MOVIE REVIEW: If you're looking for trouble, look no further than Baz Luhrmann's Elvis.
Since his death 45 years ago , rock & roll legend Elvis Presley has been portrayed on screens large and small countless times. Five such projects all bear the simple title, including a single-season 1990 TV series concentrating on the Sun Records era, and 2005’s mini-series featuring Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the title role.
Also, does the timeless nature of Elvis Presley’s music really require the hip-hop remixes that are also another Luhrmann soundtrack hallmark? True, cementing Presley’s connection to Black music by boomeranging it through Black music’s current generation is interesting. But Luhrmann actually makes Presley’s spiritual and musical debt concrete by portraying B.B. King , Sister Rosetta Tharpe , Little Richard , and Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup .
From a technical standpoint, the production is dazzling. The use of split screens and carefully controlled color saturation as storytelling elements are fantastic. The hair and costuming is deadly accurate – every era portrayed looks documentary-real.’ plot is the complicated relationship between narrator Col. Tom Parker and Presley. This was an artist with uncanny instincts, and Parker’s carny-bred con artistry frequently spayed and neutered his exclusive client.
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