Despite trying hard, people were either frightened of Joseph or unable to understand him. The money therefore was not coming in fast enough for his father, who one day beat him and kicked him out of the home. Needing money, Joseph contacted a showman named Sam Torr and asked to join his travelling exhibit. He wore a cape and veil to conceal his face in public pictured , but was often harassed by mobs as he travelled. After touring parts of England, Joseph travelled to London where he began living in a penny gaff shop rented by another showman, Tom Norman.
Norman gathered an audience by standing outside the shop and drawing in the crowd with his showman skills. He would then take the crowd into the shop where he allowed the onlookers to see Joseph up close. Merrick was an excellent writer and found that writing gave him comfort.
While living in the shop in London, Joseph was visited by a surgeon named Frederick Treves, who invited him to be examined and photographed. Treves as Mrs. John Standing Fox as Fox. Lesley Dunlop Nora as Nora. Frederick Treves Alderman as Alderman. David Lynch. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In Victorian London, Dr. Frederick Treves with the London Hospital comes across a circus sideshow attraction run by a man named Bytes called "The Elephant Man".
In actuality, the creature on display is indeed a man, twenty-one-year-old Joseph "John" Merrick, who has several physical deformities, including an oversized and disfigured skull, and an oversized and disfigured right shoulder. Brutish Bytes, his "owner", only wants whatever he can get economically by presenting Merrick as a freak.
Treves manages to bring Merrick under his care at the hospital, not without several of its own obstacles, including being questioned by those in authority since Merrick cannot be cured.
Treves initially believes Bytes' assertion that mute Merrick is an imbecile, but ultimately learns that Merrick can speak and is a well-read and articulate man. As news of Merrick hits the London newspapers, he becomes a celebrated curiosity amongst London's upper class, including with Mrs.
Kendal, a famed actress. Despite treated much more humanely, the question becomes whether Treves' actions are a further exploitation of Merrick. And as Merrick becomes more famous, others try to get their two-cents worth from who still remains a curiosity and a freak to most, including to Bytes, who has since lost his meal ticket. An incredible but true story Did you know Edit. Trivia This movie was executive produced by Mel Brooks , who was responsible for hiring writer and director David Lynch , and obtaining permission to film in black-and-white.
He deliberately left his name off of the credits, as he knew that people would get the wrong idea about the movie if they saw his name on the movie, given his fame as a satirist. After an unsuccessful trip to Belgium, Merrick returned to London and was eventually brought to the London Hospital. Unable to care for Merrick, the chairman of the hospital published a letter asking for public support. The resulting donations allowed the hospital to convert several rooms into living quarters for Merrick, where he would be cared for the rest of his life.
He died from a broken vertebra on April 11, , at the age of Joseph Carey Merrick was born on August 5, , in Leicester, England, and was by all accounts a healthy child at birth. However, by the age of 5, he had developed patches of lumpy, grayish skin, which his parents attributed to his mother having been frightened by a stampeding elephant during her pregnancy. As Merrick grew older, he developed more severe deformities, until head and body were covered with various bony and fleshy tumors.
Yet despite these infirmities, Merrick had a relatively normal childhood and attended the local school. In , when Merrick was just 11 years old, his mother died of bronchial pneumonia. But within two years, his right hand had become so deformed that he could no longer do the work and was forced to leave. When one day his father beat him severely for not earning enough money, Merrick went to live with an uncle briefly before becoming a resident at the Leicester Union Workhouse at age Merrick found life in the workhouse intolerable, but unable to find any other means of supporting himself, he was forced to stay.
In , Merrick decided to try to profit from his deformities and escape life in the workhouse. Joseph Merrick, known as the "Elephant Man. Now, a biographer of Merrick says she has found his plot. Merrick lived in the same Whitechapel neighborhood as Polly and Kate, and died just a couple of years after them.
Vigor-Mungovin started going through records for the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium, and discovered that Merrick was indeed buried there with them. The discovery confirms that Merrick, who was very religious, was buried the way he would have wanted—with a Christian ceremony in consecrated ground. Vigor-Mungovin says many people, including herself, have petitioned Queen Mary University of London to give up ownership of his bones and bury them in a Christian ceremony.
Merrick was born in Leicester, England on August 5,
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