7. "Judy Is A Punk" (The Ramones) - The Royal Tenenbaums
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCSBFTSfvS8 This brief interlude is played over the visualisation of the life of Margot Tenenbaum (Gwyneth Paltrow) while her suspicious husband (Bill Murray) looks through her personal file. The distinctive Anderson text (you'll see it in nearly all of his films), is part of a montage of Margot, one of the three psychologically disturbed children of Royal Tenenbaum, mostly smooching with several different lovers, all of whom she leaves. Like the similar montage in Rushmore, this one is extremely appealing because of the soft-rock singing accompanying it. The song suggests an objective, casual observation of these highly emotionally-charged moments and mistakes (escaping school, starting to smoke, passionate affairs), and is assisted by Anderson's always-frank framing.
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