The Elephant Man is a 1980 film about Joseph Merrick (who the script calls John Merrick), a severely deformed man in 19th century London. The film was directed byDavid Lynch and stars John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud,Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon and Freddie Jones.
The screenplay was adapted by Lynch, Christopher De Vore and Eric Bergren fromFrederick Treves’s The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences (1923) and Ashley Montagu’s The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity (1971). It was shot in black and white.
The Elephant Man was a critical and commercial success with eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor. WhenChristopher Tucker made and applied the make-up and prosthetics to Hurt, the Academy was scolded for failing to honour his work, prompting them to create theAcademy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.] The film also won the BAFTA Awards for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Production Design.
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London Hospital surgeon Frederick Treves finds John Merrick in a Victorian freak showin London’s East End, where he is kept by the brutish Bytes. His head is always hooded, and his “owner”, who finds him retarded, is paid by Treves to bring him to hospital for exams. He shows Merrick to his colleagues and highlights his monstrous skull, which makes him sleep with his head on his knees – if he lay down he wouldasphyxiate. On Merrick’s return he is beaten so hard by Bytes that an apprentice calls Treves brings him back to hospital. When Bytes accuses Treves of likewise exploiting Merrick for his own ends, he vows to do what he can to help Merrick.
John is tended and quarantined by Mrs Mothershead, the formidable matron; the other staff cringe away from Merrick. Mr Carr-Gomm, the hospital’s Governor, is against housing Merrick – who never speaks – as the ward is no place for “incurables”. To prove to Carr-Gomm that Merrick has skills, Treves makes him say a few phrases. Carr-Gomm sees through the ruse but as he walks off, he and Treves are stunned to hear John recite the 23rd Psalm, which Treves did not teach. He now permits John to stay, and the patient starts drawing, reading, and making a model of a church he sees from his window.
When Merrick has tea with Ann Treves, he is so overwhelmed that he shows them his mother’s picture. He hopes she would love him if she could see his “lovely friends”. Later on he starts to have guests in his rooms, including the actress Madge Kendal, and becomes an object of curiosity and charity to high society. Mrs Mothershead says he is still treated as a freak, though in a more upper-class style. This rebuke and his role in the matter trouble the surgeon, who now questions his morals. And while John is treated well by day, the Night Porter makes money by bringing clients from nearby pubs to gawk at Merrick.
Through her daughter-in-law Alexandra, the hospital’s royal patron, Queen Victoria sends word that Merrick will have permanent hospital care with all funds arranged. But his problems resurface when Bytes uses the Night Porter’s “viewings” to reach John and take him to continental Europe, where he is once again put on show and brutalised. Consumed with guilt over Merrick’s plight, Mr Treves sacks the porter with Mrs Mothershead’s help.
His fellow attractions help Merrick flee, though at Liverpool Street station he is taunted by several boys and accidentally knocks down a girl. He is chased, unmasked, and cornered by an angry mob, at which point he cries, “I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I ... am ... a ... man!” before collapsing. When policemen return him to hospital he goes back to his rooms. He recovers a little, but as he is dying from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Mrs Kendal bids him go to the theatre, where he, Treves, Mrs Mothershead and a nurse will see an enrapturing show. A white-tied John Merrick stands up in the royal box to reap hearty applause, having had the performance dedicated to him from Mrs Kendal. Back in hospital, Merrick thanks Treves for all he has done and completes his church model. To copy the sleeping child on his wall-hung sketch, he takes off the pillows he needs to sleep upright, lies down and dies, consoled by a vision of his mother, who quotes Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Nothing Will Die”.
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