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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.”
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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.”
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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”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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”
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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) -
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) -
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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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.”
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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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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.”
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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.”
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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”
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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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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.”
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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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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.”
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unmapped (same-year):
The Royal Tenenbaums → Zoolander.
Both released in 2001 with Owen Wilson.
“released Zoolander, Royal Tenbaums, and behind enemy lines.”
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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.”
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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.”
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lineage (influence):
The Royal Tenenbaums → Francois Truffaut.
French New Wave influence.
“Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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