Ed Wood (1994)

Tim Burton is one of my favourite directors. Why? Just see the movies!

It seems that Burton has the Midas touch, he has the fabulous ability to make a delicate subject an instant masterpiece. He has, much like Terry Gilliam, created his own universe, a universe that can all always be tracked down to him. If you learn to know his touch you will be able to recognise one of his movies without knowing, in advanced, that it was his.

This movie tells the story of the famous Edward d. Wood Jr., considered to be the worst director in history (some say that Uwe Boll is trying to dethrone Ed Wood). The movie helped to rekindle the fuzz around Wood’s movies granting him an all new group of fans throughout the world.

He was in some aspects an odd and peculiar character, but all he wanted to do was to direct movies. Movies with a new sense of realism and with very little money (truly low budget dependent of stock footage). So he relied on exploitation and on his own trouble imagination to create bad taste epics that were cursed to endure.

Trough the movie we start to care for this character and for his fate, accepting him for what he his and for his pureness of heart. The cast was truly outstanding, but praises should be given to Johnny Deep and to Martin Landau, who transmuted into Bela Lugosi.

This black and white movie is one of the best Biopics I’ve seen. If you haven’t seen it shame on you. Get off the couch and go rent it or buy it.

Rating: 8/10