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Oct 7, 1994 · In "Ed Wood," he gives us a hero who is not merely an outsider, but one who attracts even more desperate cases to himself. Played with warmth and enthusiasm by Johnny Depp , Wood is a guy who simply must make movies - and who is so bedazzled by Hollywood legend that he mistakes poor Bela Lugosi, long past his prime and mired in drug addiction, as a star.
Ed Wood: Directed by Tim Burton. With Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette. Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent.
Oct 7, 2019 · Ed Wood was decidedly nothing like a Jim Carrey movie. Dark, sweet and restrained (by Burton standards, anyway), Ed Wood chronicles the life of Edward D. Wood Jr. (Johnny Depp), a crossdressing wannabe auteur in the 1950s who befriends his hero, a washed-up and drug-addled Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau), and makes schlocky B-movies with a misfit ...
Johnny Depp in yet another cult movie, depicting the mostly true story of the legendary director of awful movies and his strange group of friends and actors....
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Feb 17, 2021 · In reality, Wood's seemingly happy-go-lucky life as a wannabe Orson Welles was tinged with tragedy, alcoholism, and mental illness. Haunted by a lifetime of failure, Wood would turn to adult film in a last-ditch effort to stay in the industry he loved. In 1978, he died destitute and largely unknown at the age of 54.
By Sven Mikulec. Edward Davis Wood, Jr., to most of the world known simply as Ed Wood, was an American filmmaker who spent the 1950s and the 1960s living and working on the outskirts of Hollywood, trying to catch his big break, until ultimately succumbing to alcoholism and dying in complete poverty at the age of 54.
Because of his eccentric habits and bafflingly strange films, director Edward D. Wood Jr. is a Hollywood outcast. Nevertheless, with the help of the formerly famous Bela Lugosi and a devoted cast and crew of show-business misfits who believe in Ed's off-kilter vision, the filmmaker is able to bring his oversize dreams to cinematic life.
