Line #11 Creator/PaulWSAnderson


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3	Paul William Scott Anderson (born 4 March 1965) is an English director and producer.
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5	He has largely stayed in the realm of being a journeyman director, basically someone called in to make a movie under the direction of the suits. While that might earn some derision as someone who "makes someone else's movie," he has taken those movies that could easily become merely a paycheck and turned them into something rather watchable and surprisingly entertaining that usually does well in box office. He refers to himself as a "populist filmmaker", meaning that he doesn't particularly care what professional critics think of his work as long as his films entertain the audience.
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7	He has carved out a niche in the business of being hard-working and staying within budget. His first major breakthrough was directing ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' movie, which managed to get some major critics supporting it, appeal to a mainstream audience and make its money back. Today the movie is regarded as a bit of a CultClassic. He has since been involved with several other video-game inspired movies, all with a similar degree of respect (or lack thereof), mainly the ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries''. In other words, he could be called the "rich man's Creator/UweBoll."
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9	He's married to Creator/MillaJovovich, the star of his ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries''. They have three daughters - Creator/{{Ever\|Anderson}} (who became an actress), Dashiel, and Osian.
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11	Not to be confused with Creator/PaulAnderson or Creator/PaulThomasAnderson, although both have gone by merely Paul Anderson before, or with science fiction author P'''o'''ul Anderson.
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13	!!Films
14	[[index]]
15	* ''Film/{{Shopping}}''
16	* ''Film/DOADeadOrAlive'' (contrary to popular belief, Anderson produced it, yet did ''not'' direct it)
17	* ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie''
18	* ''Film/EventHorizon''
19	* ''Film/{{Soldier}}''
20	* ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'' [[note]]He also produced the sequels that he didn't direct[[/note]]
21	** ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife''
22	** ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution''
23	** ''Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter''
24	* ''Film/AVPAlienVsPredator''
25	* ''Film/DeathRace''
26	* ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers2011''
27	* ''Film/{{Pompeii}}''
28	* ''Film/MonsterHunter2020''
29	[[/index]]
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31	!!Anderson's work provide examples of:
32	* ActionGenre: Most of the films he directed are usually some variation of action (often mixed with {{Fantasy}}, ScienceFiction and/or {{Horror}}).
33	* JitterCam: Like Creator/MichaelBay, Anderson is (in)famous for his use of this trope, which, combined with fast cutting, makes it hard to tell what is going on in some scenes.
34	* SequelHook: Of his directorial efforts, all but ''{{Film/Pompeii}}'' ([[ForegoneConclusion obviously]]) have some variation on BolivianArmyEnding, TheEndOrIsIt, or AndTheAdventureContinues. Fortunately for him, almost all have been followed up on at some point, for better or worse. Despite this tendency in his work, he rarely directs the sequels himself (even with ''Resident Evil'' where he later returned to direct some of the sequels, he skipped out on directing the second and third films).
35	* VideoGameMovies: He directed the ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' live action film, ''Monster Hunter'', and 4 ''Resident Evil'' films. He was also a producer of ''DOA: Dead or Alive'', a loose adaptation of the ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' games.

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