The Royal Tenenbaum Character Analysis

The Royal Tenenbaums was a film that was released in 2001. It is a comedy that was directed by Wes Anderson, who also wrote the film story script as well, along with Owen Wilson. In the Box Office, The Royal Tenenbaums production earned a profit of $52.3M (Rotten Tomatoes). The main cast members also included Gene Hackman as Royal Tenenbaum, Anjelica Huston as Etheline Tenenbaum, Ben Stiller as Chas Tenenbaum, Gwyneth Paltrow as Margot Tenenbaum, Luke Wilson as Richie Tenenbaum, Owen Wilson as Eli Cash, Bill Murray as Raleigh St. Clair, Stephen Lea Sheppard as Dudley, and Danny Glover as Henry Sherman. The setting of The Royal Tenenbaums starts out with Royal Tenenbaum leaving his family because Etheline Tenenbaum wants a divorce. However, Royal Tenenbaum does not divorce her and goes live in a hotel for a few years instead. Etheline raises their three children on her own by homeschooling them. Although Etheline raised her and Royal’s children as a single mother, they all still turned out to be geniuses. Be that as it may, virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this …show more content…
The song “Needle in the Hay” written by Elliott Smith provides a beautiful yet haunting mood of desperation in the scene (Film Analysis Blog). Since there are no foley sounds, the song makes the audience become fully immersed to the intense actions that Richie is performing against himself. Another unsettling element in this scene is the colors, lighting, and filters. Altogether, everything in the room is blue. The blue not only compliments Richie’s eyes, but his emotions, as well. For example, the darker parts of the blue coincides with Richie’s depressive mood. In a way, this helps the audience experience his