I watched the 1988 made for tv movie of Elvis and Me and was going to make a video sharing my thoughts. But tbh I don't have much to say about it. I thought it was just fine, and while it is more detailed due to the longer length (though I would say it also takes more liberties than the new movie) I didn't find it as captivating as the new movie. In my opinion, the performances are better in the new movie as well.
My friends didn’t like the actress who played Priscilla in the 1988 version. I’ll have to watch the new movie. I like the detail of the 1988 movie. They use to make tv movies with so much detail which I miss in biographical movies.
the lady who elvis said her body look like a man was ursula who did a movie with him.. it wasnt priscilla who talked about it elvis told his friends not her!! he said she had shoulders like a man she wasnt there when elvis did this movie LOL the lies!!! READ CHILD BRIDE!!
I agree with you Priscilla 😉 keeps changing her story about Elvis about I'm Sick of Priscilla Presley please UA-cam channel please stop showing stuff about Priscilla show more Elvis videos more about music I don't know if I want to see this Priscilla movie I think it's going make Look like a guy Elvis wasn't perfect no is perfect Priscilla is far from perfect I'm Sick of hearing this woman 👠 she's not a goodie two shoes she's gold digger tramp 💃💃 make a film about Linda Thomson she better woman she was with Elvis for over 4 years and she never said anything bad about the king 👑 real Elvis fans keep Loving the king forgot about Priscilla is nothing but gold digger tart who Lives making out of Elvis I hate Priscilla more and more we proper Elvis fans want more about the king bye for now Elvis fans keep Loving the king is fantastic
In either case, it's based on one side of the story; no one has ever heard from the other side because Elvis died before the book or the movie were written and he didn't discuss his private business. Add in dramatization and the need to make $$$$ off of the project negates any possibility of ever knowing what the actual truth was.
Like still keeps saying “ I’ll never will or have said anything bad about Elvis”. What a liar. If Lisa was alive she would not let Priscilla & Sophia get away with making such a negative one sided defaming version of events
I noticed she never explained why she went back to her Maiden name when she divorced Elvis 🤔 but went back to Elvis last name after he died 😳 and it’s written online that Elvis didn’t want her to use his last name after divorce . And everyone forgets Elvis was engaged before he died meaning he had moved on from Priscilla . It’s hard to believe anything she has to say as it’s a one sided version of his life compared to what his real life was like.
Exactly!! She took full advantage of the Presley name after Elvis died. It's always been about the money to Priscilla. The only source for her story is herself & no one else! That's what some people aren't getting. There is so much out there now disputing all her Lies! She's disgusting & I used to like her, not anymore! She'd have to say that everyone else is Lying but her lol.
@@d.s.d69 A while back Elvis told me he'd fallen in love with Ginger. 'This is the love I've been searching for', he said. 'I want more children, a son. And I want Ginger to be my children's mother'. After that, Ginger and Elvis came over to show me her engagement ring. That was one of the few times I'd ever seen her smiling. I assumed they were going to get married, but nothing happened and Whenever I tried to talk to Elvis about Ginger, he'd seem upset. Finally, just a day or so before he died, I told him, 'I keep hearing and reading that you're going to announce your engagement. Is that right? When are you going to get married?' 'Only God knows', Elvis said. Vernon Presley Exclusive Interview 1978 with Good Housekeeping - What Vernon stated about Elvis & Ginger - He did get engaged to her
the issue is i don’t like that Lisa Marie really didn’t want this movie out, an i don’t have a problem with Pricilla, however these books/movies seem a little one sided?like Elvis had all these flaws(like ALL people) but she didn’t seem to have any..,idk i wish he hadn’t died so we could here from him, but we can’t so.. idk i heard they didn’t make a lot at box office, everyone i know has no iterest in this movie, i like the Elvis &. Me movie from the 80s
IF Elvis had lived Priscilla Beaulieu would never have opened her mouth about whatever problems existed in the relationship and marriage. She would never have cut off the supply of endless money from Elvis. She began disparaging Elvis only after he died, and she gained a level of control over Graceland by convincing Vernon Presley to sign trusteeship of the estate over to her when he himself was very ill and was dying. Thank God the major trustees on Elvis's will was the Commercial Bank of Commerce in Memphis Tennessee, who stopped her from selling Graceland which is what she wanted to do . Most of the public are totally unaware of the truth about Priscilla Beaulieu she has told so many many lies and the Film that this channel is talking about was also full of lies and monstrous exaggerations.
Lisa Marie passed and the first thing she does is sue. Now this movie at 79 she should be helping the grandchildren. Saying that Lisa tried to commit suicide twice. Why would she put that out there for Lisa’s children to read. Just like the horrible things she has said about Elvis with no regard whatsoever for his daughters feelings. Narcissist and money and fame grabbing.
The problem with all this is because when u come out with a book then later a movie and u try and paint up u not having any flaws yet tear the orher person down is not the true story it is a 1 sided story how u paint it up to be but not the actual because u can not have the truth without both sides. Plus the fact that she has lived off him for most of her life and still is living off him to this day. Yet have no problem painting him out to be a monster. Even to the point she fighting to be buried in Graceland sorry she is not a widow she is he x wif abd that was by her choice no she does not have the right to be buried in the family plots.
Also if elvis was so abusive towards her then explain to me why would she want to be buried by her ex hubby that was supposedly abusive.she could have left alot sooner than she did if elvis was this bad person...you do know elvis was forced into marrying her that he didn't want to marry her but had no choice because he promised her parents he would marry her.. please read child bride and did you know that Michael edwards said in his book elvis priscilla and me that when she wrote the book elvis and me and took it to the publishing company they weren't going to publish it so priscilla added in that elvis raped her just so she can sell her dang book She acts like the innocent victim and trust Me she is not innocent yes elvis wasn't no Saint he cheated but he isn't the one that wanted out of the marriage.. she cheated on elvis with a married man Mike stone who's wife was pregnant at the time..
Yes Cathy I know. My mom loved Elvis and in our house there was alot of Elvis so I remember alot of the things u brought up which is why u really want to throw up because she has lived off of him forever and she is still living off him. It is disgusting. I did read the report lately where Lisa Marie reached out to Coppola expressing to her she did not like how the film would be painting up her father so much in this negative like and this was not who he was and this is her own mother that Lisa Marie is not going along with this. I haven't forgotten her own faults. But here she is and has been painting in up so bad yet on the flip side she keeps considering herself as a widow which she is not she is the x wife and by her choose. Then to go after her grandchild over her daughters will and now fighting to get buried in Graceland are u kidding me. The person I feel sorry in her life is her son who is treated by het like a dirty little secret. She had just kept herself up into trying to have everyone and everything keep her in every aspect of Elvis all the while this child who yes is an adult now who also ended up having a hugh addiction problem but I can't help but think how Percila has handled everything I believe he had to feel like a 2nd hand citizen. Thank u so much for your feedback
100 percent correct, Cathy. Also, don't quote me on this, but when Elvis died, didn't Lisa Marie call Linda Thompson, not Priscilla? That says plenty right there.
This is Roberta yes I do remember her was dating Ginger at the time and Lisa Marie was at Graceland and of I remember correct Lisa Marie didn't really care for Ginger and she really liked Linda and she did cal Linda but what I am not sure of is if she called her mom or not.
Smacks of a money grab. Let’s not disguise the intent here. Casting a 6’5 Elordi and 5’1 Spaeny was not accidental nor was the timing of this film’s release. Much has been made of the Coppola touch. This was hardly subtle or sensitive. Now I understand why Elvis’ haters were salivating over its release. Plenty of feedback already given describing a snoozer with no depth and a vapid take on what could have been something worth watching. And let’s not forget that her tell all book has already popped up as a film. I’m left wondering why and questioning both the timing and the intent. Some walked out. Wishing I would have.
I didn’t like that Jacob was so tall compared to Spaeny - almost like they wanted her to be completely dominated by him when in fact he wasn’t hugely taller than her at all…
i have such a problem with the height difference. it's unfair. the height difference unconsciously tells audience members who would like to see elvis as the monster as this giant man who physically towers down on the sweet little victim princess priscilla. I think sofia did it on purpose, and it's really messed up because if you're going to play real people you really should give an accurate physical appearance even if the face may not be the same. they could have at least chose a priscilla that was taller, but since sofia wanted cailee, they should get picked someone else to play elvis. but there's too much elvis in the media. i wish he could rest in peace. Oh yeah, others have told me how they felt the movie left them with an unfinished and dull feeling. not a great cinema example.
@@WhytheBookWins Before that she got an affair with the dancer instructor after 6 weeks of giving birth. I wonder if she mentioned that Mike's wife was pregnant when she escaped with him.
priscilla was not forced to stay with him for so many years .why did she want to marry him if he was so abusive to her? but that was very clever of her, because leaving him without being married would not have left her with all the money she got once she was divorced. why did she want to keep his name since it must have remembered her of the terrible he gave her!?if he was the love of her life, why did she have not only relationships but quite „a few „ affairs „ with other men - and not all of them took place after their divorce! she certainly was not as innocent as she pretended to be. she was and is a very calculating woman , making money of elvis , who cannot defend himself. that is why she did not talk about all these negative things while he was still alive? that is the attitude of a coward! and last - but not least - why for heavens sake does she want to be buried in graceland, the place she was so terribly unhappy? well, honestly was never her strongest point -anyway! i have listened to a lot of the interviews she gave over the years . she does change her stories quite often - she is either lying or her memory is getting worse. which is no excuse! if she has any decency left she would not talk about the most private/intimate things in her life with elvis. it is disgusting , but it certainly sells well and makes people feel sorry for her! the only one to feel sorry for is lise.marie! why she played no part in the film is obvious ,because it would have shown what a terrible mother she was! she should be ashamed of herself ! coppola fell into her trap, believing her story blindly and ignoring that there are always two sides to a story! a good filmmaker is expected to know that! very disappointing! i am 72 years old and only after having seen the film „elvis“ - by accident - i become interested in his music and himself. the only song i remembered was“in the ghetto“ and at the time i played it endlessly. now i love to listen to all of his songs - his voice makes me feel so good. and no matter what mood i’m in , there is always a suitable song. i am glad my daughter made me go to see the film . we will not go to see „priscilla“, because i am not interested in „gossip “ of the worst kind. one more thing i would like to add! i am not naive or blind when it comes to elvis as a person. he had his faults, weaknesses and and it must not have been easy to live with his lifestyle . it must have been difficult for him too to live with himself! i think the day he died he was lost and just wanted to go home. i am happy for him because he did not have to suffer any longer and listen to all those stories about him - the only privacy he ever had is where he is now!
Great insights! And I agree. I find it fascinating that you are 72 and only became interested in Elvis recently after the new "Elvis" movie -- and you know so much already! I'm 60 and Elvis was my mom's generation, not mine. As a kid I "hated" him because he was forced down my throat, always on the record player. My family took me to Graceland the year after he died and I was excited, but not fanatical about being there. I met his Uncle Vester Presley and had my photo taken with him. I was only 15. It wasn't until I moved out that I started appreciating Elvis's music and going to see all Elvis tribute artists. I only have 5 Elvis albums, but I know so much because my family was so into him. When my grandmother died, we buried her wearing her Elvis watch. She loved him. Now the more I learn about Elvis, the more I love him as a person. He was so kind and generous. (Though he should have been more honest with his women. Not owning up to cheating is so immature. Just tell them you're not a one man woman and let them figure out if they want to be with him or not. Linda Thompson said she knew there were other women and she turned a blind eye to it because she loved him).
Wow! A new Elvis fan at 72! I don't know your name but I would like to recommend some of my favorite Elvis songs to you. Thrill of Your Love, Fame and Fortune, Lonely Man, I Was the One, A Fool Such as I, And I Love You So, Lonesome Cowboy, and Tomorrow is a Long Time. I Met Her Today. Of course there are dozens of others! What the general public doesn't understand is that though Elvis had a reputation as a rocknroller, that was not really why fans love him so much. It was the hundreds of BEAUTIFUL ballads. And the fact that he sang from way down deep in his soul. By the way, if you want the best version, always click on the one with the picture of the album. Too many others are re-recordings and junk pieces that were not meant to be released. Oh, yes, and a few more that he recorded as Priscilla was leaving him and after she left him. Lord You Gave Me a Mountain, (he sang that right after she left him) Midnight, You Were Always on My Mind, Your Loving Arms. By the way, I've been a fan since 1956.
The thing is, the movie deviates from the book making changes that make Elvis look like an abuser. She did the same thing when she made the FIRST movie off her book, the movie Elvis and Me. In her book, she had a scene where she was about to leave Elvis but was at his show in Las Vegas. She said he called her upstairs to his room and that "he took me very forcefully(not forcibly). It was unlike any other time he had made love to me. It was uncomfortable." In the MOVIE, it became a scene where he viciously RAPED her. Asked later if he had raped her she said, "no I guess they put that in for drama." SHE was one of the producers on that movie! She didn't have to let it go out that way! For DRAMA she let Elvis be portrayed as a RAPIST! She knows very well that millions will see that movie and think that Elvis was a RAPIST but very few will see the interview will see the interview where she said it didn't happen. The same is happening with the new movie Priscilla. Several changes were made from the book to make Elvis look like an abuser. She has said she thought it was good, but now she seems to be backing off of it, saying she really didn't have that much to do with it. She was the main PRODUCER on this one! It took Elvis fans many years to realize that she had a beautiful face and a soft voice but this is an EVIL woman.
@@saphireblue3563 I agree 100 percent. If you watch enough interviews of Priscilla, many things don't add up. Elvis fans who were around in 1977 when he died remember the story of Lisa Marie screaming, "My Daddy is dead!" and calling Linda Thompson. Just a few weeks ago, I saw a UA-cam interview with Priscilla saying that Lisa Marie was with her when Elvis died. She lies like a rug. You can't believe anything she says! (And again, this from me, a person who is not exactly an Elvis "fan").
@@BeYounique...Maryanne She lies all the time. However, I don't think she lied in that case. Lisa was at Graceland when Elvis died. When Priscilla was told that Elvis died she flew to Memphis. Lisa stayed with her that night. In the morning, when they were going to view the body, Lisa probably said. "mommy where are we going" and Priscilla said, "we are going to see daddy but he is going to be sleeping for a very, very long time." So in this case, I believe her.
elvis did drink a couple of times sonny west tells a story of when ep had a couple of drinks and hit sonny west in the mouth do your home work look it up listen to the stories they told about what they experienced with ep dont listen to everything priscilla says.
@@AnnlouiseTodd I don’t give a shit sorry he’s been gone since 1977 who cares really. He was a giving man that I know for sure. Frankly I can’t stand Priscilla
Read the book years ago. Saw the movie in the 80’s . Not sure what was the purpose of this movie coming out now. If your gonna judge people by the standards of the 50’’s 60’s and 70’s no one is going to look good. Lisa and the estate were against it. While Elvis was not a perfect man, neither was Priscilla a perfect wife, and especially not her Parents. No way would I allow my child to entertain a man of 24 in friendship or otherwise. ( no matter how old her soul is🙄) Have your hissy fit sweetie it’s still a big fat NO from MOM. I’m just not sure why this had to happen now. Very telling that none of the Presley family supported this movie. Just remember Dead Men Tell No Tales.
The " hanger-on-ers" i.e., Memphis Mafia, told the dead man's tale and collected big bucks from the spilled milk of days gone by! Lisa Marie had no use for any of them aside from Jerry S. Not even Billy Smith! So Elvis had many voices speaking out. Allow Priscilla to share a fairy tale that few get to live. They both loved and lost.
I’m a guy so maybe I can’t appreciate this movie as much as perhaps a woman can. Though, the two ladies I was with felt the same. I found it a bit boring and Elvis’ life certainly wasn’t. I dislike very much the manner in which it was filmed. Most scenes were dull in color and dark. I kept wanting to turn the contrast up but it was at AMC so I couldn’t!! I think Elordi did fine in his portrayal, especially his voice. That said, he looks like an ostrich in the few seconds where they showed him moving/dancing. Thank goodness they shied away from that. It was Priscilla’s version, so very smart to stay away from Elvis as a performer with Elordi as the actor. However, not having the magnificence of Elvis’ talent on display diminishes the movie. The Baz movie was somewhat flawed but still phenomenal. Austin was fantastic in his portrayal, particularly in the performance scenes. I don’t believe Elordi could have pulled that off no matter how many dance instructors and months he would have to prepare. Austin was special and he should have won the Oscar.
Read Child Bride ..you'll get a different but truer story...thats about all I'll say about her...except this now Prissy wants to be buried next to the "love of her life" at Graceland...😂😊
Hmm I might read it, not because I don't believe Priscilla's account, but just out of curiosity and to hear from other perspectives the author interviewed.
Yes, Child Bride has much more of a ring of truth to it, especially with all of the eye-witness accounts.. It would really be something to see an adaptation of that book instead.
@@Mary-bk2wj No, he didn't. I think he was the one who suggested it, saying it would make her eyes stand out. At least that's what she said in her book.
@@resa.walters Yes, he modeled Priscilla's look after a Japanese actress Tura Santana who he wanted to marry but she turned him down because of her career.
Priscilla should just shut up about her dead ex husband and let him rest in peace. Elvis has been dead for nearly 50 years but his dreadful ex wife will go on telling stories about him (which change all the time) while there's money to be made.
My dad was born in 1931. He was 13yrs older than my mom. He kinda explained that back then, the type of girl you married was a virgin. The girls you ran with were not. So, I think it explains why some of the guys had to chase very young girls. They hadn’t had a chance to live and those were the girls you brought home to momma. Thankfully, Things are much different now and we don’t marry with that kind of thing in mind.
Yeah it was definitely a different time, but like you said, that doesn't therefore make it right. And considering the time period, I think that's what makes it even more impressive that she did decide to leave him.
Did you know that Priscilla had an affair with Mike Stone shortly after she had Lisa Marie. Mike left his pregnant wife for her. Fine person Priscilla is ???
@@WhytheBookWins I would respect her more had she respected the history the way it actually was and not cut people he loved out. She acts like she’s his true love and the only one. He had many loves including Linda. Had he tried to have a normal life, like many stars do, they may have married and had kids. P was definitely money hungry and a pretender. She was so young, Elvis didn’t know the real person she was as an adult.
Great story! I have an uncle who met his wife when they were both 13. He came home and told my grandmother, "I met the girl I'm gonna marry!" Now they are in their 80s and still together. I have another uncle who began dating a girl when she was 16 and he was in his 30s (she pursued him!) and now she's in her 50s and he's in his 70s. They are happily married for decades.
I saw Priscilla and thought it was okay. The friend I saw it with told me about a previous adaption of the book from 1988 which I found on UA-cam and I highly recommend checking that out. It was much better, IMO. I did love Elvis with Austin Butler. I thought he was fantastic.
I liked the Elvis movie with AB. I just couldn't help but feel like it was more a story of the Cournal the way it started and was narrated from his point of view. That is my only complaint about it. AB's performance was astonishing to witness.
I wish elvis was alive to express his side... Jerry lee lewis married his cousin right around the same time elvis met priscilla That is why elvis kept priscilla a secret at first And they don't want the press to know Because at the same time, jerry lee lewis married his cousin and it made jerry's career go downhill An elvis didn't want that happening....
There was a movie in the 1980s based on Priscilla's book with the same title "Elvis and Me." It was more descript, longer, and showed Elvis in the light of being a kind, generous man. It was a great movie. This movie was lacking because it focused too much on Elvis's negative side. Lisa Marie wrote to Sophia Coppola, begging her not to put this movie out because it would disgrace the family. I truly think a better approach for a movie called "Priscilla" would to touch on her time with Elvis, but show us the empowerment -- what she did after Elvis, her movie career, her celebrity boutique, her time on famous soap opera Dallas which was huge in its day. "Priscilla" made Priscilla look like a victim, and she wasn't. She had options -- a family who loved her, younger siblings, and money. She wasn't some teenage runaway who came from an abusive home. She KNEW what she was into (maybe not at first) and she just wanted Elvis....PERIOD. I disagree with you that Elvis was manipulative and a gas lighter. I just think he was emotionally immature and his growth was stunted because he was surrounded by "yes" men. He didn't know how to be an adult because everyone was at his beck and call and no one stood up to him. He was this great talent who got fame at a very young age, couldn't handle it, couldn't handle the loss of his mother, and just went off the deep end with prescription drugs. So, now you have a woman, in her 20s, dealing with a husband on drugs, cheating while she's trying to be mother, and trying to find herself. It was a prescription for disaster. Priscilla Presley shared her story nearly 40 years ago in her book and that first movie, "Elvis and Me" which was awesome. No disrespect to Sophia Coppola, because the soundtrack and visuals were astonishing, HOWEVER, we could have done without this dry, flat movie -- a script that hurt Lisa Marie so badly before her untimely death and while she was still mourning over her son's suicide. Priscilla Presley needs to move on. Linda Thompson moved on. Ginger Alden moved on. It's time for Priscilla to move on too. C'mon Priscilla, you are better than all this riding on the coat tails of your daughter's father for decades. Please, move on! (P.S. -- LOVED Austin Butler as Elvis! He was the best in my humble opinion).
Elvis and Me was a made for tv mini series……..and yes EVERYONE knows that Elvis was a text book narcissist…..I mean he was known as the King 🤦🏼♀️ I saw the mini series as a teenager. Read the book as an adult, and watched the new movie last night. It didn’t change my opinion…..if you’re an Elvis fan, you know he was very flawed.
@@supercapitalista5757 I don’t buy into the notion that Elvis was a narcissist, because I believe his compassion and affection were not feigned, as they would be if he were a narcissist. On the other hand, Beaulieu would seem to fit the “textbook” description of a narcissist perfectly.
I am just curious can you give specifics on what different stories Priscilla has told? I never got that sense from her over her . My opinion is different … she and Lisa Marie were always the spokespeople for the family and I think they both were the perfect people to keep Elvis ‘ legacy alive … since your opinion is different , I was just wondering what you are basing your opinion on ?
She’s been incredibly quiet @ their time together & I don’t recall anyone else but her taking control & securing his estate & protecting his legacy. She was a child ffs.
Since you compare movies to books, maybe you should read the truthful biography of Priscilla by Suzanne Finstad who spent 3 years researching and interviewing people who knew Priscilla and her family. Priscilla's book is a made-up farce by a jealous ex-wife who has spent her entire life living off of the Presley name and money. She has been caught in numerous lies and she was never the innocent little angel she purports to be. I am so sick of movie reviewers thinking they now know what a narcissistic scoundrel Elvis must have been. He was not at all like that. She still calls him the love of her life even though she has had many, many affairs with many, many men. She is despicable.
So a woman who spent three years researching Elvis knows more about him than a woman who lived with him for 10 years and knew him for nearly 20 years? At the end of the day, we are all outsiders to their story and so we will each choose to believe whatever version of their story we want to believe.
@@WhytheBookWins and you believe everything this FAKE ex woman says, how old are you. She doesn’t give one SHIT about Elvis Presley or his daughter LISA Marie Presley.
@@WhytheBookWinsEverything you say is predicated on your belief that Beaulieu is telling the truth. That stance seems odd, given that it is quite easy to find dozens, if not hundreds, of provable lies from Priscilla over the years, making it foolish to take her varied accounts at face value. If Elvis were really the monster he’s portrayed as in this sophomoric film meant to appeal to and enrage the mindless ‘woke’ mob, there would be corroborating evidence over time: police reports/complaints, hospital records, eyewitness testimony, criminal charges, etc., from other victims. Physical and sexual abuse is never a one-off event, nor is it ever confined to just one victim. Where is the avalanche of other victims, who suddenly feel empowered by the brave decades-long confessions of a bitter ex, finding the courage to come forward with their horrifying accounts of suffering at the hands of their now-deceased abuser? Perhaps Elvis’ legacy and reputation is being sacrificed on the altar of fame and fortune for the benefit of a privileged ex who is no doubt comforted by the unlikelihood that her ‘abuser’ will rise from the grave to defend himself.
When Elvis started dating Linda Thompson afterwards, Linda said that Elvis told her one of his biggest regrets is he didn't marry a southern woman. They show that a little bit in the movie Elvis and the beauty queen.
i was just thinking about his need to have control probably dealing with the lack of control he felt with his career but he was unable to stand up to col. parker but also his loneliness and fear of abandonment. i like that you brought that up. I am reading Careless Love right now and Peter guralnick brings up how Elvis was very lonely especially with his mother's death during his time in the Army so we always wanted to have family around and call the people back home. I wish he was secure enough to be able to know who his friends are without feeling the need to financially bribe them to keep them in his life because I believe many would have always remained.
i think his own childhood and being raised in a little bubble where he was the main focus also influenced his attachment and need for attention. and yet the various accounts of his humility and modesty and belief it may all go away contrasts and makes it way more complex
i think the priscilla movie was unfortunately just trying to show one victim instead of showing two victims who were trapped in a toxic relationship. it doesn't show the complexities. some people may be very appalled by saying there were two sides but i honestly think fair judgment is needed. especially after reading the last train to memphis and starting careless love. the movie shows a very dark caricature of a man instead of the human of elvis. yes I know its a preiciall movie, but if they needed to focus on her life with him then without him, they should give an honest and fair account of his side, even though his side will never been actually known. i think it should be a warning of the unfit love and the fast of fame and celebrity and how it is appealing but everyone can be hurt, it's a sad story that should not be judged quickly, it needs to slowly be taken in and taken account of the time and day of when the things occurred. I think misjudgment and misinterpretation is too common now. their were too people lost in a relationship and i think its because they honestly didn't know each other or what they wanted, they had pre-informed ideas of what the other one will be and they were both unable to meet them.
I think they did the right thing not having someone older play him bc back in those days this shows what that age difference was like to ppl. It wasn’t AS big of a deal back then. Women were married by 15-16! Even in the 90s it wasn’t a huge deal for a high school girl to be w a 21 ur old. My husband and I are 5 years apart
Yeah that's true, very young brides were a bit more common. And same, my husband and I have some years between us, but we met when I was 25 and I think when the younger person is old enough the age gap doesn't really matter.
it was definitely a different time which should be taken into consideration without poor judgment. honestly 10 years wasn't alot back then but it doesn't mean its good, but it was acceptable then. I also don't think elvis looked that much older than priscilla. Priscilla was a very pretty good who i think looked 16-17 in 1960, and they looked like a good looking normal couple, without fame they may have even gotten married without any issue.
@@WhytheBookWins the problem is a book/movie sold as "this is Elvis" , instead of "this is the way his ex wife decided to portray him". Who deserves to be portrayed by his ex wife ?
First good video. I have an issue with not showing the nuance of Elvis because of the whole generation of new Elvis fans. For us old timers we get it. Newer generation not so much.
I just came in to say that because the younger generation who don't know Elvis now believe this story about him and he's so much more than this movie which I've watched and I really didn't like it because of that reason the vitriol I have seen regarding Elvis because of this movie is heartbreaking 💔..we fans know he wasn't perfect he was a man of his time .
@@johanley229 The real problem is not portraying him as imperfect…the real problem is portraying him as something he wasn’t. Which is something the new generation won’t be able to understand if they keep trying to please Priscilla’s fake narrative.
You gotta remember too as far as the age thing goes that it was a different time. I was talking to my neighbor who's in his 80s about it the other day that his mom was 13 when she married his dad who was 30. Not saying it's okay, you just got to remember you're looking at it through 2024 eyes when it was a 1950s and 60s thing.
Thank you for an excellent commentary. Frankly, I prefer the 1988 mini-series movie, "Elvis and Me" to both of the movie versions "Elvis" and "Priscilla." The "Priscilla" movie was stylish yet superficial, IMO, and it ended so abruptly. On the other hand, "Elvis" with Austin Butler was so over the top with its flashiness. Thanks again for this explanation. Keep up the great work!
i agree. Baz is very flashy in general so it makes sense especially since Elvis is so legendary and is known for flash, which may be why they went that route. But I would have loved a down to earth Elvis movie like La Bamba was for Ritchie Valens.
When Priscilla and Elvis dated for 6 yrs and Priscilla graduated high school, and they are Locked up in his bdrm for weeks, took sexy pictures.... and didn't have Sex, COME ON I call B.S !!
What’s your definition of sex? If sex=vaginal intercourse only, then it’s not BS. If it includes “other”, then that is likely what happened as covered in the movie and book. Elvis didn’t need intercourse with Priscilla. No doubt he could have that from other women at will.
Where either the book or the film actually true? The truth is that Priscilla learnt that this person knew Elvis and approached him, asking if she could meet Elvis. He didn't approach her. She tracked down Elvis knowing that he was in Germany and she did the chasing. Then when Elvis went back to the states, there was a two year gap before they saw each other again. Other than that they spent a great deal of time talking on the phone. Priscilla's story has continually changed and evolved over the years. each time she has spoken, her stories have become more outlandish and increasingly darker on the subject of Elvis. She was and remains, solely interested in the money. Elvis was her meal ticket. And has continued to be even in death, now she is after her daughters money, now that Lisa has passed away. She is a sad excuse for a woman. She ruined her daughters life and now she is attacking her grandchildren. TCE
It was the worst portrail of Elvis i ever saw.why didn't they just cast lurch from the adams family to play Elvis and tattoo from fatasy island to play Priscilla.they also only made Elvis out to do anything nice for people to manipulate them.this movie was a hit piece on Elvis's legacy and belongs in the trash.
If he had faults she didnt have marry him she knew he loved an. Maragret yet knew he didnt want marry her her dad was threatening him yet she walked down aisle ! $$$$$$$
I find to many condictions in her book and the 1988 elvis and me movie and the rewrite of elvis and me called Priscilla movie and past interviews she has given.
I think the anecdote about her winning the school vote was an analogy for her also basically "winning the lottery" with Elvis. It's just something that happened to her, that she didn't expect, and that she didn't fight for. It was a result of her beauty, that she didn't know she had. She also describes around the same time someone stole a picture of her off of the school bulletin board.
im going to wright a script about the memphis mafia instead of priscillas boring stories its getting old i dont know why she had to do a remake of the 88 mini series it does not make any sense to me the new movie has same script just different rooms to the 88 mini series
Thanks for afair review of this book. It was Priscilla's story and true or not, it was her story. Lisa Marie loved both parents and state once that she didn't know they had divorced as both loved her and they loved each other. God bless all three.
Great review of both memoir and movie 👏👏👏👏👏. Elvis and Priscilla had created such idealized images of a perfect woman and a perfect man that it became impossible for them to fit in those images. The real man and the real woman had different (even incompatible) needs - the age difference per se is not to be blamed. In fact, in Baz Luhrmann's movie Elvis, Priscilla is pictured as an Elvis's ally (against the colonel's impositions) and the age difference is not shown at all.
Yeah she is kind of a background character in the Luhrmann movie. And I don't think the age difference is a problem, but rather how young she was. But yeah, both imperfect people trying to fit impossible images.
@@WhytheBookWins Elvis's marriage to Priscilla was to a certain extent orchestrated by the colonel. Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year-old cousin, which was a scandal at the time. The colonel, of course, didn't want this to happen with Elvis, as he was focusing on promoting Elvis's comeback from Germany. There is even an interview with Elvis that he feared having talked too much about 'the girl he left behind' in Germany. Three has always been a crowd - he still had a girlfriend in the US...
I feel so bad for Priscilla but I also feel bad that Lisa-Marie had to live in her Father’s shadow her entire life. I also felt like his relationship with his mother was troubling but I don’t know
There is an old movie of this book from the late 80’s early 90’s I used to watch as a kid. Thinking back now I probably shouldn’t have been watching it…. But I was wondering how similar the storyline of Priscilla would be to the book and movie Elvis and Me
i think this was a good analysis. but i think the nuance of Elvis is still needed to give a fair look of a relationship and what it was like. it paints a hypocritical and dark view which can be confusing with austin's complex troubled human with the highs and lows of fame. and honestly that influences how people like to judge. because this movie would case judgment either way it would have been better to have a deep nuanced look on the two of them. The focus on this movie was really their relationship and Priscilla's time with Elvis, the two people should have been accurately formed and still show priscilla with greater focus and her transformation to leave him and find herself. but i honestly think cailee is too short and elordi is too tall, priscilla and elvis had an average height difference, and i think that height difference was on purpose to make elvis look more domineering which isn't fair because it creates pre informed ideas just based on looks. Austin was of similar height and is like a natural blonde blue eyed man like elvis which i think was a more impressive touch even if he doesn't look like him. no one will look like elvis.
Precilla is very untruthful about things. I can' t believe that Precilla aloud her live in boyfriend ' Michael Edwards" to sexual abuse Lisa Marie for years and Edwards' would spank Lisa to the point of leaving bruises on Lisa. Lisa talks about it in her book. Lisa said she told her Mom about it and instead of Precilla making him leave the house and reporting it to the police she Precilla kept letting it happen. The only thing that Precilla said to Lisa was that he wanted to apologize to Lisa.. Her boyfriend admitted it and said that he was sexually attracted to Lisa Marie. I think that Precilla and Edwards both should have to answer to our justice system. Mother's are supposed to protect their children.
Its amazing, how come Priscilla spent nights in Elvis room in his room without anything happening. I don't think that was true, & I am sure there are many people out there who share this sentiments😅
To get to the truth watch Billy Smith/ Elvis' first cousin that lived at Graceland - ( Elvis Fans Matter ) Elvis moved Billy and his family in a double wide to have him there - they were together all the time even on tours -- He knew Priscilla ---- Patty Parry too said when she did Priscillas Hair and makeup she was so hard and difficult to deal with none of the MM liked her - READ LISA MARIE'S NEW MEMOIR AND HOW P TREATED HER!!!! DISGUSTING i'D LOVE TO SEE YOUR REVIEW
I was thinking about how we got two great performances back to back of Elvis and i've decided that it's because the source material has become more accessible. There are so many more videos, audio, etc freely available online for people to study to better understand him, his cadence, his mannerisms etc. I wondered if the acting skill has just improved, but I think it's just access to source material. But yes, Jacob did a phenomenal job, and to be honest, had Baz's Elvis not come out the year before, I think Jacob's performance would be lauded.
Yeah so true about how there are so many more sources now! And yeah I would agree having the performances be back to back influences our opinion of each actor.
I found this film a tad boring,like a poorly made tv movie,Priscilla was a trophy girlfriend just a material possession,And i will not watch this poor version or even recommend the film,the book is much much better in my honest opinion
This love story reminds me of when Prince Charles was looking for a virgem to get married and have a heir. I find it strange that among so many girls, he would pick a 14-year-old. Anyway.
She was the THIRD girl he asked to move in to "raise" as a wife. Remember you cant judge by today's standards. Elvis came out of the deep south. Old men married young women for farming with a large family. You need a young lady to have many children. Older men could offer security. Elvis was born only 60 years after the civil war. Think about that.
Thanks for your reviewing the movie vs. the book. Not having Elvis's songs worked well for the film, because Elvis would sing his songs for his job. I've watched the movies, read the books and read books of other girlfriends and Priscilla's account is consistent. Also the guys within the Memphis Mafia were very open about Elvis's character. The Priscilla movie was light.
Acho Priscilla uma oportunista de marca marca maior.... Quem RACIOCINA , sabe pensar....de longe vê, sente e Sabe que foi Sempre Priscilla que Nitidamente explorava Elvis Usando Lisa e depois da Morte dele ninguém a segurou.....
They had shared custody. Lisa had even been staying with Elvis when he died. When she initially left him though I'm pretty sure she took Lisa with her.
I heard Priscilla did a interview years ago I believe on Larry King show after Elvis died. Priscilla said she had to tell little Lisa her daddy had died and they flew from California to Memphis. The problem is so many of Elvis inner circle said Lisa was at Graceland at the time Elvis died. I feel Priscilla has been making money off of Elvis name since his death.
The only people who know the truth are Priscilla and Elvis. And I think everyone is entitled to make their own decisions. She was his wife and no one knows if he would marry again as in his own words his career broke their marriage.
Please please go here on UA-cam and watch Elvis and Me whole movie from. 1985 it’s so good!!! The girl Susan Walters playing Priscilla is AWESOME! Gorgeous! Go watch the original movie .
Wth so we not gonna start off with the fact she was 14years old he should have been locked up n music should have been shelved smh I don’t get how we pick n choose. N that’s y they didn’t cast a older guy
He might not have slept with her cause she had an affair less than a year if marriage and shorty after the birth of their child lisa marie presley around the time he was filming live a little live a little.
I saw the movie this past weekend. I have only a couple of comments, I DID like the movie but I felt it was awfully "quiet", I know Elvis's music wasn't permitted but I believe Priscilla had a much more fun, happy time when she was with Elvis. I have a hard time thinking the only words she said to Elvis were "thank you" and "ok". I think the 1988 made for tv movie based on her book captures more of those good times and how it really happened. The next big issue with people, her being buried in the meditation garden along with the Presley family....first that is Riley's grandmother, Priscilla's blood runs in the family, half to Lisa a quarter to Riley. How could she not be buried there? Only Elvis knows how Elvis feels about that and that we will never know. All I know is that when I pass on after I meet God and Jesus, I'm getting front row seats to an Elvis concert in heaven so scootch over............
Yeah Elvis fans being so heated about Priscilla wanting to be buried with the Presley family seems silly to me. Why should anyone care about that lol. Yeah, we are all outsiders on this topic at the end of the day. And I'll be sitting right there next to you at that future Elvis concert lol
@@WhytheBookWins U know I feel like Elvis is the first example of kids who get famous too young as he was only around 16 when he got famous and never really had a chance to grow up. Its interesting nowadays how some child psychologists have advised not getting their kid into acting young because of the trauma it can cause (for example dont move right to LA when ur child gets cast etc). And yet we need child actors cause how the heck are u going to do child parts otherwise?
@@LaurieLT88So that was according to my papa who saw elvis in concert in the 1970s (whenever he was doing Vegas) and he said that Elvis said it was about that.
i know i dont have much opinion on the matter seeing as i am a 15 year old girl but i do feel like elvis fans need to stop trying to idolize him but also we also need to stop making him seem like all he was, was a bad guy. i feel like espcially with music artists specifically rock stars from elvis's time, a lot of them got over taken by fame (and drugs and alcohol) and did bad things but have now changed. no one was perfect espcially celebraties but i feel like he was a good guy but not perfect i mean no one is perfect and obviously we wont ever really hear his side of the story but honeslty i saw the movie with my dad as we are both claasic rock/ HUGE music nerds and we both enjoyed it very much i think it was very well made
Another outstanding video. Look forward to watching Priscilla since Sophia Coppola movies all have such a distinct style with female protagonists. Would love to see a documentary on Colonel Tom Parker, born and raised in The Netherlands who left for America most likely because he murdered a woman. Parker never had a passport and his fear of being brought to justice is why he never left America and Elvis never toured outside the USA. He was a horrible person and Tom Hanks portrayal in the Elvis movie was as terrible as Austin Butler's performance was magnificent. But I digress. Really enjoy your thought provoking content.
Yeah he would be an interesting guy to read about! I didn't know he may have killed someone 😟 And yeah, Hanks portrayal was pretty cartoonish I would say. Let me know what you think of Priscilla when you see it!
If you love elvis, then love elvis, with all the good the bad and the ugly. Why should pricilla dance around her story trying to protect many of YOUR feelings. Many people here taking it so personal....telling pricilla to move on with her life. Dont any of you realize that this is her last opportunity to leave us with HER life story before she dies. Like it or not she is synonymous with elvis and will go down in history in infamy as being the only wife of elvis, not just one of his many many many girlfriends, the only mother of elvis only child, the one person who singlehandedly saved graceland and by extension his memory, all while becoming a household name as an actress in her own right. PRICILLA IS AS MUCH AN ICON AS ELVIS PRESLEY.
Who, pray tell, is keeping Priscilla from telling her stories? She has been in the limelight, by her own choice, for over four decades and running, babbling in front of every camera and to every reporter in sight. She and her followers forfeit the right to complain when others exercise their right to free speech. She is nothing without the Presley name: she tried that, remember? She makes a living lying about her deceased ex. If she doesn’t want her falsehoods challenged, she should stop lying.
If there is one thing she is NOT it's an icon. Imagine if she married Garibaldi of 22 yrs. No one would know it care who Priscilla Garibaldi was. The NAME. the NAME. The $$$__ that's what it means to little ole "Cilla". Used to respect her. GONE!!! All gone. What she is inside now shows in her face!
He acted exactly the same with her as he had with other 14 year old girls and after her with more 14 year old girls. He knew it was illegal because he used to say "14 will get you 20" which is why he only allegedly kissed them or "necked for hours" as one woman on 60 Minutes said. All of the same "teaching" and control over them. He was a pedo and he liked them young so he can always be in the position of power and I think his personality was stunted because he acted more like a teenager himself. I don't care who the guy is famous or not, my 14 year old and even 16 year old self would have had zero interest in a much older man! Nor would my parents have ever let him anywhere near me!! I guess a man she dated after Elvis asked why they broke up and she said "I grew up".
Great video creator!!😊❤ Elvis groomed Priscilla I forgot to put that in there. I love the book too and the 1988 movie Elvis and Me that's my opinion God bless
@@WhytheBookWins. What a JOKE, you don’t even know what the word means. Stirring dumb young people up, with this NONSENSE. Elvis Presley was and is still FANTASTIC and yes I was already around when Elvis Presley was alive and we had NO issues with the age differences. Get a real job and leave this man ALONE.
Funny how women attack another woman. How would you feel to be married and pregnant and your husband calles you and tells you let’s get separated and that was a true story because I have heard that in Memphis Mafia interviews and they didn’t really like Priscilla. Do I wish she didn’t write the book yes but people just like right now attacked her so much that she had no choice but to come out and defend herself. I think people are jealous because she still attracts crowds and able to make money unlike other women who had a relationship with him.
I'm afraid that we have a lot of lies by omission : Elvis who was so happy to become a father suddenly wants to leave without any explanation, does it really make sense ? Memphis Mafia didn't like her ? Charlie Hodge helped her to buy her wedding dress, Red West helped her to keep her affair with Mike Stone secret, Jerry Schilling always remained very close to her, like Joe Esposito and George Klein. It's Priscilla Presley who attracts crowds, not Priscilla Beaulieu, this is her real drama.
And what about Mike Stone's wife? Being pregnant and having her husband telling he wanted a separation because he had an affair with Priscilla and he was going to live with her? Talking about jealousy is the poorest and childish thing a person can say. Elvis didn't want to marry her (it's a fact...Priscilla herself admitted there were pressures for the marriage) so try to walk in Elvis shoes and think how it was for him to feel entrapped. What did she expect from a marriage with those assumptions? In fact, that marriage miserably failed very quickly from both sides.
I watched the 1988 made for tv movie of Elvis and Me and was going to make a video sharing my thoughts. But tbh I don't have much to say about it. I thought it was just fine, and while it is more detailed due to the longer length (though I would say it also takes more liberties than the new movie) I didn't find it as captivating as the new movie. In my opinion, the performances are better in the new movie as well.
My friends didn’t like the actress who played Priscilla in the 1988 version. I’ll have to watch the new movie. I like the detail of the 1988 movie. They use to make tv movies with so much detail which I miss in biographical movies.
I loved Susan Walter in that movie and the increased detail.@@mayapace6914
She used him for money fame like the people whom worked for him to she knows it
the lady who elvis said her body look like a man was ursula who did a movie with him.. it wasnt priscilla who talked about it elvis told his friends not her!! he said she had shoulders like a man she wasnt there when elvis did this movie LOL the lies!!! READ CHILD BRIDE!!
I agree with you Priscilla 😉 keeps changing her story about Elvis about I'm Sick of Priscilla Presley please UA-cam channel please stop showing stuff about Priscilla show more Elvis videos more about music I don't know if I want to see this Priscilla movie I think it's going make Look like a guy Elvis wasn't perfect no is perfect Priscilla is far from perfect I'm Sick of hearing this woman 👠 she's not a goodie two shoes she's gold digger tramp 💃💃 make a film about Linda Thomson she better woman she was with Elvis for over 4 years and she never said anything bad about the king 👑 real Elvis fans keep Loving the king forgot about Priscilla is nothing but gold digger tart who Lives making out of Elvis I hate Priscilla more and more we proper Elvis fans want more about the king bye for now Elvis fans keep Loving the king is fantastic
what i do appreciate about elvis is that he never ever talked bad about other people in public - a very underrated „virtue“ .
Agree 200% it's the opposite of precilla. Please read the book child bride or listened on UA-cam the Priscilla and Currie Grant story.
He had manifold virtues.
*MY GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS TOLD ME THERE IS TWO SIDES TO A STORY THE TRUTH IS USUALLY IN BETWEEN*
Yes indeed 👌 its true i agree with your grand mother me too an old Elvis since the fifties ❤️ greetings from Austria 🇦🇹 Vienna ❤️ 👌 🍀 🙏
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In either case, it's based on one side of the story; no one has ever heard from the other side because Elvis died before the book or the movie were written and he didn't discuss his private business. Add in dramatization and the need to make $$$$ off of the project negates any possibility of ever knowing what the actual truth was.
This!!!!!!!!
Like still keeps saying “ I’ll never will or have said anything bad about Elvis”. What a liar. If Lisa was alive she would not let Priscilla & Sophia get away with making such a negative one sided defaming version of events
I noticed she never explained why she went back to her Maiden name when she divorced Elvis 🤔 but went back to Elvis last name after he died 😳 and it’s written online that Elvis didn’t want her to use his last name after divorce .
And everyone forgets Elvis was engaged before he died meaning he had moved on from Priscilla .
It’s hard to believe anything she has to say as it’s a one sided version of his life compared to what his real life was like.
Exactly!! She took full advantage of the Presley name after Elvis died. It's always been about the money to Priscilla. The only source for her story is herself & no one else! That's what some people aren't getting. There is so much out there now disputing all her Lies! She's disgusting & I used to like her, not anymore! She'd have to say that everyone else is Lying but her lol.
Who cares?? Is this your way of distracting from a 24 year man chasing a 14 year old girl?
The divorce papers specifically stated that she could no longer use the Presley name. She must have forgotten as soon as Elvis died!!!🤨
I don’t think he was engaged to ginger, people close to him said he wasn’t going to marry ginger he wasn’t engaged with her.
@@d.s.d69 A while back Elvis told me he'd fallen in love with Ginger. 'This is the love I've been searching for', he said. 'I want more children, a son. And I want Ginger to be my children's mother'. After that, Ginger and Elvis came over to show me her engagement ring. That was one of the few times I'd ever seen her smiling. I assumed they were going to get married, but nothing happened and Whenever I tried to talk to Elvis about Ginger, he'd seem upset.
Finally, just a day or so before he died, I told him, 'I keep hearing and reading that you're going to announce your engagement. Is that right? When are you going to get married?' 'Only God knows', Elvis said.
Vernon Presley Exclusive Interview 1978 with Good Housekeeping - What Vernon stated about Elvis & Ginger - He did get engaged to her
the issue is i don’t like that Lisa Marie really didn’t want this movie out, an i don’t have a problem with Pricilla, however these books/movies seem a little one sided?like Elvis had all these flaws(like ALL people) but she didn’t seem to have any..,idk i wish he hadn’t died so we could here from him, but we can’t so.. idk i heard they didn’t make a lot at box office, everyone i know has no iterest in this movie, i like the Elvis &. Me movie from the 80s
IF Elvis had lived Priscilla Beaulieu would never have opened her mouth about whatever problems existed in the relationship and marriage. She would never have cut off the supply of endless money from Elvis. She began disparaging Elvis only after he died, and she gained a level of control over Graceland by convincing Vernon Presley to sign trusteeship of the estate over to her when he himself was very ill and was dying. Thank God the major trustees on Elvis's will was the Commercial Bank of Commerce in Memphis Tennessee, who stopped her from selling Graceland which is what she wanted to do . Most of the public are totally unaware of the truth about Priscilla Beaulieu she has told so many many lies and the Film that this channel is talking about was also full of lies and monstrous exaggerations.
Lisa Marie passed and the first thing she does is sue. Now this movie at 79 she should be helping the grandchildren. Saying that Lisa tried to commit suicide twice. Why would she put that out there for Lisa’s children to read. Just like the horrible things she has said about Elvis with no regard whatsoever for his daughters feelings. Narcissist and money and fame grabbing.
Priscilla's affair with the karate instructor was alluded to in the movie, though not in an unambiguously explicit way.
Because she broke up his family by agreeing to be with him
@@SarahErnestine And she got rid of him after a couple of years and moved on to another man.
The problem with all this is because when u come out with a book then later a movie and u try and paint up u not having any flaws yet tear the orher person down is not the true story it is a 1 sided story how u paint it up to be but not the actual because u can not have the truth without both sides. Plus the fact that she has lived off him for most of her life and still is living off him to this day. Yet have no problem painting him out to be a monster. Even to the point she fighting to be buried in Graceland sorry she is not a widow she is he x wif abd that was by her choice no she does not have the right to be buried in the family plots.
Well said Roberta, unfortunately Priscilla fans won't believe the truth !
Also if elvis was so abusive towards her then explain to me why would she want to be buried by her ex hubby that was supposedly abusive.she could have left alot sooner than she did if elvis was this bad person...you do know elvis was forced into marrying her that he didn't want to marry her but had no choice because he promised her parents he would marry her.. please read child bride and did you know that Michael edwards said in his book elvis priscilla and me that when she wrote the book elvis and me and took it to the publishing company they weren't going to publish it so priscilla added in that elvis raped her just so she can sell her dang book
She acts like the innocent victim and trust Me she is not innocent yes elvis wasn't no Saint he cheated but he isn't the one that wanted out of the marriage.. she cheated on elvis with a married man Mike stone who's wife was pregnant at the time..
Yes Cathy I know. My mom loved Elvis and in our house there was alot of Elvis so I remember alot of the things u brought up which is why u really want to throw up because she has lived off of him forever and she is still living off him. It is disgusting. I did read the report lately where Lisa Marie reached out to Coppola expressing to her she did not like how the film would be painting up her father so much in this negative like and this was not who he was and this is her own mother that Lisa Marie is not going along with this. I haven't forgotten her own faults. But here she is and has been painting in up so bad yet on the flip side she keeps considering herself as a widow which she is not she is the x wife and by her choose. Then to go after her grandchild over her daughters will and now fighting to get buried in Graceland are u kidding me. The person I feel sorry in her life is her son who is treated by het like a dirty little secret. She had just kept herself up into trying to have everyone and everything keep her in every aspect of Elvis all the while this child who yes is an adult now who also ended up having a hugh addiction problem but I can't help but think how Percila has handled everything I believe he had to feel like a 2nd hand citizen. Thank u so much for your feedback
100 percent correct, Cathy. Also, don't quote me on this, but when Elvis died, didn't Lisa Marie call Linda Thompson, not Priscilla? That says plenty right there.
This is Roberta yes I do remember her was dating Ginger at the time and Lisa Marie was at Graceland and of I remember correct Lisa Marie didn't really care for Ginger and she really liked Linda and she did cal Linda but what I am not sure of is if she called her mom or not.
Smacks of a money grab. Let’s not disguise the intent here. Casting a 6’5 Elordi and 5’1 Spaeny was not accidental nor was the timing of this film’s release. Much has been made of the Coppola touch. This was hardly subtle or sensitive. Now I understand why Elvis’ haters were salivating over its release. Plenty of feedback already given describing a snoozer with no depth and a vapid take on what could have been something worth watching. And let’s not forget that her tell all book has already popped up as a film. I’m left wondering why and questioning both the timing and the intent. Some walked out. Wishing I would have.
Money money money is the reason & both Elvis & Lisa aren’t here to put her back in her box!
I didn’t like that Jacob was so tall compared to Spaeny - almost like they wanted her to be completely dominated by him when in fact he wasn’t hugely taller than her at all…
i have such a problem with the height difference. it's unfair. the height difference unconsciously tells audience members who would like to see elvis as the monster as this giant man who physically towers down on the sweet little victim princess priscilla. I think sofia did it on purpose, and it's really messed up because if you're going to play real people you really should give an accurate physical appearance even if the face may not be the same. they could have at least chose a priscilla that was taller, but since sofia wanted cailee, they should get picked someone else to play elvis. but there's too much elvis in the media. i wish he could rest in peace.
Oh yeah, others have told me how they felt the movie left them with an unfinished and dull feeling. not a great cinema example.
Yep she doesnt say nothing about her chatting on elvis with mike in her book nor movie
In the book she does say she had an affair with Mike
Because it’s not true or she is really sick & twisted!
@@WhytheBookWins Before that she got an affair with the dancer instructor after 6 weeks of giving birth. I wonder if she mentioned that Mike's wife was pregnant when she escaped with him.
priscilla was not forced to stay with him for so many years .why did she want to marry him if he was so abusive to her? but that was very clever of her,
because leaving him without being married would not have left her with all the money she got once she was divorced. why did she want to keep his name since it must have remembered her of the terrible he gave her!?if he was the love of her life, why did she have not only relationships but quite „a few „ affairs „ with other men - and not all of them took place after their divorce! she certainly was not as innocent as she pretended to be. she was and is a very calculating woman , making money of elvis , who cannot defend himself. that is why she did not talk about all these negative things while he was still alive? that is the attitude of a coward!
and last - but not least - why for heavens sake does she want to be buried in graceland, the place she was so terribly unhappy?
well, honestly was never her strongest point -anyway! i have listened to a lot of the interviews she gave over the years . she does change her stories quite often - she is either lying or her memory is getting worse.
which is no excuse!
if she has any decency left she would not talk about the most private/intimate things in her life with elvis. it is disgusting , but it certainly sells well and makes people feel sorry for her! the only one to feel sorry for is lise.marie! why she played no part in the film is obvious ,because it would have shown what a terrible mother she was! she should be ashamed of herself ! coppola fell into her trap, believing her story blindly and ignoring that there are always two sides to a story! a good filmmaker is expected to know that! very disappointing!
i am 72 years old and only after having seen the film „elvis“ - by accident - i become interested in his music and himself. the only song i remembered was“in the ghetto“ and at the time i played it endlessly. now i love to listen to all of his songs - his voice makes me feel so good. and no matter what mood i’m in , there is always a suitable song. i am glad my daughter made me go to see the film . we will not go to see „priscilla“, because i am not interested in „gossip “ of the worst kind.
one more thing i would like to add! i am not naive or blind when it comes to elvis as a person. he had his faults, weaknesses and and it must not have been easy to live with his lifestyle . it must have been difficult for him too to live with himself! i think the day he died he was lost and just wanted to go home. i am happy for him because he did not have to suffer any longer and listen to all those stories about him - the only privacy he ever had is where he is now!
Great insights! And I agree.
I find it fascinating that you are 72 and only became interested in Elvis recently after the new "Elvis" movie -- and you know so much already!
I'm 60 and Elvis was my mom's generation, not mine. As a kid I "hated" him because he was forced down my throat, always on the record player. My family took me to Graceland the year after he died and I was excited, but not fanatical about being there. I met his Uncle Vester Presley and had my photo taken with him. I was only 15. It wasn't until I moved out that I started appreciating Elvis's music and going to see all Elvis tribute artists. I only have 5 Elvis albums, but I know so much because my family was so into him. When my grandmother died, we buried her wearing her Elvis watch. She loved him. Now the more I learn about Elvis, the more I love him as a person. He was so kind and generous. (Though he should have been more honest with his women. Not owning up to cheating is so immature. Just tell them you're not a one man woman and let them figure out if they want to be with him or not. Linda Thompson said she knew there were other women and she turned a blind eye to it because she loved him).
Wow! A new Elvis fan at 72! I don't know your name but I would like to recommend some of my favorite Elvis songs to you. Thrill of Your Love, Fame and Fortune, Lonely Man, I Was the One, A Fool Such as I, And I Love You So, Lonesome Cowboy, and Tomorrow is a Long Time. I Met Her Today.
Of course there are dozens of others!
What the general public doesn't understand is that though Elvis had a reputation as a rocknroller, that was not really why fans love him so much. It was the hundreds of BEAUTIFUL ballads. And the fact that he sang from way down deep in his soul.
By the way, if you want the best version, always click on the one with the picture of the album. Too many others are re-recordings and junk pieces that were not meant to be released.
Oh, yes, and a few more that he recorded as Priscilla was leaving him and after she left him. Lord You Gave Me a Mountain, (he sang that right after she left him) Midnight, You Were Always on My Mind, Your Loving Arms.
By the way, I've been a fan since 1956.
The thing is, the movie deviates from the book making changes that make Elvis look like an abuser. She did the same thing when she made the FIRST movie off her book, the movie Elvis and Me. In her book, she had a scene where she was about to leave Elvis but was at his show in Las Vegas. She said he called her upstairs to his room and that "he took me very forcefully(not forcibly). It was unlike any other time he had made love to me. It was uncomfortable." In the MOVIE, it became a scene where he viciously RAPED her. Asked later if he had raped her she said, "no I guess they put that in for drama." SHE was one of the producers on that movie! She didn't have to let it go out that way! For DRAMA she let Elvis be portrayed as a RAPIST! She knows very well that millions will see that movie and think that Elvis was a RAPIST but very few will see the interview will see the interview where she said it didn't happen.
The same is happening with the new movie Priscilla. Several changes were made from the book to make Elvis look like an abuser. She has said she thought it was good, but now she seems to be backing off of it, saying she really didn't have that much to do with it. She was the main PRODUCER on this one! It took Elvis fans many years to realize that she had a beautiful face and a soft voice but this is an EVIL woman.
@@saphireblue3563 I agree 100 percent. If you watch enough interviews of Priscilla, many things don't add up. Elvis fans who were around in 1977 when he died remember the story of Lisa Marie screaming, "My Daddy is dead!" and calling Linda Thompson. Just a few weeks ago, I saw a UA-cam interview with Priscilla saying that Lisa Marie was with her when Elvis died. She lies like a rug. You can't believe anything she says! (And again, this from me, a person who is not exactly an Elvis "fan").
@@BeYounique...Maryanne She lies all the time. However, I don't think she lied in that case. Lisa was at Graceland when Elvis died. When Priscilla was told that Elvis died she flew to Memphis. Lisa stayed with her that night. In the morning, when they were going to view the body, Lisa probably said. "mommy where are we going" and Priscilla said, "we are going to see daddy but he is going to be sleeping for a very, very long time." So in this case, I believe her.
Elvis did NOT DRINK ALCOHOL even Priscilla said that! 😡
Sorry you're right, in general he wasn't a heavy drinker
No.. Do your research, he didn't drink .
His mom drank and Elvis did not drink alcohol at all.
elvis did drink a couple of times sonny west tells a story of when ep had a couple of drinks and hit sonny west in the mouth do your home work look it up listen to the stories they told about what they experienced with ep dont listen to everything priscilla says.
@@AnnlouiseTodd I don’t give a shit sorry he’s been gone since 1977 who cares really. He was a giving man that I know for sure. Frankly I can’t stand Priscilla
Read the book years ago. Saw the movie in the 80’s . Not sure what was the purpose of this movie coming out now. If your gonna judge people by the standards of the 50’’s 60’s and 70’s no one is going to look good. Lisa and the estate were against it. While Elvis was not a perfect man, neither was Priscilla a perfect wife, and especially not her Parents.
No way would I allow my child to entertain a man of 24 in friendship or otherwise. ( no matter how old her soul is🙄) Have your hissy fit sweetie it’s still a big fat NO from MOM. I’m just not sure why this had to happen now. Very telling that none of the Presley family supported this movie. Just remember Dead Men Tell No Tales.
very true. honestly the movie wasn't needed. the book was plenty if people are interested.
The " hanger-on-ers" i.e., Memphis Mafia, told the dead man's tale and collected big bucks from the spilled milk of days gone by! Lisa Marie had no use for any of them aside from Jerry S. Not even Billy Smith! So Elvis had many voices speaking out. Allow Priscilla to share a fairy tale that few get to live. They both loved and lost.
I’m a guy so maybe I can’t appreciate this movie as much as perhaps a woman can. Though, the two ladies I was with felt the same. I found it a bit boring and Elvis’ life certainly wasn’t. I dislike very much the manner in which it was filmed. Most scenes were dull in color and dark. I kept wanting to turn the contrast up but it was at AMC so I couldn’t!! I think Elordi did fine in his portrayal, especially his voice. That said, he looks like an ostrich in the few seconds where they showed him moving/dancing. Thank goodness they shied away from that. It was Priscilla’s version, so very smart to stay away from Elvis as a performer with Elordi as the actor. However, not having the magnificence of Elvis’ talent on display diminishes the movie.
The Baz movie was somewhat flawed but still phenomenal. Austin was fantastic in his portrayal, particularly in the performance scenes. I don’t believe Elordi could have pulled that off no matter how many dance instructors and months he would have to prepare. Austin was special and he should have won the Oscar.
Yeah Butler definitely had the more demanding role and he was amazing! I agree, I was hoping he was going to win the Oscar.
Read Child Bride
..you'll get a different but truer story...thats about all I'll say about her...except this now Prissy wants to be buried next to the "love of her life" at Graceland...😂😊
Hmm I might read it, not because I don't believe Priscilla's account, but just out of curiosity and to hear from other perspectives the author interviewed.
You will find out who she really is !
Yes, Child Bride has much more of a ring of truth to it, especially with all of the eye-witness accounts.. It would really be something to see an adaptation of that book instead.
@@JoAnnKlingaman-iu4lmShe won’t, her response shows she doesn’t have an open mind.
@@WhytheBookWins Please read it, see for yourself who the real Priscilla Beaulieu is.
I tried to do a toned down version of Priscilla's eyeliner, but didn't quite achieve the desired look lol
Elvis hated Beaulieu’s harsh-looking dyed hair and overdone makeup, preferring a more natural look.
@@Mary-bk2wj
No, he didn't.
I think he was the one who suggested it, saying it would make her eyes stand out.
At least that's what she said in her book.
I tried to get her look too with eyeliner but I'm no good at putting it on, lol.
@@resa.walters Yes, he modeled Priscilla's look after a Japanese actress Tura Santana who he wanted to marry but she turned him down because of her career.
@@Mary-bk2wj That is incorrect.
Priscilla should just shut up about her dead ex husband and let him rest in peace. Elvis has been dead for nearly 50 years but his dreadful ex wife will go on telling stories about him (which change all the time) while there's money to be made.
It's her life, she can say whatever she wants
Not courage to spend time with her daughter, more like who to send her away to others to parent -such as Scientology 😥😥😥
My dad was born in 1931. He was 13yrs older than my mom. He kinda explained that back then, the type of girl you married was a virgin. The girls you ran with were not. So, I think it explains why some of the guys had to chase very young girls. They hadn’t had a chance to live and those were the girls you brought home to momma. Thankfully, Things are much different now and we don’t marry with that kind of thing in mind.
Yeah it was definitely a different time, but like you said, that doesn't therefore make it right. And considering the time period, I think that's what makes it even more impressive that she did decide to leave him.
Did you know that Priscilla had an affair with Mike Stone shortly after she had Lisa Marie. Mike left his pregnant wife for her. Fine person Priscilla is ???
@@WhytheBookWins I would respect her more had she respected the history the way it actually was and not cut people he loved out. She acts like she’s his true love and the only one. He had many loves including Linda. Had he tried to have a normal life, like many stars do, they may have married and had kids. P was definitely money hungry and a pretender. She was so young, Elvis didn’t know the real person she was as an adult.
Priscilla wasn’t even a virgin when she met Elvis. She had been with several guys her age and even with some older guys.
Great story!
I have an uncle who met his wife when they were both 13. He came home and told my grandmother, "I met the girl I'm gonna marry!" Now they are in their 80s and still together. I have another uncle who began dating a girl when she was 16 and he was in his 30s (she pursued him!) and now she's in her 50s and he's in his 70s. They are happily married for decades.
I saw Priscilla and thought it was okay. The friend I saw it with told me about a previous adaption of the book from 1988 which I found on UA-cam and I highly recommend checking that out. It was much better, IMO. I did love Elvis with Austin Butler. I thought he was fantastic.
I was curious about the '88 version! I'll have to check it out
I love the 1988 movie Elvis and me ❤❤❤
@@mayapace6914I just finished it and liked it well enough. But I don't think I have enough to say about it to warrant another video.
I liked the Elvis movie with AB. I just couldn't help but feel like it was more a story of the Cournal the way it started and was narrated from his point of view. That is my only complaint about it. AB's performance was astonishing to witness.
Book belongs in the Fiction section
priscilla haters just wished they *were* priscilla
@@user-np8yf8fj2w People "hate" her? Idt so. They just know the truth, and defend Elvis & Lisa against the exWife's lies. That's not hatred.
I wholeheartedly agree! The amount of Lies Priscilla has told over the years & now that so many people aren't alive anymore too is unbelievable!
I wish elvis was alive to express his side... Jerry lee lewis married his cousin right around the same time elvis met priscilla That is why elvis kept priscilla a secret at first And they don't want the press to know Because at the same time, jerry lee lewis married his cousin and it made jerry's career go downhill An elvis didn't want that happening....
There was a movie in the 1980s based on Priscilla's book with the same title "Elvis and Me." It was more descript, longer, and showed Elvis in the light of being a kind, generous man.
It was a great movie. This movie was lacking because it focused too much on Elvis's negative side. Lisa Marie wrote to Sophia Coppola, begging her not to put this movie out because it would disgrace the family.
I truly think a better approach for a movie called "Priscilla" would to touch on her time with Elvis, but show us the empowerment -- what she did after Elvis, her movie career, her celebrity boutique, her time on famous soap opera Dallas which was huge in its day.
"Priscilla" made Priscilla look like a victim, and she wasn't. She had options -- a family who loved her, younger siblings, and money. She wasn't some teenage runaway who came from an abusive home. She KNEW what she was into (maybe not at first) and she just wanted Elvis....PERIOD.
I disagree with you that Elvis was manipulative and a gas lighter. I just think he was emotionally immature and his growth was stunted because he was surrounded by "yes" men. He didn't know how to be an adult because everyone was at his beck and call and no one stood up to him. He was this great talent who got fame at a very young age, couldn't handle it, couldn't handle the loss of his mother, and just went off the deep end with prescription drugs.
So, now you have a woman, in her 20s, dealing with a husband on drugs, cheating while she's trying to be mother, and trying to find herself. It was a prescription for disaster. Priscilla Presley shared her story nearly 40 years ago in her book and that first movie, "Elvis and Me" which was awesome.
No disrespect to Sophia Coppola, because the soundtrack and visuals were astonishing, HOWEVER, we could have done without this dry, flat movie -- a script that hurt Lisa Marie so badly before her untimely death and while she was still mourning over her son's suicide.
Priscilla Presley needs to move on. Linda Thompson moved on. Ginger Alden moved on.
It's time for Priscilla to move on too. C'mon Priscilla, you are better than all this riding on the coat tails of your daughter's father for decades. Please, move on!
(P.S. -- LOVED Austin Butler as Elvis! He was the best in my humble opinion).
Elvis and Me was a made for tv mini series……..and yes EVERYONE knows that Elvis was a text book narcissist…..I mean he was known as the King 🤦🏼♀️
I saw the mini series as a teenager. Read the book as an adult, and watched the new movie last night. It didn’t change my opinion…..if you’re an Elvis fan, you know he was very flawed.
@@MAA77723 Aren’t we all flawed? In Elvis’s case his good qualities far outweighed the flaws for all the people he touched, but it killed him.
@@supercapitalista5757 Yes, I agree.
@@supercapitalista5757 I don’t buy into the notion that Elvis was a narcissist, because I believe his compassion and affection were not feigned, as they would be if he were a narcissist.
On the other hand, Beaulieu would seem to fit the “textbook” description of a narcissist perfectly.
@@Mary-bk2wj You have a good case.
Sorry I do not believe anything she has to say. She has changed her story so many times and can not believe people are believing all her bs.
Shirleyellis. You are spot on. Too bad a lot of the movie critics would do their homework on who she really is !!
I totally agree she lies and cheated on him too
@@brendasixkillermuth4017cheating what about him ??
I am just curious can you give specifics on what different stories Priscilla has told? I never got that sense from her over her . My opinion is different … she and Lisa Marie were always the spokespeople for the family and I think they both were the perfect people to keep Elvis ‘ legacy alive … since your opinion is different , I was just wondering what you are basing your opinion on ?
She’s been incredibly quiet @ their time together & I don’t recall anyone else but her taking control & securing his estate & protecting his legacy. She was a child ffs.
Since you compare movies to books, maybe you should read the truthful biography of Priscilla by Suzanne Finstad who spent 3 years researching and interviewing people who knew Priscilla and her family. Priscilla's book is a made-up farce by a jealous ex-wife who has spent her entire life living off of the Presley name and money. She has been caught in numerous lies and she was never the innocent little angel she purports to be. I am so sick of movie reviewers thinking they now know what a narcissistic scoundrel Elvis must have been. He was not at all like that. She still calls him the love of her life even though she has had many, many affairs with many, many men. She is despicable.
So a woman who spent three years researching Elvis knows more about him than a woman who lived with him for 10 years and knew him for nearly 20 years?
At the end of the day, we are all outsiders to their story and so we will each choose to believe whatever version of their story we want to believe.
Jenny your spot on.
@@JoAnnKlingaman-iu4lmNo, I don't think so. Priscilla was right.
@@WhytheBookWins and you believe everything this FAKE ex woman says, how old are you.
She doesn’t give one SHIT about Elvis Presley or his daughter LISA Marie Presley.
@@WhytheBookWinsEverything you say is predicated on your belief that Beaulieu is telling the truth. That stance seems odd, given that it is quite easy to find dozens, if not hundreds, of provable lies from Priscilla over the years, making it foolish to take her varied accounts at face value. If Elvis were really the monster he’s portrayed as in this sophomoric film meant to appeal to and enrage the mindless ‘woke’ mob, there would be corroborating evidence over time: police reports/complaints, hospital records, eyewitness testimony, criminal charges, etc., from other victims. Physical and sexual abuse is never a one-off event, nor is it ever confined to just one victim. Where is the avalanche of other victims, who suddenly feel empowered by the brave decades-long confessions of a bitter ex, finding the courage to come forward with their horrifying accounts of suffering at the hands of their now-deceased abuser?
Perhaps Elvis’ legacy and reputation is being sacrificed on the altar of fame and fortune for the benefit of a privileged ex who is no doubt comforted by the unlikelihood that her ‘abuser’ will rise from the grave to defend himself.
Her father didn't die during ww2 he died right after in America in a plane crash when she was a baby
When Elvis started dating Linda Thompson afterwards, Linda said that Elvis told her one of his biggest regrets is he didn't marry a southern woman. They show that a little bit in the movie Elvis and the beauty queen.
i was just thinking about his need to have control probably dealing with the lack of control he felt with his career but he was unable to stand up to col. parker but also his loneliness and fear of abandonment. i like that you brought that up. I am reading Careless Love right now and Peter guralnick brings up how Elvis was very lonely especially with his mother's death during his time in the Army so we always wanted to have family around and call the people back home. I wish he was secure enough to be able to know who his friends are without feeling the need to financially bribe them to keep them in his life because I believe many would have always remained.
i think his own childhood and being raised in a little bubble where he was the main focus also influenced his attachment and need for attention. and yet the various accounts of his humility and modesty and belief it may all go away contrasts and makes it way more complex
i think the priscilla movie was unfortunately just trying to show one victim instead of showing two victims who were trapped in a toxic relationship. it doesn't show the complexities. some people may be very appalled by saying there were two sides but i honestly think fair judgment is needed. especially after reading the last train to memphis and starting careless love. the movie shows a very dark caricature of a man instead of the human of elvis. yes I know its a preiciall movie, but if they needed to focus on her life with him then without him, they should give an honest and fair account of his side, even though his side will never been actually known. i think it should be a warning of the unfit love and the fast of fame and celebrity and how it is appealing but everyone can be hurt, it's a sad story that should not be judged quickly, it needs to slowly be taken in and taken account of the time and day of when the things occurred. I think misjudgment and misinterpretation is too common now. their were too people lost in a relationship and i think its because they honestly didn't know each other or what they wanted, they had pre-informed ideas of what the other one will be and they were both unable to meet them.
I think they did the right thing not having someone older play him bc back in those days this shows what that age difference was like to ppl. It wasn’t AS big of a deal back then. Women were married by 15-16! Even in the 90s it wasn’t a huge deal for a high school girl to be w a 21 ur old. My husband and I are 5 years apart
Yeah that's true, very young brides were a bit more common.
And same, my husband and I have some years between us, but we met when I was 25 and I think when the younger person is old enough the age gap doesn't really matter.
My mother first got married two weeks before she was sixteen. Her husband was eighteen. Not saying it was okay.
it was definitely a different time which should be taken into consideration without poor judgment. honestly 10 years wasn't alot back then but it doesn't mean its good, but it was acceptable then. I also don't think elvis looked that much older than priscilla. Priscilla was a very pretty good who i think looked 16-17 in 1960, and they looked like a good looking normal couple, without fame they may have even gotten married without any issue.
The book is HER truth
Yes, I think that's pretty clear considering it is her memoir lol.
@@WhytheBookWins the problem is a book/movie sold as "this is Elvis" , instead of "this is the way his ex wife decided to portray him". Who deserves to be portrayed by his ex wife ?
First good video. I have an issue with not showing the nuance of Elvis because of the whole generation of new Elvis fans. For us old timers we get it. Newer generation not so much.
Yeah that's a good point
The problem is, they’re twisting the story to please Priscilla.
I just came in to say that because the younger generation who don't know Elvis now believe this story about him and he's so much more than this movie which I've watched and I really didn't like it because of that reason the vitriol I have seen regarding Elvis because of this movie is heartbreaking 💔..we fans know he wasn't perfect he was a man of his time .
@@johanley229 The real problem is not portraying him as imperfect…the real problem is portraying him as something he wasn’t. Which is something the new generation won’t be able to understand if they keep trying to please Priscilla’s fake narrative.
@@user-golden-rhapsody5915 Your first sentence encapsulates the crux of the whole issue perfectly! 👊👍💥
Jacob elordi is playing nate from euphoria not Elvis !!!
Your critique is full of inaccuracies, especially in regards to her book.
Feel free to let me know what I got wrong.
Lol. Elvis fans still in their feels…
@@baronessvondenglerThey are so delusional in the comments it’s crazy 😭
It wasn't an election, it was a pageant..
Also, he father didn't die in the war, but in a plane crash, on his home to see her.
You gotta remember too as far as the age thing goes that it was a different time. I was talking to my neighbor who's in his 80s about it the other day that his mom was 13 when she married his dad who was 30. Not saying it's okay, you just got to remember you're looking at it through 2024 eyes when it was a 1950s and 60s thing.
Southern men married very young ladies forever. Only in the 20th century has this changed. The civil war killed off all younger men.
Where did your info come from about the Alcohol & Elvis's addiction to Alcohol?😊😊😊😊😊😊
Thank you for an excellent commentary. Frankly, I prefer the 1988 mini-series movie, "Elvis and Me" to both of the movie versions "Elvis" and "Priscilla." The "Priscilla" movie was stylish yet superficial, IMO, and it ended so abruptly. On the other hand, "Elvis" with Austin Butler was so over the top with its flashiness. Thanks again for this explanation. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much!
i agree. Baz is very flashy in general so it makes sense especially since Elvis is so legendary and is known for flash, which may be why they went that route. But I would have loved a down to earth Elvis movie like La Bamba was for Ritchie Valens.
When Priscilla and Elvis dated for 6 yrs and Priscilla graduated high school, and they are Locked up in his bdrm for weeks, took sexy pictures.... and didn't have Sex, COME ON I call B.S !!
What’s your definition of sex? If sex=vaginal intercourse only, then it’s not BS. If it includes “other”, then that is likely what happened as covered in the movie and book. Elvis didn’t need intercourse with Priscilla. No doubt he could have that from other women at will.
I agree, I can't see a red blooded male wouldn't go further
@@fastfrank7328he had others for that
PB stated that she and elvis laughed about not having sex and thought it hilarious that they were gaslighting everyone.
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No 14 and 25 year old shouldn't be kissing or anything
Where either the book or the film actually true?
The truth is that Priscilla learnt that this person knew Elvis and approached him, asking if she could meet Elvis. He didn't approach her. She tracked down Elvis knowing that he was in Germany and she did the chasing. Then when Elvis went back to the states, there was a two year gap before they saw each other again. Other than that they spent a great deal of time talking on the phone.
Priscilla's story has continually changed and evolved over the years. each time she has spoken, her stories have become more outlandish and increasingly darker on the subject of Elvis. She was and remains, solely interested in the money. Elvis was her meal ticket. And has continued to be even in death, now she is after her daughters money, now that Lisa has passed away. She is a sad excuse for a woman. She ruined her daughters life and now she is attacking her grandchildren. TCE
It was the worst portrail of Elvis i ever saw.why didn't they just cast lurch from the adams family to play Elvis and tattoo from fatasy island to play Priscilla.they also only made Elvis out to do anything nice for people to manipulate them.this movie was a hit piece on Elvis's legacy and belongs in the trash.
If he had faults she didnt have marry him she knew he loved an. Maragret yet knew he didnt want marry her her dad was threatening him yet she walked down aisle ! $$$$$$$
I find to many condictions in her book and the 1988 elvis and me movie and the rewrite of elvis and me called Priscilla movie and past interviews she has given.
In fairness with the actual height difference Elvis was like 5'10 and Priscilla was like 5'2. So there was a difference but Jacob is like 6'4.
We not see that in the movie made before the new Elvis movies?
I think the anecdote about her winning the school vote was an analogy for her also basically "winning the lottery" with Elvis. It's just something that happened to her, that she didn't expect, and that she didn't fight for. It was a result of her beauty, that she didn't know she had. She also describes around the same time someone stole a picture of her off of the school bulletin board.
That's a great observation! I think you are right, thanks for sharing!
im going to wright a script about the memphis mafia instead of priscillas boring stories its getting old i dont know why she had to do a remake of the 88 mini series it does not make any sense to me the new movie has same script just different rooms to the 88 mini series
Everyone knows Beaulieu lies about her ex as a living. This new snoozer just adds some more lies.
Thanks for afair review of this book. It was Priscilla's story and true or not, it was her story. Lisa Marie loved both parents and state once that she didn't know they had divorced as both loved her and they loved each other. God bless all three.
Thanks for commenting! I agree with your thoughts.
Elvis adored his daughter and hired the lawyer protecting the fathers' rights to protect his custody right.
Ironically one of my favorite ELvis songs "Kentucky Rain" is inspired by his divorce.
You know many people recorded that before he did.
@@resa.walters Exactly. Elvis was technically a "tribute artist." He wasn't a songwriter.
Let's pretend was about their divorce
@@fastfrank7328
That song doesn't seem to have anything to do with them.
That's like saying the devil in disguise was 😂😂😂
Great review of both memoir and movie 👏👏👏👏👏.
Elvis and Priscilla had created such idealized images of a perfect woman and a perfect man that it became impossible for them to fit in those images. The real man and the real woman had different (even incompatible) needs - the age difference per se is not to be blamed. In fact, in Baz Luhrmann's movie Elvis, Priscilla is pictured as an Elvis's ally (against the colonel's impositions) and the age difference is not shown at all.
Yeah she is kind of a background character in the Luhrmann movie. And I don't think the age difference is a problem, but rather how young she was. But yeah, both imperfect people trying to fit impossible images.
@@WhytheBookWins Elvis's marriage to Priscilla was to a certain extent orchestrated by the colonel. Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year-old cousin, which was a scandal at the time. The colonel, of course, didn't want this to happen with Elvis, as he was focusing on promoting Elvis's comeback from Germany. There is even an interview with Elvis that he feared having talked too much about 'the girl he left behind' in Germany. Three has always been a crowd - he still had a girlfriend in the US...
Recollections vary! No one alive to refute
Wrong different times you know nothing
Thanks for commenting! It helps the algorithm 😃
@@WhytheBookWins good one thanks
I feel so bad for Priscilla but I also feel bad that Lisa-Marie had to live in her Father’s shadow her entire life. I also felt like his relationship with his mother was troubling but I don’t know
There is an old movie of this book from the late 80’s early 90’s I used to watch as a kid. Thinking back now I probably shouldn’t have been watching it….
But I was wondering how similar the storyline of Priscilla would be to the book and movie Elvis and Me
Yeah I watched the TV movie and actually preferred 'Priscilla' over the older version
I agree, so easy to say the ring was given as an engagement ring after he died!!!
Interesting - I will review this review
i think this was a good analysis. but i think the nuance of Elvis is still needed to give a fair look of a relationship and what it was like. it paints a hypocritical and dark view which can be confusing with austin's complex troubled human with the highs and lows of fame. and honestly that influences how people like to judge. because this movie would case judgment either way it would have been better to have a deep nuanced look on the two of them. The focus on this movie was really their relationship and Priscilla's time with Elvis, the two people should have been accurately formed and still show priscilla with greater focus and her transformation to leave him and find herself.
but i honestly think cailee is too short and elordi is too tall, priscilla and elvis had an average height difference, and i think that height difference was on purpose to make elvis look more domineering which isn't fair because it creates pre informed ideas just based on looks. Austin was of similar height and is like a natural blonde blue eyed man like elvis which i think was a more impressive touch even if he doesn't look like him. no one will look like elvis.
Who is in control of Elvis's music? Isn't it supposed to be the Presley family, themselves?
Precilla is very untruthful about things. I can' t believe that Precilla aloud her live in boyfriend ' Michael Edwards" to sexual abuse Lisa Marie for years and Edwards' would spank Lisa to the point of leaving bruises on Lisa. Lisa talks about it in her book. Lisa said she told her Mom about it and instead of Precilla making him leave the house and reporting it to the police she Precilla kept letting it happen. The only thing that Precilla said to Lisa was that he wanted to apologize to Lisa.. Her boyfriend admitted it and said that he was sexually attracted to Lisa Marie. I think that Precilla and Edwards both should have to answer to our justice system. Mother's are supposed to protect their children.
I liked the TV movie in 1988.
Its amazing, how come Priscilla spent nights in Elvis room in his room without anything happening. I don't think that was true, & I am sure there are many people out there who share this sentiments😅
Dosta te Cille. Već iz konzerve iskače. Koga zanimaju njezine snimke od prije 60 godina. Sve znamo bolje nego ona o Elvisu i njoj.
To get to the truth watch Billy Smith/ Elvis' first cousin that lived at Graceland - ( Elvis Fans Matter ) Elvis moved Billy and his family in a double wide to have him there - they were together all the time even on tours -- He knew Priscilla ---- Patty Parry too said when she did Priscillas Hair and makeup she was so hard and difficult to deal with none of the MM liked her - READ LISA MARIE'S NEW MEMOIR AND HOW P TREATED HER!!!! DISGUSTING i'D LOVE TO SEE YOUR REVIEW
I was thinking about how we got two great performances back to back of Elvis and i've decided that it's because the source material has become more accessible. There are so many more videos, audio, etc freely available online for people to study to better understand him, his cadence, his mannerisms etc. I wondered if the acting skill has just improved, but I think it's just access to source material. But yes, Jacob did a phenomenal job, and to be honest, had Baz's Elvis not come out the year before, I think Jacob's performance would be lauded.
Yeah so true about how there are so many more sources now! And yeah I would agree having the performances be back to back influences our opinion of each actor.
I watched the movie it was great even tho i havent read the book
I found this film a tad boring,like a poorly made tv movie,Priscilla was a trophy girlfriend just a material possession,And i will not watch this poor version or even recommend the film,the book is much much better in my honest opinion
This love story reminds me of when Prince Charles was looking for a virgem to get married and have a heir. I find it strange that among so many girls, he would pick a 14-year-old. Anyway.
She was the THIRD girl he asked to move in to "raise" as a wife. Remember you cant judge by today's standards. Elvis came out of the deep south. Old men married young women for farming with a large family. You need a young lady to have many children. Older men could offer security. Elvis was born only 60 years after the civil war. Think about that.
Thanks for your reviewing the movie vs. the book. Not having Elvis's songs worked well for the film, because Elvis would sing his songs for his job. I've watched the movies, read the books and read books of other girlfriends and Priscilla's account is consistent. Also the guys within the Memphis Mafia were very open about Elvis's character. The Priscilla movie was light.
Interesting, I've heard a variety of thoughts, but I've read multiple people say Coppola took it easy on Elvis in this version.
@@WhytheBookWins I'm comparing the movie to the book. The movie was light compared to the book and other sources.
Acho Priscilla uma oportunista de marca marca maior....
Quem RACIOCINA , sabe pensar....de longe vê, sente e Sabe que foi Sempre Priscilla que Nitidamente explorava Elvis Usando Lisa e depois da Morte dele ninguém a segurou.....
So when Priscilla left Elvis, she left Lisa there?
They had shared custody. Lisa had even been staying with Elvis when he died. When she initially left him though I'm pretty sure she took Lisa with her.
@@WhytheBookWins thank you for answering.
I heard Priscilla did a interview years ago I believe on Larry King show after Elvis died. Priscilla said she had to tell little Lisa her daddy had died and they flew from California to Memphis. The problem is so many of Elvis inner circle said Lisa was at Graceland at the time Elvis died.
I feel Priscilla has been making money off of Elvis name since his death.
Lisa was at Graceland when Elvis died. @@denniskelly2177
The only people who know the truth are Priscilla and Elvis. And I think everyone is entitled to make their own decisions. She was his wife and no one knows if he would marry again as in his own words his career broke their marriage.
Please please go here on UA-cam and watch Elvis and Me whole movie from. 1985 it’s so good!!! The girl Susan Walters playing Priscilla is AWESOME! Gorgeous! Go watch the original movie .
I'll be watching it soon and hope to have a video sharing my thoughts on it sometime in the next week or so!
No how could her real father die in world war 2?? Can we get dates please ? Said in respectful curious voice
He died in 1945 and died in a plane crash while returning home on leave. So it was during the war he died, but he didn't actually die in the war.
Great observations...
This was an amazing review! Well done!! Thoroughly enjoyed! Love your blouse/top!!!💫
Thank you so much! 🩵
Wth so we not gonna start off with the fact she was 14years old he should have been locked up n music should have been shelved smh I don’t get how we pick n choose. N that’s y they didn’t cast a older guy
He might not have slept with her cause she had an affair less than a year if marriage and shorty after the birth of their child lisa marie presley around the time he was filming live a little live a little.
Back in day older men with younger girls
Elvis never drank alcohol. Priscilla has made that clear....please do more research
I saw the movie this past weekend. I have only a couple of comments, I DID like the movie but I felt it was awfully "quiet", I know Elvis's music wasn't permitted but I believe Priscilla had a much more fun, happy time when she was with Elvis. I have a hard time thinking the only words she said to Elvis were "thank you" and "ok". I think the 1988 made for tv movie based on her book captures more of those good times and how it really happened. The next big issue with people, her being buried in the meditation garden along with the Presley family....first that is Riley's grandmother, Priscilla's blood runs in the family, half to Lisa a quarter to Riley. How could she not be buried there? Only Elvis knows how Elvis feels about that and that we will never know. All I know is that when I pass on after I meet God and Jesus, I'm getting front row seats to an Elvis concert in heaven so scootch over............
Yeah Elvis fans being so heated about Priscilla wanting to be buried with the Presley family seems silly to me. Why should anyone care about that lol. Yeah, we are all outsiders on this topic at the end of the day. And I'll be sitting right there next to you at that future Elvis concert lol
Ironically One of my favorite Elvis song's is "Kentucky Rain" and it's actually inspired by Elvis and Priscilla's divorce.
That's a great song!
@@WhytheBookWins U know I feel like Elvis is the first example of kids who get famous too young as he was only around 16 when he got famous and never really had a chance to grow up. Its interesting nowadays how some child psychologists have advised not getting their kid into acting young because of the trauma it can cause (for example dont move right to LA when ur child gets cast etc). And yet we need child actors cause how the heck are u going to do child parts otherwise?
Who told you that?
@@LaurieLT88So that was according to my papa who saw elvis in concert in the 1970s (whenever he was doing Vegas) and he said that Elvis said it was about that.
It's not inspired by their divorce though
Lavish praise and he can get so angry. So you mean he's actually a human being? interesting. Elvis could have been bipolar.
Why would a woman publically admit to thinking about abortion to where that child would know, geez...then wonder why there r issues
Very well done video. To the commenters, time to stop idolising someone who died half a century ago and start taking survivor stories seriously.
Thank you! And yeah, some of these Priscilla haters are ridiculous
Do a comparison to the original movie based on the book and the new movie.
They should’ve showed the Vegas outburst bc the scene where he throws the chair falls flat on its own in my opinion
Yeah I can see that. In the movie it seems like it takes a while for her to see his temper.
Great review :) Thank you!
Thank you for commenting! Glad you liked the review!!
Good soundtrack....Shame about the film
i know i dont have much opinion on the matter seeing as i am a 15 year old girl but i do feel like elvis fans need to stop trying to idolize him but also we also need to stop making him seem like all he was, was a bad guy. i feel like espcially with music artists specifically rock stars from elvis's time, a lot of them got over taken by fame (and drugs and alcohol) and did bad things but have now changed. no one was perfect espcially celebraties but i feel like he was a good guy but not perfect i mean no one is perfect and obviously we wont ever really hear his side of the story but honeslty i saw the movie with my dad as we are both claasic rock/ HUGE music nerds and we both enjoyed it very much i think it was very well made
Another outstanding video. Look forward to watching Priscilla since Sophia Coppola movies all have such a distinct style with female protagonists. Would love to see a documentary on Colonel Tom Parker, born and raised in The Netherlands who left for America most likely because he murdered a woman. Parker never had a passport and his fear of being brought to justice is why he never left America and Elvis never toured outside the USA. He was a horrible person and Tom Hanks portrayal in the Elvis movie was as terrible as Austin Butler's performance was magnificent. But I digress. Really enjoy your thought provoking content.
Yeah he would be an interesting guy to read about! I didn't know he may have killed someone 😟 And yeah, Hanks portrayal was pretty cartoonish I would say. Let me know what you think of Priscilla when you see it!
Ursula Andress was in a Bond movie in a bikini and she was hot
Agreed! She was very attractive
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Priscilla Beaulieu = Amber Heard
Fckn spot on! Wow 👌
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Maybe he was bipolar?
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If you love elvis, then love elvis, with all the good the bad and the ugly. Why should pricilla dance around her story trying to protect many of YOUR feelings. Many people here taking it so personal....telling pricilla to move on with her life. Dont any of you realize that this is her last opportunity to leave us with HER life story before she dies. Like it or not she is synonymous with elvis and will go down in history in infamy as being the only wife of elvis, not just one of his many many many girlfriends, the only mother of elvis only child, the one person who singlehandedly saved graceland and by extension his memory, all while becoming a household name as an actress in her own right. PRICILLA IS AS MUCH AN ICON AS ELVIS PRESLEY.
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Who, pray tell, is keeping Priscilla from telling her stories? She has been in the limelight, by her own choice, for over four decades and running, babbling in front of every camera and to every reporter in sight. She and her followers forfeit the right to complain when others exercise their right to free speech. She is nothing without the Presley name: she tried that, remember? She makes a living lying about her deceased ex. If she doesn’t want her falsehoods challenged, she should stop lying.
If there is one thing she is NOT it's an icon. Imagine if she married Garibaldi of 22 yrs. No one would know it care who Priscilla Garibaldi was. The NAME. the NAME. The $$$__ that's what it means to little ole "Cilla". Used to respect her. GONE!!! All gone. What she is inside now shows in her face!
She is as much of an ICON?! What an absurd thing to say. Yes, her talent just blows us all the way.....
This is all bologna. I’ll pass.
He acted exactly the same with her as he had with other 14 year old girls and after her with more 14 year old girls. He knew it was illegal because he used to say "14 will get you 20" which is why he only allegedly kissed them or "necked for hours" as one woman on 60 Minutes said. All of the same "teaching" and control over them. He was a pedo and he liked them young so he can always be in the position of power and I think his personality was stunted because he acted more like a teenager himself. I don't care who the guy is famous or not, my 14 year old and even 16 year old self would have had zero interest in a much older man! Nor would my parents have ever let him anywhere near me!! I guess a man she dated after Elvis asked why they broke up and she said "I grew up".
Great video creator!!😊❤ Elvis groomed Priscilla I forgot to put that in there. I love the book too and the 1988 movie Elvis and Me that's my opinion God bless
Yeah be definitely groomed her
Elvis did not have to groom and female.
@@WhytheBookWinsyet Priscilla said he didn't groom her at all in her recent interview with piers Morgan .
Thats because she always changes her story to fit her needs !
@@WhytheBookWins. What a JOKE, you don’t even know what the word means.
Stirring dumb young people up, with this NONSENSE.
Elvis Presley was and is still FANTASTIC and yes I was already around when Elvis Presley was alive and we had NO issues with the age differences.
Get a real job and leave this man ALONE.
Funny how women attack another woman. How would you feel to be married and pregnant and your husband calles you and tells you let’s get separated and that was a true story because I have heard that in Memphis Mafia interviews and they didn’t really like Priscilla. Do I wish she didn’t write the book yes but people just like right now attacked her so much that she had no choice but to come out and defend herself. I think people are jealous because she still attracts crowds and able to make money unlike other women who had a relationship with him.
I'm afraid that we have a lot of lies by omission : Elvis who was so happy to become a father suddenly wants to leave without any explanation, does it really make sense ? Memphis Mafia didn't like her ? Charlie Hodge helped her to buy her wedding dress, Red West helped her to keep her affair with Mike Stone secret, Jerry Schilling always remained very close to her, like Joe Esposito and George Klein. It's Priscilla Presley who attracts crowds, not Priscilla Beaulieu, this is her real drama.
And what about Mike Stone's wife? Being pregnant and having her husband telling he wanted a separation because he had an affair with Priscilla and he was going to live with her? Talking about jealousy is the poorest and childish thing a person can say. Elvis didn't want to marry her (it's a fact...Priscilla herself admitted there were pressures for the marriage) so try to walk in Elvis shoes and think how it was for him to feel entrapped. What did she expect from a marriage with those assumptions? In fact, that marriage miserably failed very quickly from both sides.
Hey it was the 70s. Almost everyone was like this. I call it the raunchy decade.
I hope the book is reprinted so it can be read by the new groups of Elvis curious .
‘Child Bride’ by Finstad is a better read. Beaulieu’s book is fiction.