The Royal Tenenbaums

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…

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…

Thesis: Wes Anderson manipulates Mise-en-scene in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) by using color, décor, costume, to show the development of relationships, and give an insight into characters and the film’s contrast of a family that appears to be perfect, but is very dysfunctional. Costumes like Margot’s, and Chase’s give insight into the characters personality, and their current emotions towards the main events. Margot’s costume; a Blue or Red tennis dress often accompanied by a big fur coat…

Even though Wes Anderson's film The Royal Tenenbaums contains both diegetic and non-diegetic music, non-diegetic music connects the characters to the scene because provides the viewers to feel emotions when dialogue is not present and a better understanding of each character. First, The Royal Tenenbaums non-diegetic music connects the characters to the scene. For example, the clip where Richie Tenenbaum (Luke Wilson) is attempting suicide the non-diegetic music in the background soundtrack is…

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The editing choices in Wes Anderson's “The Royal Tenenbaums” serves to introduce and create an understanding of the various main character personalities, focusing specifically on Margot and Richie Tenenbaum. In the clip of “The Royal Tenenbaums”, the editing consists of a series of pans and tilts, long takes, lens zooms, dolly movement, cutaway shots, cross-cuts, and jump cuts to explain the history of Margot Tenenbaum's life, creating a sense of curiosity and understanding for the audience as…

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