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

Royal takes Richie to watch a dog fight, while Chas and Margot watch father and son return together.

Scene 8 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Royal
Narrator

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Begins 7 min into a 1:59 film

The story so farBefore scene 8

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 5
The narrator recounts Margot’s adoption and early playwriting success as she types in her room.
Scene 6
Margot and Richie have run away to the museum; Eli finds them, and they share a sleeping bag among the exhibits.
Scene 7
Richie’s childhood tennis success and stalled painting are shown through his trophies, radio, cars and portraits of Margot.
Scene 8
This scene

8EXT. STREET. DAY.

Royal and Richie stand among a group of Puerto Rican men as two large, vicious-looking pit bulls with scars all over them snarl at each other. Royal yells along with the others:

ROYAL

Vamanos! Andale!

Royal throws a fifty-dollar bill into a pile of money on the sidewalk. Richie throws in a dollar.

NARRATOR (V.O.)

These invitations were never extended to

anyone else.

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The second floor of the Tenenbaum house. Chas sits alone in one window. Margot sits alone in the next. They both watch as Royal and Richie get out of a gypsy cab in front of the house, sharing a bag of peanuts and laughing.

There is a slightly run-down thirty-five-story apartment building across the street. Eli sits alone in a window.