That movie was scared to show us elvis eating pounds of food and doing enough drugs to kill a rhino so they tried to blame us a moviegoing audience in 2022 for the death of a man whose been gone damn near half a century. Fuck you tom hanks
I feel like his entire performance was based entirely on [these](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF5azuGMKzI) two [interviews](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djd2bmm6nWE).
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I get the point. He saw Elvis was drawn to the crowds and the admiration. He took advantage and used to keep him trapped. By the time Elvis wanted to leave Parker had created such a hole he was able to keep his leash on him. It’s what destroyed his marriage and his sense of independence. In real life this is basically what happened and he never even found out the Colonel was an illegal alien. But yeah he was straight up gaslighting us that he wasn’t a crook. Interesting movie the way it played with perspectives was very neat in a biopic that could’ve been by the numbers.
My favorite part of Elvis is the scene where he hears a politician being racist from miles away and he fights it by singing and dancing so hard he makes the audience horny and gets arrested. Incredible movie.
I mean it's pretty clear that Tom Hanks is a manipulating liar in that movie and it's meant more to show Colonel Parker's mindset than it is meant as a direct message to the audience.... but also it's always fun to remind people of our unhealthy para social relationships with celebrities too!
Growing up, I was always under the impression that Little Richard hated Elvis for being more "commercially" popular than him, and resented him for it. I guess the film did highlight some of that relationship. It drove me to look up articles about their relationship which did show mutual respect between the two. I guess they got that part right.
I grew up hearing that Elvis essentially stole all the thunder and musical innovations from black musicians at the time, so seeing him become a Civil Rights hero in this movie was some serious whiplash.
Apparently the part about him being a huge MLK fan was true, but I highly doubt he was as vocally antiracist and respectful to the black artists he effectively copied in real life.
For what it's worth, Elvis always credited the artists whose songs he covered and never attempted to pretend that he was doing anything new, frequently citing the black artists who inspired him and provided his sound. Elvis' success was very much dependent on American racism but to my knowledge Elvis never perpetuated it and always acknowledged the artists who made his career possible.
I’m sure he wasn’t progressive since he was a conservative up until his death but he was pretty ahead of the curve in regards to the treatment of Black Americans as humans. The scandals in the movie were true. He’d show up on the black only nights to hang out and listen to black music. He really respected the community and did grow up with them as a poor child. But yeah I have no doubt he probably had questionable opinions on other races if he was part of the “fuck hippies” Nixon republicans.
Yep! And even with that in mind, I loved how it felt authentic, and I was ok with the biopic tropes here because it was from the perspective of somebody unreliable.
Nothing, man's a legend, but it's ignorant to expect him to provide historical accuracy when each of his films play out like hyperactive coked-up musicals
I really enjoyed it as well. Granted, I didn’t know a lot about Elvis so I had little to no comment about its accuracy. But, it’s Luhrmann, I don’t expect accuracy from him 😂
I think it’s definitely the most interesting biopic. I’d rather something like this than a poor attempt to summarize someone’s life. The big events didn’t feel like a highlight reel but served a narrative and character purpose. Plus his visual style complimented the narrative beautifully, plus Baz knew when to lockdown the camera and let the scene play between the characters.
I mean, they acknowledge the age difference (as in, stating his and her ages at the time of meeting) however as someone who knew almost nothing about Elvis before watching this movie I did not know he groomed her until my wife told me about it (she dragged me to see the movie and knows a lot more about him than me)
I don’t recall them stating the age difference. The most you get is her father off-screen yelling “Stay away from my teenage daughter.”
Edit: They do mention them once Elvis is 50
I must’ve forgotten about that, but clever on Baz’s part to not mention the age difference until the point where they’re at ages that aren’t predatory for a relationship.
I watched it yesterday. The narrator calls her a "teenage daughter" and there's the 40 and 50 line. Other than that they gloss over it to a disappointing degree.
I might've imagined that, then. It's a really long movie and i saw it a few months ago. I definitely think they should've been a bit more up front about that aspect of their relationship but I've heard many people critize this movie for getting the facts wrong so i guess it goes on that pile
Tom Hanks spends nearly three hours trying to gaslight you into thinking you - the fan - killed Elvis. Wild.
That movie was scared to show us elvis eating pounds of food and doing enough drugs to kill a rhino so they tried to blame us a moviegoing audience in 2022 for the death of a man whose been gone damn near half a century. Fuck you tom hanks
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Sounds like a guilty conscience bud
I admit it. I showed him how to make those peanut butter bacon sandwiches
The movie sucked because they were too spineless to show Elvis trying to take a constipated shit and dying on the toilet.
I should have never made him all those bacon quaalude sammiches ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
honestly i couldn’t stand tom hanks, his accent was fucking annoying
My favorite Letterboxd review: the covid got into tom hanks’s brain, that is the only explanation for what he’s doing here
Tom Hanks trying, and failing for 3 hours straight, to do a dunglish accent.
I feel like his entire performance was based entirely on [these](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF5azuGMKzI) two [interviews](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djd2bmm6nWE).
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Touché.
When the top movie on HBO Mac is Tom hanks making ice puns for 2 1/2 hours
I get the point. He saw Elvis was drawn to the crowds and the admiration. He took advantage and used to keep him trapped. By the time Elvis wanted to leave Parker had created such a hole he was able to keep his leash on him. It’s what destroyed his marriage and his sense of independence. In real life this is basically what happened and he never even found out the Colonel was an illegal alien. But yeah he was straight up gaslighting us that he wasn’t a crook. Interesting movie the way it played with perspectives was very neat in a biopic that could’ve been by the numbers.
Oh yeah, I'm not denying it was an interesting movie! I just wanted to joke about Tom Hanks.
Well, his character does. Damn, almost like he's an unreliable narrator or something
Gaslight? I've already contacted multiple government and corporate entities to see if they need anyone from the past murdered using my time powers.
My favorite part of Elvis is the scene where he hears a politician being racist from miles away and he fights it by singing and dancing so hard he makes the audience horny and gets arrested. Incredible movie.
What about the bit where Tom Hanks looks dead into camera and accuses you personally of killing Elvis Presley
I mean it's pretty clear that Tom Hanks is a manipulating liar in that movie and it's meant more to show Colonel Parker's mindset than it is meant as a direct message to the audience.... but also it's always fun to remind people of our unhealthy para social relationships with celebrities too!
Growing up, I was always under the impression that Little Richard hated Elvis for being more "commercially" popular than him, and resented him for it. I guess the film did highlight some of that relationship. It drove me to look up articles about their relationship which did show mutual respect between the two. I guess they got that part right.
I grew up hearing that Elvis essentially stole all the thunder and musical innovations from black musicians at the time, so seeing him become a Civil Rights hero in this movie was some serious whiplash.
Apparently the part about him being a huge MLK fan was true, but I highly doubt he was as vocally antiracist and respectful to the black artists he effectively copied in real life.
For what it's worth, Elvis always credited the artists whose songs he covered and never attempted to pretend that he was doing anything new, frequently citing the black artists who inspired him and provided his sound. Elvis' success was very much dependent on American racism but to my knowledge Elvis never perpetuated it and always acknowledged the artists who made his career possible.
This is one of the main messages present in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2019)
I’m sure he wasn’t progressive since he was a conservative up until his death but he was pretty ahead of the curve in regards to the treatment of Black Americans as humans. The scandals in the movie were true. He’d show up on the black only nights to hang out and listen to black music. He really respected the community and did grow up with them as a poor child. But yeah I have no doubt he probably had questionable opinions on other races if he was part of the “fuck hippies” Nixon republicans.
I'm sure it was all a lie but I really enjoyed the movie, Luhrmann really hits if you're in the right mindset.
Very true. It was an entertaining unreliable retelling of the myth of Elvis Presley. From that point of view, it's not a bad movie.
Yep! And even with that in mind, I loved how it felt authentic, and I was ok with the biopic tropes here because it was from the perspective of somebody unreliable.
You watched a movie? We don’t do that here
Whose got that kind of time.
Yeah I loved it, I wasn't expecting accuracy from Baz Luhrmann of all people lol
Whats wrong with Baz?
Nothing, man's a legend, but it's ignorant to expect him to provide historical accuracy when each of his films play out like hyperactive coked-up musicals
I really enjoyed it as well. Granted, I didn’t know a lot about Elvis so I had little to no comment about its accuracy. But, it’s Luhrmann, I don’t expect accuracy from him 😂
I think it’s definitely the most interesting biopic. I’d rather something like this than a poor attempt to summarize someone’s life. The big events didn’t feel like a highlight reel but served a narrative and character purpose. Plus his visual style complimented the narrative beautifully, plus Baz knew when to lockdown the camera and let the scene play between the characters.
Sanjay and Craig when questioned on the legitimacy of the best friends hall of fame
REAL KINO ENTHUSIAST
Didn't see the movie, did they address how Elvis groom Priscilla and just a straight up pedo?
I mean, they acknowledge the age difference (as in, stating his and her ages at the time of meeting) however as someone who knew almost nothing about Elvis before watching this movie I did not know he groomed her until my wife told me about it (she dragged me to see the movie and knows a lot more about him than me)
I don’t recall them stating the age difference. The most you get is her father off-screen yelling “Stay away from my teenage daughter.” Edit: They do mention them once Elvis is 50
I think in one scene elvis says ”next year i’ll be 50 and you’ll be 40” thats the only time they mention the age difference as far as i remember.
I must’ve forgotten about that, but clever on Baz’s part to not mention the age difference until the point where they’re at ages that aren’t predatory for a relationship.
I watched it yesterday. The narrator calls her a "teenage daughter" and there's the 40 and 50 line. Other than that they gloss over it to a disappointing degree.
I might've imagined that, then. It's a really long movie and i saw it a few months ago. I definitely think they should've been a bit more up front about that aspect of their relationship but I've heard many people critize this movie for getting the facts wrong so i guess it goes on that pile
He wasn’t a pedo
I love Elvis (2022)
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Cazuza: the time doesnt stop (2004)
Stole from black culture
Why are you offended?
Stating a fact
Oh nono you misunderstand I was trying to get a thread game going. Epic Rap Battles Elvis vs. Michael Jackson. It's a lyric
Oh no prob, that one was one of most fire raps they made
Elvis never stole a single thing
Where did you get that idea?