Rushmore - Representation of Max Fisher

MAX FISHER

Rushmore (1998)

Directed by Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson's films

Bottle Rocket

The Royal Tenenhaums

The Darjeeling

The life Aquetic with Steve Zissov

Fantastic Mr Fox

Wes Anderson

Considered to be an Auteur ( loosley meaning author)

Has a recognisable visual style that is apparant across most of his films

Jason Schwartzman

Bill Murray

Olivia Williams

Bran Cox

Rushmore - Representation of Max Fisher

- Wants to be clever (dreams of solving a hard maths equation)

- Goes to Rushmore school (a posh school)

- Is described as a 'Sharp little guy'

- Is one of the worst students they have

- Does a lot of clubs, which he is either founder or president of

- Looks geeky

- Not a stereotypical teen

- Unusual (dreaming about solving maths equations)

- OCD?

- Wears a blazer (part of school uniform)

- Level of confidence

- Comfortable with adults

- Lots of interests

- Mulitcultural

- Hardworking

- Tries hard to fit in - attention seeking?

- Doesn't try to socialise (seemingly)

- His social life is connected to his hobbies

What he's wearing

He is wearing a tie when he doesn't need to be wearing a tie when the other students aren't wearing them. He wears a red beret some times which makes him look a bit silly, he is always wearing his blazer, could show that he is proud of school he goes to, he wears brown trousers and wears the same clothes for most activities, maybe he's poor. He wears braces and has a combover.

The Bees

The bees on the notebook represent Max in lots of ways. Max is in a colony, stuck together with his groups and the leader. He's busy as a bee. People don't like bees, represents him (do people like him?). Hes always buzzing around. He's like the queen bee of all the groups. He's the bee's knees of the groups.

Clubs

He is always at the top of clubs, he's either the founder or the leader of the club. He wears school uniform at the cluns when others have on club uniform. He's the publisher showing he's the top dog of the club. He wears a red beret for french club and he looks rather sad wearing it. When he's wearing the Russia hat it shows he has power of the club and as Russia is one of the superpowers it shows he has power and he chose to be the most powerful country and either side of him are lower countries. He hangs around with little kids at the clubs showing he has no friends of his own age. He's founder of Stamp and coin club, showing he's not a sterotypical teenager because most teens wouldn't collect them. He's the Yankee racers founder and his cart doesnt doesn't even have a steering wheel showing he can't afford to buy a cart. He's part of the Lacross team and whilst the Jocks are watching the game, he is more obsessed with arranging the equipment and sorting them out, he's acting like a mother to them. He's the founder of caligraphy club and he's the only member of it. He's the founder of astronomy club and wears a beret, looks like he doens't want to be there. In the debate team he's wearing uniform when they're wearing tweded trousers and bow ties. The dodgeball club shows him playing against little kids.In Kung fu club he's a yellow belt which is quite low and he's against little kids which some are higher belts than him.Track and field club, he's on his own, not in a posh place.For the fencing team he is still wearing his brown trousers when the others are wearing the right clothing. When he's wearing the bee outfit he only has the headwear showing he's poor becasue he needs the whole outfit becasue he may get stung. 

Max Fisher
Is Max a stereotypical teenager?
Montage sequence.

Max fisher is not a stereotypical teenager because he is very unusual in what he does. The first thing we see is him having a dream about solving a really hard maths equation which is unusual for a teenager to dream about. Most teenagers don’t really do a lot of clubs however Max Fisher does lots of clubs where he is either the founder or the president of, one of the weirdest clubs he does is stamp and coin collecting club which is a club you wouldn’t expect a teenager to be interested in showing he has a mature attitude. He looks very geeky looking, most teenager would be embarrassed to look like that, also he has a comb over showing he has an old fashion sense and mind, a normal teenager would feel silly with a comb over. Most teenagers are quite messy whereas Max is a bit of a perfectionist and has to have his stamps and coins in a specific place and order; maybe he has a bit of OCD. He is always wearing his school blazer showing that he is proud of his school, stereotypically teenagers hate their uniform and wouldn’t be proud to wear it when they don’t need to wear it, it shows he’s a bit weird but also that he’s really glad he got in to Rushmore school. He is very confident and comfortable with adult and approaches them like you’d approach a friend, this isn’t really normal for a teenager to do because they would normally act different with adults and wouldn’t generally just go up to them and casually talk to them. He wears very geeky clothing and clothing normal teenagers wouldn’t wear showing that he is quite different and doesn’t really care what people think of him. To conclude Max Fisher is not a stereotypical teenager because he acts like an adult and acts very mature and does adult hobbies compared to what a stereotypical teenager would do.