30:32,358 --> 00:30:37,387
You might have thought that I was laughing
at you, but I wasn't, of course.
445
00:30:39,332 --> 00:30:41,927
I didn't want to disturb you.
446
00:30:42,601 --> 00:30:46,094
I'm sure you're anxious to finish
and get out of here.
447
00:30:48,274 --> 00:30:51,540
I mean, because you must be tired.
448
00:30:54,380 --> 00:30:56,474
There must be things
you'd like to talk about.
449
00:30:57,383 --> 00:30:59,375
Oh, well, yes, Miss Francon.
450
00:30:59,552 --> 00:31:00,986
Well?
451
00:31:03,522 --> 00:31:07,050
I think this is an atrocious fireplace.
452
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,294
Really? This house was
designed by my father.
453
00:31:11,464 --> 00:31:13,695
There's no point in your
discussing architecture.
454
00:31:14,467 --> 00:31:15,992
None at all.
455
00:31:17,002 --> 00:31:18,698
Shall we choose some other subject?
456
00:31:18,871 --> 00:31:20,533
Yes, Miss Francon.
457
00:31:21,974 --> 00:31:25,706
Generally, there are three kinds of marble:
The white, the onyx and the green.
458
00:31:26,178 --> 00:31:29,012
This last must not be considered
a true marble.
459
00:31:29,181 --> 00:31:32,982
True marble is the metamorphic form
of limestone produced by heat and pressure.
460
00:31:34,286 --> 00:31:36,653
Pressure is a powerful factor.
461
00:31:36,822 --> 00:31:40,589
It leads to consequences which,
once started, cannot be controlled.
462
00:31:41,494 --> 00:31:42,723
What consequences?
463
00:31:44,697 --> 00:31:47,724
The infiltration of foreign elements
from the surrounding soil.
464
00:31:48,334 --> 00:31:52,499
They form the colored streaks
found in most marbles.
465
00:31:56,909 --> 00:31:59,276
This is pure white marble.
466
00:31:59,578 --> 00:32:01,638
You should be very careful, Miss Francon.
467
00:32:01,814 --> 00:32:04,374
To accept nothing but a stone
of the same quality.
468
00:32:04,683 --> 00:32:08,916
This is Alabama marble,
very high grade, very hard to find.
469
00:32:10,022 --> 00:32:11,615
What shall I do with the stone?
470
00:32:11,791 --> 00:32:13,555
Leave it here. I'll have it removed.
471
00:32:13,726 --> 00:32:14,955
All right.
472
00:32:15,127 --> 00:32:19,030
I'll order a new piece cut to measure
and have it delivered to you.
473
00:32:20,433 --> 00:32:22,459
- Do you wish me to set it?
- Yes, certainly.
474
00:32:22,635 --> 00:32:26,470
I'll let you know when it comes.
How much do I owe you?
475
00:32:26,639 --> 00:32:28,164
Keep the change.
476
00:32:28,340 --> 00:32:30,309
Thank you, Miss Francon.
477
00:32:30,843 --> 00:32:33,836
- Good night.
- Good night, Miss Francon.
478
00:32:49,762 --> 00:32:51,287
Come in.
479
00:32:54,233 --> 00:32:56,259
The man sent from
the quarry, Miss Francon.
480
00:32:58,838 --> 00:33:00,170
Who are you?
481
00:33:00,339 --> 00:33:03,173
- Pasquale Orsini.
- What do you want?
482
00:33:03,476 --> 00:33:08,380
The tall guy down at the quarry told me
you got a fireplace you wanted me to fix.
483
00:33:08,747 --> 00:33:11,410
Yes. Yes, of course. I forgot.
484
00:33:11,584 --> 00:33:13,075
Go ahead.
485
00:33:56,495 --> 00:33:58,088
Why didn't you come set the marble?
486
00:33:58,330 --> 00:34:02,358
I didn't think it would make any difference
to you who came, or did it, Miss Francon?
487
00:36:42,327 --> 00:36:44,694
Good afternoon, Miss Francon.
How are you?
488
00:36:47,099 --> 00:36:48,624
There was a man you had here.
489
00:36:49,168 --> 00:36:52,002
A tall, gaunt man who worked a drill.
490
00:36:52,171 --> 00:36:55,164
- Where is he?
- Yes, that one, he's gone.
491
00:36:57,509 --> 00:37:00,809
- Gone?
- Quit, left for New York, I think.
492
00:37:00,979 --> 00:37:03,107
- When?
- Two days ago.
493
00:37:03,282 --> 00:37:05,012
What was his--?
494
00:37:05,851 --> 00:37:08,286
No. No, I don't want to know his name.
495
00:37:08,454 --> 00:37:11,356
- If you want me to find him for you--
- No.
496
00:37:16,695 --> 00:37:18,493
I don't know what to do. I give up.
497
00:37:18,664 --> 00:37:21,099
I've gone the limit. I'm at my wit's end.
498
00:37:21,266 --> 00:37:24,566
- That's not going very far.
- It's all right for you to make cracks.
499
00:37:24,737 --> 00:37:27,866
But I'm in trouble. We need some
excitement to boost circulation.
500
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,977
I've got to invent a crusade and I
don't know what on earth to crusade about.
501
00:37:32,144 --> 00:37:34,511
We start a campaign
against street car monopolies?
502
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:38,640
We did that two years ago, then we
had a crusade against canned vegetables.
503
00:37:38,817 --> 00:37:40,683
And a crusade against Wall Street.
504
00:37:40,853 --> 00:37:42,617
Now, what else is there to be against?
505
00:37:42,788 --> 00:37:44,654
You're a smart woman,
couldn't you--?
506
00:37:44,823 --> 00:37:48,191
- Sorry, I'm not good at that sort of thing.
- Gail Wynand expects results.
507
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:49,919
The Banner's got to be active.
508
00:37:50,095 --> 00:37:53,031
I've racked my brain, and I can't think
of anything to denounce.
509
00:37:53,198 --> 00:37:55,167
- I can.
- What?
510
00:37:55,367 --> 00:37:56,801
This.
511
00:37:57,870 --> 00:38:01,170
- Who cares about a building?
- My dear, it depends on how you handle it.
512
00:38:03,242 --> 00:38:07,407
It's an outrage against art and a threat to
public safety. It might collapse any moment.
513
00:38:07,646 --> 00:38:10,206
- Nobody's ever used that structural method.
- Yeah?
514
00:38:10,382 --> 00:38:13,409
The owner of it is Roger Enright,
one of those self-made men.
515
00:38:13,585 --> 00:38:14,883
Stubborn and rich as blazes.
516
00:38:15,053 --> 00:38:16,817
It's always safe to denounce the rich.
517
00:38:16,989 --> 00:38:18,287
Everyone will help you--
518
00:38:18,457 --> 00:38:19,686
- The rich first.
- Yeah.
519
00:38:20,058 --> 00:38:23,119
- Howard Roark, who is he?
- I wouldn't know.
520
00:38:23,328 --> 00:38:26,787
Think what you could do with it.
A super-luxury apartment house going up...
521
00:38:26,965 --> 00:38:29,491
...and there's those poor people
who live in the slums.
522
00:38:29,668 --> 00:38:32,934
We could have some Sunday supplement
stories about beautiful girls...
523
00:38:33,105 --> 00:38:36,439
- ...who are victims of the slums.
- With pictures in three-color process.
524
00:38:36,608 --> 00:38:38,509
You've got something there.
You've got it.
525
00:38:38,677 --> 00:38:42,205
It's a wonderful idea.
I know Wynand will okay it.
526
00:38:45,417 --> 00:38:47,977
You know that this Enright House
is a great building.
527
00:38:48,153 --> 00:38:50,384
Perhaps one of the greatest.
528
00:38:50,556 --> 00:38:53,025
Ellsworth, what are you after?
529
00:38:53,192 --> 00:38:55,457
I daresay nobody knows what I'm after.
530
00:38:55,627 --> 00:38:56,890
They will, though.
531
00:38:57,062 --> 00:38:59,258
When the time comes.
532
00:39:06,872 --> 00:39:08,841
So we've got three wonderful angles:
533
00:39:09,007 --> 00:39:12,705
Highbrow stories about the bad art.
Scare stories about the girders collapsing.
534
00:39:12,878 --> 00:39:14,403
Sob stories about the poor.
535
00:39:14,580 --> 00:39:16,913
We get everybody riled up
without any opposition.
536
00:39:17,382 --> 00:39:19,942
Who'll want to defend it?
It's only a building.
537
00:39:20,118 --> 00:39:22,519
- My first step would be--
- Don't bother with details.
538
00:39:22,688 --> 00:39:24,850
It's good. Go ahead.
Toohey can handle it.
539
00:39:25,023 --> 00:39:28,960
What a surprise and what a lovely contrast
to my usual visitors. Please sit down.
540
00:39:29,127 --> 00:39:31,392
You approved a campaign
against the Enright House?
541
00:39:31,563 --> 00:39:33,623
Yes, of course.
It'll stir up a lot of noise.
542
00:39:33,799 --> 00:39:35,927
I'm sailing next week.
I'll be gone all winter.
543
00:39:36,101 --> 00:39:37,433
This will keep them busy.
544
00:39:37,903 --> 00:39:39,895
Have you seen drawings
of the Enright House?
545
00:39:40,072 --> 00:39:41,301
No.
546
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,632
- Please send for them.
- What for?
547
00:39:43,809 --> 00:39:47,268
That building is a magnificent
architectural achievement.
548
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,306
- Is that of no importance?
- None.
549
00:39:50,482 --> 00:39:52,644
You're willing to destroy it
to amuse the mob...
550
00:39:52,818 --> 00:39:54,878
...to give them something
to scream about?
551
00:39:55,053 --> 00:39:59,821
That is the policy which has made the
Banner the newspaper of largest circulation.
552
00:39:59,992 --> 00:40:02,052
Don't expect me to change it.
553
00:40:02,261 --> 00:40:05,129
You asked me once to tell you
of something I wanted.
554
00:40:05,297 --> 00:40:07,994
I've tried never to ask favors of anyone...
555
00:40:08,166 --> 00:40:10,135
...but I'm going to now.
556
00:40:10,302 --> 00:40:12,931
Please call off this campaign.
557
00:40:13,538 --> 00:40:15,200
Is the architect a friend of yours?
558
00:40:15,374 --> 00:40:18,139
I've never set eyes on him.
I don't know who he is nor care.
559
00:40:18,310 --> 00:40:20,176
Why should you plead for that building?
560
00:40:20,345 --> 00:40:21,870
Because it's great.
561
00:40:22,047 --> 00:40:24,448
There's so little in life
that's noble or beautiful.
562
00:40:24,616 --> 00:40:27,848
I'm pleading for a man's achievement.
I'm pleading for greatness.
563
00:40:28,020 --> 00:40:30,114
Are you reproaching me
for the Banner?
564
00:40:31,123 --> 00:40:33,592
I'm begging you, Mr. Wynand.
565
00:40:34,026 --> 00:40:38,122
Dominique, I would give you
anything I owned...
566
00:40:38,297 --> 00:40:39,925
...except the Banner.
567
00:40:40,098 --> 00:40:44,001
My whole life and an unspeakable
struggle have gone to make it.
568
00:40:44,169 --> 00:40:46,661
I will not sacrifice it
for anyone on earth.
569
00:40:47,506 --> 00:40:49,702
It's your right to do as you wish.
570
00:40:49,875 --> 00:40:52,640
It's mine to take no part
in what you're doing.
571
00:40:52,811 --> 00:40:55,280
Please accept my resignation
from the Banner.
572
00:40:56,915 --> 00:40:58,508
I'm sorry.
573
00:40:58,684 --> 00:41:01,085
It's quite useless, my dear.
574
00:41:01,253 --> 00:41:04,519
You can't fight me. You have no chance.
575
00:41:05,290 --> 00:41:06,918
I know it.
576
00:41:09,428 --> 00:41:11,226
While so many
are in need of shelter...
577
00:41:11,396 --> 00:41:14,764
...effort is being wasted to erect
a structural monstrosity...
578
00:41:14,933 --> 00:41:16,401
...known as the Enright House.
579
00:41:16,568 --> 00:41:20,164
It is designed by one Howard Roark,
an incompetent amateur...
580
00:41:20,339 --> 00:41:23,503
...who has the arrogance
to hold his own ideas above all rules.
581
00:41:23,675 --> 00:41:27,077
You are architects and you should realize
that a man like Howard Roark...
582
00:41:27,245 --> 00:41:30,545
...is a threat to all of you.
The conflict of forms is too great.
583
00:41:30,716 --> 00:41:33,208
Can your buildings stand
by the side of his?
584
00:41:33,385 --> 00:41:35,684
I believe you understand me, gentlemen.
585
00:41:35,854 --> 00:41:38,255
If you'll sign a protest
against the Enright House...
586
00:41:38,423 --> 00:41:40,722
...the Banner will be glad to publish it...
587
00:41:40,892 --> 00:41:44,454
...and we shall win
because there are thousands of us...
588
00:41:44,629 --> 00:41:47,098
...thousands against one.
589
00:41:47,966 --> 00:41:50,333
More of it. Look.
Letters to the editor.
590
00:41:50,502 --> 00:41:53,700
Thousands of them,
all screaming against that Enright House.
591
00:41:53,872 --> 00:41:55,397
Ellsworth, you're wonderful.
592
00:41:55,574 --> 00:41:59,204
How could you ever foresee
a public trend so well?
593
00:42:20,165 --> 00:42:23,533
- Roark.
- Mr. Enright.
594
00:42:24,236 --> 00:42:25,898
Thanks.
595
00:42:26,505 --> 00:42:29,168
- Don't pay attention to that public howling.
- I don't.
596
00:42:29,341 --> 00:42:32,106
I've been denounced so much,
it doesn't bother me anymore.
597
00:42:32,277 --> 00:42:35,304
I started out in life as a coal miner.
Got where I am by acting...
598
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,609
...on my own honest judgment
whether others liked it or not.
599
00:42:38,784 --> 00:42:41,777
When you grow older, you'll see
that's the only way to succeed.
600
00:42:41,953 --> 00:42:43,182
- I know it.
- They're tough.
601
00:42:43,355 --> 00:42:45,153
They're gonna get tougher, don't worry.
602
00:42:45,323 --> 00:42:46,814
- You'll win.
- I have.
603
00:42:47,793 --> 00:42:50,854
- That's the only defense you need.
- I'll rest on the evidence.
604
00:42:51,029 --> 00:42:52,691
That's exactly what I'm going to do.
605
00:42:52,864 --> 00:42:54,526
I'll be the first tenant to move in.
606
00:42:54,699 --> 00:42:57,464
I'll give a party to celebrate the
opening of Enright House.
607
00:42:57,636 --> 00:43:00,936
I'll invite them: The press,
the architects, the critics. Let them see.
608
00:43:01,106 --> 00:43:03,871
They think we're gonna apologize.
We'll celebrate instead.
609
00:43:14,553 --> 00:43:16,522
I have nothing to say
about this building.
610
00:43:16,688 --> 00:43:20,887
God gave you eyes and a mind to use. If you
fail to do so, the loss is yours not mine.
611
00:43:21,059 --> 00:43:22,425
Don't you want to convince me?
612
00:43:22,594 --> 00:43:25,325
Is there any reason
why that should be my concern?
613
00:43:29,734 --> 00:43:32,727
I dread to think of the fate
of Howard Roark, whoever he is.
614
00:43:32,904 --> 00:43:36,841
- Why? You don't think he's good?
- He's too good.
615
00:43:44,916 --> 00:43:47,476
- Dominique.
- Hello, Peter.
616
00:43:47,652 --> 00:43:50,781
What a pleasure to see you again.
You look more beautiful than ever.
617
00:43:50,956 --> 00:43:54,154
What do you think of this building?
I'm taking a poll of the guests--
618
00:43:54,326 --> 00:43:56,522
- A what?
- A poll of opinion about it.
619
00:43:56,695 --> 00:44:00,291
What for? In order to find out
what you think of it yourself?
620
00:44:00,465 --> 00:44:03,299
We have to consider
public opinion, don't we?
621
00:44:06,872 --> 00:44:09,068
No, don't ever hire an architect
who's a genius.
622
00:44:09,241 --> 00:44:11,437
- I don't like geniuses. They're dangerous.
- How?
623
00:44:11,610 --> 00:44:14,637
A man abler than his brothers
insults them by implication.
624
00:44:14,813 --> 00:44:17,510
He must not aspire
to any virtue which cannot be shared.
625
00:44:17,682 --> 00:44:21,244
I wouldn't know about that intellectual
stuff. I play the stock market.
626
00:44:21,419 --> 00:44:24,150
I play the stock market of the spirit...
627
00:44:24,322 --> 00:44:26,257
...and I sell short.
628
00:44:26,424 --> 00:44:31,124
It's stunning, perfectly stunning, but
I wouldn't want to live in a house like this.
629
00:44:31,296 --> 00:44:34,323
One could never relax and feel homey.
You know what I mean.
630
00:44:34,499 --> 00:44:38,197
- Comfortable and sloppy and, well, homey.
- No, one couldn't.
631
00:44:42,841 --> 00:44:44,867
- Dominique.
- Yes, Father.
632
00:44:45,043 --> 00:44:48,172
I can't understand how my own daughter
can approve of this mess.
633
00:44:48,346 --> 00:44:51,043
This is such uncivilized taste.
Are you going to defend it?
634
00:44:51,216 --> 00:44:53,549
No, I won't try to defend it.
635
00:44:53,718 --> 00:44:57,086
Mr. Francon, that stairway,
it's not bad. It's a clever idea.
636
00:44:57,255 --> 00:45:00,521
I'm designing a building right now
where I can use an idea like this...
637
00:45:00,692 --> 00:45:02,661
...and I'd have to adapt it, of course.
638
00:45:02,827 --> 00:45:06,525
Well, if one gave it some elegance--
You know, a touch of Greek ornament.
639
00:45:06,698 --> 00:45:10,066
The engineering idea is brilliant.
I could use it myself.
640
00:45:38,763 --> 00:45:40,322
Hello. I've been waiting for you.
641
00:45:40,498 --> 00:45:43,957
You're the guest of honor tonight,
in more than just the social sense.
642
00:45:44,135 --> 00:45:46,127
Whom do you want to meet first?
643
00:45:46,304 --> 00:45:49,035
There's Dominique Francon looking at us.
644
00:45:49,207 --> 00:45:50,766
Come on.
645
00:45:56,081 --> 00:45:59,415
Miss Francon, may I present
Howard Roark?
646
00:46:00,051 --> 00:46:01,417
You're...
647
00:46:01,586 --> 00:46:03,782
- ...Howard Roark?
- Yes, Miss Francon.
648
00:46:03,955 --> 00:46:06,982
You don't know it, but Miss Francon
has a connection with you.
649
00:46:07,158 --> 00:46:10,356
She resigned from the Banner to
protest their attack on your building.
650
00:46:10,528 --> 00:46:12,429
- How did you know that?
- I heard about it.
651
00:46:12,597 --> 00:46:15,965
- I didn't want Mr. Roark to know it.
- Why not, Miss Francon?
652
00:46:16,134 --> 00:46:18,626
It was a perfectly futile gesture
on my part.
653
00:46:18,803 --> 00:46:22,433
Dominique won't admit it, but she admires
your buildings. She understands them.
654
00:46:22,607 --> 00:46:25,202
- I expected her to understand them.
- Did you?
655
00:46:25,377 --> 00:46:29,815
- But you didn't know me.
- I used to read your column, Miss Francon.
656
00:46:30,215 --> 00:46:32,741
I admire your work
more than anything I've ever seen.
657
00:46:32,917 --> 00:46:36,376
You may realize that this is not a tie,
but a gulf between us...
658
00:46:36,554 --> 00:46:38,921
...if you remember what you read
in my column.
659
00:46:39,257 --> 00:46:41,283
I remember every line of it.
660
00:46:42,460 --> 00:46:47,330
I wish I had never seen your building.
It's the things that we admire or want...
661
00:46:47,499 --> 00:46:50,162
...that enslave us,
I'm not easy to bring into submission.
662
00:46:51,836 --> 00:46:56,399
That depends upon the strength
of your adversary, Miss Francon.
663
00:46:59,077 --> 00:47:00,340
Well?
664
00:47:00,512 --> 00:47:02,344
Roger, why did you bring him here?
665
00:47:02,514 --> 00:47:04,380
Why did you deliver him
to these people?
666
00:47:04,549 --> 00:47:07,485
Don't you see he doesn't
have a chance against them?
667
00:47:12,691 --> 00:47:14,421
Come in.
668
00:47:23,868 --> 00:47:25,496
I expected you to come here.
669
00:47:25,837 --> 00:47:28,830
I didn't know your name.
You knew mine.
670
00:47:29,007 --> 00:47:31,408
But you haven't tried to find me
in all these months.
671
00:47:32,210 --> 00:47:34,975
I wanted you to find me
and have to come to me.
672
00:47:36,381 --> 00:47:38,941
If it gives you pleasure
that you're breaking me down...
673
00:47:39,117 --> 00:47:41,313
...I'll give you a greater satisfaction.
674
00:47:42,153 --> 00:47:43,382
I love you, Roark.
675
00:47:44,322 --> 00:47:47,724
Would it please you to hear that I've lived
in torture all these months...
676
00:47:48,193 --> 00:47:50,753
...hoping never to find you,
wishing to give my life...
677
00:47:50,929 --> 00:47:53,057
...just to see you once more?
678
00:47:53,932 --> 00:47:57,494
But you knew that, of course. That's
what you wanted me to live through.
679
00:47:58,203 --> 00:48:00,934
- Yes.
- Why don't you laugh at me now? You won.
680
00:48:01,573 --> 00:48:04,099
I have no pride left to stop me.
681
00:48:04,275 --> 00:48:07,473
I love you without dignity,
without regret.
682
00:48:07,979 --> 00:48:10,141
I came to tell you this...
683
00:48:10,315 --> 00:48:12,614
...and to tell you
that you'll never see me again.
684
00:48:13,952 --> 00:48:17,218
You want to know whether
you can make me suffer, don't you?
685
00:48:17,389 --> 00:48:19,221
You can.
686
00:48:19,424 --> 00:48:21,620
Roark, you're everything
I've always wanted.
687
00:48:21,793 --> 00:48:25,286
And that's why I hoped
I'd never meet anyone like you.
688
00:48:25,463 --> 00:48:28,331
I'll give you up now myself
rather than watch you destroyed...
689
00:48:28,500 --> 00:48:30,298
...by a world where you have no chance.
690
00:48:30,468 --> 00:48:33,666
- Why are you afraid?
- I know what they'll do to you.
691
00:48:33,838 --> 00:48:36,672
You had the genius
that made the Enright House.
692
00:48:36,841 --> 00:48:39,640
But you were working like a convict
in a granite quarry.
693
00:48:39,811 --> 00:48:41,643
- I chose to do it.
- Why?
694
00:48:41,813 --> 00:48:43,247
Don't you know why?
695
00:48:43,415 --> 00:48:46,010
Yes. Because you won't conform.
696
00:48:46,184 --> 00:48:49,450
They'll drive you down again.
Stone quarry's all you can expect.
697
00:48:49,621 --> 00:48:52,250
- I got out of the quarry.
- Did you?
698
00:48:52,857 --> 00:48:55,622
Do you think the Enright House
is your beginning?
699
00:48:56,027 --> 00:48:58,223
It's your death sentence.
700
00:48:58,696 --> 00:49:00,824
Has any other client come to you?
701
00:49:00,999 --> 00:49:02,524
No.
702
00:49:02,767 --> 00:49:04,201
They won't.
703
00:49:04,369 --> 00:49:07,032
They hate you for the greatness
of your achievement.
704
00:49:07,205 --> 00:49:09,504
They hate you for your integrity.
705
00:49:09,674 --> 00:49:13,406
They hate you because they know
they can neither corrupt you nor rule you.
706
00:49:13,778 --> 00:49:16,077
They won't let you survive.
707
00:49:17,382 --> 00:49:19,851
Roark, they'll destroy you.
708
00:49:21,419 --> 00:49:23,820
But I won't be there to see it happen.
709
00:49:37,802 --> 00:49:39,703
Do you want to leave me?
710
00:49:49,047 --> 00:49:53,212
I've loved you from the first moment
I saw you, and you knew it.
711
00:49:53,551 --> 00:49:55,782
You tried to escape from it.
712
00:49:56,387 --> 00:49:59,380
I had to let you learn to accept it.
713
00:50:01,359 --> 00:50:03,658
Are you gonna leave me?
714
00:50:05,630 --> 00:50:07,326
Yes.
715
00:50:07,765 --> 00:50:09,791
I won't stop you.
716
00:50:10,468 --> 00:50:13,199
Roark, don't you see?
I don't want to leave you.
717
00:50:13,371 --> 00:50:14,964
Will you marry me?
718
00:50:15,139 --> 00:50:17,040
I want to stay with you.
719
00:50:17,208 --> 00:50:20,076
We'll take a house in some small town,
I'll keep it for you.
720
00:50:20,245 --> 00:50:24,205
Don't laugh. I can. I'll cook, I'll wash
your clothes, I'll scrub the floor...
721
00:50:24,382 --> 00:50:26,408
...and you'll give up architecture.
722
00:50:26,584 --> 00:50:29,144
If you give it up,
I'll remain with you forever...
723
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:33,451
...but I can't bear to stand by and see you
moving to some terrible disaster.
724
00:50:33,625 --> 00:50:36,493
It can't end any other way.
Save yourself from tragedy.
725
00:50:36,661 --> 00:50:38,562
Take a meaningless job.
726
00:50:38,730 --> 00:50:41,461
We'll live only for each other.
727
00:50:42,700 --> 00:50:45,829
I wish I could tell you
it was a temptation.
728
00:50:46,738 --> 00:50:49,333
Roark, yes or no?
729
00:50:49,607 --> 00:50:51,132
No.
730
00:50:57,181 --> 00:51:00,447
You must learn not to be afraid
of the world, not to take any notice.
731
00:51:00,618 --> 00:51:02,177
I must let you learn it.
732
00:51:02,353 --> 00:51:04,982
When you have,
you'll come back to me.
733
00:51:05,156 --> 00:51:07,421
They won't destroy me, Dominique.
734
00:51:07,592 --> 00:51:09,026
I'll wait for you.
735
00:51:09,193 --> 00:51:10,752
I love you.
736
00:51:10,929 --> 00:51:14,730
I'm saying it now
for all the years we'll have to wait.
737
00:51:16,634 --> 00:51:19,627
I'd do anything to escape from you.
738
00:51:44,796 --> 00:51:49,063
I could've expected anything on my return
except to see you coming here to meet me.
739
00:51:49,233 --> 00:51:52,431
If I wanted to delude myself,
I'd think you were impatient to see me.
740
00:51:52,604 --> 00:51:54,197
- I was.
- I'm very happy, my dear...
741
00:51:54,372 --> 00:51:55,533
...no matter your reason.
742
00:51:55,707 --> 00:51:57,869
I'm honest enough to warn you,
you shouldn't be.
743
00:51:58,042 --> 00:52:00,443
I realize that.
What was your reason?
744
00:52:00,612 --> 00:52:04,071
If you found another request to make of me,
I like to be able to grant it.
745
00:52:04,248 --> 00:52:08,743
No. I didn't come to make a request
but to grant you one of yours.
746
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:10,354
You still wish me to marry you?
747
00:52:10,521 --> 00:52:13,548
More than anything
I was ever capable of wishing.
748
00:52:13,725 --> 00:52:15,660
I'll marry you.
749
00:52:20,264 --> 00:52:23,393
- Don't you want to ask me any questions?
- No.
750
00:52:24,068 --> 00:52:27,095
Thank you.
You're making it easier for me.
751
00:52:27,472 --> 00:52:29,566
Whatever your reason, I shall accept it.
752
00:52:29,741 --> 00:52:32,836
What I want to find in our marriage
will remain my own concern.
753
00:52:33,011 --> 00:52:36,413
I exact no promises
and impose no obligations.
754
00:52:36,581 --> 00:52:40,677
Incidentally, since it is of no importance
to you, I love you.
755
00:52:52,630 --> 00:52:56,226
No, Mr. Roark, there is too much talk
and public resentment against you.
756
00:52:56,401 --> 00:53:00,361
We can't take part in controversies.
We can't afford to arouse antagonism.
757
00:53:00,538 --> 00:53:04,475
I'm sorry, but we find it impossible to
give you the commission for our building.
758
00:53:04,642 --> 00:53:10,047
As one of our directors said, "You can't
expect us to stick our necks out."
759
00:53:10,214 --> 00:53:12,683
No, and I don't expect it.
760
00:54:48,546 --> 00:54:50,378
Hello, Mr. Roark.
761
00:54:50,548 --> 00:54:54,076
I hoped I'd meet you someday,
like this, alone.
762
00:54:54,252 --> 00:54:57,450
- You shouldn't mind talking to me.
- What about?
763
00:54:58,089 --> 00:55:00,024
There's a building
that should've been yours.
764
00:55:00,095 --> 00:55:01,923
There are buildings going
up all over the city,
765
00:55:01,964 --> 00:55:04,400
chances refused to you
and given to fools.
766
00:55:05,096 --> 00:55:08,828
You're walking the streets while they do
the work you love but cannot obtain.
767
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,101
This city is closed to you.
768
00:55:11,269 --> 00:55:13,101
It is I who have done it.
769
00:55:13,271 --> 00:55:15,866
- Don't you want to know my motive?
- No.
770
00:55:16,507 --> 00:55:20,035
I'm fighting you, and I shall fight you
in every way I can.
771
00:55:20,444 --> 00:55:23,414
- You're free to do what you please.
- Mr. Roark, we're alone here.
772
00:55:23,581 --> 00:55:26,779
Why don't you tell me what you think of me
in any words you wish?
773
00:55:26,951 --> 00:55:29,250
But I don't think of you.
774
00:55:37,962 --> 00:55:39,954
It's great, Mr. Roark. It's wonderful.
775
00:55:40,131 --> 00:55:43,397
Ever since I saw the Enright House,
I knew you were the man I wanted.
776
00:55:43,568 --> 00:55:46,402
But I was afraid you wouldn't do
an unimportant gas station...
777
00:55:46,571 --> 00:55:48,597
...for me after doing
skyscrapers.
778
00:55:48,773 --> 00:55:52,175
No building is unimportant.
I'll build for any man who wants me.
779
00:55:52,343 --> 00:55:55,245
Anywhere, so long as I build my way.
780
00:56:45,162 --> 00:56:47,791
Your career has been as unprecedented
as your buildings.
781
00:56:47,965 --> 00:56:51,299
I never knew anybody to survive
one of the Banner's smear campaigns.
782
00:56:51,469 --> 00:56:53,870
Everything was against you.
How'd you break through?
783
00:56:54,038 --> 00:56:57,634
- What'd you think of the Banner's campaign?
- It was a vicious appeal to fools.
784
00:56:57,808 --> 00:56:59,572
Haven't you answered
your own question?
785
00:56:59,744 --> 00:57:02,737
But you had years torn out of your life,
wasted by the Banner.
786
00:57:02,914 --> 00:57:06,851
No. All these years, I've found some one
man who wanted my work...
787
00:57:07,018 --> 00:57:10,420
...one man who saw through his own eyes
and thought with his own brain.
788
00:57:10,588 --> 00:57:13,649
Such men may be rare, they may be
unknown, but they move the world.
789
00:57:13,824 --> 00:57:16,487
- How did you look for them?
- I didn't. They called for me.
790
00:57:16,661 --> 00:57:19,722
Any man who calls for me
is my kind of man.
791
00:57:29,507 --> 00:57:31,169
This is probably something very big.
792
00:57:31,342 --> 00:57:34,437
I made an appointment for you,
3:00 this afternoon at his office.
793
00:57:34,745 --> 00:57:37,840
- Whose office?
- He telephoned half an hour ago.
794
00:57:38,015 --> 00:57:41,349
Mr. Gail Wynand.
795
00:58:07,645 --> 00:58:10,114
- I don't think you'll want to work for me.
- Why?
796
00:58:10,281 --> 00:58:14,082
You ought to feel contempt for me if you've
seen the kind of buildings I put up.
797
00:58:14,251 --> 00:58:16,618
- You're honest, aren't you?
- Thank you.
798
00:58:16,787 --> 00:58:19,120
That's the first time
anyone said that about me...
799
00:58:19,290 --> 00:58:21,418
...and it's one of the few times
when I am.
800
00:58:21,592 --> 00:58:24,687
What I want you to build
is not for the public. It's for me.
801
00:58:24,862 --> 00:58:26,387
- What is it?
- My home--
802
00:58:26,564 --> 00:58:29,557
A country house
just for my wife and me.
803
00:58:30,034 --> 00:58:32,162
Did Mrs. Wynand choose me for the job?
804
00:58:32,336 --> 00:58:35,636
No, Mrs. Wynand doesn't know anything
about this. It's my own project.
805
00:58:35,806 --> 00:58:39,766
I've looked at buildings all over the country.
Every time I saw one that I liked...
806
00:58:39,944 --> 00:58:43,642
...and asked who designed it,
the answer was always Howard Roark.
807
00:58:46,484 --> 00:58:51,650
I want you to know that I have
very little respect for anything on earth.
808
00:58:51,822 --> 00:58:54,849
The only thing I worship,
and I've seen so little of it in life...
809
00:58:55,026 --> 00:58:57,495
...is man's ability to produce work
such as yours.
810
00:58:58,696 --> 00:59:00,062
I believe you.
811
00:59:00,231 --> 00:59:02,132
Why do you say that as if it hurt you?
812
00:59:02,299 --> 00:59:03,824
It doesn't.
813
00:59:04,001 --> 00:59:06,334
Don't hold them against me,
the things I've built.
814
00:59:06,504 --> 00:59:10,373
Those worthless commercial structures and
papers like the Banner made it possible...
815
00:59:10,541 --> 00:59:13,705
...for me to have a house by you.
They're the means, you're the end.
816
00:59:13,878 --> 00:59:16,438
Don't apologize for your past.
It isn't necessary.
817
00:59:16,947 --> 00:59:18,575
You do have courage, don't you?
818
00:59:18,749 --> 00:59:21,014
No one else would dare
say that to me.
819
00:59:21,185 --> 00:59:24,121
But you're right. I was apologizing.
You see, I need you.
820
00:59:24,288 --> 00:59:28,316
That house means a great deal to me,
and you're the only one who can design it.
821
00:59:28,492 --> 00:59:30,085
What kind of a house do you want?
822
00:59:30,261 --> 00:59:33,857
Far from the city. I bought the land.
A place in Connecticut, 500 acres.
823
00:59:34,031 --> 00:59:36,626
What kind of a house?
The cost, whatever you need.
824
00:59:36,801 --> 00:59:40,135
The appearance, whatever you wish.
The purpose--
825
00:59:42,006 --> 00:59:46,501
You see, I want this house because
I'm very desperately in love with my wife.
826
00:59:46,944 --> 00:59:49,175
What's the matter?
You think that's irrelevant?
827
00:59:49,346 --> 00:59:51,144
No. Go on.
828
00:59:51,315 --> 00:59:54,649
I can't stand to see my wife
among other people.
829
00:59:54,819 --> 00:59:57,050
It's not jealousy.
It's much more and much worse.
830
00:59:57,221 --> 00:59:59,486
I can't share her
with anyone or anything.
831
00:59:59,657 --> 01:00:03,287
I want a house
that will be only mine and hers.
832
01:00:03,461 --> 01:00:06,556
Think of it as you would think
of a fortress...
833
01:00:06,730 --> 01:00:08,289
...and of a temple.
834
01:00:08,466 --> 01:00:11,231
A temple to Dominique Wynand.
835
01:00:11,502 --> 01:00:13,835
I want you to meet her
before you design it.
836
01:00:14,004 --> 01:00:16,564
I've met Mrs. Wynand some years ago.
837
01:00:16,740 --> 01:00:20,177
- You have? Then you understand.
- I do.
838
01:00:21,145 --> 01:00:23,808
Start work at once.
Drop anything else you're doing.
839
01:00:23,981 --> 01:00:25,950
I'll pay whatever--
840
01:00:26,917 --> 01:00:28,180
Forgive me.
841
01:00:28,352 --> 01:00:30,583
Too much association
with bad architects.
842
01:00:30,754 --> 01:00:33,553
I haven't asked you
whether you wanna do it.
843
01:00:35,259 --> 01:00:38,058
Yes. I'll do it.
844
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:45,827
- What's the matter, Gail?
- Good evening, dear. Why?
845
01:00:46,003 --> 01:00:48,905
- You look as if you felt happy.
- I feel as if I were young...
846
01:00:49,073 --> 01:00:52,441
...as I did when I was starting and
believed the road ahead was clean...
847
01:00:52,610 --> 01:00:53,908
...and honesty was possible.
848
01:00:54,078 --> 01:00:56,570
- You want it to be possible?
- Yes. I never realized...
849
01:00:56,747 --> 01:00:58,511
...how much I wanted to find it.
850
01:00:58,682 --> 01:01:01,777
Dominique, you look
very beautiful tonight.
851
01:01:01,952 --> 01:01:05,116
No. That's not what
I wanted to say. It's this:
852
01:01:05,289 --> 01:01:08,157
I feel for the first time
that I have a right to you.
853
01:01:08,325 --> 01:01:10,920
- You thought you hadn't?
- No, and that I'd never earn it.
854
01:01:11,095 --> 01:01:13,587
But now I believe nothing
will take you away from me--
855
01:01:13,764 --> 01:01:15,665
Nothing and no one.
856
01:01:16,066 --> 01:01:17,898
- I don't love you, Gail.
- I know it...
857
01:01:18,068 --> 01:01:20,094
...but you'd never loved anyone else.
858
01:01:20,271 --> 01:01:22,604
- What makes you think so?
- It wouldn't be like you.
859
01:01:22,773 --> 01:01:26,437
You'd never surrender to anyone,
but you don't hate me any longer.
860
01:01:26,610 --> 01:01:31,207
No. I've found we have
a great deal in common, you and I.
861
01:01:31,382 --> 01:01:34,546
We both had strength,
but not courage.
862
01:01:34,818 --> 01:01:37,185
We've committed
the same kind of treason some way.
863
01:01:37,354 --> 01:01:40,324
If I have, I feel as if
I've been forgiven tonight.
864
01:01:40,491 --> 01:01:42,392
- Why?
- I don't know.
865
01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:44,654
You've always wanted
to escape from the world.
866
01:01:44,828 --> 01:01:47,662
Would you like to live in the
country, away from everything...
867
01:01:47,831 --> 01:01:50,391
- ...away from the Banner?
- Yes. Yes, I would.
868
01:01:50,568 --> 01:01:52,264
I'm having a house designed for us.
869
01:01:52,436 --> 01:01:54,337
It will be my greatest gift to you.
870
01:01:54,505 --> 01:01:57,805
If I've been guilty in my life,
this house will vindicate me.
871
01:01:57,975 --> 01:02:01,935
- Who is designing it?
- The only man of genius I ever met.
872
01:02:02,112 --> 01:02:04,047
His name is Howard Roark.
873
01:02:05,983 --> 01:02:07,576
Gail.
874
01:02:07,851 --> 01:02:11,515
Do you happen to remember
why I resigned from the Banner?
875
01:02:11,689 --> 01:02:14,215
It was because of a campaign...
876
01:02:14,658 --> 01:02:17,127
...against the Enright House.
877
01:02:21,198 --> 01:02:24,032
Just one of the Banner's
smear campaigns!
878
01:02:24,201 --> 01:02:26,727
Not important enough
to remember, was it, Gail?
879
01:02:26,904 --> 01:02:29,499
You staged so many of them.
880
01:02:29,673 --> 01:02:32,040
You were away on your yacht.
881
01:02:35,346 --> 01:02:38,407
He was just some architect
whom you threw to the mob.
882
01:02:38,949 --> 01:02:42,317
It built circulation. Didn't it, Gail?
883
01:02:42,486 --> 01:02:45,183
When I spoke to him,
he didn't remind me of it.
884
01:02:45,356 --> 01:02:46,688
Why should he?
885
01:02:46,857 --> 01:02:48,416
He knows he's won.
886
01:02:48,592 --> 01:02:52,188
He could afford to be generous.
I don't accept generosity.
887
01:02:52,363 --> 01:02:56,425
I never thought
he could win against you, but he has.
888
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:59,263
Maybe we're wrong
about the world, you and I.
889
01:02:59,436 --> 01:03:01,769
He's the one who's earned
the right to despise us.
890
01:03:01,939 --> 01:03:05,501
Has he? That's a right
I'll never grant to anyone on earth.
891
01:03:05,676 --> 01:03:08,908
There are no men of integrity, are there?
892
01:03:09,580 --> 01:03:11,048
Well, you've met one.
893
01:03:11,215 --> 01:03:14,617
There aren't.
He's not any better than the rest of us.
894
01:03:15,152 --> 01:03:18,748
- What if he is?
- If he were, I'd break him.
895
01:03:18,989 --> 01:03:21,356
Nobody can break him.
896
01:03:22,559 --> 01:03:24,687
I'll find out.
897
01:03:30,267 --> 01:03:32,793
Why did you accept this commission?
Don't you hate me?
898
01:03:32,970 --> 01:03:34,598
No. Why should I?
899
01:03:34,772 --> 01:03:36,900
- Do you want me to speak of it first?
- Of what?
900
01:03:37,074 --> 01:03:38,440
The Enright House.
901
01:03:38,609 --> 01:03:41,773
You had forgotten that, hadn't you?
Let it remain forgotten.
902
01:03:41,945 --> 01:03:45,074
I know what the Banner has done to you,
but I stand by every word...
903
01:03:45,249 --> 01:03:47,844
- ...in the Banner.
- I haven't asked you to retract it.
904
01:03:48,018 --> 01:03:50,487
Mr. Roark, I was away
at the time of that campaign...
905
01:03:50,654 --> 01:03:52,885
...but my editor was doing
what I had taught him.
906
01:03:53,057 --> 01:03:55,026
Had I been in town,
I'd have done the same.
907
01:03:55,359 --> 01:03:58,887
- That was your privilege.
- You don't believe I would have done it.
908
01:03:59,163 --> 01:04:01,132
- No.
- I haven't asked you...
909
01:04:01,298 --> 01:04:04,029
...for compliments or for pity.
Sit down.
910
01:04:06,170 --> 01:04:09,299
I wish to sign a contract
to make you sole architect...
911
01:04:09,473 --> 01:04:11,601
...for all the future buildings
I may erect.
912
01:04:11,775 --> 01:04:13,539
If you accept, you will make a
fortune.
913
01:04:13,711 --> 01:04:16,408
If you refuse, I will see to it
that you never build again.
914
01:04:16,580 --> 01:04:19,379
You may have heard.
I don't like to be refused.
915
01:04:19,550 --> 01:04:22,110
I want you to design
my future commercial structures...
916
01:04:22,286 --> 01:04:24,346
...as the public wishes
them to be designed.
917
01:04:24,521 --> 01:04:27,821
You will build colonial houses,
Rococo hotels...
918
01:04:27,991 --> 01:04:30,290
...and semi-Grecian office buildings.
919
01:04:30,461 --> 01:04:33,454
You will take your spectacular talent
and make it subservient...
920
01:04:33,630 --> 01:04:35,326
...to the taste of the masses.
921
01:04:35,499 --> 01:04:37,468
That is what I want.
922
01:04:38,869 --> 01:04:41,737
Of course. I'll be glad to do it.
923
01:04:42,306 --> 01:04:44,207
It's easy.
924
01:05:15,072 --> 01:05:17,064
This what you want?
925
01:05:21,879 --> 01:05:23,245
Good heavens, no.
926
01:05:23,414 --> 01:05:27,351
Then shut up and don't ever let me hear
any architectural suggestions.
927
01:05:29,253 --> 01:05:32,382
I didn't think anyone would waste time
trying to tempt me again.
928
01:05:32,556 --> 01:05:35,082
- I meant it until I saw that.
- I knew you meant it.
929
01:05:35,259 --> 01:05:36,921
You were taking a terrible chance.
930
01:05:37,094 --> 01:05:39,029
Not at all. I had an ally I could trust.
931
01:05:39,196 --> 01:05:41,028
- What, your integrity?
- Yours, Gail.
932
01:05:41,198 --> 01:05:42,666
Why do you think that about me?
933
01:05:43,333 --> 01:05:46,462
Why don't you admit to yourself
what we both knew the moment we met?
934
01:05:46,637 --> 01:05:48,401
- What?
- That we are alike, you and I.
935
01:05:48,672 --> 01:05:51,335
You're saying it about Gail Wynand
of the New York Banner?
936
01:05:51,508 --> 01:05:53,636
I'm saying it.
Gail Wynand of Hell's Kitchen...
937
01:05:53,811 --> 01:05:56,747
...who had the strength and spirit
to rise by his own effort...
938
01:05:56,914 --> 01:06:00,715
...but who made a bad mistake
about the way he chose.
939
01:06:00,884 --> 01:06:03,319
No. You shouldn't deal with me.
940
01:06:03,487 --> 01:06:05,353
You shouldn't remain here.
941
01:06:05,522 --> 01:06:08,515
- You wish to throw me out?
- You know I can't.
942
01:06:08,692 --> 01:06:10,888
Shall I tell you now what I think of this?
943
01:06:11,061 --> 01:06:12,586
You told me.
944
01:06:12,830 --> 01:06:14,822
I'll take this drawing home
to show my wife.
945
01:06:14,998 --> 01:06:17,467
I want her to see it
and to thank you in person.
946
01:06:17,634 --> 01:06:20,297
Will you come
and have dinner with us tonight?
947
01:06:21,505 --> 01:06:23,030
Will you?
948
01:06:24,308 --> 01:06:25,867
Yes.
949
01:06:38,055 --> 01:06:41,116
- Howard.
- Good evening, Gail.
950
01:06:42,926 --> 01:06:44,224
You two know each other.
951
01:06:44,394 --> 01:06:46,625
- How do you do, Mr. Roark?
- And you, Mrs. Wynand?
952
01:06:46,797 --> 01:06:50,598
Thank you for the house you designed for
us. It's one of your most beautiful.
953
01:06:50,767 --> 01:06:53,327
If you like it, I've fulfilled
your husband's order.
954
01:06:53,504 --> 01:06:54,995
What was the order?
955
01:06:55,172 --> 01:06:57,869
To design a house as a temple
to you, Mrs. Wynand.
956
01:06:58,976 --> 01:07:02,606
Shall I accept it as a tribute
from Gail or from you?
957
01:07:02,779 --> 01:07:04,042
From both of us.
958
01:07:05,616 --> 01:07:07,482
I appreciate it.
959
01:07:07,651 --> 01:07:10,917
Particularly since I would have expected you
to refuse the commission.
960
01:07:11,088 --> 01:07:12,681
Why?
961
01:07:12,856 --> 01:07:15,826
Was there nothing in your past
to make you refuse it?
962
01:07:15,993 --> 01:07:17,825
- No.
- Thank you, Howard.
963
01:07:17,995 --> 01:07:21,193
I never expected you
to forget and give in.
964
01:07:21,398 --> 01:07:23,560
Isn't Mr. Roark the man you said
you'd break?
965
01:07:23,734 --> 01:07:25,202
I tried it and lost.
966
01:07:26,069 --> 01:07:28,470
Are you admitting defeat?
Both of you?
967
01:07:28,639 --> 01:07:32,770
Do you wish to call it that?
I think it was a victory for both of us.
968
01:07:33,877 --> 01:07:36,142
Your feeling, once granted...
969
01:07:36,313 --> 01:07:37,747
...will you ever withdraw it?
970
01:07:38,949 --> 01:07:40,611
Never.
971
01:07:42,419 --> 01:07:44,718
Have you studied the floor plans
of the house?
972
01:07:44,888 --> 01:07:48,655
I should like to know whether
the arrangement of the rooms is convenient.
973
01:07:48,825 --> 01:07:50,589
- The rooms?
- Yes. The living room...
974
01:07:50,761 --> 01:07:54,528
- ...will open to a terrace over the lake.
- Did you notice the windows of our room?
975
01:07:54,698 --> 01:07:59,261
- We'll get the first sunlight in the morning.
- You think I could ever live in that house?
976
01:07:59,436 --> 01:08:03,703
- Why not?
- I can't. Please.
977
01:08:03,941 --> 01:08:05,933
- Don't ask me to live in it.
- Why not?
978
01:08:06,109 --> 01:08:08,078
Dominique, what is it?
979
01:08:08,779 --> 01:08:10,338
Nothing.
980
01:08:10,514 --> 01:08:12,881
Only the constant reminder.
981
01:08:13,050 --> 01:08:18,284
- After the Enright House, we have no right.
- Please, forget the Enright House.
982
01:08:18,522 --> 01:08:20,423
Yes, Mr. Roark.
983
01:08:21,458 --> 01:08:24,587
I wouldn't be so frightened if I could
understand. What have I done?
984
01:08:24,761 --> 01:08:26,923
- Why did it happen?
- What are you whining about?
985
01:08:27,097 --> 01:08:30,829
There's no use kidding myself. I've been
slipping ever since Guy Francon retired.
986
01:08:31,001 --> 01:08:34,028
I've had less work each year.
People are dropping me. Why?
987
01:08:34,204 --> 01:08:36,173
You were a fashion, Peter.
Fashions change.
988
01:08:36,340 --> 01:08:39,538
But I was at the top.
Why did I fall like that without any reason?
989
01:08:39,710 --> 01:08:43,579
Don't be astonished, ask yourself,
is there any reason for you to be at the top?
990
01:08:43,747 --> 01:08:46,649
But you used to say
I was the greatest architect living.
991
01:08:47,417 --> 01:08:49,852
Well, I could have had two reasons
for saying it.
992
01:08:50,020 --> 01:08:52,046
Maybe I wanted to honor you...
993
01:08:52,222 --> 01:08:55,317
...and maybe I wanted to dishonor
and discredit all greatness.
994
01:08:55,492 --> 01:08:57,085
I-- I thought you were my friend.
995
01:08:57,260 --> 01:09:01,061
Of course, I'm everybody's friend.
I'm the friend of humanity.
996
01:09:01,231 --> 01:09:03,723
Now, why did you come here?
What do you want?
997
01:09:05,068 --> 01:09:06,934
Cortlandt Homes.
998
01:09:08,405 --> 01:09:09,634
You're not serious.
999
01:09:09,973 --> 01:09:12,033
If I could get a great project to design...
1000
01:09:12,209 --> 01:09:14,974
...like Cortlandt Homes, it would save
my reputation.
1001
01:09:15,245 --> 01:09:18,374
But Cortlandt Homes is to be
the greatest of all housing projects.
1002
01:09:18,548 --> 01:09:20,710
A model development
for the whole world.
1003
01:09:20,884 --> 01:09:22,182
You can help me, Ellsworth.
1004
01:09:22,352 --> 01:09:24,981
You have influence
on that project with those people.
1005
01:09:25,155 --> 01:09:27,386
Don't forget that this is not
a Wynand project.
1006
01:09:27,557 --> 01:09:29,583
I'm only an unofficial adviser to them.
1007
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:31,729
As an expert in architecture,
nothing else.
1008
01:09:31,995 --> 01:09:33,987
But just a word
of recommendation from you.
1009
01:09:34,164 --> 01:09:37,066
But, Peter, do you imagine
you could design Cortlandt?
1010
01:09:37,234 --> 01:09:40,227
They haven't found anyone able to do it.
They're stuck.
1011
01:09:40,671 --> 01:09:43,505
Do you know the big problem
in housing? Economy.
1012
01:09:43,674 --> 01:09:46,872
How to design a building that would rent
at the lowest price possible.
1013
01:09:47,044 --> 01:09:49,309
Cortlandt Homes has to be
the most brilliant product...
1014
01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:52,313
...of planning ingenuity
and structural economy ever achieved.
1015
01:09:52,482 --> 01:09:54,007
Do you think you could do that?
1016
01:09:54,184 --> 01:09:56,176
Well, I could try. I'd do my best.
1017
01:09:56,987 --> 01:09:59,479
Your best won't do it, Peter.
1018
01:10:02,459 --> 01:10:04,792
But you may try if you wish.
1019
01:10:09,466 --> 01:10:12,630
Here's all the dope on Cortlandt.
Work out a preliminary scheme.
1020
01:10:12,803 --> 01:10:16,262
Solve the problem. I'll submit it
and push it for all I'm worth.
1021
01:10:16,440 --> 01:10:18,033
You will let me try.
1022
01:10:18,208 --> 01:10:20,768
All our best architects
have tried and failed.
1023
01:10:20,944 --> 01:10:23,880
Nothing can be done in life
without an idea.
1024
01:10:24,381 --> 01:10:27,112
My friends have the land,
the money, the material...
1025
01:10:27,284 --> 01:10:29,480
...but not the man
to originate the idea.
1026
01:10:29,653 --> 01:10:32,384
Howard, I'm a parasite.
I've been a parasite all my life.
1027
01:10:32,556 --> 01:10:34,525
You helped me
with my projects in school.
1028
01:10:34,691 --> 01:10:37,991
Everything I've built was stolen from you
and men like you before us.
1029
01:10:38,161 --> 01:10:39,823
I've never had an idea of my own.
1030
01:10:39,996 --> 01:10:43,592
I've fed on you and hated you for it
and I've come here to ask you to save me.
1031
01:10:44,201 --> 01:10:47,103
- Go on.
- Cortlandt is my last chance.
1032
01:10:47,270 --> 01:10:49,102
I know I can't do it. I've tried.
1033
01:10:49,406 --> 01:10:52,968
I've come to beg you as I did in school
to design it for me.
1034
01:10:53,143 --> 01:10:56,079
To design it
and let me put my name on it.
1035
01:10:56,346 --> 01:10:58,645
Well, there's no reason
you should want to do it.
1036
01:10:58,815 --> 01:11:02,115
If you can solve their problem, go
to them and obtain the commission.
1037
01:11:02,552 --> 01:11:06,853
- Do you think I could get past Toohey?
- No. No, you couldn't.
1038
01:11:07,023 --> 01:11:09,356
He's not the only one.
I'll never be given a job...
1039
01:11:09,526 --> 01:11:12,257
...by any group, board, council,
or committee...
1040
01:11:12,429 --> 01:11:14,421
...but I would like to do this job.
1041
01:11:14,598 --> 01:11:17,193
You'd design Cortlandt for me?
1042
01:11:17,868 --> 01:11:19,598
I might if you offer me enough.
1043
01:11:19,770 --> 01:11:22,433
Howard, anything you ask. Anything.
1044
01:11:22,806 --> 01:11:24,934
Name a motive
that would make me want to do it.
1045
01:11:25,342 --> 01:11:27,470
There's no reason
why you should save me.
1046
01:11:27,644 --> 01:11:30,273
- No.
- But it's a humanitarian project.
1047
01:11:30,480 --> 01:11:32,108
Think of the people in the slums.
1048
01:11:32,282 --> 01:11:35,252
If you can give them decent housing,
you'd perform a noble deed.
1049
01:11:35,452 --> 01:11:37,421
Would you do it just for their sake?
1050
01:11:37,587 --> 01:11:41,046
No. The man who works for others
without payment is a slave.
1051
01:11:41,224 --> 01:11:43,284
I do not believe that slavery is noble.
1052
01:11:43,460 --> 01:11:47,022
Not in any form,
nor for any purpose whatsoever.
1053
01:11:47,197 --> 01:11:49,894
Is there any kind of payment
I can offer you?
1054
01:11:52,002 --> 01:11:53,698
Yes, there is.
1055
01:11:53,870 --> 01:11:55,600
Now, listen to me.
1056
01:11:55,906 --> 01:11:58,808
I've worked on the problem
of low-rent construction for years.
1057
01:11:58,975 --> 01:12:01,740
I've thought of the new inventions,
the new materials...
1058
01:12:01,912 --> 01:12:06,008
...the great possibilities never used
to build cheaply, simply, and intelligently.
1059
01:12:06,183 --> 01:12:08,948
I loved it because it was a problem
I wanted to solve.
1060
01:12:09,452 --> 01:12:11,045
Yes. I understand.
1061
01:12:11,988 --> 01:12:14,890
Peter, before you can do things
for people...
1062
01:12:15,058 --> 01:12:17,721
...you must be the kind of man
who can get things done.
1063
01:12:17,894 --> 01:12:22,889
But to get things done,
you must love the doing, not the people.
1064
01:12:23,066 --> 01:12:26,559
Your own work,
not any possible object of your charity.
1065
01:12:26,736 --> 01:12:31,003
I'll be glad if men who need it find a
better manner of living in a house I build...
1066
01:12:31,474 --> 01:12:35,138
...but that's not the motive of my work,
nor my reason, nor my reward.
1067
01:12:35,512 --> 01:12:40,075
My reward, my purpose,
my life is the work itself.
1068
01:12:40,250 --> 01:12:41,980
My work done my way.
1069
01:12:42,152 --> 01:12:43,518
Nothing else matters to me.
1070
01:12:46,957 --> 01:12:49,620
I've always wanted to build
a large-scale project but I--
1071
01:12:49,793 --> 01:12:52,058
I never hoped to get the chance.
1072
01:12:54,097 --> 01:12:56,328
Now, here's what I'll offer you.
1073
01:12:56,967 --> 01:13:00,165
I will design Cortlandt.
You'll put your name on it.
1074
01:13:00,337 --> 01:13:04,468
You will keep all the fees,
but you will guarantee...
1075
01:13:04,641 --> 01:13:07,338
...that it will be built exactly
as I design it.
1076
01:13:08,044 --> 01:13:11,606
- I see.
- No changes by you or by anyone else.
1077
01:13:12,249 --> 01:13:14,081
That's the payment
I demand for my work.
1078
01:13:14,251 --> 01:13:19,246
My ideas are mine. Nobody else has a right
to them except on my terms.
1079
01:13:19,422 --> 01:13:22,221
Those who need them
must take them my way or not at all.
1080
01:13:22,392 --> 01:13:24,293
All right, Howard.
1081
01:13:25,028 --> 01:13:26,826
I guarantee it.
1082
01:13:26,997 --> 01:13:28,898
I give you my word.
1083
01:13:33,904 --> 01:13:35,463
Everybody would say
you're a fool.
1084
01:13:35,972 --> 01:13:38,305
That I'm getting everything.
1085
01:13:38,875 --> 01:13:43,210
You'll get everything that society can give.
You'll take the money, the fame...
1086
01:13:43,380 --> 01:13:45,849
...and the gratitude and I'll take that...
1087
01:13:46,016 --> 01:13:48,713
...which nobody can give a man except
himself.
1088
01:13:49,819 --> 01:13:52,254
I will have built Cortlandt.
1089
01:13:53,924 --> 01:13:57,122
"After two years of futile attempts
to solve the problems involved...
1090
01:13:57,294 --> 01:14:01,026
...the design submitted by Peter Keating
is an astonishingly skillful solution...
1091
01:14:01,197 --> 01:14:04,656
...that provides the best living quarters
yet devised at the lowest cost."
1092
01:14:04,834 --> 01:14:07,599
- What on earth are you up to?
- What do you mean?
1093
01:14:07,771 --> 01:14:10,138
Do you think I pick artworks
by their signatures?
1094
01:14:10,307 --> 01:14:11,639
Who designed that project?
1095
01:14:12,976 --> 01:14:14,444
Peter Keating.
1096
01:14:16,279 --> 01:14:18,077
Who designed this?
1097
01:14:18,715 --> 01:14:21,014
- Of course.
- What are you after?
1098
01:14:22,319 --> 01:14:23,753
- Drop it.
- All right.
1099
01:14:24,220 --> 01:14:26,280
I won't try to guess your motive...
1100
01:14:26,456 --> 01:14:29,153
...but I'd know your work anywhere.
1101
01:14:30,393 --> 01:14:33,022
Howard, I never expected
to feel gratitude to anyone...
1102
01:14:33,196 --> 01:14:36,724
...but I'm grateful to you every moment
of the day in the house you built.
1103
01:14:36,900 --> 01:14:39,597
I'm learning so many things
I never expected to feel.
1104
01:14:39,769 --> 01:14:43,365
- What?
- The wonder of ownership.
1105
01:14:43,673 --> 01:14:47,075
I'm a millionaire who's never
owned anything. I've been public property...
1106
01:14:47,243 --> 01:14:48,472
...like a city billboard.
1107
01:14:48,645 --> 01:14:51,979
But this is mine. Here I'm safe.
1108
01:14:52,749 --> 01:14:55,378
Why didn't you come here yesterday?
I missed you.
1109
01:14:55,552 --> 01:14:58,078
- Too much work in the office.
- You're killing yourself.
1110
01:14:58,254 --> 01:15:00,985
- You've worked too hard for years.
- Haven't you?
1111
01:15:01,157 --> 01:15:04,594
Yes. We need a rest, both of us.
1112
01:15:04,761 --> 01:15:07,560
My yacht's been refitted.
I'm planning a long cruise.
1113
01:15:07,964 --> 01:15:10,092
I've meant to for years.
Go with me.
1114
01:15:10,266 --> 01:15:11,529
Gail, is this an obsession?
1115
01:15:11,701 --> 01:15:13,897
What is Mr. Roark to you?
1116
01:15:14,070 --> 01:15:15,436
My youth.
1117
01:15:15,605 --> 01:15:18,598
- Is he what you were in your youth?
- Oh, no, much more than that.
1118
01:15:18,775 --> 01:15:21,506
What I thought I'd be when I was 16.
1119
01:15:21,678 --> 01:15:24,204
I'm sure Mr. Roark
can't go on a yacht cruise.
1120
01:15:25,048 --> 01:15:27,347
Why, yes, Mrs. Wynand,
I'd be glad to go.
1121
01:15:28,418 --> 01:15:32,014
I thought, that you'd never give up
your work for anyone.
1122
01:15:32,422 --> 01:15:35,051
I won't give it up.
I'll take my first vacation.
1123
01:15:35,425 --> 01:15:37,189
You're willing to be away for months?
1124
01:15:37,594 --> 01:15:39,358
I'd enjoy it.
1125
01:15:40,663 --> 01:15:42,928
It's incredible.
I believe you're jealous.
1126
01:15:43,099 --> 01:15:44,431
Wonderful!
1127
01:15:44,601 --> 01:15:47,400
I'm even more grateful to you
if he's made you jealous of me.
1128
01:15:47,570 --> 01:15:49,596
Now, don't frown. I'll fix a drink.
1129
01:15:49,773 --> 01:15:51,002
We'll toast the cruise.
1130
01:15:57,847 --> 01:15:59,372
Roark.
1131
01:16:00,417 --> 01:16:02,045
Roark, don't go with him.
1132
01:16:02,218 --> 01:16:03,777
I can't stand this much longer.
1133
01:16:03,953 --> 01:16:05,546
I am jealous...
1134
01:16:05,722 --> 01:16:09,659
...of you and of every moment you give him,
of your impossible friendship.
1135
01:16:09,826 --> 01:16:14,696
- I don't want you to come here or like him.
- I don't want to discuss it, Mrs. Wynand.
1136
01:16:20,270 --> 01:16:22,535
Howard, that's where I was born,
Hell's Kitchen.
1137
01:16:22,705 --> 01:16:25,004
I own most of it now.
All those blocks.
1138
01:16:25,175 --> 01:16:28,907
I decided when I was 16 that that's
where the Wynand building would stand...
1139
01:16:29,079 --> 01:16:31,605
...and that it'd be
the tallest structure of the city.
1140
01:16:31,781 --> 01:16:33,750
What's the matter?
Do you want to build it?
1141
01:16:33,917 --> 01:16:37,877
- Do you want it pretty badly?
- I think I'd almost give my life for it.
1142
01:16:38,054 --> 01:16:40,182
- Is that what you wanted?
- Something like that.
1143
01:16:40,356 --> 01:16:42,951
I won't demand your life,
but it's nice to shock you.
1144
01:16:43,126 --> 01:16:45,095
I'll start to build it in a few years.
1145
01:16:45,261 --> 01:16:46,889
Do you know how much
it means to me?
1146
01:16:47,063 --> 01:16:49,897
- Yes. I know what you want.
- A monument to my life, Howard.
1147
01:16:50,066 --> 01:16:52,797
After I'm gone, that building
will be Gail Wynand.
1148
01:16:52,969 --> 01:16:56,201
My last and greatest achievement
will also be your greatest.
1149
01:16:56,372 --> 01:16:58,341
The Wynand building by Howard Roark.
1150
01:16:58,508 --> 01:17:01,967
I've waited for it from the day I was born.
From the day you were born...
1151
01:17:02,145 --> 01:17:06,845
...you've waited for your one great chance.
There it is, on the site of Hell's Kitchen.
1152
01:17:07,016 --> 01:17:08,917
Yours from me.
1153
01:17:13,890 --> 01:17:16,018
Please, Mr. Keating,
do let us stop arguing.
1154
01:17:16,192 --> 01:17:19,321
We've engaged Mr. Prescott and Mr. Webb
as your associate designers.
1155
01:17:19,496 --> 01:17:21,988
- What for?
- Well, it's such a tremendous project.
1156
01:17:22,165 --> 01:17:25,727
You can afford to share the credit with two
fellow architects who need a job.
1157
01:17:25,902 --> 01:17:29,168
Don't be selfish.
Besides, three minds are better than one.
1158
01:17:29,339 --> 01:17:31,137
But you've accepted my design.
1159
01:17:31,341 --> 01:17:34,436
Yes, of course. It's excellent,
but we must make some improvements.
1160
01:17:35,512 --> 01:17:38,072
- What improvements?
- Well, the thing's too bare.
1161
01:17:38,248 --> 01:17:39,876
We ought to add a few balconies.
1162
01:17:40,049 --> 01:17:41,312
Balconies? What for?
1163
01:17:41,484 --> 01:17:42,816
To give it a human touch.
1164
01:17:42,986 --> 01:17:45,683
We got to have some kind of trimming
over the entrance.
1165
01:17:46,689 --> 01:17:49,352
I won't allow it. It's my building.
It's my design.
1166
01:17:49,526 --> 01:17:52,155
But why shouldn't we
have any say at all?
1167
01:17:52,328 --> 01:17:54,593
We want to express
our individuality too.
1168
01:17:54,764 --> 01:17:55,993
On another man's work?
1169
01:17:56,166 --> 01:17:58,567
What the heck?
Any man's work is public property.
1170
01:17:59,669 --> 01:18:01,831
I can't let you.
Don't you understand? I can't.
1171
01:18:02,005 --> 01:18:04,565
Well, Peter, why not?
What's the matter?
1172
01:18:04,741 --> 01:18:07,267
You've never fought
with your clients before.
1173
01:18:07,443 --> 01:18:11,471
- Is there anything different in this case?
- They're ruining the building.
1174
01:18:11,648 --> 01:18:14,550
- Oh, I suppose so.
- What do you care?
1175
01:18:15,385 --> 01:18:18,150
You made a contract with me
that Cortlandt would be built...
1176
01:18:18,321 --> 01:18:21,780
...exactly as I designed it, I did
it only on that condition.
1177
01:18:21,958 --> 01:18:24,518
- What's a contract?
- You're old-fashioned, Keating.
1178
01:18:24,694 --> 01:18:27,789
- But I have a contract.
- What are you going to do about it? Sue us?
1179
01:18:27,964 --> 01:18:31,662
Go ahead. Try it.
You'll find that you can't sue us.
1180
01:18:32,168 --> 01:18:33,727
But you had no right to do this!
1181
01:18:33,903 --> 01:18:36,338
- What are rights, Peter?
- Whose rights?
1182
01:18:36,506 --> 01:18:39,840
Oh, what's the use of talking?
Let's go to work.
1183
01:18:57,160 --> 01:18:58,389
I couldn't help it, Howard.
1184
01:18:58,561 --> 01:19:00,553
They started making changes
without reason.
1185
01:19:00,730 --> 01:19:02,358
Everybody had authority
and nobody.
1186
01:19:02,532 --> 01:19:05,127
I tried to fight. They pushed me
from office to office.
1187
01:19:05,301 --> 01:19:06,997
- I couldn't help it.
- I suppose not.
1188
01:19:07,170 --> 01:19:10,231
I had no way to reach you.
I was waiting for you to come back.
1189
01:19:10,406 --> 01:19:12,204
I was afraid.
1190
01:19:12,542 --> 01:19:13,805
What are you going to do?
1191
01:19:13,977 --> 01:19:16,139
They've got such a setup,
you can't sue them.
1192
01:19:16,312 --> 01:19:18,178
- No.
- Want me to confess the truth?
1193
01:19:18,348 --> 01:19:19,782
- To everybody?
- No.
1194
01:19:19,949 --> 01:19:22,418
Will you let me give you
all the money they paid me?
1195
01:19:22,819 --> 01:19:24,048
I'm sorry.
1196
01:19:25,855 --> 01:19:27,289
Howard.
1197
01:19:28,258 --> 01:19:29,487
What are you going to do?
1198
01:19:30,660 --> 01:19:33,391
You have to leave that up to me now.
1199
01:19:47,610 --> 01:19:49,476
Why did you come here?
1200
01:19:49,646 --> 01:19:51,581
Because I couldn't stand it any longer.
1201
01:19:51,748 --> 01:19:53,273
You've been away for months.
1202
01:19:53,449 --> 01:19:55,418
I had to see you again--
To see you alone.
1203
01:19:55,585 --> 01:19:57,281
Please go.
1204
01:19:58,054 --> 01:20:00,455
Roark, do I mean nothing to you?
1205
01:20:00,857 --> 01:20:02,951
I can't answer you now.
1206
01:20:03,426 --> 01:20:05,725
You stayed away from me for years.
1207
01:20:05,895 --> 01:20:08,228
I tried to forget you. I couldn't.
1208
01:20:08,398 --> 01:20:11,266
- You knew I never would.
- Yes.
1209
01:20:11,434 --> 01:20:14,097
I never thought it'd be Gail
who'd bring you back to me.
1210
01:20:14,537 --> 01:20:16,733
Don't you see why
I can't stand it now?
1211
01:20:16,906 --> 01:20:20,104
Living in a house you designed,
seeing you constantly as a stranger...
1212
01:20:20,276 --> 01:20:22,802
...having no right to look at you,
to tell you that I--
1213
01:20:22,979 --> 01:20:24,504
Don't say it.
1214
01:20:25,148 --> 01:20:26,548
Do you remember?
1215
01:20:26,716 --> 01:20:28,878
You said once that you--
1216
01:20:29,452 --> 01:20:32,217
For all the years we'll have to wait.
1217
01:20:33,489 --> 01:20:35,287
Roark, I know...
1218
01:20:35,458 --> 01:20:38,257
...that you've known
what I felt all these years.
1219
01:20:38,461 --> 01:20:41,556
We can never change it,
neither one of us.
1220
01:20:42,832 --> 01:20:44,061
I'm going to leave Gail.
1221
01:20:44,233 --> 01:20:46,964
You may refuse to see me again,
but I'm going to leave him.
1222
01:20:53,276 --> 01:20:57,509
Before you leave him will you help me
with a problem of my own?
1223
01:20:57,680 --> 01:20:59,876
- Yes.
- Will you do it without asking questions?
1224
01:21:00,049 --> 01:21:02,280
Yes, Roark, anything you want.
1225
01:21:03,619 --> 01:21:05,315
You've seen Cortlandt Homes?
1226
01:21:05,488 --> 01:21:07,923
Yes. I know what they've
done to your work.
1227
01:21:08,524 --> 01:21:13,087
Next Monday night, I want you to drive up
to the side of Cortlandt.
1228
01:21:13,396 --> 01:21:14,955
You must be alone in your car.
1229
01:21:15,131 --> 01:21:17,691
You must make it appear
you were an innocent bystander--
1230
01:21:17,867 --> 01:21:21,395
Roark, I know
what you're going to do.
1231
01:21:23,406 --> 01:21:25,466
This is a test, isn't it?
1232
01:21:25,641 --> 01:21:28,372
Can I equal your courage,
am I still afraid for you...
1233
01:21:28,544 --> 01:21:31,742
...can I help you take the most
terrible chance you've ever--?
1234
01:21:31,914 --> 01:21:34,406
You can guess anything you wish.
1235
01:21:34,584 --> 01:21:39,215
Just listen. When I finish don't tell me
whether you will help me or not.
1236
01:21:39,389 --> 01:21:41,290
If you decide to do it, say nothing...
1237
01:21:41,457 --> 01:21:43,085
...but let me see you do it.
1238
01:21:43,259 --> 01:21:45,660
All right. Go on.
1239
01:21:45,828 --> 01:21:49,321
Drive up to Cortlandt
Monday night at 11:30.
1240
01:22:09,152 --> 01:22:11,485
I ran out of gas.
May I use your telephone, please?
1241
01:22:11,654 --> 01:22:14,954
I'm sorry, ma'am,
but our phone's gone dead tonight.
1242
01:22:16,325 --> 01:22:17,953
Where is the nearest garage?
1243
01:22:19,228 --> 01:22:21,163
Way down the road.
1244
01:22:21,564 --> 01:22:24,466
Would you mind going there
and getting somebody to help me?
1245
01:22:24,634 --> 01:22:27,331
Sure will, young lady. Glad to.
1246
01:23:47,216 --> 01:23:48,741
What do you know about this?
1247
01:23:48,918 --> 01:23:51,387
Arrest me. I'll talk at the trial.
1248
01:23:51,554 --> 01:23:54,023
We don't have to wait for the trial
to convict him.
1249
01:23:54,190 --> 01:23:57,092
Howard Roark is guilty
by his very nature.
1250
01:23:57,326 --> 01:23:59,693
It is whispered
that he designed Cortlandt.
1251
01:23:59,862 --> 01:24:03,458
- What if he did?
- Society needed a housing project.
1252
01:24:03,633 --> 01:24:05,966
It was his duty to sacrifice
his own desires...
1253
01:24:06,135 --> 01:24:10,436
...and to contribute any ideas we demanded
of him on any terms we chose.
1254
01:24:11,007 --> 01:24:12,999
Who is society?
1255
01:24:13,175 --> 01:24:14,939
We are.
1256
01:24:15,177 --> 01:24:19,046
Man can be permitted to exist
only in order to serve others.
1257
01:24:19,215 --> 01:24:23,118
He must be nothing but a tool
for the satisfaction of their needs.
1258
01:24:23,286 --> 01:24:26,984
Self-sacrifice is the law of our age.
1259
01:24:27,423 --> 01:24:30,552
The man who refuses to submit
and to serve--
1260
01:24:30,726 --> 01:24:32,752
Howard Roark, the supreme egoist--
1261
01:24:33,162 --> 01:24:36,564
Is a man who must be destroyed!
1262
01:24:43,573 --> 01:24:46,668
We have never learned to understand
what is greatness in man.
1263
01:24:46,842 --> 01:24:49,971
Self-sacrifice, we drool,
is the ultimate virtue.
1264
01:24:50,146 --> 01:24:51,705
Let's stop and think.
1265
01:24:51,881 --> 01:24:55,545
Can a man sacrifice his integrity
his rights, his freedom...
1266
01:24:55,718 --> 01:25:00,383
...his convictions, the honesty of his
feeling, the independence of his thought?
1267
01:25:00,990 --> 01:25:03,391
These are a man's supreme possessions.
1268
01:25:03,559 --> 01:25:06,620
To what must he sacrifice them?
To whom?
1269
01:25:06,796 --> 01:25:08,355
Self-sacrifice?
1270
01:25:08,531 --> 01:25:12,901
But it is precisely the self that cannot
and must not be sacrificed.
1271
01:25:13,069 --> 01:25:15,561
A man's self is his spirit.
1272
01:25:15,738 --> 01:25:20,972
It is the unsacrificed self
that we must respect in man above all...
1273
01:25:21,143 --> 01:25:22,771
...and where do we find it?
1274
01:25:22,945 --> 01:25:25,642
In a man like Howard Roark.
1275
01:25:26,015 --> 01:25:28,484
Have that run off and set up
on tomorrow's front page.
1276
01:25:28,651 --> 01:25:30,381
Yes, Mr. Wynand.
1277
01:25:30,553 --> 01:25:32,852
Gail, are you out of your mind,
defending that--?
1278
01:25:33,022 --> 01:25:34,991
Keep still or I'll bash your teeth in.
1279
01:25:35,157 --> 01:25:36,557
The whole city is against him.
1280
01:25:36,726 --> 01:25:39,423
An unpopular cause
is dangerous business for anyone.
1281
01:25:39,595 --> 01:25:41,530
For a popular newspaper,
it's suicide!
1282
01:25:41,697 --> 01:25:45,225
- Public opinion is responsible--
- Public opinion is what I make it.
1283
01:25:45,501 --> 01:25:48,130
For once, I'll fight for what I believe.
1284
01:25:48,304 --> 01:25:52,400
You'll stand alone against everybody
for the first time in your life?
1285
01:25:52,575 --> 01:25:56,137
Yes, for the first time in my life.
1286
01:26:02,118 --> 01:26:04,713
You fool, why did you have
to make such a good job of it?
1287
01:26:04,887 --> 01:26:06,913
Didn't you know broken glass is
dangerous?
1288
01:26:07,089 --> 01:26:09,320
- It didn't hurt.
- The next time you wanna play...
1289
01:26:09,492 --> 01:26:11,484
...the innocent bystander
let me coach you.
1290
01:26:11,661 --> 01:26:13,562
You didn't have to cut an artery.
1291
01:26:13,729 --> 01:26:17,222
Do the police believe that I was only
an innocent bystander?
1292
01:26:17,400 --> 01:26:20,700
Yes, they believe it.
They have to. You almost died.
1293
01:26:20,870 --> 01:26:23,135
They don't know that
you'd risk your life for him.
1294
01:26:23,305 --> 01:26:24,500
- For whom?
- Howard.
1295
01:26:24,674 --> 01:26:27,200
Haven't you always fought
for his work?
1296
01:26:29,378 --> 01:26:32,041
I'm glad you did it
and that it was for him.
1297
01:26:32,214 --> 01:26:33,705
I'm glad he did it.
1298
01:26:33,883 --> 01:26:36,011
- He had to.
- Yes.
1299
01:26:36,252 --> 01:26:38,983
- Have they arrested him?
- He's out on bail.
1300
01:26:39,155 --> 01:26:40,555
- What's he told them?
- Nothing.
1301
01:26:40,723 --> 01:26:42,351
He's refused to make any
statement.
1302
01:26:42,525 --> 01:26:45,654
They all say he's guilty,
but they can find no motive.
1303
01:26:45,828 --> 01:26:47,456
They think he designed Cortlandt...
1304
01:26:47,630 --> 01:26:50,361
- ...but they can't prove it.
- Is the public against him?
1305
01:26:50,533 --> 01:26:52,900
It's the worst storm of public fury
I've ever seen.
1306
01:26:53,069 --> 01:26:56,437
- Are all the newspapers against him?
- Except one.
1307
01:26:56,839 --> 01:26:59,434
Gail, if you'll stand by him today--
1308
01:26:59,608 --> 01:27:02,578
Don't offer me bribes.
It's a battle I've waited for all my life.
1309
01:27:02,945 --> 01:27:05,744
I know how much I have to redeem.
This will be my redemption.
1310
01:27:05,915 --> 01:27:08,942
This time, the Banner
is serving a crusade.
1311
01:27:27,336 --> 01:27:29,237
I was waiting for you to come.
1312
01:27:32,141 --> 01:27:35,305
- Do you want to ask me any questions now?
- No.
1313
01:27:35,478 --> 01:27:38,607
I may be sent to the penitentiary for years.
Does that frighten you?
1314
01:27:38,781 --> 01:27:40,943
No. I'll share whatever they do to you.
1315
01:27:41,117 --> 01:27:44,281
I failed you once
because I was afraid to see you suffer.
1316
01:27:44,453 --> 01:27:46,251
Now I'll stand by you openly.
1317
01:27:46,422 --> 01:27:49,483
I'll take the disgrace, the scandal,
the smears, anything.
1318
01:27:49,859 --> 01:27:51,725
Darling.
1319
01:27:51,894 --> 01:27:53,692
Yes.
1320
01:27:55,965 --> 01:27:58,958
You're Mrs. Gail Wynand.
You're above suspicion.
1321
01:27:59,135 --> 01:28:03,004
Everybody believes you were
at the scene by accident.
1322
01:28:03,172 --> 01:28:05,937
If you let it be known
what we mean to each other...
1323
01:28:06,108 --> 01:28:08,543
...it'll be a confession
that I did it.
1324
01:28:08,711 --> 01:28:10,703
Is that why you asked me to help you?
1325
01:28:10,880 --> 01:28:13,406
In order to stop me
from joining you now?
1326
01:28:13,582 --> 01:28:14,982
Yes.
1327
01:28:15,151 --> 01:28:18,588
Dominique, if I'm convicted...
1328
01:28:18,754 --> 01:28:21,622
...I want you to remain with Gail.
1329
01:28:22,424 --> 01:28:25,019
And you must not tell him about us...
1330
01:28:25,194 --> 01:28:27,356
...because he and you
will need each other.
1331
01:28:27,530 --> 01:28:30,227
All right, if that's what you want...
1332
01:28:30,432 --> 01:28:32,663
...but if you're acquitted?
1333
01:28:32,835 --> 01:28:35,168
We can't speak of that now.
1334
01:28:35,337 --> 01:28:37,033
You'll be acquitted.
1335
01:28:37,206 --> 01:28:39,334
That's not what I wanted
to hear you say.
1336
01:28:40,142 --> 01:28:41,542
If they convict you...
1337
01:28:41,710 --> 01:28:45,477
...if they lock you in jail, if they
never let you design another building...
1338
01:28:45,648 --> 01:28:47,947
...if they never let me see you again...
1339
01:28:48,117 --> 01:28:49,483
...it won't break me.
1340
01:28:49,652 --> 01:28:51,450
I know how to fight it.
1341
01:28:51,620 --> 01:28:53,350
I'm not afraid of them any longer.
1342
01:28:54,456 --> 01:28:57,893
That's what I wanted
to hear all these years.
1343
01:29:00,930 --> 01:29:02,694
- Who designed Cortlandt?
- Let me alone.
1344
01:29:02,898 --> 01:29:04,764
- It's too late, Peter.
- Let me go!
1345
01:29:04,934 --> 01:29:07,733
- Who designed Cortlandt?
- Why do you want to kill Roark?
1346
01:29:07,903 --> 01:29:12,364
I don't want to kill him. I want him in jail,
behind bars, locked, strapped, beaten.
1347
01:29:12,541 --> 01:29:14,772
He'll move as he's told.
He'll work as he's told.
1348
01:29:14,944 --> 01:29:18,403
- He'll obey. He'll take orders.
- Ellsworth, what are you after?
1349
01:29:18,581 --> 01:29:21,016
Power. What do you think is power?
1350
01:29:21,183 --> 01:29:22,776
Whips? Guns? Money?
1351
01:29:22,952 --> 01:29:25,751
You can't turn men into slaves
unless you break their spirit.
1352
01:29:25,921 --> 01:29:28,186
Kill their capacity to think
and act on their own.
1353
01:29:28,357 --> 01:29:31,850
Tie them together, teach them to conform,
to unite, to agree, to obey.
1354
01:29:32,027 --> 01:29:34,656
That makes one neck
ready for one leash.
1355
01:29:34,830 --> 01:29:36,731
Ellsworth.
1356
01:29:37,366 --> 01:29:40,564
You've heard me preaching it for years
but you didn't have the wits...
1357
01:29:40,736 --> 01:29:42,329
...to know what you were hearing.
1358
01:29:42,504 --> 01:29:46,464
Why do you suppose I denounced
greatness and praised mediocrities like you?
1359
01:29:46,642 --> 01:29:48,304
Great men can't be ruled.
1360
01:29:48,510 --> 01:29:50,479
Why did I preach self-sacrifice?
1361
01:29:50,646 --> 01:29:54,242
If you kill a man's sense of personal value,
he'll submit.
1362
01:29:54,416 --> 01:29:56,715
Can you do that
to Howard Roark? No?
1363
01:29:56,886 --> 01:29:59,185
Then don't ask me
why I want to destroy him.
1364
01:30:01,657 --> 01:30:04,593
That's what they mean,
your noble ideals.
1365
01:30:04,760 --> 01:30:06,319
You believed in me.
1366
01:30:06,495 --> 01:30:08,521
Well, what's left of you now?
1367
01:30:08,697 --> 01:30:11,394
Come on.
Who designed Cortlandt?
1368
01:30:13,702 --> 01:30:15,762
Howard Roark.
1369
01:30:17,373 --> 01:30:18,602
On what condition?
1370
01:30:19,408 --> 01:30:22,469
That it must be built
as he designed it.
1371
01:30:23,746 --> 01:30:25,408
Write it down.
1372
01:30:25,714 --> 01:30:27,979
Write a full confession.
1373
01:30:34,056 --> 01:30:37,515
You're a great success, Peter.
You're my best achievement.
1374
01:30:37,693 --> 01:30:40,356
A totally selfless man.
1375
01:30:45,467 --> 01:30:47,868
Selfish? Is that what they call me?
1376
01:30:48,037 --> 01:30:51,439
Well I am. I live by the judgment
of my own mind and for my own sake.
1377
01:30:51,607 --> 01:30:53,132
Let them say what they please.
1378
01:30:53,309 --> 01:30:55,869
By the time you come to trial,
no jury will convict you.
1379
01:30:56,045 --> 01:30:59,538
The public will think what I want them to
think. The Banner will save you.
1380
01:30:59,715 --> 01:31:02,947
Dominique, do you see why
I love the Banner? I hold power.
1381
01:31:03,118 --> 01:31:04,381
Are you sure of it, Gail?
1382
01:31:04,553 --> 01:31:08,615
You'll see the demonstration for yourself.
I rule that city. I've never lost a battle.
1383
01:31:09,191 --> 01:31:12,127
It's your first test
of a real issue, which--
1384
01:31:14,363 --> 01:31:16,059
- Hello?
- Gail Wynand, please.
1385
01:31:16,231 --> 01:31:18,359
- Speaking.
- Gail, this is Alvah.
1386
01:31:18,534 --> 01:31:19,900
Yes, Alvah?
1387
01:31:20,069 --> 01:31:22,163
Keating has admitted
Roark designed Cortlandt.
1388
01:31:22,338 --> 01:31:24,773
- Toohey has a signed confession.
- What?
1389
01:31:24,940 --> 01:31:27,876
It made the front page
of the other daily so we had to go along.
1390
01:31:28,043 --> 01:31:29,534
Stay there. I'll come at once.
1391
01:31:30,913 --> 01:31:32,211
What is it?
1392
01:31:32,414 --> 01:31:34,815
Ellsworth Toohey got a confession
from Peter Keating.
1393
01:31:34,984 --> 01:31:37,510
It's on the front pages tomorrow,
including the Banner.
1394
01:31:37,686 --> 01:31:41,487
I'm not counting on public opinion one way
or the other so don't be afraid for me.
1395
01:31:41,657 --> 01:31:44,388
I'll fight for you
if it takes everything I own.
1396
01:31:55,437 --> 01:31:58,032
When I can't fire anyone on my paper,
I'll close it...
1397
01:31:58,207 --> 01:32:00,267
...and blow your brains out
or mine.
1398
01:32:00,442 --> 01:32:02,877
They've walked out on us.
The whole city room.
1399
01:32:03,045 --> 01:32:05,071
Our best boys.
They're Toohey's best friends.
1400
01:32:05,247 --> 01:32:08,615
- They won't work without him.
- Ellsworth Toohey is fired and stays fired.
1401
01:32:08,784 --> 01:32:11,549
I can't understand how Ellsworth
got so much power.
1402
01:32:11,720 --> 01:32:15,418
I never noticed it but he got his gang in
little by little and now he owns them.
1403
01:32:15,591 --> 01:32:18,993
- And I own the Banner.
- Do you, Mr. Wynand?
1404
01:32:19,428 --> 01:32:21,329
So you were after power, Mr. Wynand...
1405
01:32:21,497 --> 01:32:23,762
...and you thought you
were a practical man.
1406
01:32:23,932 --> 01:32:27,300
You left to impractical intellectuals like me
the whole field of ideas...
1407
01:32:27,469 --> 01:32:30,234
...to corrupt as we please
while you were busy making money.
1408
01:32:30,406 --> 01:32:32,875
You thought money was power.
Is it, Mr. Wynand?
1409
01:32:33,642 --> 01:32:35,770
You poor amateur.
1410
01:32:35,944 --> 01:32:38,812
You've never been enough of a scoundrel
for your own ambition.
1411
01:32:38,981 --> 01:32:40,847
That's why I'll be back on this job...
1412
01:32:41,016 --> 01:32:43,884
...and when I am, I'll run this paper.
1413
01:32:44,720 --> 01:32:47,519
When you are. Now get out of here.
1414
01:33:10,212 --> 01:33:13,046
- How clever, my dear.
- Yes, it is, isn't it?
1415
01:33:13,215 --> 01:33:14,945
We must do what we can for the cause.
1416
01:33:15,117 --> 01:33:19,248
I just fired my cook
because I caught her reading the Banner.
1417
01:33:34,870 --> 01:33:37,271
Gail, what are we gonna do?
I can't get anyone.
1418
01:33:37,439 --> 01:33:39,704
They refuse, no matter
what salary I offer.
1419
01:33:39,875 --> 01:33:42,743
Nobody wants to work for the Banner.
Nobody wants to read it.
1420
01:33:42,911 --> 01:33:44,641
How long can we go on like this?
1421
01:33:45,814 --> 01:33:47,544
To the end.
1422
01:34:00,863 --> 01:34:03,094
Gail, give me back my old job.
1423
01:34:03,265 --> 01:34:05,257
I shall be proud to work
for the Banner now.
1424
01:34:07,336 --> 01:34:08,827
Come on.
1425
01:34:10,739 --> 01:34:13,937
Take these to the back room, pick up
the wire flimsies and bring them.
1426
01:34:14,109 --> 01:34:16,601
Then report to Manning
at the city desk.
1427
01:34:38,834 --> 01:34:40,666
- All returns, eh?
- Yup.
1428
01:34:40,836 --> 01:34:43,601
Gives me the creeps.
Looks just like slabs in the cemetery.
1429
01:34:43,772 --> 01:34:45,468
And they keep growing
every night.
1430
01:34:45,641 --> 01:34:47,473
Guess nobody buys
the Banner anymore.
1431
01:34:47,643 --> 01:34:48,975
They're killing themselves.
1432
01:34:49,144 --> 01:34:53,707
Work night and day and still newspapers
come back unread.
1433
01:35:00,989 --> 01:35:02,252
Ready with it, Mrs. Wynand?
1434
01:35:02,424 --> 01:35:05,861
There's the Sunday makeup.
It's fairly rotten, but it'll have to do.
1435
01:35:06,028 --> 01:35:08,293
I sent Manning home.
He was going to collapse.
1436
01:35:08,463 --> 01:35:11,331
Jackson quit, but we can do
without him.
1437
01:35:11,500 --> 01:35:14,527
Alvah's column was a mess.
I rewrote it.
1438
01:35:14,703 --> 01:35:17,104
Don't tell him. Say Gail did.
1439
01:35:17,272 --> 01:35:19,173
All right.
1440
01:35:56,411 --> 01:35:59,210
It'll be all right, Gail.
It will be all right.
1441
01:35:59,381 --> 01:36:02,681
The Banner is not helping Howard.
It's ruining him.
1442
01:36:02,851 --> 01:36:04,547
It's turning more
people against him.
1443
01:36:04,720 --> 01:36:06,712
He doesn't care about that
but stand by him.
1444
01:36:06,888 --> 01:36:08,789
- Don't give in to them.
- I can't save him.
1445
01:36:08,957 --> 01:36:10,323
He'll win in his own way.
1446
01:36:10,492 --> 01:36:12,688
I can't save him. I have no power.
1447
01:36:12,861 --> 01:36:14,693
I never had any power.
1448
01:36:14,863 --> 01:36:18,925
Nobody's ever listened to me
because nobody's ever respected me.
1449
01:36:19,101 --> 01:36:22,560
I wasn't a ruler of the mob.
I was its tool.
1450
01:36:22,738 --> 01:36:25,367
If you don't give in, you'll save yourself
and the Banner.
1451
01:36:25,540 --> 01:36:27,634
I never ran the Banner. They did.
1452
01:36:27,809 --> 01:36:29,072
The men in the street.
1453
01:36:29,244 --> 01:36:31,543
It was their paper, not mine.
1454
01:36:31,713 --> 01:36:33,272
There's nothing to save now.
1455
01:36:33,448 --> 01:36:36,577
Gail, don't give in to them.
Don't give in.
1456
01:36:38,487 --> 01:36:39,716
You'd better give in.
1457
01:36:39,888 --> 01:36:41,254
We can't permit this to go on.
1458
01:36:41,423 --> 01:36:44,518
After all, we're your board of directors.
We have something to say.
1459
01:36:44,693 --> 01:36:47,629
We've lost all our advertisers
we've lost our public, for what?
1460
01:36:47,796 --> 01:36:50,857
Now, if it were a serious cause,
but for some fool dynamiter?
1461
01:36:51,033 --> 01:36:52,694
What is this, an intellectual issue?
1462
01:36:52,719 --> 01:36:55,188
Are we losing our shirts
for principles or something?
1463
01:36:55,337 --> 01:36:57,238
Gail, Gail, it's no use.
1464
01:36:57,439 --> 01:37:00,204
We must call Ellsworth Toohey
and take him back.
1465
01:37:00,375 --> 01:37:02,867
We must reverse our stand
on the Cortlandt case.
1466
01:37:03,312 --> 01:37:05,042
We must come out against Roark.
1467
01:37:05,213 --> 01:37:08,240
Wynand, this is final.
Yes or no?
1468
01:37:08,417 --> 01:37:09,851
Give in or close the Banner.
1469
01:37:10,619 --> 01:37:12,611
You'd better give in.
1470
01:37:16,591 --> 01:37:18,150
All right.
1471
01:38:05,874 --> 01:38:08,742
I solemnly ask
of every man who hears this case...
1472
01:38:08,910 --> 01:38:11,846
...to let his own mind
pronounce a verdict upon it.
1473
01:38:12,013 --> 01:38:14,676
You have heard the testimony
of the state's witnesses.
1474
01:38:14,850 --> 01:38:17,581
The confession of Peter Keating
has made clear...
1475
01:38:17,753 --> 01:38:19,915
...that Howard Roark
is a ruthless egoist...
1476
01:38:20,088 --> 01:38:24,788
...who has destroyed Cortlandt Homes
for his own selfish motive.
1477
01:38:24,960 --> 01:38:28,522
The issue which you are to decide
is the crucial issue of our age:
1478
01:38:28,697 --> 01:38:32,930
Has man any right to exist
if he refuses to serve society?
1479
01:38:33,201 --> 01:38:36,968
Let your verdict give us the answer.
1480
01:38:37,539 --> 01:38:38,939
The state rests.
1481
01:38:39,775 --> 01:38:42,438
The defense may proceed.
1482
01:38:47,983 --> 01:38:50,111
Your Honor,
I shall call no witnesses.
1483
01:38:50,285 --> 01:38:52,345
This will be my testimony
and my summation.
1484
01:38:52,521 --> 01:38:55,787
- Take the oath.
- Do you swear to tell the truth...
1485
01:38:55,957 --> 01:38:57,769
...the whole truth and nothing
but the truth...
1486
01:38:57,793 --> 01:38:59,489
- ...so help you God?
- I do.
1487
01:39:02,631 --> 01:39:06,363
Thousands of years ago the first man
discovered how to make fire.
1488
01:39:06,535 --> 01:39:09,767
He was probably burned at the stake,
he taught his brothers to light.
1489
01:39:09,938 --> 01:39:12,237
But he left them a gift
they had not conceived.
1490
01:39:12,407 --> 01:39:14,239
And he lifted darkness
off the earth.
1491
01:39:15,010 --> 01:39:19,209
Throughout the centuries, there were men
who took first steps down new roads...
1492
01:39:19,381 --> 01:39:21,816
...armed with nothing
but their own vision.
1493
01:39:22,317 --> 01:39:26,118
The great creators, the thinkers,
the artists, the scientists, the inventors...
1494
01:39:26,288 --> 01:39:28,382
...stood alone against
the men of their time.
1495
01:39:28,557 --> 01:39:30,958
Every new thought was opposed...
1496
01:39:31,126 --> 01:39:33,823
...every new invention was denounced...
1497
01:39:33,995 --> 01:39:37,227
...but the men of unborrowed vision
went ahead.
1498
01:39:37,399 --> 01:39:41,131
They fought, they suffered
and they paid, but they won.
1499
01:39:41,736 --> 01:39:46,697
No creator was prompted by a desire
to please his brothers.
1500
01:39:46,875 --> 01:39:48,935
His brothers hated
the gift he offered.
1501
01:39:49,411 --> 01:39:52,040
His truth was his only motive.
1502
01:39:52,214 --> 01:39:55,275
His work was his only goal.
1503
01:39:55,550 --> 01:39:58,349
His work, not those who used it...
1504
01:39:58,520 --> 01:40:02,048
...his creation, not the benefits
others derived from it...
1505
01:40:02,224 --> 01:40:04,750
...the creation which gave form
to his truth.
1506
01:40:05,327 --> 01:40:09,321
He held his truth above all things
and against all men.
1507
01:40:10,632 --> 01:40:13,966
He went ahead whether others agreed
with him or not...
1508
01:40:14,135 --> 01:40:17,469
...with his integrity as his only banner.
1509
01:40:17,639 --> 01:40:20,473
He served nothing and no one.
1510
01:40:20,642 --> 01:40:22,634
He lived for himself...
1511
01:40:23,712 --> 01:40:27,080
...and only by living for himself
was he able to achieve the things...
1512
01:40:27,249 --> 01:40:29,514
...which are the glory of mankind.
1513
01:40:29,684 --> 01:40:32,085
Such is the nature of achievement.
1514
01:40:32,921 --> 01:40:36,119
Man cannot survive,
except through his mind.
1515
01:40:36,291 --> 01:40:38,624
He comes on earth unarmed.
1516
01:40:38,793 --> 01:40:43,060
His brain is his only weapon, but the mind
is an attribute of the individual.
1517
01:40:43,265 --> 01:40:46,861
There is no such thing
as a collective brain.
1518
01:40:47,168 --> 01:40:50,866
The man who thinks
must think and act on his own.
1519
01:40:51,273 --> 01:40:55,574
The reasoning mind cannot work
under any form of compulsion.
1520
01:40:55,744 --> 01:41:01,411
It cannot be subordinated to the needs,
opinions, or wishes of others.
1521
01:41:01,583 --> 01:41:04,348
It is not an object of sacrifice.
1522
01:41:04,886 --> 01:41:08,482
The creator stands
on his own judgment.
1523
01:41:08,657 --> 01:41:12,617
The parasite follows
the opinions of others.
1524
01:41:12,794 --> 01:41:14,023
The creator thinks.
1525
01:41:14,629 --> 01:41:16,461
The parasite copies.
1526
01:41:16,898 --> 01:41:20,232
The creator produces.
The parasite loots.
1527
01:41:20,402 --> 01:41:23,861
The creator's concern
is the conquest of nature.
1528
01:41:24,039 --> 01:41:26,599
The parasite's concern
is the conquest of men.
1529
01:41:27,242 --> 01:41:31,304
The creator requires independence.
He neither serves nor rules.
1530
01:41:31,479 --> 01:41:34,847
He deals with men by free exchange
and voluntary choice.
1531
01:41:35,350 --> 01:41:37,342
The parasite seeks power.
1532
01:41:37,519 --> 01:41:40,956
He wants to bind all men together
in common action and common slavery.
1533
01:41:41,423 --> 01:41:45,451
He claims that man is only a tool
for the use of others...
1534
01:41:45,627 --> 01:41:48,222
...that he must think as they think
act as they act...
1535
01:41:48,396 --> 01:41:53,232
...and live in selfless, joyless servitude
to any need but his own.
1536
01:41:53,768 --> 01:41:55,031
Look at history.
1537
01:41:55,203 --> 01:41:57,968
Everything we have,
every great achievement...
1538
01:41:58,139 --> 01:42:02,133
...has come from the independent work
of some independent mind.
1539
01:42:02,544 --> 01:42:04,979
Every horror and destruction...
1540
01:42:05,146 --> 01:42:10,449
...came from attempts to force men
into a herd of brainless, soulless robots.
1541
01:42:10,619 --> 01:42:12,315
Without personal rights...
1542
01:42:12,487 --> 01:42:14,353
...without personal ambition...
1543
01:42:14,556 --> 01:42:16,991
...without will, hope or dignity.
1544
01:42:17,659 --> 01:42:19,355
It is an ancient conflict.
1545
01:42:19,527 --> 01:42:21,359
It has another name.
1546
01:42:21,529 --> 01:42:24,761
The individual
against the collective.
1547
01:42:26,134 --> 01:42:29,002
Our country, the noblest country
in the history of men...
1548
01:42:29,170 --> 01:42:31,298
...was based on the principle
of individualism.
1549
01:42:31,673 --> 01:42:34,768
The principle of man's
inalienable rights.
1550
01:42:35,777 --> 01:42:38,713
It was a country where a man was free
to seek his own happiness.
1551
01:42:38,880 --> 01:42:42,339
To gain and produce,
not to give up and renounce.
1552
01:42:42,517 --> 01:42:45,510
To prosper, not to starve.
1553
01:42:45,687 --> 01:42:49,124
To achieve, not to plunder.
1554
01:42:49,658 --> 01:42:53,595
To hold as his highest possession
a sense of his personal value...
1555
01:42:53,762 --> 01:42:57,927
...and as his highest virtue
his self-respect.
1556
01:42:58,099 --> 01:42:59,965
Look at the results.
1557
01:43:00,135 --> 01:43:03,628
That is what the collectivists
are now asking you to destroy...
1558
01:43:03,805 --> 01:43:06,331
...as much of the earth
has been destroyed.
1559
01:43:07,676 --> 01:43:09,167
I am an architect.
1560
01:43:09,344 --> 01:43:12,508
I know what is to come
by the principle on which it is built.
1561
01:43:13,281 --> 01:43:16,979
We are approaching a world
in which I cannot permit myself to live.
1562
01:43:17,919 --> 01:43:19,945
My ideas are my property.
1563
01:43:20,121 --> 01:43:24,422
They were taken from me by force,
by breach of contract.
1564
01:43:24,592 --> 01:43:26,959
No appeal was left to me.
1565
01:43:27,262 --> 01:43:31,063
It was believed that my work belonged
to others to do with as they pleased.
1566
01:43:31,232 --> 01:43:33,929
They had a claim upon me
without my consent...
1567
01:43:34,102 --> 01:43:37,334
...that it was my duty to serve them
without choice or reward.
1568
01:43:37,972 --> 01:43:40,100
Now you know why
I dynamited Cortlandt.
1569
01:43:40,275 --> 01:43:41,743
I designed Cortlandt...
1570
01:43:41,910 --> 01:43:43,538
...I made it possible...
1571
01:43:43,712 --> 01:43:45,078
...I destroyed it.
1572
01:43:45,447 --> 01:43:49,407
I agreed to design it for the purpose
of seeing it built as I wished.
1573
01:43:49,584 --> 01:43:52,418
That was the price I set for my work.
1574
01:43:52,587 --> 01:43:53,885
I was not paid.
1575
01:43:54,255 --> 01:43:58,090
My building was disfigured at the whim of
others who took the benefits of my work...
1576
01:43:58,259 --> 01:44:00,023
...and gave me nothing in return.
1577
01:44:01,029 --> 01:44:03,294
I came here to say
that I do not recognize...
1578
01:44:03,465 --> 01:44:06,094
...anyone's right
to one minute of my life.
1579
01:44:06,267 --> 01:44:09,829
Nor to any part of my energy,
nor to any achievement of mine.
1580
01:44:10,004 --> 01:44:11,404
No matter who makes the claim.
1581
01:44:12,140 --> 01:44:13,733
It had to be said.
1582
01:44:13,908 --> 01:44:16,742
The world is perishing
from an orgy of self-sacrificing.
1583
01:44:17,278 --> 01:44:19,179
I came here to be heard...
1584
01:44:19,347 --> 01:44:22,476
...in the name of every man
of independence still left in the world.
1585
01:44:22,884 --> 01:44:24,546
I wanted to state my terms.
1586
01:44:24,719 --> 01:44:27,587
I do not care to work
or live on any others.
1587
01:44:27,956 --> 01:44:30,516
My terms are a man's right...
1588
01:44:30,692 --> 01:44:33,491
...to exist for his own sake.
1589
01:44:42,437 --> 01:44:45,703
Further, you are instructed
that the extent of the monetary loss...
1590
01:44:45,874 --> 01:44:49,641
...suffered by the owners
is not a matter to be considered by you.
1591
01:44:49,811 --> 01:44:51,712
The liability of the defendant...
1592
01:44:51,880 --> 01:44:53,542
...for any financial loss...
1593
01:44:53,748 --> 01:44:57,150
...is a question to be determined
in a civil suit.
1594
01:44:57,318 --> 01:45:01,016
You are concerned here only
with a criminal action.
1595
01:45:01,556 --> 01:45:03,582
You are to determine
whether the defendant...
1596
01:45:03,758 --> 01:45:05,420
...is guilty or innocent...
1597
01:45:05,593 --> 01:45:09,030
...of the specific crime
with which he has been charged.
1598
01:45:09,430 --> 01:45:12,696
You are the exclusive judges
of the facts...
1599
01:45:12,867 --> 01:45:16,998
...and under the instructions I have given
you, it is your duty and your duty alone...
1600
01:45:17,172 --> 01:45:20,700
...to determine the guilt
or innocence of the accused.
1601
01:46:09,757 --> 01:46:11,453
Your Honor.
1602
01:46:29,544 --> 01:46:31,012
Foreman.
1603
01:46:31,179 --> 01:46:33,808
- Have you reached a verdict?
- We have, Your Honor.
1604
01:46:33,982 --> 01:46:36,816
The prisoner will rise
and face the jury.
1605
01:46:42,390 --> 01:46:43,756
What is your verdict?
1606
01:46:44,959 --> 01:46:46,188
Not guilty.
1607
01:47:12,186 --> 01:47:15,816
I have bought from them the plans,
the site, and the ruins of Cortlandt.
1608
01:47:15,990 --> 01:47:19,188
It's mine now and yours.
You'll rebuild it for me.
1609
01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:20,692
Just as you planned it.
1610
01:47:20,862 --> 01:47:24,765
Mr. Roark, Mr. Gail Wynand wishes to
know whether you could come to his office.
1611
01:47:24,933 --> 01:47:27,528
- Is he on the wire?
- No. It's Mr. Wynand's secretary.
1612
01:47:27,702 --> 01:47:29,967
Yes. Tell her yes.
1613
01:47:46,354 --> 01:47:49,916
Mr. Roark, this interview is necessary
but very difficult for me.
1614
01:47:50,091 --> 01:47:51,559
Please act accordingly.
1615
01:47:51,726 --> 01:47:53,888
Yes, Mr. Wynand.
1616
01:47:57,231 --> 01:48:00,133
Please read this and sign it,
if it meets with your approval.
1617
01:48:00,301 --> 01:48:01,599
What is it?
1618
01:48:01,769 --> 01:48:04,432
Your contract to design
the Wynand building.
1619
01:48:04,605 --> 01:48:06,597
Please listen carefully, Mr. Roark.
1620
01:48:06,774 --> 01:48:08,834
I have closed my newspaper.
1621
01:48:09,010 --> 01:48:11,241
The Banner has ceased to exist.
1622
01:48:11,412 --> 01:48:14,780
I wish to undertake the construction
of the Wynand building at once.
1623
01:48:14,949 --> 01:48:17,885
It is to be the tallest structure
of the city.
1624
01:48:18,052 --> 01:48:19,987
You will design it as you wish.
1625
01:48:20,455 --> 01:48:23,220
You will have full charge
and complete authority.
1626
01:48:23,391 --> 01:48:25,690
But I do not care ever
to see you again.
1627
01:48:26,761 --> 01:48:29,458
Please read the contract and sign it.
1628
01:48:35,370 --> 01:48:37,134
You haven't read it.
1629
01:48:44,746 --> 01:48:46,942
Please sign both copies.
1630
01:48:51,386 --> 01:48:52,911
Thank you.
1631
01:48:56,858 --> 01:49:00,920
This will be the last skyscraper
ever built in New York.
1632
01:49:01,095 --> 01:49:03,121
The last achievement of man on earth...
1633
01:49:03,297 --> 01:49:05,323
...before mankind destroys itself.
1634
01:49:05,500 --> 01:49:08,129
Mankind will never destroy itself,
Mr. Wynand...
1635
01:49:08,336 --> 01:49:10,669
...nor should it think of itself
as destroyed.
1636
01:49:10,838 --> 01:49:12,932
Not so long as it does things
such as this.
1637
01:49:13,107 --> 01:49:15,440
- As what?
- As the Wynand building.
1638
01:49:15,610 --> 01:49:17,306
That is up to you.
1639
01:49:17,478 --> 01:49:19,242
Dead things...
1640
01:49:19,414 --> 01:49:20,939
...such as the Banner...
1641
01:49:21,115 --> 01:49:24,051
...are only the financial fertilizer
that will make it possible.
1642
01:49:24,218 --> 01:49:26,244
It is their proper function.
1643
01:49:26,821 --> 01:49:31,418
I told you once that this building
was to be a monument to my life.
1644
01:49:32,026 --> 01:49:34,291
There is nothing
to commemorate now.
1645
01:49:34,462 --> 01:49:36,658
The Wynand building
will have nothing...
1646
01:49:36,831 --> 01:49:38,766
...except what you give it.
1647
01:50:01,355 --> 01:50:05,554
Build it as a monument to that spirit
which is yours and could've been mine.
1648
01:50:51,873 --> 01:50:53,501
May I see Mr. Roark, please?
1649
01:50:53,708 --> 01:50:55,336
Mr. Roark's way up on top.
1650
01:50:55,510 --> 01:50:56,773
Who's calling, ma'am?
1651
01:50:57,812 --> 01:51:00,247
- Mrs. Roark.
- Oh.
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