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The King (2017 American film)
2017 documentary film by Eugene Jarecki
The King is a 2017 American documentary film directed and co-written by American filmmaker, author and two-time Sundance nominee Eugene Jarecki.
As indicated in the film title, the documentary is about Elvis Presley and America during his career. Blending archival footage, celebrity interviews and footage of significant American events such as the twin towers collapse, the documentary adopts Presley as a metaphor for the rise and fall of the American Dream.
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Perspectives which are drawn upon in the evaluation of Presley's career include; Rosanne Cash, Alec Baldwin and Emmylou Harris. Captured across America in influential cities such as; Memphis, Las Vegas and New York, much of the documentary occurs within Presley's own car, a 1963 Rolls-Royce Phantom V which was bought by production for the film.
Adopting the American film trope of the ‘highway narrative’ in the narration of the rise and fall of Presley