The Royal Tenenbaums · written by Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson · 2001

Margot’s private studio is shown as an unused room with old play posters and a typewriter.

Scene 18 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 19 min into a 1:59 film

The story so farBefore scene 18

After losing his hotel room, Royal claims he has only weeks to live so he can move back in with his estranged family; as the truth unravels, he must find a way to be useful and earn a place in their lives.

Scene 1
The children ask Royal whether he still loves them as the family’s separation becomes unavoidable.
Just before
Scene 15
At a library reading, Eli reads from Old Custer to an applauding audience; the narration identifies him as a Brooks College assistant professor.
Scene 16
Eli enjoys sudden literary celebrity, discusses Old Custer with professors, then calls from the lobby with a review clipping and asks whether he is especially not a genius.
Scene 17
Margot bathes and watches television while the narrator recounts her marriages, affairs and secret past.
Scene 18
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18INT. STUDIO. DAY.

A small room with one wooden chair and a metal stand with an IBM electric typewriter on it. There are posters for several of Margot’s plays leaning against the walls. The titles include: Static Electricity, Erotic Transference and Nakedness Tonight.

NARRATOR (V.O.)

She had not completed a play in seven

years.