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Thanks for your patience lucky ducks, bet you were chomping at the bit to finish this episode! Here it is, PART 2 OF 2!
Brother of the podcast and editor Nic Fornasier joins Steph as they explore the dysfunctional family opus, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), directed by Wes Anderson and written by Wes and Owen Wilson.
Together they ask the question, can narcissistic dads who abandon their kids make up for the resulting trauma? And if so does this movie portray this situation with nuance and respect? There is literally no way of knowing, except to listen to this episode, in two parts!
Part 2 focuses on the stereotypes and Wes-isms the movie portrays and perpetuates and whether it is done harmfully or helpfully!
CONTENT WARNING: Suicide, substance use and addiction (including personal experiences), depression, self harm, childhood emotional manipulation and neglect, cancer, discussions of sexual content, sex shaming, death of a family member, death of a dog, incest??
NOTE: This podcast is not designed to be therapeutic, prescriptive or constitute a formal diagnosis for any listener, nor the characters discussed. The host is not representative of all psychologists and opinions stated are her own personal opinion, based on her own learnings and training (and minimal lived experience). Host and co-hosts do not have the final say and can only comment based on their own perspectives, so please let us know if you dispute any of these opinions – we are keen for feedback!
Host: Stephanie Fornasier
Cohost and editor: Nicholas Fornasier
Music and artwork: Michael Watson
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Listen to the Just the Gist podcast live show Steph attended at https://www.listnr.com/podcasts/just-the-gistand listen to Why Are Dads' podcast's take on the same movie at https://www.stitcher.com/show/why-are-dads
ARTICLES REFERENCED:
Vulture: How Wes Anderson Made the Royal Tenenbaums
Screen Rant: 10 behind the scenes facts about the Royal Tenenbaums
Abilene Christian University: Who's Your Daddy?: A Psychological Analysis of Father-Son Relationships in Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums
Little White Lies: How Wes Anderson’s families helped me recover from the breakdown of my own
University of Rhode Island: When the alternative becomes hegemonic: A textual analysis of the Royal Tenenbaums
The Dissolve: The Royal Tenenbaums forum: Failure, depression, and other varieties of family fun
The Jugular: The Psychology of Failure: The Royal Tenenbaums, Melancholy and Growing Pains
On Psychology and Neuroscience: The Life Psychotic with Wes Anderson
One Room With A View: The Royal Tenenbaums And The Art Of Tragicomedy
Screen Queens: #CriterionMonth: The sexist portrayal of Margot Tenenbaum in Wes Anderson’s the Royal Tenenbaums.
Flipscreened: The Wes Dispatch #3: Trauma, Grief and Accepting Help in ‘The Royal Tenenbaums
Episode 30: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory aka Things Roald Dahl Hated (with Maz Fornasier)
Episode 29: Encanto - Disney Does Intergenerational Trauma (with Heidy White)
Episode 28: Crazy Ex Girlfriend, living with Borderline Personality Disorder in musical form (with Dr Elise McGlashan)
Episode 27: Special, one person’s journey of life with Cerebral Palsy - emphasis on one (with Peta Hooke)
Episode 26: Don’t Look Up and death anxiety, aka Steph makes her psychologist proud
Episode 25: Atypical, and how autism representation has and hasn’t progressed since Rain Man (with Eric Michael Garcia)
Episode 24: Touched With Fire, aka the non-hollywood Bipolar movie (with Jossie Williams)
Episode 23: Silver Linings Playbook, aka David O. Russell’s Bipolar Movie
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Episode 22: The Muppet‘s Christmas Carol AKA Cancel Tiny Tim
Episode 21: Clueless, and why Cher Horowitz, like, totally has ADHD (with Maz Fornasier)
BONUS: Crip Camp, the Disability Rights Movement, and who you should listen to instead of me
Episode 20: Split, Primal Fear, and Identity, aka Having DID does not make you a murderer (with Maz Fornasier)
Episode 19: Steel Magnolias, Type 1 Diabetes, and women supporting women
Episode 18: Mad Max- The social model of disability in post apocalyptic Australia
Episode 17 - Sybil (1976), Sybil (2007), and the big question: Does Dissociative Identity Disorder exist? (with Maz Fornasier)
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Episode 15: Ari Aster, Who Hurt You? Part 1: Hereditary
Episode 14b: Forrest Gump. Part 2: It was capitalism all along (with Maz Fornasier)
Episode 14a: Forrest Gump: Part 1 - The creation of Forrest and erasure of American history (with Maz Fornasier)
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