AUSTIN BUTLER ELVIS PRESLEY BIOPIC SERIES
And director Baz Luhrmann indulges in a series of shots I think we'll have to call crotch zooms, while Colonel Parker, who has up to this point been a promoter of carnival sideshow acts that make you feel things you're not sure you should feel, takes it all in. MONDELLO: So he wiggles, and they shriek. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #4: (As character) Them girls want to see you wiggle. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #4: (As character) The wiggle. MONDELLO: As he bounces with his guitar, the camera cuts between him and the audience, the young women in the audience who are transfixed and shrieking.īUTLER: (As Elvis) What are they hollering at? HANKS: (As Colonel Tom Parker) In that moment, I watched that skinny boy transform into a superhero.īUTLER: (As Elvis, singing) Well, you may go to college.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) Get a haircut, buttercup. MONDELLO: Unknown to Elvis, Colonel Parker's in the wings, noting the loose-fitting pink suits, the Brylcreemed hair flopping in his eyes. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) He's a young singer from Memphis, Tenn. To a poor Black shantytown where an adolescent white boy peeps into juke joints and gets swept into a gospel revival tent all of it coming together on the night that that boy, now a teenager, steps nervously in front of an audience for the first time. TOM HANKS: (As Colonel Tom Parker) There are some who would make me out to be the villain of this here story. And what follows in the first hour, a kind of fever dream that leaps from carnival sideshow, where Colonel Tom Parker introduces himself.
AUSTIN BUTLER ELVIS PRESLEY BIOPIC MOVIE
Before the movie even starts, he's bejeweled the Warner Brothers logo with enough diamonds and rubies to make Liberace lightheaded. KELLY: Our critic Bob Mondello is here to tell us how that worked out.īOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Baz Luhrmann is not one to ease into flamboyance. So the movie? Well, as Presley might say.ĪUSTIN BUTLER: (As Elvis) This ain't no nostalgia show. KELLY: Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, who made "Moulin Rouge," doesn't do anything small. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) Ladies and gentlemen, here's Elvis Presley. What happens when the king of movie extravagance meets the king of rock 'n' roll?
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