Order of the Elephant current form on 1 December 1693 by King Christian V as having only one class consisting of only 30 noble knights in addition to the Grand Master (i.e., the king) and his sons. The statutes of the order were amended in 1958 by a Royal Ordinance so that both men and women could be members of the order. The elephant and castle design derives from an elephant carrying a howdah, the familiar castle replacing the unfamiliar howdah, and finds use elsewhere in European iconography, as discussed at howdah. The Danish monarch is the head of the order. The members of
An Elephant Sitting Still An Elephant Sitting Still An Elephant Sitting Still () is a 2018 Chinese film written, directed and edited by Hu Bo (also known by his pen name Hu Qian). The first and last film of the novelist-turned-director Hu who committed suicide soon after finishing his film on 12 October 2017 at the age of 29, it is based on a story with the same title from his 2017 novel "Huge Crack". It made its world premiere in the Forum section of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. An Elephant Sitting Still is being released in United Kingdom on December 14th.