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Produced by Creator/MelBrooks's Brooksfilms studio. Also starring Sir Creator/JohnGielgud, Dame Creator/WendyHiller, and Creator/AnneBancroft. Creator/DonLaFontaine narrated the trailer, using lines he wrote himself, and called it his favorite of his numerous trailer works. Music/MichaelJackson often cited it as his favorite movie.
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Produced by Creator/MelBrooks's Brooksfilms studio. Also starring studio, and nominated for eight UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s (although it didn't win any), the film also stars Sir Creator/JohnGielgud, Dame Creator/WendyHiller, Creator/AnneBancroft, and Creator/AnneBancroft.Hannah Gordon. Creator/DonLaFontaine narrated the trailer, using lines he wrote himself, and called it his favorite of his numerous trailer works. Music/MichaelJackson often cited it as his favorite movie.
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->'''Merrick:''' Oh no?
->'''Mrs. Kendel:''' Oh no... no... you're a Romeo.
The VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory saga of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick Joseph Merrick]], a man born with severe body difformities nicknamed "the Elephant Man", released in 1980.
Basically, [[TearJerker one of the saddest films ever]], and one of Creator/DavidLynch's few non-MindScrew SurrealHorror movies, depicting Joseph (here called John, and played by Creator/JohnHurt) Merrick's struggle to leave an abusive circus sideshow, while meeting Dr. Frederick Treves (Creator/AnthonyHopkins), who takes him out of that place and gets him into the London Hospital, where he--being an educated and kind person but still with the outward appearance of a freak--becomes the focus of London's attention, raising the question: is Merrick just moving from one circus to another?
Also starring Sir Creator/JohnGielgud, Dame Creator/WendyHiller, and Creator/AnneBancroft. Creator/DonLaFontaine narrated the trailer, using lines he wrote himself, and called it his favorite of his numerous trailer works. Music/MichaelJackson often cited it as his favorite movie.
->'''Mrs. Kendel:''' Oh no... no... you're a Romeo.
The VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory saga of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick Joseph Merrick]], a man born with severe body difformities nicknamed "the Elephant Man", released in 1980.
Basically, [[TearJerker one of the saddest films ever]], and one of Creator/DavidLynch's few non-MindScrew SurrealHorror movies, depicting Joseph (here called John, and played by Creator/JohnHurt) Merrick's struggle to leave an abusive circus sideshow, while meeting Dr. Frederick Treves (Creator/AnthonyHopkins), who takes him out of that place and gets him into the London Hospital, where he--being an educated and kind person but still with the outward appearance of a freak--becomes the focus of London's attention, raising the question: is Merrick just moving from one circus to another?
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->'''Merrick:''' Oh Oh, no?
->'''Mrs. Kendel:'''Oh Oh, no... no... you're a Romeo.
The This 1980 drama film is the VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory saga of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick Joseph Merrick]], a 19th-century man born with severe body difformities bodily deformities nicknamed "the Elephant Man", released in 1980.
Man".
Basically, [[TearJerker one of the saddest films ever]], and one of Creator/DavidLynch's few non-MindScrew SurrealHorror movies, depictingJoseph Merrick (here called John, and played by Creator/JohnHurt) Merrick's and his struggle to leave an abusive circus sideshow, while meeting Dr. Frederick Treves (Creator/AnthonyHopkins), who takes him out of that place and gets him into the London Hospital, where he--being an educated and kind person but still with the outward appearance of a freak--becomes the focus of London's attention, raising the question: is Merrick just moving from one circus to another?
Produced by Creator/MelBrooks's Brooksfilms studio. Also starring Sir Creator/JohnGielgud, Dame Creator/WendyHiller, and Creator/AnneBancroft. Creator/DonLaFontaine narrated the trailer, using lines he wrote himself, and called it his favorite of his numerous trailer works. Music/MichaelJackson often cited it as his favorite movie.
->'''Mrs. Kendel:'''
Basically, [[TearJerker one of the saddest films ever]], and one of Creator/DavidLynch's few non-MindScrew SurrealHorror movies, depicting
Produced by Creator/MelBrooks's Brooksfilms studio. Also starring Sir Creator/JohnGielgud, Dame Creator/WendyHiller, and Creator/AnneBancroft. Creator/DonLaFontaine narrated the trailer, using lines he wrote himself, and called it his favorite of his numerous trailer works. Music/MichaelJackson often cited it as his favorite movie.
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: After lying down normally and breaking his neck (which may or may have not been an intentional suicide), we cut to a starfield with Merrick's mother talking to him, in what may be just a DyingDream, or possibly a vision of the afterlife, and then the movie just ends.]]
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: After lying down normally and breaking his neck (which may or may have not been an intentional suicide), we cut to a starfield with Merrick's mother talking to him, reciting Tennyson's poem "[[https://emilyspoetryblog.com/2013/09/25/nothing-will-die-by-alfred-lord-tennyson/ Nothing Will Die]]", in what may be just a DyingDream, or possibly a vision of the afterlife, and then the movie just ends.]]
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** Merrick really did build a lot of cardboard model churches, houses, etc. However, he was buying these as kits from local toy shops and not dumpstering boxes. He also wove baskets and sent them to friends. His model of Mainz Cathedral still exists.
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** Merrick really did build a lot of cardboard model churches, houses, etc. However, he was buying these as kits from local toy shops and not usually dumpstering boxes. He also wove baskets and sent them to friends. His model of Mainz Cathedral still exists.exists[[note]]Paper modeling experts disagree on whether he did his first model, the church next to the hospital, from a kit or from recycled boxes[[/note]].
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Carr-Gorm, Treves' boss.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Carr-Gorm, Carr Gomm, Treves' boss.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Mrs. Mothershead, the head nurse, is stern and unsmiling. However, she cares deeply about her work and the well-being of the patients, and is even willing to stand up to the doctors when she thinks they don't have the patients' best interests in mind.
** She earns additional points for knocking out the thuggish night porter.
** She earns additional points for knocking out the thuggish night porter.
** Jim, the night porter, is an almost equally vile secondary antagonist.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Despite Bytes being the main antagonist due to him abusing Merrick such as beating and insulting him he was very right on his opinion on Frederick Treves. Even though Treves was right to tell Bytes, Merrick is better off in hospital Bytes insists Treves was only helping Merrick just so he can make a name for himself and Merrick is only being used as an 'exhibit'. In fact Bytes even manages to cause Treves whenever he did the right thing having Merrick as his patient.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Despite Bytes being the main antagonist due to him abusing (abusing Merrick such as beating physically and insulting him emotionally), he was very right on his opinion on Frederick Treves. Even though essentially correct in pointing out that Dr. Treves was right to tell Bytes, also using Merrick is better off in hospital Bytes insists Treves was only helping Merrick just so he can as an "exhibit" to make a name for himself and Merrick is only being used as an 'exhibit'. himself. In fact Bytes even manages to cause one scene, Treves whenever he did the right thing having Merrick as his patient. can't sleep at night because he's concerned that Bytes may have a point.
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* KarmaHoudini: Sadly, we never get to see Bytes get any kind of ass-kicking for his treatment (and eventual abduction) of Merrick. In the original script, at the very least Bytes' boy also leaves him after the freaks help John escape, implying he's gonna be all alone with no attraction or even a helper.
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* KarmaHoudini: Sadly, we never get to see Bytes get any kind of ass-kicking for his treatment (and eventual abduction) of Merrick.Merrick, other than a loss of income from not having Merrick as a freak show. In the original script, at the very least Bytes' boy also leaves him after the freaks help John escape, implying he's gonna be all alone with no attraction or even a helper.
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* NotSoDifferent: Bytes accuses Treves of being just as exploitative of John.
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* NotSoDifferent: Bytes accuses Treves of being just as exploitative of John. Treves is troubled by the fact that Bytes may have a point, however disgusted he may be by Bytes himself.
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The VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory saga of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick Joseph Merrick]], nicknamed "the Elephant Man", released in 1980.
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The VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory saga of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick Joseph Merrick]], a man born with severe body difformities nicknamed "the Elephant Man", released in 1980.
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The VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory saga of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick Joseph Merrick, the Merrick]], nicknamed "the Elephant Man, Man", released in 1980.
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* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Invoked but averted, with a pair of little people working at the Belgian circus who help John escape. They're portrayed as very normal, good people. Lynch would later play this one [[Series/TwinPeaks famously]] [[Film/MulhollandDrive straight]], though.
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* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Invoked but averted, with a pair of little people (one of whom is Creator/KennyBaker) working at the Belgian circus who help John escape. They're portrayed as very normal, good people. Lynch would later play this one [[Series/TwinPeaks famously]] [[Film/MulhollandDrive straight]], though.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Inverted. Merrick doesn't fit any standards of beauty but he's certainly nice guy.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Inverted. Merrick doesn't fit any standards of beauty but he's certainly a nice guy.
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* DrivenToSuicide: John sleeping in a normal human position instead of sleeping sitting up.
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* KarmaHoudini: Sadly, we never get to see Bytes get any kind of ass-kicking for his treatment (and eventual abduction) of Merrick.
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* LowerClassLout: Jim and the people
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Despite Bytes being the main antagonist due to him abusing Merrick such as beating and insulting him he was very right on his opinion on Frederick Treves. Even though Treves was right to tell Bytes, Merrick is better off in hospital Bytes insists Treves was only helping Merrick just so he can make a name for himself and Merrick is only being used as an 'exhibit'. In fact Bytes even manages to cause Treves whenever he did the right thing having Merrick as his patient.
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: After lying down normally and breaking his neck (which may or may have not been an intentional suicide), we cut to a starfield with Merrick's mother taking to him, in what may be just a DyingDream, or possibly a vision of the afterlife, and then the movie just ends.]]
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* BaldOfAwesome: Dr. Carr-Gome grows into this role as he becomes more supportive of John.
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* CigarChomper: Jim is often puffing away on a cigar.
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* HateSink: Hytes, the main antagonist, is a vile and loathsome human being who abuses John Merrick physically and emotionally and exploits him for entertainment. He has absolutely no redeeming qualities and most of the other characters loathe his guts.
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* HateSink: Hytes, Bytes, the main antagonist, is a vile and loathsome human being who abuses John Merrick physically and emotionally and exploits him for entertainment. He has absolutely no redeeming qualities and most of the other characters loathe his guts.
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* HateSink: Hytes, the main antagonist, is a vile and loathsome human being who abuses John Merrick physically and emotionally and exploits him for entertainment. He has absolutely no redeeming qualities and most of the other characters loathe his guts.
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Basically, one of the saddest films ever, and one of Creator/DavidLynch's few non-MindScrew SurrealHorror movies, depicting Joseph (here called John, and played by Creator/JohnHurt) Merrick's struggle to leave an abusive circus sideshow, while meeting Dr. Frederick Treves (Creator/AnthonyHopkins), who takes him out of that place and gets him into the London Hospital, where he--being an educated and kind person but still with the outward appearance of a freak--becomes the focus of London's attention, raising the question: is Merrick just moving from one circus to another?
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Basically, [[TearJerker one of the saddest films ever, ever]], and one of Creator/DavidLynch's few non-MindScrew SurrealHorror movies, depicting Joseph (here called John, and played by Creator/JohnHurt) Merrick's struggle to leave an abusive circus sideshow, while meeting Dr. Frederick Treves (Creator/AnthonyHopkins), who takes him out of that place and gets him into the London Hospital, where he--being an educated and kind person but still with the outward appearance of a freak--becomes the focus of London's attention, raising the question: is Merrick just moving from one circus to another?
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* NoYou: Treve delivers one to Jim once he learns that he's been making "late-night" showings of Merrick.
-->'''Jim''': [[NeverMyFault I ain't done nothin' wrong!]] People pay money to see your monster, Mr. Treves. I collect it!\\
'''Treves''': ''You're'' the monster! You're the… ''FREAK''!
-->'''Jim''': [[NeverMyFault I ain't done nothin' wrong!]] People pay money to see your monster, Mr. Treves. I collect it!\\
'''Treves''': ''You're'' the monster! You're the… ''FREAK''!
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-->'''Jim''': [[NeverMyFault I ain't done nothin' wrong!]] People pay money to see your monster, Mr. Treves. I collect it!\\
'''Treves''': ''You're'' the monster! You're the… ''FREAK''!
-->'''Jim''': [[NeverMyFault I ain't done nothin' wrong!]] People pay money to see your monster, Mr. Treves. I collect it!\\
'''Treves''': ''You're'' the monster! You're the… ''FREAK''!
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Treves is a good man who forms a close friendship with Merrick. However, when he learns that Jim, the night porter, has been making a nightly spectacle out of Merrick, he completely loses it.
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-->'''Jim''': [[NeverMyFault I ain't done nothin' wrong!]] People pay money to see your monster, Mr. Treves. I collect it!\\
'''Treves''': ''You're'' the monster! You're the… ''FREAK''!
-->'''Jim''': [[NeverMyFault I ain't done nothin' wrong!]] People pay money to see your monster, Mr. Treves. I collect it!\\
'''Treves''': ''You're'' the monster! You're the… ''FREAK''!
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-->'''Merrick''': I'm not used to being treated so well by… so beautiful a woman…!
-->'''Merrick''': I'm not used to being treated so well by… so beautiful a woman…!
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Interestingly, one of two black-and-white flms to get nominated for Best Picture of 1980, the other being ''Film/RagingBull''.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Interestingly, one of two black-and-white flms films to get nominated for Best Picture of 1980, the other being ''Film/RagingBull''.
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* AllThereInTheManual: In the novelization by Christine Sparks:
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* AllThereInTheManual: In the The novelization by Christine Sparks:Sparks fills out a couple of details not disclosed in the film:
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* OscarBait: A downplayed version. It was a tragic biopic about a physically disabled man shot in black and white, which certainly covers several typical OscarBait traits, and was nominated for seven different Oscars. However, [[YYMMV/TheElephantMan it won none of them.]]
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* OscarBait: A downplayed version. It was a tragic biopic about a physically disabled man shot in black and white, which certainly covers several typical OscarBait traits, and was nominated for seven different Oscars. However, [[YYMMV/TheElephantMan [[YMMV/TheElephantMan it won none of them.]]
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* PassedInTheirSleep: The title character has a large tumor on his face [[BodyHorror that greatly disfigured his face]] and causes him to be [[HumansAreBastards mistreated by the public.]] When he finally [[TemptingFate tries to go to sleep like a normal person]] (laying down instead of upright) he ends up [[TearJerker dislocating his neck as he sleeps and dying.]]
* PassedInTheirSleep: The title character has a large tumor on his face [[BodyHorror that greatly disfigured his face]] and causes him to be [[HumansAreBastards mistreated by the public.]] When he finally [[TemptingFate tries to go to sleep like a normal person]] (laying down instead of upright) he ends up [[TearJerker dislocating his neck as he sleeps and dying.]]
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* OscarBait: A downplayed version. It was a tragic biopic about a physically disabled man shot in black and white, which certainly covers several typical OscarBait traits, and was nominated for seven different Oscars. However, [[AwardSnub [[YYMMV/TheElephantMan it won none of them.]]
* PassedInTheirSleep: The title character has a large tumor on his face [[BodyHorror that greatly disfigured his face]] and causes him to be [[HumansAreBastards mistreated by the public.]] When he finally [[TemptingFate tries to go to sleep like a normal person]] (laying down instead of upright) he ends up[[TearJerker [[TearJerker/TheElephantMan dislocating his neck as he sleeps and dying.]]
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** Mrs. Kendal Kendall probably never met Merrick.
