One should read &quot;Atlas Shrugged&quot;. That way, you can avoid seeing the appallingly bad 3-part low budget movie version. The book is preachy, and the movie is faithful to the book, which means long monologues.<p>&quot;The Fountainhead&quot; was made into a movie in 1949.  It&#x27;s a decent movie, and Amazon has the DVD.  It&#x27;s amusing today because the protagonist, who is an architect, designs buildings that he insists are insanely great, but are just slab-sided office blocks.  (His hatred of decorative spires has something going for it. There used to be a thing for putting useless pointy spires on top of office buildings, the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building being the classic examples. That&#x27;s mostly died out in the US, although it still has a following in Dubai and some Asian cities.)<p>Taking Ayn Rand seriously is not good for you.