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  1. fun, about Elvis: Amanda zoned out and missed that Elvis's mother died, and only realized the fancy house was Graceland when the film moved on; the pacing is endless yet frenetic.
    “Like, quite literally, I missed that Graceland was purchased as Graceland, you know, like 2 hours in the movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:05:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. people (performance praise): Elvis → Austin Butler. Butler embodies Elvis so well that Sean thought he was really good, though the Parker framing detracts from him.
    “I don't know if he looks exactly like Elvis, but man, he embodies him so well.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:09:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (parody of a parody): Elvis → Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Elvis seems to parody Walk Hard's parody of women ripping open shirts at the star.
    “somehow this movie is doing a parody of the Walkhard parody of the scene of like women like busting open.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:09:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. people (same director, style as substance): Elvis → The Great Gatsby. Style-as-substance can't hold up a whole film, as Luhrmann's Great Gatsby shows.
    “I think that that can't hold up a film, as we've learned in like many other Buzzlerman films, including Great Gatsby”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:13:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Elvis: Sean's contrast: Elvis was shot with one camera on Ed Sullivan; the movie cuts a hundred times in two minutes to match his magnetism.
    “it literally cuts a 100 times in a 2 minute period of performance because that's almost sort of what it takes to match the Elvis Presley magnetism.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:17:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Elvis: The film's 68 Comeback Special sequence and 'If I Can Dream' are Sean's favorite moments, close to Elvis's 'A Change Is Gonna Come'.
    “It's as close as Elvis got to a change is going to come.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:21:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  7. career (career echo): Elvis → Cloud Atlas. Hanks's accent work in Elvis recalls his big swing in Cloud Atlas; accents are not where he excels.
    “it reminded me a little bit of Cloud Atlas where he's like, I want to have some fun.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:23:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Elvis: Sean and Amanda attended the same screening unknowingly; Amanda left with alacrity.
    “We were at the same screening. We didn't know this and I did watch you just leaving with like alacrity, even for you.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:24:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (prefigured by): Elvis → Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. A scene in Elvis (the subject thinking over his life before going on stage) is almost beat for beat preceded by Walk Hard.
    “there is a scene that is almost beat for beat preceded by walk hard 15 years ago.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:26:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  10. craft (shared plot device): Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story → Elvis. Both feature a dead brother as the formative trauma (Walk Hard's wrong-kid-died gag, Elvis's twin).
    “that's also the premise of Elvis is that, you know, his twin brother died at a very young age.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:35:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (missing scene): Elvis → Respect. Respect's songwriting-in-the-studio scene always works; Elvis disappointingly has no 'they're writing Jailhouse Rock' moment.
    “there's no point where they're just like, oh my god, they're writing Jailhouse Rock or whatever.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:37:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  12. lineage (origin-of-moves gag): Elvis → Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump already did the bit where Elvis took his moves from a kid in leg braces.
    “How could they ever improve on the Bitten Forest Gump where you find that Elvis didn't actually get his moves or style some black music?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:01 · Adam Nayman (0.75 sure it was them)
  13. unmapped (wished-for complement): Elvis → Behind the Candelabra. Sean wished Elvis had more Fat Elvis; Behind the Candelabra is one long stretch of that excessive late period.
    “I wish there was a little bit more Fat Elvis in the film Elvis.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:47:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  14. contrast (structure contrast): Love and Mercy → Elvis. Love & Mercy splits its story across two Brian Wilsons (Cusack, Dano) rather than a cradle-to-grave Wikipedia run.
    “it gives you kind of 2 lenses to, to go through the 60s and the creation of the Beach Boys”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:54:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  15. craft (same structure): Elvis → Amadeus. Both tell a titanic cultural figure's story through a lesser, frustrated figure entrenched in their life (Salieri, Colonel Parker).
    “It actually has a little bit in common with Elvis in that it's the story of this Titanic, almost imperceptible figure in the culture, through the lens of a lesser and perhaps more frustrated figure”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:01:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  16. contrast (contrast of approach): Amadeus → Elvis. Amadeus conveys Mozart's genius without answering who he was; Elvis also skips interiority but fails to fill the gap.
    “it's smart that Elvis doesn't do that, even though you feel the lack of it because Elvis doesn't fill anything else in.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:02:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)