Baz Luhrmann’s biopic reduces Black music legends to emissaries vouching for a woke King.
that attempt to illuminate or otherwise “explain” him—are so forgettable. Who really was Elvis Presley? Few people have ever truly known, and I’m not sure how many have even truly cared. Elvis has always been what we make of him.The latest entry in the Elvis-making canon is Baz Luhrmann’s cacophonous, fitfully entertaining, and mostly pointlessis a hyperactive, showy, and gleefully un-subtle affair.
It doesn’t help that Parker is played by a disastrously miscast Tom Hanks, whose grotesque facial prosthetics and bizarre accent frequently made me wonder if I was watching the first-ever acting performance inspired by Watto from theprequels. The movie leans hard into Parker’s background as a carnival worker, where he first learned to embrace the role of the “snow man” who performs “snow jobs” on delighted audiences.
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