Note: For a pretty good biopic about Wood, often referred to as the “worst director ever,” check out Tim Burton’s great Ed Wood, which memorably parodies Glen or Glenda. Random shots of Bela Lugosi-who was close friends with Wood-were interspersed into the action apropos of nothing, in which Lugosi yells, “Pull the strings!” This silent film adaptation on Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Luckily for documentary fans, Super Size Me is free to stream on YouTube. Glen or Glenda (originally titled I Changed My Sex!) would be a masterpiece if Wood knew how to make a movie. Super Size Me is a documentary that follows one man's quest to see what happens when he eats nothing but McDonald's for an entire month.

He’s terrified his girlfriend will find out. Wood’s film, which was autobiographical, uses Patricia’s story as a backdrop for Glen’s struggle for acceptance: Like Patricia, Glen enjoys wearing women’s clothing. The film opens after Patricia, a transgender woman, has taken her own life, citing years of harassment. Two years after Christine Jorgensen became the first transgender woman to transition in the public eye, Wood’s groundbreaking 1953 feature explores the difficulties of being trans in pre-Stonewall America.

ever made, Glen or Glenda is both brilliantly transgressive and unbelievably terrible.

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