Elvis
has just landed in theaters, offering viewers a 2h39 dive into the hectic existence of the King.
A more than reasonable duration, but which is well below Baz Luhrmann's first cut, which lasted no less than four hours!
So obviously, the filmmaker had no choice but to make serious cuts, leaving less room for the relationship that the artist had with his group, but also for his romance with his girlfriend Dixie.
“I wish I had looked more into some of the other stuff – there's so much more.
Once he's caught in a trap, and he's confused and doesn't understand... Someone who has such a hole in his heart like Elvis who constantly searches and searches for love and finds it on stage, but nowhere else,” the filmmaker told
Radio Times
, using words from
Suspicious Minds
to illustrate his point.
When is the director's cut?
Another episode of anthology of the life of Elvis which fell by the wayside is that of his meeting with Richard Nixon.
"You know, the barbiturate addiction and all that, when he starts doing crazy things - like going to see Nixon," Baz Luhrmann added, before concluding: "I had it all planned out, but there comes a time when you can't have everything, so I just tried to follow the spirit of the character”.
It only remains to hope that we will be entitled to a director's cut one day or another!
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