<em>Elvis</em> Is Utterly Disorienting. That’s the Point.
Baz Luhrmann’s chaotic, maximalist approach works for one reason: The story of Elvis Presley <em>should</em> be a mess.
by David Sims
Jun 24, 2022
3 minutes
Baz Luhrmann is a filmmaker who picks subjects as extravagant as the genre allows. When he made a teen romance, it was William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet. His musical Moulin Rougewas scored with love songs from nearly every pop era. For a literary adaptation, he went with the totemic, supposedly unadaptable . He’s an Australian director who made a movie about Australia and literally called it . So when Luhrmann decided to make a biopic about a musician, he unsurprisingly alighted on a rock-and-roll singer of some notoriety: Elvis Presley.
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