rushmore deconstruction 1st revision

8/20/2019 Rushmore Deconstruction 1st Revision

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“Rushmore” (1998)

Deconstruction


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Facts

● “Rushmore” (1998)

● IMDb Rating 7.7

● Metascore 86/100

● Genre Comedy, Drama


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Opening Credits

Here we have the two companies who produced

this film, This is a first in every single film, theproducers and other companies are

acknowledged before the film even starts


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Title Reveal

After the Offices Clips it turns t

which pulls open revealing theestablishment as “Rushmore”

not only be the name of this pla

film, most likely where it is all s

The camera pans right and into

where the next screenshot is

The lighting is made to look lik

from the sun, but as this is Eng

unlikely shot to pull off with the


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Setting The Scene

So to begin, It is obvious that we are in a school,

in a maths lesson. We can tell by the fact it is ateacher, teaching maths on a blackboard.

The lighting is very diffused meaning it is a well

lit room, obviously a classroom.

A student mentions the Extra credit on a board

on the left where the camera acts as his headand turns with the student as the teacher talks to

him, After giving some interesting news the

camera pans over the class showing all the rows

of people chatting about the new point and it

finally lands on Max.


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Doesn’t need to listen

From this we can already tell a

He is very intelligent and cockyhimself able to read a newspa

he must already know it all. He

listen so why should he, after b

solve the Extra Credit Equation

newspaper on a pile of others,

he has already read those one

quick reader (hinting at his aca

The camera shows him higher

to show his intellect is above th

classmates, He then leaves his

proceeds to complete the equa


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The Perfect Student

Once he is done, the camera zooms out and we

see Max in a very smug face, staring at theteacher, behind him we see a board full of

equation working, perfectly written, almost

impossible by the normal person. This could be

to make it seem unreal, or perhaps it actually is

unreal. After being told he is correct the rest of

the class begin to applaud and cheer him.

This is when Max wakes up in church to an

applause for the previous speaker


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“Turns out it was a Dream Sequence”

The speaker here is the highes

shot, not only because he is stpedestal to talk but because th

and gets his point across is ve

at the same time aggressive, a

the back, he is standing higher

stained glass window.

We can easily see this is a chu

everyone is formally dressed, t

and Jesus on the window in th

lighting is very dim, and only fr

and windows meaning it must

seen in the dream sequence


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Suck-up

Here we can see that Max is infact, not a

dominant character afterall. He stands muchlower than the Speaker and the other man who

is the Headteacher of the Prep-school. He is a

very short character overall really. He is also

portrayed in this shot as young and insignificant:

1: He is shorter, 2: he is in a school uniform and

3: H is not smoking like the other two are. This

could relate to him being naive or unaware of

what he has to come.


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Comedia Fact Reveal

Here we have a slight build up

reveal here the music in the bahe says that Max is actually th

they’ve ever had.

This, in my opinion was not a v

because the way he acts seem

really know what he is doing in

example, He fell asleep in chu

dream sequence where he is b

person in school.


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Montage Starts

It begins by opening Max’s book and begins to

scroll through the large list of extra activities thathe is involved with, perhaps this is why he is not

doing well academically, instead of studying he

is taking part in activities such as “French Club”

and the representative of Russia at the “Model

EU Club”

He may not be academic, but by his list of Skills,Max is proving to be a very skilled student, just

not at the actual school part.


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this is another hint at the style

can expect from this film, Whatheir right mind would allow a B

This is not the comedic club he

formed his own theater acting

it after himself. We can see alr

a very pretentious boy.


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Montage/ Credits Ends

This is where the credits and the montage end,

in a red curtain, much like the one at the verystart, and it is categorised with the wrd

September, this most likely means that we will

see Max throughout an entire school year

starting with the first day.


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Conclusion

In conclusion this film seems to be situation

comedy, or Sit-com meaning the entire story isbased on what is happening at the time, and in

this case, Max is failing school and needs to

buck up before it’s too late.

It looks like a good film and I look forward to

watching the rest and adapting its ideas as my

own so that I can use them in my own filminglater on.

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