This is the first movie I have seen, yes, the first cult movie. To me, Edwood is not a "junk" director in the general sense. He is just an overzealous film-making lover, a director with a little overconfidence, and a passionate science fiction fan-he is not a tradition. In the concept, he is the leader of the world on the set. A director would never be like Wood. Seeing that the chair in the background fell down, he let the actors continue to perform; he couldn’t find suitable flying saucer special effects, he bought the most common flying saucer model in the 1950s to make up the number; there was no suitable one. The actor from here came to help, and he did not hesitate to let the technical staff of the crew also participate. If the actor dies suddenly (Bella Lugosi), he doesn't mind letting a photographer cover his face and act as a stand-in who can be seen through at a glance.
Griffith said that actors do not need to be respected, only the director is worthy of the award; the correctness of this sentence is aside for the time being, but Wood has really become a god-level respected by the midnight audience under numerous accidents. director. Throughout his life, mainstream Hollywood rejected him, and he did not give up. His "Sudden Man and Girl" led the industry for decades, telling a transvestite story that would never easily enter the public eye. In 1953, this film was naturally widely criticized. He continued to pursue his unrealistic fantasies in films, and made one after another non-mainstream B-level films. In his spare time, he even devoted himself to creation, writing pornographic novels to attract people's attention. On the day of his death, there was no obituary in the newspapers—maybe Tim Burton’s "Edwood" was the belated tribute; he listed his "Outer Space Project 9" as the author of the worst movie We firmly believe that writing is better than rhetoric, but without a casual banter, it can't make Wood feel happy in another world.
The path to glory does not necessarily lead to glory; the weak are a powerful group, not a meaningless mob. There are so many directors like Wood in the history of film! Their efforts and their unique understanding of visual art are not entirely useless. In the tens of millions of years of artistic development, didn't Duchamp and Alcan also come out? Taking an unusual path is not simply denying the facts-although Wood’s ninth plan is not as well-known as the more famous “plans” and does not have a huge black box and blue baby to accompany it, it always has a place. . Any director who insists on innovation and has a unique thinking like this is a strange light that flickers and flickers in the history of film.
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