The Royal Tenunbaum is about a dysfunctional family that revolves around Royal (Gene Hackman), who failed as a husband for Etheline (Anjelica Huston), and failed as a father to his three children: Chas (Ben Stiller), Richie (Luke Wilson), and his step-daughter Margot (Gweneth Paltrow). Royal is trying to reconnect with his family after learning from his informant and servant to the family, Pagoda (Kumar Pallana), that Henry Sherman (Danny Glover), Etheline’s accountant, proposed to his estranged wife. Anderson’s visual creativity was emphasized in The Royal Tenenbaums mise en scene. By incorporating deliberate color palettes, dominant contrast, character’s costumes, and settings to enhance his story: evoke an emotion, give insight to the characters, and present a pleasing picture for the audience is very impressive.
The movie opens with a shot of a book with the same title as the movie, being checked out from a library followed by a brief preview of the book’s first page, that corresponds to the movie’s opening narration. This resembles the experience of watching a movie into reading a book. As the narrator speaks, the Tenenbaum’s house was shown.
Color is the first element of Anderson’s artistry. Per Gianetti, color tends to be a …show more content…
Young Chas’s room is filled with mostly gray, which one can assume that it connotes responsibility since he became a business man at a very young age. This color made him more mature for his age. Margot’s, room on the other hand has a red wall paper filled with animal prints which may represent her seriousness, wild personality and creativeness since she is a playwright. Richie, the tennis player’s room is painted with light blue incorporated with animal images that he painted, represents his cheerfulness and positivity. His room is also filled with his trophies which suggest
The movie opens with a shot of a book with the same title as the movie, being checked out from a library followed by a brief preview of the book’s first page, that corresponds to the movie’s opening narration. This resembles the experience of watching a movie into reading a book. As the narrator speaks, the Tenenbaum’s house was shown.
Color is the first element of Anderson’s artistry. Per Gianetti, color tends to be a …show more content…
Young Chas’s room is filled with mostly gray, which one can assume that it connotes responsibility since he became a business man at a very young age. This color made him more mature for his age. Margot’s, room on the other hand has a red wall paper filled with animal prints which may represent her seriousness, wild personality and creativeness since she is a playwright. Richie, the tennis player’s room is painted with light blue incorporated with animal images that he painted, represents his cheerfulness and positivity. His room is also filled with his trophies which suggest