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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-05 03:13 PM
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I watched The Elephant Man again last night.
It's been quite some time since I've seen it. It's a beautifully done film. I remember Hopkins and Hurt, but I'd forgotten about John Gielgud and Anne Bancroft and numerous smaller performances. The scene that particularly stood out was the one where John Merrick had been kidnapped, and the other circus freaks were helping him escape.

It's very comforting to think, really. No matter what happens, no matter how bad things are... if you've got to spend the night in the Screaming Baboon Cage of Life, don't worry, when you come to there'll be a cockney midget saying, "Right. We're defectin', we is. We're breakin' outta here."
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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-05 03:23 PM
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1. I love that movie
I watched the DVD again last winter and though it was brilliant. I also liked the scene with circus freaks helping him escape. The one that took him to the train depot was Kenny Baker (R2-D2). There were some historical inaccuracies, particularly with Bytes, who actually took very good care of Joseph Merrick (His real name)
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-05 03:26 PM
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2. Oh, I'm sure there were liberties taken.
The whole thing is too much of a 1930's noir not to have been completely accurate.
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LeftyDarthBrodie Donating Member (941 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-05 05:09 PM
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3. There were a few distinctively Lynchian touches
that made me assume that this isn't 100% historically correct. But its a very good movie and people shouldn't learn history from movies anyway.
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the_spectator Donating Member (932 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-05 05:14 PM
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4. Yeah, but you know what would have made it super-cool?
If he had to avenge his mother's death, first, by sleeping with a prostitute, then beating her to death to get his money back! :silly:
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