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This is my type of people, shown in my type of movie. “What is my type?” you may ask. Jack Kerouac did a good job explaining: > The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!” > > ―Jack Kerouac, On the Road In Wes Anderson’s Rushmore (1998), Max Fischer is a fifteen-year-old genius who fails in school because he spends all his time doing extracurriculars. He’s smart, and anyone who’s also smart knows he’s smart. Don’t get me wrong, he’s failing school, and the private school he attends, where he also received a scholarship after the principal saw the play he did in second grade, now wants to expel him because he keeps getting bad grades. But it takes one to know one, and Herman Blume—played by Bill Murray, super successful steel magnate, father of twins at Rushmore, a man surrounded by money and boredom—likes the guy. > Herman Blume: What’s the secret, Max? > > Max Fischer: The secret? > > Herman Blume: Yeah, you seem to have it pretty figured out. > > Max Fischer: The secret, I don’t know… I guess you’ve just gotta find something you love to do and then… do it for the rest of your life. For me, it’s going to Rushmore. At some point, Herman wants to hire him.1 Herman Blume’s company. What a cool shot. Just a huge factory. What a dream. Max is the type of guy who doesn’t study for his classes but is involved in every club, and if there isn’t a club for an interest of his, he starts one. He’s also the type of person who is willing to do things. At one point, the school wanted to cancel Latin classes, but because he wanted to impress the first-grade teacher he was falling in love with, he gets a bunch of signatures, and Latin became requi