Wes Anderson’s second film, Rushmore, was released in 1998. Co-written by Anderson and Owen Wilson, the film stars Jason Schwartzman as Max Fischer, an eccentric and bright 15 year old whose main passion in life is attending Rushmore Academy. He befriends Herman Blume, two of Max’s classmate’s father and the owner of a successful steel company (played by Bill Murray). Though the wide age gap, Blume and Fischer fall in love with the same woman, a recently widowed first grade teacher named Rosemary Cross (played by Oliva Williams). This unlikely love triangle tears Fischer and Blume apart and sends them each on personal journeys of growth and self-discovery. The small cast, only three main characters, of Rushmore are well developed and when the film ends, there is a sense that you know each personally. On the surface, Rushmore looks like a movie about a private school, the complexities of friendships, and an unlikely love triangle.
The main protagonist of the film, Scotty Smalls, is introduced as a straight-A, friendless young boy who has just moved into a new neighborhood in new state. While
The Crucible. Dir. Nicholas Hytner. Perf. Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder and Paul Scofield. 20th Century Fox, 1996. DVD.
All Qui One of the main themes in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is Futility of War. The novel takes place during the Great War and takes place in France. Paul Baumer is the main character in the book, along with many of his friends. In the book the theme of futility of war appears in the beginning, middle and end of the novel and Baumer slowly becomes more aware of what war is really like. In the beginning Baumer enters the war as a recruit and begins to see the reality of war. During training, he had to remake the officer’s bed 14 times.
The story “Clearing Paths To The Past” and the poem “To Be Of Us” both have a common theme. They both talk about people getting done what needs to be done. The man in the short story had an obligation. That obligation was to clear the sidewalk even if other people didn’t. He wanted to help the kids get to and from school without having to walk through snow to do so. He wanted to be like his grandfather and make other people happy.Just like the story the poem also talks about how Marge Piercy , the author, loved people who got the job done. She likes people who put work before themselves. She says “I love people best who jump to work head first.” She saying that she likes people who don’t complain about having to do it and just do it. That is
The film Rudy (Fried, Friedman, Mayes, Mintz, Pizzo, Woods & Zinman, 1993) is a coming of age tale centered on the protagonist, Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger’s, attempts at gaining admission to Notre Dame University, and subsequently playing on their football team. Rudy encounters significant academic resistance as he works to get into Notre Dame, and then once again as he is simply a “tackling dummy” for the football team for much of his college career. However, Rudy is determined to succeed in his dream of suiting up to play as a Notre Dame Football player. After some success playing high school football, Rudy realizes his grades and inability to afford tuition will prevent him from attending Notre Dame right away. Going to work in the local steel mill like his father and older brothers gives him time to reflect on his choice.
There are always books and movies about girls falling in love and rarely about boys. That theme changes when it comes to Araby by James Joyce and Rushmore directed by Wes Anderson. Araby follows the story of a young boy who falls in love with his neighbor. While Rushmore is a movie about a fifteen year old boy, Max Fischer, who falls in love with a preschool teacher at his school. James Joyce and Wes Anderson both exemplify how boys too fall in love and have their own tribulations.
The legend of the Fountain of Youth says that anyone who should drink from or bathe in the waters of the fountain will have their youth restored. The legend has endured for thousands of years; one of the first accounts of its existence is in the writings of a Greek historian named Herodotus from 5 BCE. People have always lusted after youth and innocence, and often they lust in vain. In contrast, author Joe Hill claimed in one of his novels, “Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence.” In the case of Phineas, one of the main characters in John Knowles’ A Separate Peace, Hill is correct. The innocence and youthfulness which Phineas
Holidays were very serious Salem’s residents would enjoy themselves with friends but work very hard.
American History is a story written by Judith Ortiz Cofer in 1993. She normally writes about poetry but in this particular story she writes a short story about her life. The story begins with the speaker of the story, Elena, talking about the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The story continues through her own tragedy of her neighborhood crush shunning her away. The is short, however, it has many key points in life. Three of the themes of the story includes shame can be self-generated, shame can destroy your self confidence, and death can bring people together.
Many people look back on the events of the Salem witch trials and laugh at the absurdity of the allegations. It seems crazy that society could be fooled into believing in things like witches and deal with the events in such an extreme manner. It is a common belief that witch hunts are things of the past. Many people would agree that they no longer exist today; however Arthur Miller, author of the play, "The Crucible", points out that society has not come very far from the days of the Salem witch trials. In his play, he used the Salem witch trials to represent the McCarthy Era because he saw that the nation was facing the same events that Salem went through back in the late 1600 's. Arthur Miller wrote "The Crucible" in an attempt to create
The film is portrayed in the past and present scenario setting. It is based on a young couple’s love and passion for one another, but are unexpectedly separated due to the disapproval of the teen girl parents and the social differences in their life. At the start of the movie, it displays a nursing home style setting with an elderly man named Duke (James Garner), reading to an elderly woman named Mrs. Hamilton (Gena Rowlands), whose memory is inevitably deteriorating. The story he reads to her is a love story about two teenagers named Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling), that met in the 1940’s at a carnival in Seabrook Island, South Carolina. The two teens are from different cultural lifestyles,
One of the main themes in “The Green Mile” is death. It encapsulates the whole novel, leaving the reader to think deeply about their fate. It’s an obvious theme, considering the story takes place on death row. However, further analysis reveals a deeper meaning than men dying in the electric chair for their crimes. “And I think about all of us. Walking our own green mile; each in our own time.”(Pg 434) Paul said. The reader will discover that the Green Mile itself is a metaphor for death. Paul compared life at the Green Mile to life for a free citizen, because both lifestyles will end in the same way. Death is inevitable. For the prisoners, they have a set number of days until their execution, so their “Green Mile” is relatively short. A free citizen is uncertain about the time of their death, some people never even think about it, like they’re going to live forever. But when the day of reckoning comes, both prisoner and free citizen face the same fate. Life is uncertain -anything can happen in life - but death however, is not. One must live a righteous life, so one can die a righteous death. Nobody wants to have the same fate as a prisoner at E-Block, and live the life of regret, misery, and despair.
The Breakfast Club. Dir. John Hughes. Perf. Molly Ringwald,Ally Sheedy, Emilo Estevezand,Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson. Universal Pictures, 1985. Film.
Eternal is defined as lasting or existing forever; without end or beginning. There comes a time in life where everyone must face the reality of death. Death is a stage of life that is often feared by many. Some view death as the beginning of a new chapter in their life beyond the physical world rather than it being an ending. On a daily basis death is both experienced and avoided. The understanding and acceptance of death comes with time. The theme of death can be seen in Dickenson 's "Because I Could Not", Donne 's "Death, Be Not Proud and Thomas 's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" through acceptance, optimism and age respectively.
The Breakfast Club. Dir. John Hughes. A&M Films Channel Production, 1985. Perf. Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Esteves. Film.