Rushmore: A Screenplay

by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson

Book Overview

Rushmore is the second work from the team of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson following the success of their debut screenplay and film Bottle Rocket. It is a refreshingly offbeat comedy about young Max Fish, a precocious pupil at a conservative private school. He is a live wire, a teenager full of madcap entrepreneurial schemes that usually in failure. His personal life becomes similarly complicated when he falls for his elegant teacher,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571200125
• ISBN13: 9780571200122
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

If not anything, the humor.

I identified with the characters in the movie. I know one person wrote an intelligent review saying that the movie seemed too surreal, but in my opinion, though I admit the situation had a surreal feel to it, the characters were extremely realistic. I loved Margaret Yang and the way she was so caught up in success that she lied for a project that was almost bought by NASA. If you don't like anything else, you have to at least admit that Rushmore is one of the funniest things you have seen or read.

A must for Max Fischer fans

Happily, this is an original script/shooting script, not the final filmed version so there are plenty of scenes and lines included here that did not appear in the movie. After reading I have a new appreciation for the subtle, nearly flawless directing and acting in this amazing film. Buy it!

Me likey words more than he likey words

He no likey words as much as me. Wes is genius. So is Owen. Me wish they were friends to me. Can't wait to have read to me. Rush me copy!

The BEST movie made in the 90's

Haven't read the book, but if anything like the movie - GODHEAD - can be the only explaination. Yes, this a review before its publication. Don't worry, I hear "reviewers" do stuff like this all the time. P.S. Buy this book and follow along with the movie. Unfortunaltely, there are no bells to during the movie to signify the page turning.

Oddly Original, Funny, and Moving

Much has been made of the performances in Rushmore -- all of which are remarkable. Bill Murray is hilarious and startlingly moving, Olivia Williams is delightful, and Jason Schwartzman -- well, he just plain is Max Fisher. His performance is astonishing, especially considering it's a rookie effort.But what of the roles as written? What of the story? It's fresh, unpredictable, and moving. Part of this is the truly odd plot and comic tone, but there's something else -- an underlying compassion that permeates the film and sets it apart from so many other hilarious but somehow cold-hearted comedies today. Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson truly do seem to love the characters and the world they've created. And, so, in the end, do we. But what of the screenplay? Rushmore is written with a breathtakingly sure hand from start to finish. There's tremendous economy here. Every scene is essential to the story, and every scene is maximized for full dramatic/comic value. At the same time, the screenplay has a delicacy and an attention to detail (one example: Max brings sandwiches when he tells Blume's wife of her husband's affair).In short, Rushmore is one of the most original, funny, and moving films I've seen in a very long time.