{"id":42066,"date":"2023-12-31T23:30:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T04:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42066"},"modified":"2024-01-01T20:47:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T01:47:58","slug":"priscilla-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/31\/priscilla-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Priscilla (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After last year\u2019s goofy \u201cElvis<\/a>\u201d failed to really bring us anything new about the actual man known as Elvis, it\u2019s refreshing to see \u201cPriscilla\u201d come along a year later. Sofia Coppola\u2019s biopic about Elvis\u2019 iconic wife Priscilla is the absolute antithesis of a love story. It\u2019s the anti-romance, and the unsensational depiction of Elvis and Priscilla and how their marriage and romance came out of a utilitarian circumstance more than a genuine love and passion. What may trouble fans of Elvis and Priscilla is that this is a movie that finally views Elvis in a new light. He was a man who was possessive, controlling, self-obsessed, and often times incredibly abusive.<\/p>\n

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Based on the book written by Priscilla Presley, \u201cPriscilla\u201d tells her story of 9th grade student Priscilla Beaulieu from her being smitten by Elvis, thrust in to his whirlwind success and private life, and hopelessly falling in love with him. Constantly in the tabloids, and isolated from the outside world, Priscilla becomes Elvis\u2019 world famous spouse, but soon finds it increasingly difficult to live a life she wants to; she soon begins to decide on whether she wants to stay or start over.<\/p>\n

Elvis is a man who transformed his girlfriend from a sex toy, in to one of his own gallery of collectibles, in to a replacement mother figure for his mom Grace after her death, and then just someone he was keeping around out of spite. Jacob Elordi doesn\u2019t look a whole lot like Elvis but he\u2019s so much better in the role than Austin Butler by miles. Elordi depicts Elvis as someone so completely different. On the outside he\u2019s a showman, and someone who hid so much of his lack of complexity, and dimension with manipulation, and playing a character.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s someone so completely incapable of being himself that he\u2019s almost never truly depicted as a genuine person with potential to be vulnerable, or sad. He\u2019s always around people, always putting on airs, and is quite talented at making anyone feel alienated in a room full of people. Star Cailee Spaeny is perfect as Priscilla a young girl who looks like Elvis\u2019 literal daughter when he first meets her, who is brushed up in to what might be every person\u2019s absolute fantasy. She gradually comes to realize that Elvis and his life is anything but fantastic and spends a lot of her time trying to survive in a world built in and around artifice, where every moment she has lives and breathes around Elvis.<\/p>\n

Her quest to seek some sense of independence is a sad one, and while the movie doesn\u2019t entirely let her off the hook, she is ultimately another victim pulled in to Elvis\u2019 storm, and barely made it out to restart her life anew.<\/p>\n

\u201cPriscilla\u201d is one of the more underrated dramas of 2023, and it\u2019s just a masterwork from Sofia Coppola.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After last year\u2019s goofy \u201cElvis\u201d failed to really bring us anything new about the actual man known as Elvis, it\u2019s refreshing to see \u201cPriscilla\u201d come along a year later. Sofia Coppola\u2019s biopic about Elvis\u2019 iconic wife Priscilla is the absolute antithesis of a love story. It\u2019s the anti-romance, and the unsensational depiction of Elvis and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1572],"tags":[111,138,302,322,698],"class_list":["post-42066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-rockandrollny","tag-arthouse","tag-biography","tag-drama","tag-elvis","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42220,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42066\/revisions\/42220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}