Baz Luhrmann is ready for awards season, not for praise, but to celebrate filmmaking. “We all say, look, let’s put light on these extremely different films. And that’s just really good for movies.”
wants you to know it’s not just screaming that you hear in the crowd when Elvis takes the stage. It’s a different sound—it’s keening, and it’s a sound Luhrmann has heard more than a few times. There was the late ’90s, when he andthe movie that elevated the actor from on-the-rise star to global phenomenon. There was the time he went to a BTS concert at Citi Field, which was not entirely forElvis,plays the star who changed over decades but never lost that ability to transform a crowd.
“Elvis was able to elicit from an audience this out-of-body experience,” Luhrmann says on this week’spodcast. “Elvis would go into the Pentecostal tents and get into a religious state, and I think there’s a connection. He certainly thought there was. He whipped up the audience and literally gave himself to the audience.”less passionate, but with the film being a long-running summer blockbuster that proved audiences really were ready to come back to theaters, its impact on Hollywood was seismic.
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