Glen or Glenda
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Movie Reviews of Glen or Glenda
Movie Review: Visionary...
Summary: 5 Stars
Ed Wood has fashioned the perfect movie! At once freudian / Faustian / Felini-esque / Bergman-like / Hitchcockian and imbecilically brilliant! Bela Lugosi is cast as the all powerful narrator, leading us neck-deep into this primordial bog of cinematic slime! Wood's beauty as a blonde transvestite and artiste are highlighted throughout, hinting at the fluffy, dark wad of sinister sawdust within the Ed Wood cranium. Ed's plan for universal domination takes full flight with this first glimpse at his disconnected genius! Dolores Fuller performs her vampira-walk (years before plan 9!), proving why she is a screen icon! GLEN OR GLENDA will shock you with it's gritty realism and truth! It will petrify you with it's frank, psychologically sound look at the dank underbelly of human existence! Watch as a panty-wearing G.I. Joe is transformed into a man-handed woman! Witness the grand parade of bondage-babes and bad dancers, while satan himself looks on! Ed Wood is a visionary of extraordiary depth! See his vision unfold like the pretty angora tapestry it is! Yes, Ed Wood is gone, but his movies and legend live on! GLEN OR GLENDA must be seen, held, caressed, and adored! Buy this film immediately! Nothing else will matter once you've experienced it...Movie Review: Thoughtful and Daring. Really!
Summary: 5 Stars
So I bought this movie because I thought it'd be campy fun. Instead, what a surprise it was to find a 1950's movie from Ed Wood that was risque, daring, and thoughtful.
In the 1950s or 60s or 70s, cross-dressers, gays, and other 'deviants' were NEVER portrayed as either sympathetic characters or as being in any way normal. Yet, Ed Wood, drawing from his own life, with support from his friends and associates, made a movie about men whose sexuality was DIFFERENT, yet who were otherwise quite typical people - the mailman, the steel worker, the soldier, the guy who works for the electric company. The struggle Glen goes through to tell his fiance about his cross-dressing will certainly be a familiar one to anyone who's had a coming-out story of their own. Wood got the emotions spot-on right.
There are sequences in this movie of overt sexuality, sexual fantasy, and s&m - This from a time when Ricky and Lucy slept in separate beds!
Yeah, the acting is stilted, the stock footage is inane, the camera work is often jarring, and the narration technique is dated.
But, y'know what? This is a landmark motion picture. Really.
Movie Review: Pull the string!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Write what you know," goes the adage.
Applying that sage admonition to heart, noir B-cinema savant Ed Wood concocted his sole masterpiece, a crossdressing confession / fantasy that remains, half a century later, the supremest TS call-to-arms.
Employing a disciplined narrative not discerned in his freakier (and more notoriously renowned) fare, Wood kicks off with high transtragic drama, then aims his ideological agenda sharply at God and mankind, then proceeds to dramatize the anguish - and humanity - of the TS experience. "Mistakes are made [in nature]" and technology (SRS) can correct this particular one, Wood first states - then muses that surgery would not be necessary if society would simply loosen up. Very modern!
The ensuing "dream sequence" - a pseudoballet of opium poetry spiced up with crowdpleasing sex kicks - leads to the film's denouement, and what a hotter it is! To Wood's credit, the theatrical tension is so sublime that anticipating the payoff is neigh impossible. (Actually, two very different endings were filmed.)
Crude, cheap, didactic - sure - but right on, and uncannily beautiful, too.
Movie Review: Egads!
Summary: 5 Stars
Well for those of you who are tired of quality films with rich storylines, try this on for size. Glen or Glenda is an autobiographical documentory based on, starring, and directed by none other than Edward Wood Jr. His hot, real-life girlfriend is along for the ride as well playing the innocent fiance who's man enjoys dressing like a woman. Bela Lugosi is in the film too, but he only occasionally speaks to the audience from a chair in his library.In this film you can learn all types of words like 'transsexual', 'homosexual', 'bisexual', and 'hermaphodite'. Listen to doctors and psychiatrists of the day explain such strange tendacies as straight men dressing as women and the mysterious world of sex change operations. There is a loosely knit plot here somewhere, but it gets lost in all the medical terms and strange character interludes.
For those who enjoy drugs while watching a film may well understand this movie more than a sober person. Enjoy.
Movie Review: More entertaining then Citizen Kane
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is so silly. Ed wood has never meet stock fotage he did not like. What is with the lame porn type of movie in the middle. Doleros is such a ugly and lousey actress and ed wood is no great shakes either. I feel sorry for bela and lyle talbot for being so desperate for money to apear in this movie. Lyle worked with Bette Davis in the 30s now he costars in this what a leftdown. The sayings in this like if the creater wanted us to fly we would have been born with wings are so dam funny. The thing is ed thought he was making a thought provoking movie but it ends up just silly. I got into ed wood movies because of the tim burton movie i have this and plan 9, bride of the monster, and jail bait which are funny as well. Is it wrong that i have seen this movie more times then the so called great movies of all time like citizen kane.