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Rushmore

posted 16 years ago by vc2020
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Does Rushmore remind anyone else of this movie? There are a lot of similarities between Billy Fisher and Max Fischer.

i agree, although Billy is ultimately the more tragic character. i think the movie is probably one of the earliest examples of teenage indecision.

[–] shroomn 14 years ago

Care to list anymore? Between this and Rushmore, I have some doubts in that genre...

[–] aicfan85 9 years ago

I also thought a great deal about "Ferris Beuller's Day Off" and "The Graduate." Same kind of protagonist.

"some movie quote"

[–] phil-loughborough 7 years ago

hamlet

You see, in the end, our truest opinions are not the ones we have never changed...

[–] TheMemphian 13 years ago

I just re-watched it for the first time since the 80's and thought the same thing. The Fisher name and the same general story theme where enough to convince me that Wes Anderson was influenced by Billy Liar when conceiving Rushmore.

"What rotten sins I've got working for me. I suppose it's the wages." -Bedazzled (1967)

[–] ksf-2 13 years ago

Walter Mitty, only younger ?