There’s no place for originality in architecture! Nobody can improve on the buildings of the past!” Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead ...

Barbera said the main thematic reference for the film is King Vidor's 1949 "The Fountainhead," starring Gary Cooper as a modernist architect refusing to compromise his vision. That film was itself ...