The book Max is reading at the beginning of the movie is Diving for Sunken Treasure by Jacques Yves Cousteau who was the main inspiration for Wes Anderson’s later film, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
(Source: filmtrivia)
AVC: What are some books or movies that have had an influence on the show and its world?
MS: Well, there are many. There’s a little bit of Rushmore, I think, in terms of a character who likes to be involved in everything and do a million things. Part of our creation myth of Leslie [Knope] is that she sleeps three and a half hours a night, and she’s always taking community-center classes and rec-center classes and also teaching them. In “Road Trip” there’s a line that we cut where, when Ann has found out that she was dumped by Chris a week earlier and is really freaking out, they go to the Snakehole Lounge and get drunk. We had this line that we really liked we just had to cut for time where Ann’s leaving and she goes, “All right, I’m gonna go home and go to sleep and not leave my house for two days,” or something, and Leslie said, “I’ll be at your house tomorrow at 7 a.m. to play tennis.” She probably can’t play tennis; she can’t do everything expertly, but she is always doing whatever it is. There’s a lot of Jason Schwartzman’s Rushmore character, I think, in her.
I didn’t think I could love this show any more.
(Source: The A.V. Club)
“Sic transit gloria. Glory fades. I’m Max Fischer.”
“I saved Latin. What did you ever do?”
“Sic transit gloria. Glory fades. I’m Max Fischer.”
