Anthony Hopkins Elephant Man. Anthony Hopkins Elephant Man "The Elephant Man" won no Oscars, losing to films like "Ordinary People," "Tess," and "Raging Bull." Only one of the Best Picture. Treves begins as a man driven by curiosity, but as he gets to know Merrick, he becomes increasingly conflicted about his own role in Merrick's life.
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Starring Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt, THE ELEPHANT MAN is an extraordinary and intensely moving true story of bravery and humanity Frederick Treves, the surgeon who takes Merrick under his wing
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Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication. Anthony Hopkins complements him in the role of a man haunted by the dilemma of being ambitious and exploitative for the purpose of ambition and recognition, while having a guilty conscience due to the fact that he cannot cure Merrick's condition and that he perceives himself as much of an exploiter as Freddie Jones' manic Mr John Gielgud, and Wendy Hiller, The Elephant Man was nominated for eight Academy Awards, cementing Lynch's.
Anthony hopkins elephant man 1980 Banque d'images noir et blanc Alamy. "The Elephant Man" won no Oscars, losing to films like "Ordinary People," "Tess," and "Raging Bull." Only one of the Best Picture. With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England
Anthony Hopkins. Anthony Hopkins and David Lynch only worked together once. When the London surgeon Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) meets the freak-show performer John Merrick (John Hurt), who has severe skeletal and soft-tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well