The Elephant Man (film) me hate acting." Because of the strain on the actor, he worked alternate days. Lynch originally wanted Jack Nance for the title character. "But it just wasn't in the cards," Lynch says; the role went to John Hurt after Brooks, Lynch and Sanger saw his performance in "The Naked Civil Servant" as Quentin Crisp. Lynch bookended the film with surrealist sequences centered around Merrick's mother and her death. Lynch used Samuel Barber’s "Adagio for Strings" to underline the end of the film and Merrick's own death. The film's composer, John Morris, argued against using the music, stating that "this piece
The Road from Elephant Pass (film) Meanwhile, Captain leaves to Elephant Pass(Alimankada) and it was attacked by LTTE and his mother receives a letter that Captain Wasantha is missing, while the operation was going on. His mother falls on a chair crying. After several years, Kamala and Wasantha are smiling and playing with their child at a flat in Toronto, Canada. The Road from Elephant Pass (film) The Road from Elephant Pass is a 2008 Sri Lankan war film, based on the Sri Lankan Civil War, written, produced, and directed by Chandran Rutnam based on the novel "The Road from Elephants Pass" by Nihal De Silva.