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

Royal rides the hotel elevator with operator Dusty after receiving Pagoda’s call.

Scene 27 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 26 min into a 1:59 film

The story so farBefore scene 27

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 24
Outside after the drill, Chas declares the family would have died; Uzi cries about leaving Buckley and Chas dismisses the fear.
Scene 25
Henry awkwardly proposes to Etheline under the pretext of tax status; she hesitates while the narrator lists her former suitors.
Scene 26
Pagoda places a call and asks for Mr. Royal to be told he is calling.
Scene 27
This scene

27INT. ELEVATOR. DAY.

Royal rides down in the elevator at the Lindbergh Palace. He is dressed in a gray double-breasted Savile Row pinstripe suit, a dark pink shirt, a red-and-pink-striped tie, and Aristotle Onassis-style wrap-around sunglasses. He smokes a cigarette.

The elevator operator has a thin, gray moustache and jet- black hair. He is Dusty. The elevator stops.

ROYAL

Thanks, Dusty.

DUSTY

You’re welcome.