Priscilla (Sofia Coppola, November 3, 2023) Movie • Page 3

I saw this in theaters and it was good! My favorite though was the 60 something year old lady (the only other person in the theater) who kept gasping throughout the movie because apparently she didn’t know the story? Her phone rang halfway through and she didn’t know how to turn it off.

 

The power of cinema.

 

Did not expect this to have a non-stop talking/phone-using younger crowd on a Thursday night, but here I am.

Loved the movie, though.

 

I’d assume they’re euphoria fans.

 

Yeah, basically every single one of his scenes was met with chatter/commotion afterwards.

 

Outstanding. Music, costuming, sets, all so good. Spaeny and Elordi were terrific. Idk why but I was obsessed with his entourage.

Also, incredible theater experience. Highly recommend seeing this in a sold out showing full of college girls.

 

Great entourage goin on

 

would that make Sonny West Johnny Drama

 

Dude right. Like they’re scummy but what a collection of guys

 

Seeing this today (with my dad who is a big Elvis fan so I am very curious what his reaction will be)

 

I had no idea he cheated on Priscilla with Ann-Margaret

 

Great movie, fuck Elvis and also my dad loved it and realizes despite loving his music Elvis was a shitty person

 

I liked this. Admittedly I don’t know much about Elvis or Priscilla, but I appreciate how grounded it felt. Doesn’t hesitate to call a spade a spade when it comes to Elvis (in this case, a narcissistic grooming manchild) but also never feels like a takedown piece or like it’s trying to be all Team Priscilla about it. Just kinda makes you sit with all of that isolation

 

That nuance is what makes it work so well. Elvis is guilty of all the things that predators are guilty of, but there was genuine love there as well. They kept in touch and were close after the divorce, and that is why the I Will Always Love You works so well as a closing song. The relationship can't work as they grow apart, but fundamentally they do care about each other.

Coppola's films are so often about father-daughter relationships, but in something like Lost in Translation the romance never actually happens. Here we see the perversion of that mentoring relationship.

 

Yeah that’s fine for the film and what the film is trying to portray but it’s been reported that Elvis preyed on many underage women at least three others as young as 14. He was a huge piece of shit. Also I’m not sure if it’s in the movie but she’s said he forcibly raped her at the end of their marriage so it’s hard to have any good feelings about his “love”

 

It isn't so much a celebration of that relationship but more about the complicated feelings she has at the end of it. Even with all the negative things that happened to her (and you allude to even more), would she have traded that away to be an anonymous housewife in Tennessee? Luckily for her she is smart enough to leave while she still can and not succumb to the drug addiction and being an accessory for a declining man.

 

This was good. At every turn, Coppola reminds us just how young Priscilla was and the power that gave Elvis over her. It's a good companion piece to Marie Antoinette. Both feature a young girl plucked from childhood to be with a powerful man and how that shapes their growth as a person. While Marie Antoinette has room to grow and discover herself, Priscilla's life is reduced to a toy Elvis keeps in a box so it stays in mint condition. She has no life outside of Graceland and no opportunity for a life inside it. I wish we got a little more of her self-discovery out in LA before she makes the decision to leave him, but given everything we saw it didn't feel rushed.

 

I think I like that we don’t get more, given how the movie ends with her driving away. It makes it feel more like she’s just getting a taste (as are we) of what life away from Elvis would be like.

 

Hmmm that’s a good point. A little more might have undercut it.

 

I also really appreciate is that we never see the Colonel. We get the sense from how Elvis speaks about him that he’s this controlling figure and part of the reason Elvis acts the way he does. But actually showing him and seeing how he manipulated Elvis could take some of the responsibility of Elvis’s actions away from him and on to The Colonel. By keeping him offscreen it keeps Elvis as the main authority figure and places his actions squarely on his shoulders.

On a related note, I kept expecting Tom Hanks to enter the house with his awful accent, so I was very relieved that never happened.

 

Into the Elvis-Verse.

 

Caught this last night. I thought this was beautiful. Coppola is the best at saturating her films with an atmosphere of melancholic boredom (not a criticism). I often feel like I’m reading when I’m watching her work because of all the subtle yet rich detail.

 

#relatable

When is she gonna make a movie about my life???

 

You didn’t see Virgin Suicides?

 

Got their ass