Joey: Hey, know what we can do,
so I can get prepared for the audition? Let’s role-play our own
version of "The Fountainhead".
Rachel: Our own version? Why
would we want to write our own version of it! This book is
great.
The others: "Yes." "One of the
best books I ever read." "Can’t get better than this"
Joey: Come on, if you wanted to
write it today, would you write the same book?
Phoebe: Well, for one thing:
didn’t it bother you that Dominique Francon, the main female
character, didn’t do anything in the best years of her life, except
like… sleeping with people?
Ross: yeah. All the characters in
fact do nothing in the 20’s and 30’s, except maybe build a couple
of buildings.
Joey: If you ask me: the book is
too slow-paced for the 90’s. I mean, in the 60’s it may have worked
but we’re in the information age now.
Ross: Joey, "The Fountainhead"
was written in 1943.
Joey: Yeah, but it was still good
enough in the 60’s right? OK: our own version of "The Fountainhead"
- here’s what I think it should look like