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Have you seen the movie the Elephant Man about Joseph Merrick?

From the lens Elephant Man : The Joseph Merrick.

Had you heard about Joseph Merrick before? Seen the movie, The Elephant Man?

  • virtualboy Apr 18, 2012 @ 6:52 pm | delete
    I saw the movie, and it made me cry
  • KReneeC Mar 14, 2012 @ 10:25 pm | delete
    What a great lens! Very interesting!
  • Ladymermaid Dec 9, 2010 @ 4:32 pm | delete
    Very well done...you never disappoint me on a topic. Wishing you a merry little Christmas season and a fantastic New Year :)
  • kansasww Oct 3, 2010 @ 11:08 am | delete
    Love the lens,a wonderful movie everyone should take the time to see and really think about.
  • Ann Jul 10, 2010 @ 10:59 am | delete
    I have been an admirer of this lovely and gentle man for a long while, and I am always interested in anything new about him. Two things though always really annoy me : that of the obsession still for what his disease was, and that the poor man is still called the EM. I wish people would think more about the man himself. He was like everyone else, with dreams and a longing to be loved. He had an appreciation for music and literature. I wish that one day soon the whole arguement of his disease is settled once and for all, and his remains laid to rest at last. And that he is called JUST by his his own and beautiful name.
  • Greekgeek Jun 10, 2010 @ 11:10 pm | delete
    I'm ashamed to say I'm afraid to see the film for fear of nightmares.

    The story of Joseph Merrick has always rung a painful chord for me. I came off relatively easily from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and even that was a challenge-- something like this is just too much for a person to bear. And yet people bear it.

    My best friend in physical therapy had such severe bone distortion from her JRA that she still had the jaw of an infant and assorted other problems. She was so brave!

    Anyway, I was just coming to learn more about Joseph Merrick because, despite knowing his story, I didn't really know what he has.

    Thanks for these fascinating lenses on a difficult subject!
  • AndyPo Jun 30, 2009 @ 7:38 am | delete
    Excellent lens. Very interesting. The film is very good too.
  • lilkon Jun 4, 2009 @ 2:04 pm | delete
    What a sad commentary on the world we live in when it is a freak of nature that is a crowd pleaser as it was back in those times in England and is now in the U.S. Sci-Fi and even cartoons are doing the trick nowadays.
  • aubrey persons Apr 22, 2009 @ 12:01 pm | in reply to Zae Silfavan | delete
    me to its a good movie it was really made in the 90s but it looks like it was made like in the 50s lol!!!
  • Zae Silfavan May 9, 2008 @ 9:24 pm | delete
    I just watched this movie last week at my school, I really find this interesting.
  • Tiffany Egmore Feb 28, 2008 @ 8:07 am | delete
    Hi, I am doing my dissertation on the elephant man I was wandering as well as these two diagnoses' are there other possible causes of his deformities such as tubuerculosis or osteomyelitis? Thanks. email address is tiffanyegmore@yahoo.co.uk any info would be much appreciated.
  • Paul Spiring Jan 13, 2008 @ 12:55 am | delete
    Many thanks for this very interesting and informative posting. Can I just draw your attention to the diagnosis that I proposed in 2001 - combined NF1/PS.

    Please follow the link below for further details.

    Yours sincerely,

    Paul Spiring.

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&q=%22Spiring%22 and %22Elephant Man%22 and %22Merrick%22 and %22Biologist%22

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