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Film seemed rushed. Rushes through without continuity. The actors were a poor choice. Elvis was tall at 6 foot but this much taller actor at 6’5 seems chosen for manipulative reasons to try to portray him as towering over Priscilla and deceptively make her seem younger than she was. The actress is also shorter than Priscilla by a few inches so the height discrepancy seems purposeful. An actor doesn’t have to look identical to the person if they can get the body language right. But this actor is just physically too gangly. I’m not body shaming him for his appearance as his own in real life person. He’s an attractive man. But his body type was so much different than Elvis that it was disturbing and distracting. Unlike Austin Butler, who actually looked LESS like Elvis than this guy does. Butler got the mannerisms down so well that you could forget he didn’t look like Elvis, and his body type was close enough that you could believe he was the character. But, I am a stickler for accuracy with any historical film and when you know a lot about the subject, it’s frustrating when there are many inaccuracies or a political agenda which is more about current social movements than accuracy to history. This film seems conceived to jump on the bandwagon which is attacking and demonizing white men at every turn. A lot of things are misrepresented here. Coppola apparently only used ONE source for this depiction. The source was Priscilla herself who has changed her story, backtracked, and has proved a very unreliable source even for her own history and especially for how she has variously spoken of her ex husband. Other people who were there have told very different versions of events which all corroborate each other and contradict Priscilla. Priscilla’s accounts of events have changed dramatically over the years depending on if there’s a payout involved. She’ll describe Elvis as a hero or a monster or both for the money. But I knew that going in and was willing to give it a chance. Ultimately, it was bad storytelling, bad casting, bland acting, but some pretty colors and artistic camera work. The sets made for visually appealing scenes. Which just seems more sinister when you consider the director seems to be trying to seduce her audience while she plies them with a feminist anti-male social agenda.