Peliculón: Round 3

Rating: 7/10 (27 July 2005)

At these stakes it was four in the morning and energy was running out. Gian was falling asleep, one of the reasons why he wasn't paying that much attention; he had had some tough days. On the other hand, I was tired too, but with the disposition to watch Depp's magic.
Quickly, Depp it's not the best element of the film, but achieves an uplifting performance, with smiles of his own and respect to his director, who directed him some time before in one of his career's best performances, as another Ed; in the fantastic "Edward Scissorhands".
It is Martin Landau's show however, who studied his character to the end of the line, just to play it perfectly. It's hard that the movie gets laughs because of its fidelity with its characters' reality, but in short amount of time we understand that it was like that. We understand that Ed Wood was an awful director, writer, producer and actor, when he admired Orson Welles and wanted to be like him.
Bela Lugosi was Wood's friend indeed, and worked as a star in the horrible films this movie shows. The people that worked with him (with Ed), a bunch of useless;the well known, the show business persons: they were all real. And Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski don't have to write about it, so it's like that how we can laugh.
Tim Burton, at that moment of his career, known as Gotham City's "creator", and a gifted man with the camera, was surely the right man for this job. He brought the correct cast, the correct crew (without Danny Elfman, who was replaced by Howard Shore's unfamiliar score) and I can't imagine the film in other hands. It wouldn't even be that good.
Although the opening credits showed the director's ego at that time, due to the exclusion (in the credits) of actors that were important because of their characters, replacing them for important name that appear less than a minute in the film. Beside all this, when you see a Tim Burton piece, you know you won't be disappointed visually. It's amazing; even in black and white.