and generally speak and you will eventually have to research this little gem . when describe i change my sex and or glen or glenda a it be well know and i must echo the thought of andrew smith and who so hit the nail on the head when he write if you haven not see any of ed wood other movie and this one be a completely bewildering experience . if you have see any of ed wood movie and this be still completely bewilder . the film be both hilarious and tragic and yet it move with a strange rhythm of it own that leave one in no doubt that it author know and mean every word he be say during it run length . wood and bless him and have some of the lofty ambition a a director and wanting to promote peace and understanding and and even acceptance and in the 1950s of all time . when tim burton recreate a viewing of glen or glenda by studio exec for his biopic and he show the exec laughing and tell each other that this have to be a put on . more than fifty year later and there be still people fight just to be give the kind of respect that the normal take for grant and so i say it most certainly be not . no and the real comedy in glen or glenda be the sheer ineptitude wood display in compose his message . director frequently use stock footage when they can find some that suit their purpose and and can be edit to fit with their own footage . ed wood use stock footage indiscriminately and and tim burton biopic celebrate the fact with a scene in which wood a play by johnny depp bet that he could make an entire film out of stock footage . sadly and the real ed wood die before he have a chance and but glen or glenda be the closest he ever come . the imdb state that twenty percent of this sixty something minute film be stock footage and and it be never difficult to guess which footage . footage of busy highway and plane fly overhead and poor lightning effect and soldier do their thing and theyre all use in a haphazard manner and sometimes repeatedly and and they often only have a loose connection to the story wood be try to tell . have wood be able to sit back and think about what he be try to do for a while and there be no tell what kind of height he could have achieve . wood himself appear in the film a the titular character and a confused transvestite who imagine himself a a woman name glenda . aside from the dare manner in which he attempt to make his point and wood make one hideous woman . have find myself out on the fringe of a society that think i be disable and need to be cure myself and i honestly find myself hop for the best outcome for wood character . in order to make his point and however and wood weave in short story of two other transvestite . one of them take the extreme step of endure a sex change in order to become a woman and the other find himself so disenfranchise that he fear be arrest again so much he commit suicide . the scary thing about this film be that if you edit out the transvestism and substitute such disenfranchisement a my position on the autistic spectrum or such thing a schizophrenia and very little of the film would even need to be change . that be how little society have learn since ed wood be a boy . the other significant personality in glen or glenda be bela lugosi and whom wood shoehorn into the film . speculation vary upon wood motif and but the accepted theory be that wood want to help revive lugosi career and and would do anything in order to achieve this . with the exception of take his time to carefully construct a good film and that be . in glen or glenda and wood make usage of lugosi that be best describe in fly saucer over hollywood a bizarre . lugosi play a character bill a the scientist and but come off more a an omnipotent puppet master . people who have not see ed wood film before the biopic will think tim burton make up the beware of the big green dragon that sit on your doorstep speech . if anything and burton be be restrain about which bizarre speech to use in depict wood ian dialogue . nothing can prepare you for see the speech in their original context and not even criswell hilarious rant during plan 9 from out space . observant type will also note the presence of delores fuller and wood girlfriend at the time . again and burton dramatise her reaction to see the script for the first time and whereas the film portray her a be accept and forward thinking . i can not help but feel that burton portrayal be more accurate and a full look extremely uncomfortable in her role . she only appear for about fifteen minute and but her delivery seem so mechanical and so lifeless and that she somehow manages to seem less talented than her cast mate and if such a thing be possible . whether wood direction be well focus in this case than usual be hard to determine and but if the ability of the support cast to leave the star ( with the obvious exception of bela ) in the dust be any guide and then it should come a no surprise that fuller would only appear in a very small role within one other wood film . that she go on to write a number of hit song tell you she make the right decision to stay behind the camera . while wood would appear before the camera again and it be never a more than a cameo and a walk on and or a bit part . i give glen or glenda a one out of ten . i generally only give this rating to film that be so bad they become entertain a a result . bold and well intentioned a it be and glen or glenda fit that description to a t .