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Ed Wood is a biopic directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp as the cross-dressing cult movie maker Edward D. Wood, Jr. The film, shot in black and white, was made in 1994 and based in large part on Rudolph Grey's biography Nightmare of Ecstasy. more...
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The film focuses on the period in Ed's life when he made his best-known films, and also his relationship with Bela Lugosi (played by Oscar winner Martin Landau), the down-on-his luck actor who had starred as Dracula in the eponymous film. Though a box office failure at the time of its release, it was critically hailed and has subsequently been voted onto IMDB's "top 250" by its users. It resulted in a 1995 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award win for Martin Landau and an Academy Award for Makeup for Rick Baker, Ve Neill and Yolanda Toussieng.
Cast
Johnny Depp as Edward D. Wood, Jr.;
Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi;
Sarah Jessica Parker as Dolores Fuller;
Patricia Arquette as Kathy O'Hara;
Jeffrey Jones as Criswell;
Vincent D'Onofrio as Orson Welles;
Bill Murray as Bunny Breckenridge;
Mike Starr as Georgie Weiss;
Max Casella as Paul Marco;
Brent Hinkley as Conrad Brooks;
Lisa Marie as Vampira;
George "The Animal" Steele as Tor Johnson;
Juliet Landau as Loretta King;
Maurice LaMarche as Orson Welles (voice);
Conrad Brooks (cameo) as Bartender;
Gregory Walcott (cameo) as Financier;
The film includes cameo appearances from actors who had worked with Wood on Plan 9 From Outer Space. Conrad Brooks (who played one of the comic policemen) appears as a bartender, and Gregory Walcott (who played the hero) appears as one of the potential financiers of Bride of the Monster. In addition, Paul Marco, the other comic policeman, can be spotted in the background.
Ed Wood and Sweeney Todd are the only Tim Burton films not to have a score written by Danny Elfman; the soundtrack for Ed Wood was by Howard Shore.
Factual inaccuracies
Although the film is avowedly stylized and heightened for comic effect, most of the events it depicts are fairly close to reality, despite their oddness. Still, there are some departures from truth.
In Burton's film, Dolores Fuller learns of Wood's transvestitism after reading the screenplay for Glen or Glenda. In reality, she remained unaware until the film was finished.
The film implies that Glen or Glenda was the first film ever written or directed by Wood. In reality, Wood wrote and directed Streets of Laredo in 1948; wrote, produced and directed The Sun Was Setting in 1951 and wrote Lawless Rider in 1952.
Burton depicts Tor Johnson as a newcomer to the movies whom Wood "discovers" around the time of the production of Bride of the Monster in 1955. In fact, Johnson had acted in films since at least 1934, appearing in a number of films in uncredited roles. Johnson is also seen at the premiere of Plan 9 from Outer Space with two plump young children (this was a sight gag) when, in reality, his children were adults by that time. In fact his son secured the police uniforms for the film.
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