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notcoming.com | The Elephant Man The Elephant Man is generally recalled by the wider public (i.e., non-cineastes) as a weepie, an emotional wringer in the same category as Sophie’s Choice or E.T. (the film’s characters cry regularly and openly, though such depictions never feel manipulative). But the film’s indisputable emotional power is, in large part, a result of this very abstraction: The Elephant Man, particularly in its final act, exerts an almost total hold over its audience, using a combination of image, sound and story to produce a gut reaction which is, in my experience, almost unprecedented. Elephant Man indicates that he could have been, like Cronenberg, the most perverse commercial success without forfeiting integrity… but then Cronenberg is the extrovert and Lynch the introvert. www.notcoming.com /reviews/elephantman   (1506 words)

manintro Elephants cannot jump up, because their legs are not shaped correctly, for absorbing the shock of a jump. Elephants have matriarchal groups and the leader of a herd is usually a cow-elephant. The evidence for its ancestry to elephants is in the skull structure and dentition. www.elephantcare.org /manintro.htm   (3520 words)

David Lynch - The Elephant Man and Dune - An Auteur In Hollywood The first forty-five minutes of the film attempts to pack in all the socio-political detail of the feud between the houses of Atredies and Harkonnen, and their battle to control Arakkis, the planet that is the sole source of melange, a spice that makes intergalactic travel possible. The Elephant Man takes great liberty with historical fact and constructs a story very similar in structure to Eraserhead; the opening birth sequence, the "sin" of Treves (the door marked 'no entry') as the catalyst to events that eventually culminate in the hero's death. The Elephant Man is probably the most accessible film lynch has made to date, and it is described by Michel Chion as "a film mercifully devoid of auteurial effects". www.zenbullets.com /britfilm/lynch/elephant_man_dune.html   (3832 words)

The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: The Elephant Man The fact that the film was ever made at all is astounding: Producer Jonathan Sanger received the screenplay from his babysitter, who told him that her boyfriend had written it. The elephants attack her as she screams over and over — this is the story of how the Elephant Man came to be, according to the barker at a Victorian circus sideshow. The Elephant Man is a remarkable film, beautiful and heart-wrenching, and full of Lynchian weirdness without any of the director's self-conscious goofiness (and in that respect similar to his 1999 The Straight Story). www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/e/elephantman.q.shtml   (723 words)

Elephant Man - Laserdisc Forever Based on the true story of John Merrick, a man so deformed by birth defects and various genetic abnormalities that he was deemed too repulsive even for the carnival circuits of Victorian London, the film’s basic “Freaks are people too” theme fits instantly well among the rest of Lynch’s canon. Despite the film’s critical acclaim and enduring popularity, Paramount chose many years ago to release the picture on VHS and laserdisc only in a badly cropped pan and scan transfer, which they never remastered for either format. Those who may be familiar with the film only from its previous home video editions may think of it as a grainy fl and white movie with washed out contrasts, duplicating the image quality of the standard poster art. www.mindspring.com /~laserdisc-forever/elephantman.htm   (808 words)

Elephant (2003): Reviews The film equivalent of Maya Lin's Vietnam monument, that collective gravestone to the fallen, in the way it employs abstract means to quantify the loss of life and elicit a profound sense of grief. What the film does extremely well is take us deep into the crime scene, and give faces to the victims so we can experience this epic, incomprehensible and somehow prototypically American act of violence on a more personal and intimate level. Elephant is not as bad as the National Rifle Association's decision to hold a pro-gun rally near Columbine High School shortly after the killings. www.metacritic.com /film/titles/elephant   (1806 words)

Chris Gallucci, the Elephant Man Salvation and friendship come in many different forms, but few as strange and beautiful as that of Timbo the African bull elephant and Chris Gallucci, the Elephant Man. Their friendship spawns a lifetime’s vocation which endured for almost 30 years. Chris was immediately fascinated by Timbo, the gigantic bull elephant, and when the film's elephant trainer quit, he immediately applied for the job. He is portrayed here as various deckhands manning the ship in the Book of Jonah, and as the injured traveler tended to by the Good Samaritan. www.chrisgallucci-theelephantman.com /chris.html   (580 words)

Elephant Man : iSOUND.COM™ The result was Elephant Man hitting the studio and recording some beats. Elephant Man, however, was unwilling to accept failure. Elephant Man will also be featured on singer, Mariah Carey’s new album. www.isound.com /elephant_man   (316 words)

The Elephant Man - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - The New York Times Alas, even after being recognized as a man of advanced intellect, Merrick is still treated like a freak; no matter his station in life, he will forever be a prisoner of his own malformed body. Unable to secure rights for the famous stage play The Elephant Man, producer Mel Brooks based his film on the memoirs of Frederick Treves and a much later account of Merrick's life by Ashley Montagu. The film is lensed in fl and white by British master cinematographer Freddie Francis. movies.nytimes.com /movie/15593/The-Elephant-Man/overview   (305 words)

The Elephant Man This film tells the true story of John Merrick, a man hideously deformed by a rare illness. The film begins with a hazy scene of a woman being trampled by an elephant, and a baby crying. The film then quickly switches to the dark and dreary location of Victorian London, and a freak show where there is a commotion. chaoticcinema.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /elephant.htm   (306 words)

UWSP-Theatre and Dance | Performances - Elephant man The Story: The Elephant Man is based on the life of Joseph (John) Merrick, who lived in London during the latter part of the nineteenth century. A horribly deformed young man, who has been a freak attraction in traveling sideshows, he is found abandoned and helpless and is admitted for observation to Whitechapel, a prestigious London hospital. While his belief that he can become a man like any other is a dream never to be realized, he inspires those who spend time with him to question the nature of their own "deformities"-internal deformities and those imposed by a codified Victorian society. www.uwsp.edu /theatre-dance/performances/season0203/elephant.html   (223 words)

The Films of David Lynch: 50 Percent Sound Eraserhead's use of sound as a film score worked perfectly and The Elephant Man's film score was chosen by the producer not Lynch, whilst Lynch's choice of the rock group Toto for Dune (1984) was questionable, but ultimately proved fruitful considering how badly received the film was. For example David Bowie's 'I'm Deranged' (used at the beginning and end of the film) appears to be an ode to the plight of the film's protagonist, Fred Madison, whilst 'Song to the Siren' by This Mortal Coil highlights superbly the passion and mystery between Alice and Pete. But throughout the film it is Badalamenti's abstract and subverted pieces that convey the overall mood of the film and carry the twisted narrative. www.zenbullets.com /britfilm/lynch/Schap3.html   (2006 words)

Amazon.ca: The Elephant Man (Widescreen): DVD: David Lynch,Anthony Hopkins,John Hurt,Anne Bancroft,John Gielgud,Wendy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Elephant Man was in many respects a longer, more accessible, better plotted version of Eraserhead, underlining Lynch's fascination with physical freaks and sporting the same strange atmospherics, including the constant background noise of humming and hissing machinery. The Elephant Man is better shot, better acted and all round better made then the majority of Oscar nominated movies but ultimately it's sentimental and doesn't meet out its own potential. Merrick, you're not an elephant man at all. www.amazon.ca /Elephant-Man-Widescreen-Anthony-Hopkins/dp/B00003CX9S   (2299 words)

The Elephant Man - John Morris Hearing those chime-like keys and bells dangling their hypnotic tune is enough to bring tears to one’s eyes, as you surely couldn’t forget the tragedy of Joseph Merrick, the true story of a perversely deformed young man, brought to life on the silver screen by master-director of surreal cinema David Lynch. As he walks past the cages, stands and peculiar spectacles, the music serves to illustrate the mood of the cheerful and entertained “ordinary” folk; one gets the impression that the music is played to show that these “ordinary” people are in fact the only “real” freaks of the movie. John Morris is a very gifted composer, scoring almost 30 films and many television programmes from the late 1960’s right up to this present day, but nothing compares with his Elephant Man soundtrack. www.mfiles.co.uk /reviews/john-morris-the-elephant-man.htm   (497 words)

:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Elephant Man (xhtml) The Elephant Man forces me to question this position on two grounds: first, on the meaning of Merrick's life, and second, on the ways in which the film employs it. Yet the whole structure of The Elephant Man is based on a life that is said tobe courageous, not because of the hero's achievements, but simply because of the bad trick played on him by fate. In the film and the play (which are similar in many details), John Merrick learns to move in society, to have ladies in to tea, to attend the theater, and to build a scale model of a cathedral. rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19800101/REVIEWS/1010313/1023   (559 words)

Joseph Carey Merrick - The Elephant Man When it hit the screens in 1980, it became a cult hit with sufferers of neurofibromatosis, the disease that the Elephant Man was thought to have had. It became fashionable among members of London's upper class to visit the Elephant Man and mask their disgust as the conversed with the intelligent and well-spoken man. His visitors brought him all sorts of gifts, including a beautiful shaving set, which of course Merrick could not use because of the condition of his skin. Rumors spread that the Elephant Man had been murdered, but Dr. Treves dispelled these, revealing the true cause of Merrick's death to be asphyxiation. phreeque.tripod.com /joseph_merrick.html   (717 words)

Elephant Man, The Movie DVD Elephant Man, The Download Review Movie Elephant Man, The Cast Trivia The Elephant Man is a true story about a man John Merrick (played by John Hurt) who has been nicknamed The Elephant Man because of his hideous appearance. The real John Merrick portrayed in The Elephant Man was born in England in died at the age of 27. The Movie Elephant Man, The was released to theatres on 10/03/1980 by Paramount Pictures, and grossed $26,010,864 at the box office in the US on a budget of $5,000,000. www.project80s.com /movies/movies-80s.php?movie=Elephant-Man,-The   (223 words)

Elephant Man : Poignant look at human suffering, compassion, exploitation. - Elephant Man - Epinions.com Elephant Man is shot beautifully in fl and white by cinematographer and sometime (Hammer horror film)director Freddie Francis. He is also not a retarded or slow man, which means he understands exactly what is happening to him and how cruel fate has been to him. He developed a unique tolerance and sensibility toward the unseemly nature of man. His is fascinated with dreams—the darker the better, fascinated with the duality of man and with human suffering. www.epinions.com /content_233352629892   (1154 words)

artnet.com Magazine Features - Elephant Man For the Hugo Boss prize show, he effectively utilized silent, turn-of-the-century medical films depicting a shell-shocked soldier and a woman having a fit of hysteria. Gordon can be dry, as he often is in his still photographs, and dull, as he was for almost a whole year, a couple of seasons back at Dia, where he presented a double projection of a boring Otto Preminger film. Gordon has relied so heavily in the past on surefire "readymade" footage and film clips (e.g., Psycho, The Searchers, the medical footage) that I've always suspected he was only as good as his borrowed material. www.artnet.com /magazine/features/saltz/saltz3-25-03.asp   (827 words)

1980 The Elephant Man - Movie reviews, trailers, clips and stills In this wonderful film Lynch brings to the screen a scenario that is terribly heart-wrenching and yet wonderfully hopeful at the same time. John Hurt is remarkable as John Merrick, The Elephant Man. Burdened by tons and tons of prosthesis and make-up (crated by Christopher Tucker), Hurt has to make a empathetic character emerge. But as the film proceeds, as we are forced to look at the so called Elephant Man more and more his appearance becomes less hideous. www.celebritywonder.com /movie/1980_The_Elephant_Man.html   (1627 words)

The Elephant Man The Book of the Film Filming "The Elephant Man" was a considerable departure from "Eraserhead". Says Jonathan Sanger: "Early on we decided with David Lynch that the film of "The Elephant Man" should be in fl and white to hold back some of the more horrible aspects of the deformity John Merrick suffered from and to give a more authentic look to London in the late 19th century. First between The Elephant Man and Treves, who runs into considerable professional opposition to his plans to help what, to so many of his colleagues, is just a circus freak. www.davidlynch.de /elephantbook.html   (9786 words)

The Elephant Man - Bernard Pomerance It strains to soar into the realm of mesmerizing theatrical magic with brilliant acting by Billy Crudup in the title role, but it is tethered by several threads of timing, performance, and script that do not let the evening as a whole fly nearly as high as its leading actor. The very existence of Joseph Merrick, a horribly deformed man known as the elephant man, was a newly shocking bit of Victorian trivia. She is even willing, in an act that Doctor Treves sees as horribly immoral, to relate to the man beneath the deformities in a sexual way. www.culturevulture.net /Theater/ElephantMan.htm   (761 words)

The Monster is Afraid: The Elephant Man, David Lynch By Serge Daney The Elephant Man is a series of coups de théâtre, some funny (the princess’ visit at the hospital as a “dea ex machina”), others more troubling. The more the film progresses, the clearer it is for those around him: the elephant man is a mirror. The more the elephant man is popular and celebrated, the more the ones visiting him have the time to put on a mask, a mask of politeness that conceals what they feel at his sight. www.cinema-scope.com /cs30/feat_daney_lynch.html   (1039 words)

Elephant Man The 'Elephant Man' is one of the most famous 'freaks' that ever lived, due probably, to the fact that behind a body monstrously deformed remained a man, conscious and intelligent enough to understand his misery. The measurement around my head is 36 inches, there is a large substance of flesh at the back as large as a breakfast cup, the other part in a manner of speaking is like hills and valleys, all lumped together, while the face is such a sight that no one could describe it. The right hand is almost the size and shape of an Elephant's foreleg, measuring 12 inches round the wrist and 5 inches round one of the fingers; the other hand and arm is no larger than that of a girl ten years of age, although it is well proportioned. freaks.monstrous.com /elephant_man.htm   (676 words)

Inside Film Online - Elephant Shoes Trounces Competition To Win Audience Award At Snowy Santa Fe Film Fest Upon accepting the award, an ebullient Sourligas confided, “This film cost $7,000 — U.S., not Canadian — and it was shot in four and a half days with a cast of two, crew of three. The festival’s emphasis was on regional films, a strong international line-up, and documentaries — along with such potential Oscar harbingers as Kevin Spacey’s biography of Bobby Darin, Beyond the Sea. Films drawing the most acquisitions interest in general were Elephant Shoes, Baptists at Our Barbecue, and documentaries Mojados, Turmoil, and The Loss of Nameless Things. www.insidefilm.com /elephantshoes.html   (629 words)

John Merrick, the Elephant Man Varney, a blatantly true-life monstrosity was indeed walking the streets of London in the person of John Merrick, the Elephant Man. Merrick, subject of the modern play and film The Elephant Man, is nearly as well known to us as to the Victorians. Actually, he was a naive and ill man whose final years were not filled simply with ease and friendly callers. The death of the Elephant Man seems shrouded in a mystery as impenetrable as the full-length cloak and strangely curtained hat that covered Merrick www.victorianweb.org /books/suicide/06b.html   (1250 words)

Elephant (2003): Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson - PopMatters Film Review From here, the film cuts back and forth in time, showing Alex and Eric at home, watching a Nazi rally in some tv documentary, awaiting the arrival of their mail-order weapons, and playing a video game that looks a lot like Van Sant's last film, Gerry, as well as "Für Elise" on the piano. It's ironic, perhaps, that shortly after Elephant's initial limited release in the States, Columbine authorities released a long sat-on videotape of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, with a couple of friends, target-practicing off in the woods. Rather, the little bit of fear and desire evinced in their brief dialogue ("I've never even kissed anyone") suggests, gently, that they are confused and sad, seeking only to have sex before the death they know is coming. www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/e/elephant.shtml   (1135 words)

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