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The Elephant Man
Cast
Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud View AllCrew
David Lynch (Screenplay), David Lynch (Director), Eric Bergren (Screenplay), Christopher De Vore (Screenplay) View All
Release: Oct. 2nd, 1980
Runtime: 2 hours, 4 minutes
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Elephant...
anyone heard or seen the movie Elephant?...i didn't know it existed or heard anything about it until my friend rented it last night and brought it over.
it was really weird and odd and confusing for...
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Elephant..
anyone heard or seen the movie Elephant?...i didn't know it existed or heard anything about it until my friend rented it last night and brought it over.
it was really weird and odd and confusing for...
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The Elephant Man's Reviews
Alright, I have decided to make my own review thread so here it is. I will start writing my reviews tomorrow for some of the recent films I have watched. Plus other that I think deserve a good review....
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Boy raised by an elephant?
This was an American movie I watched as a kid back in the 90s.
The only thing I remember is that it was about an orphan boy who became a "savage" in a jungle and his best friend was an e...
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Two kids and an elephant..
Hi,
Long long ago i have seen a movie about two kids and a little elephant.I don't remember any scenes from that movie.I remember that one kid is black,and another one is white.I think the white kid i...
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Philips cathedral, obscured but for a solitary spire by a brick wall outside Merrick's window -- and which Merrick, both in the film and in real life, built an impressive model of by relying on his imagination -- symbolizing the beautiful soul obscured beneath the disfigured body.

Though not a direct true to life adaptation of John Merrick's real life story (despite claiming to be that) it's a beautiful film with a heart-wrenching ending.

When it comes to any film that's made in the era where colour cinematography is the widely available and accepted norm, any film that can not only make it work but feel essential to the film as a whole has to be impressive; if you have to seriously struggle to think of this film in colour (much less....