mamo 17,763 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 The official trailer for the Elvis biopic directed by Baz Luhrmann has been released today. thoughts? you can serve it to me ancient city style... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAMS 1,822 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 Not Vanessa Hudgens ex-boyfriend GAMS, gay popstar Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CautiousLurker 17,345 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 Wish I could find me a man who'd thrust his pelvis in my face like that Men are naturally more dominating, aggressive, and logical thinking because we have balls. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villanelle 1,247 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 Looks really good ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
myluis617 5,344 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 Are they gonna talk about him dating minors? Or is it gonna be some glorified Elvis film? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
androiduser 7,438 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 Can't wait to see this, his story is fascinating. Interesting fact: his manager Colonel Tom Parker never allowed Elvis to perform outside the US, because he (the manager) was an illegal immigrant to the US and didn't want to use his documents to travel abroad, and he wouldn't let Elvis out of his sight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guillaume Hamon 5,987 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 8 minutes ago, myluis617 said: Are they gonna talk about him dating minors? Or is it gonna be some glorified Elvis film? Wasn't he also dissing the women rights movement? And be sure it will glorify him to get his many fans he still have to go watch it. At worst, it will mentions his flaws but humanizing him so he looks like a great guy who did a few mistakes cause he was raised a certain way etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
androiduser 7,438 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 15 minutes ago, myluis617 said: Are they gonna talk about him dating minors? Or is it gonna be some glorified Elvis film? The fact that Priscilla was a minor when they met has never been hidden. At that time, it wasn't controversial. From our perspective it's super creepy for a 24 year old to date a 14 year old, but back then it was pretty common. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMM90 2,975 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 Oh oh the morality police Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omar Vela 2,499 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 1 minute ago, androiduser said: The fact that Priscilla was a minor when they met has never been hidden. At that time, it wasn't controversial. From our perspective it's super creepy for a 24 year old to date a 14 year old, but back then it was pretty common. Also if you want to cancel every historic figure you wouldn't read any history at all: musicians, writers, painters, phillosophers, etc etc etc... Everyone had some questionable behaviours. The times were different and that just proves that human nature is pretty dark... At least now in some countries the things have gotten better (even if some people tells you that it's worst now than before). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
androiduser 7,438 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 5 minutes ago, Omar Vela said: Also if you want to cancel every historic figure you wouldn't read any history at all: musicians, writers, painters, phillosophers, etc etc etc... Everyone had some questionable behaviours. The times were different and that just proves that human nature is pretty dark... At least now in some countries the things have gotten better (even if some people tells you that it's worst now than before). exactly... things change and morals change... maybe something that is normal for us now will be unacceptable in 50 years' time... Maybe Gaga will be cancelled one day because she did something that will be unacceptable in the future, fans would sing a different tune in that case. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 There are no words to explain as an Elvis fan how happy I am about this trailer. It looks epic, beautiful and like art. Austin Butler is doing a great job disappearing into the role where I don't constantly think in my head "oh he's acting" or "oh it's austin butler", the voice is perfectly done, not too cringey, not too stereotypical, not too much where you just know they think of Elvis as the icon, like most impersonators do with him. It's like a heightened caricature of the caricature, which in his later years Elvis became just that. A caricature of himself, he was so iconic that it was hard to not see him as a brand, almost an image with different ideas attached to them. We have the fat Elvis, southern accent, the "thank you very much", the jumpsuit, vegas, addiction etc... It's how we think of him unconsciously, this movie looks like it won't depict him as just the icon that rose to stardum so quickly, but the man. I loved seeing the scene where he collapses on stage. It looks like they will show all of his struggles, and hardships he endured in life, while still show the ups as well. I hope it will be multifaceted, not many know that during his Vegas tour years they found a scribbled note in his hotel room where Elvis wrote that he wished he could sleep forever, and that God or something in the universe could help him make sense out of this, that his heart was heavy with all the responsibilities. Because that's what it was at the end, a man crushed by responsiblities towards his family, his friends, his staff, where the lines were even blurred, crushed by the immensity of the fame, drawing the curtains and sleeping in his bedroom in pitch black to avoid photographers or fans. A man addicted to pills to be able to sleep, and function, you can see for yourself the end of "Elvis" the icon in his last show 1977, it's incredible. A shadow of his former self in the saddest way possible, he is the poster child for what fame can do, it builds you up and crushes you to death. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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