Glen or Glenda

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Glen or Glenda; What the heck category does this fit??
Topic Started: Aug 9 2007, 04:56 AM (227 Views)
AndyFish	Aug 9 2007, 04:56 AM Post #1
Movie Watcha Foist Class Posts: 203 Group: Members Member #224 Joined: June 11, 2007	"Glen is not a homosexual. Glen is a transvestite, but he is not a homosexual." Once we get this information from the narrator of the film we are ready to roll on what is perhaps one of the most bizarre movies I've ever seen. Infamous movie director Ed Wood is often credited as the worst filmmaker of all time-- and I think this is not the case. The job of anyone in the entertainment field is to entertain, and say what you will about this mish mash of stock footage and a script that appears to have been written in a drunken stupor underneath the rear booth at an all night Denny's, this movie was certainly entertaining. Bela Lugosi is the star of this little feature, playing the puppet master who apparently something to do with all the other characters in the movie but for the life of me I don't know what. He occasionally intones some words of wisdom such as "Beware! Beware of the big green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys... Puppy dog tails, and BIG FAT SNAILS... Beware... Take care... Beware!" I think I may just put that on my tombstone. Lugosi looks better than I remember him from this period and Wood himself is better than some of the actors I've seen in supposed A or B pictures over the years. He's certainly less wooden than Kevin Costner and he's miles above GOG co star Lyle Talbot who I'm pretty sure they were repeatingly hitting over the head during filming which would account for his glassy eyed stare. There's a Existential dream sequence in this which I think might have inspired Bergman's THE SEVENTH SEAL (HEY IT'S POSSIBLE!!!), which goes on far too long, but then when you make a movie with 20 minutes of real footage and the rest stock, you sometimes have to milk out the bizarre stuff. As Wood himself tells us "My mind is in a muddle. Like... thick fog. I can't make sense to myself sometimes." Couldn't have said it better myself, Ed. Definitely worth checking out if you're a fan of bad cinema. I liked it enough to buy a copy after seeing it and adding it to my Plan 9 and Bride of the Monster films. Andy
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Laughing Gravy	Aug 9 2007, 07:24 AM Post #2
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,070 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	I moved this to the "Cult Movie" file, because if this ain't a cult movie, nothing is. When we had our gala 10th anniversary FNF show some years ago, we decided to re-watch the "weirdest movie we'd ever seen on FNF". Nearly unanimously, this was the choice. It's not so much a movie as a cry for help.



AndyFish	Aug 10 2007, 05:03 AM Post #3
Movie Watcha Foist Class Posts: 203 Group: Members Member #224 Joined: June 11, 2007	Cult it certainly is! Thanks for the move. Andy
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ilive4mycats	Aug 12 2007, 03:58 PM Post #4
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 350 Group: Members Member #122 Joined: July 25, 2006	I use what I think is the best line in the movie once in a while. And then one day it wasnt Halloween anymore. I really like Glen or Glenda, its an amzing film for a novice director with no money and a week to shoot it. I would rather see Glen Or Glenda that a lot of newer films.



The Batman	May 29 2009, 12:14 PM Post #5
Charter Member Posts: 5,570 Group: Members Member #17 Joined: September 4, 2005	ilive4mycats Aug 12 2007, 03:58 PM I really like Glen or Glenda, it's an amazing film for a novice director with no money and a week to shoot it. Yeah, except instead of a novice director and a week to shoot it, they used Ed Wood and his lunch break.



panzer the great & terrible	May 29 2009, 09:12 PM Post #6
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,340 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Bat, I agree that Ed Wood is less wooden than Kevin Costner, but so's an oak tree.
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Frank Hale	May 30 2009, 01:59 PM Post #7
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 828 Group: Members Member #59 Joined: October 6, 2005	Supposedly Mr. Wood also said �One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.� The big mystery to me has always been how he found financing and distributors. Perhaps he missed his true calling as a TV evangelist.



panzer the great & terrible	May 30 2009, 03:03 PM Post #8
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,340 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	LOL! Maybe so. Ed Wood to me pretty much embodies the American Dream. He was often wrong but never in doubt, like some politicians I won't name because I want to forget them as best I can (It would help if they'd shut the heck up). Wood would have been right if he'd stopped at the word mad.
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