The Royal Tenenbaums

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Amy & Paul move back in with 2001's Wes Anderson family reunion piece The Royal Tenenbaums! They ask if Anderson is sneakily a great director of actors, posit that Ben Stiller is the true heart of the movie, and discuss whether the female Tenenbaums are well served by their storylines. Plus: Which other legendary actor was considered to play Royal Tenenbaum? This is the fourth episode in our Kinspooled series on “effed up families”; next week’s film is Guess Who's Coming To Dinner! Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]! Photo credit: Kim Troxal

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0:00.0	Paul and Amy bought the house on podcast Avenue in the spring of the 2018
0:07.5	year. Over the next 26 months, they watched a list of films deemed the best in
0:12.7	the world and then resolved to construct a better one. They have been
0:16.8	auditioning candidates for their brilliance. Brilliance they hope will not be
0:20.5	erased by decades of betrayal, failure and disaster. Including this one, the Royal
0:26.6	Tenant Bones.
0:46.8	Hello everybody and welcome to unspooled. I'm Amy Nicholson and I am Paul Sheer
0:53.0	and this is the podcast. We're endeavoring to find the best 100 films of all
0:57.4	time and when we do, we're going to blast them in to space. But Amy and I do not
1:02.9	take this lightly. No, no, no. The only way to do this appropriately is to break
1:07.6	down films by genre, then get even smaller and more granular and try to find
1:12.0	the best version of the best movies of all time and right now we're in the
1:16.6	middle of fucked up families. And I'm so excited about today's episode on Royal
1:22.2	Tenant Bones. I have been loving this fucked up family series, loving it, loving
1:28.3	it, loving it, loving it, loving it, loving it. I mean, so far it might be my
1:31.5	favorite, which I feel guilty even saying. No, I think what's been really
1:35.9	exciting about this series, not to pat ourselves in the back and obviously
1:40.7	thank you for everybody listening to it. But we really are getting to expand
1:45.2	our world view a little bit. And I think what I've realized in retrospect was
1:49.6	that the AFI list at points just felt like a burden. Like they all felt of the
1:54.7	same ilk and oftentimes even at the same time period. So you were kind of
2:00.9	living in an area that just didn't have a lot of variety. And I think that
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