Priscilla - The Better Biopic (Review)
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I don't know where your head was at when you gave this review. This movie is tanking in the movie theaters and it's a fantasy it's Fiction it's not true. If you bothered to do your research on Priscilla you would know that Priscilla wasn't the innocent victim. All of Elvis Presley's other girlfriends said he was nothing but a gentleman he never tried to groom any of them or control them. How interesting that Priscilla is the only one that claims that Elvis tried to groom her. The fact that you walked out of this movie feeling a little scared of Elvis that was upsets true Elvis fans because that's Priscilla's true objective. To dismantle the legacy of Elvis while she makes money off of him. And yes this was the Revenge movie Priscilla only cares about money and fame and she always wanted to be as famous as Elvis because without Elvis nobody would even know the name of priscilla. And if you want to know more about Priscilla and the truth just ask me
Elivis wasnt perfect sorry.
@@redstar7292 nobody said he was perfect. But to portray him as a pedophile and a groomer is slander.. see you today is getting brainwashed about Elvis and they don't know the truth. Back in the 50s and 60s women dated much younger and got married much younger. My mother was 15 when she dated my father who was 23 got married when she was 18 and she was a virgin and had me at 19. My mother said if you weren't married at 18 you were an old maid. The 50s and 60s were a lot different than today. And even the hairdresser to Priscilla Patty who was friends with Elvis said that it was Priscilla insisted on having her hair high up and tons of makeup. If you read any books which you probably haven't about other women who had dated Elvis Alderman said he was nothing but a gentleman and he never tried to control them or tell them what to wear. Now Priscilla also cheated on elvis. She's far from perfect. Chin affair with a married man whose wife was pregnant. My issue with this review with the movie Priscilla and Priscilla herself is that for someone who claims to love this man so much she constantly bashes him makes derogatory remarks about him and that's not what you do if you truly love someone.
Anyone else find it crazy how she actually looked the ages she was supposed to be throughout the movie? Wild how she looked 14
It's not just the makeup/clothes. It's the way the actress spoke and carried herself. It's so subtle but so genius
she gave a really skilled performance ! hope she nets some rewards for it
My friends and I were shocked when we looked it up and saw she was 26
I was surprised when I found out that the actors for both Priscilla and Elvis were the same age.
@@agirlwithablog3579Well did you think they’d get an actual 14 year old
the fact that Priscilla only had 10 minutes in Elvis, while Elvis is in practically all of Priscilla is very telling. While to him she wasn’t that much of a big, long term part of his life he was everything to her. genuinely makes me so sick
I mean....he was Elvis and she was a normal person. It would like if Taylor Swift Married a regular guy and they made a movie about Taylor Swift.....it would mainly be able Taylor not her partner.
@@jerrod7361 Maybe, but it would be a pretty different story if Taylor Swift married a regular guy she met when he was 14. One might consider making it a bigger part of the movie, or at least spending more than 10 minutes on it in 2 1/2-hour movie
Especially since it wouldn't be out of the ordinary for biopics. Just look at Bohemian Rhapsody - Mary Austin gets an overwhelming amount of the screentime of the first half of the movie, and they never even married
@@jerrod7361This is a really weird take to have.. what, you’re telling me your partner isn’t an important part of your life?
She was a child and he was her everything it's super sad
Weird take bc it seems like youre mad at a person for choices made by others about his biopics all these years later, bc you think its revealing of their true character... and maybe the implications are true but...base it on something more grounded than that, like priscilla herself irl saying she felt that way or something
I really hate seeing comments like "Uhhhh why are we getting another Elvis movie, no one can top Austin Butler". Dude, the movie is called PRISCILLA, not Elvis.
The marketing for this newer movie has been insane and not about Priscilla at all tbh, so blame whoever is in charge of PR for it.
Yet, it’s clear the only thing that’s on people’s interest is the portrayal of Elvis.
Even if it isn’t about Elvis the comparison is valid as 1)he’s a major part of this movie and 2)we’ve got a fantastic performance by Austin Butler, this doesn’t have to be on the same level but however good it is the comparison will be there just because of how brilliant Butler was.
Priscilla is only relevant because of her relationship to Elvis.
@@saphireblue3563in the grand scheme of things, sure. but the movie is about priscilla’s life and based off of priscilla’s own autobiography so i don’t see why it’s so controversial to say she should be the main focus
I think it takes a girl to know how scary ur first bf is. So watching this, I was anxious most of the time even when the scenes felt small. It’s the small things that lead to the big problems
“It takes a girl” what
@@chuusenberg519 I think they were trying to say that it’s a uniquely female experience in a relationship dynamic.
@@chuusenberg519 what’s wrong now big back
@@Chasityolaf huh
@@rachelm7592 that retawded
Jacob Elordi can make any charcter unlikebale but intresting
😭
I would not say that, but I’m very glad he’s gotten this role since movies like the Kissing Booth don’t do his filmography any good 🗿
Big reason I didn't watch ELVIS was the actor just seemed wrong. Jacob, I bought it 100%
jacob deserves more praise for his acting skills cuz damn he knows how to make me hate a character.
@@samwallaceart288Also the fact that Austin was a cheater.
there’s a reason Priscilla wasn’t in Elvis much and why she was so poorly casted. Not only is she something they have to mention with a grain of salt because of the inappropriate age, grooming and abuse, but she’s also an afterthought to these people. She’s something pretty to use and have on Elvis’ arm and emotional support to a fully grown man. The actress chosen didn’t look like her, have her mannerisms or voice, they just casted someone and basically said you’re Priscilla Presley. Cailee and Sofia finally gave Priscilla the opportunity to have her story be told and for that I am eternally grateful.
WRONG WRONG WRONG. YOU fell for Priscillas scam. For others who have a brain, and like to RESEARCH WITH IT, DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY.
No matter how much you may like Sofia. This one is a DISASTER. Her worst movie yet. Its just BAD (and no - not bad ass). You will NOT KNOW ONE TRUE THING about Priscilla or Elvis after leaving the theater. I promise you.
"There are so many ironies after Elvis' death. For instance, Elvis took definite measures to exclude certain people from his personal estate by leaving everything to Lisa Marie. But due to a strange set of circumstances , including the consecutive deaths of the executors, Vernon and Minnie Mae, the very person he did not want to have control, now does control the estate." --- one of Elvis' best friends, and soprano singer Kathy Westmoreland 1987
Elvis KNEW that Priscilla was a DISHONEST GOLD DIGGER. And so did many people around Elvis. This is a ONE SIDED film OF LIES, COVERING UP HER LIES. Elvis WAS RIGHT:
CREDIBILITY FAIL #1: Priscilla stole from Lisa Marie's trust fund by paying herself $900,000, out of Lisa Marie's trust fund WITHOUT HER KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT!! Total financial damage: $16 million.
CREDIBILITY FAIL #2: It's believed now that Marco Garibaldi/Garcia EMBEZZLED $15 MILION from Lisa Marie's trust fund. Co-trustees Priscilla Wagner Beaulieu and Barry Siegel pressured Lisa Marie to sell 85% of her EPE-shares because it would be financially advantageous for them as trustees of Lisa Marie's trust fund. Never mind Lisa Marie's financial interests!
CREDIBILITY FAIL #3: After taxes Lisa Marie had $45 MILLION left from the sale of her EPE-shares. That money was squandered by Barry Siegel; he invested it in his own company, that went broke. He never paid Lisa Marie back.
CREDIBILITY FAIL #4: After all her uncorroborated accusatory nonsense that Elvis was a creepy child molestor --- she DEMANDS --- IN COURT OF LAW --- TO BE BURIED RIGHT NEXT TO HIS COFFIN SIDE BY SIDE FOR ETERNITY IN HIS BACKYARD.. moving Elvis' beloved mother and fathers resting places!!!! ....... even though she divorced him 50 years ago and has had a child with another man and her own life with other people for half a century.
Priscilla ruined her own credibility when she stole millions of dollars from Elvis trust without her own daughters consent. She stole from her child. She is an untrustworthy gold digger and fraudster.
THE SAD REALITY THAT SOFIA JUST GETS WRONG IN THIS TOTAL FABRICATION FILM: Priscilla Wagner Beaulieu is only interested in being famous and rich. She has exploited Elvis, Lisa Marie and now Riley, Finley and Harper. Priscilla is a narcissist who uses people and then discards them. EPE should boycott Priscilla's strategic fantasy of lies. HOW in God's name or otherwise, can you or anyone else BELIEVE PRISCILLA, or worse support her?
She is attacking Elvis' name and USING HIS LAST NAME (illegally I might add) with NO EVIDENCE. and NO EYEWITNESSES. Come on.
Neither actress looks like Priscilla though. At least the one from Elvis had sharper features. Cailee has rounder, softer angles which is the opposite of irl Priscilla who has/had a super sharp nose.
@@paraiso4116 that’s not my point. the point is that they casted Cailee, someone who yes slightly resembles her but mainly embodies who Priscilla was, the essence, the mannerisms, etc. They *see* Priscilla as a person outside of being Priscilla Presley. In Elvis they casted a pretty girl, gave her a big wig, put on some eyeliner and called it a day because they needed someone to simply fill that role.
He did not groom her. The were apart for most of her teenage years. There was no abuse, and the age thing should not even matter.
@@cvers99 YOU DO NOT HAVE A POINT. You ignored MY POST because I gave you the facts. You cannot dispute them because you have NO DETAILS, NO EVIDENCE and only Priscilla's word. I gave you info to grade Priscilla's CREDIBILITY. What is your excuse for not demanding the TRUTH from Sofia and Priscilla??!!
I’m so glad this movie was made, so many young girls (13-16), have. experienced being pursued and held in the wings by adult “rock stars” or musicians or celebrities, and we always see the headlines and articles about those men but we never hear the stories of these young girls and how their lives were permanently altered. As someone who lived a similar experience when I was 14, this movie helped me come to terms with my own trauma, It really is so meaningful and it’s a shame so many adult men who adore Elvis don’t seem to understand. I think the movie left a little to be desired, but I love how it simply told the story as is, from Priscilla’s perspective, it wasn’t nearly as villain i zing as I thought it would be, and that’s important because it shows how it all felt to her.
The fact it still happens to this day is what gets me,there's no accountability for the celebs they're rich and have connections even socially the girls are outcasts and demonized for being preyed on,I wish men held each other accountable instead of sticking up for them or ignoring it bc "that's their business" or
"she knew what she was doing"
"i dont know about all that"
it's crazy birds of a feather
@@iliketea162In the justice system there still is this need to protect public figures when they do stuff like this. I have noticed that the newer generation are not afraid to call it out, so socially we’re almost gettkng in the right direction. We just need to continue to call it out when we see it.
I don't know where you got the "We never hear the stories of these young girls and how their lives were totally altered," from. A lot of them built careers from writing books saying "I slept with a rock star."
Like, this story is based off of Priscilla's book. She basically made "I was Elvis's wife and he was a terrible husband and so bad to me. Pay me some money and I'll tell you all about it," into a career. Even back in the 70s young women were basically set for life if they could have a juicy story to tell about a rock star seducing them when they were young, making them do absolutely abhorrent things (the worse, the better) and then breaking their poor little hearts.
It's actually something that was prevalent in the punk scene in the 90s, with male singers basically writing songs telling young girls to leave them alone because they didn't want to deal with teenage girls telling the press how awful they were, but also you had the female singers writing songs about how they WANTED a tragic romance with a rock star. Like, how their fantasy was to be the Nancy to the next Sid Vicious, or the Priscilla to the next Elvis. It's why Seattle grunge musicians were so critical of Courtney Love because she slept around with pretty much any singer who looked like they could be the next great tragic rock n roll star, and then she ended up with Kurt.
That is true, but not all of them do. And even if they did capitalize off of their partners fame, they still got into a relationship with an adult at a young age and that can permanently change someone’s mindset, beliefs, and personality, mostly for the worst. So I think there should be a little sympathy for young girls like that, even if how they react to their relationship isn’t morally correct
@@iliketea162Just look at Leo. He's dating a woman who wasn't even born when Titanic came out. Kate Winslet better keep her 23 year old away from him, she's not out of the chart yet.
Cailee Spaeny is the definition of A Star Is Born right here. At 25 year old, she just won the Volpi Cup Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and finger cross that she's going to be Oscar nominated. Absolutely fascinating to hear it, congrats to Cailee. Can't wait to see Priscilla and more stuff she's going to do in the future, Sofia Coppola couldn't have pick the right person to play Priscilla 🙌
yes! I think she might just be one of the best actresses of her generation.
Absolutely! I think her next big role is in the new Alien movie next year
@@fedorbrockmann1698 Well i haven't been a fan of the Alien movies lately, i hope that movie doesn't screw her talent
I need her bitter sweet taste on my tongue.
This is not an Oscar worthy movie
I think it felt like it was missing something was bc priscilla was a part of making the production and she is still very much in denial about some things that happened to her. This movie is basically like things she still doesnt realize were wrong and so she doesnt feel bad for talking about it.
Like what?
can u give examples? she does have the vibe of someone in denial
@sainttheresetaylor2054 if she was comfortable expressing that they got together before she graduated high school think about the details she wasn't comfortable sharing
@@Amanda-ky7mo yeah i’d like to hear her thoughts on that aswell
Priscilla was so good. So so good.
I think most people forget the age balance in country and rock at that time was severely unbalanced. The men, predatory and the girls no more than teens, children. From Priscilla Presley to Loretta Lynn, it’s so predatory and so sad. It’s a lesson and a reality everyone need to learn and a reality check so many need to have.
Oh please, stop acting like women are stupid. Priscilla knew exactly what she was doing. Many women are very sexual at a young age. No different now.
Haven’t watched it but it better display and give acknowledgment to what you’re saying. If this is some romance then this is def going unwatched by me.
Don't forget Brooke Shields.
There is nothing predatory about an older guy marrying a young woman. It is the older one who stands to get hurt and usually does.
@@saphireblue3563 A 14 year old girl is not a woman. Yikes.
the movie probably didnt go so far in certain places because Lisa Marie (Priscilla and Elvis's daughter) before she died got sent a first script of the movie and begged Sofia not to make it, so most likely because of that they changed certain things
It isnt her movie, it wasnt about her, it was not made for her and how would she know if she wasnt even born
@@Fireball-wm7krLisa Marie is still their family-- their only child whom they both loved dearly. You can't disregard her personal feelings about it, as she grew up with Pricilla being her mother I'm sure she learned plenty from stories and such, not to mention the book too. She knew the story, but she probably just didn't want it to be released to the public as a movie as she probably felt it should be respected and kept within the personal family.
@@julianajordan2660Lisa wants the world to think her dad is a good guy for $$$$$$ and reputation
@@julianajordan2660It’s more so of she had a really great relationship with her father and probably didn’t want to believe the type of man he was.
@@julianajordan2660 Yes but it is not lisa maries story its not her right to disregard what abuse her mother went through as she was not alive she loved them dearly but its not for her
I'm a big fan of Elvis' music and the Baz Luhrmann movie, but even as someone who knew very little about the guy I was shocked at how that movie glossed over so many of his problematic elements. I'll definitely give this a watch when it comes to the UK next year
Why would anyone need that. The world has been ripping him to shreds for over 60 years. Enough already.
@@LaurieLT88 I mean, what he did was pedophilia
@LaurieLT88
Because a movie shouldn't just gloss over history, it leads to a warped sense of reality that can be harmful. Plus many of the people who've seen Luhrmann's movie know considerably little about Elvis and will use the film as a point of reference for him their entire lives.
@@LaurieLT88not every part of history is glamour and glitz. trying to ignore that won’t change the fact it happened.
@@LaurieLT88You're not wrong, but the film did feel a tad revisionist at times. Like, painting Elvis as a loud and proud advocate of civil rights without even acknowledging the debate around cultural appropriation is kinda disingenuous, no matter what side of the debate you fall on. Same goes for Precilla being literally a child when she met an Adult Elvis, for instance.
If this doesn’t win best costume design I will just die
you must be joking
@@Professorbubblegum well considering I didn’t put an “lol” “lmao” “rofl” “lmao” “lmbo” or “lmfao” I’d have to go with no.
@@lstokes1231 Watch some pictures or videos from the original settings and outfits and you’ll laugh at your own comment.
you must be kidding right
barbie is taking it sorry
The more that I think about how Priscilla's loneliness was depicted in this film (and that's partly thanks to how Spaeny's performance completely lingers in the mind long after the credits have rolled), the more that I realize that this film is what Blonde so desperately wanted to be in ways more than one.
I don’t even think the makers of Blonde wanted it to be anything more than a visual spectacle. He said it himself.
@@LoneWulf278 That's true. Nonetheless, it feels disheartening to know that that was the film that ended up resulting from Andrew Dominik's intentions.
@@booboosnack Right. To be honest, I think Hollywood needs to move on from formulaic Wikipedia-esque biopics about hugely famous people that we already know. I think it would be cool if they made movies that were focused a unique and particular chapter in an icon’s life. For example, a Marylin Monroe movie about her friendship with Ella Fitzgerald or Frank Sinatra could have been really special. I think a movie about her acting coaches would have been interesting too (considering how influential they were on her mental health). We don’t need to indulge in an icon’s worst moments to be entertaining. It’s common knowledge. And people’s lives are so much more than that.
Blonde was always about the spectacle, especially considering the “historical fiction” book it was based off of.
More like what some people wanted Blonde to be (i.e. empathetic towards Marilyn), but it was never the director’s intention.
My review: I watched the movie. 0/5. The casting is soooo bad that it’s makes the inaccurate storyline just cringy bad from scene to scene. I was shocked that somebody actually approved this to go into theaters. It’s not even TV movie quality- more like freshman student grade from a nepotism C student that got help from a family member. Seriously folks, the story is not true. Zero evidence - there is no person that ever lived and not one shred of evidence that corroborates that any of this ever happened. And Priscilla is clearly lying here. Film was the worst I’ve ever seen in a theater.
None of this stuff probably ever happened. She paints a picture in the movie that Elvis was a creepy child molester - yet tells a judge in real life that she DEMANDS TO BE BURIED RIGHT NEXT TO HIS COFFIN SIDE BY SIDE FOR ETERNITY IN HIS BACKYARD!!!! .. even though she divorced him 50 years ago and has had a child with another man and her own life with other people for half a century. Priscilla ruined her own credibility when she stole millions of dollars from Elvis trust without her own daughters consent. She stole from her child. She is an untrustworthy gold digger and fraudster.
priscilla was like a perfume commercial mixed with a lana del ray music video.
I love this sm
😭😭😭
Well damn now I’m sold 😂
It feels very commercial
Its rey 😢
loved priscilla, and glad i saw it after elvis. i think they play on each other in an interesting way - seeing what the colonel was doing to elvis repeated here with what he does to priscilla.
More like Priscilla did to Elvis what Parker did to Elvis.
you should maybe talk to your therapist about why you think a teenage girl has the same level of power over someone as a grownass man @@LaurieLT88
@LaurieLT88 why are you in multiple comments defending a dead grown man? it's not that serious ,he's just being judged for his actions,nobody is sending a dead man to jail because he was grooming a teenage girl,it's history that shouldn't be glossed over considering the industry still enables this behavior
@@iliketea162 Because I think he should be able to rest in peace, not be exploited for 60 years for the money changers. You don't see Yoko Ono doing this to John. Never heard a negative thing said about him. It makes me sick that his faults and mistake are still being dredged up.
@@LaurieLT88 this isnt even for him and also he stole all of his songs from black ppl and dated a 14 yr old
Honestly, perfect directors for both. Elvis’s persona, big and bold and a little superficial. Great Luhrmann stuff. A lonely but wealthy young woman in a world that swallows her? Great for Coppola. I tend to always feel like something is missing in the latter’s work save for Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation, so I’m not surprised to hear your take. I will definitely still check it out.
You know it’s a good day when Karsten Runquist does
Same
On god
When he does what?
@@funkrobot9762 yes
Karsten Runquist: (Does)
Me: “YEAAAAAAH”
If you enjoyed this more quiet biopic with amazing (yet not really over the top) performances, I highly suggest the 2007 joy division biopic titled “control” . It really is something special
Love that movie!
Loved that movie too!
What is it about?
@@saphireblue3563Joy Division & Ian Curtis
(UK late-70's band¹ + Their lead vocalist)
¹ band was active for 4 years 76'-'80
@@samac4323 But what was it about?
What the movie's missing is an extra scene at the end, where now as a mother with a daughter of her own, she goes back to talk to her parents, like the shoe hanging over her talk with her mom in the kitchen all those years ago finally dropped and she now comes back with her own perspective.
Would've really brought the story full circle.
I immediately liked that this movie is its own thing, not trying to hit the stereotypical "biopic" beats you've seen 100 times. Felt like they were just telling a real relationship dynamic as authentically as they could. And it really worked, the _lack of Elvis music_ throughout, as we just got the highlight reel last year, this movie focused on the type of music that Elvis and 'Scilla would be listening to when he isn't at work.
Overall I respect the hell out of this movie and its approach.
I really liked this, but I thought the ending was a bit abrupt, and they could’ve maybe went further stylistically idk. It felt very grounded throughout and while I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, certain scenes coulda benefited from a more expressive choice in color or lighting. For example, there’s a scene towards the end where Elvis and Priscilla are drenched in red light and it really helps with setting the tone/mood of that particular scene and what happens in it. There aren’t too many scenes like that in the film iirc. 9/10 for me tho
i really want her to do the monica lewinsky story!!!! i was her age and listened to her phone calls. i could relate to her sm at the time!
what did you relate to?
I find it funny how Austin Butler had months or close to a year to get the voice right and then comes Elordi and gets it bang on within a month.
Edit: I changed trying too to get the voice right because he did get it right and I refuse to he wrong.
Austin Butler is the goat
Imo elordi doesn’t sound like Elvis at all
Lmao elordi dont even sound like elvis
AND elordi’s australian!! what a man
Austin Butler spent years training for singing and dancing and not just do the voice. Jacob Elordi cannot do what Austin did in Elvis
Before Priscilla, I didn't know Elvis was abusive. But living in the post-Metoo# era, I'm not shocked. So many people from Cosby to Degeneres ended up not being what they seemed. I'm just disappointed. I'm glad we're now having a discussion about - his victims deserve that. We also need to be reminded to never idolize anyone, because we don't know who they truly are. As a abuse survivor, I found this depiction of abuse/grooming/control to be chillingly accurate. It was almost healing to my own experience to see it so accurate. I hope this film educates people about abuse as well.
Me too. The way he talked to her at the beginning was just icky. Reminded me of my ex..
No lie: I’ll pay anything to see a fan edit where it combines both the Elvis and Priscilla films so that we can see the full story of both of them on display.
It can be a chance to see both perspectives of how the couple sees each other, without painting the couple as black-and-white, but morally grey….
EDIT: So for those who commented, let me just rephrase. I’m NOT going out of my way to defend Elvis. I know that he did some pretty messed up stuff, and that it should be brought to light. The idea of this kind of movie that I had in mind where you combine both perspectives, is to show sort of a narrative dissonance where we start to look up to the person who is the protagonist of the movie, but only until they start doing something that with the audience would find disgusting, would start a question why we looked to this person. And whether the “villain” ends up winning in the end, becomes meaningless as we see that nobody comes out on top of this.
I think I go to example that did this right, was Oppenheimer. Where we are shown, Lewis Strauss’s antagonism of Oppenheimer is what leads to the conflict of the story. But, the story goes out of its way to show that it would be foolish (even a bit ignorant) to place this all on Strauss’s shoulders, and relieve Oppenheimer of his own actions. As we witness, Oppenheimer doing some very disgusting actions that we were still in the wonder whether we should look up to a guy like this or not.
This is something, not only in bio-pics, but even was criticized when we look at mobster/crime movies and shows like the Godfather, Scarface, the Sopranos, and Breaking Bad. The creator of the Sopranos criticized the audiences for supposedly looking up to someone like Tony. But seeing as the finale was running along, that they wanted to see him suffer a horrible death in the end, called the the audience hypocrites for saying this. Even though, as the show depicts, a character, like Tony should not be looked up to, and whether his enemies come after him, really wouldn’t matter as he’s no different than they are.
Therefore, the idea of combining both Elvis and Priscilla movies, will show that dissonance when Colonel Parker is revealed to be conning Elvis out of his fortune and still wants more, that when Elvis confronts him and says how he’s the bad guy in all of this, when Parker gives him that “we’re no different” monologue, we kind of realize that he’s not wrong. And leaves us questioning whether anyone will win in the end, let alone want to see anyone win at all.
Zack Snyder's Elvis
see how long pricilla is shown in the elvis movie, based off his own story; compared to how long elvis is apart of pricilla’s story. that alone shows you there doesnt need to be grey area with everything
he played with little girls an then stole this ones childhood, im not sure a grey area applies here honestly
You want a morally grey portrayal of a grown man grooming a 14 year old girl?
Okay buddy...
People actually upvoted "there should be two sides to this grown man with too much power grooming a young girl, cheating on her, financially abusing her, and being a fucking mess"
Please think
I don’t always agree with you but you hit the nail on the head with this one. My big takeaway from these two movies was just how small of a part of Elvis’ life Priscilla was unfortunately.
Or "fortunately" 😂
99% of the people defending Priscilla in the comments here HAVE NO IDEA WHO PRISCILLA WAS and HOW BADLY SHE HAS LIED about Elvis AND WHY.
THE BOOK was REVENGE. Lisa Marie verified that the book and films WERE LIES, REVENGE to purposefully paint Elvis in a bad light. VERY INTENTIONAL because Elvis EXCLUDED HER from his will. WORSE, Priscilla is a liar and a THIEF rendering her CREDIBILITY IN SHATTERS.
I read the book. Complete fictional account of herself, her family and Elvis Presley. We have learned MUCH MORE about her since. Naturally, none of THAT will be in this movie.
SOFIA LEFT ALL THIS OUT OF HER PHONY GOLD DIGGER FILM, from my RESEARCH:
MOST OVERLOOKED FACT: PRISCILLA WAS THE PREDATOR and Elvis the victim from the very start: PRISCILLA was offering her body around the army base and in fact screwed a man on the army base who granted her access with her to the party Elvis was at. Elvis had no idea who she was and it was PRISCILLA that F'd a grown man at the age of 14 VERY WILLINGLY just to be LET IN TO A PARTY TO MEET ELVIS. Credible details are that SHE INTRODUCED HERSELF TO ELVIS and they SPOKE briefly about the shocking passing of Elvis' mother which devastated him. He was still in mourning. There is ZERO EVIDENCE that ANYTHING inappropriate HAPPENED verbally or physically. Not ONE EYEWITNESS or photo corroborates Priscilla's tale.
NEWEST DETAIL: Lisa Marie came out to Sofia Coppola that she was planning to COME OUT AGAINST HER MOTHER right before she died! We have the emails now. She labeled the Elvis & Me book A REVENGE PROJECT (most likely because Elvis removed her from his will for good in 1977 for now VERY GOOD REASON) and that it INACCURATELY portrays Elvis. In other words SHE LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 1. Priscilla met Elvis AFTER she had intercourse with Elvis' friend, Currie Grant. At that moment she was not a virgin anymore. When Elvis was back in the States, Priscilla had several boyfriends and slept with them. Priscilla was very flirtatious. It is rumored that she was sexually abused by her violent alcoholic stepfather Paul Beaulieu. Priscilla let Elvis believe that she was an innocent virgin but in reality, she was a liar and a manipulator, who was addicted to attention because she always was her mother's little princess.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 2. Priscilla's parents encouraged her relationship with Elvis because they were starstruck and wanted status and money. When Elvis was back in the States they discouraged Priscilla from dating with boys in Germany. Her mother, Ann Iversen, pushed Priscilla to write love letters to Elvis, who occasionally called Priscilla and was back with girlfriend Anita Wood. It was Priscilla, ordered by Ann, who begged Elvis to invite her to the US and it was her parents who forced Priscilla to move to Graceland although she wanted to stay in Germany with her then-boyfriend.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 3. She was not in love with Elvis Presley, but with her boyfriend Jamie. While at Graceland, Priscilla's only goal was to get married to Elvis and then divorce him and take him out like a goose for her own financial benefit and that of her parents. It was no coincidence that Priscilla was sent to the US. months before her 18th birthday, months before her graduation from high school and months before the Beaulieu-family returned to the States. By sending their daughter away to live with Elvis before her 18th birthday the Beaulieus had the means to blackmail Elvis.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 4. Elvis was constantly asked by the Beaulieu-family when he was going to marry Priscilla as he had promised when Priscilla came to Graceland. Elvis was eventually blackmailed into marrying Priscilla by Priscilla's father Paul Beaulieu and Tom Parker.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 5. As soon as Priscilla and Elvis were married, their relationship deteriorated because Priscilla stopped being the demure innocent woman she played before the wedding and became demanding and critical of everything Elvis did. Soon after Lisa Marie was born Priscilla started cheating on Elvis, first with a dance teacher and later with a karate instructor. Elvis realized that Priscilla didn't love him and probably never had.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 6. After the divorce, Priscilla and Lisa Marie lived in a house that exposed not a single photo of Elvis Presley, the man, Priscilla claims, is the love of her life. Elvis certainly didn't believe her. In her book Elvis and Me, Priscilla seems to depict herself as the innocent victim of a bad man, Elvis Presley, but in reality, it is the other way around. It was Elvis Presley, who was manipulated and exploited by Priscilla and her parents. You don't publish negative books/films/interviews about the "love of your life".
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 7. When Elvis had died, Priscilla was overheard telling her half-sister Michelle, giggling, that everybody thought she was crying behind her sunglasses but in reality, she was laughing. Priscilla thought she would inherit from Elvis but she did not. Elvis removed Priscilla from his will in February 1977 and left everything to HIS DAUGHTER Lisa Marie.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 8. Priscilla tried to challenge the will BACK THEN but to no avail. ONLY AFTER Elvis' death, did Priscilla IMMEDIATELY resume the use of the profitable surname PRESLEY to promote herself. ** Elvis forbade her in the divorce agreement to use his name but Priscilla has no respect for Elvis' wishes. **
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 9. Priscilla stole from Lisa Marie's trust fund by paying herself $900.000,-- out of Lisa Marie's trust fund without her knowledge/consent. Total financial damage: $16 million.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 10. It's believed now that Marco Garibaldi/Garcia embezzled $15 million from Lisa Marie's trust fund. Co-trustees Priscilla Wagner Beaulieu and Barry Siegel pressured Lisa Marie to sell 85% of her EPE-shares because it would be financially advantageous for them as trustees of Lisa Marie's trust fund. Never mind Lisa Marie's financial interests!
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 11. After taxes Lisa Marie had $45 million left from the sale of her EPE-shares. That money was squandered by Barry Siegel; he invested it in his own company, that went broke.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 12. JUST FOUR DAYS after the funeral of Lisa Marie Priscilla challenged Lisa Marie's will from 2016 that removed her as trustee and placed Riley and deceased Benjamin in her seat. Now Riley has agreed that she will pay Priscilla $1.4 MILLION,-- and a guaranteed yearly allowance, during 10 years, to stop her from challenging Lisa Marie's will. Priscilla is also paid subtrustee over 1/9 of the Presley-estate that halfbrother Navarone Garbaldi gets. In a will, that Lisa Marie drew up in 1993, when she was 25, she left, in case of death, 1/9 of her estate to Navarone whom she then adored but when Lisa Marie died she had broken off all contact with Navarone, who publicly scolded her and wished her dead.
CREDIBILITY FAILURE: After all her uncorroborated accusatory nonsense that Elvis was a creepy child molester --- she DEMANDS --- IN COURT OF LAW --- TO BE BURIED RIGHT NEXT TO HIS COFFIN SIDE BY SIDE FOR ETERNITY IN HIS BACKYARD.. moving Elvis' beloved mother and fathers resting places!!!! ....... even though she divorced him 50 years ago and has had a child with another man and her own life with other people for half a century.
CONCLUSION: Priscilla Wagner Beaulieu is only interested in being famous and rich. She has exploited Elvis, Lisa Marie and now Riley, Finley and Harper. Priscilla is a narcissist who uses people and then discards them. EPE should boycot the Priscilla-movie.
* AND NOW YOU LEARNED MORE ABOUT ELVIS AND PRISCILLA's relationship than ANYTHING you'll learn in this Sofia bust. LETS SEE THE REAL MOVIE ABOUT ALL THIS SOFIA!!!!! Not Priscilla's strategic fantasy of lies.
Not true. He almost had a nervous breakdown when she left him. People around him said they found him crying weeks afterward. Lisa said that he would say, "honey, try to get mommy to come home so we can all be a family again" So many things.
@@saphireblue3563 when your family is broken and you have lost your beloved daughter at home, is quite obvious but I never thought he regretted Priscilla so much.
@@elvis78ale I don't know how far back you go, but if you read Elvis What Happened the MM described a great deal of trauma that Elvis went through when she left. In one newspaper report in the midwest where I used to live, one of the Stanley bros said after Elvis' death, "Elvis' whole world revolved around Priscilla." I know in later years the MM started saying things like, "oh it was only his ego that was hurt. He was over her way before she left" and things like that. But they started saying those things soon after Priscilla barred them from Graceland. I think they didn't want to give her the satisfaction. And anyone can tell just by looking at the pictures.....He was STUNNING in 1971, and when she left in 72, he started getting sicker and sicker, doing more and more drugs until he died. He may have gone out on her but he LOVED her. Even she said that the last four years were his worst for drugs. She left him four years before he died.
I don’t think there has to be such a big split in opinions with this. It feels like if people love Elvis they hate Priscilla and visa-versa, but regardless of your own opinions it’s a fact that Elvis was more fixated on his career over his love life and, in turn neglected Priscilla. In my opinion I thoroughly enjoyed both movies and appreciate the artistic differences between the two. One doesn’t always have to be better than the other.
I am excited to see Priscilla for Cailee Spaeny, I have been keeping an eye on her talent since Bad Times At The El Royale. I remember seeing her in that underrated movie and thinking, "this girl is good, she's going to be big in the future" yet here she is right now with a Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup Best Actress trophy in her hand for starring in a Sofia Coppola movie. Glad that she's finally getting her due 🤗
I felt the same way, I enjoyed it quite a bit, but it's got all the pros and cons of sofia coppola's work: pacing and momentum. At the point where Priscilla actually experiences a true change of momentum, the film ends. I feel like she got a bit caught up in her 'sofia coppola moments' -- zoom ins of diary writing and nail-painting, quiet fixations on dreamy, cloistered girlhood being wooed by boyish, physical men-- for the first half, or three quarters, or so. I think the shortest montage of the movie is Priscilla 'finding herself.'
which is so sad
I loved Priscilla! Easily made it to my top 4 letterboxd favorites and I plan on seeing it again. My one critique is that it did feel a bit rushed towards the end and I totally agree with you when you said you thought there'd be at least 30 more minutes. It lingers on her time as a teenager in Germany and her move to Graceland for a good chunk of the runtime and then condenses her graduation and her adulthood (especially in the 70s) to even less than that.
Production and costume design were amazing as expected. Can you believe the set designers had to make higher ceilings to accommodate Jacob's height?
my friend and I both watched this movie and discussed it after and we both said the exact same thing, it was a great film but felt like something was missing. You explained it perfectly
I saw this a couple of weeks ago.
As an european who obviously knows Elvis' music but not really anything more about his life or the relationship with priscilla (unlike most americans I learned through this movie), I had a different perspective on this.
Not having a preformed, biased picture of Elvis in my head, I was shocked how this movie handles the age difference and the blatant abuse in the relationship. At times during the movie I was in disbelieve how Coppola handles those topics, considering she is known for her female perspectives and somewhat feminist viewpoints.
Coppola, as you said, directs this as a classical biopic/ nuanced relationship drama, however I think the events depicted in this are not really nuanced. A 24-year old man making romantic advances on a 14-year old and being both psychologically and sometimes physically abusive to her is just really terrible. On the script side, the connection through both characters being homesick is just really weak to balance out the amount of toxicity in this relationship. I also did not like how emancipating moments are being relativized, such as playing "I will always love you" when she finally leaves him.
Watching this movie, I was actually very shocked how glorifying this still feels towards Elvis (perhaps with some more thought not really for his person but rather his star-lifestyle) considering all the abusive elements of his relationship.
Obviously being critical of such a beloved figure is quite hard and depicting a star in a somewhat negative light is really bold. But I cannot help but wonder how this movie would have been viewed without the names attached, if this were just another relationship drama without beloved stars portrayed. In your review aswell I realized how prior knowledge changes the viewing, as you often compared this to the Luhrmann film.
I can however agree with your opinion on all the technical stuff. The sets, costumes and cinematography were really good. The acting was good, but I thought the script was all over the place, so they had a really hard time making the lines work.
I read a lot of reviews of this movie and I feel like the depiction of their age difference aswell as the huge amount of abuse in their relationship have really not been talked about enough.
Just remember, it is only her said and sometimes inaccurate.
Unfortunately, from what I gathered from interviews with Priscilla, she doesn't see Elvis as the obvious predator he was. And its unfortunate, but no one can influence a person if they simply don't feel they have been victimized. Maybe she will realize it later, maybe she won't but it's just an unfortunate case of how some victims, whether to cope with the trauma or something else, often block it out in their mind and dont see themselves as victims sometimes.
Before you get too concerned with how her treatment and her feelings on it were portrayed. Priscilla Presley was a producer of the movie and it is based on the memoir she wrote.
As I said, I don't know much about what really happend, and to be clear I don't form my opinions on real people through biopics. In truth I don't care much about the historical accuracy of the movie.
I am way more interested in the way Coppola portrays abuse and toxicity as topics independend of the particular people involved.
I think what Priscilla is thinking of Elvis and their relationship nowadays is only important for this debate because it influenced this movie (since it is based on her book and she produced it).
This movie is downplaying abuse in a relationship. In my opinion thats not good and should be critizised and talked about more.
You all just love the
dirty exciting parts of their relationship, just admit it.
Even if those things are embellishments or un- true.
That's why people love that horrible book, "Child Bride."
It's exciting, just like a soap opera.
I felt the film ended too early to be honest, it felt unfinished to me, but the cinematography, direction, acting, soundtrack, makeup and set was incredible, the screenplay just needed more to it
I saw this movie last Friday and it was an amazing movie. Priscilla shows the life of Priscilla Presley and her time with Elvis.
I saw it Sunday. It was so good.
this comment feels like it was generated by an ai lmao
the movie was so boring and it was nothing special
@@ricardovasquez6633as boring as her life...staying at home waiting for Elvis😅
i guess i’m the only one who didn’t really enjoy it. the film is visually beautiful but it felt so slow and repetitive. like the whole movie she’s soft spoken and her whole life is revolving around him and elvis being controlling but when finally she’s in LA and learning to love herself, the scene cuts and then 10 mins later the movie ends. i feel like this movie wasn’t about priscilla. it was about elvis and priscilla’s relationship but in her viewpoint. 3/10
I think that the movie was well done but I wish it focused on more of her life as a whole but I know there’s a reason why they chose to focus on this aspect of her life.
What else did she do in her life tho? Let's be real...
exactly, I didn't even know his wife prior to this lmao@@baronessvondengler
I actually prefer when biopics choose to focus on a snapshot in time of the person’s life instead of a whole picture. When you get a specific timeframe or aspect of their life, you get to learn a lot about the person by seeing how they are through something that’s important to their story. When it focuses on someone’s life as a whole, it starts to feel like a Wikipedia article put to film, you stop seeing this person come to life as a fully fleshed out character and instead are treated to two hours of “look at all the interesting stuff this interesting person did! Isn’t that interesting?”
@@ByeByeDeadName No that really makes sense, I guess that’s why other forms of storytelling have specific styles. Idk if there’s a full documentary about her life or if the book details more aspects than her relationship with him but honestly those would be better suited for that.
@@baronessvondengler right ! Nothing else, she just squeezed money out from Elvis!!!! All her life did it ,ONLY. She's only a lier, viper, witch, very upset not to be in the spotlight without using ELVIS. she deserves to be forgotten that's it!
I wish that people werent so quick to defend elvis, to insist that he cant be portrayed negatively. elvis is a monster. he deserves to be viewed like one.
Name another star who had and underage relationship and people have been talking about it for 60 years. Maybe people are just tired of dragging him through the mud. Enough already!
@LaurieLT88 ...Why are you insisting on defending someone who sexually assaulted, abused, and took lewd photos of underaged girls. The victims are still alive. They still feel the repercussions of his actions. It is sick to defend this man. "It's been 60 years" means nothing. Should we forget about historical tragedies and forgive the monsters behind them because time has passed? No. By that logic, why do you still care to defend him? 60 years have passed after all, enough already!
(edit: Also Michael Jackson, Seinfeld, Woody Allen... the list goes on)
i’m just going to enjoy Elvis’ music cuz frankly idrc about his backstory. If you knew the histories of half of the celebrities that have other existed, you’d hate everything.
@@sageshroom
Sexually Assaulted?
She later recanted the story about him raping her.
She called it forceful lovemaking and didn't press charges.
@@daRealB-Rexsure you can have that viewpoint but if you really do not care about how people rape, victimize, lie, steal, cheat, and are just all around pieces of shit. Some people would rather not jerk off over a dude who stole black music from black people, fucked little girls, and did other shitty things lmao
There are really big problems with the movie "Priscilla" but none of them are the fault of the actors. What my issue is with the film is that if you are not a super fan of Elvis and/or haven't read "Elvis & Me" at the very least you will not know everything you need to know to actually understand what you are seeing and ESPECIALLY the reason(s) why you are seeing it.
I want what I am saying here to be understood and not just taken as me making excuses for Elvis' behavior. I think that ALL of us have acted in ways that we are not proud of, or had friends and family members that may have done some awful things in the past or even in the last five minutes, but these things do not define a person by themselves. In addition, the closer we are to the person and know the personal history the more insight we have into what may be going on inside of a person to drive their behavior - good or bad.
Jacob Elordi did a phenomenal job given what he had to work with and the amount of time he could take a crash course into understanding the character he was portraying. He had a month or two of preparation and approx 30 days of shooting versus Austin Butler having nearly three years to basically live each day as though he were Elvis, so I can't really compare the two films to each other. Baz Luhrmann's film only touched on the private Elvis and most of that was devoted to the years of his rise to fame. So Jacob did a great job playing a character that he only knows a limited amount about and did his best to bring him to life with the script that he had. I heard earlier today from someone else describing it as though his Elvis is a cross between James Dean and the character Jethro Clampett from "The Beverly Hillbillies". So it is like the guy is not really all that intelligent or caring about much of anything - super aloof. Anyone who is a fan and has read the books, EVEN PRISCILLA'S knows that he was anything but aloof.
In the end, we never get any sense of the LOVE that these two people actually had for one another - we see very little positive between them so when she drives away in the final scene there was no actual feeling of the sadness that no doubt was there. The miniseries ELVIS & ME does a much better job of giving us the big picture while showing basically the same amount of negativity from Elvis - even though neither of the actors portraying the characters are in the ballpark of the two in this film.
This guy was waaay too tall for Elvis.
I always like her movies but I walk away wishing for something more like Virgin Suicides. I know a lot of people don’t like this in films, but I really dig when there’s dreamy vibe collages heavy on the score, more akin to a music video. Virgin suicides was top tier at that for me (Drive, too). The more time that passes the more I realize how special the Sofia and Air collab was 🥺
I just saw this movie. it is bland. I like Coppola movies but this isn't worth the $20 movie ticket.
I definitely thought that there could've been 15 more minutes. We didn't really get to see her decide to leave Elvis, it was just like 5 minutes and then the movie ended. I wanted more of her life away from him and how that must've empowered her to leave him
Ive seen so many people crapping on Priscilla, saying if she was willing to profit off of Elvis then she was old enough to date an adult.
People who say that are apparently ok with predators I guess
@@Womper1992" it was a different time, age is just a number" makes me sick
EDUCATE YOURSELF to find out EXACTLY WHY people IN THE KNOW are crapping on Priscilla. RIGHTFULLY SO I might add. You will NOT KNOW ONE TRUE THING about Priscilla or Elvis after leaving the theater. I promise you.
"There are so many ironies after Elvis' death. For instance, Elvis took definite measures to exclude certain people from his personal estate by leaving everything to Lisa Marie. But due to a strange set of circumstances , including the consecutive deaths of the executors, Vernon and Minnie Mae, the very person he did not want to have control, now does control the estate." --- one of Elvis' best friends, and soprano singer Kathy Westmoreland 1987
Elvis KNEW that Priscilla was a DISHONEST GOLD DIGGER. And so did many people around Elvis. This is a ONE SIDED film OF LIES, COVERING UP HER LIES. Elvis WAS RIGHT:
CREDIBILITY FAIL #1: Priscilla stole from Lisa Marie's trust fund by paying herself $900,000, out of Lisa Marie's trust fund WITHOUT HER KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT!! Total financial damage: $16 million.
CREDIBILITY FAIL #2: It's believed now that Marco Garibaldi/Garcia EMBEZZLED $15 MILION from Lisa Marie's trust fund. Co-trustees Priscilla Wagner Beaulieu and Barry Siegel pressured Lisa Marie to sell 85% of her EPE-shares because it would be financially advantageous for them as trustees of Lisa Marie's trust fund. Never mind Lisa Marie's financial interests!
CREDIBILITY FAIL #3: After taxes Lisa Marie had $45 MILLION left from the sale of her EPE-shares. That money was squandered by Barry Siegel; he invested it in his own company, that went broke. He never paid Lisa Marie back.
CREDIBILITY FAIL #4: After all her uncorroborated accusatory nonsense that Elvis was a creepy child molestor --- she DEMANDS --- IN COURT OF LAW --- TO BE BURIED RIGHT NEXT TO HIS COFFIN SIDE BY SIDE FOR ETERNITY IN HIS BACKYARD.. moving Elvis' beloved mother and fathers resting places!!!! ....... even though she divorced him 50 years ago and has had a child with another man and her own life with other people for half a century.
Priscilla ruined her own credibility when she stole millions of dollars from Elvis trust without her own daughters consent. She stole from her child. She is an untrustworthy gold digger and fraudster.
THE SAD REALITY THAT SOFIA JUST GETS WRONG IN THIS TOTAL FABRICATION FILM: Priscilla Wagner Beaulieu is only interested in being famous and rich. She has exploited Elvis, Lisa Marie and now Riley, Finley and Harper. Priscilla is a narcissist who uses people and then discards them. EPE should boycott Priscilla's strategic fantasy of lies. HOW in God's name or otherwise, can you or anyone else BELIEVE PRISCILLA, or worse support her?
She is attacking Elvis' name and USING HIS LAST NAME (illegally I might add) with NO EVIDENCE. and NO EYEWITNESSES. Come on.
@@sophiavolkvo1399 The fact that it was a different time doesn't really matter. AGE OF CONSENT WAS 16 in the 1960s' instead of 18, THAT was the only difference. HOWEVER, Elvis and Priscilla LIVED ON DIFFERENT CONTINENTS during Priscilla's 14th, 15th, 16th, and most of her 17th year. They weren't even PUBLICLY DATING UNTIL SHE WAS 18. So there is ZERO EVIDENCE and a WHOLE LOT OF FABRICATED BS FROM PRISCILLA in her book and movie that she clearly made up for her Hollywood trash novel to trick young people like yourself.
@@depper why tf was he even interested in a 14 year old in the first place?
SO many positive reviews for a film that is so joyless. There is zero motivation for the viewer to be invested, and 99% of the movie is rising action. The tension between Elvis and Priscilla is so forced and has little to no weight for the viewer. The performances left me laughing at emotional scenes because they are barely passing and the script is horrible.
It is a movie of be careful of what you wish for.
She lived every young teen girl's dream...to have a romantic relationship a teen idol. But it shows the reality of what that means.
I thought so much of the movie was great, but did not find the ending very powerful. I was also wondering if the movie was going to end at Elvis' death.
Then realized it may have not ended there, because this was her story of freedom. But I think you can still tell that story of how she moved on without him and finds out about his death. I am proud that Priscilla left the relationship. So many women in toxic relationships stay. Elvis himself became a world-wide sensation at such a young age. He could have anything he wanted and people allowed it. Doesn't make it right, but it helps you to understand. It was also a different time. It was much more chauvinistic back then.
A lot of people say her parents should have not let her live with Elvis, but then Priscilla would have wondered the rest of her life what would have been? Even though she eventually left and found her way, I don't think she regrets any of it. She even wants to be buried next to Elvis.
Quick question why does Jacob Elordi chooses the most outrageous roles.
The better biopic? Y'all are insane. This was a hit piece plain and simple. It would be believable if Sophia Coppola would have announced this movie coming out 2 years, 3 years, 5 years after the Elvis movie. When did she announced it was comin? She announced it while Elvis was still in theaters and doing well. It's called capitalizing.
I think both Elvis movies did interesting things because he's such a mythologized celebrity. Frankly I don't know much or care about him, but in terms of a pop culture "mythos" both movies did really interesting, artistic things to a figure who basically exists only in the public imagination. I also think that both movies, in their own way, successfully accomplish what Blonde was desperately trying to do--discuss the exploitation of the entertainment industry, and the exploitation of young women in the Hollywood limelight of the time.
And . . . it's a box office flop. And . . . Lisa Marie left the Graceland estate to her daughter instead of Priscilla because she didn't agree with her decisions. And . . . the Priscilla movie doesn't acknowledge Priscilla's infidelity. And . . . Priscilla always kept Presley her last name. And . . . almost every photo of their wedding was smiles and joy but they chose to only choose a somber pose with Elvis smoking. A complete dud of a movie.
AND You’re a giant Elvis fanboy, because the film absolutely acknowledges Priscilla’s relationship with Mike Stone when she was practically separated from Elvis and he (most likely) cheated on her first.
didn't really like it, i almost fell asleep.
Hey Karsten, I want to do a double feature with Elvis and Priscilla (I've seen neither yet). Which order do you recommend I watch them in, and why?
I'd say watch elvis first. It's the story told from his perspective so it's all bright lights and big cities, and then Priscilla next. It takes all the shine and glory Elvis was shown in and brings it down to the reality of who he was.
agree ^
Truly looking forward to see more of Cailee Spaeny
I still think the Elvis & Me TV movie adaptation that came out like 3 years after the book came out is a better adaptation of said book. This was a prettier film with a higher budget, but the tv movie is still better imo
When I was a kid, my sister taped that off TV and watched it over and over cause she was a big Elvis fan. Haven't watched it since then, but I always thought it was a pretty good TV movie.
I am honestly shocked that people enjoyed Priscilla as much as they did. The pacing and narrative of the movie is so off and it has one of the weakest endings i’ve ever seen.
Read the frickin book people!
It’s fiction
100% fiction.
You all must not have watched the same movie I did. Terrible depiction.
It’s crazy that Elvis was out just a few yeara ago with the real Pricillia somewhat behind that, and now a biopic of her, she’s behind as well. It’s like she definitely wants the world to know her version of their relationship. He was engaged or had a major girlfriend after her, we don’t hear her saying anything. I guess because she was the only one who married him. She did go through alot, then and now.
I liked the Elvis movie. Austin should have won an Oscar! It was hard to distinguish him from the real Elvis in the end.
I have only seen part of the movie but it was obviously full of lies against Elvis. She was never left alone in a big empty house.
@@saphireblue3563 The Elvis movie wasn’t fact based. It was just a movie about him with some help from Pricilla. Where he copied his music style from was fact though.
@@mslovely8630 I was talking about the new one, Priscilla.
@@saphireblue3563 Ohhhh ok 👍
Honestly, the movie has its moments and the idea behind it is great. But, I can’t say it’s a good movie. There were so many chances for impactful moments and Coppola just brushes over them to find more runtime for the twelve hundred montage of supposedly happy Priscilla. You don’t see her growing and can’t relate, when she finally decides to leave. Because again it’s only shown in a montage. The most interesting point in the movie. A badly done montage. I really wanted to like it, but unfortunately it didn’t perform very well for me.
Also little point: Yes, Priscilla is almost not in the Elvis movie, but that is because the movie essentially isn’t about Elvis but his manager. Priscilla didn’t have a lot to do with the business part of his life (as is clearly depicted in this movie), so it wouldn’t make sense for her to have a more prominent role there.
Coppola's has not created a good film in decades. She does not add anything of value to cinema
I couldnt help but CRINGE in the theater that this film IS WILDLY INACCURATE, just as her book of lies was in 1985. OMG the Elvis actor CANNOT ACT. He was ENTIRE MISCAST as he is a 6'5 string bean. Elvis was 6 feet and a sex symbol. I felt bad for this actor, he would play a better MICHAEL JORDAN than ELVIS PRESLEY. He looked and sounded NOTHING like Elvis. He doesn't even have a southern accent.
I haven’t seen Priscilla, but I do want to say this about the Elvis movie:
While Luhrmann’s film was flashy and frenetic, I don’t think it gets enough credit for actually having a point, as opposed to biopics that are content to be feature-length Wikipedia entries. The film weaved numerous aspects of Elvis’s life into a coherent whole (how him wanting to lift his family out of poverty led him to mistake luxuries for love later in his life, how him making vital art required him to engage with the world around him and how he stopped doing so when the Colonel sealed him off from the world, etc.).
I understand commenters who feel that Priscilla wasn’t fleshed out enough in the film; I do think that her role was the one thing in the film that did sorta feel like rote biopic fare. But if the film had delved into the more problematic aspects of their relationship, it probably would have detracted from the story that the film was telling rather than added to it.
I’m not against the idea of a film that explores the darker side of their relationship at all; I think that’s a perfectly valid film to make. But to me, the story Luhrmann told was also valid, and the idea that it should have included things that would have detracted from it is, I think, part of why we get biopics that ultimately don’t really say much of anything.
Yea I agree with you. Its been sad seeing people put down Luhrmann's film to prop up Priscilla when I see them as 2 good films from visually distinctive filmmakers that are in conversation with each other. Luhrmann's film to me is about Elvis the American myth and I think it's goal is to make up understand what the frenzy around Elvis was. Coppola's film is about the reality of him through Priscilla's eyes and it's goal is to show us how Priscilla's viewpoint of world and Elvis.
Whose eyes? The eyes of a money grabbing name using liar who had an affair with M Stone when LP was just 4 mos old and he was married with a wife pregnant with their second child. And living with Mike Edwards who reportedly wanted 13 yrs old Lisa Marie give me a break with this horror ole 14 yr old Prissy wanted Elvis pursued him wrote constant letters had already "gotten it on". With Currie Grant a married man in Germany among others. I can't stand her BS any more. Lost every ounce I ever had for sweet little abused LYING Cilla. Her face now shows shows outside what is inside. Gpd's way!
Are we just not gonna talk about the sort of parallels between the stories of Catherine Howard and Priscilla Presley? Like there stories have so many things in common. Being treated like an object at a young age, getting groomed by a man several years older than them and being looked at as a willing participant in all of the shit and shamed.
Except THAT DID NOT HAPPEN in Elvis' case. LETS TALK ABOUT IT. 99% of the people defending Priscilla in the comments here HAVE NO IDEA WHO PRISCILLA WAS and HOW BADLY SHE HAS LIED about Elvis AND WHY.
THE BOOK was REVENGE. Lisa Marie verified that the book and films WERE LIES, REVENGE to purposefully paint Elvis in a bad light. VERY INTENTIONAL because Elvis EXCLUDED HER from his will. WORSE, Priscilla is a liar and a THIEF rendering her CREDIBILITY IN SHATTERS.
I read the book. Complete fictional account of herself, her family and Elvis Presley. We have learned MUCH MORE about her since. Naturally, none of THAT will be in this movie.
SOFIA LEFT ALL THIS OUT OF HER PHONY GOLD DIGGER FILM, from my RESEARCH:
MOST OVERLOOKED FACT: PRISCILLA WAS THE PREDATOR and Elvis the victim from the very start: PRISCILLA was offering her body around the army base and in fact screwed a man on the army base who granted her access with her to the party Elvis was at. Elvis had no idea who she was and it was PRISCILLA that F'd a grown man at the age of 14 VERY WILLINGLY just to be LET IN TO A PARTY TO MEET ELVIS. Credible details are that SHE INTRODUCED HERSELF TO ELVIS and they SPOKE briefly about the shocking passing of Elvis' mother which devastated him. He was still in mourning. There is ZERO EVIDENCE that ANYTHING inappropriate HAPPENED verbally or physically. Not ONE EYEWITNESS or photo corroborates Priscilla's tale.
NEWEST DETAIL: Lisa Marie came out to Sofia Coppola that she was planning to COME OUT AGAINST HER MOTHER right before she died! We have the emails now. She labeled the Elvis & Me book A REVENGE PROJECT (most likely because Elvis removed her from his will for good in 1977 for now VERY GOOD REASON) and that it INACCURATELY portrays Elvis. In other words SHE LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 1. Priscilla met Elvis AFTER she had intercourse with Elvis' friend, Currie Grant. At that moment she was not a virgin anymore. When Elvis was back in the States, Priscilla had several boyfriends and slept with them. Priscilla was very flirtatious. It is rumored that she was sexually abused by her violent alcoholic stepfather Paul Beaulieu. Priscilla let Elvis believe that she was an innocent virgin but in reality, she was a liar and a manipulator, who was addicted to attention because she always was her mother's little princess.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 2. Priscilla's parents encouraged her relationship with Elvis because they were starstruck and wanted status and money. When Elvis was back in the States they discouraged Priscilla from dating with boys in Germany. Her mother, Ann Iversen, pushed Priscilla to write love letters to Elvis, who occasionally called Priscilla and was back with girlfriend Anita Wood. It was Priscilla, ordered by Ann, who begged Elvis to invite her to the US and it was her parents who forced Priscilla to move to Graceland although she wanted to stay in Germany with her then-boyfriend.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 3. She was not in love with Elvis Presley, but with her boyfriend Jamie. While at Graceland, Priscilla's only goal was to get married to Elvis and then divorce him and take him out like a goose for her own financial benefit and that of her parents. It was no coincidence that Priscilla was sent to the US. months before her 18th birthday, months before her graduation from high school and months before the Beaulieu-family returned to the States. By sending their daughter away to live with Elvis before her 18th birthday the Beaulieus had the means to blackmail Elvis.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 4. Elvis was constantly asked by the Beaulieu-family when he was going to marry Priscilla as he had promised when Priscilla came to Graceland. Elvis was eventually blackmailed into marrying Priscilla by Priscilla's father Paul Beaulieu and Tom Parker.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 5. As soon as Priscilla and Elvis were married, their relationship deteriorated because Priscilla stopped being the demure innocent woman she played before the wedding and became demanding and critical of everything Elvis did. Soon after Lisa Marie was born Priscilla started cheating on Elvis, first with a dance teacher and later with a karate instructor. Elvis realized that Priscilla didn't love him and probably never had.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 6. After the divorce, Priscilla and Lisa Marie lived in a house that exposed not a single photo of Elvis Presley, the man, Priscilla claims, is the love of her life. Elvis certainly didn't believe her. In her book Elvis and Me, Priscilla seems to depict herself as the innocent victim of a bad man, Elvis Presley, but in reality, it is the other way around. It was Elvis Presley, who was manipulated and exploited by Priscilla and her parents. You don't publish negative books/films/interviews about the "love of your life".
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 7. When Elvis had died, Priscilla was overheard telling her half-sister Michelle, giggling, that everybody thought she was crying behind her sunglasses but in reality, she was laughing. Priscilla thought she would inherit from Elvis but she did not. Elvis removed Priscilla from his will in February 1977 and left everything to HIS DAUGHTER Lisa Marie.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 8. Priscilla tried to challenge the will BACK THEN but to no avail. ONLY AFTER Elvis' death, did Priscilla IMMEDIATELY resume the use of the profitable surname PRESLEY to promote herself. ** Elvis forbade her in the divorce agreement to use his name but Priscilla has no respect for Elvis' wishes. **
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 9. Priscilla stole from Lisa Marie's trust fund by paying herself $900,000 annually, out of Lisa Marie's trust fund without her knowledge/consent. Total financial damage: $16 million.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 10. It's believed now that Marco Garibaldi/Garcia embezzled $15 million from Lisa Marie's trust fund. Co-trustees Priscilla Wagner Beaulieu and Barry Siegel pressured Lisa Marie to sell 85% of her EPE-shares because it would be financially advantageous for them as trustees of Lisa Marie's trust fund. Never mind Lisa Marie's financial interests!
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 11. After taxes Lisa Marie had $45 million left from the sale of her EPE-shares. That money was squandered by Barry Siegel; he invested it in his own company, that went broke.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 12. JUST FOUR DAYS after the funeral of Lisa Marie Priscilla challenged Lisa Marie's will from 2016 that removed her as trustee and placed Riley and deceased Benjamin in her seat. Now Riley has agreed that she will pay Priscilla $1.4 MILLION,-- and a guaranteed yearly allowance, during 10 years, to stop her from challenging Lisa Marie's will. Priscilla is also paid subtrustee over 1/9 of the Presley-estate that halfbrother Navarone Garbaldi gets. In a will, that Lisa Marie drew up in 1993, when she was 25, she left, in case of death, 1/9 of her estate to Navarone whom she then adored but when Lisa Marie died she had broken off all contact with Navarone, who publicly scolded her and wished her dead.
CREDIBILITY FAILURE: After all her uncorroborated accusatory nonsense that Elvis was a creepy child molester --- she DEMANDS --- IN COURT OF LAW --- TO BE BURIED RIGHT NEXT TO HIS COFFIN SIDE BY SIDE FOR ETERNITY IN HIS BACKYARD.. moving Elvis' beloved mother and fathers resting places!!!! ....... even though she divorced him 50 years ago and has had a child with another man and her own life with other people for half a century.
CONCLUSION: Priscilla Wagner Beaulieu is only interested in being famous and rich. She has exploited Elvis, Lisa Marie and now Riley, Finley and Harper. Priscilla is a narcissist who uses people and then discards them. EPE should boycott the Priscilla-movie.
* AND NOW YOU LEARNED MORE ABOUT ELVIS AND PRISCILLA's relationship than ANYTHING you'll learn in this Sofia bust. LETS SEE THE REAL MOVIE ABOUT ALL THIS SOFIA!!!!! Not Priscilla's strategic fantasy of lies.
I suppose your point being is they were both Kings. I see what your getting at, but Aristocratic marriages in fuedal countries were financial and political alliances, that were dynastic and arranged. They also had a lower life expectancy hundreds of years ago. Elvis wasnt old money, he was a product of his working class environment and culture. Who became a huge success as an entertainer.
What was missing is that Sofia is HORRIBLE at adapting screenplays. The movie falls apart in the second half. The editing is what I feel was the downfall of the film, especially all the montages at the end which leads her to not be able to explore the characters arc and the showed the dissolution of their marriage more.
I think I am mostly surprised that Priscilla Presley was the Executive Producer of this movie because her character is made to be one dimensional and static. And I disagree about Cailee Spaeny, while I feel like she probably followed exactly the direction Sofia asked of her, her performance was eclipsed by Jacob Elordi's portrayal.
My other issue was with some of the creative decisions Sofia made. Since settings are so important to Sofia's storytelling, she did very little to show Graceland beyond the bedroom and living room. Perhaps that was deliberate to say Priscilla was trapped behind this golden cage but does nothing to her character development and why she stayed with him. Other than she was groomed.
The ending was undeniably beautiful. I know that Dolly Parton’s I will Always Love you must have been very expensive but felt squandered on such an underwhelming portrayal of Priscilla .
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I actually disliked the film. I didn’t like how while it was marketed as a more honest look at elvis and his controversial relationship, it still watered down alot of his other deplorable acts toward pricilla.
it felt more like a love story instead of a factual story about a predator/manipulator and his doll/girlfriend who he treated like an object. why bring on Elordi if your going to water down the toxicity?
Maybe its on me for not liking it because i researched the relationship before seeing the movie. but if I didn’t research I wouldn’t have picked up on alot of the situations the movie hinted at but didn’t discuss or show, nor would I have understood the context behind many scenarios that were rushed through.
it made me wonder what kind of audience was this movie made for? someone who knows an honest depiction isn’t being shown to them, or someone that doesn’t fully understand the characters motivations or the meanings behind extremely subtle scenes? it really frustrated me.
all in all, I think all the times the movie misrepresented or completely ignored historical facts ultimately hurt this movie. and it’s upsetting to know that this movie chose to focus more on glitzy commercial-esc fun and happy scenes over the serious situations and topics this movie promised to deliver. it felt dishonest, and like I was being feed propaganda in the middle of a serious biopic.
And this is probably due to Priscilla Presley herself being an executive producer of the film- who has her own motivations for not wanting Elvis represented as the controlling abuser he was, and to water down the abuse.
examples of what i’m referring to,
SPOILERS:
Coppola completely misrepresented the LSD scene, which was a decision that i felt was a massive lost toward further character development of Pricilla. Their trip wasn’t the typical colorful and fun experience that was depicted in the movie, what actually happened according to Larry Geller (who was there):
"Elvis didn’t take his full dose and never tried LSD again. But it was Priscilla’s reaction to dropping acid that made an impression. According to Geller, Priscilla freaked out and ran from mirror to mirror screaming that she was ugly, and then she sobbed at Elvis’ feet that he really didn’t love her."
I just don’t understand why Coppola would opt to not only pass on a scene that could further illustrate the turmoil of the relationship, but to actually include the LSD scene and deliberately misrepresent the actual event?
Also for those confused on why Elvis attempted to SA Pricilla, it was because Pricilla admitted to having an affair with her karate instructor- oh and Elvis actually did SA her after she admitted that. Elordi even said the quote Elvis said while he SA’d her.
Personally, I’m not opposed to Coppola changing the SA to an attempted SA, but at the very least she could’ve given Pricilla the dialogue of her admitting to the affair because in the film it just comes off as Elvis just attacking her for no reason.
Elvis' generosity in building ST JUDES CHIDRENS HOSPITAL has been one of the world's greatest gifts of all time. That hospital has saved millions of childrens lives and doesnt ask for a dime to this day. Elvis' action in taking the polio vaccine on TV ended polio on American soil just a few months later. Elvis got through to the youth before even the government or schools or churches could. Elvis would pay off peoples houses, cars and education. He would help bury veterans if the family couldnt afford. He died almost penniless because of his generosity.
Priscilla's claim to fame is writing a book and 2 movies accusing Elvis of crimes -but provides no evidence. Crimes that could not of gone undetected because Elvis was surrounded by throngs of press and band mates and staff THAT WOULD HAVE LOVED to rat him out for money after his death. Not one of them had a single shred of evidence, not even a photo, that shows Elvis having ANY interest in her before they started dating when she turned 18.
This is not a biopic it is a mockery of a movie, made for money and attention. Nothing to compare with the Elvis by Baz with Austin & Tom! Fun fact: Nobody ever question 38 year old Renee dating 12 year old Celine Dion in the late 80s! Also the Copolla movie went against Lisa Marie s will, so the fact that her mother did not care about her dead daughter s wish is striking!
Jacob Elordi I feel is a better fit for Elvis. I think Butler slipped into Elvis with far more accuracy to his image and persona, but elordi is more accurate in the sense that his sex appeal and place in current pop culture is more on par with Elvis back in the day.
Tbh I’d love to see a Sofia Coppola ranked video 👀
Disliked. You really going to put a 2 minute sponsor read over a 5 minute base video?
Don`t compare these two movies
I thought the cinematography and performance of its leads was easily the films biggest strength. My main issue with this movie is I felt the pacing was way too fast. It felt like it stayed a bit too close to the structure of a book, just seemed to go “and then this happened.” The movie was barely over 2 hours, I feel like it could have used more time to breathe between all the sudden time skips
Isn’t it funny how she always changes her story. It’s beyond ludicrous people take her seriously. I’ve seen articles where Priscilla stated she LOVED makeup especially eye makeup it bothered her that Elvis never said anything. Priscilla left Elvis cause she had an affair with Mike stone and he wasn’t her first affair so can we skip the claim that she was this poor innocent girl. She’s a scam
She had a boyfriend in Germany when she left there. Priscilla would be no one without Elvis and she knows it that’s why she kee dragging herself into the media to proclaim her love for him…. What about the man she lived with for 20 years, the father of her son. It’s funny how her supporters claim her mission have been to save Graceland. Please 😂😂 If people WOULD DO THEIR RESEARCH they’d quickly learn Priscilla has been publicly cutting Elvis down for years claiming he was the love of her life. Now it wasn’t her idea to turn Graceland into a museum it was the BANK TRUSTEE 😂
And what gets me is that Priscilla says she left Elvis so she could find herself. And when she cheated with Mike Stone who hade a pregnant wife and a little child and how Lisa caught them and saw them “wrestling” no one wants to talk about that.
Then she leaves, dates Mike, Elvis dies and now she’s using the Presley name.
If she wanted to be her own person why stay so connected? And now she wants someone to be moved in able to be buried as CLOSE as she can to the “love of her life”
In the book she said elvis didn’t make love to her after Lisa but in a much newer interview she said they were still passionate and that he still had sex with her a lot.
Dating a 14 year old is still weird.
@@DevilsAdvocate669 you’re right but now I’m just saying that she wasn’t so innocent either! 😊
@Maya-0419 That I agree with, but I also don't like when people defend one side (Elvis or Pricilla) they just completely forget the other sucks too.
Not saying this is what you were doing, but it's something I noticed.
@@DevilsAdvocate669 I agree with you 100%
I love them both and they both went through a lot. I just think it’s weird why Priscilla still is using the presley name. I think we should just let Elvis rest in peace and move on
@@Maya-0419 Absolutely. This biopic being released always rubbed me the wrong way with how recent the Elvis one was.
I don’t know why so many people are in awe of the actress who plays Priscilla and deem her a “talented and Oscar worthy” 🥲 she’s not bad, but nothing special. imo she just has a good face for the camera and that’s the biggest part of her “skilfulness”.
In other aspects she’s quite bland and averagely acting. Wearing beautiful gowns and makeup beautifully on a camera? Yeah, for that you don’t have to be very talented.
Watched the filmed because of Elordi’s name on it.
The only part of Priscilla that I feel hindered the story was how rushed the end of the movie was. It disconnected from the personal moments present in the first half.
99% of the people defending Priscilla in the comments here HAVE NO IDEA WHO PRISCILLA WAS and HOW BADLY SHE HAS LIED about Elvis AND WHY.
THE BOOK was REVENGE. Lisa Marie verified that the book and films WERE LIES, REVENGE to purposefully paint Elvis in a bad light. VERY INTENTIONAL because Elvis EXCLUDED HER from his will. WORSE, Priscilla is a liar and a THIEF rendering her CREDIBILITY IN SHATTERS.
I read the book. Complete fictional account of herself, her family and Elvis Presley. We have learned MUCH MORE about her since. Naturally, none of THAT will be in this movie.
SOFIA LEFT ALL THIS OUT OF HER PHONY GOLD DIGGER FILM, from my RESEARCH:
MOST OVERLOOKED FACT: PRISCILLA WAS THE PREDATOR and Elvis the victim from the very start: PRISCILLA was offering her body around the army base and in fact screwed a man on the army base who granted her access with her to the party Elvis was at. Elvis had no idea who she was and it was PRISCILLA that F'd a grown man at the age of 14 VERY WILLINGLY just to be LET IN TO A PARTY TO MEET ELVIS. Credible details are that SHE INTRODUCED HERSELF TO ELVIS and they SPOKE briefly about the shocking passing of Elvis' mother which devastated him. He was still in mourning. There is ZERO EVIDENCE that ANYTHING inappropriate HAPPENED verbally or physically. Not ONE EYEWITNESS or photo corroborates Priscilla's tale.
NEWEST DETAIL: Lisa Marie came out to Sofia Coppola that she was planning to COME OUT AGAINST HER MOTHER right before she died! We have the emails now. She labeled the Elvis & Me book A REVENGE PROJECT (most likely because Elvis removed her from his will for good in 1977 for now VERY GOOD REASON) and that it INACCURATELY portrays Elvis. In other words SHE LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 1. Priscilla met Elvis AFTER she had intercourse with Elvis' friend, Currie Grant. At that moment she was not a virgin anymore. When Elvis was back in the States, Priscilla had several boyfriends and slept with them. Priscilla was very flirtatious. It is rumored that she was sexually abused by her violent alcoholic stepfather Paul Beaulieu. Priscilla let Elvis believe that she was an innocent virgin but in reality, she was a liar and a manipulator, who was addicted to attention because she always was her mother's little princess.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 2. Priscilla's parents encouraged her relationship with Elvis because they were starstruck and wanted status and money. When Elvis was back in the States they discouraged Priscilla from dating with boys in Germany. Her mother, Ann Iversen, pushed Priscilla to write love letters to Elvis, who occasionally called Priscilla and was back with girlfriend Anita Wood. It was Priscilla, ordered by Ann, who begged Elvis to invite her to the US and it was her parents who forced Priscilla to move to Graceland although she wanted to stay in Germany with her then-boyfriend.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 3. She was not in love with Elvis Presley, but with her boyfriend Jamie. While at Graceland, Priscilla's only goal was to get married to Elvis and then divorce him and take him out like a goose for her own financial benefit and that of her parents. It was no coincidence that Priscilla was sent to the US. months before her 18th birthday, months before her graduation from high school and months before the Beaulieu-family returned to the States. By sending their daughter away to live with Elvis before her 18th birthday the Beaulieus had the means to blackmail Elvis.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 4. Elvis was constantly asked by the Beaulieu-family when he was going to marry Priscilla as he had promised when Priscilla came to Graceland. Elvis was eventually blackmailed into marrying Priscilla by Priscilla's father Paul Beaulieu and Tom Parker.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 5. As soon as Priscilla and Elvis were married, their relationship deteriorated because Priscilla stopped being the demure innocent woman she played before the wedding and became demanding and critical of everything Elvis did. Soon after Lisa Marie was born Priscilla started cheating on Elvis, first with a dance teacher and later with a karate instructor. Elvis realized that Priscilla didn't love him and probably never had.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 6. After the divorce, Priscilla and Lisa Marie lived in a house that exposed not a single photo of Elvis Presley, the man, Priscilla claims, is the love of her life. Elvis certainly didn't believe her. In her book Elvis and Me, Priscilla seems to depict herself as the innocent victim of a bad man, Elvis Presley, but in reality, it is the other way around. It was Elvis Presley, who was manipulated and exploited by Priscilla and her parents. You don't publish negative books/films/interviews about the "love of your life".
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 7. When Elvis had died, Priscilla was overheard telling her half-sister Michelle, giggling, that everybody thought she was crying behind her sunglasses but in reality, she was laughing. Priscilla thought she would inherit from Elvis but she did not. Elvis removed Priscilla from his will in February 1977 and left everything to HIS DAUGHTER Lisa Marie.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 8. Priscilla tried to challenge the will BACK THEN but to no avail. ONLY AFTER Elvis' death, did Priscilla IMMEDIATELY resume the use of the profitable surname PRESLEY to promote herself. ** Elvis forbade her in the divorce agreement to use his name but Priscilla has no respect for Elvis' wishes. **
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 9. Priscilla stole from Lisa Marie's trust fund by paying herself $900.000,-- out of Lisa Marie's trust fund without her knowledge/consent. Total financial damage: $16 million.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 10. It's believed now that Marco Garibaldi/Garcia embezzled $15 million from Lisa Marie's trust fund. Co-trustees Priscilla Wagner Beaulieu and Barry Siegel pressured Lisa Marie to sell 85% of her EPE-shares because it would be financially advantageous for them as trustees of Lisa Marie's trust fund. Never mind Lisa Marie's financial interests!
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 11. After taxes Lisa Marie had $45 million left from the sale of her EPE-shares. That money was squandered by Barry Siegel; he invested it in his own company, that went broke.
PRISCILLA LIE NUMBER 12. JUST FOUR DAYS after the funeral of Lisa Marie Priscilla challenged Lisa Marie's will from 2016 that removed her as trustee and placed Riley and deceased Benjamin in her seat. Now Riley has agreed that she will pay Priscilla $1.4 MILLION,-- and a guaranteed yearly allowance, during 10 years, to stop her from challenging Lisa Marie's will. Priscilla is also paid subtrustee over 1/9 of the Presley-estate that halfbrother Navarone Garbaldi gets. In a will, that Lisa Marie drew up in 1993, when she was 25, she left, in case of death, 1/9 of her estate to Navarone whom she then adored but when Lisa Marie died she had broken off all contact with Navarone, who publicly scolded her and wished her dead.
CREDIBILITY FAILURE: After all her uncorroborated accusatory nonsense that Elvis was a creepy child molester --- she DEMANDS --- IN COURT OF LAW --- TO BE BURIED RIGHT NEXT TO HIS COFFIN SIDE BY SIDE FOR ETERNITY IN HIS BACKYARD.. moving Elvis' beloved mother and fathers resting places!!!! ....... even though she divorced him 50 years ago and has had a child with another man and her own life with other people for half a century.
CONCLUSION: Priscilla Wagner Beaulieu is only interested in being famous and rich. She has exploited Elvis, Lisa Marie and now Riley, Finley and Harper. Priscilla is a narcissist who uses people and then discards them. EPE should boycot the Priscilla-movie.
* AND NOW YOU LEARNED MORE ABOUT ELVIS AND PRISCILLA's relationship than ANYTHING you'll learn in this Sofia bust. LETS SEE THE REAL MOVIE ABOUT ALL THIS SOFIA!!!!! Not Priscilla's strategic fantasy of lies.
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FAILURE @ the BOX OFFICE: At 14 days of release and it is STILL under $10 Million at the gate. Baz' ELVIS, which was based on Elvis' actual Graceland archives and actual childhood friend SAM BELL, and other interviews and evidence, scored $32 MILLION ON ITS OPENING WEEKEND. And by the final showing, $288,670,284 Worldwide (That's over a quarter of a $BILLION).
The film FAILS to paint Elvis as a predator or groomer because there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE offered to ANY of it, and the viewer is left with the lonely prospect of believing Priscilla. Unfortunately, Priscilla has proven untrustworthy and inconsistent on this very topic over the years, most notably being exposed for stealing MILLIONS OF DOLLARS from her own daughter, without her knowledge. Money that ELVIS earmarked for his daughter Lisa Marie before he died. EVEN LISA MARIE DID NOT BELIEVE HER MOTHER.
Lisa Marie would have PRESSED CHARGES with her mother and Sofia over this libelous film.
This movie is trash, something to be said about telling your story when your the last one standing. Interesting to note, had she lived Priscilla’s daughter Lisa Marie planned to speak out against this movie, what you basically have here is Priscilla’s version of events, that doesn’t cement those events as fact, just read some of the books from the group around them and not everything is as it seems.
It’s “priscilla’s version of events” because it’s a movie about her *experience* from her *perspective*???
Pricilla is still alive so, it’s not like she can play around with the character fully. She’s alive right? I probably should have double checked. She also has to go by the information that is already out there with her biography etc.
With some of her other movies she’s basing the characters off of herself especially in her early work I think, so it has that certain extra essence of realism, since in that way she is able to paint a full figure. That’s just my personal opinion since the characters were all so similar in a specific way that is uniquely Sofia.
I just watched a vogue outfit interview with Pricilla and I think she’s kinda wooden as you described her being portrayed. So maybe that IS realistic. Maybe Sofia thought the character would stray too far if she deviated from that specific image? Now that I see how Priscilla acts I see why some choices were made for Sofia in that regard I mean.
Wrong headline: It should be ''Priscilla - The More Boring Biopic.'' Baz Luhrmann's ''Elvis'' scored 8 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and Austin Butler picked up some prizes, including the BAFTA, the Golden Globe, the People's Choice Award, etc. ... Don't expect that award-winning scenario for ''Priscilla.'' I bet Oscar voters ignore it completely.
No nominations for this trash.
Elvis being bigger and flashy doesn’t mean it was good. Tom Hanks got a Razzie for that one too so I don’t see the point here. Awards really mean nothing (but the Razzie was deserved LMAOO).
ELVIS is the better film. And Austin Butler is the better Elvis. End of story.
Seems like Elvis & Priscilla are extreme opposites in tone. Looking forward to watching it doesn't come out until New year's day here in the UK.
I could tell just from the "breaking down the scene" video that this would be the better film. I also unfortunately think it's gonna reach less of an audience than the other one.
I was surprised, and I admit I have not seen the film, that when you did your review you did not mention that the Presley estate would not allow Copolla to use any Elvis songs in it? If this information is accurate how does she get around this as you specifically mention how good Copolla is with her music choices?
Movie paints Pricilla as some sain. Like she didnt cheat Elvis and like she didnt do bad things to Elvis (burned all his religious books) etc.
She PLAIN OUT LIED, protecting herself AND THE REAL GROOMERS, her PARENTS. It is NOT TRUE that Elvis was a groomer or a pedophile. There is NO EVIDENCE of that, and plenty of evidence to the CONTRARY. Priscilla STOLE MILLIONS FROM HER DAUGHTER, money that ELVIS EARNED and gifted to LISA MARIE PRESLEY and her children, ------> NOT PRISCILLA WAGNER.
this was the least content-included video of Karsten ever. all i heard was "so yeah, yeah, i watched Priscilla. i also don't like Austin Butler."
I mean he did say Austin Butlers performance was better.
its funny u said u wished the movie was longer and the end credits took u by surprise bcause thats what i felt when u said thanks for watching lmao like tf u mean the videos done
I thought prcilla was good but also missing something, but elvis I watched that 11 times and I plan on watching it again I find something new eveerytime I whatch elvis.
Makes for a interesting double feature with Elvis.
I'm really interested in watching this movie bc it has a really complicated background before you even start to watch it. I think a lot of the discussion around it has revealed a lot of weird ideas about victims, and its quite weird the amount of people who expect Priscilla to automatically know what happened to her was bad even though she had a long relationship with her. It seems like this movie is in part wrangling with that, which is where some of the messiness comes in (she knows he was a bad person for going after her as a young woman, but its hard to reconcile that with her life?).
I also really liked Elvis, so I'm excited to watch a narrative featuring the same people but from a completely different perspective and compare and contrast how both directors approached things.
DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY. No matter how much you may like Sofia. This one is a DISASTER. Her worst movie yet. Its just BAD (and no - not bad ass). You will NOT KNOW ONE TRUE THING about Priscilla or Elvis after leaving the theater. I promise you.
"There are so many ironies after Elvis' death. For instance, Elvis took definite measures to exclude certain people from his personal estate by leaving everything to Lisa Marie. But due to a strange set of circumstances , including the consecutive deaths of the executors, Vernon and Minnie Mae, the very person he did not want to have control, now does control the estate." --- one of Elvis' best friends, and soprano singer Kathy Westmoreland 1987
Elvis KNEW that Priscilla was a DISHONEST GOLD DIGGER. And so did many people around Elvis. This is a ONE SIDED film OF LIES, COVERING UP HER LIES. Elvis WAS RIGHT:
CREDIBILITY FAIL #1: Priscilla stole from Lisa Marie's trust fund by paying herself $900,000, out of Lisa Marie's trust fund WITHOUT HER KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT!! Total financial damage: $16 million.
CREDIBILITY FAIL #2: It's believed now that Marco Garibaldi/Garcia EMBEZZLED $15 MILION from Lisa Marie's trust fund. Co-trustees Priscilla Wagner Beaulieu and Barry Siegel pressured Lisa Marie to sell 85% of her EPE-shares because it would be financially advantageous for them as trustees of Lisa Marie's trust fund. Never mind Lisa Marie's financial interests!
CREDIBILITY FAIL #3: After taxes Lisa Marie had $45 MILLION left from the sale of her EPE-shares. That money was squandered by Barry Siegel; he invested it in his own company, that went broke. He never paid Lisa Marie back.
CREDIBILITY FAIL #4: After all her uncorroborated accusatory nonsense that Elvis was a creepy child molestor --- she DEMANDS --- IN COURT OF LAW --- TO BE BURIED RIGHT NEXT TO HIS COFFIN SIDE BY SIDE FOR ETERNITY IN HIS BACKYARD.. moving Elvis' beloved mother and fathers resting places!!!! ....... even though she divorced him 50 years ago and has had a child with another man and her own life with other people for half a century.
Priscilla ruined her own credibility when she stole millions of dollars from Elvis trust without her own daughters consent. She stole from her child. She is an untrustworthy gold digger and fraudster.
THE SAD REALITY THAT SOFIA JUST GETS WRONG IN THIS TOTAL FABRICATION FILM: Priscilla Wagner Beaulieu is only interested in being famous and rich. She has exploited Elvis, Lisa Marie and now Riley, Finley and Harper. Priscilla is a narcissist who uses people and then discards them. EPE should boycott Priscilla's strategic fantasy of lies. HOW in God's name or otherwise, can you or anyone else BELIEVE PRISCILLA, or worse support her?
She is attacking Elvis' name and USING HIS LAST NAME (illegally I might add) with NO EVIDENCE. and NO EYEWITNESSES. Come on.
He was not a bad person for falling in love with a 14 year old teenager.
@@saphireblue3563 HUH? you know you just said this on the internet, for the whole world to see? like blatantly just admitted to being a hebephile?
but to the op as a child abuse victim myself, i totally understand being groomed to accept (and even come to expect, enjoy or see abuse as normal) and seeing your abusers through rose coloured glasses.
so even when you consciously know that what has happened is wrong, you still feel loving feeling towards them, which makes it so difficult to walk away. and that’s if they even consciously registered that was has happened is wrong. especially when the victim is a child (aka 14), living in a misogynistic society and all she knows is this.
but to the op as a child abuse victim myself, i totally understand being groomed to accept (and even come to expect, enjoy or see abuse as normal) and seeing your abusers through rose coloured glasses.
so even when you consciously know that what has happened is wrong, you still feel loving feeling towards them, which makes it so difficult to walk away. and that’s if they even consciously registered that was has happened is wrong. especially when the victim is a child (aka 14), living in a misogynistic society and all she knows is this.
Felt like all the scenes felt surface level and quick just like the doors 1991
thanks for making and uploading a video again Karsten
Elvis' generosity in building ST JUDES CHIDRENS HOSPITAL has been one of the world's greatest gifts of all time. That hospital has saved millions of childrens lives and doesnt ask for a dime to this day. Elvis' action in taking the polio vaccine on TV ended polio on American soil just a few months later. Elvis got through to the youth before even the government or schools or churches could. Elvis would pay off peoples houses, cars and education. He would help bury veterans if the family couldnt afford. He died almost penniless because of his generosity.
Priscilla's claim to fame is writing a book and 2 movies accusing Elvis of crimes -but provides no evidence. Crimes that could not of gone undetected because Elvis was surrounded by throngs of press and band mates and staff THAT WOULD HAVE LOVED to rat him out for money after his death. Not one of them had a single shred of evidence, not even a photo, that shows Elvis having ANY interest in her before they started dating when she turned 18.
Been a while since a Coppala made a movie
Anyone know of other channels similar to Karsten? Im looking for more casual film reviews by film nerds, not the more bombastic and surface level big channels that seem to be impossible to sift through. YMS is another one that I like, looking for more
I always watch reviews by Mark Kermode, he's an established british film critic. His love for movies is great and his rants are iconic! :D
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Jacob is a better elvis. He’s got that bad boy sex-appeal that Austin can only dream of.
One of the worst movies I have ever watched completely wasted my 2 hrs👀
same. I never saw a worse movie. Priscilla lied profusely, trying to make Elvis out to be a child molester with zero evidence. She stole millions from her daughter., She's a creep. Dont believe ONE WORD.
I think the ending was abrupt but I liked the movie.
The movie is all about Elvis because the exWife left him to find herself, then spent the next 55 years promoting herself as a Presley, and their relationship as something it wasn't.
Her own story could be quite compelling.
Priscilla’s family hated the film though
Elvis and Nixon is the ultimate Elvis movie.