PULL THE STRINGS!!! Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood's Glen or Glenda

[puppetsmetropolis]

atsa goood.

[maiden0206]

i expected it to be way more over the top, like in Ed Wood. this is actually not bad.

[videoviewingguy]

martin landau was better

[blootoober]

the guy at the coin forum that posted this is retarded

[MichaelLeroi]

Ed Wood = art house director born 20 years too soon

[Concreteowl]

@MichaelLeroi Exactly my thoughts.

If Ed was alive today he would be up there with Lynch and Bessie Lipschitdz,

[scottmackeen]

Reminds me of an Ultimate Warrior promo.

[WarRogers]

Vincent Price ain't got shit on this guy

[MetrazolElectricity]

actually very well done

[kubrick681]

Lugosi = Epic Winning!



[ZyncheStrikesBack]

meh, godfrey ho is much funnier

[Wellch]

I am glad that ed wood was willing to use Bela in his films. Hopefuly that they got along well too.

[BillyBuddBay]

Sometimes the idiotic borders the genius. That is the partnership of Lugosi and Wood.

[Solon1]

Bela is awesome. :)

[EpicureMammon]

I'll have to admit that it was Ed Wood (the film) that sent me looking for Lugosi's part of Glen or Glenda. This is surprisingly good... I was looking for the unhinged performance that Landau gives in Burton's film, but this is actually interestingly done.

[romas1995]

no douchebags ! karloff was a bad motherfucking talent !! with his comanding presence he made you shit your pants down !!

but lugosi was the real talent in my opinion , talent that went wasted , always the shadow of karloff was covering him , karloff would always get a more money from a movie and a better part (excluding the raven and the black cat) proof ?

the body snatcher , lugosi makes a very very small cameo . wtf !

[cha5]

Only Bela Lugosi could make Ed Wood scripted mumbo jumbo as memorable and intense as any Marlon Brando method performance on the silver screen. R. I. P. Bela.

[Nagneto]

Poor Bela. We love you forever!!!!

[mufflerbearin]

''peopaal'' weasles... ilerate bastards.. scum bags

[bennybutch87]

".....allll with thier owwwwn thoughts..........alllll with thier owwwn per-se-naletes....."

my god, bela just makes you hang on his words! I'd happily let him read out the phonebook just to listen to him all day! :D

[emncaity]

@bennybutch87

Is that not SO true? You can see what made the guy a great stage actor. The story of the utterly sincere Wood and his friendship with Lugosi, who got one more chance to be famous, has got to be one of the most touching stories in the history of cinema...

[xxPatheticEmoxx]

For some reason I kept expecting Tom Servo to make some smarmy comment.

[lui505]

hey guys please,can you write what he says?

[iCarlys2s2]

I'm scared of him...

[apocalypsynch]

Hey....isn't that Brzezinski?

[KRATOSRETURNSv2]

"Pull teh strink!!!":D

[insdmia]

Great job by Bela again. Always wanted to walk in to one of those snotty Shakespeare auditions, where everyone is doing Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet monologues, and break out this or, better yet, the "Atomic Supermen" monologue from Bride and watch them melt before the power of Bela. Just think that would be funny.

[Hapafull]

This film is all over the place, but thanks to Lugosi he makes it work.

[Crashwinder]

Bela Lugosi could make anything sound GAR. I'm sure he could make the Happy Birthday Song sound like the final battle between good and evil.

[insdmia]

@Crashwinder I agree. Imagine Bela instead of Boris doing "Grinch".

[superdavid002]

Well, if it isn't Count Drunkula!

[ysbaddaden2003]

Hard to believe he was 74 years old here, although I'm sure they died his hair.

[Nine11News]

Glen or Glenda is a great movie one of my favorites

[shideshide]

This is so random i want to die.

[apcreed]

Bevare...!

[balrog13571]

Even if he is in an Ed Wood film and given the worst possible directing advice and dialouge Bela Lugosi still chews every scene he's in up!

[Welverance]

questa scena è stupenda

[marconis]

The funniest bit from a ridiculous movie about a guy (Wood) who likes to dress as a woman. Hilariously bad. There is one before this where Lugosi has a bubbling beaker and a skull but this is the best. Much worse and funnier than Plan 9. The "wrong" and "right" have to do with sexual identity -- the whole movie is about that. The "string" I think is a reference to nature makes you a certain way. "People...goink plazez...each with his own perzonality..."

[straightflipshift]

where are the bisons :S?

[Cinemaguy2007]

this is a great moment for Ed Wood. Lugosi here as the "big brother" goverment with a invisible 'string' that controls us all.

[princeminski47]

You have Bela Lugosi doing Republican talking points? A...MISTAAAAKE...has been made!!

[NaNoMetr2333]

Whole truth

[000266617]

PULL THE (BLEEP )ING STRINGS!!!

[GRIMOPOE1]

Pull the string probably represents humans being puppets and how God pulls at their strings.

[MrLyoneye]

this would work, but this narrator has nothing to do with the film. in fact the narration switches between him and wood's character at random points which is even more confusing.

This dialogue has nothing to do with any specific scene or is actually about anything in particular. One of the many flaws in wood.

For instance, The stampede in the background was just a way of not letting some stock footage go to waste.

[chachaii]

the puppetmaster

[Sambucacat]

I'm having a bad Mush Trip!

[jackassbitter]

Let me hear you call Boris Karloff a cocksucker.

[CASPRPres]

PULL THE STRINK!

[TomthatiscalledTom]

Karloff......? Sidekick.....? FUCK YOU! !!!!!Karloff does not deserve to smell my shit! That limey cocksucker can rot in Hell for all I care! You think it takes talent to play Frankenstein...it's all...all..makeup! And grunting!! rrrrr RRRR rrrrrr

[cha5]

A memorable bit from ED WOOD although Lugosi in reality didn't fly off the handle like that at the mention of Karloff's name mainly because they both respected each other as professionals too much for something like that.

[Hotshotter3000]

Lugosi and Karloff never had a major personal rivalry. They vied for roles, true, but they didn't hate each other, nor did Bela despise him either. The only time Bela did say he felt stalked by Karloff was when he was having a Morphine induced dream of being chased by Karloff.

[graboid78]

@TomthatiscalledTom Dracula: Now that's a role that requires talent

[mrfrogbutt1]

@TomthatiscalledTom AMEN BABY THATS MY FAVORITE TIM MOVIE

[TomthatiscalledTom]

@mrfrogbutt1 So are we gonna be working together?......Really? Worst film you ever saw? Well my next one will be better! Hello?

[bigbadboriqua]

"PULL THE STRINGS!"

God bless Bela, he was one of a kind.

[billyguns2]

One of Ed Wood's shining moments, thanks also to the great Bela Lugosi.

[GERMANVS78]

GREAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTT!!!

[yowermutha]

That editing, making his bottom half translucent is very impressive for 1953

[Uraharasensei]

Its actually pretty bad, if shot correctly you could completly cut his bottom half by shoting him first with that bottom part (of the film) cover, and then shot the people with the upper part of the film cover and ta dah!

And that was already an old technique in filming by that time.

Other than that, Ed is great, he had some guts.

[VitoPossilipo]

But I think, you are supposed to see his hands, too.

[Uraharasensei]

Could be, but then... why split it in half?...

[TheWarmLittleCentre]

Yeah! And a B -grade movie. I wonder how they did it.....

[Wacek4444]

Wow. This is fucking huge. After seeing previously one very interesting, surreal scene from this movie, this one tops it and makes me really wanna watch GoG. A wonderful imagination from Wood. And the original use of transition proves how visionary he was.

Lugosi sits in the sea of humans.

This is poetry, and it's not unintentional.

[everythingandbeyond]

Despite the bad acting and the poor script - I enjoyed this movie. I've seen films that are a lot worse, in terms of boringness and predictability. And this particular scene is actually pretty cool.

[TheRavingRandomist]

"Despite the bad acting"

the towering Bela Lugosi excepting, i trust

[CelestialWoodway]

I like Ed Wood's movies. Better than boring Corporate CGI special effects crap.

[CelticMudkip]

Fucking exactly.

CGI corporate movies are garbage just to make some money. Ed Wood didn't have many resources but he worked his heart out to produce what he did and he never gave up no matter what he was told.

Ed Wood>>>>Uwe Boll ANY fucking day

-Celtic Mudkip-

[Blackdragon52k]

Ed Wood>>>>Paul W.S Anderson ANY fucking day!

~Blackdragon52k

[Lemon77UG]

Pretentious, awful, hilarious.

[pietroerperugino]

For a moment, I thought Agent Smith was speaking about the piople's lives. Seriously.

[Bossfanforlife]

amazing actor. Too bad he had to become a drug addict. very talented man.

[cursingyorick]

Ed Wood was a great director, Just look what he did with the means at his disposel.

The anti-war message in Plan9 and the transgender-pride message in Glen or Glenda show he had the biggest balls in showbizz as wel as a heart.

His movies, crude as they are, can easely stand next to Modern Times, The Great Dictator or Toxic Avenger.

[animeotaku265]

God this clip rocks. Not only does Lugosi make this scene work, he makes it absolutely EPIC!!! Thanks for uploading.

[Jotadobbs]

You´re absolutely right.

[emncaity]

@animeotaku265

Could not be more right. It's pretty damned amazing. Ridiciulous, you know it the whole time, but yet perversely convincing--and how could the film world be the same without it?

[Jotadobbs]

@animeotaku265 ;)

[Ecksntrick8]

Well, I never said Demerol. But, it's a drug. Google it.

[odin2358]

Bela Lugosi's Dead.

[RThornhill69]

This actually looks cool. It is interesting to watch.

[Optimistic420]

Besides 'White Zombie' and (of course) 'Dracula', Bela's best work was in Edward D. Wood's movies. He had truly perfected his art.

[blackcheesyghoul]

did you knew he died

while the turning of; plan

9 from outter space, when the movie

came out he was dead

[cha5]

I would put

'The Island Of Lost Souls'

'The Black Cat'

(Bela's best non Dracula role IMHO)

'The Body Snatcher'

on any list of essential Bela Lugosi films.

[ifilmstuf24]

Bela Lugosi will live 4ever!!!

[anton1990]

You see people? Bela IS god himself!

[PersonNinja]

It's very unfortunate that Bela Lugosi got addicted to morphine.

[Ecksntrick8]

Heroin, years of morphine, and Demerol. He was addicted.

[PsychoCircusMonkey]

What's Demerol?

[frankieshane]

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!! Love Bela! U R Missed!

[tritriren]

Best quote ever ahah ^^ "pull the strings!"

The part with the "puppy dog tails" is also brilliant..

[frankieshane]

LOL Love it!

[dandartabor]

Wow.

[dandartabor]

Woooooooooow... Holy Shit, it's fantastic.

[clintbronson5]

So nice of Ed Wood to give Lugosi work. For Bela loved acting and no one would give him work

Who wants to see a old boogie man? Well we do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HenryvKeiper]

Thanks for uploading this. The part where he's just rambling was always my favorite, next, of course, to the famous "PULL DA STRING!" moment.

[oancitizen]

The great thing about Ed Wood was that he genuinely loved movies and loved making movies. As bad as Glen or Glenda is, it still came from the heart.

Unlike Batman & Robin, which came from the ass.

[FandeJay]

LOL!!

[MarcoCaifan87]

You deserve the Medal of Honor for that one, lol.

[Brabbel93]

@oancitizen thats right I think so, too....but one question...what do you think of "Last Airbender" it's a very similar story, this movie also came from Night's heart but everybody hates it...i Know its very offtopic but Im juzst interested....

[gareler]

@oancitizen and money

[MissusFingerBottom]

@oancitizen haha....Ed Wood had passion, but not talent or luck unfortunately. Nowadays film makers only have money on their minds.

[geeeezersan]

óó a jó öreg Lugosi Béla :)

[skinwalkerxxx]

well that was better and more subtle than what Martin Landau did, i must admit

[TheHeirOfEdWood]

Martin Landau was great!"Ed Wood" is one of the most beautiful film ever made!

[skinwalkerxxx]

yea he was great but cartoonish. based on what Martin did I thought Lugosi was going to be more cartoonish there but the guy was a great actor.

[TheHeirOfEdWood]

Yeah I really really love Lugosi but what Landau (and Tim Burton) did was a sort of celebration of him!!!!!And a celebration of Ed. Wood as well!

Anyway we're talking about a genius!

[Wowbagger86]

I really loved Tim Burton's ED WOOD to :) But I'm not shure its the most accurate translation of Bela Lugosi's or Ed Wood's life. It left out important people and events, like the fact that Lugosi where married the last years of his life. But then, I don't think the movie was ment to be a biography :)

[TheHeirOfEdWood]

You're right Burton's Ed Wood isn't a biography!A weird genius as Ed Wood deserved much more than this!And that's what Burton did!That movie is brilliant,weird and poetic as our beloved Eddy!

[Wowbagger86]

Hear hear! :)

[TomthatiscalledTom]

Karloff....? Sidekick???? FUCK YOU!!!!! How dare that Asshole bring up Karloff! Karloff does not deserve to smell my shit! That limey cocksucker can rot in Hell for all I care!

[skinwalkerxxx]

hahaha!

[Mality]

As surreal, cheap and nutty as this flick was, it was also one of the most compassionate films of its day. Ed Wood was always on the side of the misfit!!!

[LeviathanGroup]

One of the truly best actors of all time. He created the Dracula image that lives today. Underrated because of the bias of the day, but will be remembered forever as the one and only Dracula. B E L A L U G O S I

[Sicklilmunky]

It's not really acting, more like classic Bela narrative. I love it and I'm sorry you don't enjoy it. Pull the string!!

[anton1990]

Great movie, fantastic actor.

[ruthellyn]

Thank you Jotadobbs, that's the first time I've every really had a conversation on youtube! Thanks for making it a pleasant one, your comment really made me smile, sorry I took so long to reply. As for the other poster, well, everyone has different tastes, one person's trash is another's treasure... but there's no need to be mean or profane about it, don't you think there's already too much of that on postings. Anyhow, thank you again to Jotadobbs for a vid I really enjoyed! God bless!

[Jotadobbs]

Hi ruthellyn, thanks for your comments, well we can talk via msn if you want ;) just pull the strings!

[astrosaki]

hahah nice use of "pull the string"

[ludwigvan17]

Why did he randomly say "pull the strings"?

[gonjamon99]

He's the puppet master.

[ludwigvan17]

Ah.

[Jotadobbs]

great comment ruthellyn, wise words! thx

[ruthellyn]

What a speech!  I think we can all relate... when you look at a crowd, wondering at the mass of humanity... and how each person has a whole life like you or me... Ed Wood, Bela Lugosi, they were just ahead of their time, or too late, or something. The 1950s were a rough time to be a creative film-making transvestite and a typecast but excellent actor I guess. But thank goodness we can still watch their work today.