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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) is the ur-text of this. The family is blended not through marriage, but through adoption and estrangement. The grief is not over death, but over the failure of Royal as a biological patriarch. When Royal attempts to reintegrate, the “blending” is a catastrophic farce. Wes Anderson’s genius is showing that a blended family isn’t just about adding new members; it’s about subtracting the myth of the original.