Passion of the Wood

According to CNN, Dawn of the Dead, a movie about dead people coming back to life, dethroned Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ, a movie about, well, you know, from its number one position at American's box offices over the weekend. I haven't seen either movie, although I do remember seeing the original Dawn of the Dead about 20 years ago, and it was bloody awful.





There are two types of bad movies. Movies that are bad on purpose (e.g.Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Surf Nazis Must Die), and bad movies whose creators were generally pleased







with themselves as they walked out of the initial screening. Ed Wood, the weirdo who wrote, directed, produced and catered Plan Nine from Outer Space, unwittingly created a masterpiece to my mind. Maybe it's Wood's own passion that I admire, a passion totally unfettered by talent, ability, or technical know-how. Some may call his passion just plain stubborness, and those people may be right. I don't know. But when a stubborn person has the strength of conviction, no matter how misguided, to assemble a cast and crew, put his finances on the line, and write some of the worst line to ever be spoken in a darkened theatre (Inspector Clay is dead! Murdered! And somebody's resonsible!), then that stubborn person has my attention.
22.3.04 14:44
 


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