Ed Wood's failure cannot hide his innate creative passion, and many people are still fascinated by him, including another Hollywood geek director Tim Burton. Perhaps out of sympathy, or perhaps moved by Ed Wood's obsession with film, this dear friend who likes to incorporate Gothic style into his films risked losing money to make a biographical film of the same name about his filmmaking career. -- "Ed Wood". In the film, the legendary director is played by Johnny Depp, who was not very popular at the time. The director and him have cooperated with "Edward Scissorhands" before, and the two have a tacit understanding.
"Ed Wood" continues Tim Burton's bizarre gothic style, changing the color film mode and deliberately shooting it into black and white. The cold image effect can better interpret the sad tone of the film, and it is also close to the form of a documentary . Ed Wood is a transvestite, always wearing women's clothes and ugly wigs when filming. In the eyes of others, he is a complete freak, just like his movies are not accepted by the public. But his attitude towards movies is more sincere than anyone else. For making movies, he tried his best to raise money from everywhere, including script, props, actors, and every link, trying to get the best effect with the least amount of money. Just because of his selfishness in the movie, he forced his girlfriend who had been in love with him for many years to leave him. He always had a dream: to be a director as good as Orson Wilson, but unfortunately, he became the worst.
Ed Wood not only loves movies, but every one of his actors. When he was filming "Atomic Bride", he found the actor Bella Lugues, who played the vampire Count Dracula in the film "Dracula". Now Lugus is an out-of-date lonely old man who spends all day Longing for filming, longing for the moment to return to the big screen. Ed Wood has always maintained respect for Luggs and regarded him as his idol, and Luggs did not disappoint Ed Wood, and he did his best during the shooting of "Atomic Bride". A failed director, an outdated star, two frustrated men never gave up hope, cherished each other, and sparked a tacit understanding. It is more appropriate to borrow Li Bai's "the same people who are fallen from the end of the world, why do they know each other when they meet each other". However, near the end of the shooting, the elderly and sickly Luggs still fell on the set. At that moment, I believe that he dedicated his soul and body to "Atomic Bride", the last film of his life, a new The film that ignited his passion for interpretation. This also revealed that Hollywood, a seemingly glamorous fringe of Vanity Fair, still has a group of unknown actors who are worried about their livelihoods. Tim Burton finally gave "Ed Wood" a pretty good ending, "Atomic Bride" was a big success, and Ed Wood also got a sweet love. Perhaps the director can only use this to express his respect for Ed Wood.
In reality, Ed Wood's life was absurd and tragic, but he himself never felt that no matter what setbacks he encountered, he never lacked a smile on his face. The driving force behind his calmness, I think it should be his love for movies. Even if every film was rated as bad, every audience sneered at it, and his enthusiasm for the film never cooled. He expects and believes that there will always be people who will understand his films. I heard that the director Kubrick asked his assistant to ask for a poster of the movie after watching his "Outer Space No. 9 Project". I can only speculate that Kubrick may be Xiaoqiang who admired him for not being beaten to death. Spirit, maybe really understand his movies.
Among today's directors, how many people's love for movies is as pure as Ed Wood's. He makes movies for movies, while most filmmakers make movies for profit. Only a film based on pure love will not lose the spiritual connotation that the film should have, and will not make the film a tool for businessmen to make money.
This era really needs some artists like Ed Wood who are willing to sacrifice for art.
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