ED WOOD
A film review by Tim Voon
Copyright 1997 Tim Voon
Starring: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Bill Murray. Screenplay: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. Director: Tim Burton.
Ed Wood is a man with an impossible dream, a Don Quixote of the movies.
This man made movies that nobody wanted to see because they were darn awful. He is a man with a childlike naivety about life and movies, who is unable to see how bad his productions actually were. Despite his continued failures, he persists with his dream to make pictures that he wanted to see. To become the Orson Welles of sci-fi\ horror flicks. One cannot help but admire his persistence and dedication, but at the same time be dismayed and heartbroken at his inability to learn from his mistakes.
He is a man with all heart and vision. A dreamer who is driven by his great passion and love for film making; but somehow, in the midst of his shabby directing, all of his good intentions become blurred and misplaced. That perhaps his talent lay not in the quality of his movies, but in the heart of the man himself.
He is in essence a child with a dream. Despite numerous failures and poor quality work, it is the dream which matters and that cannot be taken from him. To remain true to himself and what he believed in.
Sensitive direction from Burton, and exceptional performances by Landau and Depp.
Rating: A failed artist who would sing 'Don't cry for me Hollywood' on a burning flying saucer over L.A.
Timothy Voon e-mail: stirling@netlink.com.au
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