[raajg]

More than a Roman character, Catalina reminded me of "Howard Roark" from The Fountainhead. It's been at least a decade since I last read it, but I thought the movie was quite influenced by that book.

[gipp]

I've only seen the posters, an early trailer, and a few paragraphs about it here and there, but I've been surprised this comparison hasn't come up more often. Looking at the poster and the plot synopsis, it's all I can think of.

[Animats]

Oh, no, not The Fountainhead.

(The 1949 movie version is amusing today. Roark's architecture is bad early brutalism, now a cliche. The art deco office interiors are great.)

[wahnfrieden]

He's said several times that his primary influence in the last decade? of rewrites has been David Graeber and David Wengrow