I'm going to zero in on the final conversation between Colonel Parker and Elvis Presley.

I'm going to zero in on the final conversation between Colonel Parker and Elvis Presley. This exchange happens after Presley has fired Parker, but has found himself unmoored. Here is part of Parker's monologue:

Yes, I lived from

you, too. But the difference is

that you also lived from me. Since

that first night on that big,

beautiful wheel, lookin up into

the moon and the stars, we

understood that we are the same,

you and I: we are two odd, lonely

children, reaching for Eternity.

Both men driven by their shadow instincts: an overwhelming need for fame (Elvis) and fortune (Parker). In the end, taste an excessive measure of success … but that only leads to personal failure and solitary death.