The Royal Tenenbaums 'Chas' Charecter Analysis

Directed by Wes Anderson, “The Royal Tenenbaums” follows the lives of three extremely smart children, Chas, Margot and Richie who are the main characters of this film that introduces them as a ‘family of geniuses’. The character I shall be analysing is Chas
The character I shall be analysing is Chas, a very successful and serious child as, being much like a little business man, who takes most of his meals in his room on the second floor of the house at his desk to ‘save time’, this shows the business like essence that Chas has as he is not prepared to waste time while in the middle of some very business related projects, such as in the sixth grade, he went into business breeding Dalmatian, mice which he ‘sold to a pet shop in little Tokyo’ showing again his ingenuity as a child genius, who was also a successful business man making money from a very young age. For a child, Chas shows his mature nature as he started buying real estate in his early teens, and also negotiated the purchase of his fathers summer house on eagles island, which shows again how intellectual this young boy really is, understanding when to buy and sell real estate and negotiating the summer houses purchase, where whilst shooting, his father shot a bb between two knuckles in his left hand which was stuck for the rest of his life. Unlike his brother and sister, he was not as close to them as they were together as he seems to be a rather loner of a character that was only interested in the money, although he participated in Margo’s first play, on her tenth birthday party, which their father (Royal Tenenbaum) drenched their spirits by saying that the play was unrealistic. However, Chas seemed very distant from his father, who seemed to favour his other son Richie, possibly because of his incredible sporting skills. One last point I would like to get across is the fact of how Chas has been a financial success from an incredibly young age, being a business man of sorts, even drinking coffee which is something that not many ordinary children would do.