David Lynch's Oscar Winner: THE ELEPHANT MAN | LynchPins Ep 2

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In this episode, Maggie and Adam cover David Lynch's 1980 period drama The Elephant Man, starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins. It’s the quiet, moving story John Merrick, a man living with Proteus syndrome in Victorian England, based on the real life of Joseph Merrick (1862-1890).

LynchPins is a David Lynch-themed podcast covering a different David Lynch film each month, from least-Lynchian (The Straight Story) to his most "Lynch" work (Inland Empire?? Eraserhead??). Hopefully we can make Lynch's work more accessible to those who've been too intimidated to get into him, but there's also plenty here for the Lynch superfan (you know who you are, you weirdo). Hosted by Maggie Mae Fish and Adam Ganser.

Don't miss the first episode of LynchPins, on David Lynch's The Straight Story (1999) https://youtu.be/nECPQTCa1No

CONTENT WARNING in this episode for brief, non-graphic discussions of abuse.

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Join us next month for David Lynch’s Dune (1984).

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
6:00 What Happened?
39:53 Nebula
41:48 What Really Happened?
55:45 Wait... What?
1:05:58 The Spotlight
1:17:43 Dream / Credits

Check out Maggie's videos on Twin Peaks (part 1) here: https://youtu.be/CxfFAGJaKjg
And (part 2) here: https://youtu.be/UY6vIVAEFxo
Plus her video discussing veteran PTSD in The Straight Story and Rambo here: https://youtu.be/HRnEjsdjtks

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Produced by Will Reese
Original music composed and produced by Daniel Kline: https://soundcloud.com/dpkmusic29
Additional Sound Effects by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Select footage courtesy of Storyblocks

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