Priscilla - Movie Review

Priscilla - A movie review & reaction by Movie Husband's Geoff & Matt #priscilla #priscillareview #priscillareaction

Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Sofia Coppola
1:29 - Initial Thoughts
2:48 - More Analysis
6:33 - The Acting
9:20 - Analysis Cont.
11:17 - Grades

Priscilla is a 2023 American biographical drama film written, directed, and produced by Sofia Coppola, based on the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley (who serves as an executive producer) and Sandra Harmon. It follows the life of Presley (played by Cailee Spaeny) and her relationship with Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi). - Wikipedia

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[jayeginn]

Beaulieu has been milking a marriage that only lasted 6 years on paper for decades now. She not only lies about just about everything, she also lies about why she does it (to "preserve and honor Elvis memory"). She was still on board of EPE when they approved dog collars and toilet paper with Elvis' likeness on it. Or approved Elvis Presley whiskey. How does that honor his legacy? Everybody who knows anything about Elvis knows he wasn't a big drinker and that both his parents had their issues with alcohol. Red West once said that Elvis would already get tipsy from smelling the cork of a wine bottle, LOL. He may have been addicted to prescription drugs, but he stayed away from alcohol.

There are those, Elvis haters, who love to regurgitate falsehoods about Elvis that he "groomed Priscilla Beaulieu from age 14 on”. Some even go as far as stating he MARRIED her when she was 14, which is the biggest lie of all. They met in September 1959 in Germany when she was 14 and he 24. At this time, Elvis had a girlfriend back home, Anita Wood, whom he dated for several years and was only 2 years younger than Elvis. She was with his parents when Elvis was inducted into the army. In fact, Elvis' other girlfriends up to that point had always been around his own age, and some were even up to 6 years older than he was! So, no: he was not at all into underage girls (plural or otherwise).

Beaulieu is a self-serving narcissist who knew what she was getting into when she first met Elvis at age 14. After all, she knew that Elvis had a longtime girlfriend back home in the US, yet spent time with several German frauleins in spite of that. Little "innocent" Beaulieu did not mind being another girl he cheated on his girlfriend with.

Elvis returned to the US on March 1, 1960, while Beaulieu and her family remained in Germany. There she terrorized her mother and stepfather because she had only recently found out he was not her biological father. She played Elvis and Mr. and Mrs. Beaulieu against each other. She told untruths about her home situation begging Elvis to save her by letting her come over and she made family life in Germany for her parents and half-siblings hell.
It was Beaulieu who pursued Elvis, sending him risqué photos of herself (condoned/facilitated by her parents!). In a 1973 interview with Ladies Home Journal, Beaulieu is quoted saying that her mother, Ann Iversen, said that knowing Elvis was “an opportunity of a lifetime”.
Her mother and stepfather played a questionable role in the development of Beaulieu's long-distance "affair" with Elvis that reeks of ulterior motives. If they'd really been worried or incensed and believed that all the initiative came from Presley, they could have stopped it right then and there. Yet, they didn't; they played along. They first allowed her to visit Elvis in the US when she was 16. More than a year passed until her next visit at 17.
Beaulieu did not move to Memphis until she was close to 18 when she moved in with Elvis' father Vernon and stepmother Dee.
It is total nonsense that many claim that she "lived with Elvis since she was 14".

BEAULIEU AND ELVIS WEREN'T EVEN ON THE SAME CONTINENT FOR THE BETTER PART OF 3 YEARS.

During the years before their marriage, Elvis was away from Memphis a lot, making 3 movies a year in Hollywood or locations such as Hawaii and having multiple affairs with co-stars. Beaulieu knew this and could have left then, since they were not married yet, but of course, she stayed because the goal was to become Mrs. Presley.

According to Beaulieu, Elvis had promised to marry her when she was 21. But as her birthday had come and gone and her 22nd birthday was approaching and Elvis still had not kept his word, Beaulieu, her parents, and the colonel (Tom Parker) visited Elvis on a movie set. The most logical thing that happened is that a threat was made that they would go public about Elvis "dating" a minor while in his twenties if he would not keep his promise to marry her. After all: Jerry Lee Lewis had gone through a scandal that people might be reminded of if the Beaulieus had gone public: Jerry Lee Lewis had married his 13-year-old cousin!

Beaulieu soon became pregnant, but Elvis already wanted to divorce her. 9 months after the wedding, daughter Lisa Marie was born. Beaulieu and Elvis effectively lived their lives apart as early as 6 weeks after Lisa was born when Beaulieu began an affair with her dance instructor.
During the taping of the 1968 Singer Special (later redubbed the 1968 Comeback Special) Elvis had an affair with Susan Henning, while Beaulieu attended some of the tapings with her lover (the dance instructor).
By 1969, after Elvis had finished his movie contracts and had begun not only his residency at The International Hotel in Las Vegas, but also his touring around the USA, he was away from Memphis an average of 150 - 200 days a year. He bought a mansion for his family, at 144 Monovale Drive in Holmby Hills/California which became Beaulieu's residence while Elvis - in between tours - preferred to stay at his Hillcrest Rd, Beverly Hills house.
Effectively their marriage was over in 1969 and they increasingly lived separate lives. They did try to get back closer together in 1970, for the sake of Lisa Marie, but that failed. By then, Beaulieu had started taking karate lessons at Ed Parker's karate studio and subsequently met Mike Stone, whom she'd first seen during a karate tournament in 1968, and soon began an affair with him. By late 1971, Beaulieu and Stone (who had left his pregnant wife and child) shared an apartment in Belmont Shore and gossip rags were beginning to pick up on the break-up between Beaulieu and Elvis.

The separation was effective as of shortly before Elvis' 37th birthday, January 8, 1972. Elvis was livid and he moved on: started dating Linda Thompson in the summer of 1972. In August of 1972 a property settlement agreement was filed and he filed for divorce ON HIS 38TH BIRTHDAY, Jan. 8, 1973. The divorce was finalized on Oct. 9, 1973, FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS YEAR. Elvis had his attorneys add a special clause to their divorce decree stating she was not to use the name Presley for a career.

In interviews between the divorce and Elvis' death, Beaulieu described him as a has-been loser, absent/bad father and husband and adamantly stated she wanted to be known as Priscilla Beaulieu, to be her own person and that she was not Elvis Presley's property. In a 1973 interview with Ladies Home Journal she literally stated that there was "no possibility of a reconciliation with Elvis". After his death, she claimed that they had agreed to get back together when he was 50 and she was 40 and that he was the love of her life. She also started claiming that she and Elvis remained friends until his death. That was another lie; just listen to what his cousin Billy Smith tells about that, or what his dad, Vernon, wrote about that in a letter that has been made public.

Elvis did not mention this opportunist in his will AT ALL. Not as his ex-spouse, not as the mother/guardian of his only child Lisa Marie and certainly not by name.

After the divorce, and after Mike Stone, Beaulieu had (live-in) relationships with Mike Edwards, Robert Kardashian, Terry O'Neill, Elie Ezerzer and Kirk Kerkorian. In 1984 she met Marco Garibaldi with whom she had a relationship for 21 years. They separated in 2006. Together they had a son, Navarone, in 1987. She never married Garibaldi, although she had a much longer relationship with him than she'd had with Elvis.

It is extremely unfortunate that people believe all the fantasy tales Beaulieu tells. They gloss over the tons of inconsistencies that have arisen as time moved on and Beaulieu started changing her narrative, often contradicting supposed facts she told earlier. She's as glib as a used car salesperson because she can spin yarns like nobody, making those gullible people even believe her excuses for those contradictions.
If you really believe Beaulieu and her family would have acted the same way and would have been equally tolerant of his behavior (extramarital affairs etc) if Elvis had remained a truck driver learning to be an electrician, you are beyond naive. The Beaulieus had dollar signs in their eyes when they pimped out their rebellious (step)daughter.

Coppola purposely chose a girl the size of a pre-schooler to play Beaulieu and a 7 ft giant to play Elvis to accentuate the age difference in a visual way, too. The huge height difference subliminally makes people think "what is that adult doing with that child?" In real life, Elvis was 5'11" in bare feet and Beaulieu 5'2". Very cheap and disgusting methods, but certainly fitting for an equally disgusting subject for this "movie".

[toycamera]

As a filmmaker, I think this story is a good subject for a film but seeing as Priscilla has shown herself to be a fairly opportunistic individual, I'm a little dodgy about approaching this one. One comment on the trailer summed up my trepidation fairly well:

"The last quote "I want a life of my own" is actually hysterically funny. I mean: irony is dead, because the EX of 50 YEARS (HALF A CENTURY) this October 9, 2023, has been living off of her dead EX husband ever since he passed away August 16.1977. She is the ultimate opportunist. A parasite. A gold digger. AND she went to court a few months ago DEMANDING to be buried RIGHT NEXT TO ELVIS PRESLEY, in his HOW MANY EX WIVES DEMAND

But thanks for your review! Dropping you a like!!

[depper]

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 to exclude her from his will.

[depper]

And YES I watched the movie. 0/10. 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.

[lillyd]

Unfortunately for coppola the title "take the money and run" was not available😂

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don't　get　cocky!
genius　out　all　media!

[katebeacom]

Loved Priscilla and basically 100% agree with you both