Debord argued in 1967 that amazing capabilities like mass media and advertising have a central role in an sophisticated capitalist modern society, which is to present a phony fact in buy to mask the authentic capitalist degradation of human lifetime. Following the publication of Rudolph Grey's 1992 oral biography Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., a biopic of his daily life, Ed Wood (1994), was directed by Tim Burton.