10 Movies That Lied So Much They Told The Truth

10. Elvis

Some criticised Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley biopic for telling Elvis' (Austin Butler) story from the perspective of his sleazeball former manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks), but no matter what you make of Tom Hanks' bewildering performance in the role, it was absolutely done for a reason.

Rather than take a totally conventional Wikipedia page approach to its subject, having the story unfold from the POV of Parker - a flagrantly dishonest charlatan and classic unreliable narrator - gives us a brutally honest account of how Elvis was so aggressively commodified in his lifetime.

What could be more on-brand for Parker than to deny Elvis agency in his own story and frame it entirely around himself? Just as Parker had a stranglehold on Presley's career, he too changed the myth to fit his own self-serving agenda.

This isn't to say that Elvis is a great or even particularly good movie, but in making the unexpected choice to appoint Parker the protagonist of a movie called Elvis, it cuts deeper to the heart of how celebrity can dehumanise a person, stripping away the flesh and leaving a mere symbol behind.