Not Knocking Wood (was Re: Octopus)

[davemarc]

At 12:06 PM 5/30/96 EST, JDPL wrote:
>Bruce Appelbaum writes:
>
>     I wonder if TRP was influenced at all by Ed Wood's films.  For those 
>     of you with morbid curiosities, the film, and other Ed Wood classics 
>     (the aforementioned "Plan 9 From Outer Space" -- a tale of invasion by 
>     space aliens -- and "Glen or Glenda?" -- the sensitive tale of a cross 
>     dresser, played by Ed Wood himself) are available on video.  Their 
>     re-release on video was prompted by the recent bioflick "Ed Wood" by 
>     Tim Burton, which is a great summary of the guy's life and work.  Not 
>     to be missed.
>
>
>
>Yeah! I quite enjoyed Burton's Ed Wood.. quite a loving tribute to Wood and
>cinema as well. But I think as far as a link TRP.. well, he seems to really
like
>"pulp" material... like doesn't he mention The Shadow in "The Crying of Lot
49"?
>So, it wouldn't surprise me at all if he also digs Wood's films...

How 'bout this for a connection....In Glen or Glenda there's a sequence
mixing dialogue (on the soundtrack) with stock footage of heavy-duty
machinery, as if the machines were thinking or talking.

davemarc