09-04-2022, 08:02 AM
Elvis has left the building.
I keep thinking I'm a big fan of Baz Luhrman, director of Elvis, but it could be I'm just a fan of Moulin Rouge. This is a serviceable biopic of Elvis and Col Tom Parker with Tom Hanks in about a million pounds of prosthetics and this really annoying way of speaking. I didn't garner very many revelations from the film but it's kind of hard to learn anything new after hearing about Elvis my entire life. It did help putting Parker at the forefront to give insight into his character. But Parker was a hustler and his cash cow was Elvis and he was going to milk every last drop out of the cow.
Probably because I'm back into Yosemite Research, I had the weird epiphany that Elvis was like any natural resource that man wants to exploit with any consideration for the are he exploits. Ultimately, the movie was quite sad because we all know how the story ends. Luhrman makes liberal use of the song Suspicious Minds especially the line "Caught in a Trap" for obvious reasons.
Luhrman does use copious amounts of his favorite cinema tricks. Lots of jumping around in the timeline. Lots of interesting dissolves and camera moves which were very reminiscent of Moulin Rouge. Since there wasn't a lot of anything new to learn or see in the film, the film didn't really move me all that much. If you want to learn more about Elvis's life and you don't know much about it, this film does do that job.
I keep thinking I'm a big fan of Baz Luhrman, director of Elvis, but it could be I'm just a fan of Moulin Rouge. This is a serviceable biopic of Elvis and Col Tom Parker with Tom Hanks in about a million pounds of prosthetics and this really annoying way of speaking. I didn't garner very many revelations from the film but it's kind of hard to learn anything new after hearing about Elvis my entire life. It did help putting Parker at the forefront to give insight into his character. But Parker was a hustler and his cash cow was Elvis and he was going to milk every last drop out of the cow.
Probably because I'm back into Yosemite Research, I had the weird epiphany that Elvis was like any natural resource that man wants to exploit with any consideration for the are he exploits. Ultimately, the movie was quite sad because we all know how the story ends. Luhrman makes liberal use of the song Suspicious Minds especially the line "Caught in a Trap" for obvious reasons.
Luhrman does use copious amounts of his favorite cinema tricks. Lots of jumping around in the timeline. Lots of interesting dissolves and camera moves which were very reminiscent of Moulin Rouge. Since there wasn't a lot of anything new to learn or see in the film, the film didn't really move me all that much. If you want to learn more about Elvis's life and you don't know much about it, this film does do that job.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm