Talk:The Elephant Man (film)

Page move
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Sir John Gielgud
With regard to a recent edit, it is an accepted practice within the entertainment industry that honours are not mentioned for professional credits. Besides (Sir) John Gielgud, the film features (Sir) Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt (,CBE) and (Dame) Wendy Hiller. Over the Lucky Number Slevin mistake, Sir Ben Kingsley stated, "...It's not the way we work in this profession." (See here.) Chris 42 16:13, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Synopsis is not in chronological order, does this matter? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.231.165.19 (talk) 23:19, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Mel Brooks' Involvement
The current article states that "Brooks downplayed his involvement as he did not want the project to be perceived as a comedy." This statement is followed with "[citation needed]." The statement can be verified by a portion of an interview with Mel Brooks on the DVD for "The Elephant Man." Brooks' entire statement is as follows:

"Jonathan Sanger is the producer of The Elephant Man, and Stuart Cornfeld is one of the executive producers, I being the other, without portfolio, without name, because, very simply, if I put Mel Brooks' name on it - on the posters, or even on the screen before it ran - I knew it would be misconstrued and that the audience would think that this was some kind of a comedy..."

I hesitate to add this information as a citation to the Wikipedia article, for fear of violating Wikipedia's policy regarding "Biographies of Living Persons."

Jlongpre (talk) 06:20, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * A citation to an interview with the person in question is fine, and the fact that it's included on the official DVD extras suggests that his statements are taken seriously by the production company, so it's fine as a source. It's certainly an improvement over no source.-- Beloved Freak  17:07, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Reception
Why is Rotten Tomatoes mentioned at the start of this section? Rotten Tomatoes did not exist when the film was released. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pete3194 (talk • contribs) 12:02, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Rotten Tomatoes provides a summary of reviews, some (most?) of which will be contemporary to the film. That's not an argument for keeping the mention of RT in there, just an explanation of why it kicks off the reception sections of many articles.-- Beloved Freak  17:05, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

DVD peculiarity
The DVD releases of this film are devoid of the usual scene selection chapter stops. I think that Lynch wanted everyone to view it from the beginning and insisted upon this. WHPratt (talk) 16:33, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Which English?
Should this article be in American English (AmE) or British English (BrE)? I just reverted someone claiming that "theatre" was a typo, but actually when I look close there's quite a lot one could change. It's an American film, but a British topic. The editor who started the article was I think American but seems to have used no nationally-determined language, and the first I can find is "theatre" spelt thus; it seems to have stayed in BrE for some time. I'm not that fussed; I am sure that it would be just as odd for AmE users to have to read the film industry bits in BrE spellings as it is for me to read the plot synopsis in AmE. Consistency is important though. So, what do you think? Best wishes to all DBaK (talk) 18:47, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry for responding so late (people don't often read the talk pages here!). I think it's a matter of just picking one and putting a notice in the article. WhisperToMe (talk) 09:47, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Valuable ideas! Thanks! Veronica blood (talk) 11:33, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

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Missing
a witness can talk to dr treves for kidnapping of john merrick 88.190.17.40 (talk) 20:26, 1 May 2018 (UTC)


 * That comment made no sense. Please try again. --- The Old Jacobite The '45 22:29, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

A witness see Jim are corrupt by Bytes who kidnap John Merrick and later a witness talk for Dr Treves and Treves fires Jim for he done. 88.190.17.40 (talk) 09:29, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * You still make no sense and I fail to see how this has anything to do with anything. --- The Old Jacobite The '45 12:43, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * You are welcome to respond in your native language if need be. WhisperToMe (talk) 09:48, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

The elephant man
This is best film! Veronica blood (talk) 10:58, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

"Cultural influence" section is problematic
Much of the content of the section is unsourced and most of it is simply trivial. -- Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 16:11, 24 December 2021 (UTC)