DOCSLIB.ORG

Ed Wood: Verdens Instruktør

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Ed Wood: Verdens Instruktør PORTRÆT Kan en film være så dårlig; at den faktisk bliver g o d ? - Ja, det kan den sagtens. Hvor mange E d Wood: nederlag skal man have, før man giver op? - Ed Wood gav aldrig op, hans liv var en lind strøm af fiaskoer. Kosmorama har set Tim Bartons film om Verdens instruktøren i New York - her kommer historien om manden, der posthumt fik papir på sin ............. Værste^ . af Johannes Schonherr ^ om bekendt er Hollywoods hi- storie en blandet landhandel, der ikke blot handler om store sel­ skabers glamourøse produktioner, Academy Awards og sladder om Instruktør stjernernes skandaler. Den handler også om de fattigrøvs-skæbner, der i storindustriens skyggeland fandt de­ havde mere end forspist sig på TV- Det var netop indenfor disse res helt egne nicher, i hvilke de uaf­ underholdningen, udgjorde en bety­ rammer instruktør/producer/manu- hængigt af mogulerne stædigt pro­ delig indtægtskilde, når blot produk­ skriptforfatter Edward D.Wood for­ ducerede og distribuerede film til al­ terne lovede lidt til gården, gaden og søgte at gøre sig gældende, det lyk­ ternative markeder. ikke mindst nerverne. Folk som Ro­ kedes bare aldrig! Hans plakater lo­ I 50’erne og 60’erne havde disse ger Corman, David Friedman og sel­ vede 'Shocking’ - ’Revealing’ - 'Hor- småproducenter deres absolutte skabet American International Pic- rifying’, og det var filmene også, når guldalder - de store drenge var sta­ tures tjente styrtende på at afsætte det gjaldt kvaliteten: dekorationerne dig på familieunderholdning med billige produktioner med sensations­ stod og blafrede, lyset skiftede fra høj moral, så det stadig ekspande­ prægede plakater til drive-in biogra­ dag til nat midt i en sekvens, mon­ rende ungdomsmarked, der allerede fer og andre billige visningssteder for strene var ubevægelige klodser i sno­ da var befolket afen generation, som unge. retræk og hver anden indstilling be- 12 stod af gammelt, ridset arkivmate­ men af Bela Lugosi, der i filmens riale uden relevans i sammenhæn­ indledning sidder iført vampyrko­ gen. Selv grådige teenagere kunne stume i et laboratorium fuldt af ikke acceptere sådan noget bras, og dødningehoveder og andet guf. Han lidet hjalp det, at Bela ’Dracula’ Lu- fabulerer tåget om sexualitetens for­ gosi optrådte på slap line midt i for­ underlige verden, alt imens gammelt virringen. og i øvrigt fuldkommen irrelevant Smag og behag skifter jo imidler­ arkivmateriale klippes ind i korte tid, og Tim Burtons film Ed Wood glimt. Bortset fra Lugosis 1000 dol­ var en af hovedbegivenhederne ved lars til stoffer fik ingen af filmens in­ New York Film Festival i oktober i volverede noget ud af den. Amerika år. Pludselig er Ed Wood og hans hi­ var ikke helt rede til den slags emner storie altså blevet mere end in - et - og da slet ikke i en Ed Wood præ­ stort navn bøjet i neon og med Tim sentation. Burton og Johnny Depp som garan­ ter. The outcasts Wood blev ufortrødent ved med at Woods liv lave film - i 54 kom således en pla­ Men hvordan kunne det nu gå til? - stic kirurgisk horrorberetning med Ja, historien om Ed Woods vej til titlen Jail Bait, og det følgende år forsinket berømmelse som kultfilm- satte han Bela Lugosi til at kreere mester er ligeså så besynderlig som atomare superskabninger i Bride of hans aldrig svigtende anstrengelser Side 12: Til venstre den ægte Ed Wood - til the Monster. Det er vel næppe nød­ for at komme til at lave film. højre Johnny Depps version. Herover: Wood i vendigt at nævne, at ingen af disse Oprindeligt var han fra Poughke- en af sine elskede angorabluser. tjente penge endsige blev anmelder- epsie, New York. Under 2. verdens­ succes'er. Til gengæld fik Wood krig gjorde han som marinesoldat samlet en fast stab af ægte udskud tjeneste i Stillehavsområdet, hvor angorabluser. En af de mange hi­ omkring sig: Som sagt tog han sig af han kom på tværs af en japansk ge­ storier, han fortalte igen og igen, var Lugosi, hvem ingen i Hollywood værkolbe og fik slået alle fortæn­ beretningen om, hvorledes han del­ længere havde noget tilovers for, og derne ud; og så var han i øvrigt tog i invasionen af Tarawa iklædt ly­ sørgede bl.a. for at han fik en smule korpsets hurtigste på en skrivema­ serøde trusser og BH inde under løn. Dernæst var det lykkedes ham skine. Med krigen vel overstået an­ uniformen. at overtale en svensk forhenværende kom han i Flollywood i 1947, og han Wood kunne desuden diske op bryder ved navn Tor Johnson til at kastede sig straks over filmbranchen. med endnu et godt argument for, at medvirke i filmene; og endnu en ge­ Således instruerede han i samar­ han skulle have tjansen: han havde vinst var erhvervelsen skuespillerin­ bejde med Orson Welles' kamera­ netop mødt den noget udbrændte den, Maila Nurmi, der var blevet fy­ mand, Ray Flint, sin første film The Bela Lugosi - 30'ernes horror star ret fra det ellers så berømte TV- Streets of Laredo - en kort western - i par exellence - der i al sin sølle, show ’Vampira’; dertil kom den lige­ 1948. Senere samme år iscenesatte morfinafhængige elendighed havde ledes fra TV kendte spåmand, Cris- han efter eget manuskript teater­ brug for hver en øre, han kunne well, samt den håbefulde kønsskifte­ stykket 'The Casual Company'. skrabe til sig. kandidat, Bunny Beckinridge - alle Begge forehavender var totalt mis­ Weiss gik med på projektet. Men havde de det til fælles, at de var for­ lykkede: filmen blev p.g.a. penge­ den film, som Wood lavede, Glen or henværende semiberømtheder med mangel aldrig helt færdig, og stykket Glenda?, blev mildest taft anderledes et stort Uown-and-out’ skrevet på fik de værst mulige anmeldelser. end det oprindelige koncept. Den ryggen. Og Wood selv var efterhån­ Dette afholdt nu ikke Wood fra at fortæller to forskellige historier - den svært alkoholiseret. Desværre satse på en karriere indenfor filmens dels Christine Jorgensens og dels en døde Lugosi i 55, men den absolut verden. Selvom han dårligt kunne temmelig selvbiografisk betonet ap­ sidste optagelse med ham havde overleve ved det, fortsatte han med pel til verden om at stille sig forstå­ Wood lavet få dage inden, og året ef­ at skrive et enkelt filmmanuskript i ende overfor transvestitter. Han spil­ ter skulle han finde anvendelse for ny og næ, indtil han i 1953 fornem­ lede selv figuren Daniel Davis, der er den lille stump film, der viser Lugosi mede, at nu var hans tid ved at vild med at gå i dametøj, og som i forlade et hus med en have foran. nærme sig: Historien om George/ forbindelse med sit frieri må tilstå Det var meget passende i forbin­ Christine Jorgensens kønsskifteope­ denne uskyldige lyst for sin kom­ delse med det særeste plattenslager­ ration fyldte alle amerikanske aviser, mende hustru. Den forlovede stiller nummer, den utrættelige instruktør og exploitation produceren George sig fuldt forstående og accepterer nogensinde fik held til at gennem­ Weiss - kendt fra værker som f.eks. uden videre Daniels lille afvigelse fra føre: Pastor J. Edward Reynolds fra Test Tube Babies (53) - var på udkig normen. Hun blev i øvrigt spillet af den lokale afdeling af det baptistiske efter en instruktør, der kunne filma­ Woods faktiske kæreste, Dolores trossamfund havde et ønske om at tisere nyhedshistorien. Wood anså Fuller, der under ingen omstændig­ iværksætte en produktion af reli­ sig selv for at være lidt af en ekspert heder kunne affinde sig med hans giøse film, og Wood fik overbevist i forhold til det dér med kønsskifte, transvestitisme, og sidenhen drop­ ham om, at den helt rigtige frem­ han var nemlig transvestit og vidste pede hun ham af præcis samme gangsmåde ville være først at produ­ ikke noget bedre end at spankulere grund. cere en film i en populær genre. Sci­ rundt i hjemmet iført sin kærestes Filmens to historier bindes sam­ ence fiction var sagen, forklarede 13 In Frade (70), Necromania (71). Han døde fattig og alkoholiseret af et hjertetilfælde i 1978, da var han 54 år gammel. Golden Turkey Der gik ikke så forfærdeligt længe ef­ ter Woods død, før han blev 'opda­ get' af det amerikanske publikum. Det skete i 80 i forbindelse med ud­ givelsen af Harry og Michael Med­ veds bog 'The Golden Turkey Awards’. Bogen er en registrant over de værste film, der nogensinde er la­ vet, og heri har Wood æren af at blive udnævnt til ’Worst Director of All Time', og som prikken over i’et bliver Plan 9 From Outer Space ud­ nævnt til ’Worst Film of All Time'. Bogen blev fulgt op af 'World’s Worst Film Festival’ i New York, og her blev de centrale værker for første gang vist efter denne noget specielle formålsparagraf. Festivalen inspire­ rede den kendte filmkritiker, Jim Hoberman, til en artikel, hvori han seriøst tiljubler de dårlige film: "Den objektivt dårlige film forsøger at re­ producere udtrykkets institutionelle form, men dens manglende evne hertil deformerer selv den simpleste Wood den ærværdige pastor - og Der var temmelig mange scener med formula og kliché i en sådan grad, at med sådan en film kunne man så Tom Mason - som konens kiroprak­ man dårligt genkender dem; og de tjene penge til produktionen af en tiker tilfældigvis hed - og staklen var må således aktivt dechifreres (...) En masse religiøse værker. Wood påtog nødt til at spille dem alle med hove­ god dårlig film er som de vises sten, sig naturligvis storsindet at instruere det dækket til, for han lignede over­ den omdanner det naive bundfalds en sådan science fiction film - og hovedet ikke Lugosi. UFO'erne be­ inkompetente pladder til moderni­ sandelig om ikke pastoren hoppede stod af vragrester fra gamle Cadil- stisk guld. Disse film er ustabile på limpinden, han havde dog een lac’er, og de var åbenlyst hængt op i objekter.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • L'imitazione Nel Cinema
    Corso di Laurea magistrale (ordinamento ex D.M. 270/2004) in Economia e Gestione delle Arti e delle attività culturali Tesi di Laurea L’imitazione nel cinema ovvero la transtestualità cinematografica Relatore Prof. Marco Dalla Gassa Laureando Mattia Monfrinotti Matricola 849073 Anno Accademico 2015 / 2016 Indice Introduzione 3 1. Cos’è l’imitazione 7 1.1 Il concetto di transtestualità cinematografica 7 1.2 L’imitazione da altri media 11 1.2.1 L’imitazione dal teatro 20 1.2.2 L’imitazione dalla pittura 22 2. Le forme dell’imitazione 25 2.1 Le caratteristiche 28 2.2 La citazione 31 2.2.1 La parodia 39 2.2.2 L’omaggio 41 2.3 La copia 42 2.4 Il falso 46 2.5 Il simulacro 48 3. Tipologia e durata dell’imitazione 51 3.1 L’imitazione audio 54 3.2 L’imitazione video 56 3.3 Le durate dell’imitazione 56 3.3.1 L’inquadratura 56 3.3.2 La sequenza 57 3.4 Il remake 59 4. I gradi dell’imitazione 71 4.1 L’imitazione calda 72 4.2 L’imitazione fredda 77 5. I motivi dell’imitazione 79 Bibliografia 85 Filmografia 89 2 Introduzione Vincenzo Giustiniani (Chio, 1564 - Roma, 1637) fu un collezionista d’arte e intellettuale italiano del ‘600, famoso per la sua considerevole collezione dei quadri di Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Intorno al 1620 scrisse una lettera indirizzata all’amico Teodoro Ameyden oggi conosciuta con il titolo Discorso sopra la pittura. In questo celebre scritto crea una classificazione dei modi di dipingere.
    [Show full text]
  • Considering Blackness in George A. Romero's Night of the Living
    CONSIDERING BLACKNESS IN GEORGE A. ROMERO’S NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: AN HISTORICAL EXPLORATION A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In The Department of English by Jennifer Whitney Dotson B.A., Middle Tennessee State University, 2004 August 2006 Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………...……iii Chapter 1 Introduction………………………………………………..…………..1 2 An Overview of the Twentieth Century Zombie in the West….….....12 3 Night of the Living Dead…………………………………………….39 4 Conclusion…………………………………………………...………66 Bibliography………….………………………………………………………….69 Filmography………………………….……………….……………….…………72 Vita.……………………………………………………………………..………..76 ii Abstract When George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead was released in 1968, the independent black and white zombie film stunned American moviegoers. Having assaulted the audience with a new level of violence-laden gore, Night of the Living Dead received much attention from both popular and critical audiences, with the former rushing to theaters to see the film over and over and the latter almost universally panning the film for its poor taste and gratuitous violence. Since its release, however, Night of the Living Dead has become one of the most written about horror films in American history, with critics praising the film for its ingenuity and reviving the zombie genre and also for its treatment of American sociopolitical issues, including the most critically noted issue— the Vietnam War. Although I agree with those critics who assert that controversy over Vietnam War is raised in Night of the Living Dead (as well as are many other sociopolitical issues which are well worth exploring), the Vietnam imagery of the film has been almost exclusively analyzed at the expense of exploring what I believe is another important aspect of Night of the Living Dead— its re-inscription of blackness in the zombie film.
    [Show full text]
  • Horror, Sexo E Explora~Ao No Cinema I Lucio De Franciscis Dos Reis Piedade
    UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS INSTITUTO DE ARTES Mestrado em Multimeios A CULTURA DO LIXO HORROR, SEXO E EXPLORA<;AO NO CINEMA LUCIO DE FRANCISCIS DOS REIS PIEDADE exemplar e a reda<;ao da dissertayao defendida pelo Sr/Lucio De Franciscis ~os Reis PiecJade . ' '~ova<\_a pela Disserta9ao apresentada ao Curso de Mestrado Com1ss.ral(i.·'!. <;~o·· .. file · /ll'/2002. em Multimeios do lnstituto de Artes da UN ICAMP i \! . i l: "\b'\ i \\ ' -------------t----\\Tf\- '!-1:; -*:.---------------­ como requisito parcial para a obten9ao do grau 1 ,_ \~~ de Mestre em Multimeios sob a orienta9ao do ~~~~~.,;\~\ ~~~~~~----' Prof. Dr. Marcius Cesar Soares Freire. CAMPINAS- 2002 V EX ..,.,"'n"n"" TOMBO SCI 5 3:I16 PROC.c] A;;;_, l.f /0o[ll C PAE!;O $'"" -1,-'!P DATAs/nY roa: N'CPD_ 1. CM001821 i ~ .. FICHA CAT ALOGRAFICA ELABORADA PELA BffiLIOTECA DO IA. - UNICAMP Piedade, Lucio De F ranciscis dos Reis. P595c A cultura do lixo: horror, sexo e explora~ao no cinema I Lucio De Franciscis dos Reis Piedade. - Campinas,SP: [s.n.], 2002. Orientador: Marcius Cesar Soares Freire. Disserta~ao ( mestrado) - Universidade Estadi.Jal de Campinas, Institute de Artes. I . Cinema- hist6ria. 2. Sexo no cinema. 3. Filmes de horror. L Freire, Marcius Cesar Soares. II. Universidade Estadual de Campinas.Instituto de Artes. Ill. Titulo. Para Lucia, minha mulher, pelo apoio e pela paciencia. 3 Agradeqo a CAPES pelo apoio, atraves de balsa concedida entre os meses de novembro de 2001 e outubro de 2002. 4 Resumo: 0 presente trabalho e uma investigayao das relayoes entre o cinema de horror eo que se convencionou chamarfilmes exploitation- filao vasto e prolffico que se desenvolveu a mar­ gem da industria principaL Atraves de uma retrospectiva hist6rica, pretendemos estabelecer os pontes em que se cruzam essas tendencias, na explora9ao do horror explfcito - o assim chamado "sangue-e­ tripas" -, do sexo e da violencia.
    [Show full text]
  • The Making of a Classic
    Saturday, October 22 at 2 & 8 pm only Ed D. Wood’s The Making of a Classic hortly before Bela Lugosi’s death in 1956, the actor had been working Swith poverty row Producer-Director Ed Wood on numerous half-realized projects variously titled Tomb of the Vampire or The Ghoul Goes West. According to Ed Wood, “Lugosi needed a thousand dollars, so I shot some footage of him.” Lugosi’s scenes were probably shot in the Spring of 1955 before Bela entered Norwalk hospital for treatment for his morphine addiction. until July 1959 through Valiant Pictures, These scenes featured Lugosi weep- the receiver of DCA. It went into general ing at a funeral, walking in front of release in the US in July, 1959, as Plan Tor Johnson’s house in the daytime, 9 from Outer Space, on the bottom of walking in and out of Johnson’s side a double bill with DCA’s Time Lock. door at night, and walking through a graveyard in daytime. Only the The original title is mentioned at the end first two sequences had reached any of Criswell’s opening narration when level of completion. When Lugosi he asks the audience, “Can your heart died, Wood shelved these projects. stand the shocking facts about grave 1959 – Black & White – 79 Minutes robbers from outer space?” Like many Shortly thereafter Wood developed independent films of the period,Plan Written, Produced & Directed by ...... Ed Wood Jr. the story and screenplay for Grave 9 was distributed under a states’ rights Executive Producer .................. J. Edward Reynolds Robbers from Outer Space planning to basis.
    [Show full text]
  • Bad for Good William D
    Bad For Good William D. Routt Beyond good and evil [1] Even before Tim Burton made a movie based on his life, almost everyone knew two things about Edward D. Wood, Jr. The first was that he directed "the worst movie ever made", Plan 9 From Outer Space (1956). The second was that he was a transvestite. The two things seem to be linked in some way - or, at least, they often crop up together, as they did just now. And, when you think about it, that is strange.[2] But then, reactions to Ed Wood do tend towards the strange. I remember when I first saw Plan 9. It was on television. In fact, I cannot imagine seeing an Ed Wood movie anywhere else but on television; they were made-for-TV, direct-to-video, before such forms were invented. It was late at night (of course). I was tired and the experience was a hallucinatory one. The film did not seem to have a plot. It opened with "Criswell Predicts", for God's sake! Now and then there were shots of Bela Lugosi stalking with his cape over his eyes (not Lugosi at all, as I later learned) and Vampira staring through creepy branches and Tor Johnson menacing with his arms raised and his mouth open. Cadillac hubcaps (or paper plates or plastic models - anyhow, not flying saucers) spinning across the sky. A tremendous amount of stock footage. Meandering pointless dialogue. Nothing happened: it was a movie of pure effect. For years afterward I described this film of my imagining, whose title I had forgotten, to people who were not interested.
    [Show full text]
  • I Look at This Slush and Try to Remember — at One Time I Made Good
    54 SHOWGIRLS, TEEN WOLVES AND ASTRO ZOMBIES HOLY WOOD! Growing up, we were always a family of movie-watchers. When my mum passed away in 2006, I devoted my only Empire editorial to how her guiding me through early screenings of The Wizard Of Oz and Psycho greatly informed my appreciation of how cinema could be artistic, scary and funny all at once. Her simple advice — ‘If a movie doesn’t grab you within 10 minutes, it’s probably not going to’ — similarly has stuck with me, both as a reviewer and a would-be scriptwriter. Dad’s appreciation of movies was less theoretical but also resonant. Two decades of watching war movies with the retired army reservist — ‘Look at that, walking on a ridge in silhouette!’ was a favourite, followed by a machine-gun noise to indicate he’d just killed all of our heroes — bred an intolerance for flagrant inauthenticity. It was also Dad, who as a salesman for publishers Harper & Row, one night brought home J. Hoberman and Jonathan MARCH Rosenbaum’s fantastic 1983 book Midnight Movies, which expanded my film reading beyond Famous Monsters, Starlog and Fangoria and opened my eyes to — and created an appetite for — the alternative cinema of George Romero, John Waters, David Lynch and Ed Wood. A year later, through his connections, Dad put me forward for a ‘Kids rate the movies’ feature in the Sydney Morning Herald. My 300-word review, of an Aussie flick called Street Hero, wasn’t exactly Pauline Kael calibre (‘The only fault I could pick, in my opinion, is that some scenes are a little unrealistic …’) but it was a start and definitely helped chart my course.
    [Show full text]
  • [Download] the Horror of a Wedding Night 75 Best Last Dance Songs to End the Night, 2018 | My
    [PDF-ivc]The Horror of a Wedding Night The Horror of a Wedding Night People reveal wedding night horror stories - INSIDER Wedding planners share their worst bride horror stories ... 75 Best Last Dance Songs to End the Night, 2018 | My ... Tue, 01 May 2018 13:40:00 GMT People reveal wedding night horror stories - INSIDER Not everyone's wedding night can be perfect. Wallenrock/Shutterstock . One thing about weddings everyone seems to agree on is that your wedding night is supposed to be one of the best nights ever. Wedding planners share their worst bride horror stories ... Wedding planners and workers truly see it all and they often deal with some brides who are not so pleasant. From throwing fits to cancelling flights, these wedding planners share their worst bride ... [Download] The Horror of a Wedding Night 75 Best Last Dance Songs to End the Night, 2018 | My ... Last dance songs are songs to end the night. There are 2 ways to end the night. One is with a bang with an upbeat party song like Hit The Road Jack or with the dance floor full of all the couples by playing a romantic Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight. free download Fright Night (1985) - Rotten Tomatoes A brilliant blend of comedy and a special effects horror show. The idea of bringing the Vampire into modern day standards back in the 80s sounded like it would fail miserably, but this film pulled ... Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:09:00 GMT This Is What Will Happen the Night Before the Royal Wedding Courtesy of one royal insider, here is everything that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be up to on the eve of their historic wedding at St.
    [Show full text]
  • Guide to the Ed Wood, Jr. Collection, 1966-2006. Collection Number: 7779
    Guide to the Ed Wood, Jr. Collection, 1966-2006. Collection Number: 7779 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library Contact Information: Compiled Date EAD Date Division of Rare and Manuscript by: completed: encoding: modified: Collections RMC Staff October 2012 Anne Jones, Anne Jones, 2B Carl A. Kroch Library April 2012 April 2013 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 [email protected] http://rmc.library.cornell.edu © 2012 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY Title: Ed Wood, Jr. collection, 1966-2006. Collection Number: 7779 Creator: Wood, Edward D.(Edward Davis) Quantity: Forms of Material: Books, Magazines, Print outs, Placards, Poster. Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Abstract: Pulp novels written anonymously and under various pseudonyms of the legendary psycho-sexual author and film-maker, Ed Wood, Jr., collected by pulp scholar Robert Legault (1950 to 2008). In addition, magazines, reference materials, posters and other ephemera. Language: Collection material in English BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Edward Davis Wood, Jr. (October 10, 1924 to December 10, 1978), better known as Ed Wood, was an American screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author, and editor, who made a number of low-budget genre films and published pulp novels under various names. Ed Wood's fiction is as strange, idiosyncratic and out of step with his times and mores as his infamous movies. His novels inter-splice erotic segments with lengthy philosophical, sociological and psychological discourse. Rudolph Grey's biography "Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr." (1992) and Tim Burton's biopic "Ed Wood," which earned two Academy Awards, brought attention to his life and work.
    [Show full text]
  • Textuality, Extratextuality, and Intention in `Ed Wood Films? After Plan 9 from Outer Space
    Bartlett, B. (2019) Madman, genius, hack, auteur?: Intertextuality, extratextuality, and intention in `Ed Wood films? after Plan 9 From Outer Space. Continuum, (doi:10.1080/10304312.2019.1677979) There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from it. http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/201651/ Deposited on: 14 November 2019 Enlighten – Research publications by members of the University of Glasgow http://eprints.gla.ac.uk Madman, genius, hack, auteur?: Intertextuality, extratextuality, and intention in ‘Ed Wood films’ after Plan 9 From Outer Space (Becky Bartlett) Edward D. Wood, Jr’s position as a ‘romantic’ cult auteur (Sexton & Mathijs 2012, 68) was initially established in the 1980s, and has since been solidified through repetition in academic and fan-authored literature, as well as other exegetic texts including Tim Burton’s biopic Ed Wood (1994), adapted from Rudolf Grey’s excellent, and far more comprehensive, biography Nightmare of Ecstasy (1992). Through these texts and others, the ‘character’ of Wood (Routt 2001, 2) has been constructed as a sympathetic outsider, a ‘unique’ auteur with a distinctive vision. He is also, as is well known, the ‘worst director of all time,’ having been awarded the title after his fourth directorial feature, Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) was voted the ‘worst film of all time’ in a readers’ poll for The Golden Turkey Awards (Medved and Medved 1980). On the surface, these identities might seem incompatible. Andrew Sarris proposes ‘technical competence’ as the first criterion through which auteur status is established, because a ‘great director has to be at least a good director’ (Sarris 2000, in Sitney 2000, 132).
    [Show full text]
  • Jim's Video List 1 Filter: Minimum Score of 7 Or a Special Recommendation
    11/07/20 Jim's Video List 1 Filter: Minimum score of 7 or a special recommendation. This is a non-official, pseudo-scientific list of less-than-obvious movies that I've seen and are worth your viewing time, keeping in mind that I like many different kinds of movies. All ratings are just a quick guide to relative enjoyability and socially redeeming value (if any). Also included are films of suspect social value but which left me really glad I had seen them at least once. What results is a hodge-podge of films that should keep you from taking home a real turkey. Note: Subsections like "CULT" are sorted by year. 123... '71 8 Well-crafted action thriller in which a British soldier is separated from Strause, The Brothers (2014) Action / Drama [R] his unit during a street battle in Belfast and must make his way through the labyrinth of city streets and hidden agendas of those he meets. 10 Cloverfield Lane 8 A unique bit of tense, cross-genre fun as a young woman wakes up in Trachtenberg, Dan (2016) Thriller / Horror a secure bunker, saved from World War III by a survivalist. Maybe. Or [PG-13] maybe it's from something else. Or maybe she's not safe at all. Well, damn. 10 Items Or Less 7 In this small "day in two lives" comedy-drama, an actor researching a Silberling, Brad (2006) Drama / Comedy [R] part meets a tough but dejected cashier and pushes her along a path on which she was only taking tentative steps.
    [Show full text]
  • Considering Blackness in George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead
    Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Master's Theses Graduate School 2006 Considering blackness in George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead: an historical exploration Jennifer Whitney Dotson Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Dotson, Jennifer Whitney, "Considering blackness in George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead: an historical exploration" (2006). LSU Master's Theses. 3108. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/3108 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Master's Theses by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CONSIDERING BLACKNESS IN GEORGE A. ROMERO’S NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: AN HISTORICAL EXPLORATION A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In The Department of English by Jennifer Whitney Dotson B.A., Middle Tennessee State University, 2004 August 2006 Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………...……iii Chapter 1 Introduction………………………………………………..…………..1 2 An Overview of the Twentieth Century Zombie in the West….….....12 3 Night of the Living Dead…………………………………………….39 4 Conclusion…………………………………………………...………66 Bibliography………….………………………………………………………….69 Filmography………………………….……………….……………….…………72 Vita.……………………………………………………………………..………..76 ii Abstract When George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead was released in 1968, the independent black and white zombie film stunned American moviegoers.
    [Show full text]
  • Meiermovies Feature Films by Year
    MeierMovies Feature Films by Year 2021 – 19 The Eyes of Tammy Faye – 4 Tiny Tim: King for a Day – 3 ¾ Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Television Event Stillwater – 3 ½ The Lost Leonardo Supernova – 3 ¼ The Courier Les Nôtres (Our Own) FL – 3 CODA – 2 ¾ Mandibules (Mandibles) FL Lily Topples the World ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN Val – 2 ½ The Little Things – 2 ¼ Lorelei – 2 The Card Counter – 1 ¾ Old – 1 ½ The Catch – 1 ¼ Prisoners of the Ghostland – ½ 2020 – 75 The Father – 4 ½ Minari FL – 4 ¼ Wanda, Mein Wunder (My Wonderful Wanda) FL – 4 The Trial of the Chicago 7 Waiting for the Barbarians Boys State My Octopus Teacher Gunda – 3 ¾ Nomadland * Soul The Way Back Some Kind of Heaven Desert One Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – 3 ½ The Quarry Sound of Metal Mogul Mowgli Ammonite Jimmy Carter: Rock ‘n’ Roll President Those Who Remained FL – 3 ¼ First Cow One Night in Miami News of the World Spaceship Earth The Invisible Man John Lewis: Good Trouble Summerland Click back to home page of MeierMovies.com The Lodge I’m Your Woman The Last Vermeer (a.k.a. Lyrebird) – 3 The Midnight Sky The Perfect Candidate FL Asia FL The Trip to Greece TV Relic Aulcie The Truffle Hunters FL Born Into the Gig Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly’s Big Picture Tesla – 2 ¾ The Crossing FL Hillbilly Elegy Fandango at the Wall FL Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles Over the Moon ↑THUMBS UP ↓THUMBS DOWN The Nest – 2 ½ Blackbird Undine FL – 2 ¼ On the Rocks True History of the Kelly Gang The Dark and the Wicked Mulan Onward Possessor – 2 Tenet The Turning Mank Wendy The Assistant Promising Young Woman I’m Thinking of Ending Things – 1 ¾ How to Build a Girl The Hunt Shiva Baby The Personal History of David Copperfield Greed – 1 ½ Palm Springs The Prom Unhinged The Wretched – 1 ¼ Shithouse Bad Hair – 1 Like a Boss – ½ The Climate of the Hunter Your Iron Lady FL Note: COVID-19 forced many films this year to cancel their theatrical and/or festival releases and opt instead for releases via Web (streaming), TV and/or DVD/Blu-ray.
    [Show full text]