Critics have slammed Tom Hanks’ performance in 'Elvis.' It’s been called “creepy,” the “worst of his career,” and a “complete misstep.” Does he deserve some praise for taking an erratic swing at a character that’s the antithesis of his typical roles?
were so powerful because he created an umbilical cord between the movie and its audience. Thanks to Hanks’ warmth, charm, and relatability, viewers could picture themselves as his characters and, thus, could just as easily imagine overcoming the obstacles that Forrest, Andrew Beckett, Captain John H. Miller, and Chuck Noland had to endure.
I doubt that most people will find anything relatable—or redeemable—about Colonel Tom Parker, Hanks’ character in. While he helped Elvis Presley’s popularity explode across the country and then the world, so much so that he went on to become the highest-selling solo artist in musical history, Parker’s unethical management of the icon led him to pocket at least half of Elvis’ income over his career.is unlike any movie that Hanks has been in before, too.
Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley chat about the crooner's career on a ferris wheel. It's one of many scenes in which Hanks forces us to endure his grating, vaguely Eastern European accent.Hanks’ fat suit, fake nose, and hybrid double chin/turkey neck as Parker are what moviegoers will probably notice first. Not only does he look like a cross between Gollum, a toad, and Mr. Burns from, but he acts like it, too, as he manipulates Elvis’ career and fortune all for his own benefit.
Most ghoulish about Hanks' portrayal of Parker is his voice. Parker was born in Breda in the Netherlands on June 26, 1909, and emigrated illegally to the United States when he was 20 years old. Hanks gives the character a vaguely European twang that constantly distracts from what he’s actually saying.
We hear plenty of that twang, too. Even though the film is a celebration of Presley’s music and talent,is told from Parker’s perspective. Hanks narrates the film in a voiceover so unsettling and Machiavellian that it sounds like a cartoon villain telling the world how he committed the perfect crime.
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