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Why ‘Elvis’ Might Not Be The Movie You’re Expecting · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Ever since the trailer
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Speaker 1: for Baz Learning's upcoming bioepic Elvis, popped up on YouTube,
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Speaker 1: the excitement for the movie has been growing exponentially. It's
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Speaker 1: the perfect setting for bass, sense of style and vision,
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Speaker 1: and Elvis Presley is obviously one of the most popular
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Speaker 1: pop stars the world has ever seen. But Ba's cautions,
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Speaker 1: while this film is about the king of rock and roll,
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Speaker 1: it might not be the Elvis movie some people are expecting.
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Speaker 1: He tells e W the great storytellers like Shakespeare didn't
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Speaker 1: really do biographies. What they did was take a life
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Speaker 1: and use a life as a canvas to explore a
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Speaker 1: bigger idea. The life of Elvis could not be a
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Speaker 1: better canvas in which to explore America in the fifties
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Speaker 1: and sixties. That life is culturally and socially at the
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Speaker 1: center of the fifties, sixties, and even the seventies. Elvis
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Speaker 1: hits theaters ju that's direct from Hollywood,