Austin Butler has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor. Read peterhowellfilm's review on Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’
Starring Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, Dacre Montgomery, Luke Bracey, Natasha Bassett, David Wenham, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Xavier Samuel, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chaydon Jay and Gary Clark Jr. Written by Baz Luhrmann, Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce, Jeremy Doner. Directed by Baz Luhrmann. Opens Friday at GTA theatres. 159 minutesBaz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” is more than all right, mama.
Luhrmann connects the dots between the many R&B and gospel influences Elvis absorbed as a kid — Chaydon Jay plays him as a wide-eyed child — growing up in the predominantly Black neighbourhood of his hometown Tupelo, Mississippi. It was there, plus visits as a teenager to Beale Street, the Black music mecca in Memphis, that Elvis developed a love for the boundary-breaking music he would introduce to white America.
It’s a visual and sonic explosion, with many more to come. But the film itself begins on a downbeat note, with Hanks as the clownish Parker addressing the camera and bragging that he invented Elvis Presley: “It was Elvis the showman and the Colonel the snowman,” Parker says. Have no fear: Butler’s Elvis is just too good to be upstaged by a conniving hustler, even one played by an actor commonly viewed as Hollywood’s greatest living male star. Playing Elvis Presley is a star-making role for Butler much like playing Freddie Mercury was for Rami Malek in “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
From the moment he first talks business with Parker, implausibly at the top of a carnival Ferris wheel, it’s clear Elvis is a man of ambition and agency. He’s willing to allow Parker to manage him but not to completely control him, and there’s a constant push and pull between their competing desires.
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