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For those who have no idea who Edward D. Wood Jr is. He is an optimistic filmmaker that is famous or infamous for creating movies like "Plan 9 from Outer Space", and "Glen or Glenda" that people called them the worst films ever made. In the productions of his movie which he directed, wrote, edited and even acted in one of them. He works lighting fast, very cheap that his productions ends in an few days or more incase it's money problems. After Plan 9, he few into obscure in the 70s making porno films and books until his death in 1978. In the 80s, he became known when the Golden Turkey Awards called him the worst director while mentioning his films that got people interested to him that led to this film which came from the book that came out at that time "Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr".
This film is directed by Tim Burton famous for making movies like “Pee Wee Big Adventure”, "Bettlejuice", "Edward Scissorhands", and "Sweeney Todd". This is an biopic on his life that follows the making of "Glen or Glenda" and his other movies and the hardships he went to complete them among with the good and bad moments of his life during this time. During making them he runs into Bela Lugosi, an horror star famous for being "Dracula" at 1931 that unfortunately had no work at that time in his life and no one would care for him, Ed Wood became friends with him and gave Bela roles on his films to support Bela.
This movie works very well. The acting from the cast is very good. Johnny Depp as Ed Wood really captures his character of Ed Wood very well and even if you dislike Ed Wood and his movies, you can’t help but wanting him to complete his film, his dreams. Martin Landau who played Bela Lugosi did an amazing job on him and he definitely deserve the Oscar he got for his role. The use of black and white for the film is an perfect match for the feel of this. The designs of the scene they shot for Ed’s films are very well done and look almost the same.
Overall, this is an really great movie with great characters, acting, and theme of not giving up and always following your passion no matter what the things they throw at you. Granted there are facts in the film that are not true. Lugosi married to Hope Lininger in 1955 while she was never mention or in the film and Bela was never alone in his house. Other one is Bela knew what “Glen or Glenda” is and didn’t want to do it until he needed to work while in the movie, he had no idea what it’s about beside what Ed told him. And lastly Loretta King in real life wasn’t alleged to water as the film showed.
Would I recommend this? Yes I highly recommended this to Film fans, Tim Burton fans, and future filmmakers.
10/10
