Controlling but loving in the early days, Elvis became more mercurial as their relationship evolved. “Over the years, he became my father, husband, and very nearly God,” Priscilla Presley writes in ‘Elvis and Me.’
Cowritten with Sandra Harmon, the book recounts the relationship from the moment a 14-year-old Priscilla met Elvis at a party to his death in 1977, four years after their divorce. The book is full of eye-popping personal details, from some of her and Elvis’s nicknames for each other to their bedroom exploits involving role-play and Polaroids. It also depicts a version of Elvis very different from the wide-eyed, well-intentioned boy in Luhrmann’s film.
The daughter of an Air Force captain, Priscilla was living with her family in Wiesbaden, Germany, at the same time that Elvis, the biggest rock star in the world, was stationed in Germany as part of his military deployment. The ninth grader was invited to a party at Elvis’s house by one of his friends, who persuaded her parents to let her attend by promising she would be chaperoned.
Controlling but loving in the early days, Elvis becomes more mercurial as their relationship evolved, and Priscilla writes about her decision to divorce him as, essentially, becoming her own person for the first time. “He taught me everything: how to dress, how to walk, how to apply makeup and wear my hair, how to behave, how to return love—his way,” she writes early in the book. “Over the years, he became my father, husband, and very nearly God.
By the time she was writing the book in 1985 Priscilla seemed aware of how this controlling, deeply power imbalanced relationship was damaging to her. But the story would undeniably be received differently today, given current conversations about consent and grooming minors. Which is one of many reasons to be fascinated by the arrival of Coppola’swhich will debut at the Venice Film Festival and arrive in theaters from A24 in October.
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