The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

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In the store as #312, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).

The Rewatchables' awards

From ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald (2021-01-12):

Most rewatchable scene

  1. pick The pre-credit character introductions scored by Hey Jude
    “The pre-credit character introductions that you mentioned is scored by, hey, Jude.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:35:25
  2. pick Royal at Margot's first play, when she is 11
    “I always really love royal at Margot's 1st play.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:35:32
  3. pick Margot meets Richie at the pier (the Nico needle drop)
    “Margot meets Richie at the pier.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:36:29
  4. pick Royal surreptitiously meets Ari and Uzi at the Y
    “I always loved it when Royal goes to surreptitiously meet Ari and Uzi at the Y.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:36:51
  5. pick Richie's tennis meltdown and the broadcast
    “Um, that leads to Richie's tennis meltdown where they actually show some of the broadcast and his uh, that 72 unforced errors.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:37:36
  6. pick Richie and Eli first meet, with Eli on mescaline
    “Richie and Eli, when they 1st meet and Eli's on Mescalin.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:37:57
  7. pick Any scene with Eli Cash
    “any scene with Eli Cash is rewatchable.”
    Andy Greenwald · 0:38:04
  8. pick Royal and his grandkids down by the schoolyard (the scrapping, yelling and mixing it up montage)
    “Royal and his grandkids down by the schoolyard, the whole, the whole, uh, I mean, who is down by the schoolyard?”
    Chris Ryan · 0:39:07
  9. pick Henry busts Royal, then Richie and Royal outside the house (you were never dying)
    “he figures out that he's taking tic-tacs and eating cheeseburgers and does not have stomach cancer”
    Chris Ryan · 0:39:19
  10. pick Royal and Ethel: baby, I'm dying
    “the scene that the further I get from it, the more I just want to rewatch it.”
    Andy Greenwald · 0:39:41
  11. pick Margot's background file montage set to the Ramones
    “I love the Margot, the Margot background file, montage with the Ramones, just just amazing shit.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:42:02
  12. pick The detective and the 'she's a smoker' punchline
    “But also, the detective.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:42:08
  13. floated Richie's suicide attempt, set to Needle in the Hay
    “Needle in the hay, attempted suicide, where she's attempted suicide, I think hits like a sledgehammer.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:42:29
  14. pick Margot and Richie in the tent
    “the last one I have is Margot and Richie in the tent, uh, which is incredibly tender moment.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:43:23
  15. pick The opening Hey Jude montage introducing the characters, narrated by Alec Baldwin
    “this movie starts with one of the more epic throat clearings I can remember”
    Andy Greenwald · 0:43:37
  16. pick Margot's background file montage
    “I think the Margot background file montage is, for me, like the most effortless, effortlessly stylish and expository and wonderful sequence”
    Andy Greenwald · 0:44:36

What's Aged the Best · What about the movie holds up best.

  1. pick The Clash on Eli's stereo
    “I thought I would mention the, uh, the fact that Eli is always listening to The Clash?”
    Chris Ryan · 0:46:17
  2. pick Bob Dylan's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid music
    “I love, and also the use of Bob Dylan's music from Pat Garrett and Billy and the Kid, a couple of times is beautiful.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:46:23
  3. pick Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts Christmas music: Counts as the quintessential New York record.
    “I want to shout out what is, to me, probably the quintessential New York record, certainly for 6 months of the year, which is Vince Gueraldi's Peanuts Christmas music.”
    Andy Greenwald · 0:46:31
  4. pick The Wilson brothers' performances: Sets aside Luke's later career; the Wilsons also go to Apex Mountain.
    “I think that their performances in this movie, separate from one another, are remarkable.”
    Andy Greenwald · 0:47:40
  5. pick The Sunday New York Times magazine cover of Eli Cash
    “I do want to say that what's aged the best is the Sunday New York Times magazine cover of Eli Cash.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:51:36
  6. pick Henry and Ethel's relationship
    “my final what's age the best is um, Henry and Ethel's relationship, which might be the most human and sort of recognizable relationship in the movie in a lot of ways”
    Chris Ryan · 0:51:46
  7. pick Producer Barry Mendel and the decision to invest in Wes Anderson
    “I feel like touched on pictures, producer Barry Mendel, like all their decisions to invest in Wes and let this be what it was going to be has aged really well.”
    Andy Greenwald · 0:52:27
  8. pick The physical comedy, including Danny Glover's fall at the archaeological site
    “I would also say the underrated, but has aged really well in this movie is the physical comedy.”
    Andy Greenwald · 0:53:28
  9. pick The soundtrack
    “I'm going to go with the soundtrack.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:54:05

What's Aged the Worst · What about the movie plays worst now.

  1. pick Margot and Richie's romance: Says he ended up less bothered by it than he remembered.
    “Um, Margot and Richie's relationship, which I think is uh, very, very, very sweet and very um, star crossed and very depressing.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:54:29
  2. pick The Charlie Rose figure
    “with another one of my what's aged the worst is the Charlie Rose figure in the movie kind of, uh, groping...”
    Chris Ryan · 0:56:44
  3. pick Royal's casual racism toward Henry (the Pete Coltrane lines)
    “I flag this whole part is age the worst because it definitely, it bumped me out of my rewatch.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:58:39
  4. pick The slapstick wedding ending
    “The only other thing I have for what's age, the worst is the ending, which is sort of this slapstick collision of all the plot lines and all the characters at this wedding”
    Andy Greenwald · 0:58:51

Casting What-Ifs · Almost-castings and who they would cast today.

  1. pick Gene Wilder as Royal Tenenbaum: Reported as the rumored third choice.
    “the most significant one is the rumor that uh, Gene Wilder was considered for Royal Tenenbaum.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:03:00
  2. pick Michael Caine as Royal Tenenbaum: Reported as the second choice after Hackman balked at scale pay.
    “it was so clear that he was going to say no that Wes and company turned to Michael Kane.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:03:28
  3. pick Robert Downey Jr. as Royal Tenenbaum: His pick to play Royal in a remake today.
    “And that's Robert Downey Jr.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:20:37
  4. pick John Goodman as Royal Tenenbaum: His pick to play Royal today.
    “I'm still hung up on the idea of someone who could be physically imposing and like could command a stage literally, but also do drama and comedy.”
    Andy Greenwald · 1:21:34

Dion Waiters Award · Best small role.

  1. nominee Bill Murray as Raleigh St. Clair
    “I have, as both, I have Bill Murray and Stephen Lee Shepherd, uh, is who plays Dudley.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:07:37
  2. nominee Stephen Lee Shepherd as Dudley
    “I have, as both, I have Bill Murray and Stephen Lee Shepherd, uh, is who plays Dudley.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:07:37
  3. nominee Larry Pine as the Charlie Rose figure
    “I got to say, I really enjoy New York stage veteran Larry Pine as Charlie Rose figure.”
    Andy Greenwald · 1:07:52
  4. winner Kumar Pallana as Pagoda: Best moment is Pagoda at the window in the intervention scene: there he goes.
    “It's Kumar Polana, who plays Pagoda.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:07:59

Joey Pants Award · Best that guy.

  1. winner Seymour Cassell as Dusty
    “I'm gonna give to Seymour Cassell as Dusty.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:08:35
  2. nominee Eben Moss-Bacharach as the bellhop
    “Yeah, and do you know who was the bellhop when Royal is moving out and is complaining about his missing encyclopedias is Eben Moss Bacharach”
    Andy Greenwald · 1:08:47

Vincent Hanna Award · Best big, over-the-top performance.

  1. winner Ben Stiller as Chaz Tenenbaum: Pitched at a different frequency than everyone else.
    “I'm going to go with Stiller.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:09:10
  2. nominee Gwyneth Paltrow as Margot Tenenbaum: Floated, not as a knock; Chris notes she is doing a lot of little.
    “I think you could make the argument that Paltrow goes here too.”
    Andy Greenwald · 1:09:23

Apex Mountain (renamed Mount Wilson) · Where a performance or career peaks.

  1. winner Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson as Eli Cash and Richie Tenenbaum: Renamed Apex Mountain Mount Wilson for this episode.
    “I mean, this is this is Mount Wilson, as far as I'm concerned.”
    Andy Greenwald · 0:48:39
  2. pick Gwyneth Paltrow as Margot Tenenbaum: Floated as her peak; the hosts settle on Mount Wilson.
    “This might be Gwyneth Apex Mountain as far as I'm concerned.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:11:34

Who Won the Movie · Who came out ahead.

  1. winner Gene Hackman as Royal Tenenbaum
    “For me, it's Gene Hackman.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:32:15
  2. winner Luke Wilson as Richie Tenenbaum: Says Luke Wilson, as the beating heart with his relationship with Margot.
    “I think he is the sort of beating art of the movie.”
    Andy Greenwald · 1:32:33

Ebert Review · What Roger Ebert gave it.

  1. pick The Royal Tenenbaums: 3.5 stars; the review is not read aloud.
    “Our guy, Roger Ebert gave this movie 3.5 stars.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:28:01

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

  1. pick Chaz's tracksuits are never explained
    “My only thing is Chaz's tracksuits.”
    Andy Greenwald · 1:21:59
  2. pick Why Richie says he will kill himself tomorrow
    “I've never understood why Richie says he's going to kill himself tomorrow.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:22:46
  3. pick Why Royal flips from bad to good: Decides it is 2021 brain wanting scripts to explain character changes.
    “I had this as a knit and then I kind of chastise myself”
    Andy Greenwald · 1:23:40
  4. pick Raleigh St. Clair subplot: Doesn't mind it in the end.
    “the Raleigh St. Clair subplot stuff with Dudley while really funny is kind of like, do you need this Oliver Sachs character?”
    Chris Ryan · 1:25:21

Best Quotes · Favorite lines.

  1. pick Chaz and Richie and the suicide note exchange
    “My favorite moment is probably Chaz and Richie after Richie's tried to kill himself.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:25:50
  2. pick Royal: anybody interested in grabbing a couple of burgers in the cemetery
    “Royal saying anybody interested in grabbing a couple of burgers in the cemetery.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:26:16
  3. pick Eli on the phone with Margot: why would a reviewer make the point of saying someone's not a genius
    “I love when Eli is on the phone with Margot and says, why would a reviewer make the point of saying someone's not a genius?”
    Chris Ryan · 1:27:31
  4. pick Eli: everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn, what this book presupposes is, maybe he didn't
    “My all-time favorite quote from the movie is probably, well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is.”
    Andy Greenwald · 1:28:21
  5. pick Chaz: I've had a rough year, dad
    “I mentioned it's been a rough year, dad.”
    Andy Greenwald · 1:29:49

Probably Unanswerable Questions · Questions the movie leaves open.

  1. pick How the Tenenbaums funded their lifestyle: Guesses Chaz and Richie pump money back into the family.
    “I am always curious about how the kind of moms sort of funded their lifestyle.”
    Andy Greenwald · 1:30:37

Half-assed internet research · Facts the hosts looked up.

  1. pick 111 Archer is a real place, up in Harlem
    “111 Archer is a real place.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:15:27
  2. pick The movie is full of real New York locations and products
    “this is sort of half-assed internet research and half-assed me noticing research”
    Andy Greenwald · 1:18:37

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Francois Truffaut: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Francois Truffaut ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read). French New Wave influence.
    “Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:15:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

French New Wave: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): French New Wave ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read). 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)

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read). 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)

Harold and Maud: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Harold and Maud ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read). 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)

Jean-Luc Godard: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Jean-Luc Godard ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the maker said so: Matt Zoller Seitz's book on the movie). The mosaic of book covers was inspired by a Godard movie doing something similar.
    “he was inspired by, I think it was a Godard movie that did something similar, of course.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:53:10 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

Louis Malle: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Louis Malle ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read). French New Wave directors listed among its influences.
    “some of the influences on this movie include films by Louis Maule. Um, uh, Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:15:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Catcher in the Rye / Franny and Zooey: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): The Catcher in the Rye / Franny and Zooey ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read). 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)

The Magnificent Ambersons: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (influence): The Magnificent Ambersons ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read). Named as a huge influence; rewatching Ambersons shows how much of it is in Tenenbaums.
    “it's wild how much, uh, ten bombs or how much Amberson's is in ten bombs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:16:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

The Grand Budapest Hotel: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): The Royal Tenenbaums ⇒ The Grand Budapest Hotel (the host's read). 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)

Connected to

The Grand Budapest Hotel: 4 lines verdict ×2 career ×1 contrast ×1

  1. career (career-arc): The Grand Budapest Hotel → The Royal Tenenbaums. Budapest wrestles with violence and history that Tenenbaums' sudden violence foreshadowed.
    “Grand Budapest Hotel is kind of a masterpiece because it, in addition to being twee and delightful and absolutely hilarious, kind of wrestles with fascism and creeping violence”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:20:03 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

Hannah and Her Sisters: 2 lines unmapped ×1 lineage ×1

  1. unmapped (New-York-nostalgia): The Royal Tenenbaums → Hannah and Her Sisters. The Upper West Side ice-cream-shop nostalgia is experienced through scenes like Hannah and Her Sisters and Paul Simon records.
    “only experienced through, like, you know, random scenes in Hannah and her sisters and early Paul Simon solo records.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:46:49 · Andy Greenwald (0.55 sure it was them)

Magnolia: 2 lines career ×1 craft ×1

  1. craft (style-criterion-MTV): The Royal Tenenbaums → Magnolia. Both blend European-cinema love with music-video sensibility and lead with musical taste.
    “it's basically like criterion MTV. They have the sensibility and the style of music videos”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:22:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: 2 lines craft ×2

  1. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. The film uses Bob Dylan's music from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid a couple of times.
    “and also the use of Bob Dylan's music from Pat Garrett and Billy and the Kid, a couple of times is beautiful.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:46:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Rushmore: 2 lines verdict ×1 craft ×1

  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)

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: 2 lines career ×2

  1. 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)

Alec Baldwin: 1 line craft ×1

  1. 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)

Arrested Development: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. 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)

Bob Dylan: 1 line craft ×1

  1. 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)

Boogie Nights: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (needle-drops): The Royal Tenenbaums → Boogie Nights. Grouped with Goodfellas as a needle-drop landmark.
    “Goodfellas is up there, obviously, like Boogie Nights is up there”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:23:59 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

Bottle Rocket: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (cast-continuity): The Royal Tenenbaums → Bottle Rocket. The Wilsons also play non-brothers with very different energies in Bottle Rocket.
    “the same thing is with Bottle Rocket, where they also don't play brothers.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:50:05 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

Briarpatch: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (casting-lesson): The Royal Tenenbaums → Briarpatch. Casting Briarpatch taught him there are no Hackmans: physically imposing, menacing and funny.
    “when I was making Briar Patch and I was trying to cast the lead part, I was like, there are no Gene Hackman.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:33:37 · Andy Greenwald (0.80 sure it was them)

Citizen Kane: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (studio-fate): The Royal Tenenbaums → Citizen Kane. Ambersons is Welles's follow-up to Kane and the movie taken away from him.
    “Orson Wells' infamous 2nd feature, his movie after Citizen Kane, and the movie that was taken away from him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:16:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Elliott Smith: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Elliott Smith → The Royal Tenenbaums. Elliott Smith's music does almost all the emotional work in the Richie scene, the speaker says.
    “So like when you're watching Richie, he's such a great, great character, but Elliot Smith does almost all of the work in that scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:23:21 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

Francois Truffaut: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (influence): The Royal Tenenbaums → Francois Truffaut. French New Wave influence.
    “Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:15:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Franny and Zooey: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (literary-source): The Royal Tenenbaums → Franny and Zooey. The movie is a Salinger pastiche; Anderson would need a Salinger adaptation as IP cover today.
    “he would have to make Franny and Zooey. Like he would have to make an adaptation of a Salinger novel”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:31:25 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

French New Wave: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. 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)

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. 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)

Gene Hackman: 1 line people ×1

  1. 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)

Gene Wilder: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (casting-what-if): Gene Wilder → The Royal Tenenbaums. Rumored to have been considered for Royal.
    “the rumor that uh, Gene Wilder was considered for Royal Tenenbaum.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:03:00 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Goodfellas: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (needle-drops): The Royal Tenenbaums → Goodfellas. Tenenbaums ranks with Goodfellas and Boogie Nights as a great needle-drop movie.
    “Goodfellas is up there, obviously, like Boogie Nights is up there, but the Tenenbaums might be one of the great needle drop movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:23:59 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

Gwyneth Paltrow: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Gwyneth Paltrow → The Royal Tenenbaums. Paltrow's best work includes Tenenbaums, Ripley, Two Lovers; when great she is otherworldly.
    “But, I mean, obviously, like, you look at, like, Royal Tannenbaums, talented Mr. Repley. Two lovers, baby.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 1:41:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Hal Ashby films: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. 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)

Harold and Maud: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. 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)

James L. Brooks / Woody Allen / Billy Wilder / Ernst Lubitsch: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. 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)

Jean-Luc Godard: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (influence): The Royal Tenenbaums → Jean-Luc Godard. The mosaic of book covers was inspired by a Godard movie doing something similar.
    “he was inspired by, I think it was a Godard movie that did something similar, of course.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:53:10 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

John Goodman: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (casting-what-if): John Goodman → The Royal Tenenbaums. Proposed modern Royal for physical imposition plus drama and comedy.
    “someone who could be physically imposing and like could command a stage literally, but also do drama and comedy. John Goodman.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:21:34 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

Life Aquatic / Darjeeling Limited / Isle of Dogs etc.: 1 line career ×1

  1. 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)

Louis Malle: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (influence): The Royal Tenenbaums → Louis Malle. French New Wave directors listed among its influences.
    “some of the influences on this movie include films by Louis Maule. Um, uh, Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:15:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Luke Wilson: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career peaks): Luke Wilson → The Royal Tenenbaums. Old School and Tenenbaums are the alpha and omega of Luke Wilson.
    “This and Tennenbaums are the two, that's the alpha and the omega of Luke Wilson.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:10 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Mad Men: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (nostalgia-for-unlived-era): The Royal Tenenbaums → Mad Men. Both romanticize an era their audience didn't live through, with tactile detail.
    “something like Mad Men, which we obviously didn't live through”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:07:35 · Andy Greenwald (0.60 sure it was them)

Mark Mothersbaugh: 1 line craft ×1

  1. 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)

Martin Scorsese: 1 line craft ×1

  1. 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)

Michael Caine: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (casting-what-if): Michael Caine → The Royal Tenenbaums. Caine was second choice for Royal when Hackman looked like a no; Hackman took it on hearing.
    “Wes and company turned to Michael Kane.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:03:28 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

Moonrise Kingdom: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. 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)

One Battle After Another: 1 line industry ×1

  1. 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.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:39:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Pulp Fiction: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (influence-collage): The Royal Tenenbaums → Pulp Fiction. Both are 'emptying the cupboard' of their makers' influences and obsessions, introducing a whole cinematic world through soundtrack, look and talk.
    “it's like pulp fiction or Grand Royal magazine, where it's just like the emptying of the cupboard of influences and obsessions.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:07:20 · Andy Greenwald (0.60 sure it was them)

Richard Scarry books: 1 line craft ×1

  1. 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)

Robert Downey Jr.: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (casting-what-if): Robert Downey Jr. → The Royal Tenenbaums. Proposed modern Royal: a franchise star who needs a real movie.
    “you've wasted like 15 years now on franchises, like make a real movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:20:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Stranger Things: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (nostalgia-collage): The Royal Tenenbaums → Stranger Things. Tenenbaums is the same celebratory collage of remembered culture as Stranger Things, but for indoor, reading kids.
    “Tenenbaums hits really hard because it is that kind of Stranger Things celebratory, uh, um, collage, but for indoor kids.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:10:04 · Andy Greenwald (0.60 sure it was them)

Terms of Endearment: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. 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)

The Beatles: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): The Beatles → The Royal Tenenbaums. The opening montage, narrated by Alec Baldwin, is set to an orchestral Hey Jude.
    “it's a Alec Baldwin narrated, as we said, set to Hey Jude, magical mystery tour, through the lives of people we had never heard of.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:43:37 · Andy Greenwald (0.60 sure it was them)

The Catcher in the Rye / Franny and Zooey: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. 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)

The Dreamers: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Dreamers. If the Margot-Richie romance were not subtext you would have something like The Dreamers.
    “then you have like Bertelucci's the Dreamers or something, and I don't think anybody really wants that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:56:36 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

The French Connection: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (performance-lineage): The Royal Tenenbaums → The French Connection. Royal talks like Popeye Doyle; Anderson loves 70s Hackman.
    “So he talks like Popeye Doyle, right? Like from the French connection.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:58:08 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

The French Dispatch / Asteroid City / The Phoenician Scheme: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. 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)

The Magnificent Ambersons: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (influence): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Magnificent Ambersons. Named as a huge influence; rewatching Ambersons shows how much of it is in Tenenbaums.
    “it's wild how much, uh, ten bombs or how much Amberson's is in ten bombs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:16:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Phoenician Scheme: 1 line theme ×1

  1. 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)

The Ramones: 1 line craft ×1

  1. 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)

The Rolling Stones: 1 line craft ×1

  1. 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)

The Squid and the Whale: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. 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.”
    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)

Vanilla Sky: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): The Royal Tenenbaums → Vanilla Sky. Tenenbaums opened the same week as Vanilla Sky in 5 theaters and averaged $55,000.
    “Tenenbaums comes out that very week on 5 theaters and it grosses $276,000”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Vince Guaraldi: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Vince Guaraldi → The Royal Tenenbaums. Guaraldi's Peanuts Christmas music is called a building block of the Upper West Side nostalgia aesthetic the film runs on.
    “I want to shout out what is, to me, probably the quintessential New York record, certainly for 6 months of the year, which is Vince Gueraldi's Peanuts Christmas music.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:46:31 · Andy Greenwald (0.70 sure it was them)

Zoolander: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (same-year): The Royal Tenenbaums → Zoolander. Both released in 2001 with Owen Wilson.
    “released Zoolander, Royal Tenbaums, and behind enemy lines.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:11:05 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

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career (7)

  1. career (career-arc): The Grand Budapest Hotel → The Royal Tenenbaums. Budapest wrestles with violence and history that Tenenbaums' sudden violence foreshadowed.
    “Grand Budapest Hotel is kind of a masterpiece because it, in addition to being twee and delightful and absolutely hilarious, kind of wrestles with fascism and creeping violence”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:20:03 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career-parallel): The Royal Tenenbaums → Magnolia. Each is its director's third film, where they hit both their emotional-trauma vein and big Hollywood budgets; both blessed by Scorsese.
    “Magnolia and Tenna bombs were each of their 3rd films.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:21:43 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career peaks): Luke Wilson → The Royal Tenenbaums. Old School and Tenenbaums are the alpha and omega of Luke Wilson.
    “This and Tennenbaums are the two, that's the alpha and the omega of Luke Wilson.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:10 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)
  7. career (career): Gwyneth Paltrow → The Royal Tenenbaums. Paltrow's best work includes Tenenbaums, Ripley, Two Lovers; when great she is otherworldly.
    “But, I mean, obviously, like, you look at, like, Royal Tannenbaums, talented Mr. Repley. Two lovers, baby.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 1:41:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

contrast (4)

  1. contrast (contrast): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Dreamers. If the Margot-Richie romance were not subtext you would have something like The Dreamers.
    “then you have like Bertelucci's the Dreamers or something, and I don't think anybody really wants that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:56:36 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. 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)

craft (14)

  1. craft (style-criterion-MTV): The Royal Tenenbaums → Magnolia. Both blend European-cinema love with music-video sensibility and lead with musical taste.
    “it's basically like criterion MTV. They have the sensibility and the style of music videos”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:22:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Elliott Smith → The Royal Tenenbaums. Elliott Smith's music does almost all the emotional work in the Richie scene, the speaker says.
    “So like when you're watching Richie, he's such a great, great character, but Elliot Smith does almost all of the work in that scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:23:21 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): The Beatles → The Royal Tenenbaums. The opening montage, narrated by Alec Baldwin, is set to an orchestral Hey Jude.
    “it's a Alec Baldwin narrated, as we said, set to Hey Jude, magical mystery tour, through the lives of people we had never heard of.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:43:37 · Andy Greenwald (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. The film uses Bob Dylan's music from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid a couple of times.
    “and also the use of Bob Dylan's music from Pat Garrett and Billy and the Kid, a couple of times is beautiful.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:46:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Vince Guaraldi → The Royal Tenenbaums. Guaraldi's Peanuts Christmas music is called a building block of the Upper West Side nostalgia aesthetic the film runs on.
    “I want to shout out what is, to me, probably the quintessential New York record, certainly for 6 months of the year, which is Vince Gueraldi's Peanuts Christmas music.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:46:31 · Andy Greenwald (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. 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)
  7. 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)
  8. 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)
  9. 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)
  10. 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)
  11. 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)
  12. 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)
  13. 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)
  14. 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)

industry (2)

  1. industry (studio-fate): The Royal Tenenbaums → Citizen Kane. Ambersons is Welles's follow-up to Kane and the movie taken away from him.
    “Orson Wells' infamous 2nd feature, his movie after Citizen Kane, and the movie that was taken away from him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:16:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. 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.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:39:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

lineage (16)

  1. lineage (influence-collage): The Royal Tenenbaums → Pulp Fiction. Both are 'emptying the cupboard' of their makers' influences and obsessions, introducing a whole cinematic world through soundtrack, look and talk.
    “it's like pulp fiction or Grand Royal magazine, where it's just like the emptying of the cupboard of influences and obsessions.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:07:20 · Andy Greenwald (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (literary-source): The Royal Tenenbaums → Franny and Zooey. The movie is a Salinger pastiche; Anderson would need a Salinger adaptation as IP cover today.
    “he would have to make Franny and Zooey. Like he would have to make an adaptation of a Salinger novel”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:31:25 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (influence): The Royal Tenenbaums → Jean-Luc Godard. The mosaic of book covers was inspired by a Godard movie doing something similar.
    “he was inspired by, I think it was a Godard movie that did something similar, of course.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:53:10 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (influence): The Royal Tenenbaums → Louis Malle. French New Wave directors listed among its influences.
    “some of the influences on this movie include films by Louis Maule. Um, uh, Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:15:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (influence): The Royal Tenenbaums → Francois Truffaut. French New Wave influence.
    “Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:15:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (influence): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Magnificent Ambersons. Named as a huge influence; rewatching Ambersons shows how much of it is in Tenenbaums.
    “it's wild how much, uh, ten bombs or how much Amberson's is in ten bombs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:16:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. 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)
  8. 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)
  9. 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)
  10. 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)
  11. 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)
  12. 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.”
    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)
  13. 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)
  14. 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)
  15. 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)
  16. 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)

people (4)

  1. people (casting-lesson): The Royal Tenenbaums → Briarpatch. Casting Briarpatch taught him there are no Hackmans: physically imposing, menacing and funny.
    “when I was making Briar Patch and I was trying to cast the lead part, I was like, there are no Gene Hackman.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:33:37 · Andy Greenwald (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. people (cast-continuity): The Royal Tenenbaums → Bottle Rocket. The Wilsons also play non-brothers with very different energies in Bottle Rocket.
    “the same thing is with Bottle Rocket, where they also don't play brothers.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:50:05 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. people (performance-lineage): The Royal Tenenbaums → The French Connection. Royal talks like Popeye Doyle; Anderson loves 70s Hackman.
    “So he talks like Popeye Doyle, right? Like from the French connection.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:58:08 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. 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)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): The Royal Tenenbaums → Vanilla Sky. Tenenbaums opened the same week as Vanilla Sky in 5 theaters and averaged $55,000.
    “Tenenbaums comes out that very week on 5 theaters and it grosses $276,000”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (nostalgia-for-unlived-era): The Royal Tenenbaums → Mad Men. Both romanticize an era their audience didn't live through, with tactile detail.
    “something like Mad Men, which we obviously didn't live through”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:07:35 · Andy Greenwald (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. 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)

unmapped (5)

  1. unmapped (nostalgia-collage): The Royal Tenenbaums → Stranger Things. Tenenbaums is the same celebratory collage of remembered culture as Stranger Things, but for indoor, reading kids.
    “Tenenbaums hits really hard because it is that kind of Stranger Things celebratory, uh, um, collage, but for indoor kids.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:10:04 · Andy Greenwald (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (needle-drops): The Royal Tenenbaums → Goodfellas. Tenenbaums ranks with Goodfellas and Boogie Nights as a great needle-drop movie.
    “Goodfellas is up there, obviously, like Boogie Nights is up there, but the Tenenbaums might be one of the great needle drop movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:23:59 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (needle-drops): The Royal Tenenbaums → Boogie Nights. Grouped with Goodfellas as a needle-drop landmark.
    “Goodfellas is up there, obviously, like Boogie Nights is up there”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:23:59 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (New-York-nostalgia): The Royal Tenenbaums → Hannah and Her Sisters. The Upper West Side ice-cream-shop nostalgia is experienced through scenes like Hannah and Her Sisters and Paul Simon records.
    “only experienced through, like, you know, random scenes in Hannah and her sisters and early Paul Simon solo records.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:46:49 · Andy Greenwald (0.55 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (same-year): The Royal Tenenbaums → Zoolander. Both released in 2001 with Owen Wilson.
    “released Zoolander, Royal Tenbaums, and behind enemy lines.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:11:05 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (3)

  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. 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)

what-if (4)

  1. what-if (casting-what-if): Gene Wilder → The Royal Tenenbaums. Rumored to have been considered for Royal.
    “the rumor that uh, Gene Wilder was considered for Royal Tenenbaum.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:03:00 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (casting-what-if): Michael Caine → The Royal Tenenbaums. Caine was second choice for Royal when Hackman looked like a no; Hackman took it on hearing.
    “Wes and company turned to Michael Kane.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:03:28 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (casting-what-if): Robert Downey Jr. → The Royal Tenenbaums. Proposed modern Royal: a franchise star who needs a real movie.
    “you've wasted like 15 years now on franchises, like make a real movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:20:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (casting-what-if): John Goodman → The Royal Tenenbaums. Proposed modern Royal for physical imposition plus drama and comedy.
    “someone who could be physically imposing and like could command a stage literally, but also do drama and comedy. John Goodman.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:21:34 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Production ran on scale pay: Paltrow gave three weeks, Stiller ten days; the line producer scheduled it to look like a family together.
    “Is the MVP the line producer who scheduled this to make it seem like they were a family all at the same time.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:33:14 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Most rewatchable scenes pick: opening character-intro montage over Hey Jude; Margot's play review; Royal meets grandkids at the Y; Eli on mescaline.
    “The pre-credit character introductions that you mentioned is scored by, hey, Jude.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:35:25 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Most rewatchable: the Etheline scene where Royal fakes dying, shot entirely in the wide with no close-ups; Hackman and Huston make you remember reactions you never see.
    “But that whole scene is shot in the wide. There are no close-ups.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:40:59 · Andy Greenwald (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Margot background-file montage set to the Ramones: effortlessly stylish exposition, and the gleeful moment you realize the filmmaker has another gear.
    “the Margot background file montage is, for me, like the most effortless, effortlessly stylish and expository and wonderful sequence”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:44:36 · Andy Greenwald (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Aged-worst category: Royal's casual racism toward Henry, read as a 1976 eye on Hackman, plus the slapstick ending and Stiller's unexplained tracksuits.
    “I think it was made with a 1976 eye because that's where Royal slash Wes Anderson's love of Gene Hackman was stuck.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:58:03 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: The Ambersons influence, the real Harlem house foreclosed and rented back to the production, and the Waldorf standing in for Royal's hotel.
    “111 Archer is a real place. It's up in Harlem.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:15:27 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Best quote pick: Custer died at Little Bighorn, 'What this book presupposes is...maybe he didn't?' with the riff that this movie invented the take machine of TV.
    “well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:28:21 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Who won the movie: Chris says Gene Hackman; Andy says Luke Wilson, still holding the stock.
    “Because you still have the stock.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:32:19 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. 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)
  10. 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)
  11. 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)
  12. 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)
  13. 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)
  14. 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)
  15. 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)
  16. 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)
  17. 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)
  18. 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)
  19. 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)
  20. 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)
  21. fun, about The Royal Tenenbaums: Opened that same weekend in five theaters and grossed $276,000, a $55,000 per-screen average.
    “Tenenbaums comes out that very week on 5 theaters and it grosses $276,000, which is pretty good.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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