David Lynchs haunting real-life drama free for | UK News
David Lynch’s “haunting” real-life drama with a 91% Rotten Tomatoes rating is now out there to be streamed online.
The Elephant Man is loosely based mostly on the life of Joseph Merrick, a British artist with extreme bodily deformities, performed by Oscar-nominated actor John Hurt.
Frederick Treves, performed by Anthony Hopkins, is a physician who finds John on the freakshow to work with him on the hospital. The pair bond as Merrick learns about human kindness at a time when he was seen more as a freak than a human being.
The 1980 movie was nominated for eight Academy Awards, together with Best Picture, Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Director and Best Score.
John Hurt was nominated for an Oscar for his scene-stealing speech: “I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!”
The movie nevertheless did not win any Oscars, however did win the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and different BAFTA Awards for Best Actor for John Hurt and Best Production Design.
The Elephant Man airs on BBC Two at 11.55pm on Sunday (February 9) and will probably be out there on BBC iPlayer thereafter.
It kinds half of a double invoice with Blue Velvet to have fun the life of legendary director David Lynch, who died from problems of emphysema at his daughter’s home on January 15.
The surrealist director additionally helmed Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive and the much-loved TV show Twin Peaks and its sequel Twin Peaks: The Return.
One Guardian review reads: “It has to be said that Lynch’s Elephant Man, while not exactly sentimental, takes a determinedly un-alienated attitude to Merrick’s image: rational, compassionate and very different from his approach to what might be called body-nonconformity in Eraserhead in which the keynote is clearly one of horror.
“There is way more empathy in The Elephant Man, particularly within the transferring scene wherein Treves brings Carr-Gomm to see Merrick for the primary time – and poor Merrick is at first hardly in a position to converse after which astonishes each males by reciting the twenty third Psalm from reminiscence.”
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