New Movie Trailer: Elvis biopic with Tom Hanks directed by Baz Luhrmann
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The trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis kicks off with a voiceover by an old cartoon wizard. No, no, it’s the “Pepperidge Farm remembers” guy. “There are some who make me out to be the villain of this here story,” he says, and we wonder if the people at the trailer factory didn’t accidentally use the wrong audio track. This is supposed to be an Elvis Presley biopic, but we’re pretty sure that’s Geppetto from the new Pinocchio teaser. Yet no, we’re somehow in the right place. At the one-minute mark of this very long trailer, we see the owner of that voice staring up at a stage where Austin Butler is thrusting his crotch at Baz Luhrmann’s camera. It’s Tom Hanks, wearing Jared Leto’s sweaty hand-me-down Gucci prosthetics. He plays Colonel Tom Parker, who was Elvis’s manager and a colonel in the way Colonel Sanders was a colonel. In an accent that is meant to be Dutch, he asks young Elvis if he can be his promoter, and Elvis says he’s “ready to fly.” On the voice-work front, Butler doesn’t lean too heavy into “Thank you very much” territory, only breaking out that Elvis impression at the least opportune moment: reacting to Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. This may be the most Luhrmann-y three minutes in existence. Elvis will enter the building (your local movie theater) on June 24, 2022.
Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Motherfuck him and John Wayne
'Cause I'm Black and I'm proud.....
But he never meant shit to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Motherfuck him and John Wayne
'Cause I'm Black and I'm proud.....
We always give them the Blueprint....SMH
Exactly. A grown man put in a 14 year old in is stable until she get old enough oh. That's a pedophile
At Forrest Gump teaching Elvis how to dance and now the fatter Forrest Gump is his manager
God-Of-War-420
Mr. Pool
Not quite. pressley used Blackwell's songs and guide vocals on recordings but his whole show was stolen from Wynonie Harris.
What I want to know is how will they whitewash "colonel" tom parker who was one of the vilest humans ever. A Dutch national and illegal immigrant he was wanted by Dutch police for a murder. This is why apart from 2 appearances in Canada, pressley never toured outside of the united states.
He somehow served in the us army even though he wasn't a citizen and deserted. Gambled extensively and lost, got drunk and belligerent and was banned from several Vegas casinos.
Oh yeah, this guy was a piece of work.
And surely someone will ask Hanks about what a prick the guy was. And let's see how he spins it. Because the guy was a thorough cunt.
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it
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In Elvis, There’s No Business Like Baz-ness
Why have only one montage when you can edit another montage inside that montage?
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Torn, cause Tom Hanks is gonna act his ass off! Austin Butler ain't no slouch either! But motherfcuk Elvis! This movie is gonna get massive play and win a shyt ton of awards for a motherfcuker bit his entire career from black musicians.
Also take note, cause this is what the Eminem movie will be 30+ years from now.
Also take note, cause this is what the Eminem movie will be 30+ years from now.
Elvis was a great entertainer,he found his gimmick and exploited it to great success HOWEVER to say he was anything more than an entertainer is blind,biased,racist and bullshit. He didnt read music,play anything,write any music,originate anything. He was what he was but he couldnt touch the artists hes compared to like MJ,the Beatles,Sinatra,Bing Crosby, Stevie,Elton or any number of pioneers like Little Richard,Chuck Berry and Fats. He however did sell more records than anyone except the Beatles and MJ.
the Beatles
333 million albums worldwide...117 million singles worldwide...35 million downloads/streaming=485 million units worldwide
Michael Jackson
235 million albums worldwide...80 million singles worldwide...110 million downloads/streaming=425 million units worldwide
Elvis Presley
245 million albums worldwide...135 million singles worldwide...40 million downloads/streaming=420 million units worldwide
the Beatles
333 million albums worldwide...117 million singles worldwide...35 million downloads/streaming=485 million units worldwide
Michael Jackson
235 million albums worldwide...80 million singles worldwide...110 million downloads/streaming=425 million units worldwide
Elvis Presley
245 million albums worldwide...135 million singles worldwide...40 million downloads/streaming=420 million units worldwide
In that clip, Ray spoke the truth and made us all free.
They going to portray him stealing black music?
I’m good.
White people love black shit in white Packaging. Elvis even as Ray Charles said, wasn't doing anything special. He wasn't doing anything that black people have been doing for centuries. Bunk, or rather nonsense, as Ray Charles said
Black music sung by white people will make numbers more often than it won't. Look at Pink
But I'm getting off track. I consider both Elvis and The Beatles overrated trash music
Damn.
I never thought Elvis was the king of anything but when I grew up he was entertaining and to me?
He was for THEM not US.
I didn't get into the Beatles until much later.
I disagree with you on that one
Maybe it's all the documentaries I've seen and growing to appreciate their entire arch musically
You don't make timeless records and that many timeless records by accident.
And they always paid homage to black artists in fact in some ways? more so than black audiences of the time did themselves.
Respectfully good brother,
I agree Elvis was for them and not for us.
They should have paid homage to the black artists they stole from. We did not hold that same obligation as we were not stealing from another culture. They were the dominant culture who were holding the reins back then as they are now.
Question is, while the Beatles were "paying homage" to those black blues artists, were they inviting them on tour with them? Nope. They were $capitalizing$ off of the blood, sweat and tears of those Black blues kings and queens, while those artists played the distant background.
The documentaries you speak of, I'm sure didn't spend much if any time mentioning that disparity.
I don't care much for Elvis because he was such a blatant culture vulture.
I do appreciate much of the music by The Beatles. But I realize they too are part of a tradition of gentrification, homogenization and appropriation of our music and a subsequent marginalization of us.
I honestly never heard a Beatles song that I new was a Beatles song in my early years. My parents were eclectic so they played everything from Kenny Rogers to The Oak Ridge Boys, The Average White Band to Ronnie Milsap to Lionel Richie and the Commodores, to the Jacksons to The Manhattans to James Taylor and on and on and on, but they didn't play any Elvis or any Beatles, so it's not attached to me in any way
Maybe if I had some connection to them in my formulative years it would have been different. I never like Elvis at all outside of "your always on my mind" and maybe one or two other songs that caught my attention. Same with the Beatles
Always with respect bro you know that.
Don't get it twisted they ALL took from Black legends. STOLE.
I ain't defending anyone like that. Just telling what I heard.
But my point is at least at the very minimum some of the biggest white acts did go out of their way to to show respect to these legends on public platforms when honestly they ain't have to. Make of that what you will. my only point was most did not. But I remember specifically the Beatles at least attempted to. And most times we as a people were also guilty of forgetting our legends.
But the Beatles were not just copy cats. They were making their own sound too. Like I said it's all black music but I can't put what Elvis did in the same place as the Beatles in regard to black music and cultural appropriation.
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Been said that himself since day one
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