AHC: Ed Wood, the Master of Cinema
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His movies are interpreted as over-the-top comedies rather than films that are supposed to be taken seriously (perhaps parodies of the film industry).
Wood frustratingly becomes one of the greatest filmmakers in the field of comedy of all time.
Wood frustratingly becomes one of the greatest filmmakers in the field of comedy of all time.
Hmm... production on Bride of the Monster goes just a little bit more smoothly -- the motorised rubber monster actually works. It's actually an okay B-movie, and it's good enough for Wood to actually get another job afterwards like it instead of trying to make Plan 9 From Outer Space. Wood carries on for a while as a fairly low-rent but passionate B-movie director until the '60s, when he starts getting into weird experimental avant-garde stuff and is naturally hailed as a genius.
In 1947, Ed Wood comes to Hollywood and he luck out and lands a job working on the Crew of Orson Wells' The Lady from Shanghai. Wells like him and teaches Wood, the craft of Film making. Edward start to make low budget films that have a interesting style to them. They are moderate successes. Then in the 1960's His film are rediscovered and today he is considered one of the more interesting directors of the 1950's.
And on a alternate History Website, people are discussing whether Wood would have done better with larger budgets or what would have happen if he never work for Wells.
And on a alternate History Website, people are discussing whether Wood would have done better with larger budgets or what would have happen if he never work for Wells.
Now that is a challenge an Alien Space Bat would be hard pushed to effect!
Perhas his talents could be , as Kevvy mentions above, a maker of comedic films. Perhas if he can direct his talents a little then he could be the maker of the greatest satires of his age. Imagines a film along the lines of Dr Strangelove.
Perhas his talents could be , as Kevvy mentions above, a maker of comedic films. Perhas if he can direct his talents a little then he could be the maker of the greatest satires of his age. Imagines a film along the lines of Dr Strangelove.
Here's a thought: if he does comedies with lots of breaking-the-fourth-wall then no one will care about the mistakes etc he leaves in his films -- after all, it's all part of the show.
That's not what I meant though.
He makes the movies, as in OTL, with the intention of making them serious, but when the audiences see them, they start laughing at them as if they were comedies.
He gets frustrated at this, as he doesn't want them to be percieved as comedy, but no matter what he does, people just keep laughing at his movies, which leads to further frustration.
Yeah IIRC Orson Wells and Wood were going to do a Batman Movie in the sequel When You Wish Upon a Star but sadly their hasn't been an update in months.
That could do it. The plots of a lot of his movies weren't great but what really made them hideous was the horribly low budgets and obvious special effects failures and stock footage. With higher budgets could we we see Wood as a sort of '50s, '60s Michael Bay?
Which actress would Wood use for the fanservice roles Megan Fox tends to have in Bay's films?
See, that wouldn't happen. Prior to the success of Star Wars, studios almost never poured large amounts of money into films with the plots of, well, B-movies. There were exceptions, of course, such as King Kong and Planet of the Apes, but that's what they were - exceptions. You'd need an epic genre movie (and nothing cerebral like 2001: A Space Odyssey) to become a massive success in order to change this mentality, and Ed Wood isn't the guy who's going to do it.
Do we need the budgets to get that high though? As it was Wood's work was low budget even by the standards of B-movies. Just giving him the upper end of the B-movie average budget should help.