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How Wes Anderson Elevated the Art of the Soundtrack
Shortly after Jason Schwartzman nabbed the lead role in 1998’s Rushmore as Max Fischer, a quirky teenager smitten with an older woman, the film’s cowriter and director, Wes Anderson, asked the actor to step into his car. Sitting inside his Mercedes station wagon, parked on the Sony lot in Los Angeles, Anderson clutched a cassette tape labeled “Rushmore songs”—the film’s eventual soundtrack. He inserted it into the tape player. Anderson then walked Schwartzman through the entire film, scene by scene, narrating over the songs humming from the vehicle’s speakers. Each tune signified a notable moment in the movie, which would be shot in Houston, where Anderson had been born and raised; Rushmore was inspired in large part by his time at St. John’s School. As…The post How Wes Anderson Elevated the Art of the Soundtrack appeared first on Texas Monthly.