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TRANSCRIPT
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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.