Ed Wood (1994)

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Wikidata Q639481, film, IMDb tt0109707, TMDB 522: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 1 more episode agrees.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

In the store as #712, Ed Wood (1994).

Who talked about it

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Dolomite Is My Name: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. people (people): Ed Wood ⇒ Dolomite Is My Name (the host's read). Eddie Murphy first met them reciting lines from Ed Wood, which led to the Rudy Ray Moore project.
    “Eddie started doing, um, uh, lines from Ed Wood.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:32:59 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

Connected to

Tim Burton: 2 lines theme ×1 craft ×1

  1. theme (personal trilogy): Tim Burton → Ed Wood. One commenter argued Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands and Batman Returns say everything Burton has to say; after that he took what was offered.
    “Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, and Batman Returns, or like this perfect triptych of everything that guy sort of has to say in his heart”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:51:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Bela Lugosi: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Ed Wood → Bela Lugosi. The film's emotional core is a love story between Ed Wood and his hero Bela Lugosi.
    “the idea that it was a love story between Bella and Ed”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:17:15 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

Danny Elfman: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Danny Elfman → Ed Wood. The speaking-voice dispute is why Elfman did not score Ed Wood.
    “It's why Elfman didn't do Ed Wood.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:03:21 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Dolomite Is My Name: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Dolomite Is My Name → Ed Wood. Eddie Murphy first met them reciting lines from Ed Wood, which led to the Rudy Ray Moore project.
    “Eddie started doing, um, uh, lines from Ed Wood.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:32:59 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

Problem Child: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Problem Child → Ed Wood. Problem Child turned out terrible by accident, while Ed Wood celebrates a famously bad director.
    “We hadn't set out to make problem child terrible.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:13:46 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

The Life of Emile Zola: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Ed Wood → The Life of Emile Zola. Before Ed Wood, biopics were long, dreary studies of people who changed the world, like Zola or Gandhi.
    “Biopics were about people who changed the world or were superb artists”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:18:33 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

The People vs. Larry Flynt: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): The People vs. Larry Flynt → Ed Wood. Tim Burton and Milos Forman are as different as directors get, yet both films feel like Scott and Larry movies.
    “there aren't more different directors ever than Tim Burton and Milish form”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:21:51 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

Vincent D'Onofrio: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (Orson Welles portrayals): Vincent D'Onofrio → Ed Wood. D'Onofrio's Welles in Ed Wood is called the best Orson Welles.
    “I mean, to me, like, Vincent DiNofrio in Ed Wood with Pinky and the Brain Boys is the best Orson Wells.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:43:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

contrast (3)

  1. contrast (contrast): Problem Child → Ed Wood. Problem Child turned out terrible by accident, while Ed Wood celebrates a famously bad director.
    “We hadn't set out to make problem child terrible.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:13:46 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Ed Wood → The Life of Emile Zola. Before Ed Wood, biopics were long, dreary studies of people who changed the world, like Zola or Gandhi.
    “Biopics were about people who changed the world or were superb artists”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:18:33 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): The People vs. Larry Flynt → Ed Wood. Tim Burton and Milos Forman are as different as directors get, yet both films feel like Scott and Larry movies.
    “there aren't more different directors ever than Tim Burton and Milish form”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:21:51 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Ed Wood → Tim Burton. Ed Wood is both a Tim Burton movie and a Scott and Larry movie.
    “it is 1000% a Tim Burton movie from frame one to frame N, but it's also a Scott Larry movie”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:22:13 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Dolomite Is My Name → Ed Wood. Eddie Murphy first met them reciting lines from Ed Wood, which led to the Rudy Ray Moore project.
    “Eddie started doing, um, uh, lines from Ed Wood.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:32:59 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Danny Elfman → Ed Wood. The speaking-voice dispute is why Elfman did not score Ed Wood.
    “It's why Elfman didn't do Ed Wood.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:03:21 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (personal trilogy): Tim Burton → Ed Wood. One commenter argued Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands and Batman Returns say everything Burton has to say; after that he took what was offered.
    “Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, and Batman Returns, or like this perfect triptych of everything that guy sort of has to say in his heart”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:51:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Ed Wood → Bela Lugosi. The film's emotional core is a love story between Ed Wood and his hero Bela Lugosi.
    “the idea that it was a love story between Bella and Ed”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:17:15 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (Orson Welles portrayals): Vincent D'Onofrio → Ed Wood. D'Onofrio's Welles in Ed Wood is called the best Orson Welles.
    “I mean, to me, like, Vincent DiNofrio in Ed Wood with Pinky and the Brain Boys is the best Orson Wells.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:43:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

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