“When we made this, we wanted to make it theatrical to bring audiences into theaters,” said Baz Luhrmann at the Cannes press conference for Elvis, the morning after the pic received the longest standing ovation of the fest at ten minutes.“That was the innovation for the film, and for cinema,” continued the filmmaker whose career shot to fame at Cannes with Strictly Ballroom in 1992.“Cannes has saved us once again,” he added about the rebound of the big screen experience.One of Luhrmann’s inspirations for taking on the tale of the King of Rock n’ Roll and his acerbic manager Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks), who ruled over the performer tirelessly and milked every penny from him, was Milos Forman’s Oscar winning movie Amadeus. “It’s not really about Mozart.
It’s about the jealousy between Salieri and Mozart,” said Luhrmann about that pic.“No review would ever mean the most to us than the woman who was married to Elvis Presley,” said Luhrmann who had to rewrite the film during Covid.After showing the film to Priscilla Presley, he receive a note from her in which she said, “‘I just wasn’t ready for that.
Every breath about Austin, every move, the spirit of the person, the humanity'” recalled Luhrmann, “‘If my husband were here today he’d look him in the eye and say ‘How dare you?
You are me.'”Luhrmann emphasized that the entire Presley clan including Lisa Marie and Riley Keough was over the moon for the film.“He was a father, he was a husband, and a grandfather and a person, and they have children,” the filmmaker added, “The greatest review I got from them in my life; now there’s something they can look to that is the truth of the humanity of the man.”Hanks didn’t know anything about Parker before signing on until Luhrmann
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