“Priscilla”- I went to see it a 2nd time, ASK ME ANYTHING

I've heard it loses its steam and gets boring in the third act.

I want Elordi and Butler to fight each other and to both perish in the process.

The 3rd act is the weakest part of the film. But I wouldn’t say “boring”.

I read the book and watched the TV miniseries “Elvis and Me” in the 80s. I don’t feel like I need to see this version.

I saw it at a late showing on Thursday night and really enjoyed it. The lead actress, Cailee Spaeny, gave an excellent performance, and they did a marvelous job of making her truly look her age spanning 14–30, which is really something. Beautiful cinematography, musical score, and soundtrack (not surprising as Coppola is an ~aesthetic~ queen, the Gen-X progenitor of all the millennial Tumblr girls). It definitely ranks among Coppola's best work IMO—I think I may even prefer it to "Lost in Translation", though "The Virgin Suicides" still reigns supreme for me.

I kind of want to see it again because I had the misfortune of having to share the theater with a gaggle of obnoxious pig people who talked throughout almost the entire movie and treated the theater like their fucking living room. It appeared to be a large Greek or Armenian family; the men chose to sit one row behind me while the women sat at the far back of the theater with the two screeching crotch goblins they brought with them. At first when they walked into the silent theater where I was sitting alone, they all immediately began yelling at each other and laughing hysterically, so I knew I was in trouble. They essentially never stopped talking at full volume. Throughout the film, I occasionally found myself fantasizing about a mass shooter with an AR-15 bursting into the theater and obliterating us all.

Sofia Coppola has never made a good film. Why should she start now?

My mother refuses to watch this and gets upset if someone she knows wants to watch it. She LOVES Elvis and doesn’t believe anything Priscilla has ever said about him.

[quote]Sofia Coppola has never made a good film. Why should she start now?

Truer words were never spoken.

I hated Lost In Translation

The three drag queens and the bus are notably missing here. Bummer.

Did they show what a limp dick Elvis was in the sack?

Well, Priscilla has been known to lie, R6.

Everyone has lied.

Are you taking your meds as prescribed?

Little white lies to avoid people's feelings getting hurt, etc... and telling bullshit are two different things.

In the book and mini-series r3 mentions, Elvis did rape her. I can still remember the scene of the aftermath the mini-series showed, where the actor played Elvis as sullen, self-obsessed and nasty.

But in this film he didn't rape her?

The mini-series was 4 hours long. This is 2 hours. There is a lot that will not be shown.

[Quote]ASK ME ANYTHING

How's your anal hygiene?

Is there a scene in which Elvis chides Priscilla because her toenail polish is slightly chipped? Because that's the one thing I remember from the book.

Can Sophia direct a film about people who aren't rich?

I was a teenage slave

Did he "rape" rape her?

The lifelong fascination with this short term early wife of Elvis’s has always baffled me. Really, what did she do but marry him briefly and have his daughter as a result. I find much of Elvis’ life bizarre and sad- she’s a small part of that.

At most she seemed to leverage her status as Lisa Marie’s mother. Celebrity and fame built on dysfunction?

^^^ Riley, is that you?

R22 Priscilla's relationship with Elvis began in 1957, when she was 14, then they lived together (supposedly chastely) for now than ten years before marryin.. She wasn't Elvis's "first wife," she was his only wife as well as the mother of his only child AND the person who made Graceland a money-generating tourist attraction.

It's fine to not care about Priscilla, but don't rewrite history to do so.

The clips I've seen look so dark you need a flashlight. Looks like Sofia learned her lighting techniques from The Godfather.

Love the scene where Cilla walks in on E as he takes my 9in uncut cock in his pouty lil mouth murmuring "Luv me tender."

We all new The King was really The Queen.

R27 Oh, dear!

I remember from the book Elvis would slap Priscilla's forehead every time she frowned because it caused wrinkles. No wonder she went overboard with plastic surgery.

My problems with the film (which is an intelligent adaptation of Priscilla Presley’s version of her long, strange relationship with the very fucked-up Elvis Presley) were functions of the extemely low budget.

It’s a very narrow, claustrophobic film, which is a good way of showing Priscilla’s own tunnel vision — first sheltered by her parents, and then sheltered by Elvis and his staff, who understood he wanted a childlike, pliable wife and helped to give him that.

But I totally agree with the complaint that the film is too dark — it is ridiculously gloomy, which I assume was a way of covering up what a small budget they had overall. It has no scope, never breathes, doesn’t ever have what feels like a real or spontaneous moment. Coppola didn’t even have the means (or desire?) to show Elvis Presley as the fat, dissipated cartoon of himself he was in his last years. Perhaps the whole makeup budget went into false eyelashes.

I thought it was an interesting film, but it’s too low key, constipated and precious to be anything but a boutique curiosity. Yet it fits right into Sofia Coppola’s wheelhouse of films about young women being manipulated into situations far out of their control, and what they do to break free. If Daddy Francis hadn’t thrown her to the wolves by casting her in “Godfather III,” we might not have this body of her work. As it is, she speaks for many young women in and out of show business, who are trying to find their way in a man’s world.

^Very interesting post R30; between the recent movie & the dissections of the Presley family after LM's death, I'm kind over them & even though you have to give Priscilla props for taking control of her life, the story has been told many times. I know she's not everyone's cup of tea, but I like Coppola's film making & would like to see her do something that's not quite so in her zone, if you will

As for being thrown to the wolves, I remember hearing an interview about the making of Apocalypse Now & just what a loon FFC was. It was really his wife who stepped in & protected the kids from the craziness. Makes you wonder how that & her death of her brother impacted her. Probably the story of her own life would be a pretty interesting movie.

I think Sofia hit a homerun with "The Bling Ring". The decadent, nihilistic plot fit perfectly with her gloomy, slightly-bemused personality.

I thought this film was great and liked how claustrophobic it felt. That’s what Priscilla felt.

R33 I agree. I'm not a big fan of her per se (or Elvis for that matter), but it does force you to look at the situation from her perspective, which, initially, is that of a 14-year-old (17-year-old when she moves in with him). She was so young. It's hard to imagine being that young in such a unique set of circumstances. I can completely see how her life with him felt like borderline-imprisonment.

I give her credit for holding her shit together. She kept it tight for E. Then, she lost her shitbas she joined the cult of Scientolog

And yet she wants to be buried next to him.

With a face like hers, she should be in hiding.

I saw Priscilla a few days ago. I wanted to love it. I didn’t love it at all.

I do think the music used was good.

I thought it was very boring.

R37 what music used did you like?

Amazing how many acolytes the White Trash God still has.

Elvis and Priscilla didn’t see each other again for 2 years after meeting in Germany. Elvis got back together with his girlfriend Anita Wood when he returned to the U.S. Priscilla had high school boyfriends like Ron Tapp when she was separated from Elvis in Germany. She moved to Graceland in March 1963 and turned 18 in May. Her parents and Colonel Parker forced their wedding. Ann Margret was the love of Elvis’s life and he wanted to marry her instead.

I’m kinda baffled by the raves for this movie and Cailee Spaeny’s performance. Both were mid imo. I did like Jacob Elordi tho.

The pacing in this movie is also not good at all. The second half is super rushed.

[quote] I saw Priscilla a few days ago. I wanted to love it. I didn’t love it at all. I do think the music used was good. I thought it was very boring.

I can copy-paste this response to every Sofia Coppola film post-The Virgin Suicides

I thought it was good. It’s a small indie flick and did a good job and creating this claustrophobic space with beautiful decorations and costumes.

R40, why did she move to Graceland? Did her parents blackmail Elvis over his contact with Priscilla in Germany?

[quote] ASK ME ANYTHING

If you leave a bit of fudge on a public toilet seat, how do you get rid of it?

R45 definitely hasn’t read the book or watched the film

Ann-Margret was too smart and independent to marry Elvis.

R45 That’s what Suzanne Finstad’s book Child Bride suggests.

Ann Margret’s book has the real tea. Elvis was in love with her and she called him her soul mate.

This movie was boring. Priscilla was with Marco Garibaldi for 22 years and had a son with him. He was apparently a con artist who lied about his identity to make it in Hollywood. A movie about that relationship and how she simultaneously took over Graceland and reinvented herself would probably be more interesting.

R51 the movie was boring to you without you having watched it? And no, you didn’t.

R52 Except I did watch it. Proof? There’s only two scenes of Priscilla with Mike Stone and their affair isn’t shown at all. It would’ve made the movie way more interesting to see the affair shown since Priscilla says she wants to find a life of her own at the end of the movie.

R53 that isn’t proof. The film has been discussed online for weeks. You can find all that info easily. I know you didn’t. You’re a broke bitch who lives off his mom. You think reading about a movie is the equivalent of watching one.

R54 I did see it you moron at the AMC DINE-IN Rio Cinemas 18. I’m familiar with this story (read both Elvis and Me and Child Bride) and wanted to see how it compared to the 80s tv movie adaptation. Just because I found it boring means I didn’t watch it? Jacob Elordi was the only interesting thing about it.

R55 cool. Post your ticket….

R47, I read the book and saw the mini-series in the 80s...can't remember that part of either. The rape stands out in my mind but not much else.

I really liked his performance in this. He was a very good Elvis, which made me feel bad because I was one of the people shit talking when his casting was announced.