Talk:Elvis (2022 film)/Archive 1

Archive 1

Premise section

Delete premise section. It isn't necessary till the movie's release. Aminabzz (talk) 17:27, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

That’s kind of a crap rationale. It’s just a brief summary of what the film will be about. There’s no issue in having it here. Rusted AutoParts 17:38, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

"Untitled Elvis Presley film" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Australian Distributor

At the end of 2020, Warner Bros. ended its ties with Roadshow Entertainment in Australia as a local film distributor, as a result of which Wonder Woman 1984 was the last Warner Bros. film distributed by Roadshow Entertainment. Since the beginning of 2021 all the Warner Bros. films have been distributed by Universal Pictures.

Source: Counting the cost of Village Roadshow's Warner Bros loss

Rupturestriker (talk) 18:14, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Strictly speaking yes, but no other WB film post WW84 has a special mention of Universal Australia.

In addition, Universal are only handling theatrical distribution (not home video or streaming), Warner Bros AU is promoting it, not Universal (see WBAU's YT channel), and it is advertised as a Warner Bros film in Australia, as seen here at the bottom where it says:

A Warner Bros. Pictures Presentation, A Bazmark Production, A Jackal Group Production, A Baz Luhrmann Film, “Elvis” will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures. Only in cinemas June 23.

For these reasons, I believe all references to the Australian release date and distributor should be removed as it is not important or EVERY WB film post WW84 should have that information added for consistency. Nerd 101 (talk) 11:07, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Okay so this is different to how TOHO handles films featuring Godzilla in Japan. If that's the case then I guess mentioning Universal Pictures is not required. Rupturestriker (talk) 05:48, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Col. Tom Parker's accent

I saw the trailer for this film, and I noticed that Tom Hanks portrays Col. Tom Parker with a distinct foreign accent. While Parker was indeed an immigrant from the Netherlands, he had been living in the U.S. for over 25 years before he met Elvis. Since Parker was an illegal alien and didn't want to call attention to his status, I would have thought that he would have cultivated an American-sounding accent. Watching an interview with Parker from 1987, I don't perceive his accent as being noticeably foreign (of course, that was well after Elvis died and Parker might have continued to work on his American accent). But a person couldn't listen to Tom Hanks's version of Parker for ten seconds without noticing that he was foreign. So my question is: does Hanks's accent in the film sound like Parker's accent did? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 07:22, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

• I found an interview on Variety.com which addressed this issue, with Alanna Nash, author of The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley:

Did Parker’s accent really sound like the one Tom Hanks is using in the film?

No. It was more American, more rural. And he had what sounded like a slight lisp or speech impediment. Turns out he didn’t have an impediment — he was just trying to wrap a Dutch tongue around the English language, Southern-style. It sounded like a weird (Southern) regional dialect, and you would know it was Dutch only by listening for certain consonants. But Baz wanted to make him seem more “other.” Or as Baz told me in an interview, “I thought it was very important that Tom present the audience with a strangeness, a sort of ‘What is going on with this guy?’”

--Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:05, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Lyndon Johnson speech in movie was unique

It can be seen as a desperate old-timer pleading for political survival or a good leader for calling for calm. Either way, it was presented as a motivation for Elvis' decision to put the special together without the more Christmas-oriented theme the network and Parker wished to have.2601:447:4000:220:20AC:76A6:AA80:30CA (talk) 16:31, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Elvis the Pelvis

Why was the pelvic thrust taken off the plot? This is an important part of the plot. I am watching this movie; there are repeated mentions of "Elvis the Pelvis." 2601:C4:C300:A210:28A9:BAC5:2FE9:27B4 (talk) 18:03, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

biography = last name?

Should we refer to all characters by their last name since this is a biography, I mean Colonel Tom Parker and Jim Eastland are refered to by their last name so why not? Dangervest69 (talk) 19:18, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Plot section is almost unreadable

The Plot section of this article is incredibly poorly written. Sometimes there are what seem to be four sentences crammed into one, there are disagreements over tense within the same sentence, and sometimes sentences make zero sense whatsoever. 2600:1014:B027:8CD7:EDC:24B:A29B:4BF6 (talk) 22:37, 1 November 2022 (UTC)