A sway with words
India, April 12 -- There is a moment near the end of Baz Luhrmann's EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, released in February, in which Bono's voice arrives over the closing credits like a man leaning in to settle something.
He isn't singing. He is declaiming.
The poem, American David, is one Bono, a lifelong fan, wrote in 1995. "Elvis / white trash," it begins. "Elvis / the Memphis flash."
What follows is a catalogue of contradictions: a man shooting televisions and reading Corinthians, a man who was godlike and broken, electric and earthbound.
The original poem contained slurs and offensive slang that the film wisely edits around. What remains is something unexpectedly affecting: a rockstar's tribute to the great original, delivered not throug...
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