Talk:Ed Wood

message: Someone award Angry Candy a barnstar for the work done on this article. Best Ed Wood content on the web.
:I'm not going to argue with that. I'm great and I deserve it. :D (Rob 10:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Barnstar?

message: I have a question/issue regarding the un-attributed statement, "Wood's dark side emerges in such sexual shockers as Raped in the Grass or The Perverts and in short stories such as "Toni: Black Tigress", which preyed on common racist fears. One might argue that Wood was writing for a specific market and that the content of these books are not personal opinion, but it is nonetheless true that most of his books did derive from Wood's own vices and views." (Emphasis mine.) This seems to be rather a bold thing to say, without any obvious evidence or attribution. In fact it seems to border on defamation, since it makes an absolutely factual claim: there's no uncertainty in how it's written, it flat-out calls Wood a racist. I think it should be toned down, or some sort of attribution should be added to justify the claim that he was, in fact, racist. I am going to comment out the above-bolded phrase in the article; if anyone can attribute the claim and wants to put it back in, it's fine with me. I have no love for the man, but I think the article is inappropriate currently. -- Kadin2048 18:40, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Racism

message: Placing titles in two sets of single-quotes is wikimarkup for producing italics.  Please stop switching titles to double quotes and/ or inserting punctuation into the marks.  I know it looks proper on the editing screen, but it produces incorrect formatting in the article.  Chris Stangl 18:06, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Titles and formatting

message: Specifically: "They also changed the name of the movie from Grave Robbers from Outer Space... ". Both the Wiki entries for Plan 9 from Outer Space and Ed Wood (biopic) state that, unlike what is shown in the Tim Burton biopic, the Baptist funders did NOT force Eddie to change the title from Grave Robbers... to Plan 9. Which ever is correct it should at least be consistent across the various Wiki entries.
I agree. From the page, "in this case, the Baptists required a member of their church to have a lead role in the film and demanded that all castmembers (including Vampira, Tor, 'Bunny' and Criswell) be baptised prior to filming. They also changed the name of the movie from Grave Robbers from Outer Space and removed lines from the script which they considered profane." This is contradicted in "The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr." wherein the Reverend explicitly states that Wood was the one who suggested his cast be baptised, and that no one in the congregation was aware that the name of the movie had been changed. Ormaybemidgets 15:57, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Re Baptist Funding and Name of Plan 9 from Outer Space

message: This says more about the author's attitude to "womanizers" that it does about Ed Wood.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.152.67.113 (talk) 09:18, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: He was a notorious womanizer in his younger days, but in later life he respected women

message: You know, what I have often wondered is just how he was able to make so many movies, since they were artistic and commercial flops right from the first.  How did he get the money for the later ones?
:His funding came from all manner of unconventional places. In Plan 9, for instance, he basically tricked money out of a bunch of Baptists and for other big films such as Bride he sweet-talked it out of various wealthy people who were naive to the ways of film production or were unfamiliar with his name and work. Much of his pornographic work was above board (since production companies weren't too bothered about quality in that sector) and people like George Weiss were able to produce things in the early days. Ed didn't have to drum up too much money don't forget - he was a master of economy! --Angry Candy 16:18, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Question regarding Wood's funding

message: Ed was given his first movie camera on his 17th birthday: a Kodak 'City Special'. One of the first pieces of footage he shot was of a German plane crashing to the ground in his neighborhood, a piece he was endlessly proud of.
:There were German planes making it to New York during World War II? I thought the USA shores were never compromised?
::(Guess this is a long-winded way of saying 'source?') Vodex 10:42, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)
:::The source of the German plane nugget was actually Nightmare of Ecstasy by Rudolph Grey. Admittedly, the book is almost completely anecdotal and filled with personal subjectivities (being part of the book's beauty). Grey's researh is pretty comprehensive though and he'd have mentioned it in the book if he doubted the information's validity. He also has a lot of original and rare Wood footage so he may even have a copy of said Kodak footage. --Angry Candy
Know it's kinda late to chime in, but it wasn't a German Plane, Ed Wood (supposedly) caught footage of the Hindenburg crashing.70.242.12.23 02:34, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Impossible, the Hindenburg crashed May 6, 1937. Ed Wood turned 17 October 10, 1941. If somebody has the actual text from Nightmare of Ecstasy, it would make more sense to use the words from the book. It's possible Ed Wood may have had a copy of the Hindenburg crash, but it's quite outlandish to suggest he was there with a camera at age twelve.  --Barrel-rider 08:47, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

text: This should probably be cleaned up. Now it says that Ed, at age 12, filmed the crash of the Hindenburg with a camera that he got for his 17th birthday. Lordz (talk) 12:08, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Question regarding early footage

message: I think this article should go by either "Ed Wood" (no 'Jr.') or "Edward D. Wood, Jr.", as these are the names by which he is best known.  "Ed Wood, Jr." is not commonly used and Ed himself mostly used it on novels.Rhindle The Red 01:31, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Dear editors,
Through this article, it states that Ed Woods was a transvestite. I am wondering if you have any clear citations of him saying so? I acknowledge that the quote RE Glen or Glenda is fairly indicative, but that too is uncited.
Am asking in reference to Mr. Wood's appearence on List of transgender people, which is currently being cleaned and cited. Cheers! Lauren♫/∆ 07:15, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: RE: Transvestism

message: i know hes like the worst director ever but a min ago i found something about him being considered for the walk of fame. im just going to find the thing right now. DeadWood 16:43, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: considered for walk of fame

message: The "Movies" section has gotten overlong and filled with information best found on the Edward D. Wood, Jr. filmography.  It needs to be condensed and focused on Ed's filming methods and/or Ed's relevant involvement.  Less trivia. Rhindle The Red (talk) 19:20, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Movies

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for File:Glenda.jpg

message: The article says "While most directors film only one scene per day (or just a fraction of one in more contemporary pictures), Wood might complete up to 30 scenes." How many scenes are filmed per day is generally an issue of how much luxury you have to film the movie. Roger Corman is notorious for not being as leisurely as Ed Wood on some of his movies (see The Little Shop of Horrors), and I suspect anyone shooting on that budget shoots quite a few scenes a day. It's not most directors vs. Wood, it's people with large shooting budgets vs. people with tiny shooting budgets.--Prosfilaes (talk) 11:33, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Shooting speed

message: The article currently says
: Among connoisseurs of kitsch and bad cinema, Ed Wood is revered as the ultimate "bad" director of all time. 
Apparently, we have some editors who want to amend it to say
: Among connoisseurs of kitsch and bad cinema, Ed Wood is revered as the ultimate "bad" director of all time, even though that distinction is now held by Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg and Uwe Boll.
The first sentence needs to be cited and clarified; there's no one director who gets the unquestioned claim of "ultimate "bad" director of all time". The second sentence deserves nothing more than the trash; Wood is not comparable to those directors, in any meaningful sense at all. Without cites, it completely violates WP:NPOV as well as WP:V and WP:NOBADJOKES.--Prosfilaes (talk) 06:06, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Revered as the worst director of all time

message: Surely Ed Wood remained legally married to his first wife until death, did he not? If so the second "Mrs Wood" ought not to be referred to as his wife.  
Comments?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by FilmLawyer48 (talk • contribs) 11:02, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Marriage Status

message: There is a claim in the article that he was in the marines 42-46 but no link, no source. Shouldn't be too hard to ensure that he was there, plenty of official papers from that time still around.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.95.109.196 (talk) 22:19, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Really in the marines?

message: I feel titling the final section in the 'Movies' area as "Summing-Up" is sort of clunky.  I'd propose renaming it "Inspirations" since it talks explicitly about two main muses, of sorts, for Wood -- Welles and Lugosi.  Thoughts? Evixir (talk) 02:16, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: "Summing-Up" --> "Inspirations" ?

message: The article currently states "In the finale, the frail, elderly Lugosi was reduced to thrashing about in the mud with a large rubber octopus when the motor needed to turn it into a flailing beast could not be located."  I believe part of this may be mistaken.  The scene where the doctor is caught by the octopus at the end of the film clearly uses the stunt double, not Lugosi himself.  While the book <I>Nightmare of Ecstasy</i> does indicate Lugosi shot one scene in the water, it doesn't specify which scene.  Burton's biopic "Ed Wood" made the connection between the octopus scene and the scene referenced in NoE, but I can't find any specific confirmation.  If someone has a source to back up the claim that it was Lugosi and not the stunt double, that would be a lot of help here, and thanks. Clockster (talk) 10:11, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for source regarding Lugosi and "Bride of the Monster"

message: No citation for the claim that he had a daughter -- has this been verified?Maejenn (talk) 06:18, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  question: daughter Kathleen Emily Wood 

message: "Wood usually wore a women's bra and panties under his uniform throughout his years of service."  Did he?  Did he ever say so?  69.158.140.110 (talk) 01:37, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wording-->What he wore under his uniform 

message: I had a web conversation with Adam Parfrey of Feral House regarding this paragraph:
"In a December 2010 published article at Mondo Film & Video Guide, indie print publisher Feral House, who in the last few years had re-printed dozens of Wood's novels, ended sales on all Wood titles when Wood's estate requested a cease and desist due to uncertainty about whether Wood wrote all the novels published under his name or not."
I doubt very much that an entity that can be called "Ed Wood's estate" even exists at this point.
Adam Parfrey:  "I never printed a book written by Wood, and never received a cease and desist order from anybody... crazy shit."
documentation, peep this:  https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1395982_10201120043376377_1558230710_n.jpg
And scouring the web finds no trace of these "dozens" of nonexistent Ed Wood titles.
Bustter (talk) 03:22, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  deleting B.S. 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The introductory paragraphs say that Wood died in 1978 and received a posthumous Golden Turkey award in 1975. Please fix this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.159.232.121 (talk) 03:21, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Posthumous Golden Turkey during his lifetime? 

message: ...and was shot several times in the leg by a machine gunner (shown false in The Unknown War of Edward D. Wood Jr.: 1942–1946 by James Pontolillo).
:Strange wording. If the claim was 'shown false', it probably ought to be left out of the story altogether. Valetude (talk) 14:03, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  False claim? 

message: "Wood had a long-term relationship with actress and songwriter Dolores Fuller, whom he met in late 1952... The couple broke up in 1955".
What does it mean "long-term" if they are 3 years?
82.113.26.235 (talk) 18:04, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long term relationship?