Introduction
Engineered by Wes Andreson, the film Rushmore is amongst the most comical movies ever produced. It was published in 1998. Its setting is the Rushmore elite preparatory school. The movie is a clear picture of the kind of life that the director of the movie, Anderson, and his friends went through in their primary school levels.
It provides an insight of the various challenges that pupils encounter in their schooling periods, not sparing the impacts of these challenges on their studies. Anderson was good at virtually everything but he was academically challenged.
Another great friend of him was expelled on the basis of misbehaviors associated people of a certain age bracket, like adolescence. Employing the elements of literature, the director uses characters like Max Fischer, a seriously abnormal and comical teenager and a pupil, Herman Blume, a rich man and Max’s friend, Rosemary Cross, a new teacher in Max’s school, among others.
Max is a 15-year old boy who faces a number of challenges while performing the role of a student in a particular school and being a representative of his own kind, not a future master but a future slave. He is hit by many obstructions that make him not realize how crucial it is to utilize his schooling opportunity properly.
Rushmore is a brilliant example of a boy’s life where it is necessary to perform a number of particular roles without considering personal ambitions and interests; the boy finds it interesting to use his funny immoral behavior to satisfy at least some part of his needs and understand how it is possible to meet his coming sexual desires and other aspects of adolescence life as well as to become an integral part of a company chosen; to succeed in the chosen activities, Max decides to rely on help promote by people around.
Max and the Role to Be Performed
Max is the movie star who captures the minds of the viewers. Though he is very young, he is still depicted as the most outstanding character. He is a student in his o-levels in a private school that has offered him a scholarship on the one hand. However, on the other hand, this condition depicts the amount of value attached by students’ parents.
In this expensive and well performing school, Max shows how many functions he has to perform. It is a kind of sacrifice that all parents make, denying a number of valuable things just to make sure their kids attend appropriate schools where skilled teachers work and may boost the performance of their students. Max and his family are considered to be powerful characters who develop an idea of parental sacrifice.
Max stands out as the most excellent example in the field of extra-curricular activities and ironically the poorest performer in class. He has dedicated all his time playing, ignoring virtually everything related to class work. He goes further to even feud with his teacher. This shows how less interested in education and how forgetful, and how ignorant he is at the expense parents who make him attending the school.
Max is just an illustration of those students who get involved in activities that are not relevant with what they ought to be doing. They focus much on things that end up shifting their objectives in life like unnecessary visits to friends, reading irrelevant books, among others. This is how Max performs the role of a student who cannot put his personal demands and interests on the first place but follow the instructions dictated by some people around.
Being very young, Max knows a little about love and sex issues. What he is actually familiar is a number of games that make people spend a lot of time before they can maneuver the chosen games properly. This style is employed by the writer employs to show how the actions of the majority, who end up failing in life, contrasts with their positions.
Max has significantly changed. With some period of time, his behavior changes considerably from the one when he was a young student. The process of Max’s modification becomes evident in the movie, so that, the viewer is able to understand how the relations between a student and a teacher or a student and his parents should be developed.
The Forces behind Max’s Modification
Max behavior is depicted as own creation as well as the creation of other people. Some characters have been employed to show how particular changes within one character may happen. Developing the theme of adolescence, the writer introduces Rosemary, Max’s teacher.
Owing to the various emotional changes associated with the adolescents, Max is not spared. His emotions direct him to his teacher, many times older than he is. Emotional changes are very common and normal to this case because they are significant parts of the journey to maturity; and this journey is inevitable.
But still, there are many strange things which happen to Max. It is somehow humorous to find a young person who is seriously obsessed with an old person. This is a kind of Max’s situation. He could do nothing in class but think about Rosemary; he is depicted as a widow showing the age difference between her and Max. It shows how the stage affected him into loosing his focus of education to other unusual requirements.
This wide gap between him and his teacher proves that the importance of distance between people exists and prevents them from achieving the desirable goals. The relations between Max and his teacher is probably one of the brightest reasons which cause the modification of his role in society and in school.
Max has befriended a man, Herman Blume, who is rich but still suffers from a family crisis. He is not in terms with his wife. He is described as another considerable factor that influences Max’s behavior and promotes his modification. This person is not an appropriate friend for Max due to the age, social position, and personal interests.
The Effect of the Modification
Following the change in Max’s behavior, the relevant repercussions have paved his way. He continues to develop the conflicts with his teachers whom he ought to befriend with to attain the goals set. He suffers from the school he has to attend because his actions are too much to be tolerated.
His behavior results to enmity with people he has to spend some time. He loses his bicycle, takes much revenge, and ends up being jailed. This case induces his depression and a permanent termination of his studies. The writer of the story succeeds in showing how students may end up misusing their classes without minding the outcomes.
Max has been employed in this film to illustrate this scenario. He has modified his role as a student to satisfy his immoral desires. However, the process of modification is not as successful as it should be because a young person is not always powerful enough to cope with challenges and choose the right way to follow.
Conclusion
The lessons observed in the movie may be used in modern society. There are many students who find it interesting to miss classes, develop conflicts, and promote misbehave at classes. Max’s role of a student is a powerful example of how many outside factors may influence student’s understanding of a matter as well as destroy the life or make it too difficult to cope with.
There is no need to manifest selfish desires to succeed in personal modification. Still, it seems to be more important to struggle for the purposes set considering your own heart, emotions, and thoughtful demands.