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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2017 20:46:37 GMT
10/10 for me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2017 21:32:58 GMT
I saw this movie 16 years ago but as i remember it. It was pretty good so based on memeory 8\10
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Post by sjg on Aug 7, 2017 17:03:35 GMT
6/10
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Post by movielover on Oct 24, 2017 19:18:26 GMT
8/10
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Post by mszanadu on Oct 24, 2017 19:47:55 GMT
The Elephant Man (1980 film) I totally agree salomonj and also gave this memorable film a vote of 10 as well ( and I highly recommend this one too )   . IMPO - A very solid storyline that really seemed to capture the heart and soul of the real life gentleman Joseph Merrick  . I believe this film was shown yesterday on the channel TCM ( Turner Classic Movie ) but unfortunately I missed that particular showing of it  . Thanks so much salomonj for your subject post  .
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Post by mszanadu on Oct 24, 2017 22:37:22 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Oct 24, 2017 23:02:28 GMT
6/10.
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Post by detour on Oct 25, 2017 20:52:01 GMT
9/10 - a classic, IMHO, loved the book and the film.
Has anyone ever seen the taped version of the stage play, starring Philip Anglim as John Merrick?
I remember seeing it way back in 1982, but would need a rewatch to comment. The only thing I do remember is I saw that version before the Lynch version, but after reading the book, and was disappointed that Anglim portrayed Merrick without any prosthetics or makeup. I wanted my Elephant Man to look like an Elephant Man. Forgive me, I was only 11.
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Post by TheSowIsMine on Oct 27, 2017 10:26:58 GMT
8/10
Good and sad movie, very well acted.
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Post by Vits on Oct 28, 2017 21:17:20 GMT
8/10
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Post by teleadm on Nov 4, 2017 19:12:37 GMT
8/10
David Lynch's most sane movie? Great they did it in old fashioned black and white. The story is offcourse extremely sad.
Great old cast too, with Wendy Hiller and John Gielgud. Michael Elphick too was great in an unpleasant role.
And this movie was produced by Mel Brooks company!!
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Nov 4, 2017 19:37:48 GMT
Has anyone ever seen the taped version of the stage play, starring Philip Anglim as John Merrick? Yes I saw it--and I remember them starting by showing him distorting his hand to explain how he was going to do it without makeup. Hard to accept over the makeup version. Mark Hamill did the stage role too BTW. My problem with the movie is that it exaggerates the misery that the actual Merrick experienced. He was making good money in English freak shows and treated well from what I read--he was even considered a celebrity!--it was Belgian ones that treated him badly. I also cannot stand--I absolute despise the line "I am not an animal, I am a human being." It implies that if he were an animal, it would be ok to abuse him-and this was extremely narrow minded morally even by 1980 standards. It reminded me of the Defiant Ones when the posse member says to the sheriff "just like hunting rabbits eh sheriff?" and the sheriff gets indignant that he would compare men to rabbits. Much of the animal rights movement came out of England and at the time that Merrick existed so its a pretty crude dumbed down view of social attitudes in Victorian England. |
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Post by teleadm on Nov 4, 2017 19:45:26 GMT
Has anyone ever seen the taped version of the stage play, starring Philip Anglim as John Merrick? Yes I saw it--and I remember them starting by showing him distorting his hand to explain how he was going to do it without makeup. Hard to accept over the makeup version. Mark Hamill did the stage role too BTW. My problem with the movie is that it exaggerates the misery that the actual Merrick experienced. He was making good money in English freak shows and treated well from what I read--he was even considered a celebrity!--it was Belgian ones that treated him badly. I also cannot stand--I absolute despise the line "I am not an animal, I am a human being." It implies that if he were an animal, it would be ok to abuse him-and this was extremely narrow minded morally even by 1980 standards. It reminded me of the Defiant Ones when the posse member says to the sheriff "just like hunting rabbits eh sheriff?" and the sheriff gets indignant that he would compare men to rabbits. Much of the animal rights movement came out of England and at the time that Merrick existed so its a pretty crude dumbed down view of social attitudes in Victorian England. Not going to collude with your thoughts about this movie
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Post by Reynard on Nov 5, 2017 0:35:26 GMT
6/10. Fantastic black & white cinematography by Freddie Francis and, as usual with Lynch movies, it also has very interesting sound designs. However the whole thing has a feel of a studio product and cheap melodrama to it. It's good, but I find the form more interesting than the content.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2017 0:50:32 GMT
8/10 David Lynch's most sane movie? Great they did it in old fashioned black and white. The story is offcourse extremely sad. Great old cast too, with Wendy Hiller and John Gielgud. Michael Elphick too was great in an unpleasant role. And this movie was produced by Mel Brooks company!! Yeah, Eraserhead this is not lol. |
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Post by Ban on Nov 5, 2017 1:37:57 GMT
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