The Elephant Man. 1980.
Something different from David Lynch who likes to confuse his audience yet with Mel Brooks producing this film we can understand the plot as even to actually feel sorry for the title character on how he became a side show freak, to being somewhat rescued, treated as a human only to be exposed by a hospital worker. Then another circus/freakshow owner then returned back to the doctor.
Anthony Hopkins plays the doctor who is interested in John Merrick and seems to have empathy side towards John and helps him to adjust to new surroundings while John Gielgud has a sharper side and then slowly understands what the doctor is doing. John Hurt plays John Merrick and really went into this role with everything he could even down the make up process and how to actually master the speaking parts.
This is basically a unseen movie for me as I have only seen bits of it but watching it all the way through I have truly enjoyed this film.
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