History Creator / WilliamEubank

* AnAesop: call him old-fashioned but Eubank hopes the audience uses empathy to the situations he's depicted so they come away with something.

Eubank grew up [[LovableJock playing water polo]] and [[TheAllAmericanBoy hiking in the California wilderness while in the Boy Scouts]]. He became interested in filmmaking because of his grandfather–a [[BackedByThePentagon US Navy cinematographer]] in World War II–who would tell stories such as the time he shot footage from an airplane [[BellyScrapingFlight while flying underneath the Golden Gate Bridge]]. Eubank was torn between heading to Los Angeles to pursue filmmaking or attending [[MilitaryAcademy Annapolis]]. He chose to move to LA and has been working in the town almost ever since.

Starting out as a [[UsefulNotes/{{UnionsInHollywood}} below-the-line technician]] in the camera department, this Panavision alum worked his way up the ladder through independent features like ''Film/{{Love}}'' to swelling studio projects like ''Film/{{Underwater}}'' ([[Creator/{{TwentiethCenturyStudios}} 20th Century Fox’s]] final film).

* ''Film/{{Love}}'' (2011)

* {{Ambiguous Ending}}/{{Bittersweet Ending}}: Eubank likes to let the audience decide what happened and what it means. And sometimes there's no debate the heroes have taken heavy hits.

* AmbiguousEnding: Eubank likes to let the audience decide what happened and what it means.

* {{Irony}}: often characters will pursue actions that we later learn weren't necessary or were working against them. That's life! By the end of ''Underwater'', viewers realize [[spoiler:that the risky, desperate walk on the bottom of the ocean was safer than directly picking a rescue pod to the surface.]]

* ProductionPosse: actor [[Franchise/DeadSpace Gunner Wright]] appears in both ''Love'' and ''Underwater'', editor Brian Berdan edited Eubank's first three films, Legacy Effects for suits on both ''The Signal'' and then ''Underwater''.

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: the one man ISS repairman in ''Love'', the three MIT students in ''The Signal''; defied in ''Underwater'' with Norah and Emily.

Eubank grew up [[LovableJock playing water polo]] and [[TheAllAmericanBoy hiking in the California wilderness while in the Boy Scouts]]. He became interested in filmmaking because of his grandfather–a [[BackedByThePentagon US Navy cinematographer]] in World War II–who would tell stories such as the time he shot footage from an airplane [[BellyScrapingFlight while flying underneath the Golden Gate Bridge]]. Eubank was torn between heading to Los Angeles to pursue filmmaking or attending Annapolis. He chose to move to LA and has been working in the town almost ever since.

* SolitaryTropes: themes of isolation are present in all of Eubank's films, from an astronaut getting forgotten on the ISS, to kids being held captive alone in their cells, to a small team of scientists walking across the ocean floor, to filmmakers venturing into a secluded Amish community.

* FreezeFrameBonus: the diary in ''Love'', the necklace in ''The Signal'', the [[Franchise/Alien Weyland-Yutani]] seatbelt and locker decorations in ''Underwater''.

* AmbiguousEnding: Eubank likes to let the audience decide what happened and what it means.

* SceneryPorn: this is what Eubank is known for, as he started as a cinematographer.

* ProductionPosse: actor [[Franchise/DeadSpace Gunner Wright]] appears in both Love and Underwater, editor Brian Berdan edited Eubank's first three films, Legacy Effects for suits on both ''The Signal'' and then ''Underwater''.

* {{Fanservice}}: shots of the memory girl in ''Love'', the motel scene with Creator/OliviaCooke in ''The Signal'', Creator/KristenStewart in skivies throughout ''Underwater''
* ProductionPosse: actor [[Franchise/DeadSpace Gunner Wright]] appears in both Love and Underwater, editor Brian Berdan edited Eubank's first three films, Legacy Effects for suits on both ''The Signal'' and then ''Underwater''

Eubank grew up playing water polo and hiking in the California wilderness while in the Boy Scouts. He became interested in filmmaking because of his grandfather–a US Navy cinematographer in World War II–who would tell stories such as the time he shot footage from an airplane while flying underneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Eubank was torn between heading to Los Angeles to pursue filmmaking or attending Annapolis. He chose to move to LA and has been working in the town almost ever since.