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ELVIS PRESLEY MOVIE REVIEW GREATER



 The latest movie about elvis presley, Baz Luhrmann’s wildly formidable and
infrequently over-the-top biopic, places the King on an unlimited stage. But, in
a muddled and overwrought narrative, the movie struggles to keep up with its
subject. The King was at all times larger than life, however his largest
struggles had been mainly personal and professional. He struggled to stay true
to the values his mom instilled in him, whereas he also tried to make sense of
the churning cultural events that surrounded him. And, after all, he battled his
overbearing and manipulative manager, Colonel Tom Parker (played by a jowly and
insistently unappealing Tom Hanks). Luhrmann tells this story on a grand scale
that’s suited solely to the big screen, bringing us a whirling, dizzying
maelstrom of music, ideas, and eye candy. He uses fast cuts, montages of
multiple images arrayed side by side, tricky lighting, big units and crowd
scenes to create the phantasm of a chaotic, stuttering mass of vitality. The
film has its share of technical flaws — a careless, overwrought script and the
occasional visual miscue — however, due to the sheer energy of the performances,
the movie is greater than watchable. Austin Butler is a revelation as Elvis,
capturing the essence of the person, from his youth via his last Vegas
residency. He’s no close visual match to the actual thing, however he manages to
convey a sense of the man beneath the iconic public picture. He’s vulnerable and
flawed, slightly bit lost, a boy thrust into the highlight who tried to seek out
his personal way by way of the chaos of fame and cash. Unlike most motion
pictures and miniseries concerning the rock star, Luhrmann’s film also takes
care to address the role that Black music played in the improvement of Elvis’s
sound and his legend. The film places a lot of his most famous songs — like Big
Mama Thornton’s “Hound Dog” and Arthur Crudup’s “That’s All Right” — again into
the mouths of the Black musicians who initially carried out them. This settles
the racial issue that plagues most movies about Elvis, and helps to situate him
as an appreciator of Black tradition rather than the thief that so many have
painted him through the years. ซีรี่ย์เกาหลี พากย์ไทย สนุกๆ provides Priscilla
Presley (Olivia DeJonge) a fair amount of screen time, which is refreshing given
how a lot she was overshadowed by her husband’s larger-than-life persona within
the years previous this film. It’s a extra balanced depiction of the person,
although it might have used a quantity of extra jolts of hip-hop, slivers of
techno and slatherings of synthetic film-score schmaltz..

ซีรี่ย์เกาหลี พากย์ไทย สนุกๆ


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