Re: Jan's Movie Reviews - Ed Wood (1994)

Posted by Brian Shields on July 29, 2001 at 18:22:36:

In Reply to: Jan's Movie Reviews - Ed Wood (1994) posted by Jan den Breejen on July 27, 2001 at 00:56:15:

I love this film, it has a wonderfully feelgood tone (surprising from Burton, although I like most of his films). I think the moral of the film is "it's not the winning, it's the taking part, and then entering manic denial when you don't win"

I think Burton and Depp's portrayal of Wood is a classic Enneagram 7. Wood in immaginitive, ambitious and most importantly "always up" - he always sees the good in things (criticism bounces off him and he has no "inner critic" to speak of). He's like an eternal child, and is lost in future possibilities.
He's also a great reframer - see the scene where he's pitching "Glen or Glenda" (a film about a secret transvestite)
Wood (Depp): "well, it's about the way people can have two different sides to them..."
Wood endlessly supports a bunch of no-hopers and hangers on (not that he has the power to make them famous anyway). I find him hard to classify in Oldham's system - like Jan said mercurial (the classic 7ish behaviours) don't quite fit, but then neither does narcissistic [sp?] - he's never self-centered as such (in fact is unreasonable benevolent) and his ambitions are more artistic than status/financial. It's more as if he's oblivious anything negative in the real world.

- Brian

: Classification: Narcisisstic Personality; he had a grandiose self-perception which didn't correspond with his real performance; he must hav thought that everything he touched somehow changed into golden movie clips. His periods of depression and ecstasy are too long to say he's mainly Mercurial Style (borderline personality depressive episodes are during a short time; max 3 days); on axis-I Ed Wood could have been Manic Depressively disordered

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