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 Elephant King (2018 film) The Elephant King (2018 film) The Elephant King () is a 2018 Iranian animated feature film by Honar Pooya Studio. This is the second animated feature film of Honar Pooya after Princess of Rome. Hadi Muhammadian directed the movie and Hamed Jafari was the producer. The story revolves around the society of elephants in a jungle in Africa. Shadphil (the elephant king’s son) is supposed to rule the society after his father. But… A group of Iranian voice artists took part in this work. Bahram Zand, Naser Tahmasb, Mirtaher Mazloomi, Shokat Hojjat, Zohre Shokoofande, Hamed Azizi, George Petrosi, Bahman Hashemi,