in bras Model U.S. Marines Ed Wood charges with his mates during a U.S. landing operation in the Pacific theater of World War II. But unlike his comrades-in-arms, under the tough military uniform, Ed Wood also wore a women's bra and a pair of panties - although Ed is a determined "straight man", he has a fanaticism transvestites, especially prefer women's angora sweaters.
If Eddard really died in that battle, he might have been buried in Suibaicao, or in another way a historical precursor to the "transvestite". But Ed was lucky to survive the war. In the late 1940s, he triumphed with the U.S. military and settled in Los Angeles, thus beginning his thirty-year "history of Hollywood mediocrity struggle".
In three decades of unsatisfactory film career, Ed has never won the favor of either critics or audiences. After his death, this Gower Street (1920s-50s, Hollywood low-cost production, film companies get together, it is worth mentioning that Hollywood's first film studio was located on Gower Street and Sunset Boulevard. Interchange, founded in 1911), the famous Luther, but for his directing the king of all time bad movies "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (Plan 9 from Outer Space) and the Tim Burton biopic "Ed. The protagonist of Wood" ironically achieved a fate similar to that of countless great artists in history: no one cared during his lifetime, and after his death he became famous. The difference is that Ed is not retained because of "greatness", but is remembered precisely because of "failure".
But the loser Ed has one of the biggest characteristics: naive and persistent. He has always been the bra-clad soldier on the Pacific battlefield: in the midst of a large number of ordinary people, he has incomprehensible paranoia, unspeakable eccentricities; but he did not give up the fight, but used a kind of honor and disgrace beyond success or failure. The perseverance and perseverance led to a bleak life of failure.
Hollywood underdog
Ed Wood was born on October 10, 1924 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, and began his film career in Los Angeles after the war. Ed has written 47 scripts, directed 18 works, and has run through countless movies, but he has never achieved anything in his life.
In 1952, Ed had his first major career opportunity: directing a film based on the then sensational news personality, transgender Christine Jorgensen. Ed, who is a transvestite, projected his own understanding on the work and wrote the script for Glen or Glenda. In the film, Ed himself played the transvestite character of Glen or Glenda, while the other protagonist was false hermaphrodite Alan or Anne. Ed originally wanted to use this film to draw more attention to marginal groups such as transvestites, intersex people, and transgender people and the differences between them. However, due to poor shooting, editing, and jumping, the film not only failed to impress people, but also produced unexpected comic effects, making the marginalized people in the film seem ridiculous. In "The Boy and the Girl," the classic horror-movie star (and outdated at the time), Bella Lugosi, best known for her role as the "Dracula" vampire, made her Ed film debut as A mad doctor whose appearance and existence are extremely inexplicable.
This "Sudden Men and Women" failed without any suspense, but there was always a naive optimism, or it could be said that Ed, who was a bit "two", had already made a new blueprint for himself. Using some of the material he had shot before, plus his own rhetoric, he pulled money to make a new film called "Bride of the Atom", which was later called "Bride of the Monster". 1955). The film still continues Ed's shoddy, "details are clouds", illogical, and whimsical style: he seems accustomed to producing films as quickly and crudely as possible with the least amount of money and the least amount of time, even a little fun. in it. Bride of the Beast was dismissed by most critics, and the few it received were all derogatory.
As long as Ed was a normal human being, faced with such setbacks, there would be frustration and doubt. In "Ed Wood", Tim Burton asked Ed to express his emotions in the middle of the night: Orson Welles was 26 when he made Citizen Kane, but I was 30.
But after the depression, the magic of Ed is that he can contemplate again with his trademark bravery. This time it was in 1956's Plan 9 Outer Space. He has limited material, a small amount of money and a bunch of crappy actors he's used to. For the film, Ed used some of the previous footage of Bella Lugosi from "The Bride of the Monsters," which was also the final shot of the once-glorious, dying horror star. In these clips, Bella, wearing his signature black cape-style suit, wanders aimlessly in front of his own door, folds a flower, sniffs it, and doesn't see it clearly; at the end of the clip , Bella put her hand on her forehead, her shoulders trembled slightly, this is a silent film, crying silently.
This alien, living dead movie is absurd enough on its own, and even more absurd is that it is funded by a local Baptist church led by Wood's landlord. More than two years after the film was shot, producer Edward Reynolds, in an attempt to recover the cost, bought the rights to the work from Ed for just $1. Although the film was slightly profitable after its release in July 1959, Ed probably didn't make a dime from it.
After Wood's "career peak," he entered a sustained "downhill period." He started drinking heavily and directed porn under the alias "Akdov Telmig". By the 1970s, Ed was again writing transvestite-themed erotic novels. In Ed's final years, he spent more time drunk than awake. In the end, he and his wife, Kathy, were evicted from their apartment for not being able to pay their rent. He came to a friend's house for help, and soon died of a heart attack, drinking in bed. It was December 10, 1978, and Wood was 54 years old.
in another parallel universe
In the 1980s, shortly after Ed's death, his "Alien Project No. 9" earned him a reputation he had never seen before - a work that sucked to a new level, published in 1980 by the critics Medveds brothers. The Golden Turkey Awards won the title of "WFEM" - Worst Film Ever Made, which made Ed's death gradually gain a group of die-hard cult fans, and the original black and white "Shape Project No. 9" was specially restored. color. There are many flaws in the film: paper tombstones kicked over by extras, walls suddenly painted with decorative paintings, funny UFO flashing effects, a shower curtain and a few plastic brackets made of an airplane without a bridge Room... is also talked about by fans.
Ed Wood is better known for Tim Burton's 1994 black-and-white biographical film Ed Wood. Ed Wood-inspired Tim Burton later paid tribute to Ed Wood in films such as The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Martian on Earth, Sleepy Hollow and Zombie Bride. The film about the fiasco of "Ed Wood" also failed miserably at the box office, arguably the worst of all Tim Burton and Johnny Depp collaborations.
Luckily for Beed, Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" earned word of mouth. From a neutral and objective perspective, the film shows the humble dreams, vain ambitions, mediocre talents, material difficulties and persistence and persistence in adversity of this bleak little man and the Hollywood fringe people around him.
Tim Burton doesn't use sensationalism to tell "Ed Wood" as a simple story of the success or failure of an idealistic, innocent little guy. Rather, it portrays a lovable, pitiful and hateful Ed Wood through the display of its strengths (naive, persistent) and weaknesses (habitual shoddy production, extremely sloppy creative attitude) and absurdities.
But I think Tim Burton still wanted a better ending for Ed. At the end of the film, he schedules a decent premiere (compared to "Monster Bride") for "Alien Project 9", and the audience in the auditorium, men and women in dresses, cheers the beginning of the film , this time, without the flying popcorn and the clamoring crowd, when the film ended, Ed married Casey outside the movie theater. This is the "peak" of his life!
I'd rather believe that, in another alternate universe, there was a moment when Ed Wood, like Johnny Depp, wore the same white gown as Johnny Depp, watching his movie premiere with excitement and frustration. He intoxicatedly recounted the narration and lines of each act, and at that moment, the busy and relentless world was quiet, intoxicated by the insignificant ego of this insignificant man.
Talented and enthusiastic
talent and passion in the end what is the relationship?
This is probably the experience of most people who have tried to pursue something passionately: distance creates beauty, and it is difficult to maintain the original enthusiasm.
In addition to the triviality and hard work of specific things, an important reason why enthusiasm is worn down is that at a certain moment, we will deeply doubt our talents, feel deeply anxious about it, stay in a daze during the day, and lose sleep at night. De Wood said: Orson Welles was 26 when he made Citizen Kane, and I'm 30!
In order to cope with this piercing anxiety, we will gradually convince ourselves that you are indeed not the material, stop making unnecessary struggles, and hurry up and accept the reality.
So, we gave up our best wishes, believing that true love should be cared for as a leisure area, not as a career.
It makes sense to think that the choice is made by everyone and no one else can refute it.
But there are other people who can prepare for the worst of hardships and get nothing, while fighting in the world with the desire to be famous and the preparation for fiasco.
In Ed Wood, there is this alternative: even without any talent or resources recognized by the world, he is naive, dull, and persistent in his passion.
There is always a light in Ed's eyes in the film, and Johnny Depp brilliantly presents that slick, innocent and fragile image. Maybe Ed will become another Bella one day, but life doesn't live up to every experience.
In this world, there used to be a failed director who pluralized every narration and lines in the movie theater, Ed Wood. This is his life, this is his choice.
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