Glen or Glenda? (1953)

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Big Fat Snails
by chesterfilms in chesterfilms Blog

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"How do you approach an Ed Wood film? You know it's not going to be good. In fact you know it's going to be terrible, but that's why you are watching it. My first knowledge of this film was from watching the Tim Burton film Ed Wood. Loving that film helped me enjoy Glen or Glenda more. Knowing the story of all the stock footage used, Bela Lugosi's insane ramblings as the films narrator, and the quick shots of Ed Wood walking up to department store windows. It really is astonishing how bad of a film Glen or Glenda is. It is so unfocused and random, and at times. I thought I was watching an instructional film from the 50's. Still you cannot deny the sheer joy of watching this totally unique and dare I say ingenious film? No I dare not say it, because it's really not. 3 stars for fun. "Bevare...bevare...bevare of the big green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys, puppy dog tails and big fat snails. Bevare...take care...bevare..." " [More]

Glen or Glenda
by sarcastig in As cool as a Fruitstand

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"You'd think the label "worst director of all time" would be, well, hard to live up to. It's a form of overly high expectations, after all, what if people come to your films expecting terrible and getting merely mediocre?Don't worry though, "Glen or Glenda" is anything but merely mediocre. The reason it is this terrible, and fascinating, is because it's so incredibly earnest, so filled with ideas and good intentions, so convinced of its own importance. It's a movie that has no lesser goal than to spread understanding and acceptance of transvestism (a term which is defined, in almost the same terms, twice, as if to pound it in our head, or maybe Wood had simply forgotten he'd already done it).But what a strange movie this is. It's hard even to talk of "scenes". Glen himself gets some lines with his Barbara, but as Glenda he is mostly just followed through the street by a voice-over. There are multiple framing devices: a doctor who tells the story of Glen "and all the " [More]

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