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Tarzan rides in on an elephant he has revived in time to call; in a most spectacular elephant-filled scene, he saves Jane and what is left of the expedition, who return home little richer but much wise, as Jane continues her savage idyll with her new husband.
Cats riding in and drinking out of a water elephant, a circus featuring a bird that has consumed the sky, and pigs eating their own fried flesh--that's only the beginning.
Memorable scenes abound -- the 3 sergeants and their 20 sepoys fighting off hundreds of Thugs; MacChesney & Cutter giving Bobby Coote the spiked punch ("save some for the elephant"); Cutter to MacChesney -- "I'm an expedition"; Din breaking Cutter out of jail, with a fork ("what do you think I'm trying to break out of?
My favorite scene is with the baby elephant part.
The documentary takes a nature round trip on the migration paths on three animal families: a female polar bear and her cubs with the real life subplot of the father bear daring it out to hunt for food in his isolated path, a mama of a whale with her baby whale taking a whale of a migration tour for prey, and an elephant mama with her small (maybe not so small, they are elephants) offspring migrating in Africa.
Upon arrival she instantly feels out of place and is forced to adapt to the new culture as well as be in constant awareness of the angry elephant herd.
People love to kill people (& every other available living thing as well - see the article in the NY Times today about the devastation of gorilla & elephant populations in the former Congo).
The main character had to overcome local prejudice against missionaries, his total removal from worldly possessions, his fears of becoming an elephant (see the movie he explains this) and his loneliness for his wife to be are just a few of his challenges.
They are all eventually captured by the mysterious woman and her Zombie sidekick Ivan (who looks weirdly like Alfred Molina who has managed to put on an overcoat with removing the coat hanger first) and locked in two cages with bars wide enough to slide a well greased elephant through, let alone a skinny teenager.
I think even I fell in love with the elephant man.
I cried when the Jerk let his friends "view" the elephant man at night when they picked him up and twirled him around and threw liquor down his throat.
But this sloppily written movie should replace the "Virgin Mary" picture and have elephant dung smeared on it.
The best 6hrs of television you can spend, short of those amazing new fetal camera shows from National Geographic (the dog, the dolphin and the elephant, also great shows that aired last week alongside The Lost Room from Sci-Fi).
With a crowd bearing down on him, the tortured cry of The Elephant Man (John Hurt) rings out: "I am not an elephant!
The peeing lady (Mrs Emery) was about as welcome to the show as an assassin, and about as effective as a catflap in an elephant house.
The first 30 minutes could easily be eliminated, the whole Ila Arun track is superfluous and that elephant vs Akbar scene was a damn bore.
From the opening scene of a man in the jungle bursting puss-filled boils on a dead elephant or whatever it was, right down to the end scene where a guy gets shot through the cheek, this episode is disgusting, absolutely revolting.
In it you have a stereotypical dumb blond, an elephant chasing a bike, a bear, a monkey, a monstrous sounding nurse and too many more ridiculous situations that don't add anything to the film.
Amongst all the laughs there were touching,"real" moments of life like retirement or "The Lou and Edie Story" when Lou's wife Edie leaves him or "Chuckles Bites The Dust",the best known episode of TMTMS when the station's clown,Chuckles,dies in a bizarre elephant crushing,Mary is disgusted at the sick jokes until she gets the giggles at the funeral,then there is a debate about people's reactions to death,all very deep indeed.
Like the elephant man, if there is one out there why not use him.. but it was a mask..
Rather we are asked to find beauty in that somehow these two mismatched characters with serious problems are happy except for that elephant (or should I say clothes horse) in the middle of the room.
Watch quickly for an elephant with carpeting glued to it's hide, several wandering water buffalo, a couple of saw-toothed iguanas, furry bat people who fly on strings, lobster people who attack with claws, pre-historic midgets who attack with bows....the list goes on and on.
Then the Mold, an evil character from Irena's past, performed by an excellent Michele Placido, who was killed by a giant scissor that would have killed an elephant, is still alive and comes back in Irena's life.
The strange thing is about this film, and I've come to realize it more after seeing Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie again recently (my favorite feature length film of his), is that there is such a line that is walked, like a tightrope walker holding an elephant in one hand and a thumbnail in the other, that one wonders whether this should be taken totally seriously or just with the general hysteria and (crucially) absurdism that laces much of Bunuel's work in his post Mexico period.
i have seen the elephant man over a dozen times and each time i see and feel more.
The film is awful.But it's awfully funny at the same time!The producers didn't want it to be funny,but it most certainly is.There are scenes in this that have to bee seen to be believed!Spoiler alert!Best bits:a)The elephant stampede,b)The tiger attack,c)The scene in which Evelyn Kraft runs through the forest,d)The scene in which the all-powerful monster gets some oranges thrown right into his face...There are more,quite possibly even funnier moments,but I don't want to give them away for those who haven't see it yet.This is the epitome of so-bad-it's-good cinema.It's a King Kong-Mighty Joe Young-Tarzan-Godzilla RIP-OFF!Seriously,this film is ridiculously bad.That's exactly what makes it worth seeing.It is the best COMEDY off all time.The effects are bad,the acting is bad,the "script" is bad...Please,do yourself a favor and go buy it.You won't get bored watching it(If you like these kind of movies).Hell,it's even WORSE than "Plan 9 from outer space"!
All of a sudden they find a wounded baby elephant and Angela bonds with it naming it Dandy, but there are still poachers around hunting for elephants.
Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant – ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not easily swayed from its new path when it does.
The elephant of Indian democracy will acquire a new set of mahouts before the month’s end.
These wazungu care more about one dead elephant than they do for a hundred black children.”
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