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Something
About Mary
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Fearless
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Sleepless
in Seattle
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Jungle Fever
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Three Men
and a Baby
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The
Fountainhead
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location
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Miami, 1998
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San Francisco, 1993
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Seattle, 1993
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New York, 1991
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New York, 1987
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New York, 1949
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our hero
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Matt Dillon plays Pat Healy. Faux architect tries to win Mary's heart.
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Jeff Bridges plays Max Klein. Starman-like plane crash survivor feels temporarily invincible.
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Tom Hanks plays Sam Baldwin. After wife's death, Boy Scout of architects loves again through yenta son.
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Wesley Snipes plays Flipper Purify. Arrogant architect turns on his black community by cheating on wife with a white girl.
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Tom Selleck lays Peter Mitchell. Perpetual-bachelor architect uncovers his maternal instincts despite himself.
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Gary Cooper plays howard roark. Ahab-maniacal architect blows up his own building.
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architectural prop as plot advancement
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Staged spillage of fake blueprints piques Mary's interest.
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Wife discovers husband's been working on alarming spiraling-towards-death drawings (á la Andy Goldsworthy) rather than plans.
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Epiphany at drafting table to relocate to Seattle.
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Harlem architect and Bensonhurst temp have naughty coitus on the drafting table; architect's wife throws T-square and blueprints out the window.
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Baby makes a doodle on blueprints; after baby has left Peter Mitchell's life, he discovers her tiny pink hard hat under his own.
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Howard Roark abandons first commission when Neo-Classical facade is added to model of Modernist structure; becomes pariah.
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if our heroes were retail stores
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star quality
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Building down the street from the uh... Estadio Olimpico in Santiago, Chile. Spectral hut in Nepal.
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Standing on top of buildings to test invincibility rather than building them.
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Accoommodating pine furniture and oversize serving platters.
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Claiming to carry the firm--though we never see any of his work.
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Curving glass block entryway pretty much says it all.
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Unadulterated Modernist structures.
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most designy ambient prop
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Healy gets to stand by some architectural models at museum.
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Noguchi and Artemide/Tizio lamps.
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Wooden blinds, light wood trimmings, and gray walls. (Also, shaker ladder-back chairs; Diebenkorn print.)
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Picture-perfect renovation of a turn-of-the-century Harlem town house.
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Multiple Noguchi lamps (even the human-size, standing spiral one) and a brown leather club chair.
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Starkly minimalist office space with oversizebare window.
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best example of architectural drivel/non-sequiturs
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"Try to visualize buildings as a whole...try to see them in their totalitarianism."
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"God killed my daddy, so I decided there was no God."
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Q: "What do they call it when everything intersects?"
A: "The Bermuda Triangle."
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It's time for a vertical move. I've gone as horizontal as I can go."
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Frustrated response to diaper-changing, "I'm an architect for Christ's sake! I build 50-story skyscrapers. I assemble cities of the future."
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"The form of a building must follow its function. One building can't borrow another's shape, just as one man can't borrow the soul of another man.
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Roark redux
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Harvard alumnus who wants to "give up the whole architecture game," sell his condo in Nepal, and pursue his real passion, "working with retards."
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"You want to kill me but you can't," yells Max to God.
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mocks a fickle client for asking him to "just turn the whole house around."
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After being refused a promotion, points to every completed commission in a frame, "Mine, Mine!"
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Pleads with his lawyer/leather-miniskirted girlfriend to take care of baby, "I got deadlines. You're a woman."
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"Those who want me will come to me. I don't care what they think of architecture or anything else. I don't give or ask for help...I want to stand alone."
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