re the music for the movie i think it also has a lot to do w Elvis’ estate being deeply fixated on making elvis “current” and Baz is kinda up for anything in that regard
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 July 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
Thumbs up: the "Suspicious Minds" goofy-adlib makes it to the screenThumbs down: Bones Howe but no Chips Moman? Guess they couldn't afford the screentime to go to that "funky, funky studio."
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
I agree with poster One Eye Open.
If the argument is "yes, but that wouldn't be so popular or commercial" - sure, I can agree. But I think that One Eye Open and I think it would be, on balance, a better film about Elvis.
― the pinefox, Monday, 18 July 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
What really would have gotten my goat is if they had done "Sweet Caroline" with the recently interpolated baseball stadium chant.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
Isn't ludicrous overstatement Luhrmann's trademark?
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 18 July 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
RIght. Which is somewhat at cross-purposes with Elvis's perfectly orchestrated overstatement.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEpUx6uIeXI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGQytB3wQMs
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
Just noticed the backing singers (Is it the Sweet Inspirations here?) trying to follow what he is doing in the beginning. So cool.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
At about 1:56.
Sweet Inspirations plus Kathy Westmoreland.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
Considering he looks tired and off his face, and he's reading from a piece of paper, that's a spectacularly good lead vocal too
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 18 July 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
Yes, exactly.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
The movie ends with a more extreme version of that, which I think was discussed upthread already.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
Wait, one of the Sweet Inspirations was married to Jerry Schilling? Where was that in the movie?
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
At times I thought - is this the recorded vocal? They're very similar!
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 18 July 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
Is that thing punched in or sweetened at all? It’s kind of amazing.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
Also, is it really in fact the first live performance? That tour started two weeks prior.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
"We're going to spring a new song on you. We don't know it too well but... if we goof it up just bear with us we'll get it right. It may take a little while but we'll get it right."
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
Guralnick says he didn't even want to record it!
Bonus points if someone can tell me what artist released a version before Elvis did.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
"That's new and we've never done it on stage before so if we goof it up, I'm sorry."
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
Even if he is fudging a bit because he is embarrassed about reading off the paper and it is not actually the very first performance it’s still amazing.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
Arthur Alexander!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 July 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
I know him as June.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
another example of how Elvis had some of the greatest drummers in the biz
― frogbs, Monday, 18 July 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
Elvis himself was kind of a virtual drummer.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
You know who had the most fun with Elvis on stage?
Elvis.
― pplains, Monday, 18 July 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
Skinny, fat, little or full-size?
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
Yes.
― pplains, Monday, 18 July 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
He always carried a wiggle.
Is it because of what happens on the road?
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
Thumbs up: “Beatles and Beards”Thumbs down: no Dewey Phillips
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
I mean we were thrilled about Elvis, but it wasn’t like doing Neil Diamond.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
Thumbs down: no Dewey Phillips
They did show a DJ playing two records at once though, didn't they?
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
Right, now I remember. And that was when we heard “Viva Las Vegas” turn into Vanilla Ice saying “check out my hook while my DJ revolves it.”
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
Or was it a certain sample from Beck’s “Where It’s At.”
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 12:13 (one year ago) link
That’s what happens to me, I can’t help it.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 12:47 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkIiVux4keI
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 12:49 (one year ago) link
I’m pleasantly surprised at the movie. Definitely not a fan of Baz’s style and in the opening minutes with the hyperactive editing I thought I would hate it but it tones down considerably.
Final half hour or so shows there’s a better, very emotive movie somewhere in there. Austin Butler actually nails it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 21 July 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
OTM. Some of his sheepish guilty husband stuff reminded me of Heath Ledger in I'm Not There.
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 July 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
Yeah I have to admit tears weren’t far by the end… the marriage breakdown, isolation, physical and mental degradation and the integration of real EP footage brought the movie to a strong final imo.
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 21 July 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
I used to think my dad was ElvisBut I haven’t told him that yetI haven’t told my dad either
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 July 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
Wow. Shonka Dukureh, the singer and actress who portrayed Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton in Luhrmann’s Elvis, has died.
― birdistheword, Friday, 22 July 2022 04:06 (one year ago) link
RIP. That was a good performance.
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 July 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
Came to post this for some reason:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOAbrFgCWPs
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 July 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
Kind of the CBGB version.
That electric bass solo is (fire emoji).
― o. nate, Friday, 22 July 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
Maybe not quite at this level but close.
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 July 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link