The Royal Tenenbaums
Family isn't a word... it's a sentence.
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$21 000 000
Box office
$71 441 250
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David Wasco, Adam Scher, Douglas Huszti
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Short description
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.
What's left behind the scenes
- Notably, Brian's sister is named Margot, just like Gwyneth Paltrow's character.
- The biography of Etheline Tenenbaum (Angelica Huston) incorporates some facts from Anderson's mother's life, who became an archaeologist after divorcing his father.
- The glasses worn by Huston's character in the film belonged to Anderson's mother.
- The character played by Danny Glover bears a strong resemblance to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Anderson decided to achieve this likeness after Glover, personally acquainted with Annan, introduced him to Anderson at an event.
- The role of Royal Tenenbaum was written specifically for Gene Hackman by Anderson.
- Two different hawks "play" Mordechai. The first was kidnapped by some ill-wishers during filming to demand a ransom. The filmmakers, unable to wait for their "actor's" return, began filming another hawk, which, as is easy to see, has considerably more white feathers than its counterpart.
- The surname of the main characters was borrowed by the screenwriters Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson from their college friend Brian Tenenbaum, who played one of the paramedics in the film.
- J.D. Salinger’s "Glass Family" series features a character named Bubba Tenenbaum (Beatrice Glass, née Tenenbaum), and the "Tenenbaum Family" itself is practically a prototype of the Glass family, with similarly gifted and numerous children.
- Owen Wilson's character attends a wedding with Native American face paint. In the film "Zoolander" (2001), Wilson’s face in a photograph looks exactly the same.
- The scene in which Margot loses a finger was originally written for Margaret Yang's character from Wes Anderson's previous film, "Rushmore".
- Anderson said he read in the book “From the Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the Most Mysterious in the World” by Konigsburg how the book's characters Claudia and Jamie ran away and lived in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which inspired him to use this in the script.
- The protagonists' surname was borrowed by screenwriters Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson from their college friend Brian Tenenbaum, who played one of the paramedics in the film.
- The biography of Etheline Tenenbaum (Anjelica Huston) incorporates certain facts from the life of Anderson's mother, who became an archaeologist after divorcing his father.
- The glasses worn by Huston's character in the film belong to Anderson's mother.
- Danny Glover's character bears a strong physical resemblance to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Anderson decided to achieve this likeness after Glover, who knew Annan personally, introduced Anderson to him at an event.
- Anderson wrote the role of Royal Tenenbaum specifically for Gene Hackman.
- In J. D. Salinger's 'The Glass Family' stories, there is a character named Bubba Tenenbaum (Beatrice Glass, née Tenenbaum), and the Tenenbaum family itself is practically a prototype of the Glass family, with similarly gifted and numerous children.
- Owen Wilson's character arrives at the wedding with Native American face paint. In the film 'Zoolander' (2001), Wilson's face in a photograph looks exactly the same.
- The episode in which Margot loses a finger was originally written for Margaret Young's character in Wes Anderson's previous film, 'Rushmore'.
- Anderson mentioned that he read in E. L. Konigsburg's 'From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler' how the characters Claudia and Jamie ran away and lived in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which inspired him to use this in the screenplay.
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