After a couple hours of writing for my English final work, I finished my first movie review on my favourite movie "Rushmore". I liked how it turned out and wanted to share.
Enjoy.
Rushmore is a comedy-drama movie, directed by Wes Anderson and released in theathers in 1998, starring Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and Olivia Williams. The movie takes places in America, not in a spesific date but assumingly in 1998, date of the movie itself.
Rushmore is about a very bizarre young boy named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) who is a scholarship student in Rushmore Academy, his strange friendship with the Vietnam Veteran Herman Blume (Bill Murray) and platonic love for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams).
Max has lost his mother and lives with his father and Rushmore covers almost all his life. He is the founder or the president of the just about every club in school, has huge passions -especially for drama- and spends all his time for extracurricular activity, in fact so much that causes his grades to fall and in the end concludes with his expulsion and him going back to his old highschool where he meets Margaret Yang (Sara Tanakara), a bright student that he keeps trying to ignore the fact that she is in love with him. These social efforts of his, are a somewhat struggle to be someone important in life, as opposed to his father who is a barber that he tells everyone that he is a neurosurgeon.
Max meets Herman Blume when Blume comes to Rushmore for giving a speech. After his unique speech, Max immediately gets impressed by him and so does Blume, because of Max’s peerless character, and their strange friendship begins. At the same point, Max meets with Olivia Williams in Rushmore, the teacher he already had his eye on for a while. After the couple times they spend together, Max gets the impression that Olivia and him are cut out to be lovers. Because his love for Olivia, who is a caring teacher and a grown woman, actually is a way of dealing with the loss of his mother, by making her some kind of a mother role model. Olivia keeps trying to push Max from herself without hurting his feelings. Thereof, Max decides to make Blume to talk with Olivia to persuade her, but he doesn’t take into consideration that they would fall in love with eachother. From that point, everything becomes all chaotic, a tragicomic war begins between Max and Blume causing both sides both material and moral harm and concluding with Blume and Olivia splitting up, but also with emotional damage on Max that makes him isolate himself.
After a while, Max runs across with Blume, by seeing eachother’s misery in life, they realize how they are actually alike and secretly forgive eachother. Max introduces Blume to his father, in his barbershop, finally accepting and making peace with the truth of his life, by confessing his fear to the one man he admires the most.
In the end of the movie, as the fruit of his passion, Max writes and stars in a big, glorious school play with all his friends named “Heaven and Hell” about Vietnam War, as a tacit tribute to Herman Blume. This play is a representation of how Max gets his life on track, succeeds his biggest wish; being accepted and admired by everyone. In fact, the play affects not just Max but also the others; it concludes with Blume and Olivia getting back together, Max’s father seing his son’s success and Max finally making peace with life and stopping to ignore Margaret and opeing himself to her. Consequently, everyone having the appropriate relationship and at last, happiness.
The most prominent aspects of Rushmore are acting and photography. Casting is brilliant, every actor fits perfectly to their role. Bill Murray is hilarious like always and a great match for Blume. However, the star of the film, without doubt, is Jason Schwartzman. Rushmore is the very beginning of his acting career, and he is flawless. As much as interesting and bright is the character, Schwartzman is the one that makes Max Fischer this unique and enthralling. He makes the movie even more enjoyable to watch. With Murray, they sure are a remarkable couple.
Another important aspect is photography along with art direction. The whole movie is a product of successful photography, but some scenes are just an absolute feast for eyes. Use of characters, locations, concepts and letterings are very striking. Rushmore has a very original style, and it is even more praiseworthy considering its year, 1998.
Rushmore has plenty of examples of American culture in it. Its name, before everything, is after Mount Rushmore, the most famous mount that has sculptures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln and represents the history of the United States. In the very beginning of the movie, we can see the classical private school type of States; best educational system, deceant students, potential winners. During the whole movie, the multiracial country model is very striking. We see Asian, Irish and African American people as students, policemen and etc. It’s a strong example of how the ethnicity takes places in America. In some scenes, it has an image of Christianity. In one scene, Max goes to gail, his father pays the bail and gets him out. It’s a common scene that we can see in a lot of American movies, unlike most of the other countries, because of the high rate of crime in America. Other than these, there is a scene that Max sits in the cemetery by his mother’s grave, spending time there rathen than just visiting. It is an example of the concept that exists in America and we can see in lots of movies, that cemetery being more a public place that is peaceful, than being a place of death. Furthermore, we can see Coca-Cola taking place in a couple scenes. It’s a very sharp advertisement of one of the most popular American brands. As the last but not least, we certainly can mention the character Herman Blume, him being a Vietnam Veteran and the school play about Vietnam War in the end of the movie. Certainly, the most important war that the American people are most sensitive about in American history. The character being a Vietnam Veteran and the actor being Bill Murray, both loved by American people, is a good mixture for an American hero profile.
Enjoy.
Rushmore is a comedy-drama movie, directed by Wes Anderson and released in theathers in 1998, starring Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and Olivia Williams. The movie takes places in America, not in a spesific date but assumingly in 1998, date of the movie itself.
Rushmore is about a very bizarre young boy named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) who is a scholarship student in Rushmore Academy, his strange friendship with the Vietnam Veteran Herman Blume (Bill Murray) and platonic love for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams).
Max has lost his mother and lives with his father and Rushmore covers almost all his life. He is the founder or the president of the just about every club in school, has huge passions -especially for drama- and spends all his time for extracurricular activity, in fact so much that causes his grades to fall and in the end concludes with his expulsion and him going back to his old highschool where he meets Margaret Yang (Sara Tanakara), a bright student that he keeps trying to ignore the fact that she is in love with him. These social efforts of his, are a somewhat struggle to be someone important in life, as opposed to his father who is a barber that he tells everyone that he is a neurosurgeon.
Max meets Herman Blume when Blume comes to Rushmore for giving a speech. After his unique speech, Max immediately gets impressed by him and so does Blume, because of Max’s peerless character, and their strange friendship begins. At the same point, Max meets with Olivia Williams in Rushmore, the teacher he already had his eye on for a while. After the couple times they spend together, Max gets the impression that Olivia and him are cut out to be lovers. Because his love for Olivia, who is a caring teacher and a grown woman, actually is a way of dealing with the loss of his mother, by making her some kind of a mother role model. Olivia keeps trying to push Max from herself without hurting his feelings. Thereof, Max decides to make Blume to talk with Olivia to persuade her, but he doesn’t take into consideration that they would fall in love with eachother. From that point, everything becomes all chaotic, a tragicomic war begins between Max and Blume causing both sides both material and moral harm and concluding with Blume and Olivia splitting up, but also with emotional damage on Max that makes him isolate himself.
After a while, Max runs across with Blume, by seeing eachother’s misery in life, they realize how they are actually alike and secretly forgive eachother. Max introduces Blume to his father, in his barbershop, finally accepting and making peace with the truth of his life, by confessing his fear to the one man he admires the most.
In the end of the movie, as the fruit of his passion, Max writes and stars in a big, glorious school play with all his friends named “Heaven and Hell” about Vietnam War, as a tacit tribute to Herman Blume. This play is a representation of how Max gets his life on track, succeeds his biggest wish; being accepted and admired by everyone. In fact, the play affects not just Max but also the others; it concludes with Blume and Olivia getting back together, Max’s father seing his son’s success and Max finally making peace with life and stopping to ignore Margaret and opeing himself to her. Consequently, everyone having the appropriate relationship and at last, happiness.
The most prominent aspects of Rushmore are acting and photography. Casting is brilliant, every actor fits perfectly to their role. Bill Murray is hilarious like always and a great match for Blume. However, the star of the film, without doubt, is Jason Schwartzman. Rushmore is the very beginning of his acting career, and he is flawless. As much as interesting and bright is the character, Schwartzman is the one that makes Max Fischer this unique and enthralling. He makes the movie even more enjoyable to watch. With Murray, they sure are a remarkable couple.
Another important aspect is photography along with art direction. The whole movie is a product of successful photography, but some scenes are just an absolute feast for eyes. Use of characters, locations, concepts and letterings are very striking. Rushmore has a very original style, and it is even more praiseworthy considering its year, 1998.
Rushmore has plenty of examples of American culture in it. Its name, before everything, is after Mount Rushmore, the most famous mount that has sculptures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln and represents the history of the United States. In the very beginning of the movie, we can see the classical private school type of States; best educational system, deceant students, potential winners. During the whole movie, the multiracial country model is very striking. We see Asian, Irish and African American people as students, policemen and etc. It’s a strong example of how the ethnicity takes places in America. In some scenes, it has an image of Christianity. In one scene, Max goes to gail, his father pays the bail and gets him out. It’s a common scene that we can see in a lot of American movies, unlike most of the other countries, because of the high rate of crime in America. Other than these, there is a scene that Max sits in the cemetery by his mother’s grave, spending time there rathen than just visiting. It is an example of the concept that exists in America and we can see in lots of movies, that cemetery being more a public place that is peaceful, than being a place of death. Furthermore, we can see Coca-Cola taking place in a couple scenes. It’s a very sharp advertisement of one of the most popular American brands. As the last but not least, we certainly can mention the character Herman Blume, him being a Vietnam Veteran and the school play about Vietnam War in the end of the movie. Certainly, the most important war that the American people are most sensitive about in American history. The character being a Vietnam Veteran and the actor being Bill Murray, both loved by American people, is a good mixture for an American hero profile.
The poster itself is a pure propaganda example. Max Fischer is an innovator, a reformer, always chasing new activities even people want to prevent him from it. He is a leader model.
Pointing his hand forward, the red hat, people in the back from American history, diagonal poster, the “Rush More” word trick, all of these represent an uprising, a “revolution”.
To summarize, with of all its aspects, Rushmore is a perfectly successful, strong and a very delightful movie. From its aesthetic scenes to brilliant acting, from its clever dialogues to unique characters, it's most definitely an all time favourite movie. It takes you from where you are and make you be a part of the story, and at the end of the movie, when you realize it came to the end, you just smile along with a sour joy. If you still didn’t see Rushmore, you just shouldn’t lose anymore time, and rush more!
Pointing his hand forward, the red hat, people in the back from American history, diagonal poster, the “Rush More” word trick, all of these represent an uprising, a “revolution”.
To summarize, with of all its aspects, Rushmore is a perfectly successful, strong and a very delightful movie. From its aesthetic scenes to brilliant acting, from its clever dialogues to unique characters, it's most definitely an all time favourite movie. It takes you from where you are and make you be a part of the story, and at the end of the movie, when you realize it came to the end, you just smile along with a sour joy. If you still didn’t see Rushmore, you just shouldn’t lose anymore time, and rush more!
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