I am in agreement with you, totally. Now, here below are the 42 actors and child actors who either played in films about his life, or parts of it, whether true, or fictional, or played even his ghost, or did his voice, or anything under the sun that reminded the viewer of one Elvis Presley. And of all of them, I prefer Austin Butler and Chayton Jay's takes on Elvis and Elvis as a boy, respectively, as they appeared in Baz Luhrmann's film, with all its mistakes, which are many, over any of the others.YDKM wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:57 pmWhilst I liked the film and it was a huge success I would say half the serious Elvis fans I meet personally dislike the film for quite a few reasons ... mostly the artistic film making licence that omits key people in Elvis's life and over dramatise or in correctly depict events in his life.
NOTE The source of this message to you, quoted verbatin, is from a section of a Wikipedia page which I started, AGES ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_Elvis_Presley
1 Lloyd Ahlquist.................................. Elvis Presley "Michael Jackson vs. Elvis Presley," Epic Rap Battles of History (Season 2, 2012)
2 Paul Boensch III................................... Elvis Presley, child at age 10 This Is Elvis (1981)
3 Austin Butler................................. Elvis Elvis (2022)
4 Bruce Campbell ..................................Elvis Presley (fictional)...... Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
5 Rob Delaney..................................... Elvis Presley Rocketman (2019; deleted scene)
6 Peter Dobson.................................... i) young Elvis Presley (fictional)
ii) The King
i) Forrest Gump (1994)
ii) Protecting the King (2007)
7 Ral Donner................................ Elvis Presley, narration This is Elvis (1981)
8 Jacob Elordi........................... Elvis Presley Priscilla (2023)
9 Randy Gray............................. Elvis Presley as a boy Elvis (1979)
10 Johnny Harra............................ Elvis Presley, age 42 This Is Elvis (1981)
11 Tyler Hilton........................... young Elvis Presley Walk the Line (2006)
12 Paul Hipp............................ Elvis Presley Liberace: Behind the Music (1988; TV film)
13 Chaydon Jay........................... Young Elvis Elvis (2022)
14 cDon Johnson............................. Elvis Presley Elvis and the Beauty Queen (1981; TV film)
15 Stephen Jones........................ Elvis ghost segmnent (fictional) Mystery Train (1989)
16 Harvey Keitel......................... Elvis Presley (fictional) Finding Graceland (1998)
17 David Keith............................ Elvis Presley (fictional) Heartbreak Hotel (1988)
Val Kilmer.............................. Mentor True Romance (1993)
18 Shawn Klush............................. Elvis Presley (fictional) "The King and I," Vinyl (Season 1, 2016)
19 Ron Livingston............................ Elvis Presley (fictional) Shangri-La Suite (2016)
20 Reiley McClendon Elvis Presley (fictional) Shangri-La Suite (2016)
21 Dana MacKay..................... Elvis Age 35 This Is Elvis (1981)
22 Gil McKinney.................... Elvis Presley (fictional) Elvis Has Left the Building (2004; direct-to-video)
23 Dale Midkiff...................... Elvis Presley Elvis and Me (1988; TV film)
24 Kevin Milanese................... Elvis Presley Relic Hunter (1999, episode "Thank You Very Much")
25 Drake Milligan.................. Elvis Presley Sun Records (2017)
26 Chunkey Pandey................. Elvis Presley (fictional) Hello, Darling (2010)
27 Robert Patrick................. Mr. Aaron (fictional) Lonely Street (2008)
28 Steven Peri.................... Old Elvis (fictional) Eerie, Indiana (1991)
29 Brady Permenter................. Elvis The Gift (2015)
30 Rick Peters................... Elvis Presley Elvis Meets Nixon (1997; TV film)
31 Jonathan Rhys-Meyers........... Elvis Presley Elvis: The Early Years (2005; miniseries)
32 Kurt Russell..................... i) Elvis Presley
........................................ii) Elvis Presley (fictional) (voice)
.......................................i) Elvis (1979; TV film)
........................................ii) Forrest Gump (1994)
33 David Scott....................... Elvis Presley, age 18 This Is Elvis (1981)
34 Michael Shannon................. Elvis Presley, age 35 Elvis & Nixon (2016)
35 Martin Shaw.................. Elvis Presley Are You Lonesome Tonight? (1985; play)
36 Frank Stallone..................... Elvis Presley (fictional) Angels with Angles (2005)
37 Ron Stein....................... Elvis Presley (fictional) Death Becomes Her (1992)
38 Michael St. Gerard................ i–ii) young Elvis Presley
i.....................................ii) young Elvis Presley (fictional)
.........................................i) Elvis (1990; mini-series)
i.......................................i) Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
.............................................iii) Heart of Dixie (1989)
39 George Thomas........................ Elvis Presley (fictional), as John Burrows Memphis Rising: Elvis Returns (2011)
40 Jeff Yagher.............................. Elvis Presley (fictional) "The Once And Future King," The Twilight Zone (Season 2, 1986)
41 Rob Youngblood .............................Elvis Presley Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story (1993; TV film)
42 Jack White............................. Elvis Presley (fictional) Walk Hard (2007)
Kindly note that the above list does not include actors who played actors imitating Presley, as was the case in the movies "Leta make love" (actor Dick Dale imitating Elvis), "Man on the moon" (Jim Carrey imitating Andy Kaufman imitating Elvis), and "Wired" (Jim Belushi imitating Elvis), all three of whom, in my view, delivering an INFERIOR interpretation of Elvis's image vis a vis that of Butler, playing the real Elvis, in Luhrmann's "Elvis.",