Vielma- Ed Wood

In Ed wood we are given the typical hollywood director struggling to make his mark in tinsel town. But what we see in the movie by Burton not only is the struggle that Ed Wood faced but the personal trials he went through and how he went on to make his own mark in tinsel town although it wasn't the mark he intended on leaving. In Wood Burton gives us every side of Wood that he can, from the director, to the cross dresser, to the boyfriend and later the husband. Each side is vastly arranged to be Wood in the center but each side has a different ideal in mind. With Ed he struggled for acceptance in every single side shown to the world. When shooing Dolores his cross dressing he craved her acceptance and love, but in the end Dolores calls him out as a freak and a horrible director. Dolores does this in her struggle to find normality while Wood is quite content in his oddity. 
Burton can relate directly with Wood in the sense that both directors struggled to get their true points across to those funding and "supporting" their films. In each of them we see a craving for the weird and odd and the passion for what they do. Although Wood was a flop, and Burton was and continues to be a successful director and producer for the most part, its ironic that Wood was one of Burtons better films and acclaimed. 
Burton pays homage to Wood as a director by using the scenes to convey Woods passion for film. When Wood is praising his actors for their performances the scenes are dim except for the focus on Woods face which seems to shine extra bright in awe of his talent. 
In another homage to Wood, Burton displays his respect for Bela Lugosi in a way that you almost come to see their relationship as one of true friendship and admiration. It comes to be the more moving relationship in the movie, outing Wood and Dolores and Kathy.
In the most obvious homage Burton starts the movie as a complete representation of Woods movie career even including tombstones and a coffin intro and the horribly made flying saucers that Wood made himself out of paper plates.
The way Burton depicts Wood it creates a full bodied image of a man most knew as a B-movie director and the worst director, as a man who simply was an outcast doing what he loved and was pasionate about, just like Burton is today.