Hmm, half an hour in and it is sooooo obvious that Ayn Rand....
totally bit on Ken Burns.
totally bit on Ken Burns.
Watch it on Netflix instant view: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Frank_Lloyd_Wright/60021140?trkid=226871
posted by Matthew at
6:25 PM
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I'm not sure she "bit on Ken Burns," if you mean she copied his interpretation of FLW, but she definitely bit on FLW’s interpretation of FLW and even embellished it to create her myth of the UberDude.
Burns portrays FLW as a genius obsessed with his public image. Roark was completely unconcerned about public perception. In addition, FLW eventually incorporated some of the values of the Internationalist School of Architecture with his own aesthetic values. The result, according to those in the documentary, was his greatest achievement, Falling Water. I doubt that Rand would ever have allowed Roark to debase himself with such a compromise.
Rand took the public image of a self-aggrandizing extremist made it more extreme and then presented it as a model for ethical behavior. For some Reason, this seems unReasonable to me.
The documentary struck me as one of Burn’s better ones. He stepped away from his standard formula of endless readings of primary source documents by narrators pretending to be the authors of the documents.
Yeah, that comment was more of a joke and I havn't gotton to the end of the doc yet actually but... thought I was setting you up for a chip shot on a burn on Ken Burns.
Similarities or references are interesting though.
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