"A Diabolical Genius In Every Way" - Tom Hanks On Colonel Tom Parker
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- Tom Hanks describes the larger-than-life character he portrays in the new Baz Luhrmann film, "Elvis," which opens in theaters next Friday. Stick around for two more segments with the great Tom Hanks! #Colbert #TomHanks #Elvis
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Damn, Tom Hanks broke the 4th wall in every way. His younger self taught Elvis the hip movement, and his older self managed Elvis.
😅😅
Learned elsewhere this is a Gump reference.
@@jedijones lmao took me a moment
Would be about 3 million today. Could be wrong
Right!!? Full circle!!
I saw Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956 when I was a little girl. I had a big sister who wanted to watch it. Much later in 1976, I saw Elvis live in concert a year before he died. He still had the voice. He couldn’t quite reach the top of the crescendos, but it didn’t matter. Once, my dad came into the room while my sister and I were listening to music. He said, “You should be listening to this beautiful music instead of that Elvis.” We burst out laughing. Of course, it was Elvis singing “Blue Hawaii.”
I remember a concert on TV in the early 70's broadcasted on TV and it was in Hawaii. I was a young boy, but the one thing I remember was (my Mom and Sister were watching it) at one point Elvis throws the cape of the outfit he was wearing out into the audience and my Mom and Sister said "there's no way that cape is getting out of there in one piece." They both believed the fans would literally tear it apart to have a piece of fabric that Elvis wore. Well, I Googled it this morning and apparently a man caught it and he managed to get it out of the show in one piece. He sold it to another man for $3,250 and when the man that bought it died, he wrote in his will to give the cape to Graceland. Graceland has had it for years until they put it up for auction. I thought I read that it alone sold for a little over one million dollars and the suit Elvis wore sold for about the same price. So somebody has it. It's referred to as a piece of music history as their was an estimate of over 1 Billion (with a B) people around the globe that watched that live concert in Hawaii where he threw that cape into the crowd that I remember both my Mom and Sister (both have passed away) commented on. A memory I cherish - and as I've learned more and more about Elvis through the years, that moment he created for my Mom, Sister, and myself is just one of the many good things Elvis brought to people around the world. It seems he was just too much for this world to contain.
My mom, my aunt and my grandmother and I all had tickets to see Elvis's show in 1977. I was 9 years old. He died weeks before that show. I can still remember all of us huddled around the TV, sobbing in the living room. It was devastating.
@@catw6274 Did you get your money back?
@@ericminch 😂
The same here . Big sister wanted to watch this guy sing
I like how Tom Hanks essentially did the entire interview haha.
Tom was fantastic in the movie but let's be honest. Austin Butler did not play Elvis, he was Elvis. I was speechless.
Maven well said! I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU! So far I have loved this movie 7 times!
@@joannemurdock7899 7? 😅
There’s only one Elvis Presley and it’s not an actor who portrayed him in a movie
It was very moving
Same! When I first saw him, I was a lil unimpressed. Cause he doesn’t really look like Elvis, being a natural blonde. I honestly thought Zac Efron would be a good Elvis, as he has the look, and he can sing and dance. But I was very happily surprised by how well he melted into the role.
He even had trouble remembering his real voice after! It’s crazy how much he embodied Elvis… just don’t ever cast him as The Joker!
Full circle... the Ed Sullivan performance was the one Forest Gump watched as a kid!!!!!
and he taught elvis the wiggle.. lol
OMG yes!
:) yess! 😂
@@jimmyjim45 true enough!
There's a reason Baz chose Tom Hanks for this film 😂
Austin said he was so nervous to meet Tom Hanks but when he walked up, Tom said “My Boy!” and gave him a big bear hug. So sweet ❤️
Yes I read that! Tom was in BAZ Lurhrmanns backyard in Australia when Austin arrived and that's how Tom greeting him! Nice! 🥰
Kinda like Col. Tom Parker did to Elvis? My boy, and then he swindled him.
My boy my boy
@@fretfix1 yes, without the swindling part.
@@fretfix1 bTW, that was horrible how he talked the family into signing the contracts without a lawyer. And I also hated how his dad never stood up for him.
My Mother took my brother and I to see Elvis at Kiel Auditorium on March 29, 1957. He wore that beautiful gold lamé suit. He was so sparkly ☺️ to see but we only heard a few bars of every song because of all the screaming... ✨️ Great memory, I still have my half ticket stub.💛
That’s awesome! So cool that you still have the physical ticket stub to go with the memories!
Tom Hanks is my all time favorite actor!! He’s exactly the person we see both in interview and his very private life both Unassuming and kind. Thanks for having him on Stephen! 💯❤️
Anyone remember Bosom Buddies? That’s where Tom Hanks got his start on TV
@AG Go away. Troll.
@@ttf4now Loved that show 😂
James Stewart and Tom Hanks. The greatest of all time
Not if you buy.p into his wife.
A national, worldwide hero! Extremely talented, funny and yet so humble.Thanks, sir!
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the best and classiest guests _always_ acknowledge the band, and as expected Mr Hanks did not disappoint.
I agree.
And at the end of the clip, acknowledged everyone else but himself.
Yes!!
@@raydrienne that's one thing I've always really admired about Tom Hanks, aside from everything else: he remembers the names of everyone he's worked with and he always brings them up by name and is effusive in his praise and gratitude towards the people he works with. Speaks to the man's character, that he wants to praise his coworkers before talking about his own work in a project. That's humility.
Hes a good genuine guy. Honestly I'd rather have him be our president than any of these other jackoffs
My mother told me all about how she loved Elvis growing up, when I was 17 I watched a 2003 mini series with her & asked if it was really Elvis singing when she said yes, I borrowed her Elvis Greatest Hits, and when he spoke during "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" I fell as hard for him as she did in 1956, and a short while after that my 4 year old heard & saw Elvis, falling for him the same as we did so we began to fight over which one of us loved him the most.
It was funny for the rest of our family but 3 generations, a 56 year old, 17 year old, and 4 year old loved him at the same time. Recently, my cousin's 15 year old daughter talked about how much she loves Elvis. This is an artist who is truly timeless in a way no one else was, is, or ever will be or an artist who did and still does connect to his fans unlike anyone else by making every single person listening to one of his songs feel like he is singing to only them and no on else.
So no, what his fans of when he was alive and all of his fans after his death, don't love him just because of his wiggle.
MJ surpassed his father in law elvis by FAR rip to both!!!!!!!!
@@AC-mp7cx I'm sick of MJ stans that have nothing better to do than fuel this useless competition that are pointless because you lot think that Michael Jackson means anything to Elvis fans. Also, MJ followed in Elvis's footsteps and Elvis is still a game changer, an innovator, a beloved singer who is beloved by millions regardless of seeing him live, hearing about him from their mother who lived during his times, or finding him via social media because he's a voice that connects people. Elvis connects to his fans and connects fans to each other just like four different generations of women from one family fell in love with him like the women in my family fell for Elvis which was the point of my story that has nothing to do with Michael Jackson and it still doesn't have anything to do with Michael Jackson, so take your envy of Elvis back to your corner of the internet and stop trolling Elvis sites because it's a waste of everyone's time. We love Elvis. Michael Jackson is just guy that married Lisa Marie to steal his songs and his fans still so insecure that they try to steal from Elvis and his legacy by trying to trash talk him to his own fans which will fail as Michael did in getting his father in law's music. Elvis is Elvis. MJ never surpassed him.
I just watched him play Tom Parker, and I thought to myself is there no part this man can't play brilliantly. The movie itself was phenomenal, especially Austin butler's embodiment of the role of Elvis.
If u haven’t seen the movie , it’s fantastic.
I remember Tom Hanks appearing on David Letterman's final show for NBC waaaaay back in 1992, promoting Sleepless in Seattle, shortly before he busted out with Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. In that appearance, he said that if there was an Elvis Presley movie on TV on Saturday afternoons, he (Hanks) would be home watching it. And now here Tom is playing the man who managed Elvis's career! Funny how life works out sometimes.
Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, absolute favorites in movie industry ⭐️ 🌟
Philadelphia
the band just happened to play the song tom hanks answered in the Colbert questionnaire, 'the song you would listen to for the rest of your life', was 'our lips are sealed' by the gogos
Would you guys at THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT please *label* the interviews with parts 1, 2 & 3 when you put them here on TH-cam? It's damn hard to figure out what order to watch them in!
No, the answer is no. They want you to click on them as much as possible even by accident. They don’t care about viewers only views.
You can watch the clips in order if you use the link in the upper right at the end of the previous clip… usually you can start with the “meanwhile” segment and jump to the end, and click on the link at the end of that one.
@@ryanm4319 You have single-handedly shattered my childhood.
@@ryanm4319 Rough day?
You can watch the new one that came out today...."Stephen Colbert employees arrested for breaching Capitol building"
Tom Hanks did such a good job playing this role both him and Austin deserve awards hands down.
Watch an interview with Colonel Tom. Tom Hanks is NOTHING like him.
@@haywoodjablowme699 💯
Yeah no it was absolutely awful, but of course barely anyone knows what a real dutch accent sounds like that even Tom Hanks didn't bother to do any research on it
He brings my childhood to life...i love his voice...
Tom Hanks is the very best . He's so animated & full of fun & wit, I could listen to him all day long ...
Hes a child rapist who frequently went to Epstein island
I was 13 when Big came out he's been my favorite actor since
My favorite was Dragnet, give it a try if you haven`t yet, which I doubt.
Money pit! But really…all movies. US royalty: Betty White (RIP), Dolly Parton, Tom Hanks and Oprah
Same but swap 13 for 12 and Big for Gump
@@oafishblowfish8951 The Burbs for me! So damn funny.
@@dougdougw True, that was hilarious as well. Have a nice weekend.
Thank you for finally uploading these scenes in the proper order! ❤️
Ethan!!! How about being grateful that it is free!!!
I don't have a television, so through TH-cam I am blessed to have so many options.
The versatile Mr. Hanks can play any role, that speaks volumes.
Well,he can't play a black guy...So there's that.
@@jeffdroog your intelligence is on display here.
@@acerjuglans383 And? Do you have an opinion towards it? One statement,could in now way give you any great insight as to who I am as a person.Its just a fact,that he could,in fact,not portray person of a different skin tone.Ya know,not without going all crazy and such.In that way,he is in no way suited to any,AND all roles.Your intelligence is in question lol As in,I'm sure you don't have any,or you would have actually expanded upon your thought a little more.
@@jeffdroog Quite the word salad you have there.
I stand by my original comment.
Everyone loves Tom Hanks! One of the greats!
@AG 😂😂😂😂
@AG Seriously?? You need to take a closer look at his brother's photos to see the big difference. You must be one of those 'conspiracy believers' who thinks the movie stars capture children and drink their blood. If so, you have a long way to go to find 'truth'....a very, very long way.
@AG Where'd you get that idea from? This doesn't look anything like Tom Hanks' brother.
#noTHanks
@AG God I thought you weirdos finally got kicked off social media. Take your meds, lunatic.
I can't wait to see ELVIS. TOM HANKS LOOKS GOOD & SOUNDS GOOD. HE IS A FANTASTIC ACTOR. AUSTIN IS VERY GOOD THANKING THEM & Baz for TCB. ELVIS RIP 🙏 🕊
There is a story about the colonel that goes like this. When he was a young man in Holland, where he hailed from, he was known as a bit of a flashy dresser as he used to get about town wearing a yellow raincoat, a bit of a trademark look. There was a young woman he was seeing who was last seen alive with a man that resembled the colonel and he was wearing a yellow raincoat. The Police went on a search for the Man in the yellow rain coat but didn't find him. . .On the same night this woman that was apparently murdered, the colonel went missing. He left his home in Holland, without telling friends or family, and somehow he made it to the USA, where he wound up working as a Carney. His friends and family never heard from him again till one night his sister saw him on TV. The story goes that the real reason the Colonel never left the USA or applied for citizenship or would never let Elvis travel, except for the stint in the marines, was because he feared that Interpol would intercept him and interrogate him as to why he left Holland in such a hurry...I found this story on the internet when I was writing a paper on Elvis Presley, if you search Colonel Tom Parker Its out there somewhere on the web.
Wow! If true ? that explains alot!
I'm just glad the CTP didn't have kids.
@@joannemurdock7899 I have no doubt it's true, considering how vehemently opposed he was to Elvis touring outside the country. And trying to hide his real name. I'm just curious if it was an accidental death, or if he actually murdered that woman.
@@CP-hn1zy oh wow. SMH too bad Elvis didn't have the presence of mind to get out from under him.
Usually someone that illegally immigrates faces deportation and a massive fine / jail time depending on the years overstayed.. it could also be that ..
Oh my God. .this movie!! I'm 55 and fangirling elvis. I am besotted by if I can dream..besotted.
Don't say besotted on TH-cam.
Elvis is still the King!
Damn Right
Absolutely delightful fun you two together. We’ll never forget Forest Gump. Great film!!! Love ya both!!! ❤️🙏
I think we can forget Forest Gump to be fair, it was awful
Tom Hanks is an angelic genius! Went to watch Elvis the movie in 7 different cinemas :D
Tom Hanks is a true American Treasure. One of a kind.
As I know Australian by birth and bread.
@@svdumitrescu Born in Concord California ...
@@D...M...A...Sorry, then. Indeed, one of a kind. So likeable, so good looking, so smart. And a great actor..
Hanks is a living legend.
Dealing with "The Colonel" was the biggest personal career mistake Elvis ever made, IMHO. Trapped him in his "formula" movies that he privately hated. Elvis wanted to be in the "Star Is Born" remake for a movie comeback, but Parker nixed it, so they cast Kris Kristofferson.
And Elvis was the first choice to play Tony in the original movie of West Side Story, and the Colonel nixed that too. That might be the most heartbreaking what-if of all. Tony was the weakest link in the film and having Elvis do it would have sent what was already a masterpiece into the stratosphere. It also would have transformed Elvis’s career to be associated with something of that quality, a film actually worthy of his talents.
Yep totally agree. Plus with the Colonel being an illegal immigrant, Elvis never toured outside the US.
Almost. He did play 5 shows in Canada (Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver) in 1957, but that was it.
I totally agree. Not only the movies, but Elvis’s music changed too.
@@jdj830 I don't think Elvis had the 'character' to play Tony in West Side Story. I'm a big Elvis fan and a big fan of West Side Story and a fan of musicals, but Elvis' style just didn't fit the storyline of WSS. His voice could sound almost 'too good' for the kind of singing that Tony would have. Elvis' voice bordered on almost operatic baritone. But I loved his ballads...come to think of it, I loved his rocking songs, too. ("Baby I don't care, care, care, care. I don't care, care, care".) Just my opinion. th-cam.com/video/aqDmLqPUhO4/w-d-xo.html
It's an interesting contrast when you compare arguably the two biggest movie stars in the world who happen to both be named Tom. Tom Cruise pushes himself to the limit, he throws his star power around to create something you've never seen before on screen and it shows in the box office. He's currently also messing with Paramount while making what are presumably the final two Mission Impossible movies back to back. Getting them to do a 90 day cinema release when the standard these days is 45. Not shooting part 1 so they can't have any say over the budget which last I head was well over $300 million. He also wants something like 20% of the first dollar gross. He's a giant blockbuster film star.
Tom Hanks on the other hand seems like someone you could bump into on the street. He's pleasant and kind of low key. Doesn't really make the news that much. You never really hear about him throwing his weight around. He's somewhat unassuming. He just does his job and he does it well. I'm sure he also gets paid quite well but it isn't obvious. He doesn't spend years working on one movie. He does the movie he works on then goes onto the next one. He doesn't need tp control every aspect of every movie he's on though he does produce some of them he seems like he'd be a much more easy going boss.
You could easily call them both the biggest movie star America has produced. At least in the current time period. Yet they could not be more different in how they go about it. I just found it interesting to think about.
If you actually were to bump into him or his Wife on the street...not as low key or pleasant as you might think, which is totally understandable.
you forgot about Tom Wayne and Tom McQueen and Tom Clooney and Tom Olivier and Tom Neeson and Tom Pitt and Tom Damon...
@@bradleybrown8399 ….and Jerry!
Tom Cruise makes movies with very little in terms of storyline, Tom Hanks has made a bucket load of movies where most had compelling, well written and sometimes intricate stories. The two is classes apart, despite both being famous and working in the same line of business.
Believe it or not, there are also movie stars outside the USA
My older cousin was crazy about Elvis, but growing up in the 1960's
he seemed to be of and for an older generation.
Elvis Presley is for EVERY generation. The greatest singer of all time, bar none, maybe rivaled only by Luciano Pavarotti, the greatest opera singer of all time. One can only dream of what it would have been like to see a live performance of the two of them singing together.
Tom hanks is my step dad. So weird, I'm 34 now.. I remember great times when I was ten. He used to bring me into his back seat of his new car. He said he would give me candy if I rubbed his back and call him "daddy tommy". Great memories!
I’m here solely because I love Stephen and Tom like they are la familia 🥰 Hi Auntie Evie & Rita!😘
I've watched that movie 8times and every time I see something else that I've missed the first 7 times 😂😂😂they both did a phenomenal job 👏 💙 🙌 ❤
Just watched the movie. I had no idea that was Tom Hanks. They made him look so different.
I just seen the movie an hour ago. It was excellent. Made the hair on my arms stand up more than once.
"'cause nobody doesn't like Tom Haaaaanks!"
- Weird Al Yankovic
how popular? if Hanks ever runs for Office, he'll win Canada, too.
The QAnon people have a whole thing about Tom Hanks... being a pedophile? snacking on babies with Hillary Clinton? Something like that
I would give my right arm if he’d run for U.S. president on the Democratic ticket. Maybe both arms. He would definitely win.
Tom hanks is the best storyteller and imho the best Tom Hanks of them all.
I love that they played Our Lips Are Sealed as he walked in since that was his answer in the Colbert Questionaire
I love Stephen and Mr. Tom Hanks together.
I watch Forrest Gump when life feels too sad to endure, and it never fails to help. “Life is like a box of chocolates…you never know what you’re going to get.” a simple yet profound philosophy. Tom Hanks is one of the greatest actors of all time and a wonderful human being.
Wonderful philosophy
That's funny, I always watch Joe Vs the Volcano when I feel that way. Tom Hanks heals hearts.
Tom Hanks didn't come up with that line from Forest Gump. He's an actor and simply read the line. Seriously, nothing so special about him.
You must not have seen Tom Hanks in Private Ryan, or Philadelphia or any of his other fabulous movies. Tom is a legend.
I forgot to add Road to Perdition and The Green Mile.
I just love Tom Hanks' movies
Tom Hanks is phenomenal.
I saw this movie last night. It was so great!
❤️❤️
Fantastic film! I loved watching it in theaters
I was 6 when I saw the news on television 📺 that Elvis had passed away in the summer of 1977. I remember my family being sad and the news couldn't really talk about much else. I was too young to understand the country's loss but discovered music in a different light after I saw the bio movie on his life and was fascinated with Graceland.
This is the first time ever I've thought Tom's starting to look a little old. He's looked the same for like 30 years!
It catches up eventually. I also think it’s partly because he’s so thin right now.
My first thought was that either he has some illness or is still recovering from Covid.
I agree, looking very slim.
Agree
3:15 History is like design; it is best when applied to every day experiences. That moment about Elvis, and that stage, and America... We've been through a lot together.
Tom Hanks is by far one of the greatest actors of all time. He can play anyone
Tom Hanks is film royalty. Have been a fan of his since I first saw him In "Splash" back in the 80's. He has never ever made a bad film. All film-makers have to say when advertising their up and coming film is that Tom Hanks is in it and it will automatically become a box office hit.
Joe Versus the Volcano was pretty bad.
His performance in Elvis is super cringe worthy and disappointing.
He’s made PLENTY of bad movies.
He has made some straight up shit movies. And he has become a joke of late.
Ray overreached a bit with the statement but I think he just means Tom Hanks has established himself as a fine actor given the right role is a genius!
Tom Hanks and I share a birthday. I proudly tell people all the time. 🥰
Imagine how many followers Elvis would've had if there had been Internet back then
He would have broken it!
Lol what? The internet does not push the audience larger than a captive audience of 1.5 Billion in 1968. - LIVE - same time all around the world.
He would have been canceled as soon as people found out about his ‘slumber parties.’
He was followed everywhere. He set the bar for international stardom.
Internet wouldn't have helped him gain more followers, he already had them.
👽💨💨💨
@@stevenkidd6761 With internet, there would have been 100,000 Elvises to compete with. He would've gotten nowhere.
Tom Hanks is truly a legend himself ❤❤ And it is so loving how he has treated Austin Butler ❤
Tom hanks a class act😁🇨🇦🇨🇦
Love Tom. Such a great actor
I owned a rare version of the infamous "Having Fun On Stage With Elvis" album Tom Parker released on his personal Boxcar record label that was only sold at concerts. The more common RCA label version was sold in stores but only until Elvis had them pulled because it was such a horrible idea. The album was incoherent and embarrassing but had it's humorous moments.
mj surpassed elvis by far
@@AC-mp7cx Don't think so. SHAMONA.
@@Raughwe we all know it!
Austin did such an amazing job that I forgot that Tom Hanks, another legend was in the movie
Elvis is a absolutely legend diamonds are forever xxx
Tom’s performance in Bachelor Party never gets the recognition that it should. One of his finest work.
Hes a child rapist who was Epstein island quite a bit
Hahaha ha 😆
Thank god,finally someone on Ed Sullivan I actually was not alive to watch (yeah, I saw the Beatles). I feel so young!
Just that little big was great. Elvis lives in our hearts forever
Trivia time! TV was still very new back in the '50s...so when people listened to Elvis on the radio, many people thought he was a black man. When they saw him on TV....many people where SHOCKED.
Wow! He looks great!
I can't wait to see this movie! "I'M READY TO FLY!"
That's the Go-Gos... "Our Leaps are Sealed". ;-)
He just sat down and talked for five minutes straight.
All American Story about a great American Legend!
SOUNDS AND LOOK AMERICAN
FILMED IN AUSTRALIA AMAZINGLY!
Great movie! It's not like the typical Elvis documentary, it's more about the relationship between Elvis and the Colonel. It's very different from all the other Elvis movies.
Watching hanks here Ican't help but wonder who he will play in the movie about theTrump hearings. There are so many Colonel Parkers.
"Stephen Colbert employees arrested for breaching Capitol building"....maybe Colbert can play it with his 7 top executives who got busted today.
I would want Hanks to play Trump, that would make the Qtards implode
He looks great!
Tom looks great. Fantastic job at the character of the Colonel
Wow I haven't seen Tom this skinny since Cast Away 😳
He really is America's sweetheart
I have a short clip in a home movie of Elvis and Tom Parker in Hawaii during the filming GI Blues. My dad was one of the Jordanaires who appeared in GI Blues, but usually the scene gets cut for time.
After military service, Elvis appeared on the Frank Sinatra Timex Special for which Elvis (and Parker) got paid $125,000 for 8 minutes. Sinatra was initially unhappy about the fee because it exceeded what he got paid for whole show. However, he accepted the fee knowing Elvis would attract a huge audience which previous shows had failed to do.
Wowza
Thank you Tom Hanks for playing the role of Tom Parker because the movie revealed a side of Elvis I never knew before. Austin Butler is an unknown to me, so, this would have been just another Elvis movie, except for the fact that Tom Hanks was in it. Great movie both for Mr Hanks and Butler.
Elvis ran the Black Speakeasy circuit in the early 50's between Tennessee and Arkansas and My Mom and Uncle played piano for him well before he got famous. He learned all his motions and vocals from the black club artists. Then he parlayed it into fame and fortune.
a lot of his most famous songs were from black artists as well.
(and his movements)
@@op3129 and the Beatles songs were from Buddy Holly and the Crickets from west Texas,
Never heard about this. What do you mean by the "Black Speakeasy circuit?" He didn't start touring until '54/'55 and that was the Country circuit with Johnny Cash, The Carter Family, etc.
60 million viewers? That has to be an all time record.
I kind of enjoy seeing favorite actors from my youth getting old. He has "oldman ears" now, and so much character in his face. Seems sharp as a whip still though
you mean Hanks? he's only 65 - hardly "mental deterioration" stage.
wtaf.
I'm pretty sure the actor playing Grandpa in the new MUNSTERS movie based his portrayal on Tom Hanks' recent interpretation of Col. Tom Parker in ELVIS.
I LOVE Tom Hanks! He’s so thin here, I pray that he’s feeling well!!
Tom is the #goat 🐐
Austin Butler looks like a young John Travolta.
Mr. Hanks looks as though he may be a bit sickly or ill. Hoping that I am wrong, and saying a prayer now for the current and continued good health for him and his family.
Happy Holidays everyone.
Awesome.
GO SEE ELVIS. This movie will give you CHILLS and TEARS. Seen it twice already!
WORLD WIDE THANK YOU VERY MUCH TOM WONDERFUL ACTER YOU HAVE ALWAYS FILLED MY LIFE WITH HAPPINESS YAHOO 😁🙏🇺🇸🌎🌏🇺🇸🐬🕊☘🦚🦩MELINDA SMILE 😇
What is ironic is the fact that the same TOM HANKS who play TOM
PARKER in the movie "ELVIS"...is
the same person who played the role of "FOREST GUMP".
And if you are familiar with the movie "FOREST GUMP"...he is the one who taught ELVIS his very famous "walk and gyration"
whenever he sing on stage.
Therefore...by casting TOM HANKS
on the movie "ELVIS"...the movie industry were actually perpetuating
the myth and legacy of "FOREST
GUMP" as the teacher of ELVIS in his now famous ROCK and ROLL
dance.
Great movie and excellent interview.
The way he says “my boy”
A major theme in the recent movie, “Elvis,” is, “Colonel Parker bad man.”
For those who do not who Parker was, he was Elvis’ manager from a little after Elvis’ discovery to until his death. A known claim is that Parker took great advantage of Elvis, being more concerned for his own welfare, in the form of money, than Elvis’ welfare in the form of same and, more importantly, in the form of mental and physical health.
In contrast to what the movie portrays, Sonny West, Elvis' friend and personal body guard, a member of the “Memphis Mafia,” had nice things to say about Parker. During a presentation that he gave (Up Close & Personal with Sonny West) after the passing of both Elvis and Parker, he said, "But Colonel, to make a bad decision with all that he had to make ... I'm going to tell you something. I'll tell you this and I mean it from the bottom of my heart. Colonel Parker ... If I could go to my grave and make half of the right decisions that he made regarding Elvis, I would be very happy that I had really, really accomplished more than I ever thought I could … and along with that, I would take all the bad decisions that he's made and I'd take all of them and I'd still be way outbalanced. But, he, he was, uh, his ... his … Elvis was his best interest … and there's been things that have come out against him ... they weren’t intentionally done … like Colonel Parker being the bad guy … you, know … because he wasn’t. He cared about Elvis and he did the best he could and I think he did a hell of a job. I worked with him a lot on tour so I was with him constantly on tour out there and I saw what he did for Elvis.”
In the same presentation, in reply to a question about Elvis, West said, “I would say … probably what really sticks out in my mind … if you kind of took everything together about Elvis, with his humility and his warmth and his compassion and his concern and take all of this … and, you can probably wrap it up in one word … is, humanity. His humanity was something like, you just don’t, you know, it’s such a big word but he covered that word very well. It really brings him to it, you know … yeah … humanity.”
In a June 22, 1977 interview, before Elvis’ passing, Elvis’ father, Vernon Presley, said, "Colonel Parker is an honest man. And I think that's where the big organization and the big togetherness comes. You know? Once you find out, you don't have to worry about a guy being your manager, what he will do for you ... he handled it ... you do the show ... everything worked smooth.”
In West's case, harboring favorable opinions towards Parker might be attributed to Parker producing the money-making opportunities that he did. In the same vein, Elvis, the "bread and butter" of the operations, combined with Parker’s business prowess, enabled a quality of life that West would not have been able to enjoy otherwise. Therefore, his loyalty was to both.
As for Vernon Presley’s opinion, at least at the time of the interview, some say that he was snowed by Parker. Like West, Mr. Presley also enjoyed the fruits of Parker's labor - as conniving and manipulative as Parker has said to have been. The bottom line is Parker was able to produce the venues that equated into dollars. Although his antics might have been questioned during the process and much later, the concern at the time that it was happening wasn’t strong enough to change the equation by replacing Parker. As long as the money kept rolling in, the relationship that had been established wasn’t questioned, business as usual as it evolved was the accepted norm.
Well said. Parker was complex, in good and bad ways. Yet he was way ahead of his time as well. The satellite broadcast from Hawaii is just one example.
Colonel Tom Parker was the biggest a-hole on Earth!. I worked as a room-service busboy in Las Vegas when Elvis was at the hotel. Colonel Parker had a dinner up in his suite which took 4 waiters and 3 Busboys to work, at the end of this 5-hour meal Parker hands us a bowl of fruit that the hotel had put in his room and said "thank you gentleman take this downstairs and share it with the boys." That was our tip.
Love Tom!
Be so nice to meet him.
I love Tom Hanks dearly but there's no power that would make me suffer through another Baz Lurhman movie ever again.
Baz is a carnival showman. Entirely fitting to present Elvis this way.
No Moulin Rouge??? Ohh come on! 😄
@@MsBerries25 Seizure inducing nightmare
As someone hot and cold on Baz, Elvis is definitely enjoyable and accessible
@@MsBerries25 Nope, sorry. Moulin Rouge was a canary in a coal mine for me.
I don't blame him for the garbage fire that was Romeo + Juliet - there is no earthly way to make this story interesting 😂
I didn't particularly enjoyed Australia either...
But my dislike of the man really comes down to the way he absolutely butchered Gatsby. He was actually pretty close to getting it right, but in true Luhrmann fashion, he turned it into a vulgar parody of the original story.
In my opinion, his work lacks any kind of substance and I'm not a fan of his aesthetic, so there really is nothing for me there 🤷♀️
Hanks is a treasure.
I met Elvis. He told me I was the King!
Just...how can ANYONE not like him?