This guy deserves an Oscar
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Why the frick wasn't there anything about overeating in the film? Elvis himself said that eating was the only thing he truly loved in life, that gave him the only honest pleasure.
I understand depicting him chomping down terrifying amounts of deep fried food, would be not sexy. But isn't the film extremely dishonest when it omits part of elvis life that lead him to his death, abusing drugs to stay thin? Why is nation of hedonistic overeaters afraid of depicting hedonistic overeating on film.
He did a fantastic job and I liked the movie quite a lot, despite it being a Baz Luhrman joint.
After having him shoot the TV, it unironically would've been too comical to have him eat his favorite sandwiches and then slowly succumbing while sitting on the toilet. At least they have him drink coca cola and noticably getting fat in the last couple of scenes.
imagine thinking there was all kinds of deep fried foods in 1950 when avg weight was like 100 lbs less than today.
Isn't he from the south?
Burgers and fries existed in the 50s, anon.
read about how elvis ate in his final years. He was a very physical performer too. His diet was absoluteyl disgusting. he weighed 350 lbs when he died.
it's a great performance trapped in an absolute mess of a movie that is too scatterbrained and reverential for it's own good. reminds me of mann's ali
shame cause luhrmann really nailed some sequences and the surreal tone fits perfectlyvjnnr
which scenes would you change/cut out?
i don't think a recut could save it because the aforementioned scatterbrained reverence is baked into the script at every turn
but working with what's there i'd cut out as much hanks as possible including his narration and framing to see immediate improvement
i'd also cut the 'watching news' scenes. i mean i'm sure elvis was sad about 60s assassinations but they're just pointless scenes that feel artifically inserted
but it just brings me back to the script. movie basically skips over elvis in the army and about a decade of his peak fame only to return with him lamenting his largely off-screen existence. show don't tell
> i mean i'm sure elvis was sad about 60s assassinations but they're just pointless scenes that feel artifically inserted
Because the point of the movie is showing Elvis as an artist.
The tension that drives every scene is between his need to be loved (by the audiences, hence the carnival and the "selling out" scenes, cue Unchained Melody) and his need to use art as a way to show his doubts and political views (cue Elvis singing If I dare to dream). And it's what drives him to pills and alcohol and death.
if it succeeded then it ended up showing him as an artist at the expense of showing him as a person, but i don't think it did
an unwillingness to go past the glitz that comes across as a filmed wikipedia synopsis, hence the mann ali comparison
I actually liked the watching news thing, because it built to if I can dream and that was probably the most powerful moment in the entire film. It's a little odd how evil the colonel becomes in those moments, but it generally works. It drags out too long though, and there was no need to have the colonel try to stop him multiple times.
imo its just too long to begin with, and there's no payoff for the whole tom hanks character.
We get an intro to elvis as a child for 10-20 minutes, and then another intro to "discovering" elvis that takes another 10-20 minutes and essentially rehashes much of the same plotline for example. Or the 5 minute elvis death scene where he flies away for a minute with a voiceover and then sings unchained melody immediately following one another. You have to pick one, because having both splits up and dilutes the emotional impact of both of them.
As for Tom Hanks, idk how the frick baz thought offscreening his legal comeuppance was a good idea. The movie is basically set up as Saint Elvis getting constantly betrayed by Judas Colonel, but then the movie ends with Judas dying after living a wealthy lifestyle off the back of Elvis and only expressing regret for the way people saw him, but not really because he still believes he isn't guilty. It's like only showing a serial killer doing the last interview where they tell everyone they regret nothing, but not showing them get caught or the trial or them actually getting the chair. Just fricking blue balls for the villain and it feels really unfinished, which is fricking annoying considering the movie overdoes every other goddamn thing and hammers the point home several times over for each plot thread.
this. Literally Tom Hanks wasted playing a character no one gives a shit about. Elvis' relationship with his wife a way more interesting subject. Seemed very scattered and glossed over a lot of shit (i.e. overreating, his wife's age). Some very bizarre choices too, like how the movie played rap music whenever Elvis entered a black neighborhood. Absolutely baffling since modern music nowhere else in the film.
Tom Hanks got exposed as a pedo creep. This is all he’s good for now.
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>Seemed very scattered and glossed over a lot of shit (i.e. overreating, his wife's age)
The movie is like over three hours long, and it touched on her age. I was really taken back at how measured all the characters, Baz Luhrman would of totally villianized the colonel, but instead choosing to have the whole movie be seen through his perspective was really mature, or soemthing
>rap music whenever Elvis entered a black neighborhood
lmao i forgot about that. elvis going to meet bb king of all people and then modern rap comes in
it actually comes across as insanely racist. What were they thinking?
>What were they thinking?
'hello fellow african-american black Black youth'
Black people love that stuff, don't kid yourself
I hated the anachronic bits the movie threw at us. I just hate this blatantly anachronic music trope (A Knight's Tale, Peaky Blinders, Elvis...).
The worst bit is that blues is a genre I love so much, and in a movie about Elvis, featuring BB King of all people they chose to use modern RAP music? Disgusting.
>luhrmann
He's unironically the problem with this film
He sucks so fricking much, for as much as he gets right he gets way more wrong
He looks nothing like Elvis.
Yeah he's no Kurt but close enough.
Jaw too strong
Yeah Elvis is all chin while Kurt has both maxed out
never heard of him but frick he was good
The fact that he did all the singing is incredible
Every fricking movie they claim that
>Jeff Bridges sang his own songs in Crazy Heart!
>Joaquin Phoenix sang his own songs in Walk The Line!
>Gwyneth Paltrow sang her own songs in Country Strong!
>Tom Cruise sang his own songs in Rock of Ages!
>Tom Cruise does his own stunts, almost drowned in Top Gun!, fell to his death in MI-4!, got beheaded in Last Samurai!... etc.
>Etc. etc.
It's just studio marketing bullshit to generate buzz and give a more "real and immersive" experience.
It’s much more impressive from an acting perspective that it’s the actors voice.
Not everyone can act. Not everyone can sing. Find someone that can do both and it’s finding a diamond.
He sang and they mixed his voice with Elvis. idk how much belongs to each, but the movie's songs are distinct from elvis' singing voice to some degree. Even if his voice contributed very little, I thought it worked out well. They definitely modernized a few of the songs too, bringing trouble uptempo a little and such.
>Here is your Elvis, bro
Pretty good costume of Elvis three hours after death, 8/10.
they don't hide it at all, they show the footage of his last song at the end
the real elvis was WAAAAY fatter
Literally me.
Watching Elvis's last live show was very sad to see. Of course I didn't see it live my mom was only four years old when he died. She says she remembers laying in bed listening to her baby sitters old wooden radio and them announcing Elvis had died.
>austin butler
Literally living easy mode
I hate when actors are praised for imitating famous celebrities with hunderds of thousands of minutes on easily available film/movies/reels.
Yeah, you acted like Elvis, good job. Creating a fictional character requires so much more skill.
No Bubba Ho-Tep? What fricking site am I on
How do you make a movie about Elvis and not do a scene of him showing up high, armed, and unannounced to the White House to try and convince Nixon to make him a dea agent?
it didn't fit the filmmaker's ideal of elvis, which is what this movie is about rather than actually being about elvis
best elvis comin thru
I remember when this guy used to start on shitty cw-tier shows in the beginning of his career a long time ago. He came a long way since then.
This entire sequence was pure unadulterated king kino.
The actor looks good at this weight, unless they used computers or something
Once I realized the movie was less about Elvis and more about his cultural impact I enjoyed it way more.
>that ending
You’re fricking A right he does. Amazing performance.
How much for a SNOWJOB?!
Snowjob was setup at the beginning as being the narrator. However the movie shows a lot of shit he wasn't around to see and by the end of the film they basically forget about Tom Hank's character
Why did they chicken out and not show Elvis shitting himself to death?
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I was more impressed that the movie was like 3 hours long but managed to have zero character development. That director should switch to decaf because Elvis looked like it was directed by a hyperactive monkey on a low dose of LSD.