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Trivial Pursuits => Arts & Entertainment => Topic started by: Muse_Of_Fire on February 23, 2007, 04:52:03 am
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I loved this film! Just saw it for the first time tonight. Kind of unresolved at the end, which normally makes me nuts, but I really enjoyed it. It was pretty much just a character study, which I ordinarily *hate*, IMO it's a total cop-out genre; but Rushmore was awesome. 3/4 stars.
Generally when I watch a film I look very carefully at writing, production design, and editing, and Rushmore was pretty solid on all three. None of them rearranged my molecular structure terribly, but all were solidly done, separately, and together they were far greater than the sum of their parts. A little slow in places, but overall very engaging. Quirky with a capital IRK.
Anyone else seen this film? Opinions? Thoughts? Similar recommendations?
Oh, and PS: The protagonist, Max Fischer, reminded me *utterly* of a beloved special very important friend of mine. You know who you are.
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wonderful! I love this film. I finally saw it over x-mas break. my friend and I watched it a few days ago-- actually, thanks for reminding me, we never watched the last half hour or so.
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I adore anything Wes Anderson, though I have only seen it once and a long while back. I did however buy it on DVD just the other day as it was on offer, and will have to get round to watching it again real soon.
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I won a giiiiiiant cardboard tube at a screening of "Rushmore" in college.
Like giiiiiiiiiiiiant. Like, they raffled off some soundtracks of "Rushmore" and some posters and then kind of as a joke, they raffled off this tube as kind of a joke and I won. I accepted it as though I'd won a goddamn Oscar and at the end of the screening, my roommate and I carried it back while chanting epic songs.
As though we were bringing the wolf through town on parade at the end of "Peter and the Wolf".
I would tell people that Batman had a giant penny and I had a giant tube.
Later, my brother hacked a hole into it and incorporated it into his stereo system by using it to amplify a speaker from a broken Wurlitzer.
It looks like a giant flute now.
Also, I enjoyed "Rushmore" a good deal. Max reminded me a lot of Young Me.
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I won a giiiiiiant cardboard tube at a screening of "Rushmore" in college.
Like giiiiiiiiiiiiant. Like, they raffled off some soundtracks of "Rushmore" and some posters and then kind of as a joke, they raffled off this tube as kind of a joke and I won. I accepted it as though I'd won a goddamn Oscar and at the end of the screening, my roommate and I carried it back while chanting epic songs.
When I was in the second grade, I won a giant butcher-paper-cutout picture of a French hen. My elementary school had done "Twelve Days of Christmas" decoration for the Christmas pageant, and for some reason they gave the damn things out via a drawing; I was an unlucky kid, so winning this made me near-apoplectic with glee. It hung in my room for five years, until we moved, and I'm not sure what came of it afterwards, but given my family's propensity for hoarding, I'm sure it's around here somewhere.
I haven't actually seen Rushmore. Unfortunately, this means I can't get the thread back on topic, but someone else should.
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I totally used to start crazy clubs for everything in school. Now I make websites for them.
Anyway, yeah, Rushmore is one of my favourite films of all time. I have seen it, by liberal estimate, about 200 times.
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I adored the Royal Tenenbaums, so I thought I'd rent Rushmore. I really disliked it.
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I've never seen it. I avoided it when it came out because of that damned "O.R. they" joke from the commercial that was played roughly 237 a day.
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I've never seen it. I avoided it when it came out because of that damned "O.R. they" joke from the commercial that was played roughly 237 a day.
Although it is far from the funniest thing in that movie, I really like the kid's delivery of it (I can't remember who he is).
But yeah. Great stuff. The war play reminds me of all the ridiculous ideas we had for all the plays I did in high school (we all were like "lets actually have a two floor ship for Anything Goes and when that guy goes in the water he'll actually jump in a giant pool and blah blah blah).
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I adored the Royal Tenenbaums, so I thought I'd rent Rushmore. I really disliked it.
Seconded, though I saw Rushmore before Tenenbaums. I did not like Max Fischer at all, which is sort of a big problem in terms of overall enjoyment, y'know, not liking the main character.
Tenenbaums, though...pure awesome.
Have yet to see The Life Aquatic.
I seem to remember liking the bumpers that the Max Fischer Players did for that year's MTV Movie Awards better than the actual film.
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when my school did Anything Goes, it actually was a 2 floor set.
...sorry.
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We had a two-floor set for "Fame," by which I mean "the stage, two small risers at stage left and right, and one huge riser at back center, upon which most of the big dance numbers took place and under which the band was playing." How this avoided collapsing and killing everyone, I'll never know.
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This is kind of random - but Rushmore features Seymour Cassel (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001025/) who is the father-in-law of my cousin (whom I mentioned today in a different thread (http://touamb.com/index.php/topic,3456.45.html)). Strange forces are aligning themselves in my life.
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It was filmed in my neighborhood.
[image] (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN1833-E-500.jpg)
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when my school did Anything Goes, it actually was a 2 floor set.
...sorry.
Don't feel bad, our school was rather terrible, and the fact that there was a drama program at all was something to be happy about.
We had a two-floor set for "Fame," by which I mean "the stage, two small risers at stage left and right, and one huge riser at back center, upon which most of the big dance numbers took place and under which the band was playing." How this avoided collapsing and killing everyone, I'll never know.
Once we did Moon over Buffalo (hilarious by the way) and we had two "Staircases" which were downstage left and right (they were each a set of three steps). Every night at least one of them broke. This is possibly one of the reasons why we never made very elaborate sets. Also we probably couldn't afford it.
Edit: My 2^7th post! ROCK!
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We had a two-floor set for "Fame," by which I mean "the stage, two small risers at stage left and right, and one huge riser at back center, upon which most of the big dance numbers took place and under which the band was playing." How this avoided collapsing and killing everyone, I'll never know.
We had pretty much exactly the same set up when we did Fame at our local theatre many years back. Is it just the norm? I remember having to hustle up onto the back riser for the last number after we all got our t shirts on. And I remember my impeccable (or perhaps not so) Puerta Rican accent, and them having to change the lyrics for my song, 'as there would be young people there'.
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We had a two-story set for Anything Goes too. I remember the "steps" leading up to the second story entrance backstage were incredibly unsafe and shaky.
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I finished my 2nd watching of Rushmore!
my friend enjoyed it very much, also. We agreed that it was a good film. The ending was better than I remembered.
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And I remember my impeccable (or perhaps not so) Puerta Rican accent, and them having to change the lyrics for my song, 'as there would be young people there'.
Oh, God, you played that guy? I remember being very pissed about that when we staged; we had an extremely talented, interesting, quirky guy playing that part, and then the entirety of "Can't Keep It Down" got cut for being "inappropriate," which left him with basically no role. I considered it yet another triumph of my director's damnable taste for the whitebread. (That production of Fame was sort of hilarious anyway, because you can imagine what kind of casting problems you have when you're trying to cast a show set in New York City out of the concert choir from a high school in Suburban Nebraska. They managed to get a Carmen who seemed vaguely Hispanic, but, in a feat so perverse it must have been intentional, every black character was blonde in our version.)
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yeah. My highschool is doing West Side Story, and basically everyone there is white. Actually, probably literally everyone in the theater program. My two incredibly talented blond friends are very upset, because a dark-haired girl who can -maybe- pass as Hispanic got cast as Maria instead of them.
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That production of Fame was sort of hilarious anyway, because you can imagine what kind of casting problems you have when you're trying to cast a show set in New York City out of the concert choir from a high school in Suburban Nebraska.
Joe I think he was called, yeah. As I say, for ours they just changed the lyrics, though for the life of me I can't remember what to. It vaguely worked at least and meant I did have something to do, although two of the guys as my backing were incapable of singing or dancing which didn't help.
As for casting even New Yorkers, it's got to be easier in Nebraska than North East England! Again, probably the most ethnic looking person was the girl playing Carmen, and she at least could pull off an accent, as could a couple of the other guys. A number of them didn't even seem to try though, and the majority were just going for an 'American accent', whatever that's supposed to be.
For topic... I will watch Rushmore tomorrow night, again, finally.
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We had a two-level set with lots of trapdoors for Oliver!
I'm not familiar with Anything Goes. Does this mean I lose at high school drama?