Why was an ailing old man married to a voluptuous Goth woman? Why did he morph into a Transylvanian count in full evening dress? How did a lumbering Swede with only the vaguest grasp of the English language become a police inspector? And why do aliens capable of interstellar travel keep their advanced equipment on wooden dining tables?įor a, somewhat fantasised, but loving recreation of the making of the film, see Tim Burton's Ed Wood or Mark Patrick Carducci's 1992 documentary Flying Saucers Over Hollywood. Plan 9 deconstructs narrative more radically than anything by Jean-Luc Godard, subverts naturalism more thoroughly than Luis Buñuel and poses more brain-twisting questions than David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. Most importantly, against all the odds, Plan 9 got made and released, while Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon, as magnificent as it could have been, will never exist anywhere but in our imaginations.įor all the flack they’ve received, it’s due to Harry and Michael Medved and their Golden Turkey Awards that we’re all now familiar with the name, and the work, of Edward D Wood Jr. For all its faults (and, yes, there are plenty), Plan 9 is never boring and I wish the same could be said for some of the more highly-lauded productions I’m sometimes obliged to sit through, and it remains a remarkable monument to unbridled enthusiasm.
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