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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 334779" data-attributes="member: 33">Elvis (2022)<img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81v-PYnFILL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 324px" />Some film directors, such as Terrance Malik, Wes Anderson and Tim Burton, have such a distinctive style that you only need to watch a few minutes of one of their films to know it&#039;s their work. The same is true of Baz Luhrmann and this film is a prime example of the flashy, loud, colourful and fast camera cuts that are so typical of his films. However, I&#039;m not entirely convinced that this style works for this film because it has a modern feel which is a bit incongruous with the 1940/1950s setting of a large part of this film. There still is a lot to like about this film though. Firstly, Austin Butler was an inspired piece of casting. It couldn&#039;t have been easy to find an actor who could sing a bit like Elvis, talk a bit like Elvis, dance a bit like Elvis and look a bit like Elvis but Mr Butler pulls this off superbly. Tom Hanks plays Colonel Tom Parker in a rare villain type role for him. In the film Elvis describes himself as being a bit of a superhero and singing is his superpower, well with all the prosthetic make up, Tom Hanks looked a bit like a villain from a Batman comic.&nbsp; &nbsp; I liked that the film acknowledged that much of Elvis&#039;s early music and dance moves were taken from black artists of the time who were denied record deals because of their race and how much of this output and style overall was influenced by black music. I also particularly likee the scenes of him in the build up and during the concert at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in 1969. During this sequence the film style changes to mimic Elvis on Tour, the excellent 1972 documentary of the concert which I&#039;m sure Elvis fans appreciated.This film is well worth watching just for the performance of Austin Butler and Tom Hank but also for how the story was nicely balanced between Elvis performance and the telling of his life story. Overall, I thought it was pretty good and not just for Elvis fans.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 334779, member: 33"] [B]Elvis (2022)[/B] [IMG width="324px"]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81v-PYnFILL._AC_SL1500_.jpg[/IMG] Some film directors, such as Terrance Malik, Wes Anderson and Tim Burton, have such a distinctive style that you only need to watch a few minutes of one of their films to know it's their work. The same is true of Baz Luhrmann and this film is a prime example of the flashy, loud, colourful and fast camera cuts that are so typical of his films. However, I'm not entirely convinced that this style works for this film because it has a modern feel which is a bit incongruous with the 1940/1950s setting of a large part of this film. There still is a lot to like about this film though. Firstly, Austin Butler was an inspired piece of casting. It couldn't have been easy to find an actor who could sing a bit like Elvis, talk a bit like Elvis, dance a bit like Elvis and look a bit like Elvis but Mr Butler pulls this off superbly. Tom Hanks plays Colonel Tom Parker in a rare villain type role for him. In the film Elvis describes himself as being a bit of a superhero and singing is his superpower, well with all the prosthetic make up, Tom Hanks looked a bit like a villain from a Batman comic. I liked that the film acknowledged that much of Elvis's early music and dance moves were taken from black artists of the time who were denied record deals because of their race and how much of this output and style overall was influenced by black music. I also particularly likee the scenes of him in the build up and during the concert at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in 1969. During this sequence the film style changes to mimic [I]Elvis on Tour[/I], the excellent 1972 documentary of the concert which I'm sure Elvis fans appreciated. This film is well worth watching just for the performance of Austin Butler and Tom Hank but also for how the story was nicely balanced between Elvis performance and the telling of his life story. Overall, I thought it was pretty good and not just for Elvis fans. [/QUOTE]

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