The Elephant Man ( film ) - wikipedia The Elephant Man ( film ) For the 1982 television film, see The Elephant Man ( 1982 film ). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( November 2016 ) The Elephant Man Theatrical release poster Directed by David Lynch Produced by Jonathan Sanger Mel Brooks ( uncredited ) Screenplay by Christopher De Vore Eric Bergren David Lynch Based on The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences by Frederick Treves The Elephant Man : A Study in Human Dignity by Ashley Montagu Starring John Hurt Anthony Hopkins Anne Bancroft John Gielgud Wendy Hiller Music by John Morris Cinematography Freddie Francis Edited by Anne V. Coates Production company Brooksfilms Distributed by EMI Films ( UK ) Paramount Pictures ( US ) Release date October 3, 1980 ( 1980 - 10 - 03 ) ( New York ) October 10, 1980 ( 1980 - 10 - 10 ) ( US ) Running time 124 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $5 million Box office $26 million ( North America ) The Elephant Man is a 1980 American historical drama film about Joseph Merrick ( whom the script calls John Merrick ), a severely deformed man in late 19th century London. The film was directed by David Lynch and stars John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon and Freddie Jones. It was produced by Jonathan Sanger and Mel Brooks, the latter of whom was intentionally left uncredited to avoid confusion from audiences who possibly would have expected a comedy. The screenplay was adapted by Lynch, Christopher De Vore and Eric Bergren from Frederick 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 and featured make - up work by Christopher Tucker. The Elephant Man was a critical and commercial success with eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor. After receiving widespread criticism for failing to honor the film 's make - up effects, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was prompted to create the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling the following year. The film also won the BAFTA Awards for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Production Design and was nominated for Golden Globe awards. It also won a French César Award for Best Foreign Film. Contents 1 Plot 2 Main cast 3 Production 4 Reception 4.1 Critical response 4.2 Accolades 5 Home media 6 Soundtrack 6.1 Track listing for the first U.S. release on LP 7 Cultural influence 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links Plot London Hospital surgeon Frederick Treves finds John Merrick in a Victorian freak show in London 's East End, where he is kept by a Mr. Bytes. His head is kept hooded, and his `` owner '', who views him as retarded, is paid by Treves to bring him to the hospital for exams. Treves presents Merrick to his colleagues and highlights his monstrous skull, which forces him to sleep with his head on his knees, since if he were to lie down, he would asphyxiate. On Merrick 's return he is beaten so badly by Bytes that he has to call Treves for medical help. Treves brings him back to the hospital. John is tended to by Mrs. Mothershead, the formidable matron, as the other nurses are too frightened of Merrick. Mr. Carr - Gomm, the hospital 's Governor, is against housing Merrick, as the hospital does not accept `` incurables ''. To prove that Merrick can make progress, Treves trains him to say a few conversational sentences. Carr - Gomm sees through this ruse, but as he is leaving, Merrick begins to recite the 23rd Psalm, and continues past the part of the Psalm that Treves taught him. Merrick tells the doctors that he knows how to read, and has memorized the 23rd Psalm because it is his favorite. Carr - Gomm permits him to stay, and Merrick spends his time practicing conversation with Treves and building a model of a cathedral he sees from his window. Merrick has tea with Treves and his wife, and is so overwhelmed by their kindness that he shows them his mother 's picture. He believes he must have been a `` disappointment '' to his mother, but hopes she would be proud to see him with his `` lovely friends ''. Merrick begins to take guests in his rooms, including the actress Madge Kendal, who introduces him to the work of Shakespeare. Merrick quickly becomes an object of curiosity to high society, and Mrs. Mothershead expresses concerns that he is still being put on display as a freak. Treves begins to question the morality of his actions. Meanwhile, a night porter named Jim starts selling tickets to locals, who come at night to gawk at the `` Elephant Man ''. The issue of Merrick 's residence is challenged at a hospital council meeting, but he is guaranteed permanent residence by command of the hospital 's royal patron, Queen Victoria, who sends word with her daughter - in - law Alexandra. However, Merrick is shortly kidnapped by Mr. Bytes during one of Jim 's raucous late night showings. Mr. Bytes leaves England and takes Merrick on the road as a circus attraction once again. Treves confronts Jim about what he has done, and Mrs. Mothershead fires him. Merrick escapes from Bytes with the help of his fellow freakshow attractions. Upon returning to London, he is harassed through Liverpool Street station by several young boys and accidentally knocks down a young girl. Merrick is chased, unmasked, and cornered by an angry mob. He cries, `` I am not an elephant ! I am not an animal ! I am a human being ! I... am... a... man ! '' before collapsing. Policemen return Merrick to the hospital and Treves. He recovers some of his health, but is dying of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Treves and Mrs. Mothershead take Merrick to see one of Mrs. Kendal 's shows at the theatre, and Kendal dedicates the performance to him. A proud Merrick receives a standing ovation from the audience. Back at the hospital, Merrick thanks Treves for all he has done, and completes his church model. He lies down on his back in bed, imitating a sleeping child in a picture on his wall, and dies in his sleep. Merrick is consoled by a vision of his mother, who quotes Lord Tennyson 's `` Nothing Will Die ''. Main cast John Hurt as John Merrick, an intelligent, friendly and kind - hearted man who is feared by most people in his society because of his severe deformity Anthony Hopkins as Frederick Treves, a doctor who takes John from the freakshow to work in the hospital Anne Bancroft as Madge Kendal John Gielgud as Francis Carr - Gomm Wendy Hiller as Mrs Mothershead Freddie Jones as Mr. Bytes, the ringmaster ( based on Tom Norman ) Dexter Fletcher as Bytes ' boy Michael Elphick as Jim, the night porter Hannah Gordon as Ann Treves Helen Ryan as Alexandra, Princess of Wales John Standing as Fox Lesley Dunlop as Nora, Merrick 's nurse Phoebe Nicholls as Mary Jane Merrick Morgan Sheppard as man in pub Kenny Baker as plumed dwarf Production This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( October 2010 ) Jonathan Sanger, the film 's producer, optioned the script from the writers Christopher Devore and Eric Bergen after receiving the script from his babysitter. Sanger had been working as Mel Brooks ' assistant director on High Anxiety. Sanger showed Brooks the script, which he read and decided to help finance the film through Brooksfilms, his new company. Brooks ' personal assistant, Stuart Cornfeld, suggested David Lynch to Sanger. Sanger met Lynch and they shared scripts they were working on ( The Elephant Man and Lynch 's Ronnie Rocket ). Lynch told Sanger that he would love to direct the script after reading it, and Sanger endorsed him after hearing Lynch 's ideas. However, Brooks had not heard of David Lynch at the time. Sanger and Cornfeld set up a screening of Eraserhead at a screening room at 20th Century Fox, and Brooks loved it and enthusiastically let Lynch direct the film. By his own request, Brooks was not credited as executive producer to ensure that audiences would not expect a comedy after seeing his name attached to the film. For his second feature and first studio film albeit independently financed, David Lynch provided the musical direction and sound design. Lynch tried to design the make - up himself too, but the design did n't work. The makeup, now supervised by Christopher Tucker, was directly designed from casts of Merrick 's body, which had been kept in the Royal London Hospital 's private museum. The makeup took seven to eight hours to apply each day and two hours to delicately remove. John Hurt would arrive on set at 5am and shoot his scenes from noon until 10pm. When Hurt was having his first experiences with the inconveniences of applying make - up and having to perform with it, he called his wife saying `` I think they finally managed to make me hate acting. '' Because of the strain on the actor, he worked alternate days. Lynch originally wanted Jack Nance for the title character. `` But it just was n't in the cards, '' Lynch says ; the role went to John Hurt after Brooks, Lynch and Sanger saw his performance in The Naked Civil Servant as Quentin Crisp. Lynch bookended the film with surrealist sequences centered around Merrick 's mother and her death. Lynch used Samuel Barber 's Adagio for Strings to underline the end of the film and Merrick 's own death. When Lynch and Sanger screened The Elephant Man for Brooks after they returned from England with a cut, Brooks suggested some minor cuts but told them that the film would be released as they made it. Reception This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. ( November 2014 ) Critical response The Elephant Man was met with critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a 90 % rating, based on 41 reviews, with an average score of 8.4 / 10. The site 's consensus reads, `` David Lynch 's relatively straight second feature finds an admirable synthesis of compassion and restraint in treating its subject, and features outstanding performances by John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins. '' Vincent Canby wrote : `` Mr. Hurt is truly remarkable. It ca n't be easy to act under such a heavy mask... the physical production is beautiful, especially Freddie Francis 's black - and - white photography. '' A small number of critics were less favorable. Roger Ebert gave it 2 / 4 stars, writing : `` I kept asking myself what the film was really trying to say about the human condition as reflected by John Merrick, and I kept drawing blanks. '' In the book The Spectacle of Deformity : Freak Shows and Modern British Culture, Nadja Durbach describes the work as `` much more mawkish and moralising than one would expect from the leading postmodern surrealist filmmaker '' and `` unashamedly sentimental ''. She blamed this mawkishness on the use of Treves 's memoirs as source material. The Elephant Man has since been ranked among the best films of the 1980s in Time Out ( where it placed 19th ) and Paste ( 56th ). The film also received five votes in the 2012 Sight & Sound polls. Accolades Main article : List of awards and nominations received by The Elephant Man The Elephant Man was nominated for eight Academy Awards, tying with Raging Bull at the 53rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actor in a Leading Role ( John Hurt ), Art Direction - Set Decoration ( Stuart Craig, Robert Cartwright, Hugh Scaife ), Costume Design, Director, Film Editing, Music : Original Score, and Writing : Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. However, the film did not win any. People in the industry were appalled that the movie was not going to be honored for its make up effects when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominations at the time. A letter of protest was sent to the Academy 's Board of Governors to requesting to give the film an honorary award. The Academy refused, but in response to the outcry, they decided to give the make - up artists their own category. A year later, the Academy Award for Best Makeup category was introduced with An American Werewolf in London as its first recipient. It did win the BAFTA Award for Best Film, as well as other BAFTA Awards for Best Actor ( John Hurt ) and Best Production Design, and was nominated for four others : Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography and Editing. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists : 2005 : AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes : John Merrick : `` I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man. '' -- Nominated Home media There have been many releases of the film on both VHS and DVD. The version released as part of the David Lynch Lime Green Box includes several interviews with John Hurt and David Lynch and a Joseph Merrick documentary. This material is also available on the exclusive treatment on the European market as part of Optimum Releasing 's StudioCanal Collection. The film has only been released on Blu - ray Disc in the UK, however this disc will play in both Region A and B players. Soundtrack The Elephant Man Cover of the original vinyl edition Film score by John Morris Released 1980, 1981, 1994, 2008 Genre Classical Label 20th Century Fox Producer John Morris John Morris chronology In God We Tru $ t ( 1980 ) In God We Tru $ t 1980 The Elephant Man ( 1980 ) History of the World, Part I ( 1981 ) History of the World, Part I 1981 The musical score of The Elephant Man was composed and conducted by John Morris, and it was performed by the National Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1980, the company 20th Century Fox Records published this film 's original musical score as both an LP album and as a Cassette in the United States. Its front cover artwork features the mask of John Merrick against a backdrop of smoke, as seen on the advance theatrical poster for the film. In 1994, the first Compact disc ( CD ) issue of the film score was made by the company Milan, which specializes in film scores and soundtrack albums. Track listing for the first U.S. release on LP Side one `` The Elephant Man Theme '' - 3 : 46 `` Dr. Treves Visits the Freak Show and Elephant Man '' - 4 : 08 `` John Merrick and Psalm '' - 1 : 17 `` John Merrick and Mrs. Kendal '' - 2 : 03 `` The Nightmare '' - 4 : 39 Side two `` Mrs. Kendal 's Theater and Poetry Reading '' - 1 : 58 `` The Belgian Circus Episode '' - 3 : 00 `` Train Station '' - 1 : 35 `` Pantomime '' - 2 : 20 `` Adagio for Strings '' - 5 : 52 `` Recapitulation '' - 5 : 35 Cultural influence The Jam 's former bassist Bruce Foxton was inspired strongly by the film, and in response wrote the song `` Freak '' with the single 's cover even making a reference to the film. Produced by the multiple - award - winning Steve Lillywhite and released as a single, it became his biggest hit to date and remains his only Top 40 hit. Actor Bradley Cooper credits watching the movie with his father as a child as his inspiration to become an actor. Cooper played the character on Broadway in 2013. British TV presenter Karl Pilkington often has cited it as his favorite film. Pilkington 's love for the film brought many new features to his various podcasts and radio shows, made with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Rock band The Mars Volta pays homage to The Elephant Man by having singer Cedric Bixler - Zavala dressed as John Hurt 's version of the Elephant Man in mask and hat in the video for their song `` Goliath ''. The 1990s animated TV show The Critic also references the scene in Lynch 's movie where the Elephant Man is shown to the room of surgeons by having film critic Jay Sherman being displayed as an obese youth being exhibited. In the `` L.A. Jay '' episode of The Critic, the Elephant Man is seen driving a sports car with two women mocking Jay Sherman as `` a freak ''. See also The Elephant Man ( play ) The Elephant Man ( 1982 film ) References Jump up ^ The Times, October 8, 1980, in large article on page 9 by John Higgins : `` The Elephant Man, which opens tomorrow at the ABC, Shaftesbury Avenue, is also likely to establish the reputation of its director, David Lynch. '' Read in The Times Digital Archive on October 28, 2013 Jump up ^ `` The Elephant Man ( 1980 ) '', Box Office Mojo, IMDb.com, Inc, retrieved July 4, 2010 Jump up ^ von Tunzelmann, Alex ( 10 December 2009 ). `` The Elephant Man : close to the memoirs but not the man ''. The Guardian. Retrieved 29 April 2015. ^ Jump up to : `` '' The Elephant Man '' Trivia ``. IMDB.com. USA. 1 July 2000. Retrieved 20 July 2014. Jump up ^ Huddleston, Tom ( 2010 ), `` David Lynch : interview '', Time Out, Time Out Group Limited, archived from the original on June 16, 2010, retrieved June 16, 2010 Jump up ^ Potter, Maximillian ( August 1997 ). `` Erased ''. Premiere. Jump up ^ `` Rotten Tomatoes : The Elephant Man ''. Uk.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved November 12, 2014. Jump up ^ Vincent Canby : The Elephant Man review Jump up ^ `` Roger Ebert : The Elephant Man review ''. Rogerebert.suntimes.com. Retrieved September 12, 2012. Jump up ^ Durbach ( 2009 ), p. 35 Jump up ^ `` The 30 best ' 80s movies ''. Time Out New York. Retrieved 2017 - 11 - 21. Jump up ^ `` The 80 Best Movies of the 1980s ''. pastemagazine.com. Retrieved 2017 - 11 - 21. Jump up ^ `` Votes for The Elephant Man ( 1980 ) BFI ''. www.bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 2017 - 11 - 21. Jump up ^ `` David Lynch - The Elephant Man and Dune - An Auteur In Hollywood ''. www.britishfilm.org.uk. Retrieved 2017 - 11 - 23. Jump up ^ Harmetz, Aljean ; Times, Special to the New York ( 1981 - 02 - 18 ). `` ' ELEPHANT MAN ' AND ' BULL ' UP FOR 8 OSCARS EACH ''. The New York Times. ISSN 0362 - 4331. Retrieved 2017 - 11 - 23. Jump up ^ `` NY Times : The Elephant Man ''. NY Times. Retrieved December 31, 2008. Jump up ^ Roger Clarke ( March 2, 2007 ), `` The Elephant Man '', The Independent Jump up ^ `` AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes Nominees '' ( PDF ). Retrieved 2016 - 07 - 30. Jump up ^ `` The Elephant Man on StudioCanal Collection ''. Archived from the original on July 26, 2012. Retrieved August 1, 2010. Jump up ^ `` StudioCanal Collection ''. Retrieved August 1, 2010. Jump up ^ Internet Movie Database Jump up ^ Nostalgiacentral.com Jump up ^ Touch Sensitive liner notes. Arista Records. 1984. Jump up ^ Today.com Jump up ^ `` Karl Pilkington - Wikiquote ''. en.wikiquote.org. Retrieved 2015 - 09 - 26. Jump up ^ `` Ricky Gervais Explains The Mind Of Karl Pilkington @ TeamCoco.com ''. teamcoco.com. Retrieved 2015 - 09 - 26. Further reading Shai Biderman & Assaf Tabeka. `` The Monster Within : Alienation and Social Conformity in The Elephant Man '' in : The Philosophy of David Lynch 207 ( University Press of Kentucky, 2011 ). Durbach, Nadja ( 2009 ), `` Monstrosity, Masculinity, and Medicine : Reexamining ' the Elephant Man ' '', The Spectacle of Deformity : Freak Shows and Modern British Culture, Berkeley : University of California Press, ISBN 0 - 520 - 25768 - 5, OCLC 314839375 External links Wikiquote has quotations related to : The Elephant Man ( film ) The Elephant Man on IMDb David Lynch Early life Filmography Discography Bibliography Accolades Frequent collaborators Directorial works Feature films Eraserhead ( 1977 ) The Elephant Man ( 1980 ) Dune ( 1984 ) Blue Velvet ( 1986 ) Wild at Heart ( 1990 ) Twin Peaks : Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ) Lost Highway ( 1997 ) The Straight Story ( 1999 ) Mulholland Drive ( 2001 ) Inland Empire ( 2006 ) Short films Six Men Getting Sick ( Six Times ) The Alphabet The Grandmother The Amputee The Cowboy and the Frenchman Industrial Symphony No. 1 Premonition Following An Evil Deed Darkened Room Rabbits DumbLand Bug Crawls Boat Absurda Lady Blue Shanghai Idem Paris Music videos `` Wicked Game '' `` Longing '' `` Shot in the Back of the Head '' `` Came Back Haunted '' Television Twin Peaks ( 1990 -- 91 ) American Chronicles On the Air Hotel Room Twin Peaks ( 2017 ) Albums BlueBOB The Air Is on Fire Polish Night Music Crazy Clown Time The Big Dream Books Catching the Big Fish Images Genealogies of Pain Dark Night of the Soul Productions Crumb Surveillance My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done ? 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Question: who played the elephant man in the 1980 movie
Answer: John Hurt