1979 television biopic 'Elvis' stands out as a unique collaboration between two icons.
You could describe the work of John Carpenter by many different words. “Sentimental” isn’t one of them. Carpenter is perhaps the most purely genre filmmaker of his generation, his concepts stripped down to their barest fundamentals. The type of schmaltzy romanticism of many current blockbusters is almost absent altogether from Carpenter’s work. This is particularly true of his favorite leading man, Kurt Russell.
Even if Elvis feels like an outlier, it showed the type of “Old Hollywood” approach that Russell and Carpenter latched on to. Their work together has often been compared to John Wayne and John Ford. Snake, R.J., and Jack are all lonesome gunslingers in their own way. They only inadvertently become heroes. The same could be said about Elvis Presley. He was a poor kid from the slums that took the world off guard with his provocative attitude.
Russell’s young and earnest performance is only unusual compared to the rest of his collaborations with Carpenter. The rare Carpenter films that genuinely tug at the heartstrings, such as Starman and Christine, are the ones where Russell is absent. Snake, R.J., and Jack aren’t given the benefit of a tragic backstory, but Carpenter spends a majority of Elvis’ first hour dedicated to “The King’s” humble beginnings in Mississippi.
However, this doesn’t mean that Carpenter and Russell were looking back at “The King” with rose-tinted glasses. Elvis acknowledges the controversies in the singer’s life; his relationship with Priscilla is problematic, and he’s often cruel towards those who are trying to give him support. Elvis also showed that Carpenter was a slightly more subversive filmmaker than general audiences were capable of understanding at the time.
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