In the movie "Rushmore" Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is a young boy who has dedicated his life to the extracurricular activities of Rushmore Academy. He enters into a friendship with Ms. Cross (Olivia Williams), an elementary school teacher at Rushmore, in hope of pursuing a more intimate relationship with her. In an outrageous performance for attention from Ms. Cross, Max winds up getting himself kicked out of the academy for good. Shortly afterwards, Max discovers that his best friend, Herman Blume (Bill Murray), has been chasing after Ms. Cross behind his back. The plot quickly spines into a vicious, and above all childish love battle that is as soon resolved and forgotten as though nothing had happened.
From the beginning to the end of this movie the plot never seems to get any better, only worse. First of all, it begins with an overly pathetic nerd that seems to contradict everything he is suppose to be. Then it leads into the vicious love battle between Max and Mr. Blume that not only suggest that relationships between 15 year olds and an adult is okay, but it also shows that friendships really aren't deserving of respect. Finally the movie concludes with a happy ending as though none of the movie had just existed, it was an ending you could stick on just about any typical movie.
Max Fischer has all the qualities to be the perfect nerd, but throughout the movie he totally contradicts everything. He becomes the reinvented nerd that Wes Anderson intended him to be, but there were to many actual nerd qualities involved to make him anything that would be considered different than the normal. Max is the top of the extracurricular totem pole, yet he's the underdog of the academic world. He's popular among the general vote, yet he's still being beat by the bully. It makes you want to reach into the screen and slap the boy.
Throughout the Love Battle between Max and Mr. Blume, the two supposed best friends continuously strike to hurt each other.
Rushmore was created and why? ... Rushmore memorializes the birth, growth, preservation and development of the USA. ... The geologic formations of the heart of the Black Hills region are also evident at Mount Rushmore, including large outcrops of granite and mica schist. ... Rushmore. ... No material could be added. ...
Mount Rushmore was named after Charles E. Rushmore. ... When Rushmore and his guide, Bill Challis, approached the grand mountain Rushmore asked what the mountain was called. ... Where would Mount Rushmore be? ... Amazingly, with such dangerous work conditions, like working with dynamite and dangling off the edge of a cliff, no one died on the job. ...
Rushmore is his second solo project and mixes reality with absurdity to perfection, as we delve into Max's world. ... Rushmore consumes Max's life he is the founder or chairman of just about every club on campus. ... Max Fisher is the lifeblood of Rushmore even if he is the only person who realizes it. ... This is where we learn of his mother's death and that he attends Rushmore via scholarship. ... Rushmore is much more than a tale of a romantic love triangle. ...
Nothing could exist more true for the case of Mount Rushmore. ... Rushmore (Corbett, 31). ... Percy sums it up when he states, "to no one else is it ever as beautiful "except the rare man who manages to recover it, who knows that it has to be recovered."" ... The item no longer has the status of "just a rock."" ... Mount Rushmore. ...
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In their book Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers, authors Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon state, " there is perhaps no better field for semiotic analysis than advertising, for ads work characteristically by substituting signs for things, and by reading those signs you can discover the values and desires that advertisers seek to exploit (123)."" ... Lastly is the Mount Rushmore advertisement. ...
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