The Elephant Man with Alex Ross Perry

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2024

⏱️ 186 minutes

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Summary

We’re getting in touch with our emotions this week, as Alex Ross Perry joins us to talk about Lynch’s deeply-felt, sensitively-rendered 1980 classic THE ELEPHANT MAN. Is this the most “normal” movie in Lynch’s filmography? What does “normal” mean, anyway? As with all Alex episodes, questions are posed and hotly debated, such as: What filmmakers, aside from David Lynch, made their most important work in the later part of their careers? What is the Lynch film that young people vibe with most strongly now? Did Michael Jackson actually attempt to purchase the Elephant Man’s bones? When will the Cinematrix puzzle get rid of the godforsaken “Rotten Tomatoes score” category? What does David Sims have against the famous David Foster Wallace profile of David Lynch?

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0:00.0	Like Jack with Griffin and David.
0:05.0	Black Jack with Griffin and David
0:09.0	Don't know what to say or to expect.
0:12.0	All you need to know is that... to say what to expect.
0:13.0	All you need to know is that the name of the show is
0:17.0	a blank check.
0:21.0	I am not an elephant I am not an animal I am an audio program I am a podcast. Is that insensitive?
0:41.2	Huh. It had to be done. I think it had to be done.
0:43.0	It had to be done.
0:44.0	Of course it's the famous line from the elephant man.
0:46.0	Yes.
0:47.0	The film we're talking about today.
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:49.0	I don't think it's insensitive.
0:50.0	I don't think it's insensitive.
0:52.0	I don't think so but is like you know he's the
0:59.0	elephant his name is the elephant man the movies called the elephant man correct that's insensitive that is The movie is called The Elephant Man.
1:02.6	Correct.
1:03.6	That's insensitive.
1:04.6	That is.
1:05.6	And yet also it's sort of like, yes, but of course that's how we discuss this person
1:09.5	and his legacy.
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