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  • ELVIS (no spoilers)

    From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 20 10:52:07 2022
    In '40s Mississippi (by way of Memphis) a kid gets his musical catechism
    from Negro spirituals, on his way to becoming The King. Writer-director
    Baz Luhrmann (as usual) pulls out all the stops in his flashy bio of
    ELVIS. Fast-paced even at 2-1/2 hours, Luhrmann's extravaganza pays
    equal, ample tribute to the phenomenon, the legend, and, if you're in
    the mood for it, the man. Well recommended.

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  • From Bill Anderson@21:1/5 to moviePig on Tue Sep 20 17:47:00 2022
    moviePig <[email protected]> wrote:

    In '40s Mississippi (by way of Memphis) a kid gets his musical catechism
    from Negro spirituals, on his way to becoming The King. Writer-director
    Baz Luhrmann (as usual) pulls out all the stops in his flashy bio of
    ELVIS. Fast-paced even at 2-1/2 hours, Luhrmann's extravaganza pays
    equal, ample tribute to the phenomenon, the legend, and, if you're in
    the mood for it, the man. Well recommended.




    Told you.

    --
    Bill Anderson

    I am the Mighty Favog

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 22 18:13:31 2022
    On 9/22/2022 6:01 PM, super70s wrote:
    Luhrmann recently expressed a desire to put out a four-hour director's
    cut in the distant future.

    He probably wishes Elvis had lived longer.

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 22 17:01:56 2022
    Luhrmann recently expressed a desire to put out a four-hour director's
    cut in the distant future.

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to moviePig on Fri Sep 23 16:21:42 2022
    On 2022-09-22 22:13:31 +0000, moviePig said:
    On 9/22/2022 6:01 PM, super70s wrote:

    Luhrmann recently expressed a desire to put out a four-hour director's
    cut in the distant future.

    He probably wishes Elvis had lived longer.

    Could be worse ... he could do a real-time biography movie starting
    with Elvis' birth. That would mean 42 years sitting in a cinema
    watching it. ;-)



    Weird, "42" is also the Hitchhiker's Guide "the meaning of life, the
    universe, and everything". :-)

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  • From trotsky@21:1/5 to moviePig on Mon Oct 10 04:23:30 2022
    On 9/22/2022 5:13 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 9/22/2022 6:01 PM, super70s wrote:
    Luhrmann recently expressed a desire to put out a four-hour director's
    cut in the distant future.

    He probably wishes Elvis had lived longer.


    I think you're trying to be funny but in point of fact the movie glossed
    over his death probably because Baz felt it was long enough at that point.

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