![]() ![]() Burton does not shy away from harshness or ugliness in expressing this conjunction of spheres. Accordingly, the film is visually represented as a collision between cruel, harsh Tinsel Town and the individual fantasy worlds of Wood's unique imagination. The director thus paints a picture of a man who was more interested in the act of film making than, necessarily, the results of that process.įilmed in crisp black-and-white, Ed Wood is a fairy tale about one man's triumph over a world that systematically shuns him. ![]() It is not in Ed's nature to pass judgement on others, according to Burton, only to enthusiastically support the world he and his friends now share. Off-the-set, Ed judges no one's individual strangeness, and on set, he does not judge at all when an actor knocks over a cardboard tombstone, bumbles his lines of dialogue, or otherwise missteps during a take. In fact, Burton views that very absence of judgement as the critical key to an understanding of the film's lead character. ![]()
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