The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Grant Rosenmeyer: Ari Tenenbaum
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Quotes
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[Royal motions to Pagoda]
Royal : He saved my life, you know. Thirty years ago. I was knifed at a bazaar in Calcutta, and he carried me to the hospital on his back.
Ari : Who stabbed you?
[Royal motions to Pagoda again]
Royal : He did. There was a price on my head, and he was a hired assassin. Stuck me in the gut with a shiv.
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[last lines]
[the family is gathered at the cemetery]
Narrator : 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.
[Chas, now wearing a blac Adidas tracksuit, nods to his sons]
Ari : Fire!
[Ari and Uzi, also in black Adidas tracksuits, fire their air rifles into the air]
Ari : Fire!
[they fire again]
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Uzi Tenenbaum : Who's your father?
Chas : His name is Royal Tenenbaum.
Ari : You told us he was already dead.
Chas : Yeah, well, now he's really dying.