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Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), the 15-year-old protagonist of Wes Anderson's well-reviewed comedy Rushmore , looks like Tom Cruise with his face pinched between a giant's thumb and forefinger so that his tiny eyes are squashed together and his big nose and teeth pop out.
The connotation is of Cold War provenance and was given broad currency in large part through the novels of John Le Carré, whose longtime protagonist, the spy master George Smiley, has pursued moles within British intelligence.
In movies like sex, lies, and videotape (1989), the protagonist has to put away the video camera to "get real"; in American Beauty , it's Ricky Fitts, the damaged stoner videomaker next door, who sees beauty where nonartists see only horror or nothingness.
Anderson and his co-writer, Owen Wilson (who starred in the pair's last film, the tediously quirky 1996 Bottle Rocket ), play a funny game with their indefatigable protagonist.
In Celebrity , the protagonist peddles a script about "an armored car robbery, but with a strong personal crisis."