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In 1953, Ed Wood started the drama life of Hollywood's bad movie king with a movie "Sudden Boys and Girls". But the frankness of using her own transvestites as material is also shocking. In fact, this has set the tone of Ed Wood's career throughout his life - he loved himself too much, loved his talents, loved his quirks, loved all the sparks in his head, loved everything about himself. His love for himself, his love for movies, is all reflected in his works, even if it is a "bad movie" in a broad sense, it is so sunny and lovely, so confident, so energetic...
Ed, a strange The story of the costumed director
[Sudden Boys and Girls] begins with a suicide investigation. A woman fell to her house in neat clothes. Surrounded by police, forensic doctors and reporters, the suicide note beside "her" was released to the world: "I am a man who likes to wear women's clothes, and I have been imprisoned four times for this..." As the investigation required, the sheriff went to consult a psychiatrist, and thus began Grey and Allen's story in a third-person narration. Gray is a normal man on the surface, Barbara is his fiancee, and his inner desire for cross-dressing has always been between them. When the newspaper reports about transvestites were told to him, he was horrified, afraid that the truth would make him lose her. Another story is about Aaron. He was raised by his mother as a girl since he was a child. After he went to school, he became confused about his gender, and was therefore excluded from both boys and girls. After returning from the battlefield of World War II, he seemed to have a clearer mind.
Both Gray and Allen struggled, and Gray finally decided to tell Barbara the secret, and finally got her understanding and acceptance; Allen chose to undergo sex reassignment surgery and officially become a woman-although transvestite and transgender Not the same concept, but the short story about Allen is actually more in line with the original purpose of the film: honoring the courageous transgender pioneer Christine Jordanson.
The narration of the film is realized with a very simple and rude structure: for example, the main narrator is a psychiatrist facing a police detective, the story of Gray and Allen is already in the film, and Gray finds a comrade when he is helpless. Friends Johnny confided, and brought out the story of Johnny's small marriage failure. During the normal narrative period, the strange scientist played by Bella Lugosi was also interspersed from time to time. This strange scientist is probably the most discussed place in the whole film. On the one hand, Ed Wood kindly invited the outdated and drug-addicted Bella Lugosi to appear on the scene - the details of the process are in Tim Burton's [AI] De Wood] is quite touching. On the other hand, if you understand Ed Wood's eloquent expression, urgent and somewhat unable to focus on his feelings, the existence of this strange scientist is not incompatible. He is always making emotional additions and renderings to the story - sixty years earlier than us, people have photographed what is "thunder"; at the same time, he is also looking at the whole from a higher perspective of God The behavior of "human cross-dressing", such as splicing his face with the bustling people on the street, and then connecting to the actor of "Grey" is Ed Wood himself, perhaps it can be understood that Grey and the Scientist, it happens to be a portrayal of his two personalities, one is self-experience, one is criticism of superego, one is biased towards the body, and the other is directed towards consciousness and spirit, these two personalities really merged in the scene of "porn movie" For one, enough to be used to corroborate.
Due to his own hobby of transvestites, Ed Wood's intention to shoot this film is very obvious. He hopes to explain everything about transvestites to the world with friendly and friendly guidance and inclination, so in the main line of the story, he In addition to the gentle and amiable portrayal of Gray and Allen, a large number of narrations are used for popular science, which proves that transvestite is not a terminal illness and a dangerous phenomenon from the perspectives of history, ethics, behavior and even biology. Rather, it is an idiosyncratic behavior that requires social inclusion. In the beginning, Ed Wood emphasized the point that transvestites are not the same as homosexuality, nor are they trying to "be" the opposite sex, but that only women's clothing can bring comfort and satisfaction. Including the mind and body. Of course, this desire can only be satisfied in private with the door locked, "when wearing a woman's clothes, he can work better, think better, play better".
The most daring passage of the film is probably Bella Lugosi watching a small pornographic movie on TV, which is used to simulate the sexy provocation in the eyes of transvestites, watching them undress and undress, their bodies are laid out, tied and whipped. Other sexual abuse hints, as well as sexual behavior hints between two women, are actually saying that the ultimate purpose of cross-dressing is still in the same field as "extreme sex", which is dominated by patriarchy to please men. Sexually perverted behavior for the purpose. And the ultimate desire is that he hopes that he can be accepted by women in women's clothes. He has desires for women, and he also hopes that women can accept the desire of "he in women's clothes", which seems contradictory and very reasonable. In the process, his fears and struggles were also embodied. The frequent thunder, and Barbara, who was crushed under the tree trunk by the thunder in the fantasy, only accepted the help of his male face, and reached the climax of the hallucination, revealing The desire of self and the fear of being the laughing stock of society, accompanied by the shadow of the song's childhood and the terrifying image of his father, made him finally make a decision, and the scene where Barbara took off the angora sweater and threw it to Gray, in more than forty years. Years later, on a poster for [Ed Wood].
Wood, a lousy movie with the surname of Wang.
Before the filming of [Sudden Boys and Husbands], Ed Wood had been in Hollywood for 7 years. He had written unnamed scripts, directed episodes that were more soapy than soap, and adapted himself from Unpublished novel, so under the background of hearing that the producer had approached Kristin Jordanson many times with the project [Sudden Boys and Girls], but was rejected, he did not hesitate to reveal that he was also a transvestite Privacy, and in exchange for the opportunity to direct a film. Of course, considering that he also talked so much about his experience of landing in a bra and panties on the battlefield of World War II, maybe it was not even privacy for Ed. From this we can see the special significance of [sudden man and woman] to Ed. It is not only a secret, somewhat autobiographical nature, but also a gesture of his goodwill to the public opinion of the whole society.
In his debut feature, Ed Wood has made his rough, clumsy, yet whimsical qualities on full display - the film uses a lot of narration, apparently due to a lack of camera material and richer camera skills; From time to time, he inserted some weird things to connect, such as the divorce proceedings in the moot court, where some women explained to the judge that their husbands could not bear the cross-dressing behavior of their husbands; another example was a nightly radio conversation, which made the two hosts take a sarcastic attitude. Talking about this current social hotspot, at the same time, the picture is a shot of steel making, and it is a prediction of the current hot word "rebuild" sixty years in advance; another example is that almost 14 minutes of the whole film is edited information footage, including flashes. The six thunders, the bustling streets repeated three times, the school playground twice, and indigenous dances and casting steel as theoretical backgrounds, especially the World War II scenes as narrative backgrounds are especially simple and rude. Lun goes to the war, then there's a full minute of ping pong pong war expansion, and then immediately cuts to the doctor's narration "The war is over soon, Alan goes home", which is very funny; there are also some passages that reveal a unique sense of humor , for example, using a narration to explain a pass: "In the animal kingdom, it's all males who try to attract females, but in humans, it's the other way around. How lucky are women in this world, it's actually men who design and decide on clothes, jewelry, cosmetics, and hairstyles. , perfume", and then inserted a shot of a man reading a newspaper on the sofa, facing the camera side of the newspaper with the headline "Transvestite shocks the world", the man slowly put down the newspaper, stretched leisurely, we saw the bearded man She wears exaggerated women's earrings. Such absurd or amusing arrangements seem particularly random, but obviously, compared with Ed's later works, this film, which took only four days to complete, is already the most serious and rigorous.
Because the film involves the incarnation of many psychoanalytic theories, it is no surprise that David Lynch declared it to be one of his favorite films, and he also used the sound effect of the passage in which Gray was forced by fear, "The Whispering Wind" in his own film. [Eraser Head]. And with being named "the worst director in history" in the 1980s, Ed Wood's reputation as "The King of Bad Movies" has become more and more sought after, and the film has logically entered the classic list. Film" won the 50th honor.
Nevertheless, I would rather believe that this is still an honor, and Ed Wood's original intention of making the film is actually written in the title, earnestly and respectfully - "Through the whole process of making the film, everyone seems to be watching Looking at this project like a monster, we have gone through all kinds of difficulties, and there are no shortcuts. Many details in the film are taken from real life, and yes, what really happened. The film is based on objective reality, without bias, and is only expressed in realism, while Everything in the film is still being staged in reality. I hope you, as an ordinary person, don't watch it with tinted glasses..."
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