OMG!!! NO one in todays society even have the right to say they hate the way they look or to even have the thought of commiting sucide! they dont even throught a QUARTER of what this sweet GODLY MAN went throught !!! this pisses me off so much it feels like my heart was just inflamed with black firery HATRED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Take a good look around people. By human nature we all are drawn into the facination of something that is not of the norm. What you do with it judges you. The essance of a person is not dictated by their apperance but by the character of the individual. This is a classic pitorial of how people in general respond and act and it is disgusting. Next time have some compassion for a fellow human being.
This movie reminds me a lot of the other sideshow movie "freaks", because like this movie, one of the main morals of the movie is, the real ugly ones are not always the ones who are "ugly" on the outside.
David Lynch has a an old 1930s style of filmakingway. he has a dark nightmarish way of making his films. The guys got issues. This movie could almost be like 1930s movie. simmillar to james whales who directed Frankenstein.
those other "freaks" were very polite to release john from the monkey cage. they know how he feels, well a little. im so happy they didnt leave him out. :)
WTF was that mother's problem? "OH GOD OH GOD THAT MAN KNOCKED OVER MY DUMBASS DAUGHTER WHO WAS STANDING RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF AN AREA WHERE PEOPLE ARE WALKING!"
It's people like Bytes and that cockney tour-guide that are the REAL "freaks". The way they abused Mr. Merrick for profit's sake is just wretched and sick. The sad thing is, the world is filled with these sort of "freaks" everywhere, abusing and exploiting those less powerful than they for just a pocketful of change. What a world we live in.
I don't know if "heart-warming" is the right set of words - but at 4:57 it's so great the way the other side-show actors (with the kind and brave dwarf as their leader) breaks him out of the cage... so cool the way the "giant" picks him up and helps him out... and the dwarf bids him farewell and good luck. Reminds one just a little of the old fairy tale "Bremen Town Musicians" where unwanted animals band together through their camaraderie and music and live happily ever after. So moving.
no one deserved to be treated the way joseph [ john ] was treated. the thing is we were all created differently for a reason, and this man had more heart , soul, and passion for life than any other "normal" person could have. R.I.P. Joseph Merrick.
Mr. Merrick was right people are afraid of things they don't understand. It's hard to believe that people would treat humans like this. A different time though, it was a different time and there were others who shared his pain like Johnny Eck, Peter Robinson, Daisy and Violet Hilton, and many many more. God bless them all they were the most beautiful humans that God ever brought into this world.
I think because of the compassion christ taught is the reasoin why this poor man was able to live the rest of his life ijn comfort. I think God touched treaves heart and other people to help poor merrick.
I hate the uncle who treated John Merrick like a slave. I wanted to beat the shit outta him and then kick him soo hard between the legs so he wont have kids. John Merrick was a human being who never did wrong to anyone. A great and moving film.
I guess he ran to France and tr ied to collect cash there.. they were speaking french at first...love how the french audidence spits at the cruel faggoty bitch ass cunt of an owner.
I find myself suddenly wanting to wring the neck of every boy in London... this movie is so powerful, how I feel and yet how I can't start to feel for The Elephant Man...
was? there were always be people like that m8... actually everywhere !! this movie make some people to WaKeUp .... Its the reality m8 .... humans are such a weird race. marvellous movie btway.
Nice, good, honest and sincere people are not appreciaed - indeed, they are despised in today's society (perhaps always have been), which is mediocre. I know from personal experience
@pantherbuff89 Dude don't worry about it only because thats the way some assholes are. To hell with them, you will run into good people in your life who will appreciate that you are a nice and be a good friend to you. Once that happens (if it hasn't already) you will never give a second thought to the mean people
@homgJulie i knoo right? just becuz they look different..like who gives a flying fuck? hes a man...a human being...how dare anyone treat him any less than a human
@NeighborHoodBoyz1 I know what you mean. Some people get a real thrill out of making others feel worthless...they are trying to compensate for something lacking in their own life.
@homgJulie u know, i see alot of people treat each other the same way they treat merrick. i really have. every single day. i may not have been treated as bad as he has, but i went through alot growing up and still do to this day. i remember it was so bad i just wanted to kill myself and almost did. it's terrible for merrick and for people like him. but people treat each other this way all the time none the less. this world is so very sick and sometimes i hate living life knowing it's around.
@homgJulie Because our humanness is in large part only a perception... we evolved like every other animal.... so people like john that cross the line between beast and human break through the illusion we've constructed to separate ourselves from the animals... we don't like to know we'll die, our destiny is to become worm food...
@homgJulie Oh i agree...but you have to get the social climate back then...Everyone was uneducated(majority)and ignorant, religion had a strong hold on people's lives and most babies born with his condition die at birth or were killed(for religious/superstitious reasons usually). It wouldn't happen as severely today, but I would hope I wouldn't treat someone that way at any period in history(I'd hope that is).
Holy shit i didn't evn know my uncle was in this movie..
kickAbooJoyjuice 1 week ago
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OMG!!! NO one in todays society even have the right to say they hate the way they look or to even have the thought of commiting sucide! they dont even throught a QUARTER of what this sweet GODLY MAN went throught !!! this pisses me off so much it feels like my heart was just inflamed with black firery HATRED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
MsNiceone911 1 month ago
As soon as that little boy was to ask me why my head was so big, he would have been pushed down them steps;. WHY YO HEAD BLEEDIN?! -push-
Whatyousay16 1 month ago
Stupid kids!!!!!!!!!!!
nikemac84 1 month ago
a life nothing short of hell so sad unreal
omgwtf194 5 months ago
Take a good look around people. By human nature we all are drawn into the facination of something that is not of the norm. What you do with it judges you. The essance of a person is not dictated by their apperance but by the character of the individual. This is a classic pitorial of how people in general respond and act and it is disgusting. Next time have some compassion for a fellow human being.
cyphrr 5 months ago
God bless the carnies who helped.
copnite12342 7 months ago 5
@copnite12342 I guess you thank god as well for creating someone as pitiful as Joseph Merrick.
hunkallgood73 2 months ago
@hunkallgood73 im grateful for good people.
copnite12342 2 months ago
He should have knocked that little shit down the stairs!
mandolinmountain 8 months ago
Its nice how, even against his upbringing, the little boy feels some sympathy for him.
torie89 9 months ago 4
GOD this movie is hard to watch
torie89 9 months ago
This movie reminds me a lot of the other sideshow movie "freaks", because like this movie, one of the main morals of the movie is, the real ugly ones are not always the ones who are "ugly" on the outside.
yorkie45678 10 months ago
I'd like to beat the shit out of that old man
MsGhostbuster123 11 months ago
I love how the short guy kept his plumed hat on all the way to the harbor XD
valiantvyse 1 year ago
Kudos to the man who spit on the Ring Master! >:)
KittyKazooTV 1 year ago
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What's pretentious about homgJulie not understanding how people can we so mean?
hjb103055 1 year ago
it seemed the audience detested the way poor Merrick was being handled thus the show fails now
flowerchildluna 1 year ago
2:19 Hey, it's R2-D2!!
kucoru16 1 year ago
David Lynch has a an old 1930s style of filmakingway. he has a dark nightmarish way of making his films. The guys got issues. This movie could almost be like 1930s movie. simmillar to james whales who directed Frankenstein.
veeseee128 1 year ago
I think the monkeys were bothered by merricks appearance.
veeseee128 1 year ago
1:34, HA! serves him right!
Freebleeper 1 year ago
those other "freaks" were very polite to release john from the monkey cage. they know how he feels, well a little. im so happy they didnt leave him out. :)
hunterjumper9799 1 year ago
this movie has made me cry SO MANY TIMES!!!!!!!
KiyoKannibus 1 year ago
WTF was that mother's problem? "OH GOD OH GOD THAT MAN KNOCKED OVER MY DUMBASS DAUGHTER WHO WAS STANDING RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF AN AREA WHERE PEOPLE ARE WALKING!"
SpaceToasterTV 1 year ago 6
@SpaceToasterTV people are assholes.
copnite12342 6 months ago
It's people like Bytes and that cockney tour-guide that are the REAL "freaks". The way they abused Mr. Merrick for profit's sake is just wretched and sick. The sad thing is, the world is filled with these sort of "freaks" everywhere, abusing and exploiting those less powerful than they for just a pocketful of change. What a world we live in.
datalal624 1 year ago 3
I don't know if "heart-warming" is the right set of words - but at 4:57 it's so great the way the other side-show actors (with the kind and brave dwarf as their leader) breaks him out of the cage... so cool the way the "giant" picks him up and helps him out... and the dwarf bids him farewell and good luck. Reminds one just a little of the old fairy tale "Bremen Town Musicians" where unwanted animals band together through their camaraderie and music and live happily ever after. So moving.
anonyms404 1 year ago
He really let down his boss at the end, when he wouldn't get up.
Oceanpacifica1968 1 year ago
no one deserved to be treated the way joseph [ john ] was treated. the thing is we were all created differently for a reason, and this man had more heart , soul, and passion for life than any other "normal" person could have. R.I.P. Joseph Merrick.
JaneOranika 1 year ago 2
I hate the word "freak". I think it should be held in the same context as the N-word and other hateful curses
wundermuffi 1 year ago
@wundermuffi I agree completely, or atleast make it a curse word.
KiyoKannibus 1 year ago
Mr. Merrick was right people are afraid of things they don't understand. It's hard to believe that people would treat humans like this. A different time though, it was a different time and there were others who shared his pain like Johnny Eck, Peter Robinson, Daisy and Violet Hilton, and many many more. God bless them all they were the most beautiful humans that God ever brought into this world.
TedLeatherJacket 1 year ago
Sometimes "freaks" are the most human among us.
pmaddamsetti 1 year ago 9
I think because of the compassion christ taught is the reasoin why this poor man was able to live the rest of his life ijn comfort. I think God touched treaves heart and other people to help poor merrick.
veeseee128 2 years ago
i honestly can't stop crying :(
alisonalison2007 2 years ago 5
I hate the uncle who treated John Merrick like a slave. I wanted to beat the shit outta him and then kick him soo hard between the legs so he wont have kids. John Merrick was a human being who never did wrong to anyone. A great and moving film.
mechaart 2 years ago 3
I guess he ran to France and tr ied to collect cash there.. they were speaking french at first...love how the french audidence spits at the cruel faggoty bitch ass cunt of an owner.
TORHAB 2 years ago 5
audience OOPS
TORHAB 2 years ago
I find myself suddenly wanting to wring the neck of every boy in London... this movie is so powerful, how I feel and yet how I can't start to feel for The Elephant Man...
andrew4234234 2 years ago 5
poor, innocent mr. merrick
being ripped away from the hospital and back to this...
happymimi16 2 years ago 5
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happymimi16 2 years ago
...i hate that kind of humans
i really hate... ='(
GinnyGirl06 2 years ago 4
i like the part were the people help john escape from the uncle the boy just wanted to help john too.
kikyosan543 2 years ago 6
Those boys are like 1800's chavs.
Little shits.
xunknown91x 2 years ago 4
was? there were always be people like that m8... actually everywhere !! this movie make some people to WaKeUp .... Its the reality m8 .... humans are such a weird race. marvellous movie btway.
GaBoxXx47 2 years ago 5
Such a BASTARD!
Poor John:(
dimples03 2 years ago 6
What a sick bastard!
Putting him in a cage next to barbons/
monkeys.
And those kids at the ship needs to get smaked
helenajesstarzak 2 years ago 5
Seriously, whats wrong with that Carnival guy?
He is more sick than John Merrick will ever be!
imeldaDuke 2 years ago 7
i think we humans are the most inferior
gtbebe 2 years ago 5
Im ashamed to be human most of the time
xxtiaan 2 years ago 7
I cannot recall, I think it was T.B. the dear soul came down with...
repelghosts 2 years ago
that poor man :(
great movie though thanks so much for uploading! :)
nevershoutfangsup 2 years ago 6
Thank you so much for uploading this movie! I had wanted to see it so badly after reading the play.
This may be one of my favorite films now that i've seen it :)
ryanstiles 2 years ago 4
How can people be so cruel and inhumane? I don't understand.
homgJulie 2 years ago 39
Bad education is a big part.
RusticChivalry1985 2 years ago 2
I ask myself the same question. I've never understood why I went through so much ridicule and verbal abuse just because I'm nice.
pantherbuff89 2 years ago 4
Nice, good, honest and sincere people are not appreciaed - indeed, they are despised in today's society (perhaps always have been), which is mediocre. I know from personal experience
aspergershawn 1 year ago
@pantherbuff89 Dude don't worry about it only because thats the way some assholes are. To hell with them, you will run into good people in your life who will appreciate that you are a nice and be a good friend to you. Once that happens (if it hasn't already) you will never give a second thought to the mean people
enjoyitbro 1 year ago
@enjoyitbro It's been several months since you replied, but I do want to say thanks :)
pantherbuff89 1 year ago
@homgJulie your just better than everyone else thats why!
DiamondDaleMcPherson 1 year ago
@DiamondDaleMcPherson What?
homgJulie 1 year ago
@DiamondDaleMcPherson What are you 10 years old? My grandson talks like that.
hjb103055 1 year ago
Well, your grandson is obviously an intellect because only an idiot wouldn't notice a line as pretentious as the one I was responding to.
DiamondDaleMcPherson 1 year ago
@homgJulie i knoo right? just becuz they look different..like who gives a flying fuck? hes a man...a human being...how dare anyone treat him any less than a human
NeighborHoodBoyz1 1 year ago
@NeighborHoodBoyz1 I know what you mean. Some people get a real thrill out of making others feel worthless...they are trying to compensate for something lacking in their own life.
JeniBurton213 1 year ago
@homgJulie u know, i see alot of people treat each other the same way they treat merrick. i really have. every single day. i may not have been treated as bad as he has, but i went through alot growing up and still do to this day. i remember it was so bad i just wanted to kill myself and almost did. it's terrible for merrick and for people like him. but people treat each other this way all the time none the less. this world is so very sick and sometimes i hate living life knowing it's around.
greatwizard3 1 year ago
@homgJulie Because our humanness is in large part only a perception... we evolved like every other animal.... so people like john that cross the line between beast and human break through the illusion we've constructed to separate ourselves from the animals... we don't like to know we'll die, our destiny is to become worm food...
joshplayin111 1 year ago
@homgJulie it's because they don't understand. plus, Mr. Bytes has no heart. he's a drunkard.
samanddeanfan2009 8 months ago
@homgJulie Oh i agree...but you have to get the social climate back then...Everyone was uneducated(majority)and ignorant, religion had a strong hold on people's lives and most babies born with his condition die at birth or were killed(for religious/superstitious reasons usually). It wouldn't happen as severely today, but I would hope I wouldn't treat someone that way at any period in history(I'd hope that is).
usnate1 7 months ago
that guy is an ass
JohnnyDandMe55 2 years ago 5
so cruel
allejandrocheirif 2 years ago 4
Tyvm for uploading this movie!
aliasno1 2 years ago 28