Eric Chase Anderson
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| - | '''Wesley Wales Anderson''' (born [[May 1]], [[1969]]) is an [[American writer]], [[film producer|producer]], and [[Film director|director]] of [[film]]s and [[Television commercial|commercial]]s. In Europe, Anderson came to mainstreamish attention with ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]'' (2001) but my favourite of his films is ''[[The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou]]'' (2004), surely also because the film is his most [[surrealism and film|surreal]] effort to date. To be expected from Anderson are ''[[Fantastic Mr. Fox (film)|Fantastic Mr. Fox]]'' (2009), an animation of a Dahl story and ''[[My Best Friend (film)|My Best Friend]]'', an adaptation of the film by the same name by personal fave [[Patrice Leconte]]. | + | '''Eric Chase Anderson''', brother of filmmaker [[Wes Anderson]], is an American writer and illustrator. He has illustrated all of the maps, covers, and other packaging of the [[The Criterion Collection|Criterion Collection]] editions of ''[[Rushmore (film)|Rushmore]]'', ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]'' and ''[[The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou]]''. His illustrations have also appeared in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine and ''[[The New York Observer]]''. Anderson's first novel, ''Chuck Dugan Is AWOL'', "a novel with maps", was published in 2004 by Chronicle Books. |
| - | With the exception of ''[[Bottle Rocket]]'', his films employ a similar [[visual style]], primarily through the use of vivid [[primary color]]s. He often uses [[folk music]] and [[early rock]] as the background music in scenes. The depiction of [[escapism]] and [[recreational drug use|companionship through chemicals]] is also one of his trademarks. Anderson, like many European art film directors before him makes use of ''[[ensemble cast]]'' of the same actors, crew members, and other collaborators. For example, the Wilson brothers ([[Owen Wilson|Owen]], [[Luke Wilson|Luke]], and [[Andrew Wilson (actor)|Andrew]]), [[Bill Murray]], [[Seymour Cassel]], [[Anjelica Huston]], [[Jason Schwartzman]], [[Kumar Pallana]] and son [[Dipak Pallana]], Stephen Dignan and Brian Tenenbaum (Anderson's close friends), and [[Eric Chase Anderson]] (Anderson's brother). Other frequent collaborators are writer [[Noah Baumbach]], who co-wrote ''[[The Life Aquatic]]'', and wrote/directed his own film, ''[[The Squid and the Whale]]'', with Anderson as producer. Also cinematographer [[Robert Yeoman]] ([[American Society of Cinematographers|A.S.C.]]), and composer [[Mark Mothersbaugh]]. | + | Anderson also helped his brother conceptualize the production design for ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]'' by making detailed maps of each room in the Tenenbaum house for the production designers to use as guides, in addition to creating all of the drawings and paintings credited to [[Richie Tenenbaum]] in the film. He also took on small roles in his brother's films. |
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Eric Chase Anderson, brother of filmmaker Wes Anderson, is an American writer and illustrator. He has illustrated all of the maps, covers, and other packaging of the Criterion Collection editions of Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. His illustrations have also appeared in Time magazine and The New York Observer. Anderson's first novel, Chuck Dugan Is AWOL, "a novel with maps", was published in 2004 by Chronicle Books.
Anderson also helped his brother conceptualize the production design for The Royal Tenenbaums by making detailed maps of each room in the Tenenbaum house for the production designers to use as guides, in addition to creating all of the drawings and paintings credited to Richie Tenenbaum in the film. He also took on small roles in his brother's films.
While in film school, he directed The Ant Colony, which was shown for two nights at the Biograph Theater in Washington, DC.
Eric was born in 1973 in Houston, Texas.
