![]() We get the early gigs in pubs the meeting with his lifelong lyricist, Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell) the doomy arrival of John Reid (Richard Madden), who became Elton’s lover and manager the globe-straddling glory and the statutory crackup, without which no rock fable is complete. “I was actually a very happy child,” he adds, and, with that, we are spirited back to his youth, and thence through his personal past. ![]() Bursting through a door, Elton finds himself in group therapy, and immediately reveals his addictions: sex, drink, and drugs-the usual suspects-plus bags and bags of shopping. He looks like Hellboy, only shorter and angrier. We first encounter the adult Elton John (Taron Egerton) as he stomps down a corridor in a tangerine catsuit, tricked out with wings and horns. ![]() “Rocketman” is framed as a therapeutic exercise. He is the helmsman of the acceptably outrageous. If you need somebody to recount the rise of a British rock god from pallid suburbia to the baroque extremes of fame, and to create a stir without causing too much of a fuss, Fletcher is your man. Last year, he assumed command of the Freddie Mercury film, “ Bohemian Rhapsody,” and steered it to a safe harbor, after the previous director walked the plank. The new bio-pic of Elton John, “Rocketman,” is directed by Dexter Fletcher.
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