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Anthem is extremely cliche & only written to establish her stance as "I may be from Russia, but I sure as hell ain't no communist...here read this shit I ripped off...It proves it."
Ayn Rand was helping Nixon & McCarthy & testified on thier committee's behalf during the infamous Unamerican Activites proceedings in the fifties.
On a sidebar, I think Anthem inspired George Lucas' student film at UCLA which launched his film career with a budget from a studio to make it into a motion picture. That movie, THX-1138, was his first & while it did discover Robert Duvall, it is purely & simply one of the absolute worst films ever made. Meanwhile, his best buddy, Francis Ford Coppola, wasn't faring any better with dogs like Finian's Rainbow & The Rain People. If it had not been for Coppola having good subject matter in Mario Puzo's The Godfather book & the hiring of cinematographer Gordon Willis, then that movie would have tanked also, & would have most likely spelled the end of both of their careers. The world would have then been deprived of the brilliant things they went on to do.
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