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** Ed and his ragtag crew having to flee from the cops before they're caught shooting their NoBudget film on location without a permit. This is exactly how ''Film/{{Pi}}'' was made -- and, for that matter, ''Film/TheRoom'', which just adds a further layer of hilarity to the comparisons between Wood and Creator/TommyWiseau.
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** Ed and his ragtag crew having to flee from the cops before they're caught shooting their NoBudget film on location without a permit. This is exactly how ''Film/{{Pi}}'' was made -- and, for that matter, ''Film/TheRoom'', ''Film/{{The Room|2003}}'', which just adds a further layer of hilarity to the comparisons between Wood and Creator/TommyWiseau.
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** The two main stars of the film are named Ed and Bela. The latter of which is an actor famous for playing a vampire. 11 years later when a book series called ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' stars two characters named Edward and Bella, the former of which is a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent "vampire."]] Of course, that Bella was named after [[Creator/BelaLugosi the real Bela]], but the fact that her "hero" is named Edward is a hell of a coincidence.
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** The two main stars of the film are named Ed and Bela. The latter of which is an actor famous for playing a vampire. 11 years later when a book series called ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' stars two characters named Edward and Bella, the former of which is a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent "vampire."]] Of course, that Bella was named after [[Creator/BelaLugosi the real Bela]], but the fact that her "hero" is named Edward is a hell of a coincidence.
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* ValuesResonance: DeliberateValuesDissonance notwithstanding, the movie has a very accepting attitude towards its LGBTQ characters. Ed and Bunny are portrayed with humanity and sympathy by the narrative and the heteronormative characters. While only slightly less unheard of today, it wasn't common for mainstream comedies in the nineties to be anywhere near this kind to gay or gender-nonconforming characters (''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'', with it's infamous [[UnsettlingGenderReveal "Einhorn is a man!" scene]], was released only a few months before this film, and the rest of the decade wasn't much kinder).
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* ValuesResonance: DeliberateValuesDissonance notwithstanding, the movie has a very accepting attitude towards its LGBTQ characters. Ed and Bunny are portrayed with humanity and sympathy by the narrative and the heteronormative characters. While only slightly less unheard of today, it wasn't common for mainstream comedies in the nineties to be anywhere near this kind to gay or gender-nonconforming characters (''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'', with it's its infamous [[UnsettlingGenderReveal "Einhorn is a man!" scene]], was released only a few months before this film, and the rest of the decade wasn't much kinder).
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** Ed complains that studios are always wanting to cast their buddies in films; director Tim Burton has been known to work (almost exclusively on occasion) with his ProductionPosse (Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter (and before her, Lisa Marie) Creator/ChristopherLee, Creator/WinonaRyder etc.) Also Ed notes that sometimes these people aren't even right for the part, which matches criticisms that Burton miscast Depp and Bonham Carter in Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet.
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** Ed complains that studios are always wanting to cast their buddies in films; director Tim Burton has been known to work (almost exclusively on occasion) with his ProductionPosse (Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter (and before her, Lisa Marie) Creator/ChristopherLee, Creator/ChristopherLee (who is also famous for portraying [[Film/HorrorOfDracula a popular fictional vampire]]), Creator/WinonaRyder etc.) Also Ed notes that sometimes these people aren't even right for the part, which matches criticisms that Burton miscast Depp and Bonham Carter in Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet.
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* ValuesResonance: DeliberateValuesDissonance notwithstanding, the movie has a very accepting attitude towards its LGBTQ characters. Ed and Bunny are eccentric misfits who are nonetheless portrayed with humanity and sympathy by both the narrative and the heteronormative characters. While only slightly less unheard of today, it was hardly common for mainstream comedies in the nineties to be anywhere near this kind to gay or gender-nonconforming characters (''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'', with it's infamous [[UnsettlingGenderReveal "Einhorn is a man!" scene]], was released only a few months before this film, and the rest of the decade wasn't much kinder).
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* ValuesResonance: DeliberateValuesDissonance notwithstanding, the movie has a very accepting attitude towards its LGBTQ characters. Ed and Bunny are eccentric misfits who are nonetheless portrayed with humanity and sympathy by both the narrative and the heteronormative characters. While only slightly less unheard of today, it was hardly wasn't common for mainstream comedies in the nineties to be anywhere near this kind to gay or gender-nonconforming characters (''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'', with it's infamous [[UnsettlingGenderReveal "Einhorn is a man!" scene]], was released only a few months before this film, and the rest of the decade wasn't much kinder).
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* FairForItsDay: The film has a fair bit of DeliberateValuesDissonance, such as Ed being asked if he's a "fruit" or a "fag" when he mentions his cross-dressing, and Bunny's [[TooMuchInformation openness about his hypothetical sex change]] is {{played for laughs}}. Despite this, LGBTQ characters are otherwise depicted in a largely unassuming light, with both the narrative and heteronormative characters treating them with relative normalcy which was unthinkable in the 1950s and only slightly less so in the 1990s. As mentioned on the trivia page, the popularity of this film elevated the real Ed Wood to an LBGTQ icon.
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* FairForItsDay: The film has a fair bit of DeliberateValuesDissonance, such as Ed being asked if he's a "fruit" or a "fag" when he mentions his cross-dressing, and Bunny's [[TooMuchInformation openness about his hypothetical sex change]] is {{played for laughs}}. Despite this, LGBTQ characters are otherwise depicted in a largely unassuming light, with both the narrative and heteronormative characters treating them with relative normalcy which was unthinkable in the 1950s and only slightly less so in the 1990s. As mentioned on the trivia page, the popularity of this film elevated the real Ed Wood to an LBGTQ icon.LGBTQ icon, although he was not gay.
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* ValuesResonance: DeliberateValuesDissonance notwithstanding, the movie has a very accepting attitude towards its LGBT characters. Ed and Bunny are eccentric misfits who are nonetheless portrayed with humanity and sympathy by both the narrative and the heteronormative characters. While only slightly less unheard of today, it was hardly common for mainstream comedies in the nineties to be anywhere near this kind to gay or gender-nonconforming characters (''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'', with it's infamous [[UnsettlingGenderReveal "Einhorn is a man!" scene]], was released only a few months before this film, and the rest of the decade wasn't much kinder).
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* ValuesResonance: DeliberateValuesDissonance notwithstanding, the movie has a very accepting attitude towards its LGBT LGBTQ characters. Ed and Bunny are eccentric misfits who are nonetheless portrayed with humanity and sympathy by both the narrative and the heteronormative characters. While only slightly less unheard of today, it was hardly common for mainstream comedies in the nineties to be anywhere near this kind to gay or gender-nonconforming characters (''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'', with it's infamous [[UnsettlingGenderReveal "Einhorn is a man!" scene]], was released only a few months before this film, and the rest of the decade wasn't much kinder).
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I removed the “Strawman Has a Point” example. The example focused on people who criticised Ed and noted they were justified in their criticism. As the trope description says, “A Straw Character exists in a work to represent a caricature of a position which the author wants to tear apart”. In other words, it’s about characters who are supposed to be wrong, but where the audience is convinced by their view anyway. In this case, the characters who criticised Ed weren’t represented as being in the wrong and nor were they used to undermine the views they represented. The movie openly noted that Ed was a bad director and didn’t try to make the audience think otherwise. So I do not believe this trope applies to this example.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Ed is ''not'' a good filmmaker: he ignores NegativeContinuity, has visibly cheap production design and continues to insist that [[DramaticIrony no one will ever notice.]] Everyone who tells him how bad his movies are, from Dolores to the investors themselves, is 100% right, and they do ''not'' let him down gently about it. The only reason he never listens to them is because of his sheer unbridled enthusiasm.
