Elvis (1979) & Elvis (2022) Movies Compare & Contrast

 

Elvis (1979) & Elvis (2022) Movies Compare & Contrast

            Elvis 1979 was a made for TV movie while Elvis 2022 was released to theaters and even with both being biopics, they were both very different.

            Elvis 1979 focuses more on Elvis’s life including a story about the girlfriend he had in the beginning of his career, way before his time in the military when he met his soon-to-be Priscilla. The Elvis 1979 television biopic really told a lot of things that I saw when you breakdown the material that this material helped make up the movie Priscilla and was also told in the 2022 Elvis biopic that came to theaters only in a different way and inside a different kind of chain of events.

            Both movies speak of Elvis’s time in the military but Elvis 2022 made it out that it was Colonel Tom Parker’s way of saving face with Elvis Presley’s image and the way he sung, and the thought of Elvis joining the military would show the world Elvis was a decent man. While inside the 1979 Elvis made for TV made it out that Elvis Presley just made the decision to join.

            The 2022 Elvis movie featured Elvis’s business relationship with Colonel Tom Parker the backbone of the 2022 Elvis biopic was about their business relationship. While in the 1979 Elvis made biopic for television Colonel Tom Parker was just a footnote in the movie. Meaning he was around but very little was mentioned about Colonel Tom Parker or the business relationship that Colonel Tom Parker had with Elvis Presley.

            Another thing both movies mention that people think it is a man of African American race singing when people heard the records Elvis Presley put out but only the 2022 Elvis movie that went to theaters nationwide mentions how close Elvis Presley was to members of the African American community.

            Both movies tell the story of the life of Elvis Presley in different ways but overall the two ways of telling the life of Elvis Presley were not a complete multiverse event. They weren’t so different that you would be able to say that this one or that one is more accurate than the other one. They both hit on the key notes of the life of Elvis Preseley The King of Rock n Roll. Both movies are an enjoyment to any true Elvis Presley fan young or old. Elvis is a person who is often imitated but never duplicated. There will not be another Elvis Presley and no matter how you tell his story it is still his story and it is a story most people would consider fiction if they weren’t around and didn’t know the truth!

            Elvis Presley truly when the credits run no matter what movie you watch about him is and always will be The King of Rock n Roll and nobody no matter how they tell the story in book form or in a movie can ever change Elvis Presley is King.