Presley’s unusual origin story and formative phase as a 'carnival attraction' are centred in a tale narrated by his svengali manager, played by Tom Hanks.
On July 31, 1969, Elvis Presley took to the stage of the International Hotel in Vegas for the first time, still riding the high of his electric 1968 TV special, which had revived his flagging career.
Bassist Jerry Scheff recalled Elvis' opening night nerves to Time: “His knee [was] going up and down like a piston, his hands dancing like butterflies”. With Elvis, Luhrmann – whose last film took as its source material one of the signature works of American literature , and the film before that, the mythos of this entire nation – gives the old bazzle-dazzle to what is perhaps his most iconic subject yet.
And Luhrmann bravely takes it all in his kaleidoscopic sweep: with its often-hyperactive camerawork, the film plays as a 159-minute musical roller-coaster ride through Elvis's 42 years. You're liable to get all shook up, if not from tenderness of feeling then possibly from motion sickness. Luhrmann described the real-life Priscilla as "self-possessed" in press notes. "Olivia [DeJonge] immediately struck me the same way.”
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