The Big Picture: The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’

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The extraction calls the show “The Big Picture (The Ringer)” and the episode “The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums'”.

Hosts: Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins. Guests: none.

Subject films: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).

On the transcript: No speaker labels; hosts only occasionally addressed by name, so speaker is mostly unknown. Many names are garbled by the transcriber.

Films that came up

passing (17)

Sinners · Bottle Rocket · Franny and Zooey / Salinger's Glass stories · From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler · Megalopolis · Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? · Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid · Black Bag · Wicked: For Good · Fantastic Mr. Fox · Isle of Dogs · The French Dispatch · Saving Private Ryan · Shakespeare in Love · Hamnet · Henry Sugar (The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar) · Licorice Pizza

subject (1)

The Royal Tenenbaums

compared (7)

Moonrise Kingdom · Rushmore · The Grand Budapest Hotel · The Darjeeling Limited · Asteroid City · The Phoenician Scheme · The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

anecdote (1)

One Battle After Another

recommended (5)

The Squid and the Whale · Hannah and Her Sisters · Terms of Endearment · Harold and Maud · Arrested Development

Claims (44)

  1. verdict (verdict): The Royal Tenenbaums → Rushmore. Rushmore would have been a war versus Tenenbaums; Rushmore is still one speaker's favorite, but Rushmore was ineligible as a 20th-century film.
    “Rushmore versus Tenenbaums would have been a war between us because that is still my favorite.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:02:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): The Grand Budapest Hotel → The Royal Tenenbaums. Grand Budapest would be the strongest case for an Anderson entry because of its financial and awards success.
    “I think the best case that could have been made would have been for Grand Budapest Hotel.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:03:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Catcher in the Rye / Franny and Zooey. Salinger's Glass-family stories are the key literary influence.
    “Zoe is like the key influence on this film”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:05:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): The Royal Tenenbaums → From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. The vibe of that kid-runaway book imbues the first 40 minutes, including the narration and child-genius portraiture.
    “the whole vibe of that book is imbued in the 1st 40 minutes of this movie, most of the narration, most of the young Tenenbaum's portraiture of these 3 child geniuses.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:05:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): The Royal Tenenbaums → French New Wave. Combines the emotionality and cutting style of French new wave with the rawness of 70s American cinema.
    “You've got 70s American cinema and you've also got 60s French new wave.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:06:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. theme (theme): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Phoenician Scheme. The anger and violence of the newest Anderson film recalls the angry-young-man streak here.
    “this most recent movie reminded me, I think of that feeling of like, ooh, Wes is like, something's pissed him off.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:07:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Life Aquatic takes the 'slight turn of the dial of creativity' to an epic conclusion with invented undersea creatures.
    “He takes this to kind of like an epic conclusion, I find in the Life Aquatic, where he's inventing creatures, literally under sea.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:09:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (lineage): The Royal Tenenbaums → Hal Ashby films. Offered as obvious comparison points, though Anderson's sensibility feels new.
    “you can say, oh, this is kind of like Hal Ashby movies or this is kind of like true foam movies, but his sensibility.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:09:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. contrast (contrast): The Royal Tenenbaums → Moonrise Kingdom. Moonrise has kids trying to escape parenthood; Tenenbaums puts a father front and center.
    “in Moonrise Kingdom, where you've got these kids kind of wandering around, who don't like are trying to escape the idea of parenthood.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:11:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. contrast (contrast): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Grand Budapest Hotel. In Budapest a stand-in father figure; Tenenbaums has Hackman front and center.
    “in the Grand Budapest Hotel, where Ray finds his character as kind of a stand-in father figure”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:11:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  11. people (people): Gene Hackman → Dustin Hoffman. Hackman's brief contemporaneous interview is compared to Hoffman in the Megalopolis documentary: smiling and turning it on.
    “Shades of Dustin Hoffman in the Megalopolis documentary.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:12:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. contrast (contrast): Royal Tenenbaum → Benicio del Toro in The Phoenician Scheme. Other Anderson father figures play the deadpan, with the possible exception of del Toro.
    “every other father figure in his movies, maybe with the exception of Benicio del Toro in Phoenician scheme.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:13:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. career (career): Benicio del Toro → One Battle After Another. Del Toro asked to avoid picking up Leo's live-wire energy and stay calm, which is hard for actors.
    “He asked that just make sure I don't pick up anyone else's energy.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:14:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. contrast (contrast): Gene Hackman → Tom Hanks. Hanks in Asteroid City is drained of native charisma, while Hackman won't allow that.
    “I mean, think of Tom Hanks in Asteroid City.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:15:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → Mark Mothersbaugh. The score and needle drops, composed by Mothersbaugh, match Anderson's other films; Hackman's performance is what stands out against them.
    “the costuming, the color palette, the, the score, then Mark Mark Mother's ball composes the needle drops”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:16:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. people (people): The Royal Tenenbaums → Gene Hackman. Hackman's agitated, charismatic performance cuts against Anderson's deadpan style and elevates the film.
    “Royal is so different that it elevates the movie in a big way.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:16:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → Richard Scarry books. The big panoramic shot is like a Richard Scarry book with a magnifying glass: many characters each doing something.
    “reading a Richard Scary book with a magnifying glass.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:17:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → Martin Scorsese. Anderson's needle drops are even more part of the fabric than Scorsese's, almost diegetic.
    “even more than a Scorsese way, you know, they are like almost digetic.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:19:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → Rushmore. Both films use pop music (Ooh La La; the Van Morrison closer) to announce the theme.
    “announcing the theme of the movie via pop music.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:19:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. craft (craft): Wes Anderson → The Kinks. Anderson always finds a place for the Kinks.
    “He always likes to find a place for the kinks.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:20:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Rolling Stones. The film uses a more obscure Rolling Stones song and then 'Ruby Tuesday'.
    “he gives you slightly more obscure Rolling Stone song and then he gives you a Ruby Tuesday.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:20:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → Bob Dylan. Two very obscure Bob Dylan songs are in the film, 'Wigwam' among them, which became well known after its use here.
    “he gives you 2 very obscure Bob Dylan songs.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:20:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. The wordless acoustic guitar theme from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is one of the film's needle drops.
    “And then the theme from Pacyard and Billy the Kid in that amazing, you know, that's just like a worldless acoustic guitar composition.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:20:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Ramones. A Ramones punk track plays over the go-kart racing, part of Anderson blending styles of music as he blends cinematic styles.
    “while racing in the go-karts too, with the Ramones, like, and him blending all these different styles”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:21:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. lineage (lineage): The Royal Tenenbaums → James L. Brooks / Woody Allen / Billy Wilder / Ernst Lubitsch. The few filmmakers who artfully blend comedy and sadness.
    “And it's like, it's James L. Brooks.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:21:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. lineage (lineage): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Squid and the Whale. Named as a companion film for blending comedy with sadness.
    “I did write down the squid and the whale as kind of like a companion film to this film.”
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  27. people (people): Wes Anderson → Noah Baumbach. Baumbach is a friend and collaborator who also blends comedy and sadness.
    “Definitely Noah Bomback, and obviously they have been collaborators and friends”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:21:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  28. what-if (what-if): Luke Wilson → Harrison Ford. A podcaster once said Luke Wilson could have been Harrison Ford.
    “Luke Wilson, who Chris Ryan once famously said, could have been Harrison Ford.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:26:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  29. people (people): Owen Wilson → Wes Anderson. Owen Wilson's madcap humor in his writing partnership with Anderson differs from Anderson's work with Coppola or Baumbach; speaker wishes they would write together again.
    “I wish they'd write another movie together because I can feel his sense of humor in this movie”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:27:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  30. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → Alec Baldwin. Baldwin's narration works rather than feeling mannered, giving the quality of reading a good book.
    “Alec Baldwin's reading of the sort of opening graphs of individual chapters of this story.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:31:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  31. people (people): Eli Cash → Cormac McCarthy. Eli is a famous author described as fake Cormac McCarthy.
    “He's fake Core Mac McCarthy.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:32:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  32. career (career): The Royal Tenenbaums → Life Aquatic / Darjeeling Limited / Isle of Dogs etc.. Tenenbaums was the first film Scott Rudin produced for Anderson, through 2018.
    “This is, as I said, the 1st movie that Scott Ruden produces for him, and Ruden produces for him all the way through 2018.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:34:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  33. industry (industry): Scott Rudin → Wes Anderson. Rudin was one of the producers who grabbed, propelled, and protected certain filmmakers and let them work their way.
    “there are a handful of filmmakers that that producer kind of, Grabbed and and propelled forward. And protected”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:34:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. career (career): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Life Aquatic is a growth step: ocean, puppetry, design, versus a film set in a house.
    “It's a movie on the ocean.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:35:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  35. lineage (lineage): The Royal Tenenbaums → Hannah and Her Sisters. Recommended for its rare combination of sadness and comedy.
    “I wrote down Hannah and her sisters, which is a rare combination of that sadness in that comedy.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  36. lineage (lineage): The Royal Tenenbaums → Terms of Endearment. Recommended as a James L. Brooks sad-comedy relative.
    “terms of endearment.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  37. lineage (lineage): The Royal Tenenbaums → Harold and Maud. Off-kilter characterization, 70s feel, overcoats, and suicide attempts; in the bloodstream of Tenenbaums and Squid and the Whale.
    “Harold and Maud is very much in the bloodstream of, of, the Royal Ten of bombs and Squid and the whale.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  38. lineage (lineage): The Royal Tenenbaums → Arrested Development. Recommended for those who liked the sitcom about a crazy, wealthy family.
    “If you liked that sitcom about a crazy, wealthy family, then there's definitely a lot to match this up with.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  39. verdict (verdict): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Grand Budapest Hotel. Grand Budapest is the best alternative case for the Anderson slot, but it could not exist without Tenenbaums' blueprint.
    “Um, but Grand Budapest does not exist.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:38:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  40. industry (industry): Wes Anderson → Paul Thomas Anderson. Compared as beloved filmmakers still without Oscars; PTA's year may be coming.
    “We're, it's starting to feel like the Paul Thomas Anderson year is happening, right?”
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  41. industry (industry): The Royal Tenenbaums → One Battle After Another. Speakers frame the Oscar race around PTA's film versus Hamnet.
    “it's one battle after another.”
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  42. contrast (contrast): The Royal Tenenbaums → The French Dispatch / Asteroid City / The Phoenician Scheme. The recent trilogy is more diorama-like and suffocating, less open than Tenenbaums.
    “So they're not as open as tenant bombs is.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:40:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  43. industry (industry): Wes Anderson → Noah Baumbach / Greta Gerwig. Grouped as faves who haven't had Oscars yet.
    “It's no Bombach, it's Greta Gerwig, like that, you know, that our class.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:41:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  44. industry (industry): Wes Anderson → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick never winning an Oscar is why not winning feels cool.
    “Stanley Kubrick never won.”
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Fun items (21)

  1. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Anderson's Texas background and wishing a stylish literary world into existence is why one host responded; the movie came out when they were a high school senior.
    “This movie came out when I was a senior in high school”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:08:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: It is the second-earliest film on the list, a 21st-century movie about the 20th century.
    “this is kind of the ultimate 21st century movie about the 20th century.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:11:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Gene Hackman: This is his second-to-last film and the list honors him after his death this year; he reportedly did not enjoy making it.
    “this is the 2nd to last movie that he made.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:12:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Gene Hackman: The Criterion edition has a short interview where he smiles through it, compared to Dustin Hoffman in the Megalopolis documentary.
    “I'm turning it on for you for as long as I possibly can.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:12:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Gene Hackman: Hackman reportedly told Wes not to write something for him, preferring to receive a part and bring himself to it; Wes wrote it for him anyway.
    “Gene Hackman said, do not write something for me.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:13:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: The Hackman/Stiller game-room face-off is a rare explosion in an Anderson film.
    “think of like Hackman and Stiller in the game room together when they pull the light and they're facing off of each other”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:16:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Panoramic shot after Eli's car crash mirrors the opening montage and captures every character: a showy 'first big boy movie' move.
    “this is my 1st big boy movie kind of move.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:17:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: One speaker cannot hear a certain song without picturing Margot getting off the green line bus.
    “I don't hear these days without thinking of Margot getting off of the green line bus.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:18:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Needle-drop catalog: Ruby Tuesday, two obscure Dylan songs including Wigwam, the Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid theme, the Ramones, and a Van Morrison closer.
    “he gives you 2 very obscure Bob Dylan songs.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:20:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Gwyneth Paltrow: Banter about Margot's eyeliner and whether her hair is a wig.
    “do we think it's a wig, Gwyneth Paltrow?”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:23:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Sean Fennessey: Sean's fantasy football punishment: podcast in a headband without addressing it, and if he finishes last he may wear the whole Richie outfit.
    “I will wear the Richie Tenbaum headband.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:26:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Eli Cash: Eli hiding in a closet in a cowboy hat and underwear is a highlight; he is a perfect movie character, so funny and so sad.
    “Him just hiding in the closet in a cowboy hat and underwear.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:27:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Best-loved lines: 'This is my adopted daughter, Margot'; 'You used to be a genius'; 'I've had a tough year, dad.'
    “I've had a tough year, dad.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:30:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Narrator quotes: 'Your mother was a terribly attractive woman' makes a family member laugh from the next room.
    “Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:31:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Eli Cash: Eli's line about Custer, delivered while walking down a hallway being interviewed.
    “What this book presupposes is maybe he didn't.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:31:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: The ice-cream scene: Royal doesn't know Margot's middle name; she answers Helen, his mother's name, and says she knows. Called the most heartbreaking scene.
    “And Margot very quickly says, Helen.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:33:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Margot's play reenacts the Levinson-in-the-trees scene; the audience is still except Hackman cracking up at his own character.
    “everyone is still, except for Hackman, just like cracking up at his own character”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:33:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: It got an original screenplay Oscar nomination and lost; also BAFTA and WGA nods and a Hackman Globe nomination.
    “So it did get an original screenplay, Oscar nomination.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:33:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Question on Chaz's BB still in his hand: why not have surgery? Answer: magical 70s/2001 New York.
    “Why not just have a very quick surgery to have that sucker taken out?”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:36:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about The 25 Best Movies of the Century: Placement worry: they never feel they have the right placement and expect that every time; 11 more to do in 3.5 months.
    “It's just it's it's bangers all the way down this list.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:36:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Wes Anderson: He won an Oscar for Henry Sugar two years ago but still has no screenplay Oscar.
    “He doesn't even have a screenplay, Oscar.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:39:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

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