Hottoceame The Age of Commercialism

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

calvinnme Sure, Elvis isn't the best actor in the world, but his persona works well here.The plot involves Elvis, a young man who fights a drunk man in a bar and inadvertently kills him. The man had been accosting a young woman in the bar and Elvis didn't like it and punched him, which led to the brawl. Anyway, Elvis ends up being convicted of manslaughter and is sentenced to 1-10 years in jail. While in jail, he meets Mickey Shaughnessy, a has-been country singer who seems to have been in the clink for a while. Shaughnessy hears Elvis sing and promises to teach him how to play the guitar. He later convinces Elvis to perform in an upcoming inmate variety show which is also televised. After the appearance, Elvis receives gobs of fan letters. Jealous, Shaughnessy arranges to make sure Elvis doesn't receive his fan letters. He then convinces Elvis to sign a "contract" promising to cut him in for 50% of the profits if Elvis becomes a star.After almost two years, Elvis is released from jail, he gets a job at a nightclub where he meets a beautiful young woman, Judy Tyler. Tyler's story is tragic. Just days after completing production on this film, her first big role, she and her husband were killed in a gruesome car accident. She was only 24. I really liked her in this film. She also had a beautiful speaking voice. I think she would have made something of herself in the movie business had fate not intervened. Anyway, after hearing Elvis sing onstage (during an impromptu performance), she convinces him to record a demo for a local record studio. Elvis' song ends up being stolen by another artist and he and Tyler form their own record label to produce his music. Elvis' career takes off and so does his ego.Elvis' character seems to be a bit quick tempered as he hits people frequently throughout the film. I thought that Tyler's character somewhat evened out Elvis' character. If he had a tendency toward being impulsive, she was more level headed and rational. Shaughnessy's character was also interesting as he was a bit of a sleaze but you also felt bad for him as well.The songs in the film were good too, my favorite though being "Jailhouse Rock", which is part of a prison-themed performance planned for the television special that Elvis is to appear in and shows Elvis in all of his glory.Certainly less formulaic than the 60's Elvis films, I really enjoyed this one.

tilloscfc This is without doubt, one of Elvis' finest films, backed up by a great support cast and awesome soundtrack that underlines the singing range "The King" could offer. (Compare Jailhouse Rock to Young and Beautiful.) Similarly to his previous film, Elvis plays a singer on the rise to fame and fortune. This time, Vince Everett, fresh from a 14 month stint in jail where he meets a (unknowingly dated) musician as his cellmate, who also unknowingly gets Everett into the music idea by performing the odd song for fellow inmates and on a TV show containing entertaining prisoners...hey, it's an Elvis flick, just go with it! On his release from prison, Everett meets attractive 1950's Simon Cowell Judy Tyler - a music mogul - who helps get him started in the industry, including movies. A thoroughly enjoyable flick, regardless of whether you're an Elvis fan or not. The King looks fantastic, there's a memorable Elvis movie scene where after angering Tyler by kissing her against her will she hits out at his underhand "tactics." "Those ain't tactics, honey...it's just the beast in me." Tragically, leading lady Judy Tyler was killed in a car crash with her husband just days before Jailhouse Rock opened in Cinemas.

ehaight12 In a time when the family image needed to appear picture perfect, Elvis infused rebellion into his music and channeled it directly to the teenagers who, after struggling under the repressive thumb of a picture- perfection they never wanted, were desperate to espouse and enact. What was it about this man that brought such a craze and drove teenagers away from what was expected of them? Bob Dylan himself said that "(w)hen I first heard Elvis' voice, I just knew nobody was going to be my boss." Indeed, in either a tribute or a prophecy, Dylan continued, "hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail." (admin). Elvis was the start of something that was never seen before: fervent, vital, rebellious, energy. One of the first, of many to come, to reject the establishment and to attempt to create a new one based in joy and levity. Nowhere is this more evident than in his movie Jailhouse Rock which features his classic hit record Jailhouse Rock. This musical is one that any lover of music should own-Elvis masterfully captures a sense of the exhilarating and the rebellious that leaves even the modern viewer with a sense of wicked joy, and although the music is so sinfully hypnotic as to suggest that it was created out of dark voodoo magic, two of the things actually responsible for engrossing listeners, both contemporary and modern, are first, the novelty of his willful taboo breaking, and second, his choice to present a (paradoxically) flagrant- yet-restrained display of sex appeal that artists have tried and failed to reproduce ever since. The movie is about a rebellious young man that gets thrown into jail. This concept of the jail house creates a sense of wicked exhilaration and rebellion that appeal to both modern and contemporary audiences. The idea of rebellion frames every scene and is in every song. Elvis presents the idea that going against the status quo is desirable and that will never go away because he broke the taboo of how to act. In Jailhouse Rock, Elvis gets thrown into jail and through song and dance; the audience discovers that it is a party. He presents the idea that going against the law is fun and that being in jail is admirable and desirable. Also, that it is fun to be rebellious and that nobody should ever want to leave the Jailhouse Rock. "Shifty Henry said to Bugs, 'For Heaven's sake, no one's looking', now's our chance to make a break.' Bugsy turned to Shifty and he said, 'Nix nix, I wanna stick around a while and get my kicks.' Let's rock, everybody, let's rock." The warden even tells the man that is sad about being in jail that he needs to cheer up and have a good time. The warden said, "Hey, buddy, don't you be no square. If you can't find a partner use a wooden chair. Let's rock, everybody, let's rock." The man that is supposed to enforce the law is the man that is supporting the prisoners' unlawful behavior. His performance in the movie Jailhouse Rock also shocked viewers with his daring dance moves and lyrics. He dances and shakes his hips in such an undesirable fashion to the parents that all of the children, desperate for a way to break out of the norm, craved his music and performances. He is known for brainwashing young girls with his charming, soothing, passionate voice. Anyone listening to him perform can feel his passion he had for what he did whether they liked him or not. The entire presentation oozes with sex appeal. He creates a dark, rebellious life and packs it with everything desirable to the cookie cutter teens of the past and individualistic teens modernly. We can see some subtle-but-brash innuendo in the words in his song "Young and Beautiful" that Elvis repeats to his love interest "Your lips so red, your eyes that shine, shame the stars that glow, so fill these lonely arms of mine, and kiss me tenderly, then you'll be forever young, and beautiful to me" to viewers in the 60's, this would have been shocking, indeed. Such things are not talked about, certainly not sung about. And yet, there is something so irresistible about the promise implied by "your angel smile, your gentle touch, are all I'm dreaming of, oh take this heart I offer you and never set me free." Even today, a time we consider so much less repressed, one can't help but hear his invite to be his love and not melt. There's innocence and an evocative brashness in what Elvis does/says. He can be sexier with his PG winks and dances and hints than anyone today can with their blatant displays. In fact, it's the subtlety that makes it sexier than any crude content that is modernly presented. Elvis's performance in Jailhouse Rock is timeless. He will always be the king of rock and roll that was sinfully hypnotic through his willful novelty of taboo breaking and have undeniable sex appeal that has yet to be reproduced.Works Cited admin, . "rapbasement." Lil Wayne Passes Elvis in Most Hot 100 Hits. N.p., 30 September 2012. Web. 28 Apr 2013.

rajah524-3 Compare the films Elvis made before he went in the Army with those he made afterward. In "Love Me Tender," "Loving You," "Jailhouse Rock" and "King Creole," Elvis was a whole lot closer to =Elvis= as he'd been in the era of the "Louisianna Hayride," "Stage Show," "The Milton Berle Show," "Your Hit Parade" and "The Steve Allen Show." The famous cell block dance skit may have been choreographed, but it's still closer to the Elvis of "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Hound Dog" -- and thus, to the Elvis that "changed the world" in '56 -- than to anything he did in front of a camera until the "comeback special" in 1968.I've heard a few people assert that Col. Tom went along with Elvis going in the Army to "clean him up" and "make him more controllable and palatable to the establishment." Anyone who's read James Dickerson's book on the relationship between The King and The Colonel may well agree.But in whatever event, "Jailhouse Rock" provides compelling evidence that the Elvis of 1968-1975 or so was no "invention." That Elvis was the logical development of the Elvis of 1955-1958... the one you can look at with your own eyes right here.