RushmoreAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 5 October 2023
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Earning critical acclaim and commercial success upon its 1998 release, Rushmoreâ?"the sophomore film of American auteur Wes Andersonâ?"quickly gained the status of a cult classic. A melancholic coming-of-age story wrapped in comedy drama, Rushmore focuses on the efforts of Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman)â?"a brazen and precocious fifteen-year-oldâ?"to find his way. Restless, energetic, struggling, and overcompensating for his insecurities, Max pursues a dizzying range of possible futures, leading him into the orbit of local steel magnate Herman Blume (Bill Murray), elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams), and a host of cooperative schoolmates who help him to stage lavish film-derivative plays. Kristi McKimâ?Ts compelling study of the film argues that despite the filmâ?Ts titular call for haste and excess (rush/more), it challenges a drive toward perfectionism and celebrates the quiet connections that defy such passion and speed. After establishing Rushmoreâ?Ts history and reception, McKim closely reads Rushmoreâ?Ts energetic musical montages relative to slower moments that introduce tenderness and ambiguity, in a form subtler than Maxâ?Ts desire-built drive or genre-based plays. Her analysis offers an urgent corrective to what might be perceived as an endearing portrait of privilege that perpetuates a status quo power. Drawing out Rushmoreâ?Ts subtleties that soften, temper, ease, expand, and equalize the filmâ?Ts zeal, she reads the film with a generosity learned from the film itself.
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