New ‘Elvis’ Footage Shows Singer Become a ‘God’ During Iconic July 4 Memphis Performance
thewrap.comRusswood Park in Memphis, Tennessee from July 4, 1956. The concert was formative in his career in that he was warned not to even lift a finger, only for him to famously disobey it.
The concert made such a frenzy that it also broke the color barrier that was established to attempt to segregate the crowd, and he was escorted out in a frenzy. “In that moment, Elvis the man was sacrificed, and Elvis the God was bornHe had no idea what he had done,” Tom Hanks says as Colonel Tom Parker in the clip.
Luhrmann also described the film in more detail and said it’s not truly a “biopic” but a film about America in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, all of it seen through the lens of Hanks’ character Tom Parker, who was “You will hear the classics, you will still see the story of Elvis…but we’ve also translated the story for a younger audience,” Luhrmann told the CinemaCon Crowd. “If it feels a little like a superhero film, it is… He comes from dirt, and in a few blinding moments, he flies so high, finds his kryptonite…“Elvis” hits theaters June 24 from Warner Bros after it first premieres at the Cannes Film Festival.
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