Rushmore No Mor Essay, Research Paper

Rushmore No More

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. Max tells Mr. Blume s wife about the love affair Mr. Blume and Ms. Cross have been engaged in. He also puts bees in Mr. Blume s hotel room. Then Mr. Blume, a man well over his thirties, turns around and runs over Max s bike and has him arrested. The whole battle is childish and unrealistic. In the end, Max discovers his defeat and the whole shi-bang is forgotten.

Rushmore is a terribly pointless and unrealistic movie. It s the kind of movie that makes you anxious to the point of turning it off in the middle, and not even caring how it s going to end.