Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2018 9:33:58 GMT
Aug 11, 2018 6:17:26 GMT Vits said:
Aug 12, 2018 2:58:31 GMT -4 Fox in the Snow said:
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Aug 11, 2018 2:17:26 GMT -4 vits said:
It's not a fantasy movie though. Every other moment in the movie does play out logically and (for the most part) how it actually did.
I was just answering your question about what people mean when they say "because it's a movie". I think Mick (above) gave a pretty reasonable explanation as to why Burton may have decided to show the scene that way.
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Aug 11, 2018 2:17:26 GMT -4 vits said:
It's not a fantasy movie though. Every other moment in the movie does play out logically and (for the most part) how it actually did.
I was just answering your question about what people mean when they say "because it's a movie". I think Mick (above) gave a pretty reasonable explanation as to why Burton may have decided to show the scene that way.
Thanks, Fox in the Snow
It may not be a 'fantasy movie', per se, but Burton was more interested in trying to 'get inside Edward Wood's head', as opposed to doing a conventional 'biopic'. Quite frankly, I'm glad there are responses to this thread, because it inspired me to 'look into it'. What I found out was? And I honestly never 'knew' this? What I described in my first post is exactly what Burton was trying portray.
Here's a quote from Burton which is included in the films Wikipedia page:
When describing the film's accuracy, Burton explained, "it's not like a completely hardcore realistic biopic. In doing a biopic you can't help but get inside the person's spirit a little bit, so for me, some of the film is trying to be through Ed a little bit. So it's got an overly optimistic quality to it."[8] Burton acknowledged that he probably portrayed Wood and his crew in an exaggeratedly sympathetic way, stating he did not want to ridicule people who had already been ridiculed for a good deal of their life. Burton decided not to depict the darker side of Wood's life because his letters never alluded to this aspect and remained upbeat. To this end, Burton wanted to make the film through Wood's eyes.[12] He said in an interview, "I've never seen anything like them, the kind of bad poetry and redundancy– saying in, like, five sentences what it would take most normal people one [...] Yet still there is a sincerity to them that is very unusual, and I always found that somewhat touching; it gives them a surreal, weirdly heartfelt feeling."[20]
To get a handle on how to portray Wood, Depp studied the performance of Jack Haley as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, and the acting of Mickey Rooney, Ronald Reagan and Casey Kasem.[4][5] He watched several Reagan speeches because the actor felt that "he had a kind of blind optimism that was perfect for Ed Wood." Depp also borrowed some of Kasem's cadence and "that utterly confident, breezy salesman quality in his voice".[3]
Just a poor choice of a word. There is a decidedly a 'movie within a movie' thing going on with "Ed Wood".
More accurately, the story is told from the 'blindly optimistic' POV Burton feels Ed Wood himself would have used to tell his autobiography, the autobiography in his head.
Also, if one were to ask, "if so blindly optimistic, why is there tragedy in the tale?"
That's the 'surreal' element I mentioned. The film "Ed Wood" gives us both 'sunny optimism' inherent in the way he approached film making, and the reality being, he wasn't very good at it, at least in terms of major success.
Wood's life can indeed be viewed as a tragedy.
So? From right out of Burtons mouth, the film is not meant 'literal'.
Burton was interested in telling this story because, he saw in Wood, a failed version of himself. While I didn't find any 'thoughts' like this ascribed to Burton, my hunch is?
Burton probably believes if a break or two in his own life had gone differently, he could have just as easily had the career of "Ed Wood".