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The Royal Tenenbaums The Rewatchables
The Royal Tenenbaums

Most Rewatchable Scene

Margot’s background-file montage (one participant’s final choice)

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  • The pre-credit character introductions establish the family through a stylized montage before the plot begins. — Chris Ryan
  • Royal's blunt response to Margot's childhood play is funny because he refuses to soften his criticism for a child.
  • Margot meeting Richie at the pier is elevated by Nico's version of These Days and the slow-motion entrance. — Chris Ryan
  • Royal's first secret meeting with Ari and Uzi is praised for his awkward introduction and inappropriate compliment about their mother. — Chris Ryan
  • Richie's tennis collapse uses the announcers and seventy-two unforced errors to make his emotional breakdown visible. — Chris Ryan
  • Every Eli Cash scene is considered rewatchable, including the mescaline introduction and his affected novelist persona. — Chris Ryan
  • The montage of Royal and his grandsons scrapping, yelling, and mixing it up is a principal repeat-watch choice. — Chris Ryan
  • Henry exposing Royal's fake cancer through tic tacks and cheeseburgers is singled out. — Chris Ryan
  • Richie confronting Royal outside the house leads to the exchange that Royal was never dying but is going to live. — Chris Ryan
  • Royal's confession to Etheline changes rapidly from a false death claim to a request for time, making the scene uncomfortably funny. — Andy Greenwald
  • Hackman and Angelica Houston play the confession in a wide shot without relying on close-ups. — Andy Greenwald
  • The Margot background-file montage is praised for combining exposition, visual detail, the private investigator, and Bill Murray's deadpan response. — Chris Ryan
  • Richie's suicide attempt is called the most affecting scene Wes Anderson had shot, even though one participant does not find it casually rewatchable. — Andy Greenwald
  • Elliott Smith's Needle in the Hay makes the suicide sequence especially difficult and powerful. — Andy Greenwald
  • Margot and Richie's tent conversation is selected as an exceptionally tender moment. — Andy Greenwald
  • The opening montage is praised for introducing a large unfamiliar world without the drag associated with long television introductions. — Andy Greenwald
  • Margot's background-file montage becomes one participant's final choice because of its effortless style, detail, exposition, and Ramones song. — Chris Ryan
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