Capítulo 14 de 16 · 2'12"
Over dinner, Francisco reveals a vast oil reserve and toasts "the Age of Rearden Metal." Left alone, Hank admits he has a wife and a company being torn apart, and yet, he says, "all I wanna do right now is kiss you." Dagny's answer is the scene's famous last line.
❝ Monólogo · 4 frases Francisco Toasts the Age of Rearden Metal
At dinner, Francisco D'Anconia tells Dagny and Hank about an untapped oil reserve under the Buena Esperanza Pass and toasts the future they could build. The guests leave, and Hank and Dagny are alone. He confesses that he has a wife and a company falling apart, but that all he wants is to kiss her.
The chapter moves from a public toast to a private confession, and the contrast is the point. At the table, Francisco sells a vision — a reservoir 'larger than any known reserve,' a new age of Rearden Metal — and the language is all momentum: 'we are the band.' It is the collective future the film believes in. Then the room empties, and Hank is left with the opposite of a shared triumph: 'somewhere I have a company that's being pulled apart.' His admission that he has a wife, and that he still wants Dagny, does not resolve anything; it just names the conflict. Dagny's reply, 'What's stopping you?', is not a solution either, but a choice. The scene lets the two of them act on what they want, with the damage left for later.
A1–C2 es la escala MCER. Las tarjetas por encima del nivel elegido se atenúan y la reproducción no se pausa en ellas.
“Soon everyone will be wanting to get on the bandwagon.”
It names the crowd's instinct to follow money before the crowd has even arrived.
Informal
“And, my friends, we are the band.”
It flips the image of the crowd onto the speaker himself, and the pun is the whole point.
Informal
“And all I wanna do right now is kiss you.”
One plain sentence cancels every excuse he just made for himself.
Informal
“It's good to know there are men like Wyatt left in the world.”
The compliment to Wyatt carries his own disappointment about what he has become.
Neutral
“I wish I could hold myself in the same esteem.”
The wish form makes the self-doubt plain without ever stating it directly.
Neutral
“You have been charming company; but I must excuse myself.”
The compliment and the exit come in one polished line, and neither can be argued with.
Formal
“And somewhere I have a company that's being pulled apart.”
He reports his own ruin as if it were happening far away, and the calm is the ache.
Neutral
To Colorado and the New Renaissance And forget about the Stone Age and the Iron Age. Let's have a toast to the Age of Rearden Metal. And the John Galt Line.
Siguiente · 15went underLa escena: Dagny and Rearden's Wisconsin TripHe reveals that the dry Buena Esperanza Pass holds a huge untapped oil reservoir, larger than any known reserve in Saudi Arabia, and a body of natural gas beneath it.
It means to join a trend once it becomes popular. Francisco uses it to say that eventually everyone will want a share of the new oil field.
He politely excuses himself, saying the Hong Kong markets have opened and he has calls to make. His exit is what leaves Hank and Dagny alone.
That he has a wife and a company being pulled apart, and yet all he wants is to kiss her. He is naming the conflict between his duty and his desire.
She does not talk him out of it. Her answer, "What's stopping you?", accepts what he has said and turns the moment into a choice.
