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  • In my opinion, this is the most powerful scene in the film; quiet but powerful.
    If you ever want to learn acting watch Hannah Gordon, the woman, from 0:58 on-- she can act (face expression, voice inflections, 'Oxford English' are dead-on). The Elephant Man is a 1980 drama film based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 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.
    London Hospital surgeon Frederick Treves discovers John Merrick in a Victorian freak show in London's East End, where he is managed by the brutish Bytes. Merrick is so deformed that he must wear a hood and cap when in public, and Bytes claims he is an imbecile. Treves is professionally intrigued by Merrick's condition and pays Bytes to bring him to the Hospital so that he can examine him.
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    John Hurt as John Merrick - (Actually named Joseph 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,
    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

Комментарии • 242

  • @ValentinaAraya2005
    @ValentinaAraya2005 2 года назад +214

    The way he says "Would you care to see my mother?.." Is the sweetest thing in this entire world! So, sweet, polite, innocent and shy. During the whole movie I just wanted to hug Mr. Merrick! He seemed like the sweetest person that ever existed!

  • @sugreev2001
    @sugreev2001 Год назад +77

    How the hell did John Hurt not get an Oscar for this is beyond insane. His performance here, in my opinion, the single best performance by an actor in movie history.

    • @cragsby
      @cragsby 4 месяца назад +2

      I agree though it's a misfortune that he came up against De Niro in Raging Bull that year.

    • @octagonseventynine1253
      @octagonseventynine1253 4 месяца назад

      @@cragsbythe movie was nominated for 8 and won nothing because you have to spend thousands and sometimes millions campaigning to get an Oscar.

  • @rstein926
    @rstein926 2 года назад +90

    What I love about this scene is that Frederick Treves’s wife while horrified at John’s deformed appearance doesn’t see him as a frightening person and sees him for who he is in the inside. She was only horrified for how he has such severe disfigurements.
    And the reason she cries is because she feels so sorry for him for the way others treat him.

  • @mikeyp1230
    @mikeyp1230 7 лет назад +153

    "In my opinion, this is the most powerful scene in the film; quiet but powerful."
    I completely agree. In a film full of powerful scenes, this scene stayed with me the longest.

  • @CaioH.
    @CaioH. 2 года назад +739

    *Merrick was the representation that suffering is no reason to become a bad person.*

    • @williamgj6777
      @williamgj6777 2 года назад +29

      Very, very well said

    • @Coneman3
      @Coneman3 2 года назад +25

      Yes it takes great character to do that I think.

    • @just4laughs686
      @just4laughs686 Год назад

      Look up Prince Phillips mother, Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark
      She was dubbed the Royal Saint
      She was declared insane
      Subject to torture
      They even x-rayed her uterus to bring on menopause
      She stayed in Greece despite a coup and the Italian/Nazi invasions
      She risked her life to help victims of war and occupation
      She sold her personal fortune to help the needy
      She forgave everyone from her ex husband to the doctors who tortured her to the fascists and Nazis who harmed her to the Greeks who ousted and threatened her family

    • @dutchvanderlinde4713
      @dutchvanderlinde4713 Год назад +6

      Same with MLK

    • @justanothermortal1373
      @justanothermortal1373 Год назад +8

      He was a very strong man. Very very strong.

  • @ortho-g9826
    @ortho-g9826 Год назад +121

    I can't ever watch this scene without tearing up and it's been 40 years since I first saw it.

    • @PussnBoot2516
      @PussnBoot2516 Год назад +7

      Same. It's been a long time since I first saw the film but this scene really stands out. I cry every time I watch it.

    • @voxeurfabrice838
      @voxeurfabrice838 Год назад

      ortho-g9826 I had needed 25 years to beat up my terror.

  • @SXI96
    @SXI96 7 лет назад +127

    RIP John Hurt ): his acting in this role was incredible, a truly touching and heart wrenching performance

  • @Vaultboy101
    @Vaultboy101 6 лет назад +77

    A 2 min clip of this film was all it took to bring tears to the eyes of this 39 year old man.
    Incredible film that I only found out was produced by none other than Mel Brooks.

  • @krl52
    @krl52 3 года назад +57

    If someone doesn't feel for this Man and his pain,They DON'T HAVE A HEART.

  • @Littlebigwolfie24
    @Littlebigwolfie24 3 года назад +32

    No child or young adult should say this ever if they were going the same stigma as Joseph Merrick was going through in the Victorian England. When he said ''I must have been such a great disappointment to my mother. I've tried so hard to be good!", that hit me in a way that I thought I could never imagine in my life

  • @gregparkin7132
    @gregparkin7132 9 лет назад +76

    Oh dear, I'm crying again. Thank you kindly for this. Back to rehab I guess

    • @sprucy434
      @sprucy434 8 лет назад +4

      +Greg Parkin NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER give up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @gregparkin7132
      @gregparkin7132 8 лет назад +2

      +Redshiftdazzler Cyn Jimmy Sharman's Boxers

    • @sprucy434
      @sprucy434 8 лет назад +2

      +Greg Parkin *HUG*

    • @mds6179
      @mds6179 3 года назад

      Come on give me a hug

  • @PorgWitch
    @PorgWitch 8 лет назад +113

    I'm not crying! YOU'RE CRYING!

  • @Tatlises1955
    @Tatlises1955 8 лет назад +38

    There is another beautiful & impressive scene when he saw that painting shows a man sleeping on his back , he wished he could sleep normal like him , so he asked the doctor if he can cure him ,

  • @lemmythebulldog8812
    @lemmythebulldog8812 3 года назад +20

    I read somewhere that when Anthony Hopkins got the role of Hannibal lecter in Silence of the lambs he was hesitant on the part because he played such a good doctor in this movie the elephant man. The director then told Hopkins “Dr lecter is a good doctor he’s just insane”

  • @devinfavel6693
    @devinfavel6693 3 года назад +17

    My exs little sister was watching this with us... and when this scene happened... i heard her sobbing... i turned to her, and with big fat tears dripping down her eyes she said... "thats so sad"

    • @maggievo593
      @maggievo593 3 года назад +2

      when i first saw this movie/ scene a few days ago i was sobbing and said the exact same thing to my bf

  • @galelascala105
    @galelascala105 6 лет назад +26

    I agree; this is scene has never left my mind. Very powerful. Still makes me cry.

  • @yamashidatachibane164
    @yamashidatachibane164 8 лет назад +82

    Everytime i see this scene , im crying

  • @observer8477
    @observer8477 3 года назад +14

    i said i wont cry seeing it again,but i couldnt,i cried again in that part.his voice is so kind and omg lynch you are so talented...

  • @OliverTrist
    @OliverTrist 8 месяцев назад +3

    "I've tried so hard to be good..."
    Hannah Gordon looks to her husband for strength; pleading with her eyes and her soul...
    Incredible acting talent!
    The scene has lot nothing of its impact, despite its 43 years.

  • @markringer386
    @markringer386 9 лет назад +20

    What a unique person . What troulbles me is he is still on show . His skeleton its wrong lay him too rest give him peace .

    • @TheTricktracktruck
      @TheTricktracktruck 7 лет назад

      He's not on show, according to his wikipedia article. Kept in the Royal Hospital

    • @mikewilliams258
      @mikewilliams258 6 лет назад

      Mark Ringer Lay him to rest? What rubbish! He no longer exists. There is nothing to be laid to rest.

    • @polly6336
      @polly6336 Год назад +1

      @@TheTricktracktruck when I started my training at the Royal London, his skeleton was on show in the hospital's medical museum. Accessible only for staff, and for teaching purposes. This was over 20 yrs ago though. Tests were still being done on the remains. I do hope he's been laid to rest by now, though.

  • @rexxx777
    @rexxx777 Год назад +4

    This scene makes me cry like a baby every time for the last 40 years. The ladies' reaction really sets you off.

  • @gordonm.7387
    @gordonm.7387 7 лет назад +11

    Pulverising scene. Tour de force by all involved. RIP John Hurt. x

  • @samholden2476
    @samholden2476 7 лет назад +19

    What a beautiful kind man.God bless his soul💖

  • @ValentinaAraya2005
    @ValentinaAraya2005 2 года назад +4

    Unfortunatly that line isn't in the video but the way how excited he sounded when he asked to see the picture of the children almost made me cry!

  • @davidkane1658
    @davidkane1658 2 года назад +5

    Unbelievable....all these years later and I'm still crying

  • @22lilacsky
    @22lilacsky 3 года назад +4

    this film is a life changer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will never ever forget it....it is so beautiful and ugly in all humanity. I cried and I still cry...

  • @ABC-wq1nn
    @ABC-wq1nn 3 года назад +10

    The actress really cried here its off script i think when i read some article.. she really felt sorry and breakdown.

    • @polly6336
      @polly6336 Год назад +2

      I can believe that. John Hurt (as John/ Joseph) seems quite taken aback. It's hard to tell if it's impromptu or very good acting, but either way it's extremely impactful. I've only just stopped sobbing.

  • @TheVandrell
    @TheVandrell 7 лет назад +8

    One of Lynch's best. The man makes great films when he switches off his 'ASK ME WHAT IT MEANS!' mode. The Straight Story is another.

  • @dememe132
    @dememe132 6 лет назад +5

    This movie shows that people who look different are still amazing in the inside

  • @PanasonicTooth
    @PanasonicTooth 8 лет назад +61

    So is this like the saddest movie ever made or what?

    • @lucyhogan7686
      @lucyhogan7686 3 года назад +8

      Or at least one of the saddest.

    • @mhnoni
      @mhnoni 3 года назад +2

      It is one of the saddest movie ever made, Dancer in the Dark (2000)
      was probably the saddest movie for me.

  • @Rat_Queen86
    @Rat_Queen86 Год назад +2

    Just watched this film
    It is a lesson in human cruelty. I loved it and it broke my heart at the same time. Phenomenal film.

  • @freddiesoverbite6162
    @freddiesoverbite6162 Месяц назад

    I remember watching this when I was probably 10 and I don’t think any movie moved me as much as it did.

  • @mariaclarh99
    @mariaclarh99 4 года назад +18

    ''Tis true my form is something odd''
    ''But blaming me is blaming god''
    ''Could i create myself a new''
    ''I would not fail in pleasing you''
    ''If i could reach from pole to pole''
    ''Or grasp the ocean with a span''
    ''I could be measured by the soul''
    ''The mind's the standard of a man''
    -Joseph Carey Merrick

  • @michelegephart2906
    @michelegephart2906 5 лет назад +10

    So, sad! He was treated so badly over a disease he had that was not his fault.

  • @billow9721
    @billow9721 Месяц назад +1

    John Hurt should have got an Oscar unbelievable performance Joh Merrick would have thanked him

  • @danielmoran9902
    @danielmoran9902 6 месяцев назад +1

    My uncle used to go to the pub and have a beer with John Hurt. He didn't have a clue who he was!

  • @PiCheZvara
    @PiCheZvara 4 месяца назад

    Saw the movie in a theater two days ago, 4K restoration. I saw it once years ago and didn't like it that much, but it's one of those films I think you have to kinda mature into.
    I loved it now and honestly between this and Raging bull, I have no idea how come the Academy gave the top award to Redford and Ordinary People. Not that that isn't a great film, but Elephant man is next level.
    Very sad, hard and powerful film to watch. Hopkins is great, Hurt is even better. Just really something else.

  • @dimirockeropoulos6104
    @dimirockeropoulos6104 2 года назад +3

    This movie just breaks me every time l see it...brilliant and incredibly sad all in one.

  • @jacobmetz3267
    @jacobmetz3267 2 месяца назад

    I cried my eyes out the first time I saw this movie. My eyes still tear up to this day during many scenes. However, I've found out that, as good as this movie is, it isn't entirely accurate. Joseph Carrey Marrick was actually a lot more capable and was a lot more in control of his life then was made out in the movie.

  • @alecjones4676
    @alecjones4676 6 месяцев назад +1

    I think only an AI could watch this movie and not be moved to tears

  • @elfblood9127
    @elfblood9127 10 месяцев назад +1

    When I first saw this when it came out in the theaters there were 2 teen age girls in the front row that wouldn't stop laughing at the movie. They finally left before the movie was over but it was a reminder to me of the human capacity for being insensitive to the pain of others.

  • @geoffreyjonathanwilson5826
    @geoffreyjonathanwilson5826 5 лет назад +1

    Gordon,I agree.
    What a wonderful man he was.;

  • @MrHEC381991
    @MrHEC381991 7 лет назад +1

    Another one of my favourite actors.
    r.i.p old man x

  • @samlee2118
    @samlee2118 7 лет назад +12

    ok it's not like that I'm crying but My tears are just like a shower .

  • @david.cutipa
    @david.cutipa 11 месяцев назад

    First time watching the film i stopped right at this scene.
    Years later i still can't get myself to watch it complete. This film and grave of fireflies.

  • @nehajha7431
    @nehajha7431 3 года назад +2

    Hannah cordon actually started crying and dat is why she was saying sorry .

  • @russellsims8197
    @russellsims8197 3 года назад +3

    All but unwatchable, [but in a good way] even after all these years and God knows how many times I've seen it.

  • @NAFIMG
    @NAFIMG 7 месяцев назад +1

    They are good people
    Fredrick and his wife
    They like joseph just like what he are

  • @ElectricSoulShow
    @ElectricSoulShow 3 месяца назад

    Now people will believe me - when I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE that we didn't realize AT THE TIME THAT THE 1980S - Produced the greatest ever movies.. This was one, just to start off the 1980s.

  • @billbilly8420
    @billbilly8420 5 лет назад +5

    Just saw it...cried for most of it

  • @elizarowney
    @elizarowney 7 месяцев назад +1

    never cried so much

  • @ChilupaKing
    @ChilupaKing 4 года назад +4

    1:21 So I am starting my own water park 😭

  • @ayushzaveri8193
    @ayushzaveri8193 3 года назад +4

    How can this happen to someone? Nobody deserves this

  • @hamhead2765
    @hamhead2765 3 месяца назад

    One of my favorite movies

  • @diente2946
    @diente2946 Год назад +1

    Please Mrs Treeves. Don't cry.

  • @MrBrutal33
    @MrBrutal33 3 месяца назад +1

    Unfortunately, John Hurt was up against Robert DeNiro that year at the Oscars and lost out to his portrayal of Jake LaMotta...

  • @toffeenut1336
    @toffeenut1336 8 месяцев назад

    This scene broke me. The final scene came down and did the rest of me in.

  • @mrmeach1967
    @mrmeach1967 11 лет назад +1

    Awesome. and I agree. Nice quality clip too.

  • @Joshua-mv3mv
    @Joshua-mv3mv 6 месяцев назад

    Anne Bancroft ❤

  • @DJGOGSTOWN
    @DJGOGSTOWN 2 года назад

    The trailer always makes me cry

  • @gordonm7038
    @gordonm7038 7 лет назад +4

    God bless us all.

  • @user-ql3px4xw1c
    @user-ql3px4xw1c 2 года назад +1

    So beautiful movie ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @puterboy2
    @puterboy2 6 лет назад +1

    And to think that these two were in Watership Down.

  • @JackReeves-qpr
    @JackReeves-qpr 7 месяцев назад

    If people didn’t know Merrick was played by John Hurt, only found this out today

  • @johnnywalker7961
    @johnnywalker7961 3 года назад +1

    Hazel and hyzenthlay meet Odin.

  • @ericsantana1184
    @ericsantana1184 Год назад

    If Joseph Merrick was my friend I would tell him this out of all the people I've ever seen you're the only one with a heart that's larger than life and you are a true friend to me. God loves you and he always will. Because to those who knew you truly as a man are good people but the one person who has loved you from the day you were born is God because we are all created in God's image we must recognize that. Rest in peace Joseph Merrick and know this God brought you home and because I know you're in heaven I know right then and there that you are welcomed by every person in heaven and how much they have changed on Earth is how much they changed for God.

  • @brianzayman2228
    @brianzayman2228 3 года назад +1

    Bawling every time

  • @aafgahfah
    @aafgahfah 3 года назад +3

    This is one of the most unbearable scenes I have ever seen.

  • @sammyeagleson5352
    @sammyeagleson5352 8 лет назад +3

    Every time I watch this movie or read anything about Joseph Merrick... I just wanna give him a lap dance to the song 'She's my Cherry Pie!'. I have know idea what that's about so please don't ask.

  • @dvz19777
    @dvz19777 3 года назад

    I've had a tough week and lots of wine this is not the best thing to be curling up to in bed.....

  • @ericfeick4270
    @ericfeick4270 5 лет назад

    By this time I wonder if he had bathed ...not trying to be mean but apparently he stunk horribly because he had no way to clean himself.

  • @louisferdinandincel
    @louisferdinandincel Год назад +12

    The actress is so incredibly perfect in this scene

  • @NormanNC
    @NormanNC Год назад

    cathedral!! wwooohhaaahuuugghh!!!

  • @liamwhitcombe1237
    @liamwhitcombe1237 7 лет назад

    Not unlike Cherie Booth meeting her future in law's, the Blairs for the 1st time

  • @jondstewart
    @jondstewart Год назад +1

    This movie was directed by a man that’s made some pretty horrible, unpleasant, and just plain weird movies. But The Straight Story showed his good side just like this did.

  • @EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv
    @EmmaLindaEmmason-ng1dv 24 дня назад

    😇

  • @Javicasanova79
    @Javicasanova79 3 года назад

  • @TheBulmaca1
    @TheBulmaca1 8 лет назад

    :(((

  • @FrankTichnor-un4td
    @FrankTichnor-un4td 10 месяцев назад

    Im albino first

  • @vladskiobi
    @vladskiobi Год назад

    The odd and somewhat pretentious decision to film in black and white aside, brilliant film.

  • @sherekhan4745
    @sherekhan4745 3 месяца назад

    this was the best movie i have ever watched!

  • @melissaking6019
    @melissaking6019 2 года назад +272

    Merrick: 'I've tried so hard to be good.' That line breaks my heart every time. Sublime acting by Hurt, Gordon and Hopkins.

    • @mialando
      @mialando 11 месяцев назад +7

      Same for me.... this precise line is enough to make my tears drop. What a beautiful movie.

    • @puterboy2
      @puterboy2 7 месяцев назад +1

      To think that Charlie Heaton was gonna play this guy.

  • @bastiatintheandes4958
    @bastiatintheandes4958 4 года назад +526

    "No son as loving as you could ever be a disappointment." Greatest line in all the history of movies. It is the divine light within all of us, the key to human redemption.

    • @nicolasnouvion4097
      @nicolasnouvion4097 2 года назад +10

      god bless you brother

    • @bastiatintheandes4958
      @bastiatintheandes4958 2 года назад +9

      @@nicolasnouvion4097 May our Sweet Jesus bless you, Nicolas

    • @Rat_Queen86
      @Rat_Queen86 Год назад +5

      It’s such a beautiful line and it’s completely true as well

    • @chrisjones46Q
      @chrisjones46Q 7 месяцев назад

      The key to human redemption is the finished work of Jesus. Nothing else. As easy as it is to sympathize with this man because of his deformities, all of us need a savior. He sinned like the rest of us, and we all pay for that price either by going to Hell or by accepting that Jesus' blood covers all those sins.

    • @bbmtge
      @bbmtge 5 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@chrisjones46QWhat you state is nothing more than a belief. You repeat what you have been told. Those of a different religion, possibly under similar circumstance, believe you are wrong. They repeat their belief as they have been taught. If you were taught something othwr than your belief, you would state that. If tomorrow a discovery indicated, without error, that you were wrong, you would believe that. As a result, you are not a thinking person.

  • @gordonm.7387
    @gordonm.7387 7 лет назад +741

    "I must have been such a great disappointment to my mother. I've tried so hard to be good!"
    Devasting scene.

    • @burkesullivan9086
      @burkesullivan9086 5 лет назад +22

      We've all felt like this

    • @jswatch9270
      @jswatch9270 5 лет назад +18

      @@burkesullivan9086 I felt so sorry for John merrick

    • @ManuelGuzman067
      @ManuelGuzman067 4 года назад +21

      Whole 🎥 was heartbreaking

    • @Nickelodeon81
      @Nickelodeon81 3 года назад +8

      Hanna Gordon killed this scene. Perfect.

    • @anaila3058
      @anaila3058 3 года назад +6

      Best scene ever.

  • @haeleth7218
    @haeleth7218 3 года назад +388

    Hannah Gordon's acting in this devastating scene is just fantastic. You can see her breaking down slowly like she wasn't acting.

    • @adayinthelifeofanorthkorea
      @adayinthelifeofanorthkorea 3 года назад +48

      She actually was crying. It's a well known trivia

    • @Coneman3
      @Coneman3 2 года назад +33

      Not hard to see why because I get tears every time I see this scene. Hannah most have been a very sensitive and empathic person. The sentiment n this scene is so powerful it can hit you like a train emotionally.

    • @MatthewPotts
      @MatthewPotts Год назад +6

      Hurt's acting is so good she was lost in the moment. He was one of a kind.

    • @gaskellr44
      @gaskellr44 9 месяцев назад +1

      There will have been good direction too, i.e. getting her to react, in the right way at the right time, but yes she pulled it off with quality.

    • @genesisharper796
      @genesisharper796 8 месяцев назад +1

      That wasn't planned or rehearsed for this scene, this was real

  • @chooseyourpoison5105
    @chooseyourpoison5105 2 года назад +80

    "She has the face of an angel." Princess Alexandra herself once visited Merrick, and reportedly approached him unflinching and smiling, with her hand held out to shake his. Unaccustomed to beautiful women smiling at him, Merrick turned his head away and wept. The Princess also presented him with a signed photograph of herself; Merrick is said to have regarded it as an almost sacred object, keeping it on his dresser and not allowing anyone else to touch it. When Dr Treves remarked that Merrick ought to write to the princess and thank her for the gift, Merrick composed a note that began "My dearest princess . . " and the rest of the note was written in the most beautiful language "such as the most seasoned courtier might envy." Horrified at the note's informality, hospital staff suggested to Dr Treves that he ought to edit the note, but Treves insisted on dispatching it just as it was.

  • @TemperTemper...
    @TemperTemper... 2 года назад +121

    I was 23 and stopped in a little town in Wyoming for the night on my way to my oil field job...It had a little theater and this was playing so I went in.. This scene ripped my heart out. I'm 6 ft 4 inches and 250 lbs and I was blubbering. Thank God the lights were out.

    • @vseegobi
      @vseegobi Год назад +16

      Your body is strong. And your heart is even stronger

  • @chrisbarnett6362
    @chrisbarnett6362 7 лет назад +74

    Fantastic movie that truly shows the kindness, love and compassion that still exists in we few human beings blessed with such traits.

  • @jamalsag7812
    @jamalsag7812 5 лет назад +35

    His disease made him LOOK like a grotesque monster. But he was obviously a gentle and caring soul. Causes the same reaction I had when I saw John Cofey and the green mile. Two gentle, mistreated souls whose otherworldly gifts/kindness will stop then break your heart.

  • @PaulosTheGamer
    @PaulosTheGamer Год назад +32

    "I've tried so hard to be good." ....... let's all just cry our freaking eyes out here, who else did?

  • @PurposelessRabbitholes
    @PurposelessRabbitholes Год назад +30

    I don’t trust anybody who didn’t burst into tears during this scene

    • @MrMarsFargo
      @MrMarsFargo 10 месяцев назад +3

      The sad thing for me is that I didn't cry; that is, I _COULDN'T_ cry.
      Because unlike most viewers of this film -- though for very different reasons, I obviously didn't experience Joseph Merrick's particular hardships -- I _DID_ experience the neglect he describes here (a mom who never loved me, for 23 years, despite all my vain efforts to be what she wanted). So nothing about this scene is remotely shocking enough to phase me. To me, that's just the reality of life. I obviously feel empathy for him when I watch it, but I don't cry. When something like that is your life, you eventually just stop crying because you accept it as normal. I stopped crying a long time ago.

    • @jonybeam21
      @jonybeam21 Месяц назад

      agreed i do every time i see it including just now but remember we live amongst very evil psychopaths in governments corporations and elsewhere

    • @jaymiller6009
      @jaymiller6009 5 часов назад

      He is horrible to look at; no doubt about it. But claiming that his appearance is so bad that it should make people to cry is a tad insensitive.

  • @jonfwmusictruthseeker9740
    @jonfwmusictruthseeker9740 2 года назад +43

    I remember watching this film when I was a kid. Such a heartbreak... A beautiful and tragic story that somehow aligns the soul and puts all in to perspective

    • @vladimirsolovyov666
      @vladimirsolovyov666 2 года назад +1

      Another dream works just like this: A woman with a child, who has a noticeably misshapen skull; she has heard about this child that it has become so because of its position in the mother's womb. The skull, the doctor says, could be reshaped by compression, but the brain would suffer. She thinks: because it is a boy, it suffers less. - This dream contains the plastic representation of the abstract concept of 'childhood impressions'.
      S. Freud, 1900

  • @jamesdrynan
    @jamesdrynan 3 года назад +80

    Hannah Gordon is devastatingly good! At 1:38, her reaction to Merrick's pleading question is remarkable. When she looks to her husband at 2:00, beseeching him for strength and then succumbs to her anguish. Heartrending!

  • @ManuelGuzman067
    @ManuelGuzman067 5 лет назад +26

    This movie was heartbreaking from start too finish

  • @asch7906
    @asch7906 7 лет назад +43

    RIP John Hurt

    • @sighchilliyon
      @sighchilliyon 5 лет назад +2

      Do you mean Joseph Merrick

    • @Sam-qc6sz
      @Sam-qc6sz 4 года назад +4

      @@sighchilliyon He was the actor that portrayed John Merrick in this picture

  • @ManuelGuzman067
    @ManuelGuzman067 4 года назад +25

    When he says Friends its like he never had a true friend 😥😞

  • @EvaSlayAllDay334
    @EvaSlayAllDay334 2 года назад +7

    1:58
    That’s absolutely not acting.

    • @tomhaskett5161
      @tomhaskett5161 Год назад

      I think you are right, Hannah Gordon looks really upset, and it never fails to make me cry as well.

  • @JohnWesleyDowney
    @JohnWesleyDowney 6 лет назад +18

    You are so right. A truly great scene and no matter how many times I watch it, when she breaks down, something in my heart breaks as well.

  • @mrtom-nb9iy
    @mrtom-nb9iy 6 лет назад +12

    Just watched this film for the 2nd time and it makes you wonder how cruel ppl can be , this goes to show why so many young ppl have committed suicide Ppl can be so hurtful

    • @gaskellr44
      @gaskellr44 9 месяцев назад

      My god, far worse things went on in those days and now, but in reality, his life wasn't to the deprevation level the film has protyrayed.

  • @jessiejames7492
    @jessiejames7492 9 лет назад +9

    when one treats a human with dignity and respect , no matter how gruesome that human looks , he/she becomes human...TREAT him/her otherwise and everything changes