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The Royal Tenenbaums is a 2001 American comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson and co-written with Owen Wilson. It stars Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, and Owen Wilson.
In every shot of The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson uses deliberate color schemes, negative space, symmetry, or composition to create a visually pleasing picture, evoke an emotion, or give insight into characters (or sometimes, all three). In doing so, Anderson is able to enhance his storytelling past writing, acting or plot, and into visual art.
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- THE PRIMARY STORY CAME OUT OF THE DIVORCE OF WES ANDERSON'S PARENTS. Though it was partly inspired by real life, writer-director Wes Anderson admits on the film’s DVD commentary that the film itself ended up being very different from his own personal experience.
- THE NAME "TENENBAUM" CAME FROM ANDERSON'S COLLEGE FRIEND. Anderson's longtime friend, Brian Tenenbaum, appears as a paramedic in one of the film’s final scenes.
- WES ANDERSON MAKES A CAMEO. It's the filmmaker's hand that stamps the library card of the book at the beginning of the movie.
- THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS IS THE THIRD MOVIE TO BE CO-WRITTEN BY ANDERSON AND OWEN WILSON. Buena Vista Pictures. The other two were Bottle Rocket and Rushmore.
- “One of the initial ideas for this movie was that it would be based on a book, a book that doesn’t actually exist,” says Anderson right at the beginning of the commentary.
- Owen Wilson had told Anderson he should write a screenplay about his parents’ divorce, and this was the director’s intent with this film. “As soon as Royal began to speak, his answers were nothing like the answers my father had given under similar circumstances with my brothers and I,” Anderson says.
- The shooting incident seen at the beginning of the film was inspired by a real event where Owen Wilson shot his brother, Andrew, with a BB gun. According to Anderson, you can still see the BB under Andrew’s skin on his hand.
- Originally, Etheline, played by Anjelica Huston, was to blow out the candles to Margot’s birthday cake. A few shots of this were captured, but, as Anderson recollects, her hair caught on fire on the fifth take.
- It Was The Last Film Anderson Co-Wrote with Owen Wilson
- Anderson Refined and Expanded His Bag of Tricks
- The Performances Somehow Ring True
- It’S A Love Letter to NYC
- It Might Have The Director’s Most Memorable Needle Drops
(Photo by Franziska Krug/Getty Images) Fans often split up Anderson’s work into two categories: those written with and without Wilson — that is Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums, and then everything that followed. That’s a tad reductive, of course — there are many shades to Anderson’s work, and he has evolved a lot as a filmmaker ov...
(Photo by Buena Vista Pictures courtesy Everett Collection) Just about every one of Anderson’s signatures up to this point are heightened in Tenenbaums. Take the scene where Margot steps off the bus to meet Richie, as the world becomes quiet for a beat, then the fingerpicking guitar of Nico’s “These Days” plays. The director had already helmed a fe...
(Photo by Everett Collection) It’s no small feat that, in spite of all the characters’ many quirks and Anderson’s aesthetic showiness, the turns by this cast still feel authentic and land when they need to. The titular role was written for Hackman, and you can tell: If this is anyone’s show, it’s his, and whether he’s barking antiquated phrases or ...
(Photo by Everett Collection) What film would intentionally block the Statue of Liberty from a shot? This one. It happens in a scene in which Royal is talking to his longtime pal and onetime assassin Pagoda (a great Kumar Pallana) in Battery Park, who had to be positioned just right to obstruct the iconic attraction. Anderson & Co. went to great le...
(Photo by Buena Vista Pictures) Speaking of New York, songs by acts from the five boroughs pop up throughout, including the Ramones (“Judy Is a Punk”), the Velvet Underground (“Stephanie Says”), Paul Simon (“Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”) and, once again, Nico (“The Fairest of the Seasons”), who was apparently an inspiration for Margot’s loo...
The Royal Tenenbaums: Directed by Wes Anderson. With Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow. The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.
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Dec 14, 2021 · Wes Anderson’s sprawling comedy-drama “ The Royal Tenenbaums, ” released 20 years ago this month, tells the story of a family of famed child geniuses, the disappointments and neuroses that ...
