The Manipulativeness of Rushmore

Adam West: I can't get over how in addition to how the sets and the costumes and the framing device and the frame itself is engineered. The emotions feel engineered. If you're moved by it, that's great. We should be moved by movies. He says Anderson has a tone that he felt that he could reply to but not quite so directly. "You don't strike me as a man who lives hard on his sleeve all day long," writes West.