The Elephant Man

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Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Tv & Film:film Reviews, Tv & Film, Film History

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2016

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

I am not an animal! I am a human being! That quote from David Lynch's The Elephant Man has become part of the American lexicon, quoted in literally hundreds of movies and television shows. But what of the film that created the quote? Lynch's 1980 black and white biopic, his first commercial production, was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won many other statues. How does The Elephant Man hold up over 35 years later? Take the bag off your head, put in your earbuds, and join Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart to find out!

{David Lynch Series}

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0:00.0	Life is full of surprises. Consider the fate of this creature's poor mother.
0:12.1	Stuck down in the fourth month of her maternal condition by an elephant, a wild elephant.
0:21.5	The result is plain to see.
0:25.5	They listen to the dead men, the dead of a elephant, mad.
0:33.5	Welcome to Now Playing's review of The Elephant Man.
0:37.5	I didn't see nothing like you before.
0:39.5	Part of the Now Playing David Lynch review series.
0:43.5	This is monstrous. It's not gonna be allowed.
0:46.5	Hosted by Stuart.
0:48.5	I'm afraid he won't let you.
0:49.5	Jacob.
0:50.5	But at no time have I met with such a perverted or degraded version of a human being as this man.
0:55.5	And Arnie.
0:57.5	I fear the other patients would find him rather shocking.
1:00.5	Join us at NowPlayingPotCast.com each week as we continue looking at all of David Lynch's films.
1:07.5	I'll see to it that you have everything you need.
1:10.5	These podcasts contain detailed plot spoilers and mild language.
1:14.5	I don't really fight that.
1:17.5	I simply want to look at you.
1:19.5	I don't really fight that.
1:21.5	Listener discretion is advised.
1:24.5	I think I can't examine you now.
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