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The narration for the Royal Tennebaums is provided by the great Alec Baldwin, whose voice has also been used to encourage support for public radio. Here Baldwin parodies his own famous speech from the film version of Glengarry Glen Ross:
CHAS
What’d you think, Dad?
ROYAL
It didn’t seem believable to me. Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson – Chapter 1 (The Royal Tennebaums)
What’d you think, Dad?
ROYAL
It didn’t seem believable to me. Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson – Chapter 1 (The Royal Tennebaums)
One of many moments in Anderson’s work where the world of adults and children colliding humorously. Royal responds to the question about his children’s play as if he were reviewing an adult play. The very premise of “believability” in this context, considering that it’s a play in which kids dress up as animals, is absurd.
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Johnny Depp in a “duffle grey” waistcoat or vest.
While Dorner attempts to distinguish himself from the “real” “niggers” as an upstanding American citizen, his argument here is not unlike that made by N.W.A and other gangsta rappers about the abuses of the LAPD and other law enforcement agencies.
These lines also echo T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men:
Also possibly a pun on Q-Tip, a subtle shout out to a rap influence, like the following line that cites KRS-One.
Despite the new context, i still find the analogy cliche as per Orwell’s suggestion about Politics and the English Language.
As James Kyung-Jin Lee writes in “The City as Region”:
He’s also mixing that literary reference together with the classic lines from the lullaby, “Hush, Little Baby”
“Tragedy smurf smirks,” a line with layered alliteration, also suggests a fairy tale gone bad.
The “blood moon” or “harvest moon” is the first full moon after the harvest moon, which is the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox.
Rotten’s critique of the crown is achieved through a kind of cynical cover of the traditional British anthem, “God Save the Queen [or King].”