Daily Dialogue — July 1, 2017

“Among the few possessions he left to his heirs was a set of Encyclopedia Britannica in storage at the Lindbergh Palace Hotel under the names Ari and Uzi Tenenbaum. No-one spoke at the funeral, and Father Petersen’s leg had not yet mended, but it was agreed among them that Royal would have found the event to be most satisfactory.”

— The Royal Tennabaums (2001), written by Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Voice-Over.

Trivia: Jackson Browne, who wrote and played guitar on the song “These Days” used in the film, forgot he had given permission for the song to be used until he saw the film. He described this in an interview, “I forgot that I’d licensed them to use this song. And this is one of those things that comes to you in the mail and you don’t know what they’re talking about and you simply give them their permission. You’re sitting in the movie theater and there’s this great moment when Gwyneth Paltrow is coming out of a bus or something like that. I’m thinking to myself, I used to play the guitar just like that. And then the voice comes on and it’s Nico singing “These Days”, which I played on.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: Wes Anderson uses voice-over throughout the movie to provide gobs of exposition as well as occasional commentary.