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Vember new movies were just new to us. We're continuing things this week with Priscilla from
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This week saw Priscilla
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She wrote told Danny out loud in the theater that Priscilla was the same age as our second daughter
Obviously he knows our kids ages, but the fact was hitting me so hard. I had to say it out loud
Mm-hmm we'll get into it
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People have been asking me I've been getting DMs this week. Oh the big news that dropped
Everyone waiting for the big news months in the making
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The first thing I said after seeing this video it's a 10 minute video
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And my first thought was like it's a it's like an Alexa that you wear on your body
Because everything I saw in the video
This is what my Alexa does
We'll get into it in the end cut episode. We don't have to be us around this AI pin. No one knows what that we're talking about it
But our DMs were flying
Actually, you know, I had to talk about something in our DMs. Oh my gosh
We'll get into a Priscilla just around the corner. I was doing some like extensive Priscilla research
Here we go today
And I'm like looking up photos Priscilla Presley and then I see Priscilla Presley
With Leslie Nielsen and I'm like wait a minute
She was the lead in the naked gun movies. I had no idea that that was the same Priscilla Presley
Hmm, I would I I could I was stunned
I couldn't believe that this like news had escaped me for decades and I love those movies
Can't believe what I was probably you knew this you you were your student of her acting career. I guess
I'm no, I'm sorry. I am not. I did not know this. I've never seen naked gun
I couldn't even tell Priscilla Presley from God or Jesus, you know, if they were standing next next to each other
I mean, she looked fantastic in the naked gun movies. That's my memory of those films
We'll get into it Priscilla right around the corner
Um, Dan, did you watch any movies this week that you want to talk about?
You know, I watched one that would be considered a big one
To I think letterboxed folks. Yeah
Cine files we watched the first of the before trilogy
We watched before sunrise with wow
And well, I know Ethan Hawks name. I honestly can't remember the other female leader
Presley it's presley
Julie Depp Delpy
Yes, nailed it um
I gave it four stars. I had an amazing time watching this film
It um, I'm really looking forward to finishing the trilogy, but
I honestly I honestly thought it was gonna be a little bit more um
Like sappy or love story. I'm not sure why I thought that maybe the time it was made, but
I was really kind of enamored with the long conversations that they have in this film and I just really enjoyed it
I could I felt like it could sit there and listen to them talk forever. What should you basically do in this film
Um, there was like a long bus ride that I really enjoyed the conversation and then playing pinball and
You know, I just I just kind of I like these long conversation films. I think it's why I fell in love with um
My dinner for Andre when I watched it a couple years ago for this pod and
I don't know. This was a really fun movie. It was fun. It I guess is not the right word. I just really enjoyed it
I'm sorry because you watched this right. I thought that this would have been on borderline
Potential picked on the line that maybe you think so. I thought I would have picked this. I mean, we'll get to it at some point
Yeah, what made you watch it? Is that a promise? What did I watch this? I think
We were trying to find something to watch that night
And I was honestly on letterbox looking up like fall
Vibe movies
So we really come up with nothing in case you I think just picked it out of the blue um
So we just picked it starting the trilogy. I don't know if we'll keep going anytime soon, but
We watched the first one. Ethan hawk is so young in this. Yeah. It's a baby
baby hawk
Per if you were learning to fly you watched this before
No, I've never seen those uh never yeah never cross my my path
Wow
Before is it the is out they call it the before trilogy the before trilogy. Yeah, before sunset before sunrise
Before midnight. I think not in that order. I think I just a big investment to start a trilogy at this point in my life
He just wrapping up. Yeah, you're wrapping up the AI journey. You need to really think about what you spend your time with
I mean we should also talk about how part of went to the movie theater twice in two weeks again
Like this is and you posted a photo of your local theater in the discord and
I mean, it looks it does look like a ghost town
Do you want to dox what theater that is? I don't know. We don't want to jeopardize any partnerships
Eventually, they have seen the future award neo philadelphia
They were still showing asteroid city on like the main
Thing of the top of the theater the banner outside of the theaters. It said coming June 28
And for the record it's November now if anyone's listening from the future
The it guy got maybe fired a couple of months ago. No one knows how to log into that windows computer to change the posters from Rosé
Proto, what did you watch anything worth mentioning? I
Was able to watch a movie that's been on my watch list now and not that my AFI journey
Is on hold until we cover raging bull. I was looking at my watch list. It's like where do I go from here? You know
I've watched every important American movie
Where do I go from here
Uh, so I saw that the movie sorry to bother you
From 2018 was on amazon prime and I remember when this came out there was like a lot of hype around it
But then I kind of like disappeared and people haven't really talked about it again
But I've had on my watch list because people said it's kind of weird
You know, it seemed like a kind of a cool surreal movie people were like, oh, you're just like, wait
Do you get what do you see the thing that happens while
um
And it is kind of out there
It's I would say this is like a surreal dark comedy maybe is like what I would say it kept I kept thinking uh
It's like a mixture
Of like a David Lynch movie and like maybe Judd Apatow or something. I don't know
It's very it's very strange. It was a little too surreal for me
I think like I like I think I like my movies a little bit more grounded. This gets pretty way out there
but um
It has like a some interesting like social commentary
Um, and then lequith stanfields in this he's the guy who is in get out
Uh, not the lead, but he's like the one to mention. Oh, yeah, he was just an honor mansion
Uh, he has a pretty he has a good amount of cool movies. Uh, he's great in this
Tessa Thompson's in it as well. They're both great. Um, it's got a lot of style and it's just really funny
So I gave it four stars. I had a good time. Oh nice. Okay. I also saw you find a log tomboy
Oh, yeah
What made you come across the fact that you forgot to log that three months ago
Oh, well, I was looking at my watch list and Tom was still in there. Yeah, so it was like, oh, okay, I forgot see that's
That's the importance of a watch list. It serves many purposes one of which is when you forget you've watched a movie
Right there
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Or post in December, but I think we're recording it after our Napoleon episode. So folks
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Also, you log Tommy boy. Oh my god. Yeah
I mean also for the chance you log tomboy and Tommy boy in the same week
Yeah, freaky, right?
Back to back lot, but you I didn't even see a heart or a star rating on Tommy boy though
You know what the reason this was on my mind is our our dear producer Dale
He just watched this and he gave it five stars. Let me just look at his let me just give look at his review warranted in my
Yeah, I mean he was saying he's reminiscing on watching this as a 14 year old
It awakening something in him. Oh god, you know
He said he couldn't hide the delight on his face as a repeated word for word the script for the whole my gosh
I mean that's deep love
And I love Dale. So I was like, I mean, let me get in there. See what's going on. Yeah close this humane AI pin tab
And let me find out Tommy boy
I'm making the Tommy boy and I think it might be my first Chris Farley movie
Interesting, I don't wait you've never seen it. Yeah, I haven't seen Tommy boy. So I mean, oh, let's just say it didn't really work for me
Uh, I'm kind of upset that this is on the the VHS village top 100 movies of all time even if it's the 100s movie
Like we knew we need to do an audit or something. I mean, we're gonna recast our votes
I think this upcoming year and we'll you know, we'll set the record straight. We'll set some ground rules
But that you've said it it could jump it's gonna go higher probably black sheep. Maybe we'll replace it enough. Oh, I have veto power
I demand veto power
I love Tommy boy grown up Tommy boy was one of those movies that was a formative goofy comedy
I'm trying to see when dirty work came out with normic Donald goodness my god dirty work changed my life when that movie came out
1998
No, is Tom even seen with um does he is at the the hotel made seat
Where she's trying to she's or it's David spades at the door pretending to be the
Daily chat says yes, God what a seed
Chris getting frustrated
I got a lot of stuff like you do like a triple threat of
Tommy boy black sheep and then rounded out with dirty work directed by Bob Sagitt too
The king the king the goat
Extremely go to Bob Sagitt all right. It's time for Tommy boy
maybe
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Believe it or not. It's our old friend kev
What what
Extending his patron status that let's review for Priscilla four and a half stars for Priscilla
Great movie and all but you're telling me that Priscilla Presley never met the colonel never spoke to him
They're past never crossed am I supposed to believe this no colonel in Priscilla. Thank God
Who is the
The colonel the colonel get colonel Tom Parker out of here
This sounds like this is
Kev is letting his love of another movie influence possibly
This is so fiat
He's being self-kev influenced somehow in his reviews. I also want to point out like
We don't talk about it a ton
But there are so many podcasts to that jumped out in the last few years
You know from our discord kev host one of those co-host one of those with Kenzo Austin danger pod
But there's also a criterion connection movie mixtape
1978 Josh real Latinos the needle drops. There's so many podcasts
Um in our community that are worth listening to I don't know if there's a website
I'm not sure if these crew has like unionized and has a website
um
Trainor in chat is saying wow trainer has how many episodes is trainer's podcast post in the last
Six months trainer has a podcast
Uh god trainer is not even answering the question. He's like he refuses to answer my question about when the last episode was posted
So anyway
If you're looking for some other podcasts, there's a great group in our community
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joke around goofballs
Oh, what did I watch? Yeah, what did you watch
It's gotta be something I continued my chucky cinematic journey. Yeah, I didn't that end well
I don't know it didn't end well but bride of chuckies was actually really good
It was hilarious actually. I was shocked
chucky and
Jennifer Tilly
Jennifer Tilly looks incredible in bride of chucky. I love Jennifer Tilly
Uh Jennifer Tilly is like a former lover of chuckies human form
And she tracks that yet she tracks down the doll
She tried you know, she's you know, maybe still got the hots for
Chuckie even though he's a doll
Eventually she gets turned into a doll using the voodoo magic
So now you have a chubby
Yeah, and then you have Jennifer Tilly as a adorable little doll people
And they have like a scheme to get human bodies. So they're it's it's like a buddy comedy
Horror I don't know it's so hard to explain but it was I gave it four stars
Um my review I wrote chucky smokes of dube in the back of a fan and eventually gets laid pumping his little doll body
his heart
So then I watched uh, this is all on to be it's like to to be just
Auto plays and continues
Then I tried to watch seed of chucky where they have kids you know, they have a child
Um, and I fell asleep during half of it
And eventually there's like some really fourth wall stuff that breaks like Jennifer Tilly is in the movie as herself
They're filming like a chucky movie and she's in it
But then also the doll version of her what does also in it um, so I will I wake up
At one point they're falling asleep and Jennifer Tilly is pregnant
Human Jennifer Tilly and I was like wait did chucky have sex with human Jennifer Tilly
I mean
So then I made it just dead pans. No, it was a turkey bater. He went off into a cup. You shouldn't have fallen asleep. She said
So I did not rewind it um, I did not rate that one. I had to give that one a rewatch
So there's apparently two more after this that are more modern
But she literally says she needed to break and we will not be continuing in the near future
Together, I needed a break
Right to the next October. She doesn't want to explain chucky to you anymore. No, she knows what's gonna happen. Bless her heart
Um, I also watched fall of the house of usher that Netflix show from um
Mm-hmm Mike Flanagan
Who I I think I called Mike scam again when I watched a midnight mass. I was so annoyed with it
But followed the house thus fall of the house of usher was was okay. I liked it
Say it's like another eight episode show, you know
You know how they how they do
Like a master of horror Kirby suggests
The jury is out
Should we get into our movie Priscilla I think it's time
Priscilla 2023
Newviember
This was announced weeks ago
Go see it in theaters part of what is this movie
What happens when you fall into the orbit of a star
Priscilla falls into Elvis Presley in 1959 and doesn't come out until 1973
She is a freshman in high school and has the chance to meet the king of rock and roll
With an encounter Elvis I
Has turned towards her and her whole world has been lifted into the clouds and left her in a dream
Where she has his heart
And she chooses to live in his orbit and to find out what it means to love and be loved
Priscilla
I do have to cause you a portal record a UFO for interns
Is pre and post movie thoughts and there were some real banger Elvis impressions
Mainly just grumbles
I think he I think the thing is is he found a way to speak without using his tongue
Like if you just try to talk without moving your tongue you're halfway there
Oh
I couldn't even say I was trying to keep my tongue motionless
Are you dandy now you try? No
My goodness gracious
I my backstory with Priscilla Presley obviously you heard of the top show
I have no knowledge of her
I didn't even know that she was the lead actress in three of my favorite movies the naked gun
Trilogy
Um, I also don't even really know anything about Elvis
Yeah, we you know, I said we would never release our DMs
But I will say that there were conversations about me watching live
Delta yet Delvis live Elvis concerts
And you know the the one that they show in the movie the one where he's wearing the leather
This is 73 aloha show and then his final show
So I was kind of just mainlining those shows today
Part of what about you? What's your what's your history with Priscilla Presley and
And her husband?
No history with Priscilla uh, I feel like I probably
Saw and heard more about Lisa Marie Presley than anyone else. Oh, yeah, I'll rip with her. Yeah, and did
Yeah, Elvis Presley his performance. Yeah, like watching these these clips um
That have you guys seen this guy before has anyone watched Elvis before he's incredible. He is incredible
Uh, which I feel like this added to the movie. I you know, I watch the clips after
Um, but just watching the movie and then coming and seeing him perform and seeing like what kind of
Yeah, performer he was uh
It adds to it while also I feel like the movie does a good job of communicating just how big
Elvis was at the time
Yeah, Masha's asking you have any of us seen
Bos Lerman's Elvis the answer is no, I have not seen it. I refuse. I did need to take a break
It was getting too heated the eye around that movie
I yeah, you probably some repress like you know, you're right. I think our upbringing at least our age
Her mic was acting her uh, yeah, Lisa Marie Presley with Michael Jackson
I remember when MTV dropped that music video with the two of them and nobody thought
This would last
I mean people need to google that moment from the ncv awards or they
They make out on stage
I'm very happy to be here
And just think nobody thought this would last
Yeah, you talk about a formative moment kind of the man seeing Michael Jackson make out at least a more
But I thought this would last
I mean look at the clip. It's nuts
Danny you've you've alluded to it in previous episodes
But you do have a connection to the king. I mean, I feel like ever since I could listen to music
My dad was playing Elvis. We listened to so much Elvis growing up
I like I've formerly I like I remember like driving
His old like dodge ram
This brown dodge ram. He had no seat belts. We could crawl crawl on the seats wherever we want
And he would just be putting in these cassette tapes of Elvis
And we've listened to Elvis so much. I have like old ticket stubs from when my dad saw them
Live here in Orlando whenever they came to Florida so many stubs
um, but I didn't really know
Priscilla
Outside of kind of like the public knowledge of her so like this story is like all brand new
Yeah, I think we knew I think I knew way more about Lisa Marie than Priscilla, but
Yeah, in my household Elvis was king. I mean, we I mean, I just we've always known about Elvis my entire life
We've watched his movies. I mean, I've seen these movies that he did
My dad would play those. I think we used I think he's still I think there's VHS somewhere, but
Yeah, Elvis was it in our house
Lindsay in chat says Jacob the Lordy's Elvis voice was way more palatable than awesome butlers
I thought Jacob did like an unreal job
Um as Elvis which we'll get into right on the corner. We'll get into a chill
Um, but this is based on
Priscilla's book, right? It's like El Priscilla and Elvis and there was a TV movie
I think in the 80s that was done also of the book
I wish I had known that sooner and then we come up wanted to track that down and watch it to see
what kind of differences there were
So we'll go around the room round table style
We jot down some notes when we watch these movies and then we'll end things with our letterboxed rating
We probably have to start with Danny. I feel like given the history of
the king
But also learning a lot about Priscilla the the star and real human being
It's weird. I don't know where to start because I think the most shocking thing for me about learning about
Elvis and Priscilla
um
Well, a learning about all of Priscilla's kind of storyline but to know the age gap. I know Casey's review set at the top of the hour
I had no idea that this
I had no I knew there was an age gap. I didn't know that it started with her as a freshman in high school
while they were stationed in Germany um
And Elvis was quite older than her like 10 years older than her. It was very
It was a very
Interesting way to start the movie and I know it's how the story starts
But it also kind of puts a lot of this story into perspective on how
It's predatory all I mean it's it's gonna be how that her story kind of continues on how he's treating her and
I was really just kind of shocked by
It's um
But then also as a story unfolds on how Elvis treats her
um
I mean sexually how he you know keeps her at bay until they're married. It's very it's not I mean weird isn't the right word because
Obviously their age gap makes the makes it all weird, but I don't know he he was just very awkward
I don't know of Elvis being weird like this. I think that was like
I think that's a way that caught me the most off guard like him reading
The bible and the stuff to her and bed like Elvis came off like such a creep and a weirdo in this movie
Um, and it was just so off-putting so much of Elvis's scenes like
I kind of expected it on some level of just being like an a-hole husband
But just being just it was just like a plus creep the whole time for me
Yeah, 90s they met in 1959. She's 14. He's 24
Yeah in Germany when he was there for military service. Yeah, he was drafted in the army in 57
Part of your thoughts
Yeah, I think that's that's one of the more interesting things about this movie is how
It's so focused on Priscilla that there's this huge star of Elvis in this
But all of those things that make this relationship so bizarre
And how it how it how they meet how it develops how they relate to each other
You don't get like a full picture of Elvis like it's really you're seeing like this one side of where he's just with her
And like why does he do this why does he control their relationship in this way
Why is he yeah, why is he just the way he is with her and like what were her his motives and goals and like did he plan this all along
Is he just like a super weirdo in these these ways was this all part of like a bigger plot like there's so many things that I
I'm curious as to why it was this the way their relationship
That they don't it doesn't really delve into um
Either as like his motives in those terms, but also
It's very like guarded too and I feel like in terms of how Priscilla was responding to this stuff too big time
So it's it's it's almost like you're kind of shut off to both of them and it's very clear that Priscilla is
She's like sucked into this and doesn't know what to do
And I think that's the main thing like that is well communicated that she is like way in over her head
And she doesn't like she almost doesn't understand what her life is
And you're kind of lost there with her
Yeah, I think in your UFO
He even said that you didn't realize that Elvis was
In the movie so much and I thought the same thing and I don't know why
Maybe it's just the lack of knowledge that I didn't realize that like
The whole thing was gonna be the two of them and the book is called Elvis and me. I just had to confirm
So I guess you know the majority of it is their relationship
And you're right there is that kind of like weird
lack of
Depth into their thinking and they're like emotional state
And I guess that really is probably what I guess I don't guess but
Probably on purpose
Because you're really just supposed to just have these scenes play out and they do play out in like
You know someone in a previous review and our community said it was like a lot of vignettes
You know, and you're just kind of left to pick up the pieces yourself and infer what they're thinking
Um, which is a very interesting choice for this film. I thought
A lot of it made me feel like we were supposed to be
Kind of reacting how Priscilla would react in these moments like we're confused as well
We're kind of star struck by Elvis as well
And you know all these weird scenes like she's kind of like having to struggle with them on the spot the same way we kind of are
It's like I think we're meant to feel awful for most of it for most of these odd scenes
And Kaylee's amazing
Yeah, she's great actually yeah, she was like she played the role so well when she was the 14-year-old version
Priscilla's like is there a second actor in the movie? Yeah, she's the young in Priscilla because she does
Fit the role so well
Yeah, and like even the
The parents I guess at first were like
We don't want you going over this party
But then we don't want you hanging out with him then we don't want you going to visit him
I mean, I don't know was 1950 something or whatever like what was
What's the general consensus at that time? It's different right like maybe it was
Copacetic in a way. I don't know
Yeah, well this that's actually kind of my first point is that
It might have been like accepted
But I think the other thing is that it's also Elvis
Yeah, like he's this international star, and it's like here's your you know
Elvis Presley even though he is like a rock and roll star. It's like
He wants to spend time with your daughter
And she wants to see him and you have like this
Broken relationship but well, it's like it feels like your relationship is breaking with your daughter as you move to Germany
She has away from her whole life
And that's I feel like that her
Going to Elvis. It's like it's very tragic in the way that it's outside of her control
I feel like it's outside of anybody. It's outside of her parents control
It's outside of her control that she'd fall in love with him like he is the heartthrob of the globe
And he has his eyes turned towards her there's like she's she's hopeless like there's no way
She's not falling in love with him like it's completely outside of her control
And I felt like that was so well communicated at the beginning of this movie of like
She goes to his house in Germany like three different times
And those scenes of her like back in school like you can just see on her face like she is head over heels
Insnared by this guy like so in love like she there's no escape for her
Um, and I just thought that I thought that was really well done
Yeah, one of my notes was if you see him play in front of you at a party and talk to you
You're 14. Yes. How does your life not
Immediately change forever from that moment on yeah
And like eventually get invited to his room too like there's just I like
I'm I was starting to think of like you know the you read those stories of teachers having relations with students
Like the woman there's so many like when we grew up about like the the female teacher who had a relationship with a young boy in school
And then she goes to prison but like the relationship continues after she comes out of prison
You know like I was thinking of that too like
There's no way she's not going to become infatuated with him and it's almost like you're creating that relationship
By force and she's just gonna be stuck with it because she doesn't know anything better. You know
I mean when Jacob sat down at the piano on that scene
I was about to throw my panties at the start
Yeah, that was an excuse me. Those are your quarter royale shorts
Boy, uh, we've actually hit like all of my main points already
First 10 minutes
I do want to talk more about
Elvis just kind of being weird. So it's it's like my lack of Elvis knowledge, but I kind of didn't put two and two together
But like when he's in the army and trying to like come out of it his like career starts to hit a low
um, and then he goes through these various phases like he's reading the bible at a certain point
He's getting into like, you know
spiritualism
He goes through like these various phases and I did go to read a little bit about her book
It talks about how he's tried different things
To like get back in the swing of things and like she really was turned off by the spiritualism stuff
They tried LSD together, which we see in the movie. Oh, what a scene amazing scene
And I don't know they just made me
Curious and it like I just felt so disconnected to his outbursts
But then at the same time like oh, I guess maybe that's supposed to be how persilo felt in those moments
Like when he throws the chair
When she gives him feedback about the song. I don't know. Elvis. What are you doing?
I didn't make any sense to me in that moment. You asked
Yeah, he asked for the feedback
Yeah, and then when they're when they have that amazing scene where they spend like three days together in bed or whatever
Um, and they're they're playing around with the pillows
And then he freaks out about getting to hit with a pillow. They just all seem so weird
When he freaked out, but I guess that was on purpose because you're supposed to be in persilo shoes. I don't know
Yeah, I think so for sure
You're kind of as lost as she is in those moments
And I feel like that's like more the point of it is not like
This isn't like a turning point in the relationship
It's not saying anything about the relationship. It's just like communicating
How how confusing it was for her to be with this guy who
Uh, you know, is this you know
larger than lifestyle
But then he has like this life with her
But it's separate between those. I mean the way that she felt
Almost like in prisoned in Graceland, you know, and like almost like he wouldn't let her leave. Yeah, they're most of it
Because he was cheating on her the whole time, right?
They made it seem kind of vague in the film, but it was pretty legit that he was having affairs with the other women
But it was almost like nebulous in his explanations where
Hopefully persilo would just kind of know that
I'm going to be connected with these women read that however you want
And it's just gonna happen
Danny number two
Hmm
Number two, um, I thought this movie was stunning. I think it was a beautifully shot film
I there were so many scenes that I just I loved how long they just kind of sat and quiet the scenes of um
Priscilla in Graceland
The lighting in those scenes are incredible the the set design of Graceland looks so good
It felt so timeless because I know it doesn't look like that
Uh, anymore. It's crazy that they even just kind of built their own kind of Graceland
Um
The there's a great montage in the very beginning when she's kind of when Elvis is away and she's counting like the days of seeing him again just the
Gorgeously shot scenes and I just couldn't get over how beautiful this film was when they go to Vegas
I'm like oh my god if I could time travel I'm going back to 60 70s Vegas like I want to see
Like that's it's it's it's it was incredible. It looked like they used like
Stock 4k footage of Vegas or something because it it looked like they just blew up so a film reel of Vegas at that time and looked great
I think they had to have done right that was stunning. Yeah, that was yeah, there's just so much this film was beautiful and
I mean, no, I don't have not seen any other couple of movies or Sophia Copeland movies and I just
I feel like I have to dig in but this one. It's just beautiful
Copeland journey
We should do a couple of month
That'd be fun. Yeah
Yeah, the cinematographer was AJ Young and I think Tamara Devaro was a production designer. I watched a quick like the
Not sure if it was wired or vogue or something
But they had Sophia and the two leads kind of watch a scene and break it down and it was that
scene where he's reviewing the demos
and
Sophia paused it and like circled the screen just of the photos in that room like they made all the fake photos of
The actor
What's his name? I wrote it down. Sorry
Jacob as Elvis like with an actor who was playing his mom. They had the fake old records in there
Yeah, it's just so cool to think about like all the details that went into just that room
That really you're not seeing but it's in the backdrop
So the production design was aces. I thought about that when they start showing Elvis on tour again
and they start like pacing up the
posters and the vinyls and it's all
photos of
Jacob instead of actual like yeah, Elvis material and I thought man what a gig like I would have loved to have been like
Getting to create these fake Elvis for posters with Jacob. What about what a fun gig that would have been yeah
I also like I think they didn't get the rights to use any Elvis music either in the film
Um, I'm gonna talk about music in a second. Yeah, but I like that
Like I liked the music that was done in the film creating its own vibe. I like that they didn't have to lean on that
And like complete expectation, you know, yeah, I think it worked really well the the music selection
Puerto next on your list
um
The other aspect of the relationship there there there's there's there's sexual relationship
Which is like a pretty big part of this movie and it's
There's so many things that happen in this movie that just feel
The opposite of like what you expect but in the same way feel as like terrible
like her
You know, she falls for him
she's in Germany
Her
Her parents agree to allow her to go live on Graceland with Elvis Presley to finish school
And she gets there and she's like, yeah, the Finch High School and she's just like moves into his bedroom
It's like here's my you know 16 17 year old daughter or whatever moving into Elvis's bedroom ready to get it on with him
Right there is ready. Yeah, she's totally ready and he turns her down and then he turns her down
Until they get married. I don't know how long that I guess she was 21
Oh my gosh, so that was like four more years
Of this turning her down. Wow
Like I don't even know
What is like what is his like what is he doing? Yeah other than control right like cheating on her
I mean
Priscilla is in absolute Fox
Yeah, in like in at this point of her life
I mean for most of her life she's Fox all of her life
But at this time your Elvis you're like, okay, we can't baby
Can't get into the temptation. We can't what he even says like if we give in
If we overcome this temptation
We can overcome anything he has like a few lines
That are just so wild and like you know
To I guess his credit at the time too when she was even younger
They like kiss once and he's and I think she even says in her book that he was kind of like a gentleman
As as much as you can be and for until they got married which you're right
Like I can't believe that that ended up being the case
And I almost want to think that it was
almost
Sincere of him where he's like all right. Well, I sleep with these other women, but she's gonna be my wife
You know, yeah, and that's different with her and maybe he even told himself that
But the way it plays out it ultimately feels especially like towards the end of it when he almost like when he trusted like
Reaper at the end
Then you're like, oh my god. This is like the opposite of the beginning of the movie
Yeah, Ed points out in the book they were doing other stuff though
So this actually I pulled from the wiki of the book because it cracked me out
quote the couple kissed and engaged in pitting
But Elvis always stopped the make-out sessions before it led to actual intercourse
Anyone use the word petting
In out loud to just to describe that kind of stuff maybe in the last 20 years 25-30 years
Heavy petting I remember hearing the phrase heavy petting in high school
And I was like what is that
Oh
Nobody news if you want to google out in cognit mode first and foremost
um
Danny number three. Oh man, we're back around um
I want to talk about my favorite
um
Needle drop of the film
Uh dolly pardons. I will always love you at the end is an absolute banger of a choice for this film because
um that song dolly originally wrote um
Uh four out she she partially wrote the song for Elvis himself
And uh there was a time when she went to
Record the song with Elvis in the studio and uh
uh
The kernel
Wanted to take all the rights
He said he told her Elvis doesn't record
Uh without the rights to all the songs and so he wanted
Either half the rights or all the rights or the song doesn't get recorded and dolly said no
And she kept the rights that I will always love you which is an absolute
banger of a song
But she turned them down, but for Sophia to use this
At the end when she's leaving Elvis
There's a very choice uh
Music
Uh bit and I was like I mean it was a flooring it floored me at the in the in the moment
But then finding out the reason uh she picked the song is pretty powerful. Wow
Yeah, we were talking about
Somewhere someone linked to the Elvis
A performance of unchained melody
Oh my god
And during I think that was his last show right his last live show in 1977
I mean you talk about chilled up
That's that that that forms as a banger
Holy cow. I came out of the theater because we were
We're DMing like right before my show started and you sent that and then I didn't watch it until I got in the car
I was
sobbing
In my car
Watching this video and then I said hope after did her
I was like Jenny you gotta watch this
So I pulled it up on my phone and I just put it on the countertop and we just stood there watching it
I was behind her and I started crying again
This is like
That I don't know whatever I all this had
Is something friggin else like it you can feel it
On your phone watching it whatever he had it is unbelievable
Oh
My love
My darling
I hungry for your touch
Oh
Time
Goes by
So slowly
I mean, it's fine because we were
I can't remember Danny linked to that video and there's like you know never before seen banter before on chain melody
So Elvis is like bantering back and forth with this guy is gonna hold his mic form
And I think we all hit play the same time so like when Elvis like start singing out of nowhere
We're all like oh my god. Holy shit like it's an amazing performance
So he looks like he's about to fall into a coma
And then he still got it. He still has it when he needs it
Ah boy the one thing to watching all these performances
Um
Man the amount of flash photography in these shows
That is gone in like modern day. It looks so cool rewatching some of the footage of the audience the flashes going off
Pro wrestling is the same way
There's just something about seeing all those lights go off in the stands that it's just not something that is happening ever again
Which kind of sucks
Proto final point um
Yeah, we kind of hit all mine. Oh, well, I could talk about my theater experience
So I wasn't sure
Talk to what was happening at first
I thought that like are they're in Germany um
Maybe there's something about
Her life and like it be being in a pressure cooker the start of this because
The screen of my theater kept vibrating like there was a bomb going off
I'm not even joking
It was it was like it sounded like very distant like a like a like it was sound like a nuke was going off in Germany
And I thought that might be happy like were they testing nuke's in Germany while
For silla
Pressley's family was stationed there
Turns out my theater was right next to the i max feeling of
Uh the marvels movie
That was Bri Larson and friends next to you because I yeah, I'm like
All right, it's now go there was like a part where the screen went blank and there was like nothing and then the screen vibrated
I was like okay, this is not part of the movie. I am sure now
I mean I left and then when I left the theater I'm walking out
Like I can feel it vibrating the floor of the the aisle um my god
So that went on the whole runtime of my cheese
But I felt like it kind of maybe
Elevated it some because I thought it was just part of the show for a while there
The vibration could be in metaphor for heavy petting in those things exactly
I can't believe that theater has an i max screen judging from the parking lot situation
It has two i max and a doldy, so
What the theater yes dang okay
Oh, okay, okay, you take the go with the bad
Yeah, um my final point
We covered everything, but I think I was mainly shocked also
I mean, there's many shocking things about the relationship
Um
Was the height difference between the two I mean Jacob is like nine feet tall
She is like four foot
And that adds like another layer just into the age difference early on in the film
But also just you know the the power dynamic obviously
Um, but I did really like Jacob as Elvis and I know there's like a meme about
The other actor that played Elvis in the other movie, but I don't know there's something I he even talks about it in that video that I alluded to
He said his like regular voice level is closer to Elvis's as well, so it kind of made it easier for him
To kind of play the role and get to those certain conversations, which I thought was fascinating
Um, I all the other video I watched was
I guess this was a video from Vogue in anticipation of the Lerman film
But it was Priscilla going through the decades of like her style
Oh, yeah, the camera is above her and then in front of her, but she's opening up this beautiful kind of photo album
And it's like a photo of her saying goodbye to Elvis in Germany that first time like when he leaves for good
And she's taught and she's smiling
She's like, yeah, I remember this moment, you know, he told me not to shed any tears
So you can see this photo that I'm smiling and that I'm trying to like hold back everything and it's turns page
It's like you know the wedding
Um, the photo of their of them and Lisa Marie like all the various styles through the year. I thought it was an amazing 10 minute video
So track that down too
Yeah, in terms of her style the one
Where she uh, it was sort of the end where Elvis is like going on his tour
I think it's like after her 68 come back
Uh, and it's like they're they're kind of mourned to like get into like the 70 style and her hair looked like a modern a modern haircut
Because she goes from like that higher the beehive. Yeah, it was like flat. She looked like um
You what's her face? No, the British princess um from America Kate
I know the other one Kate wins a lit. No, the the X princess the X princess is Megan's dying. That's who it is. Yes
Yeah, sure, my name is Megan
It's crazy to watching his comeback special and then
The 73 special. I mean fashion has changed so much and so fast in between those two specials
It's nuts. It's nuts to go through those videos
Uh, Danny honorable mentions. I don't read
Um
Honorable mentions. I loved
I loved the pool parties, but I loved when they're at the jukebox and he makes that jab at the Beatles. Oh, yeah
Samarica
I wouldn't play them
um
I have
I think I am just I'm at four and a half stars for this
It doesn't hit five for me because I didn't I didn't love the ending
I didn't kind of like how it kind of ended of her driving away. I understand it, but
I
Honestly wanted to see her process
Elvis's death a little bit. I thought we were going to get there because I felt this movie flew by
In my opinion for what it was runtime, but I thought we're going to get a little closer to his death maybe
um
But I didn't enjoy how it ended, but I really loved this film. I'm at four and a half stars for only some moaks
Was it ever in doubt?
You know for the king my first copula you never know the queen Elvis is the lead
fertile
Uh
Yeah, I agree Danny with the um the ending. It doesn't you know, it doesn't have like a typical story arc the way it
It develops like when you think of uh, I don't know like a story about someone's life in this way
It usually you know has more like key moments that you can track the story and they're they try to end it with some kind of
You know climactic
Turn or something a revelation, but I did like how this just felt more of like a slice of just her life with Elvis
And this period and just showing it from a certain perspective it kind of reminded me of the um
The Steve Jobs movie
Where it was just like towards that one period of his life was that Michael fastbender in that
Ashton kutcher no not the ashton kutcher one the ashton kutcher one tries to show his whole life and it stinks
The the fastbender one I think it's like it's just like one period of his life
So kind of reminded me of of that in the way it told the story
But it did feel like you're getting towards the end. It felt like it was running out of runway
It was like uh the movie's almost over and it seems like we're not totally somewhere
So this movie definitely to me feels more like riding a vibe than having a you know that uh
That resolution that you you're used to in a movie
Mm-hmm
I also really
Connected with just like her parents struggling what to do man. I don't know what what I don't know what to do
I bet her dad going out with her too. Remember he flies from Germany to there. It's crazy. But just seeing your daughter
You know this oh man. I I don't know it's different times. Yeah
It's crazy to think of being in that that moment and like what do you do because then you think
Maybe he should maybe they should have protected her told her no not let it happen, but then
I mean she tells them she's gonna go either way
Yeah, but I mean even like before the first date like if they said no
Absolutely not under no circumstances
Then you just wonder like what if you know
Yeah, also like I mean it's Elvis
What if she just falls into like a deep depression for years he becomes an even bigger star
I mean the amount of like resentment. Yeah, that she would have towards her parents for the rest of her life. Maybe I could have been his wife
Sure could have been hanging out alone for most of my life at grace would ever he lose bracelet
I love the font of the opening credits
Oh really just yeah nice font choice
Um yeah her falling in love is just magic at the beginning
I thought that was so well shot
Him giving her the gun. Oh, yeah, what a moment. Yeah, all of her different matching ones or addresses
Yeah
Kind of wanted to shoot a gun after seeing this
I feel like I could shoot maybe I could shoot one of hers whatever she had those little pea shooters mm-hmm cut that out
Oh
How about her graduation then she comes out to him getting pictures with the nuns. Oh my god
That was amazing. They'll have their guns out too. So funny. He's so charismatic like ah good
Like yeah, the Jacob a Lordy or whatever. He did so good in this. He was so believable
I like I just thought he was Elvis while watching this and I think that's that's probably the highest compliment you give somebody um
Oh
His jewelry game was crazy that ring fish between the bracelets the watches the rings the gifts he's giving her
Yeah in that um
Priscilla Vogue video they showed aside by side of the family photo
But it was like the Austin Butler version and I just like was thinking after seeing this
I was like there's almost no visual comparison between these two actors
Like Jacob is Elvis and it's it felt so weird seeing Austin Butler in those photos
With like slick back hair and it's like that doesn't work
Spirit Halloween Elvis true the scene where
Elvis calls
Priscilla into the room is like I think we should spend some time apart
The woman in front of me she she whispered under her breath bastard
But that was the only people out of them the whole movie so I'll take it um
Yeah
Yeah, that that final scene with them in the hotel room of him like completely strung out
Um man, that was rough
Um this movie is like confusing to know how to feel but I feel like that was its goal because it's confusing for Priscilla obviously
Um, I almost can't get over that this is like a real life seeing them
Like going out on a buying trip together
He's got his posse with them like the paparazzi falling on the round they look like a million bucks in their clothes
It's just
Whatever like this life that they lived is it's just something else um, I had a great time watching this. I'm at four stars
Oh goodness holy cow
Okay
Elvis died when he was 42 years old people
42
Let let that sink in TM TM okay
I still can't get over that
Um before I saw this movie I saw trailer for Beyoncé
Documentary of like her tour and it looks
Fire I need to see this movie to be honest. It looked amazing the way it was shot
You know the production of her tour. I'm not sure if anyone else listens to shows Beyoncé fan
I need to talk to people already I need to learn
About it's like I guess it's called the Renaissance tour. I don't know you need to learn. I might be using my MC stubs join the bees see that
The rug to open the movie. I made a note that looks super comfy. It's a great barefoot walking rug
Uh, what else in my notes here
Him and every shot of him in front of a car like outside the house that I'm doing anything that rolls
He looked tremendous. I'm not sure if they use a different lens. Everything just looks so clean and beautiful
Her walking into the houses. He's playing pool
to shot
Don't let me sleep later than three tomorrow. Okay
Apparently he just always slept it until three or four p.m
Everyday his inner circle the Memphis
I mafia
Man did they did those guys just have it made in the shade for however many years they were with Elvis
I'd love to read a book on them. We're an audio book read to me at that about their lives the 68 come back special
Of them on stage just playing like jamming out together
It's unbelievable. Yeah
Oh, I mean that thing is gorgeous too. There's a few 4k restorations that people have tried to do for those videos if you can find them on YouTube
Um, there's one scene where I think she is walking in the hallway where she dies her hair in school
Like the day after and a none even turns her head to gawk at her. What is this none doing my god
Please
So piss at the
Um her cheating on the test. Remember cheating on test in school trying to peek over at someone's book
God, I hate it school
It gets better folks
Um
Three days in bed and he ruins it with a pillow fight. Oh, I love the scene up until I'm on it
Was pull the rights I wanted to read more about like the Ann Margaret engagement. So I did
um
You know when she she goes where she like goes to Malibu or something to because she feels like something is happening
And I guess in one of those one of those instances in real life like Ann Margaret or I can't remember if it was Ann
Margaret or another woman he was having an affair with
She leaked to the press that they are engaged because she was pissed
And that's how that started she like she's told the press core like oh, yeah, by the way
We're engaged. Oh, um, and that's just how that kind of stuff started
I actually wanted to learn more about you know those those moments and those kind of like affairs
It and so then I was curious like you know
You see the karate teacher later in the movie when she's trying to have her own life and she is having her own life
She did have an affair with that guy
Um, and they lived together for a few years after the divorce
Hmm
I don't it was like so vaguely inferred in that scene. I was like I guess they are a parking and between karate sessions
karate
I am at three and a half stars for Priscilla. I had trouble connecting with the way the movie was told and I know that it's on purpose
You know, I just wanted more from I mean 75% of the movie 80% of the movie you have no idea what Priscilla is thinking
You're supposed to kind of know and I get that but I kind of wanted
You know more emotion from Priscilla, you know, maybe a little bit more of an outburst
She only really has like two outbursts and the entirety of the relationship
Um, and then you like the the most emotion you see from Priscilla is when she's
Out dinner at that dinner party with the karate instructor. She's laughing it up y'all can have a good time
I mean, that's how like the the end of the movie
And I and I again, I understand that's the point of the movie
Wanted it wanted a little bit more. Yeah, it does feel like it's bottled up and it never releases
So especially walk out of the movie feeling
There I can see like the unsatisfaction with that of just feeling that it's there's no resolution in it in some ways with this
I did like it. It's gorgeous cinematography is beautiful
Love the shots of and especially when she's at the house and she goes into that room and just the one
Slipper of light is on her face. That's like an alternate poster that I shared
Holy cow
Can you actually have to sit there and listen to Elvis read you the Bible?
I mean absolute nightmare. I don't know
I can do it. I mean
For me for me that is an absolute nightmare
Elvis know Jacob Valardi maybe
Okay, that is Priscilla next up is we have some letters. I have a voicemail that I forgot to play with apologies to our dear friend
Jonesy loves beer. You can send us a voice memo or an email to 70mmpot at gmail.com
So let's listen to
Jonesy for for new listeners Jonesy was guest host on our
Indiana Jones and the last crusade episode. Yeah, she feels like time. What a run. What a run. We have there
So let's let's hear what Jonesy has to say
70 millimeter. This is your
uh
fellow pigdeck alum
Jonesy loves beer JLB to the masses. I just finished listening to your Friday at 13th episode. Great episode
I wanted to comment on the origin of Friday 13th which gave you a question
Now in Masonic lore that is free Mason lore
Friday 13th originated as a battle clock day or an unlucky day
one in 1307
King
Philip of France I believe
ordered the
arrest of the night's 10th are all around Europe he had feared that the knights had grown in power of course
It's popular theory they invented modern banking and that they had seized a lot of the wealth and control and of course were their own private army
Um, and the king of France didn't like that because he owed them a bunch of money
So he figured what better way than not to own the body than to order their arrest and kind of take over their order
And it is also a popular
Ancestor of order 56
What's our words? It was um, I believe George was citing some poetry when that order
was kind of brought about the same way that uh
King Philip
Get the night's 10th more
So that's it. That's my two cents probably means nothing to anybody, but I thought I'd chime in while he's all bye
My god, nobody fact check him
It's poetry
Jonesy also is the host of the Twin Vipers podcast martial arts action movies
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Of the not the bad luck with 13 is
Let's just say I'm getting different answers
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We have some letters as well
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Evening guys this is Alex from the UK. I'm fresh meat to the podcast been listening for only a few months now
But have already devoured many of your episodes
Some of my favorites of yours are Kira kill bill and joe is 3d
On a six hour drive from the south of england into central whales
I listened to as many episodes as I could squeeze in including the dark night trilogy series capped off by your the batman review
I don't mess around
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Back to the letter
Initially I found myself agreeing more with the opinions and ratings of slim but
Have recently been finding myself vibrating on the wild card frequency of proto and damn it feels good
I know you don't take requests
So I guess I'll just say I'm waiting patiently on a review for there will be blood
Which is my second favorite film of all time after interstellar
But you already did a wonderful review of that consider it imagine how effusively you could praise
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I am oh yes
Anyway, I just want to let you guys know that I'm appreciating every episode and you've certainly entered my top four favorite podcasts love you guys
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subject line killers of the power moon. Oh
Nicholas. Hello 70 mm first time long time yada yada
I was just listening to slim recount the tragedy of the groaning women on the flowers on the killers of the flower moon episode
And was inspired to share my own theater experience with you
Just for a minute. I got like 20 plus comments in that review people agreeing and have shared experiences
I saw a flower moon with three close friends at seven p.m. on a Thursday in my rundown local AMC in Connecticut
Our theater was nearly empty and everyone was quiet and polite throughout the film
Always quite well in fact until the entire theater lost power
I need to stress to you that this happened almost exactly three hours into the movie
During the interrogation sequence people screamed people swore
Something magical happened then as the audience sat in the dark for the next half hour while the staff got the projector running again
We all began to discuss the movie thus far what
The man directly in front of us had been asleep since the 20 minute marks
So we came together as a community to catch him up
We did competing terrible Leo impressions to pass the time
In capilleters my wife is very sick
And wondered among ourselves what he had stuffed in his cheeks to look like that
After 45 minutes the movie started up again and suddenly became a comedy
Every word and expression from Leo became pure comedy
Maybe being in the theater for over four hours had driven us all collectively insane
But it was for sure one of the most memorable movie experiences. I've ever had thanks for the pod and happy
November Niko in Connecticut P.S. They did give us all free AMC tickets
So I guess I'm saying Priscilla now. Oh my gosh. What a better AMC
This is why you have to go to theaters. So I gotta go to AMC. This is why we miss things. We love the AMC
We make movies better
Oh some good letters good VMs this week
Just a reminder for your patron get your mailbag letters in the next few weeks before record
Napoleon
But next week the killer
Fincher he's back
Thanks on Netflix
Already right now
It's there hey oh
Everyone has Netflix right
Who among us has not canceled Netflix
Uh in the recent weeks so
That's it and then after that
Raging bull
After that Napoleon
Huge I feel so far part of for November
So far so great
Two great movies
And
It's we only go up from here
I think we're gonna break the five star mark at some point last month for the killer Dan
Do you think you're gonna drop five stars for the killer?
Um
Maybe I mean you love poster you're always talking about Fincher
I remember zodiac
I did love zodiac you're always talking about social network
I mean, I love seven the curious case of Benjamin button where the dude ages been reversed the dude
Another resonor score
Huh
Eyebrows just shot up his before he said that
Atticus they're back the girl with the dragon tattoo you ever seen that no
Either by three point nine on letterbox
Panic I saw the trailer for the uh hunger games
Oh the prequel tell you what that's getting great reviews. Is it really yeah insane trailers
Also, we need to do the hunger games movie
I know you do promised it we're past 400 patrons in the monthly, you know
reversal hasn't removed it
Oh
I kind of excited because I I don't know anything about the hunger games
I mean, it's a trilogy. You know, it's investment. When we've never seen it. I've never seen anyone. Yeah
You don't know the story. I mean, I know the the premise
For the most part Jennifer Lawrence gets stuck in a forest. No, it has to kill children
Not the present not the premise
But I also I also want to see the the new one like when I saw that trailer. I was like this kind of looks pretty good
It does look good. So
We got to watch we got to watch the the first one will make plans
stay tuned
For any closing thoughts this week my closing thoughts. I think everyone should go
onto youtube and watch Elvis Presley's
68 come back special and then after that watch his
1977 performance live performance of unchanged melody
And just experience who this guy was. I'm I'm I feel like I'm changed
Someone else now wow
Next week the killer on Netflix
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