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  • Hard-to-Adapt Work: The book has never been adapted to film, due to the difficulty of adapting such a short narrative of philosophical fiction told entirely through flashbacks in a journal written by the main protagonist, who never addresses himself as an individual until the end of the novella, because the story's collectivist society forbids anyone from identifying themselves as anything other than collective pronouns ("we" for example, rather than "I"). Although Rand's novels We the Living, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged were adapted into films, the adaptations they received lost many of the philosophical elements of the books. Rand herself expressed dissatisfaction with the Fountainhead film, calling it badly directed.

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