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jeff_v [ 6.5 ]
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A litmus test for how
much one can enjoy a movie despite despising much of
what it says. It's terrific filmmaking from a visual
standpoint. King Vidor lost none of his touch from his
silent classics in constructing shots like the one of
Patricia Neal silhouetted against the heavens while
Gary Cooper drills in the quarry below (and the erotic
charge she gets from seeing him handle that drill is
amusing, too). The final shot, which echoes this
earlier shot, is of Cooper towering above the city,
and is a (frightening, to me) encapsulation of the
story's troubling themes of "the virtues of
selfishness" and contempt for the masses. The story is
true to Rand's style of creating strawmen to demonize
and archetypal rugged individualists who conquer them.
But it plays like a bunch of ideologues talking to one
another --hardly an identifiable human emotion ekes
its way onscreen. From a film director's standpoint
though, the movie does make a strong push for the
importance of artistic creativity.
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