Elvis - The Movie (Jonathan Rhys Meyers)

Weil die vorherigen Statements von Priscilla zu diesem Thema auch nicht "keine Küsse" beinhalteten. Ist ihr das nach 46 Jahren plötzlich eingefallen? Oder den Produzenten? Naja eigentlich ist diese Aussage richtig, wo doch damals in Bad Neuheim alle dachten, sie wäre schon 18 oder war es 16 Als sie Elvis in Hollywood besucht hat, war sie auch noch keine 18. History rewritten

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Unter manchen Fans wird JRM mittlerweile als Monkey gehandelt.

He seems positively simian.......though less articulate.An truly ugly human being. I could put sideburns on my ass and look(not to mention SOUND ) more like Elvis. This will be on the order of the Don Johnson/Dale Midkiff/David Keith portrayals......

Maybe he can portrait Elvis as a person, maybe he CAN act, but from the clips I saw, where he does a performance. He can't move. Never saw such spasmatic moves in one performance, They better shoot HIM from the waist up!

I almost think it's worse that we have to stomach Elvis' voice attached to cheezy moves and weird expressions (anybody catch the "Beatles-esque hair shake" move from the interview video?)

Just seeing that huge billboard with him trying to move like Elvis made my toes curl. He looks just plain stupid, like he is having some kind of fit. Let's face it, it only looked great when Elvis himselvis did it.

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Mein Favorite ist immer noch Michael St. Gerard. Bedauerlicherweise wurde die Mini-Serie "Elvis" wegen niedriger Einschaltquoten abgesetzt, obwohl er den Part sehr gut und nicht übertrieben gespielt hat.

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Ja Melanie da stimme ich Dir auch zu, Micheal St.Gerard hat auch auf mich damals einen sehr angenehmen Eindruck hinterlassen....der war sehr zurückhaltend in seiner Art !!!

Solange Rhys Myers nicht so affig und überheblich wie der unsympathische Elvis-Darsteller aus dem TV-Film "Elvis & Me" sich gibt.....wird er auch bestimmt einige Befürworter finden !

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Ja Melanie da stimme ich Dir auch zu, Micheal St.Gerard hat auch auf mich damals einen sehr angenehmen Eindruck hinterlassen....der war sehr zurückhaltend in seiner Art !!!

Solange Rhys Myers nicht so affig und überheblich wie der unsympathische Elvis-Darsteller aus dem TV-Film "Elvis & Me" sich gibt.....wird er auch bestimmt einige Befürworter finden !

jar

also ich finde don johnson eher affig in "elvis & the beautyqueen" !!!!!!!!

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Das ging aber schnell, vor kurzem noch wurden in LA noch "Elvisse" für die Hauptrolle dieses TV-Spielfilms gecastet...und jetzt wird der Film schon am US-TV, am 8.Mai gesendet.

Sehr interssante Infos über den Film und deren Schaupieler erhält ihr über:

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Da wird u.a. auch beschrieben...wie sehr die Filmmacher sich bemüht haben , die kritischen Fans mit Facten und guten Recherchen (unter Mithilfe von EPE-Archiven),
zufrieden zu stellen. Ob uns dieser Schaupieler als Elvis zu überzeugen vermag

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Da bin ich aber sehr gespannt !!!

jar

Wer ist das? Doch nicht etwa der eine aus Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten, hä?

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Aus "Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten"

Ja, klar ist der das! Ganz sicher! In ner US-Produktion...

Teil 1 der Mini-Serie ist in den USA über den Sender gegangen.

Deshalb eine kleine Auswahl an ersten Reaktionen.


Wer Hilfe mit Übersetzungen braucht meldet sich bitte.
Mit he ist Jonathan Rhys-Meyers gemeint.

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He sounds more like Kevin Costner than Elvis until he sings...

He doesn't have any eyelashes, his acting is so forced and he can't even lip-sync.

He's a zero, but it wasn't as bad as I expected. I find the hair disturbing in a big way- I mean, if you're making a movie about a guy who had a famous hair style, wouldn't it make sense to give the actor a goddamned pompadour? Details are wrong all over the place, but it's not as disturbing as the hair.

Show Elvis wearing that fucking carnival uniform gold suit with a drink in his hand at the bar and asking the Colonel if he wants a drink. G-d what bullshit!

I didn't care much for it. Too many things jumping out as just wrong and the sequnces of things they did was off. The dialog was pretty bad too. I thought the guy playing Sam was pretty good though at capturing his personality (or what I think it to be) and the mother wasn't bad too. One of the biggest (or littlest...) things to jump out at me was that Heartbreak Hotel was not recorded in NY.

Saw no acknowledgement of his white gospel love and exposure and related ambition.

Not shown - what a quick study Elvis was.... ie. dropping the hillbilly from his accent and sharpening his grammar and behavior and his dress as he was exposed to the world beyond the Mason-Dixon line. (Never really saw evidence of his styling anyway, wardrobe was boring. Apparently all his 'sharp' clothes have sparkles on them.) I saw no growth on Elvis' part at all.

Was all that hankerchief tossing and waving supposed to conjure a mental link to Elvis-Vegas-scarves? WTF was that? Do we have 50's footage showing 3000 waving hankies and I just missed it?

I did notice that Crudups version was replaced with an impersonator. Cheap bastards.

Well I didnt hate it! It was Ok, and good that they got to use the real voice of Elvis for the songs.... that for me is what saves it!


längere Review inklusive positiver Bemerkungen

I guess 1990's television series "Elvis" will remain the best dramatic recreation or representation we have of Elvis' career.

There were good things about tonight's installment. I thought it pretty much captured the bond between Elvis and Gladys. Camryn Manheim did a very nice job of humanizing Gladys. Randy Quaid was also fine as Col. Parker although the role was very broadly written.

I also thought the movie did a good job of capturing the boyish playfulness that made the young Elvis so appealing. And I also thought that the script was smart to mention the issue of class in relation to the Presleys. The scene where Manheim mentions that people like Presleys were always stepped on and in some ways meant to be stepped on really captured some of the way that Elvis saw the world and it really adds kick to his ascent that he became ultimately a person who transcended class. The scene where the Hollywood starlet insults Elvis was also excellent in that it depicted the way the old order was determined to slap Elvis back in his place. It was really a big part of his decline. For these people nothing Elvis ever did was good enough. You can see a part of this in some of the reviews that Eileen has posted.

Overall though I thought the movie was something of a failure. It completely shied away from placing Elvis in his social and musical context. You could put any star into that spot and have the same story. We see the girls screaming but never really know what it was about Elvis that inspired that reaction. This is especially true from a modern perspective since screaming women come with the teen idol kit.

There is far too little of the 1950s in the movie. For instance although there are objections to Elvis read in the newspaper we never understand what the objection is. There is no depiction of the stultifying conformity that dogged the decade. In Elvis '56, we see the glossed up Dorsey Brothers opening then we see Elvis who represents a complete perversion to that aesthetic. Yet the show never makes the comparison.

And the thing that really kills me is the story they left out. You never really understand how "Heartbreak Hotel" was a triumph of vision. The way the movie depicts it, Elvis wanted to record the song. The label wasn't crazy about it but let him. It was a big hit. Happens every day. You never really understand what an odd and radical record this is. It would have been great to see Steve Sholes call Sam Phillips with the wrong artist story. It would have been great to hear Sam Phillips pronounce the record a morbid mess. It would have been great to see in a well directed, well written scene the way the record thrilled teenagers and baffled their elders. Rock and roll is barely mentioned.

I can't believe they left the failure of the Grand Ole' Opry out. Perhaps it interrupted the constant upward trajectory they wanted to present. However, like the Vegas flop, it was an important and illustrative failure. These crowds were not ready for Elvis. There is hardly a hint of the changes in black America that affected young southerners like Elvis and so alienated adults.

Leaving the Sullivan show off screen was a stunning decision. It was hugely important moment in pop culture defining a new mainstream for American popular music.

What they did choose to include was also problematic. I can't for the life of me figure why they played Elvis' master of "Hound Dog" instead of the actual Berle show soundtrack during the Berle scene. The thing that really drove people crazy was that thrilling burlesque on the half-time final verses. Elvis did this off the cuff. It was a completely unpredictable and subversive moment and showed Elvis' inspiration and sense of humor. And in an important way it showed the intent of Elvis the artist. He was no puppet on a string, sometimes he intentionally stirred the pot even if it was only for the intent of stirring it.

The scene that showed Elvis' method of recording- while technically accurate- was badly done and missed the point. For Hollywood purposes I guess they needed a sense of conflict but in the angry confrontation aspect they lost the radical edge of the process. The anger makes Elvis seem like he's just fighting for his vision. However, it missed the main point that he really would release a record with a flat note. It was all about feel. Also it would have been instructive to see Elvis really put that aesthetic work as he listens to similar takes and picks the one that feels right. Perhaps something could have been done where someone mentions a flat note and Elvis says "Leave it in. That's what I'm looking for." This would be a stunning revelation for youngsters raised on the concept of spending months piece by piece to attain technical perfection.

As for Jonathan Rhys Meyers, I have to give him a split decision. I liked the way he captured the rhythmic young wannabe at the movies and in front of the mirror. I also thought he did some of Elvis mannerisms down. However, he simply does not look like enough Elvis. His hairline is receding and it kills the sense of reality almost as much as David Keith. I also thought his natural singing voice was truly horrible on the moments where he was called to sing without an assist from the King. He didn't much better with an assist from Elvis since his lip synching was generally poor. Add to that his speaking voice was a hair too high.

I give it overall a low C but not quite a C-. I've spoken my piece; speak yours.

to be continued....