Burton employs special effects, dolly shots, Dutch angles, zooms, arial and ground floor shots, superimposed images and montage footage, a bag of tricks that Ed could only have dreamed of using.īurton can do this because he has a budget that dwarfs any Ed Wood production. One only has to look at the making of Ed Wood to see the difference. That is part of the reason why Ed Wood is considered the worst film director who ever lived, whereas Tim Burton is a highly prestigious auteur whose films make millions. What he did have was a colour-blind cameraman, actors who could not act, and no time or money to put together a good film. He was a poverty row director, writer and actor who had to make his films with the materials he had to hand. Most film directors get to work with gifted actors, experienced camera crews, a team of scriptwriters, and competent editors who can throw all the fragmented recordings into one final coherent whole. How many wonder if they have compromised artistic integrity in getting a film funded? Or that they never had any talent to begin with? Or that the various chaotic elements of filming that they threw together do not really add up to a coherent or sensible film?Īfter all, what is it that successful film directors have that Edward D Wood Jr did not? Talent, most obviously.
How many film directors have a secret fear that they are really Ed Wood? Not in those words perhaps, but fearing that they share his faults.
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