影片简介
导演: 托姆·齐穆尼
编剧: Alan Light
主演: 埃尔维斯·普雷斯利
类型: 纪录片 / 音乐 / 传记
制片国家/地区: 美国
语言: 英语
上映日期: 2018-04-14(美国)
IMDb链接: tt6244196
https://movie.douban.com/subject/30144230/
DESCRIPTION:
"It all happened so fast. I’m afraid to wake up, afraid it’s all been a dream." - Elvis Presley, 1956
Elvis Presley’s image is so omnipresent in the culture it’s like a Coca-Cola logo on a billboard in Times Square. Only a few figures have achieved such gigantic posthumous fame. Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Judy Garland are all on this pretty short list. The image of the performer is almost completely detached from the details of what the career was actually about. This process occurred while Elvis Presley was still alive, since he became so famous so fast. In the press conference he gave before his Madison Square Garden concerts in 1972, he was asked if he was satisfied with his public image. Elvis, in a sky-blue suit with a jangling shiny belt, sideburns bristling down his face, replied, "The image is one thing. The human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image." The image of Elvis shifts, depending on the entry point. What is so refreshing—damn near redeeming—about HBO’s two-part documentary "Elvis Presley: The Searcher," premiering on HBO on April 14, is that the entry point is Presley’s art.
Produced with the full cooperation of Presley’s estate (Graceland opened its archives for the project), director Thom Zimny, along with writer Alan Light, shaped a narrative out of a vast amount of archival footage (home movies, press conferences, still photographs, movie and concert clips). In a way, what Zimny has done is chop away the jungle of gossip surrounding Presley: cars, women, peanut butter and banana sandwiches, karate, speed/opiate addiction, uncircumcised penis (sneered at by Albert Goldman in his appalling 1981 biography) ... the list of "scandal" is endless. Lost in all of it is why people talk about Presley in the first place: his music and what it expressed. In collaboration with Priscilla Presley and Jerry Schilling, Presley’s friend from childhood, Zimny is interested in the spiritual and artistic forces which drove Presley from poverty to the heights of American success. Priscilla Presley observes, "[Elvis] wanted to grow. He wanted to evolve." "The Searcher"—with its eloquent title—attempts to contextualize that lifelong process.
编剧: Alan Light
主演: 埃尔维斯·普雷斯利
类型: 纪录片 / 音乐 / 传记
制片国家/地区: 美国
语言: 英语
上映日期: 2018-04-14(美国)
IMDb链接: tt6244196
https://movie.douban.com/subject/30144230/
DESCRIPTION:
"It all happened so fast. I’m afraid to wake up, afraid it’s all been a dream." - Elvis Presley, 1956
Elvis Presley’s image is so omnipresent in the culture it’s like a Coca-Cola logo on a billboard in Times Square. Only a few figures have achieved such gigantic posthumous fame. Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Judy Garland are all on this pretty short list. The image of the performer is almost completely detached from the details of what the career was actually about. This process occurred while Elvis Presley was still alive, since he became so famous so fast. In the press conference he gave before his Madison Square Garden concerts in 1972, he was asked if he was satisfied with his public image. Elvis, in a sky-blue suit with a jangling shiny belt, sideburns bristling down his face, replied, "The image is one thing. The human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image." The image of Elvis shifts, depending on the entry point. What is so refreshing—damn near redeeming—about HBO’s two-part documentary "Elvis Presley: The Searcher," premiering on HBO on April 14, is that the entry point is Presley’s art.
Produced with the full cooperation of Presley’s estate (Graceland opened its archives for the project), director Thom Zimny, along with writer Alan Light, shaped a narrative out of a vast amount of archival footage (home movies, press conferences, still photographs, movie and concert clips). In a way, what Zimny has done is chop away the jungle of gossip surrounding Presley: cars, women, peanut butter and banana sandwiches, karate, speed/opiate addiction, uncircumcised penis (sneered at by Albert Goldman in his appalling 1981 biography) ... the list of "scandal" is endless. Lost in all of it is why people talk about Presley in the first place: his music and what it expressed. In collaboration with Priscilla Presley and Jerry Schilling, Presley’s friend from childhood, Zimny is interested in the spiritual and artistic forces which drove Presley from poverty to the heights of American success. Priscilla Presley observes, "[Elvis] wanted to grow. He wanted to evolve." "The Searcher"—with its eloquent title—attempts to contextualize that lifelong process.
