Its a shame butlers performance was in the service of an unironic Dewey Cox parody level stupid fucking film. Also extremely ironic that the whole movie is about Elvis having no agency or autonomy and being exploited to his own commercial soul sucking ends and thats literally exactly what Baz Luhrmann is doing with this movie lmao... Its a great double feature with BLONDE
I was very baffled watching this film. It’s almost completely formless, gaudy, Butlers performance is good, but if you don’t have anything interesting to say what does it matter? Tom Hank’s performance is (in my opinion) the worst of his career, I understand the character he was playing was every bit as odd in real life, but Hank’s never found that character in the film and never made it more believable then the heaps of crappy latex layered on him. LOVE Tom Hanks, hated this. The film does address how Elvis basically put a white face on black music, but in my opinion stops short of questioning how wrong it was that the entire career of the biggest selling recording artist of all time was built off the back of (and some would say plagiarising) black peoples struggle. There’s one particular scene where he as a child is raised above a commune of black churchgoers and almost steals their soul music whilst in a trance of sorts. A very strange visualisation, and of course the rest of the film continues to paint him as some hero of the civil rights movement, where I think a lot of black people might see just another example of their struggle. I did love the ending. The clip that was brilliantly spliced in is one of my favourite clips of Elvis. Weeks before his death, a mumbling, shambling and confused Elvis struggled to even announce the song he was about to sing, before belting out the most emotional and powerful version of Unchained Melody you ever heard. The film claws back some points just for that last scene alone.
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Its a shame butlers performance was in the service of an unironic Dewey Cox parody level stupid fucking film.
Also extremely ironic that the whole movie is about Elvis having no agency or autonomy and being exploited to his own commercial soul sucking ends and thats literally exactly what Baz Luhrmann is doing with this movie lmao... Its a great double feature with BLONDE
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I was very baffled watching this film. It’s almost completely formless, gaudy, Butlers performance is good, but if you don’t have anything interesting to say what does it matter?
Tom Hank’s performance is (in my opinion) the worst of his career, I understand the character he was playing was every bit as odd in real life, but Hank’s never found that character in the film and never made it more believable then the heaps of crappy latex layered on him. LOVE Tom Hanks, hated this.
The film does address how Elvis basically put a white face on black music, but in my opinion stops short of questioning how wrong it was that the entire career of the biggest selling recording artist of all time was built off the back of (and some would say plagiarising) black peoples struggle. There’s one particular scene where he as a child is raised above a commune of black churchgoers and almost steals their soul music whilst in a trance of sorts. A very strange visualisation, and of course the rest of the film continues to paint him as some hero of the civil rights movement, where I think a lot of black people might see just another example of their struggle.
I did love the ending. The clip that was brilliantly spliced in is one of my favourite clips of Elvis. Weeks before his death, a mumbling, shambling and confused Elvis struggled to even announce the song he was about to sing, before belting out the most emotional and powerful version of Unchained Melody you ever heard.
The film claws back some points just for that last scene alone.