*Chortle*

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I'm watching TVO right now, one of their mini-documentaries on the film industry... it's "Edifice Complex", a series of interviews with architects intercut with scenes from The Fountainhead and Manhattan discussing how films approach their profession. Sorry, Objectivists, but Rand's work doesn't come off too well in the comparison; even the most favourable comments talk about her stilted dialog, inhuman characters, disdain for the people the buildings were intended to house, and rampant abuse of phallic imagery. They don't much like her interpretation of architecture as a soloists field, either, given how much of a team effort it really is to design a building one can live in. Oh, yeah, and the rape scene didn't go over too well either and I heard the term "Aryan" used a lot describing the nominal heroes.

Rand worshiped the buildings and the manikins she stuffed into them; Woody Allen worshiped all of the city, warts and all.

-- Steve's no big fan of either auteur, but at least the nebbish kinda likes human beings.