Priscilla the Movie

This episode is all about the Priscilla film which came out a couple years ago and I just watched it a month ago. I shared my thoughts on the film. Yes this episode was recorded a month ago when I mention about the book report. This was one of the episodes I could wait to put out. Just wanted to say that so you were not confused.

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Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Let's Talk podcast. My name is Hannah Covington, and I am so glad to be back with you again with another episode. I seem to be making these episodes quite a bit lately, it seems. I just will be finishing up recording a third book hopefully before the end of this month, and we'll start editing that and have it out way, way faster than I did for the report for March. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully. Now what have I tried any more food since the last time I have recorded? Uh let's see, let's see, let's see, let's see. Drink wise no, that is a big surprise for me because I feel like I am always trying some new drink creation I have made, come up with, and I haven't, but what have I tried? That is always the curious question because I am always wanting to try the new trendiest food that is out for at the current moment, and I was very late to this trend. It's so funny. I went to Dairy Queen and Taco Bell yesterday, or the other day, let's word it that way. And I tried their Choco Extreme Brownie Blizzard from Dairy Queen. If I couldn't make it even more chocolatey, yes, you heard me correctly. I even added bits of Reese cup to it. And let's just say I was in heaven with that creation I made. I will be probably getting it again if I ever get another blizzard in the near future because they always have that Choco Extreme Blizzard and they always have Reese's on the menu. That might be my new go-to blizzard when I go get blizzards, by the way. You can't go wrong with chocolate and peanut butter or a chocolate peanut buttery brownie mixture. Because I think when I was attending Western Kentucky University, I think their cafeteria, one of the desserts I loved to grab was the chocolate peanut butter brownie they would have every once in a while. I don't think it was every week or it was every other week because they had a cajillion brownie creations. They came with uh they had a red velvet brownie that was my favorite. Love those. Still would love to get some more of that. It's been a while. Would love to go back down and eat at that cafeteria again. Don't hate on college campuses cafeterias. They have good food, or I have low standards on what I want. And they also had good pizza. I'm not gonna lie. They had a good baked potato pizza that was really good. As well, if I'm gonna talk about some of the foods I liked back in college, as I'm going off topic. The baked potato pizza was good. They would use leftover mashed potatoes and top it with cheese on a pizza crust, which was really good. Way better than the baked potato pizza at a local joint here. Maybe they could get take some advice from them, possibly. I don't know. And what did I try? I I would recommend the blizzard I got, by the way. And what did I get from Taco Bell? That is the great question because I seem to be going to Taco Bell once in a blue moon at times. It had been a hot minute since the last time I had been to Taco Bell. And I tried one of the new intrending items, by the way. And it was a Cantina chicken rolled quesadilla burrito. What are my thoughts on this lovely burrito of sorts? Well, what am I gonna say? It was delicious. I hope it becomes a regular staple menu item. I would get it again if I get Taco Bell in the near future again. It will be high on my list of items to get, other than their nachos. Haven't tried the cheesy roll-up. They have a cheesy roll-up that is really, really good to try. And their bean burrito is really good. And I'm always a fan of chicken and Mexican food, by the way, or Tex Mexi food. Always been a fan of chicken that way a lot of times. And I'm a big chicken eater over pork or beef, but I do like my beef though. I like a good beef and bean burrito, though. Hands down good, and I love beef ramen. But the other thing I got, and I've been really late on this trend, by the way. People say will be like, oh my god, clutching their pearls of you were late to this trend. Yeah, I was really late. And it might have been because I was a hint judgmental towards this item, let's per se. And the item I was late to trying, by the way, that I was seeing this pop up in trends all over. People were sad when it came off the menu, and they seemed to be making it only as a limited time item for a good while when it was first released years ago. And I had been seeing it all over a foodie channel I watch on YouTube sometimes when I have a moment and want to spend more time watching YouTube. Let's per se. And they just were really catching my eye when I was watching their most current YouTube video they put out this past week. Yeah, it was this past week, and it is the nacho fries, and I am super glad I got the nacho fries because I was like afraid of what if I don't like the seasoning on the fries. Well, they did a good job with the seasoning on the fries. Hands down, I would get the those again. I think I have a good order of what I would get from Taco Bell now, because I was kind of out of sorts with what to get at Taco Bell, since they're ever changing their menu sort of. If that's the best way to word it, because at one point it was in the last year or so, maybe almost two years ago. Does that sound about right? Is almost two years ago, they decided to downsize their menu and go a more digital route. I'm hoping I am saying this correctly. And I didn't know what to order. I would get so clueless because I had an order kind of down, and then something happened, and I didn't know my order that well, and I had to retry things. I don't remember. But I've also been hearing Taco Bell has a good breakfast. Apparently, they had a waffle taco that was good, and I hear a lot of people say bring that back, is also what I hear. So this should be interesting to see what happens with Taco Bell and their menu because it's ever changing. That is a ever great debate of if we're gonna talk a restaurant that's ever changing their menu is good old Taco Bell. Like they got rid of the double decker tacos, then brought them back for a short period. I don't know if they have stayed on the menu. I don't know. But I want to dive into death into today's topic, which is an interesting one, even though I didn't have many food items to talk about. So I don't know how long this episode's gonna be. Lord only knows, after editing. But how this episode came to be idea is there was a very well-known Elvis film that came out back in 2022, if I am remembering correctly, because Lord is hard to remember days of when all these good movies come out. Um I'm thinking of the Baz Lerman Elvis film, which came out in 2023 2022. In the in two years following that film, came what today's topic is, which is the Priscilla film, which came out in 2024. Which is the film we're gonna I'm gonna be talking about is Priscilla. And it took me a while to get around to watching this film because I originally thought I was gonna go see this film in theaters. I always say I'm gonna go see a film in theaters, and I seem to never get around to watching it because it must have not been a popular film of sorts, because it did not stay in theaters as long as the Baz or Baz Lerman film did back in 2022, maybe because people were not interested in Priscilla's love story with Elvis, and it was a very big love story from what I know know now of all the information I learned between both films. And the first point I'm gonna get across is how many times did I try to watch this film? I seem to be ever starting this film a many a times. It probably took me about four times to start this film because I seem to be starting to watch it at 11 o'clock close to midnight, and I'm like, well, I need to go to bed. I'd like watched five to ten minutes and didn't really get that far until finally I just sat down and watched it. And it because I kind of started watching it on HBO Max because it went to HBO Max first, is where I first started watching it. I probably watched 15 to 20 minutes of it on Max, and then it went off Max, if I am correct. It's been a couple year process trying to watch this film. Didn't even realize it went on Netflix after left Max, might have gone somewhere else before then, but I finished it finally on Netflix. And this film, if you can't tell by the title, is about Priscilla. Priscilla Presley and how she met Elvis II leading to her divorce, is what the film is all about. And I think why I had a hard time watching this film of sorts was because of the fact of it might have been slow in the beginning, and I did not realize how slow it was going to be of a film. And I might have been watching it at a not good time a day to be watching it, especially probably the first 30 minutes of the film, because after the first 30 to 40 minutes, it starts to get good, is the best way I can explain. And the film seemed to have a dark effect to it from what I was getting. Would I watch it again? Uh probably not. I would watch the Baz Luhrmann Elvis film before I'd watch Priscilla again. I'd I thought it was a good story, but Elvis' story was way better. I think Baz Lerman should have done Priscilla and Elvis and not some other person. Yeah, what is what is the film about? It's Priscilla and Elvis' love story. And it starts off with Elvis is stationed overseas in Europe, filling his duties of having to participate in the world war during that time. You learn that Priscilla's father was in the military at the time and brought his family overseas. And Priscilla was struggling with accepting living on base in a different country. She wasn't doing well. She's a teenage girl in high school, feels so out of place. She seemed like the oddball girl of a high schooler and being a military brat as well. On top of that, from what I gained at the beginning of the film, the film always seemed to betray seemed to be betraying her. Always at the diner until she met Elvis. She was always studying at the diner that was made for the American military troops at the time. Either studying or being with her family. Very all American girl trying to survive on a military base over in Europe at the time. Until she meets Elvis. She was in ninth grade in high school. I couldn't imagine having a girl meet Elvis who was a ninth grader and dating him. I don't know how her parents didn't see red flags with that. They just went with the flow. They're like, okay, she's found somebody, maybe she'll marry him. She did, but was the relationship toxic at times? Yes. There was times I really felt bad for Priscilla because of the fact that she was so lonely, and Elvis just got to live a life. There was one scene in the film that really caught my eye was the fact of how he gave her a dog and said, This is gonna entertain you. And I'm like, so she had really no social interaction once she went and moved from her parents' house to Graceland. Yes, her parents approved her to move to Graceland. I'm trying to hit some of the main big points of the film. Yes, her parents approved of her moving to Graceland, her senior year of high school, because she was so in love with Elvis. Because there was a good year and a half before she moved to Graceland that Elvis didn't talk to her. Between her sophomore junior year, he really didn't talk to her much once he left the military. He went on with his life. I forgot to mention that, and did films. He did send her some records of his by mail, but he never really stayed in touch with her for about a year and a half until one day he decided to finally reach back out to her and they rekindled their relationship. She moved to Graceland her senior year of high school is the best answer I can give. What is something else? And as a gift for her moving there, because he wasn't actually he was a little bit at the house when she first moved in. No, I thought he was. No, he wasn't. He was away filming something while she was while she moved back to the US from living over in Europe with her parents because of her where her father was positioned in the mail military. And to make her feel welcome, he gave her a beautiful dog. She loved the dog, but she still felt lonely at times, to the point of she couldn't even go outside to play with the dog in the front yard. That was a very big deal. She got scolded for just playing in the front yard with the dog. Is that so? Elvis was hiding her real their relationship to a degree, which she did not appreciate at all. She wished they had been a hint more public, is the best. Way I could describe it. She wanted more of a public relationship, and she was not getting that public relationship at times. And she needed that public relationship and she was not getting it. She was so lonely when he was away. I'm who wouldn't be lonely when you were trapped in a house and couldn't do anything? I felt bad for her at points in the film until she had Lisa. He would up and leave her and go film and tell her, oh, you can't come out and see me because he was with another woman while he was dating Priscilla. I don't know why she didn't just up and leave him. She was too in love with him during that time and would not leave him. I would have up and left him after he was lying and saying, Oh, I'm not with this person when there's a solid chance he was. She was very loyal to him is the best way I can describe it. She took a lot from him, I will say. Elvis had a personality. He could be sweet and very kind to her for like a pretty long time and then get mad at her for no reason, and then would be apologizing to her. And he would say, Oh, I got a little bit of my mom's temper in me. That's why I did that, is what he would say to her. And I would be like, Hold up, should you be saying this to her? I'm curious, why are you apologizing because of that? You know better than to do that to Priscilla. That is so rude of you to do. And during her time in high school, the one year she spent living at Graceland, her senior year, Elvis called her one day after school or was on a weekend. I don't remember. And she I remember her saying, I just want to go work at this boutique. And he said, Well, you can't do that. You can't work at a boutique. While he got to live his life with his guy friends, and she just sat around all sad and mopey when he wasn't around, which is kind of sad. She just had a hard life living at Graceland, and people don't realize these things. Is that that was not an easy relationship after watching this film? Yes, they loved each other, and I think if Elvis had been a hint more open to her and let her work a little bit of a job in high school, I think their marriage would have been a lot healthier. And first of all, they should have not been sleeping in the same room when she was in high school. They should should have been in separate rooms for crying out loud. If he didn't want her wanting her in the bed with her, then they should have been in separate rooms. That house was big enough for her to have a separate room if she needed to be on a different schedule when going to school. But nope, they slept together the whole time she was in high school. It was he he seemed to be a very controlling person, even though people loved him. That is one thing I did learn about Elvis when watching this film was how lonely Priscilla was and how controlling Elvis was. He never liked her wearing certain things. If she she liked something, he was very controlling of what she could wear to a degree. He even chose her hair color, which was a black color, which it looked good on her, but honestly, she was way prettier as a brunette, as you would see in the film. And close to the end of her marriage, she actually went back to her natural brown color. And close, in close to the end, Priscilla was living a different life than Elvis, and that's what led to them divorcing after having their daughter Lisa together. Elvis was all excited about Lisa, but we never really saw in the film how involved of a father he was. She loved spending time with her father during the summers when he was alive. Yeah, I talked about what Priscilla's life was leading up to Harmine Elvis while she was a military rat. What what do I think about this film as a whole? It's a sad story. In that it started out as a beautiful love story between Priscilla and Elvis, the beginning years of their life. But it was a messy relationship. He was, as I said, as I said, not a great human to her. He was very controlling of her, didn't let her have a life. She could have had a life if he had let her. Because the film ends with her saying to Elvis, I want a divorce. And she says, Well, we're technically living two different lives, is what she tells him. Because of the fact of when she divorced him, he was starting to do a bunch of Vegas tours. And that is when she felt that they weren't living together. Like she wanted to go move down and be with him all the time or going back and forth from Memphis. And he was not willing to do that. She was tired of living the life of staying in Memphis and not going to visit him. Because she did go out to visit him once on a movie set during the film. And apparently the part the manager for Elvis did not like when Priscilla came down, but Priscilla spoke up for herself and she wanted to see her boyfriend. It was before they were married at the time. She went down to California to go see him. And apparently, Elvis' manager at the time, or for his whole career, did not like that Priscilla had come down. This manager made excuses into why Priscilla could never visit him on set. Because it was said very thoroughly throughout the whole entire film. Oh, you can't visit, baby, you can't visit. He was trying to create fake relationships to make Priscilla jealous and to leave him. I think was his goal. Priscilla from what I was getting. And Priscilla held on for as long as humanly possible until I guess the Vegas tours. The Vegas tours, and she was getting to an age where she was ready to live her life. And that's why she divorced him. She got married young. It was known for women back then to get married young. I think it was somewhere between late 60s, early 70s when they divorced. I don't remember off the top of my head. But it was a good love story to be told on film. As I said, I will probably not be watching this film ever again. I was just watching wanting to watch it out of curiosity to hear Priscilla's perspective after hearing Elvis' perspective. And I hope you have enjoyed today's episode. I don't know how long of an episode this is gonna be because there was a lot of interesting thoughts said about this Priscilla film, and I was trying to hash out my thoughts without spoiling the film, even though most of y'all have probably watched it by now, and I was just very, very late to the game of watching it. I was years late. I can blame that on college because I was in the middle of college when this film came out, and I was more focused on other things at the time when the film came out, and I've just now had time to sit down and watch it. I guess it has to take me a long time to get to watch certain films. I don't know. That must be how my brain works. That is okay. I do enjoy watching films. I do, I'm not as a big as a big of a movie buff as others around me who try to get me to watch films constantly. I prefer a TV show or you t you two, if you know me very well enough. So I will see you guys next time. Bye.