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This is a Medallion of
Life for you, Elvis.
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From the Sioux... Sioux Nation.
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Come on, Chris! Come on.
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Put it in neutral,
pull on the brake.
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Pull the foot brake.
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Okay, Etienne, you have to get
the shot across the street.
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That's an establishing first.
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The mic? Mic?
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If you could have
anything in the world,
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what would it be?
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Yeah, well, it's-it's
a logical question.
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Uh-huh.
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Uh,
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I suppose the most important thing
in a person's life is happiness.
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I mean, not worldly things.
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Gee Whiz, I mean you can have
cars, you can have money,
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you can have a fabulous home,
you can have everything.
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If you're not happy,
what have you got?
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Oh, man.
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The King sat in this car. Hmm.
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It's an odd feeling.
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Now, this is amazing.
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The King's Rolls.
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Oh, this is wonderful.
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- Where are you going to be?
- I'll be up there, driving you.
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Go and sit on the far right.
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Are we okay?
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I-I've never seen more technical
adjustments in my life.
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- I would love a glass of wine.
- We'll get you water.
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- Oh. Oh, water? Oh.
- Wine.
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Where the hell's the bar?
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Aha!
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We didn't really
drink and drive.
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We want Elvis! We want Elvis!
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We want Elvis! We want Elvis!
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You have no idea of how hard
he hit American culture.
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I mean, it was just one
day there was not Elvis,
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and the next day
there was Elvis.
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Mike Tyson, somebody said,
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“He hits you so hard it
changes the way you taste.”
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America never tasted
the same after he hit.
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♪ A little less conversation
A little more action ♪
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I'm confessing, I
do not understand
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the continuing mythic
fascination with Elvis.
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You remember the
great Chuck D line,
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“Elvis was a hero to most, but
he never meant shit to me.”
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This is all beyond Elvis.
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He was the voice of the country,
at its best and at its worst.
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- ♪ Come on, come on ♪
- ♪ Come on, come on ♪
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When you see what has
happened with our country,
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I think it's a perfect analogy.
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Elvis has left the building.
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He left the stage and went out
the back with a policeman
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and he is now gone
from the building.
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What is wrong with America?
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I know a lot of people are
upset about What's going on.
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I'm ashamed of my country,
I'm ashamed of my president
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The world just doesn't know
where America is headed.
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Where does the country
go from here?
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"♪ I got the blues
Like midnight ♪"
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♪ Moon shining bright as day ♪
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♪ I got the blues
Like midnight ♪
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♪ Moonshining bright as day ♪
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♪ And I wish a tornado ♪
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♪ Come blow my blues away “
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Hey, y'all. My name's Emi Sunshine,
and this is my band The Rain.
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On bass is my daddy Randall. On
drums over there is my uncle Bobby.
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And on mandolin is
my brother John.
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Stop it!
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You're going to mess my hair up.
Oh, you have messed it up.
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Yeah, he has. Yeah, you have.
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I feel like Elvis Presley left
a spirit that inspires me,
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and I've been singing ever
since I was about four.
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How does it feel to be
fight up there on top?
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Feels pretty good.
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It all happened so
fast, so I don't know.
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I'm afraid to wake up. Afraid it's
all going to be a dream, you know.
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The one-percent get richer
and richer and richer.
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We are one year out
from the elections,
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Americans will be increasingly
drilling down on this.
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The split between rural
and urban voters.
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The urban ones tend to be more democratic,
the rural ones more Republican.
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♪ Ride, ride, ride ♪
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♪ Just beyond the
mountain lies a city ♪
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It was the classic
American success story
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Poor boy from a small
town rises to the top.
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But to the people of
Tupelo, Mississippi,
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Elvis was more than
just a popular singer.
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He was representative
of the American dream.
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Folks come from all over the world
to see Elvis and his beginnings.
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Hello, I'm Terri. Welcome
to the birthplace.
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Elvis was born in this house. He
was born January 8th of 1935.
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♪ Will I always be A
lonesome cowboy
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I've been here most my life.
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My grandparents lived close to
where Elvis's birthplace is at.
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And, uh, some of my family actually
sharecropped with Elvis's family.
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Elvis was a champion
for the working man.
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My dad was a truck driver for many years.
He worked long hard days.
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So, you know, I kinda felt that
connectivity about Elvis growing up.
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Here we go, man. Hey!
Right on in there.
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Elvis is a big
moneymaker for Tupelo.
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♪ One, two, three, four 4“
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The whole town
revolves around Elvis.
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You know, I've got
college behind me.
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I've got trade schools behind me.
I've...
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But I can't seem to get a
job here in Mississippi.
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I mean, I work at The Birthplace,
but I can't live off of it.
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If I didn't have my military...
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I'd-I'd-...
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I'd be on the streets!
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The only thing I've
felt is happiness.
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That things have
gotten better for me.
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That God has blessed me,
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and that he's given me a lot of things
that a lot of people would like to have.
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I mean, I wish that everybody
could have luxuries in life.
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Herman Melville once wrote
very cryptic lines.
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He said, “ The Declaration of
Independence makes a difference.”
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Life, liberty, and happiness.
Happiness?
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No one ever talked about happiness
as an actual component of life.
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That is our right.
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So Elvis Presley acts out
those lines in our own time.
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And if we shall succeed
as by God's help we Will,
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America will point the way
towards a better world.
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The American experiment,
which begins in 1776,
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is a remarkable piece of political
invention and imagination.
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The American message
to the world was,
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“Monarchs, be worried.
Aristocrats, be worried.
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A new day may be
dawning in the world.”
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It was shocking to
people, and inspiring.
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Give this man... He's never
had a fried shrimp po' boy.
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All right.
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So let's do one with
some real love in that.
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Okay.
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If you look what the promise
of America was 40 years ago,
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and what America's
delivered today...
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Pretty stunning disparity.
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If you look what's happened
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to that demographic that Elvis
would've been a part of
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a guy could come out of high
school, get a job at the plant,
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stay there for 30, 40 years,
send your kids to college.
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That was the American dream.
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It's doesn't exist anymore.
It's gone.
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If you ask me, “How did
Elvis become Elvis?”
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He became Elvis
because he was Elvis.
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I mean, because he was
this particular person.
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He was the only child of two
fairly solitary people.
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And they were like a unit who
traveled together throughout life.
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The family lost their
house in East Tupelo.
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They moved to Downtown Tupelo,
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to one of the three houses
designated for white occupancy.
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The rest of the
neighborhood is black.
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Hello. I'm wondering if
you can help me out.
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I was trying to find the house
that Elvis Presley lived in?
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Well, it's not on this side.
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He had a house on this street?
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- Who?
- Elvis.
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He ain't got no house over here.
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I was hoping, so...
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Nah, he had no house over here.
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How are you doing? I'm trying to
find where Elvis Presley lived.
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Uh, I'm not sure
exactly about that.
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That's the owner right there.
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The lady there in the gray shirt.
That's all I know.
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I don't know much about it, but I
know he stayed there a couple weeks
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while his dad was incarcerated.
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- Yeah?
- That's the story?
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Want to check out
the Rolls Royce?
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I've never seen 3 Rolls Royce.
So here I go.
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Oh, gosh!
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So you live in Elvis's house?
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But we didn't know
it till years ago.
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His mama and him lived there
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when his daddy went to prison
for writing a bad check.
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- Elvis? Elvis.
- Elvis.
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That's all Tupelo
has thrived on.
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That's the only thing
keeping it alive.
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We have no say.
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We have a neighborhood
meeting, what, once a month?
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But you know they don't talk
about us or our problems.
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No, we went to one meeting.
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It's always the rich
people over there.
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They look down on you
like you're low class.
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But I think people hear Tupelo
and they think Elvis Presley.
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They think the American dream.
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What is the American
dream to you?
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They say that anybody can
make it here in America
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if you just work hard, you
can be what you want to be.
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What do you think of that?
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To me American dream is:
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peace, harmony, love each other.
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- Health.
- Health.
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And have your family.
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Okay. So how's it going today?
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Like shit.
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Like shit!
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- Why? Because
it's gone to hell.
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Tupelo's gone to hell.
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We are thinking er a
ridge of high pressure
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that is bringing some dangerous
heat for the start of the weekend.
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Look at all of those
903 on the map.
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♪ And then I would “
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Leo “Bud” Welch and Elvis Presley
are practically the same age,
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and they're both from the
hills of Mississippi.
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I am Vince Varnado.
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A retired first sergeant of the
United States Army after 29 years.
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I was conceived at the Mississippi
State Penitentiary at Parchman.
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Parchman Farm. There's been many
songs written about that place.
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♪ Oh, well
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You know, here's Elvis.
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His father forges a check,
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and is sent to Parchman Prison,
when he's a little boy.
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Elvis Presley's father was
an inmate at Parchman
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and so was my father.
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It was basically like
being on a plantation.
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♪ I'm going alone
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You can sing about the blues,
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but if you don't live and
experience the blues,
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the music comes from a
different depth of your soul.
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♪ I'm going alone “
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♪ Alone, darling
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I heard Elvis Presley years
and years ago, you know.
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He had a style of his own. And I
always have a style of my own.
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♪ Going to lay my
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The blues ain't nothing
but a feeling.
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Music is music in my books.
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But the blues ain't nothing
but a good man feeling bad.
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♪ I'm going home with Jesus
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I get lonesome sometimes.
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I get lonesome right in
the middle of a crowd.
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I was an only child but
maybe my kids won't be.
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Maybe someday I'm going to have
a home and a family of my own
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and I'm not going
to budge from it.
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♪ Said I got the blues ♪
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Elvis moved to Memphis.
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There's a lot of bullshit
going on in Memphis.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Was killed in Memphis.
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Trying to say, you
know, “I am a man.”
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♪ Memphis City blues 4“
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♪ Light up the screen Watch
me light up the room
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♪ Watch me light up the mic
Fat boy be the truth ♪
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At a time when racial tension
in America is running high
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voters in Memphis, Tennessee are
heading out to cast their ballots.
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Candidates for Memphis
mayor turn it up a notch.
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Need your vote! I need your vote.
Need your vote.
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The problem with
Memphis is poverty.
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Where 29 percent of our residents
are below the poverty line.
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Everybody's talking about
the same thing: crime.
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Y'all in the middle of the hood right now
in South Memphis. Everybody's got it.
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Memphis was significant
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because it was the distribution capital
of the United States of America.
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It's the middle of the North,
South, East, and West.
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When Elvis came to Memphis,
Memphis was the place.
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It was where all the
traditions came together.
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Walking down the street, Elvis
could hear every type of music.
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Black, white...
it didn't matter.
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Memphis represented the
confluence of all these cultures.
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♪ I got the Memphis
City blues “
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♪ Ooh, I could feel it
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- I need your vote now.
- What the hell's going on?
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Come on. They're coming after me.
Hey!
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- Yeah!
- Thank you, man.
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I like to call Memphis
the city of three Kings.
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BB. King, the King of the
blues, gave us soul.
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Elvis, the King
of rock and roll.
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And Dr. King, who gave
this nation a conscience.
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And he's allowed me to go up to the
mountain. And I've looked over.
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And I've seen the promised land.
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I may not get there with you.
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But I want you to know tonight,
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that we, as a people, will
gel to the promised land!
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♪ Take my hand ♪
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♪ Lead me on
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♪ And let me stand
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My name is Earlice Taylor. I
live in Memphis, Tennessee,
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and Elvis Presley lived in the
project across the street.
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We used to see Elvis up there, but he
was just like one of us, you know.
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Nobody really knew
much about Elvis then.
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He was very young.
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I think probably what
drew him to the church
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was Reverend W. Herbert Brewster,
who would broadcast from the radio.
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We are living in a sick world...
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And a lot of white
people would come
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because they knew about him from
being on Dewey Phillips, WHBQ.
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That's the first white person
that played black music.
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Just about everyone agrees.
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The American educational
system is broken.
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Let's not treat this like
a line item in a budget.
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Let's treat it like its
children and their future.
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This high school wouldn't be
here, if Elvis hadn't gone here.
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It would have been
torn down by now.
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See, I went to this school,
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and I was president of
senior class the last year.
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We graduated with Elvis in '53.
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I gotta take a leak.
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Back in the day, they had
a smoking room here.
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Remember that song,
“Smoking in the Boys Room”?
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Yeah. Did you guys
ever smoke in here?
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And here was a guy from our old
high school, that was poor as dirt,
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didn't have a pot to piss in, but
man he could sing his ass off.
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Elvis, do you write most of
the lyrics for your tunes?
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No, I've never written a song.
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I've never written a song.
I wish I could.
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I did good to get out of
high school, you know.
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My name is Jerry Schilling.
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Elvis Presley was
my best friend.
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I don't know if I was his best
friend, but I know some days I was.
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I was really into
Brando and James Dean.
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And this guy, he had that...
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Charisma is not even
the right word.
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He was just totally different.
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Oh, that's Elvis's? That's
actually his Rolls Royce?
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- Damn straight, it is.
- Oh, my God.
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1963.
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We're going to get to
East Trigg Church.
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Which is where Elvis used to
go and sit down on the floor
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and listen and look
up to the music.
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Right here is the church.
Right here.
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I sang at this church from
when I was four years old.
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Elvis would come at
eleven o'clock at night.
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He would be able to see all of these
great singers that he could learn from,
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because he really couldn't sing
when he first got started.
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♪ You thought I was
Worth saving
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Yes!
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♪ So you came And
changed my life
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♪ You thought I was
Worth keeping
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So blues and gospel are
essentially the same thing.
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They are. Just different lyrics.
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Soul music is the
marriage of those two.
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One, two.
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Yeah!
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♪ Everything I've got ♪
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♪ I couldn't get it, aah ♪
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Memphis is the international
beacon of soul music,
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and Stax is literally
the center of it all.
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♪ Chain, chain, chain ♪
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Here, at the music academy,
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we're creating the next
generation of soul communicators.
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Got the harmonies? ♪
Chain, chain, chain ♪
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- ♪ For five long years
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♪ I thought you were my man ♪
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All right, all right, all right.
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♪ But I found out ♪
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♪ I'm just a link
In your chain ♪
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I think the story of Elvis
is a very interesting story.
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Elvis was the guy that was coming
up here, from South Memphis,
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and what he was picking up on
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was things that he didn't get
in his own community, right?
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♪ You treated me mean
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ You treated me cruel
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♪ Chain, chain, chain “
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♪ Chain, chain “
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♪ Chain, chain, chain “
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♪ Chain of fools ♪
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The problem with equal
fights for different people
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exists all over our nation.
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It is a problem in constant
change and in constant solution.
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Our national strength lies in our
capacity to solve these problems.
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When you talk about
the American dream,
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Elvis Presley is born into
an American nightmare.
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♪ Southern frees ♪
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♪ Bear a strange fruit 4“
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I think it's very difficult
for people to accept
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that we went from a
settler-colonial slave state
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to an apartheid regime.
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There's no American dream
under segregation.
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Growing up in Memphis...
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Everything from the schools
to entertainment...
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Everything was segregated.
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We'd go down to Beale Street, if we could
get in, because it'd be black shows,
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and then every once in a while
they'd have a white show.
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The obscenity and vulgarity
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is obviously a means by which
the white man and his children
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can be driven to the
level with the nigger.
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I had found it.
Elvis had found it.
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But it was forbidden music.
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00:22:39,650 --> 00:22:41,982
You know, the United
States of America
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has always dealt with anything other
than being pure white with fear.
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And this is woven into the fabric of
philosophy and ideology and belief.
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When you start thinking at the movies
of that time, like King Kong...
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I mean, come on, man. There
was no hidden message there.
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Going to uphold white
race against the savages.
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It's an interesting country.
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It inflicts pain on black people,
denies it inflicts the pain,
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but then benefits from the soulful
cry that arises from the pain.
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00:23:15,686 --> 00:23:23,650
♪ For the tree to drop
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I drove cross-country with my
friends once when I was about 21,
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and we passed through Graceland.
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00:23:33,495 --> 00:23:38,160
I wasn't really aware of the young man
Elvis or what made Elvis incendiary.
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He was all fat Elvis.
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I had a friend who
loves, loves music.
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00:23:42,922 --> 00:23:44,504
And I was Making
fun of Elvis once.
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00:23:44,590 --> 00:23:46,456
And he said, “Hey, you
can't make fun of Elvis.
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Have you listened
to Sun Records?”
395
00:23:48,677 --> 00:23:51,438
Elvis, boy, tell us, how did you
get to make your first record?
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00:23:51,513 --> 00:23:52,908
Well, I went into Sun Records
397
00:23:52,932 --> 00:23:54,972
and there was a guy in there
that took down my name,
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00:23:55,017 --> 00:23:56,377
told me he might
call me sometime.
399
00:23:56,435 --> 00:23:58,235
So he called me about a
year and a half later.
400
00:23:58,312 --> 00:24:00,849
Sun Records, of course, was
home of the great Sam Phillips.
401
00:24:02,608 --> 00:24:04,849
Sam had had a vision
of rock and roll
402
00:24:04,944 --> 00:24:07,902
long before he opened
his recording studio.
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00:24:07,988 --> 00:24:11,447
He had had a vision of the
power, the emotional depth,
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00:24:11,533 --> 00:24:13,649
the sweep of African-American
music overcoming,
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00:24:13,744 --> 00:24:15,860
breaKing down the
walls of segregation.
406
00:24:15,955 --> 00:24:18,117
He'd thought this
music was so powerful
407
00:24:18,207 --> 00:24:21,950
that a mainstream audience would
never be able to resist it.
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00:24:22,044 --> 00:24:25,127
He saw that in Howlin' Wolf, saw it in 8.8.
King's music,
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00:24:25,214 --> 00:24:26,625
but he could not cross them over
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00:24:26,715 --> 00:24:30,424
and he believed the only way he was
going to cross this music over
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00:24:30,511 --> 00:24:33,424
was if he could find a white
man with a negro sound,
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and more important,
the negro feel.
413
00:24:35,140 --> 00:24:37,472
And that's what he
found in Elvis.
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00:24:38,936 --> 00:24:40,538
- How are ya?
- Ethan, how you doing, man?
415
00:24:40,562 --> 00:24:42,519
My dad was never
about the money.
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00:24:42,606 --> 00:24:44,017
Of course he had a family
417
00:24:44,108 --> 00:24:46,816
and he had a family to feed,
and a wife, two kids.
418
00:24:46,902 --> 00:24:48,768
But he was always
about the music.
419
00:24:48,862 --> 00:24:50,603
I brought you some background.
420
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Yeah? Who's gonna play it?
421
00:24:52,616 --> 00:24:54,296
Elvis is working
as an electrician.
422
00:24:54,368 --> 00:24:55,654
He's graduated high school.
423
00:24:55,744 --> 00:24:58,782
He's skinny, broke, doesn't
know what to do with his life.
424
00:24:58,872 --> 00:25:00,954
But he does love to
sing and play music
425
00:25:01,041 --> 00:25:03,999
and he has this fantasy that he's
gonna get discovered by Sam Phillips.
426
00:25:06,588 --> 00:25:09,125
Okay. I'm ready as I'll ever be.
427
00:25:09,216 --> 00:25:10,832
Stand by, please.
428
00:25:10,926 --> 00:25:13,008
He gets an audition
for Sam Phillips.
429
00:25:13,095 --> 00:25:15,055
Is this interesting? Is
this too, uh, too... Okay.
430
00:25:16,557 --> 00:25:20,095
- Oh, shit. Is he pulling us over?
- No. It's somebody else.
431
00:25:20,185 --> 00:25:22,722
No, I don't think
it is our guys.
432
00:25:22,813 --> 00:25:25,851
Anyway, he comes over.
They give him a chance.
433
00:25:25,941 --> 00:25:28,228
And they spend all night
laying down these tracks.
434
00:25:28,318 --> 00:25:30,505
Sam Phillips thinks he's just
another bullshit white kid
435
00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:31,769
who wants to be Frank Sinatra.
436
00:25:31,864 --> 00:25:34,401
Elvis starts joking around
437
00:25:34,491 --> 00:25:36,698
and starts playing what
he really wants to play,
438
00:25:36,785 --> 00:25:38,275
which is Big Boy
Crudup's song...
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00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:40,452
♪ That's all right, Mama “
440
00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:42,530
♪ That's all right for you “
441
00:25:42,624 --> 00:25:45,491
Phillips stops. “How do
you know that song?”
442
00:25:45,586 --> 00:25:47,647
And Elvis, “Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.
Am I playing too loud?”
443
00:25:47,671 --> 00:25:49,899
“You're not playing too loud.
How do you know that song?”
444
00:25:49,923 --> 00:25:53,257
And Elvis is like, “Well, that's
the music I really like.”
445
00:25:53,343 --> 00:25:56,131
And Sam looks at him and says,
“That's the music I like too.”
446
00:26:02,478 --> 00:26:05,095
♪ Well, that's all
right, Mama “
447
00:26:05,189 --> 00:26:07,396
♪ That's all right for you “
448
00:26:07,483 --> 00:26:11,101
That's when the stars collided. You
know, right there in that one song.
449
00:26:11,195 --> 00:26:13,653
♪ That's all fight ♪
450
00:26:13,739 --> 00:26:16,231
♪ That's all right
451
00:26:16,325 --> 00:26:18,737
"♪ That's all right now, Mama ♪"
452
00:26:18,827 --> 00:26:21,615
Elvis was different. He
had a different voice.
453
00:26:21,705 --> 00:26:23,742
He puts some feeling into it.
454
00:26:23,832 --> 00:26:26,915
From his body. We all felt it.
455
00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:31,538
My dad brought that cut home
to his family and said,
456
00:26:31,632 --> 00:26:34,294
“I think I found what
I've been searching for.”
457
00:26:34,384 --> 00:26:36,384
So your mom was the
first one to hear that?
458
00:26:36,470 --> 00:26:38,131
And my brother and
I were there too.
459
00:26:38,222 --> 00:26:39,758
Because he gathered
everybody around.
460
00:26:39,848 --> 00:26:42,135
That's so cool. That is so cool.
461
00:26:43,727 --> 00:26:46,970
Elvis's first record comes
out July 20th of '54.
462
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It's a huge hit.
463
00:26:48,690 --> 00:26:51,148
The record goes on to sell
probably a 100,000 copies or more.
464
00:26:51,235 --> 00:26:54,444
“Ms“ ...one thousand screaming hysterical
youngsters, predominantly teenagers,
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00:26:54,530 --> 00:26:57,238
worship this gentleman, Elvis
Presley and his rock and roll.
466
00:26:57,324 --> 00:26:59,986
This is hero worship of the highest
order and to the Nth degree.
467
00:27:00,077 --> 00:27:03,035
There was a time when I was growing
up where you turn on a movie,
468
00:27:03,122 --> 00:27:04,954
and you'll get an Elvis movie.
469
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,499
And you turn on the radio you get
an Elvis song. 80 it was just like
470
00:27:08,585 --> 00:27:13,330
he was just the right person to
sell and market to a white country.
471
00:27:13,423 --> 00:27:14,709
♪ Fight the power
472
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,666
♪ Fight the power
fight the power ♪
473
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,127
♪ Fight the power
474
00:27:22,391 --> 00:27:23,677
♪ Uh ♪
475
00:27:23,767 --> 00:27:25,383
♪ Come on and get down ♪
476
00:27:26,937 --> 00:27:30,396
It's important to recognize
that Elvis as hero
477
00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:33,770
does not rest comfortably in
the mouths of all Americans.
478
00:27:33,861 --> 00:27:35,647
♪ Elvis was a hero to most ♪
479
00:27:35,737 --> 00:27:37,819
♪ But he never meant
shit To me, you see ♪
480
00:27:37,906 --> 00:27:40,443
♪ Straight up racist that
sucker was Simple and plain ♪
481
00:27:40,534 --> 00:27:42,696
♪ Motherfuck him
And John Wayne ♪
482
00:27:42,786 --> 00:27:45,574
“Elvis was a hero to most but
he never meant shit to me.
483
00:27:45,664 --> 00:27:50,374
Straight up racist, that sucker was simple
and plain. Motherfuck him and John Wayne.”
484
00:27:50,460 --> 00:27:54,920
In the song “Fight the Power,” when I
talked about “Elvis was a hero to most,”
485
00:27:55,007 --> 00:27:56,247
it was absolutely true.
486
00:27:56,341 --> 00:27:58,958
He was called the King
of rock and roll.
487
00:27:59,052 --> 00:28:01,965
Which I took offense to because
488
00:28:02,055 --> 00:28:06,219
he wasn't no more of a
King than Little Richard,
489
00:28:06,310 --> 00:28:08,768
no more of a King than Bo
Diddley, or Chuck Berry.
490
00:28:11,815 --> 00:28:15,558
♪ I just want to let Everybody
know all about it
491
00:28:15,652 --> 00:28:17,814
So who's anointing him King?
492
00:28:17,905 --> 00:28:22,069
♪ You ain't nothin'
But a hound dog
493
00:28:22,159 --> 00:28:25,447
♪ Been snoopin' round the door ♪
494
00:28:25,537 --> 00:28:28,780
♪ You ain't nothing
But a hound dog ♪
495
00:28:28,874 --> 00:28:32,788
There's a lot of talk nowadays
about cultural appropriation.
496
00:28:32,878 --> 00:28:35,711
Listen, the entire American
experience is cultural appropriation.
497
00:28:35,797 --> 00:28:39,461
♪ But I ain't gonna
feed You no more ♪
498
00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:42,088
Look at “Hound Dog.” It's
an interesting story.
499
00:28:42,179 --> 00:28:44,341
Leiber and Stoller, two
Jewish songwriters
500
00:28:44,431 --> 00:28:47,924
are in love with RandB, black culture,
and they wrote “Hound Dog.”
501
00:28:48,018 --> 00:28:50,134
They actually wrote it
for Big Mama Thornton.
502
00:28:50,229 --> 00:28:53,312
And she did not have a hit with a
very great version of “Hound Dog.”
503
00:28:53,398 --> 00:28:56,857
It later went to Elvis Presley, who
loved it, and did his own version.
504
00:28:56,944 --> 00:28:59,436
♪ Well, they said You
was high-classed
505
00:28:59,529 --> 00:29:01,896
♪ Well, that was just a lie “
506
00:29:01,990 --> 00:29:04,527
♪ Yeah, they said you
were high-classed ♪
507
00:29:04,618 --> 00:29:06,029
♪ Well, that was just a lie
508
00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:10,158
It became one of his truly
famous and defining hits.
509
00:29:10,249 --> 00:29:13,833
♪ Well, you ain't never
Caught a rabbit “
510
00:29:13,919 --> 00:29:16,456
♪ You ain't no friend of mine “
511
00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:23,292
My father was born
in Memphis in 1944,
512
00:29:23,387 --> 00:29:27,255
and there's probably nobody he
hated more than Elvis Presley.
513
00:29:27,349 --> 00:29:32,185
As a black kid seeing a white man
take black music and become famous
514
00:29:32,271 --> 00:29:36,481
and not do anything for black
people was a horrible offense.
515
00:29:36,566 --> 00:29:39,183
I think it's very hard
to express sometimes,
516
00:29:39,278 --> 00:29:43,647
the frustration that black people feel,
having given so much to the culture.
517
00:29:43,740 --> 00:29:45,981
And that great value,
518
00:29:46,076 --> 00:29:50,035
which really helps to define America,
ultimately benefiting others.
519
00:29:50,122 --> 00:29:52,739
What is your response to people
520
00:29:52,833 --> 00:29:55,450
who say that Elvis stole
black people's music?
521
00:29:55,544 --> 00:29:57,160
They're not listening
to the records.
522
00:29:59,047 --> 00:30:02,506
Yeah, there's Arthur Crudup and there's
Lowell Fulson and other guys he dug,
523
00:30:02,592 --> 00:30:05,926
and he was listening to black radio, but
there's also Blue Moon of Kentucky,
524
00:30:06,013 --> 00:30:07,799
there's Bill Monroe,
there's Hank Williams.
525
00:30:07,889 --> 00:30:09,254
I mean, you can hear it all.
526
00:30:09,349 --> 00:30:11,716
This guy was on a fucking journey
that we all need to be on.
527
00:30:11,810 --> 00:30:15,769
Why do you care so much about
rescuing Elvis Presley from the...
528
00:30:15,856 --> 00:30:19,975
From the clear charge that he
was a racial appropriator?
529
00:30:20,068 --> 00:30:22,275
You are desperate
to rescue this man.
530
00:30:22,362 --> 00:30:26,356
My conversation never was just, “This
white dude stole black music.”
531
00:30:26,450 --> 00:30:28,817
I think Sam Phillips
was a business guy
532
00:30:28,910 --> 00:30:30,830
who tried to sell those
records with black folks,
533
00:30:30,871 --> 00:30:32,737
could not get them across.
534
00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:36,540
Found a guy, you know, that's able to
sell a black sound with a white face.
535
00:30:36,626 --> 00:30:38,333
He knew what to sell to America.
536
00:30:38,420 --> 00:30:40,502
Is that in and of
itself a problem?
537
00:30:40,589 --> 00:30:42,000
No, I don't think so.
538
00:30:42,090 --> 00:30:45,549
I think culture is culture.
Culture's to be shared.
539
00:30:45,635 --> 00:30:48,923
You know, you see a black
person playing classical piano,
540
00:30:49,014 --> 00:30:54,134
you can't say, you know, because
he doesn't have “German roots,”
541
00:30:54,227 --> 00:30:57,936
you know, that he can't play that
classical piano good as anybody else.
542
00:30:58,023 --> 00:31:00,811
If a person is able to do
the twisted stanky leg,
543
00:31:00,901 --> 00:31:04,394
and it happens to be Justin
Timberlake, I think it's cool.
544
00:31:04,488 --> 00:31:06,070
I always felt that way.
545
00:31:06,156 --> 00:31:09,524
Well, shit, the Beastie Boys brought
Public Enemy in so, I mean, damn.
546
00:31:12,829 --> 00:31:16,413
“Ms“ Ordinary Americans, they're
the ones who get laid off first.
547
00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:19,913
More Americans than ever are dealing
with earning minimum wage or less.
548
00:31:20,003 --> 00:31:23,462
Businessman Donald Trump has declared
he is running for president.
549
00:31:23,548 --> 00:31:25,276
This didn't just
materialize over night.
550
00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:27,758
Is this the America
you know and love?
551
00:31:27,844 --> 00:31:33,180
♪ Heading down to Nashville ♪
552
00:31:33,266 --> 00:31:38,682
♪ With my uke by my side ♪“
553
00:31:38,772 --> 00:31:42,481
♪ One hundred dollars
In my boot now ♪
554
00:31:42,567 --> 00:31:44,808
There was a moment
when it broke.
555
00:31:44,903 --> 00:31:49,568
When Elvis saw a bigger stage. When
he knew he wasn't going to go back.
556
00:31:49,658 --> 00:31:51,649
♪ Johnny, June, and Jesus
557
00:31:51,743 --> 00:31:54,280
He didn't want to
remain a regional star.
558
00:31:54,371 --> 00:31:56,282
He didn't want to
remain just a singer.
559
00:31:56,373 --> 00:31:58,330
He wanted to conquer the world.
560
00:32:00,669 --> 00:32:05,505
♪ Johnny, June, and Jesus ♪
561
00:32:05,590 --> 00:32:11,757
♪ And I'm about to
Make my stand ♪
562
00:32:13,098 --> 00:32:14,759
“was“ Howdy, friends.
563
00:32:14,850 --> 00:32:18,468
Welcome to the capital of country
music throughout the world!
564
00:32:18,562 --> 00:32:21,054
Let her go, boys!
565
00:32:26,361 --> 00:32:30,821
♪ Old King is gone But
he's not forgotten ♪
566
00:32:30,907 --> 00:32:33,569
♪ This is the story
Of Johnny Rotten ♪
567
00:32:37,664 --> 00:32:40,406
Oh. man.
568
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,450
Mmm.
569
00:32:58,310 --> 00:33:00,221
Oh, shit.
570
00:33:00,312 --> 00:33:02,144
Sorry.
571
00:33:02,230 --> 00:33:04,221
Was it something I said?
572
00:33:04,316 --> 00:33:08,355
No, it was just sitting in this
car, and just getting the whole...
573
00:33:08,445 --> 00:33:10,686
Getting a sense, you know.
574
00:33:13,825 --> 00:33:18,114
Just how... Just how trapped he
was, you know? Just how trapped.
575
00:33:20,540 --> 00:33:24,078
He was just a poor mama's
boy from Mississippi.
576
00:33:25,879 --> 00:33:28,291
And then, you know, he got
caught up with a carnival guy.
577
00:33:30,258 --> 00:33:34,502
Enter the Colonel. Here's this
guy, the ultimate Carny Barker.
578
00:33:36,264 --> 00:33:40,098
“Come on in, come on in. You're gonna
see things you've never seen before.”
579
00:33:40,185 --> 00:33:42,768
Promises Elvis the world.
580
00:33:42,854 --> 00:33:47,098
“If you turn your life over to
me, I'm gonna make you a star.”
581
00:33:47,192 --> 00:33:51,527
This is the temptation
of Christ by the devil.
582
00:33:51,613 --> 00:33:53,174
I don't know anything about
getting bookings, or...
583
00:33:53,198 --> 00:33:55,405
Let me worry about
the business end.
584
00:33:55,492 --> 00:33:57,733
Elvis makes that
Faustian bargain.
585
00:33:57,827 --> 00:34:00,034
And the Colonel,
he did all that.
586
00:34:00,121 --> 00:34:04,285
I made a contract for us. We split
everything right down the middle.
587
00:34:04,376 --> 00:34:07,914
He was the first 50-percent
manager I've ever heard of.
588
00:34:08,004 --> 00:34:10,541
He took 50 percent
instead of 15.
589
00:34:11,675 --> 00:34:13,666
But who is Colonel Tom Parker?
590
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,842
I've heard that that's
not his real name.
591
00:34:15,929 --> 00:34:17,419
His name was Andreas van Kuijk.
592
00:34:17,514 --> 00:34:20,632
He was an arrogant,
narcissistic son of a bitch.
593
00:34:20,725 --> 00:34:22,119
I've heard that he
killed somebody.
594
00:34:22,143 --> 00:34:24,601
He was the greatest
promoter of all time.
595
00:34:26,439 --> 00:34:31,275
Colonel negotiated a deal whereby
RCA paid $35,000 to Sam Phillips.
596
00:34:31,361 --> 00:34:34,695
It was the highest price ever
paid for an individual artist.
597
00:34:37,659 --> 00:34:40,447
♪ Now the wind Don't
have to hurry ♪
598
00:34:40,537 --> 00:34:43,996
♪ Blowin' across my bones ♪
599
00:34:44,082 --> 00:34:48,121
♪ Rollin' up the pastures ♪
600
00:34:48,211 --> 00:34:50,452
♪ Smoothin' out the stones ♪
601
00:34:50,547 --> 00:34:54,006
Rock and roll just meant the world
to so many of us, you know.
602
00:34:54,092 --> 00:34:57,881
Our narrative as a country is
one of bloodshed and violence
603
00:34:57,971 --> 00:34:59,757
and stolen land and slavery.
604
00:34:59,848 --> 00:35:04,763
And I think the music carried us into
a time of revolutionary changes.
605
00:35:04,853 --> 00:35:07,515
♪ Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na ♪
606
00:35:07,606 --> 00:35:10,376
so rock and roll is a music
for teenagers, you would say?
607
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,000
Rock and roll. It's just a music.
608
00:35:12,068 --> 00:35:14,025
It's a craze, but it's
a very good craze.
609
00:35:14,112 --> 00:35:17,133
People have been saying that it's
contributing to juvenile delinquency
610
00:35:17,157 --> 00:35:21,742
I do not agree-Not only because I
do it but because it's untrue.
611
00:35:21,828 --> 00:35:24,820
♪ Well, just take a walk
Down Lonely Street ♪
612
00:35:24,914 --> 00:35:26,655
♪ To Heartbreak Hotel ♪
613
00:35:26,750 --> 00:35:30,288
♪ Where I'll be Where I
get so lonely, baby ♪
614
00:35:30,378 --> 00:35:33,120
When Elvis started recording
here in Nashville,
615
00:35:33,214 --> 00:35:38,584
he made most of his biggest
records right there in Studio B.
616
00:35:38,678 --> 00:35:41,511
You know, like any artist, he
went from an independent label
617
00:35:41,598 --> 00:35:46,843
Making raw, rough, and ready records to
a major label Making slicker records.
618
00:35:46,936 --> 00:35:49,098
And so the records got slicker
the moment he got here.
619
00:35:49,189 --> 00:35:50,020
Yeah.
620
00:35:50,106 --> 00:35:52,393
But they lost the roll
part of rock and roll.
621
00:35:52,484 --> 00:35:54,691
- What's that part?
- It's the backbeat.
622
00:35:55,570 --> 00:35:56,935
It's the way it swings.
623
00:35:57,030 --> 00:35:59,237
You play fat on two and four.
624
00:36:04,829 --> 00:36:06,411
That's rock and roll.
625
00:36:08,416 --> 00:36:10,874
And then rock is just...
626
00:36:13,922 --> 00:36:15,378
But...
627
00:36:18,843 --> 00:36:21,961
Scared your parents.
628
00:36:22,055 --> 00:36:25,138
- You might dance with a negro.
- You're scaring my parents, Radney.
629
00:36:33,108 --> 00:36:35,975
Yeah, I've hardly ever
sat in a Rolls Royce.
630
00:36:36,069 --> 00:36:39,278
I thought he only
drove American cars.
631
00:36:39,364 --> 00:36:41,446
- Should we come around?
- Definitely.
632
00:36:43,118 --> 00:36:45,325
Well, this is the lap of luxury.
633
00:36:46,329 --> 00:36:48,912
The way I see Elvis, you know,
634
00:36:48,998 --> 00:36:53,788
there'd never been anyone who became so
popular so fast at such an early age.
635
00:36:53,878 --> 00:36:59,248
He didn't have anyone to talk
to about what was going on.
636
00:36:59,342 --> 00:37:01,379
He didn't have anything
to compare it to.
637
00:37:01,469 --> 00:37:03,380
He was what, 20?
638
00:37:03,471 --> 00:37:06,554
He missed that whole period
of time when you grow,
639
00:37:06,641 --> 00:37:10,225
and you learn from people your own
age and with your own experiences.
640
00:37:10,311 --> 00:37:13,520
To me, he's almost like
a Greek tragic figure.
641
00:37:13,606 --> 00:37:15,688
Alone in that experience.
642
00:37:15,775 --> 00:37:19,313
Maybe he was the King,
but he was doomed.
643
00:37:19,404 --> 00:37:23,819
Elvis was the first artist to really
be what I'd call “cross-branded”
644
00:37:23,908 --> 00:37:27,276
into different ways to
reach the consumer.
645
00:37:27,370 --> 00:37:29,223
You turn on the television,
he'd be on a TV show.
646
00:37:29,247 --> 00:37:31,238
You go to the movies,
he'd be in a movie.
647
00:37:31,332 --> 00:37:33,994
You turn on the radio, he'd be
on a Sunday morning gospel show.
648
00:37:34,085 --> 00:37:37,328
I mean, everywhere you turned,
Elvis had a piece of product.
649
00:37:37,422 --> 00:37:42,041
Today, you know, big artists will have
a vodka or they'll have a cologne.
650
00:37:42,135 --> 00:37:44,797
Elvis was pounded into
the public's mind
651
00:37:44,888 --> 00:37:48,756
probably more than
anybody up to that time.
652
00:37:48,850 --> 00:37:53,265
You know, I didn't see him telling
the Colonel to back off either.
653
00:37:55,565 --> 00:37:58,648
Because when money comes, it
changes everything, doesn't it?
654
00:38:00,779 --> 00:38:03,521
He had it all, and he had
more of it than anybody.
655
00:38:03,615 --> 00:38:06,357
The charisma was unbelievable.
656
00:38:06,451 --> 00:38:09,239
The physical beauty
was irresistible.
657
00:38:09,329 --> 00:38:12,117
Isn't he just as big
now as he ever was?
658
00:38:12,207 --> 00:38:14,699
I mean, isn't the
brand expanding?
659
00:38:14,793 --> 00:38:17,330
But at some point
you've got to decide.
660
00:38:19,130 --> 00:38:24,091
- The car's Making a funny noise.
- There goes the car.
661
00:38:25,178 --> 00:38:27,294
I think this one
stopped rolling.
662
00:38:28,556 --> 00:38:30,888
Kind of perfect in a
way though, isn't it?
663
00:38:33,603 --> 00:38:37,642
If this car was working great, it
just wouldn't be the same, would it?
664
00:38:37,732 --> 00:38:39,643
- Did you hear a pop before?
- Yeah.
665
00:38:39,734 --> 00:38:41,691
Need more oil or something.
666
00:38:50,119 --> 00:38:51,325
No, the other way!
667
00:38:52,997 --> 00:38:57,241
♪ Traveling north Traveling
north to find you ♪
668
00:38:57,335 --> 00:39:00,999
♪ Train wheels beating
The wind in my eyes ♪
669
00:39:01,089 --> 00:39:05,799
♪ Don't even know what I'll
find When I get to you ♪
670
00:39:05,885 --> 00:39:09,844
♪ Cell out your name, love
Dan '1' be surprised ♪
671
00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:15,593
♪ It's so many miles and so
long since I've met you ♪
672
00:39:15,687 --> 00:39:19,726
♪ Don't even know what I'll
find When I get to you ♪
673
00:39:19,816 --> 00:39:23,684
♪ But suddenly now I
know where I belong ♪
674
00:39:23,778 --> 00:39:28,363
♪ It's many hundred miles
And it won't be long ♪
675
00:39:28,449 --> 00:39:31,111
What do you think I'm
doing with this movie?
676
00:39:31,202 --> 00:39:34,069
I don't know what the hell
you're doing with this movie.
677
00:39:34,163 --> 00:39:36,951
I got a basic concept, but I don't
know if that's really what it is.
678
00:39:37,041 --> 00:39:38,497
I don't know what you're doing.
679
00:39:38,585 --> 00:39:41,327
I'm not sure you know what you're doing.
That's what's scary.
680
00:39:41,421 --> 00:39:44,288
Some comparison between,
uh, I hate to say “fall,”
681
00:39:44,382 --> 00:39:48,046
but the rise and decline of Elvis
with the rise and decline of America.
682
00:39:48,136 --> 00:39:51,003
Well, do you think
we're in decline?
683
00:39:51,097 --> 00:39:52,212
No.
684
00:39:52,307 --> 00:39:56,221
I think we're stagnant.
That's all.
685
00:39:56,311 --> 00:39:58,348
You think America's
had better days?
686
00:39:58,438 --> 00:39:59,849
Oh, yeah.
687
00:39:59,939 --> 00:40:01,179
Hey!
688
00:40:01,274 --> 00:40:04,983
Eugene, I grew up with the
great lie of all, you know?
689
00:40:05,069 --> 00:40:07,777
Work hard, you can get ahead.
Work hard, you can get ahead.
690
00:40:07,864 --> 00:40:10,526
But that was a lie.
They lied to everybody.
691
00:40:13,536 --> 00:40:15,368
When my grandfather was a kid,
692
00:40:15,455 --> 00:40:18,322
America's greatest
export was agriculture.
693
00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:22,455
And when my grandfather died, America's
greatest export was entertainment.
694
00:40:22,545 --> 00:40:24,957
I remember he used to say
that when he was a young man,
695
00:40:25,048 --> 00:40:27,790
our identity was as the great
democratic experiment.
696
00:40:27,884 --> 00:40:30,376
Whenever you mentioned America
you mentioned democracy.
697
00:40:30,470 --> 00:40:33,838
But somehow at the end of his
life when you mentioned America,
698
00:40:33,932 --> 00:40:35,969
people talked about us
like we're capitalists,
699
00:40:36,059 --> 00:40:38,517
like that was our
fundamental identity.
700
00:40:38,603 --> 00:40:40,185
Americans want more data.
701
00:40:40,271 --> 00:40:41,957
A lot of Americans
want bigger screens.
702
00:40:41,981 --> 00:40:43,722
Most Americans want
more security.
703
00:40:43,816 --> 00:40:46,478
Americans want more
public transportation.
704
00:40:46,569 --> 00:40:49,186
Americans want more
money in their pockets.
705
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,400
Elvis, do you mind my asking how
much money you grossed last year?
706
00:40:52,450 --> 00:40:54,441
About a $1,200,000.
707
00:40:54,535 --> 00:40:57,306
And What are some of the big things
you've done with your money?
708
00:40:57,330 --> 00:40:59,412
Like I said earlier,
if hasn't changed me.
709
00:40:59,499 --> 00:41:02,366
It's just I can afford things I
never would have gotten otherwise
710
00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:05,248
if I hadn't gotten lucky
in life, you know?
711
00:41:05,338 --> 00:41:07,670
Nobody who thinks about Elvis
712
00:41:07,757 --> 00:41:11,716
should forget he was always an
embodiment of the American story.
713
00:41:13,137 --> 00:41:15,128
So, if you picture him
coming to New York,
714
00:41:15,223 --> 00:41:18,432
it's a turning point, not
just in Elvis's life,
715
00:41:18,518 --> 00:41:20,600
but in the life of the country.
716
00:41:28,361 --> 00:41:30,227
And now, ladies and gentleman,
717
00:41:30,321 --> 00:41:33,530
I'm going to show you the greatest
thing your eyes have ever beheld.
718
00:41:33,616 --> 00:41:36,904
He was a King and a god
in the world he knew.
719
00:41:36,995 --> 00:41:39,407
But now he comes
to civilization.
720
00:41:39,497 --> 00:41:43,991
Ladies and gentlemen, the
eighth wonder of the world!
721
00:42:14,073 --> 00:42:15,814
Attention all stations.
722
00:42:15,908 --> 00:42:17,615
Kong is going West.
723
00:42:17,702 --> 00:42:21,821
He is Making for the Empire State Building.
Stand by for further reports.
724
00:42:21,914 --> 00:42:23,600
Welcome and enjoy the View.
725
00:42:39,474 --> 00:42:41,886
“0 beautiful, for
spacious skies...
726
00:42:43,144 --> 00:42:45,226
for amber waves of grain.”
727
00:42:45,313 --> 00:42:50,023
I think of all those people in
those wagon trains going West.
728
00:42:50,109 --> 00:42:53,067
What, indeed, would they think
if they could be up here now?
729
00:42:53,154 --> 00:42:55,771
Seeing what's been built.
730
00:42:55,865 --> 00:42:58,823
And at the same time,
how much we've lost.
731
00:43:03,289 --> 00:43:06,782
♪ New York, New York
New York, New York “
732
00:43:06,876 --> 00:43:11,370
♪ It's a wonderful town
733
00:43:11,464 --> 00:43:13,671
I've never been to New
York, personally.
734
00:43:13,758 --> 00:43:15,749
This is probably the
furthest north I've been.
735
00:43:15,843 --> 00:43:19,837
Yeah, this is literally
just like a foreign port.
736
00:43:19,931 --> 00:43:22,159
- Thank you for your service.
- Thank you for your support.
737
00:43:22,183 --> 00:43:23,719
How are you ladies doing?
738
00:43:29,273 --> 00:43:33,642
“Ms“ Washington is so far removed from
reality. This is such a complex issue.
739
00:43:33,736 --> 00:43:35,226
This all comes just days
740
00:43:35,321 --> 00:43:38,188
after an unarmed man was shot
and killed by an officer...
741
00:43:41,202 --> 00:43:44,615
Oh! Every other day, man.
742
00:43:44,705 --> 00:43:45,991
He's a moron!
743
00:43:47,667 --> 00:43:49,283
I mean, Elvis is about to OD.
744
00:43:49,377 --> 00:43:53,120
This is the... in a nutshell.
745
00:43:53,214 --> 00:43:54,625
Elvis is about to OD.
746
00:43:54,715 --> 00:43:58,299
If Elvis is your metaphor for
America, we're about to OD.
747
00:43:58,386 --> 00:44:02,004
If it's out in the open that
people can just buy a candidacy,
748
00:44:02,098 --> 00:44:04,886
we're on the brink of the
destruction of our democracy.
749
00:44:11,149 --> 00:44:14,358
Imagine if America had been exactly
what people said it was, right?
750
00:44:14,443 --> 00:44:16,025
A country where it didn't matter
751
00:44:16,112 --> 00:44:21,073
whether you from Germany or from
Tanzania, from Russia, or Brazil.
752
00:44:21,159 --> 00:44:22,570
You would be treated the same.
753
00:44:22,660 --> 00:44:25,823
And the content of your character
would define what you are.
754
00:44:25,913 --> 00:44:30,908
But the moment that anybody got off a boat
from Europe or from Asia, anywhere else...
755
00:44:31,002 --> 00:44:35,747
They landed in a place where the
indigenous people had suffered a genocide.
756
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,128
And then they built the infrastructure
of a nation with slavery.
757
00:44:39,218 --> 00:44:41,425
♪ Working your whole life
Wondering where the day went ♪
758
00:44:41,512 --> 00:44:44,721
♪ The subway stays packed like
A multi-cultural slave ship ♪
759
00:44:44,807 --> 00:44:47,720
♪ It's rush hour 2:30 to
8:00, non stopping “
760
00:44:47,810 --> 00:44:50,893
♪ And people coming home after
Corporate sharecropping “
761
00:44:50,980 --> 00:44:56,646
So, I think that the American dream
was always someone's fantasy.
762
00:44:56,736 --> 00:44:58,443
And someone else's
drunken nightmare.
763
00:44:58,529 --> 00:45:03,524
♪ How much is that
doggie In the window? “
764
00:45:04,952 --> 00:45:09,037
♪ The one with the
waggly tail “
765
00:45:09,123 --> 00:45:12,957
♪ How much is that Doggy
in the window? “
766
00:45:14,378 --> 00:45:17,962
♪ I do hope that
dog Is for sale “
767
00:45:18,049 --> 00:45:23,044
New York in the '50s was really
instrumental in Elvis's career.
768
00:45:23,137 --> 00:45:25,674
Maybe more so than
any other city.
769
00:45:25,765 --> 00:45:28,928
In the '50s, we were still
intimidated by the North.
770
00:45:29,018 --> 00:45:32,477
♪ How much is that Doggy
in the window? “
771
00:45:32,563 --> 00:45:37,308
Ladies and gentleman, Lot Number 9, that
is the “Triple Elvis,” a Ferus type.
772
00:45:37,401 --> 00:45:39,859
We shall start the bidding
here at $48 million.
773
00:45:39,946 --> 00:45:42,563
Forty-eight million, 50 million!
Fifty-five, 58 million.
774
00:45:42,657 --> 00:45:44,068
Sixty million. And we're off.
775
00:45:47,453 --> 00:45:50,195
Like many country
boys before him,
776
00:45:50,289 --> 00:45:52,371
Elvis came to perform
in New York City.
777
00:45:52,458 --> 00:45:55,667
It was a cold,
chilly alien place
778
00:45:55,753 --> 00:45:59,212
filled with fast talking
businessmen, promoters.
779
00:45:59,298 --> 00:46:00,880
Everybody wanted a piece of him.
780
00:46:00,967 --> 00:46:03,880
In the South, I mean, people are
friendly until they're not.
781
00:46:03,970 --> 00:46:06,052
In New York, you never
know where people stand.
782
00:46:06,138 --> 00:46:08,470
I have 63 on my right!
Sixty-four million.
783
00:46:08,557 --> 00:46:10,218
Give me 65 one of you.
784
00:46:10,309 --> 00:46:11,869
You heard it, ladies
and gentlemen, 65.
785
00:46:13,437 --> 00:46:14,677
Seventy million is bid.
786
00:46:14,772 --> 00:46:17,059
Isabel, try 72.
787
00:46:19,610 --> 00:46:24,025
Seventy-two million, 73 million.
788
00:46:24,115 --> 00:46:25,634
And you're out, you're
definitely out.
789
00:46:25,658 --> 00:46:27,319
At $73 million.
790
00:46:27,410 --> 00:46:29,993
Selling here the “Triple
Elvis.” Fair warning.
791
00:46:30,079 --> 00:46:34,164
With you, Isabel, yours it
is, sold at $73 million.
792
00:46:46,554 --> 00:46:50,343
For a country boy like Elvis,
and in some ways like myself,
793
00:46:50,433 --> 00:46:54,597
New York was like landing
on a distant planet.
794
00:46:55,563 --> 00:46:59,898
Just as it is now, it was the
epicenter of capitalism.
795
00:46:59,984 --> 00:47:04,194
Elvis had to be overwhelmed
with the sense:
796
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,147
“Yes, you have talent.
Yes, you're different.
797
00:47:07,241 --> 00:47:09,357
But, boy, it's about the money.”
798
00:47:09,452 --> 00:47:11,910
It's about the money.
799
00:47:15,833 --> 00:47:17,949
Pretty bad publicity lately.
800
00:47:18,044 --> 00:47:21,753
I got quite a bit of bad publicity
because of my actions on the stage.
801
00:47:21,839 --> 00:47:25,048
There's people, regardless of
who you are or what you do,
802
00:47:25,134 --> 00:47:27,250
there's going to be people
that don't like you.
803
00:47:27,345 --> 00:47:30,838
If there wasn't somebody
on my side, I'd be lost.
804
00:47:39,899 --> 00:47:42,561
Hi, I'm Mike Myers.
805
00:47:42,651 --> 00:47:44,688
You're probably asking yourself,
806
00:47:44,779 --> 00:47:48,192
“What is Mike Myers doing in
this movie?” Let me explain.
807
00:47:49,492 --> 00:47:51,608
So I'm here to represent
808
00:47:51,702 --> 00:47:55,411
the Canadian immigrant
view on America and Elvis.
809
00:47:55,498 --> 00:47:57,364
Okay, welcome to Wayne's
World Party on, Garth.
810
00:47:57,458 --> 00:47:58,493
Party on, Wayne.
811
00:47:58,584 --> 00:48:00,495
New York. Hey,
we're in New York.
812
00:48:00,586 --> 00:48:03,169
I've got a gun. Let's
get to a Broadway show.
813
00:48:03,255 --> 00:48:06,623
You know, growing up in Canada,
it's a wholly different experience.
814
00:48:06,717 --> 00:48:10,005
It's like America and Canada are born
of the same mother, which is Britain,
815
00:48:10,096 --> 00:48:13,259
and you guys left home and became movie
stars, and we stayed home with mother.
816
00:48:13,349 --> 00:48:15,761
I'll be here. I'll
always be here.
817
00:48:15,851 --> 00:48:19,014
America is fantastic at
creating a mission statement
818
00:48:19,105 --> 00:48:21,016
that you guys are the
keepers of democracy,
819
00:48:21,107 --> 00:48:24,441
and there's a messianic need to
spread this around the world.
820
00:48:24,527 --> 00:48:27,815
In Canada, it's peace,
order, and good government.
821
00:48:27,905 --> 00:48:29,646
Which is not terribly sexy,
822
00:48:29,740 --> 00:48:32,732
but if you look around the
world, it gets a lot sexier.
823
00:48:32,827 --> 00:48:35,285
Get outta here! Get out!
Out, out!
824
00:48:35,371 --> 00:48:37,703
The mission statement is
about the individual.
825
00:48:37,790 --> 00:48:40,703
It's about power
and powering over.
826
00:48:40,793 --> 00:48:44,878
It's almost like Rome ruled the
world with that phalanx formation
827
00:48:44,964 --> 00:48:46,625
and Britain under the
three-masted ship,
828
00:48:46,715 --> 00:48:49,798
America has ruled the world
with the moving image.
829
00:48:49,885 --> 00:48:53,253
And the projection of
image around the world.
830
00:48:59,770 --> 00:49:03,013
This is one more revolutionary thing
that Colonel Parker conceived of.
831
00:49:03,107 --> 00:49:05,064
He conceived of the idea.
832
00:49:05,151 --> 00:49:06,937
He even wrote it into
the RCA contract
833
00:49:07,027 --> 00:49:10,065
that they would promote Elvis's
exposure on national television.
834
00:49:10,156 --> 00:49:12,523
Elvis Presley is the fastest
rising young singer
835
00:49:12,616 --> 00:49:14,482
in the entertainment
industry today.
836
00:49:14,577 --> 00:49:17,180
We think tonight that he's going to
make television history for you.
837
00:49:17,204 --> 00:49:19,364
- We'd like you to meet him now...
- Mr. Elvis Presley.
838
00:49:22,501 --> 00:49:27,917
His first TV appearance ever,
he walked out on that stage.
839
00:49:29,133 --> 00:49:32,251
He was halfway snarling
and halfway laughing.
840
00:49:33,888 --> 00:49:39,304
He grabbed that microphone like it
was some caveman grabbing his woman
841
00:49:39,393 --> 00:49:41,259
and dragged it across stage.
842
00:49:41,353 --> 00:49:42,809
And the place went crazy.
843
00:49:42,897 --> 00:49:44,479
♪ Well, get out of
That kitchen “
844
00:49:44,565 --> 00:49:46,101
♪ And rattle those
Pots and pans “
845
00:49:47,443 --> 00:49:48,899
♪ Get out of that kitchen “
846
00:49:48,986 --> 00:49:51,273
♪ And rattle those
Pots and pans “
847
00:49:51,363 --> 00:49:55,027
♪ Well, I want my breakfast
'Cause I'm a hungry man “
848
00:49:55,117 --> 00:49:56,983
I think Elvis Presley
drives those girls nuts
849
00:49:57,077 --> 00:50:00,320
by shaking and jumping and
laying all over the stage.
850
00:50:00,414 --> 00:50:01,870
It's kinda crazy.
851
00:50:01,957 --> 00:50:03,602
No, it's just all depends, I
mean, on how you look at it.
852
00:50:03,626 --> 00:50:05,708
If you want to think it's
nasty or sexy, you could,
853
00:50:05,794 --> 00:50:08,081
but to me it's just
so limber and loose.
854
00:50:08,172 --> 00:50:09,372
I mean, it's really marvelous.
855
00:50:09,423 --> 00:50:11,664
Elvis Presley was
a truck driver,
856
00:50:11,759 --> 00:50:16,299
who still can't read music and whose
main appeal appears to be sex.
857
00:50:16,388 --> 00:50:18,470
Rock and roll has got to go.
858
00:50:18,557 --> 00:50:20,889
These programs are not for
the good of the community.
859
00:50:20,976 --> 00:50:23,843
We set up a 20-man committee
to do away with this vulgar,
860
00:50:23,938 --> 00:50:26,680
animalistic, nigger,
rock and roll bop.
861
00:50:27,942 --> 00:50:29,419
Good evening, ladies
and gentlemen.
862
00:50:29,443 --> 00:50:31,229
Your Mercury dealer and
your Lincoln dealer
863
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,187
present The Ed Sullivan Show!
864
00:50:35,282 --> 00:50:37,319
Ed Sullivan said publicly
865
00:50:37,409 --> 00:50:40,322
that he would never have
Elvis on this show.
866
00:50:40,412 --> 00:50:42,699
His show was a family show.
867
00:50:44,625 --> 00:50:47,037
So Elvis goes on The
Steve Allen Show.
868
00:50:47,127 --> 00:50:49,397
I've got you a very cute
little hound dog right here.
869
00:50:49,421 --> 00:50:51,253
Where he is in fact humiliated.
870
00:50:51,340 --> 00:50:55,208
He's forced to dress in a tuxedo
and sing “Hound Dog” to a dog.
871
00:50:56,303 --> 00:50:58,635
At the same time, what
does Ed Sullivan do?
872
00:50:58,722 --> 00:51:03,683
He devotes the entire show to
John Huston's film of Moby Dick.
873
00:51:03,769 --> 00:51:05,885
Thar she blows!
874
00:51:05,980 --> 00:51:07,766
You've got Gregory
Peck coming on.
875
00:51:07,856 --> 00:51:10,564
- Hi, Ed.
- John Huston talking about the challenge
876
00:51:10,651 --> 00:51:12,562
of Making Moby Dick.
877
00:51:12,653 --> 00:51:15,315
And so Elvis is going
up against Moby Dick.
878
00:51:16,323 --> 00:51:17,939
And he kills Moby Dick.
879
00:51:22,538 --> 00:51:25,747
And then Sullivan has to
go back to Colonel Parker
880
00:51:25,833 --> 00:51:27,665
and pay dearly.
881
00:51:27,751 --> 00:51:30,618
We've signed Elvis Presley to make
his first appearance on our show.
882
00:51:35,217 --> 00:51:36,817
Last week with Elvis Presley,
883
00:51:36,885 --> 00:51:39,377
all of the records in our
history were shattered.
884
00:51:39,471 --> 00:51:42,463
It was the greatest audience
that's ever listened to our show
885
00:51:42,558 --> 00:51:43,558
and perhaps to any show.
886
00:51:43,642 --> 00:51:45,553
I can't figure this
darn thing out.
887
00:51:45,644 --> 00:51:48,261
You know, he just does
this and everybody yells.
888
00:51:50,941 --> 00:51:55,401
♪ Baby, it's just you
I'm thinking of “
889
00:51:59,950 --> 00:52:02,908
- You know that's very annoying, don't you?
- Wait. W-Wait.
890
00:52:02,995 --> 00:52:04,656
This was Elvis's car.
891
00:52:04,747 --> 00:52:06,329
- Is it?
- You like my glasses?
892
00:52:06,415 --> 00:52:07,997
Be careful.
893
00:52:08,083 --> 00:52:11,451
“Can we have a selfie?” Everybody
has a fucking camera now.
894
00:52:13,255 --> 00:52:17,214
So Elvis was the most perfect thinking
guy that ever lived,
895
00:52:17,301 --> 00:52:20,919
in a visual medium where the
way you look is important.
896
00:52:21,013 --> 00:52:22,378
I mean, the guy had it all.
897
00:52:22,473 --> 00:52:25,591
Rich, famous, adored.
898
00:52:25,684 --> 00:52:28,472
Women everywhere.
Admired and talented.
899
00:52:28,562 --> 00:52:30,849
You could have a
list of 19 things
900
00:52:30,939 --> 00:52:34,933
and the 20th one that's missing
is your Achilles' heel.
901
00:52:35,027 --> 00:52:37,064
Hello, Elvis? You know,
less than two years ago
902
00:52:37,154 --> 00:52:39,236
you were earning $14 a
week as a movie usher.
903
00:52:39,323 --> 00:52:41,735
Today you're the most controversial
name in show business.
904
00:52:41,825 --> 00:52:45,238
Has this sudden notoriety affected
your sleep, your appetite,
905
00:52:45,329 --> 00:52:46,444
or the size of your head?
906
00:52:46,538 --> 00:52:48,654
Well, everything has
happened to me so fast
907
00:52:48,749 --> 00:52:51,707
in the last year and a half.
908
00:52:51,794 --> 00:52:53,455
I'm all mixed up, you know.
909
00:52:53,545 --> 00:52:55,957
I can't keep up with
everything that's happening.
910
00:52:56,048 --> 00:53:00,508
He rose to an absolute
height, power, and success.
911
00:53:00,594 --> 00:53:02,756
At that moment he was
at his most vulnerable.
912
00:53:04,306 --> 00:53:06,076
- Left, right, shoulder.
- You got it!
913
00:53:06,100 --> 00:53:08,011
- Left, right, shoulder!
- Hey!
914
00:53:08,102 --> 00:53:11,265
Elvis Presley no longer has
that rock and roll beat.
915
00:53:11,355 --> 00:53:14,518
The tempo is hup, two, three,
four for Private Presley,
916
00:53:14,608 --> 00:53:16,895
courtesy of the
Memphis draft board.
917
00:53:16,985 --> 00:53:20,194
When Elvis joined the military,
918
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:24,740
it was an affirmation of everything
that I had been taught by my father
919
00:53:24,827 --> 00:53:27,740
about the American dream
and protecting the dream.
920
00:53:27,830 --> 00:53:30,822
- I...
- I, Elvis Presley...
921
00:53:30,916 --> 00:53:33,032
It was the cold war,
922
00:53:33,127 --> 00:53:36,916
and the country was dealing with this
new, huge amount of power it's acquired
923
00:53:37,005 --> 00:53:38,005
post World War II.
924
00:53:38,090 --> 00:53:39,150
It is, indeed, the new Rome.
925
00:53:39,174 --> 00:53:45,136
And Elvis becomes the poster child of
what a good American boy should do.
926
00:53:47,057 --> 00:53:50,049
Elvis didn't join the army.
The army came after him.
927
00:53:50,144 --> 00:53:51,634
Believe me,
928
00:53:51,729 --> 00:53:56,064
that was the last place in the world,
at that time, he wanted to go.
929
00:53:56,150 --> 00:53:57,857
When the draft came up,
930
00:53:57,943 --> 00:54:00,355
the Colonel thought it'd be a
great idea to go to the army,
931
00:54:00,446 --> 00:54:02,858
and it would tell everybody that
he was a good American boy.
932
00:54:04,491 --> 00:54:07,324
He started putting on this
act of Private Presley.
933
00:54:07,411 --> 00:54:10,904
It started the public
persona, the trademarking.
934
00:54:23,093 --> 00:54:26,381
He was in boot camp in Texas
when his mother died.
935
00:54:26,472 --> 00:54:28,241
- One, two, three.
- One!
936
00:54:28,265 --> 00:54:31,849
- One, two, three.
- Halt!
937
00:54:31,935 --> 00:54:35,599
I've experienced uh,
happiness and loneliness,
938
00:54:35,689 --> 00:54:37,475
and, uh, tragedy,
939
00:54:37,566 --> 00:54:40,524
like losing my mother
while I was in the army.
940
00:54:40,611 --> 00:54:44,730
Between losing his mother
and being drafted,
941
00:54:44,823 --> 00:54:48,032
it was the lowest
point in his life.
942
00:54:52,956 --> 00:54:54,356
The rock and roll King
943
00:54:54,416 --> 00:54:56,953
is about to embark for foreign
service, 18 months in Germany.
944
00:54:57,044 --> 00:55:01,163
Elvis Presley, Private Presley, soldier
nowadays in Uncle Sam's service.
945
00:55:01,256 --> 00:55:03,964
Black, White, Hispanic, Asian,
946
00:55:04,051 --> 00:55:08,295
Native American, gay, straight,
disabled, and not disabled.
947
00:55:08,388 --> 00:55:12,507
We are and always will be the
United States of America.
948
00:55:12,601 --> 00:55:16,469
The avowed goal of the
Communists is world domination.
949
00:55:16,563 --> 00:55:19,476
By force and subterfuge,
the Soviet Union succeeded
950
00:55:19,566 --> 00:55:21,773
in conquering the
people of Bulgaria,
951
00:55:21,860 --> 00:55:25,649
Romania, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, and Poland.
952
00:55:25,739 --> 00:55:27,980
For too long, we
have fixed our eyes
953
00:55:28,075 --> 00:55:29,736
on traditional military needs.
954
00:55:29,827 --> 00:55:32,444
Prior to ordering our
forces into battle,
955
00:55:32,538 --> 00:55:34,575
I instructed our
military commanders...
956
00:55:34,665 --> 00:55:37,783
In Angola, in Kampuchea, in
almost every continent...
957
00:55:37,876 --> 00:55:42,746
Forty-five hundred American troops
are now deployed in Iraq and Syria.
958
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,252
If the United States of
America is not an empire,
959
00:55:45,342 --> 00:55:48,425
then there was never an empire
in the history of humanity.
960
00:55:48,512 --> 00:55:52,005
There's never been a
country that even dreamed
961
00:55:52,099 --> 00:55:54,511
of the level of influence
and power that we have.
962
00:55:54,601 --> 00:55:57,684
The cultural imperialism,
the military imperialism,
963
00:55:57,771 --> 00:56:00,103
the economic imperialism
of the United States
964
00:56:00,190 --> 00:56:03,433
is the global fact
of the last century.
965
00:56:03,527 --> 00:56:07,111
And Elvis Presley is at the center
of the center of all of that.
966
00:56:07,197 --> 00:56:08,983
- ♪ Do you ever ♪
- ♪ Do you ever ♪
967
00:56:09,074 --> 00:56:10,994
- ♪ Do you ever get ♪
- ♪ Do you ever get ♪
968
00:56:11,076 --> 00:56:13,076
- ♪ Do you ever get one ♪
- ♪ Do you ever get one ♪
969
00:56:13,161 --> 00:56:14,931
- ♪ Do you ever get one them ♪
- ♪ Do you ever get one them ♪
970
00:56:14,955 --> 00:56:16,491
♪ Days ♪
971
00:56:16,582 --> 00:56:17,868
- Identified!
- Fire!
972
00:56:17,958 --> 00:56:19,369
On the way!
973
00:56:19,459 --> 00:56:21,020
♪ You ever get One of them days? ♪
974
00:56:21,044 --> 00:56:22,814
- ♪ Ever get one of them days?
- ♪ Yeah! ♪
975
00:56:22,838 --> 00:56:24,858
♪ When nothing is right ♪
From morning till night ♪
976
00:56:24,882 --> 00:56:26,623
♪ You ever get One of
them days, boy? “
977
00:56:26,717 --> 00:56:29,049
- ♪ Ever get one of them days?
- ♪ Yeah! ♪
978
00:56:31,889 --> 00:56:34,597
- Hello, Elvis!
- Hello. I'm happy to be here.
979
00:56:34,683 --> 00:56:37,550
He puts on a military
uniform, he goes overseas,
980
00:56:37,644 --> 00:56:39,885
picks up a guitar, that
goes all around the world.
981
00:56:39,980 --> 00:56:42,347
He'd never performed
outside the United States.
982
00:56:42,441 --> 00:56:46,935
And he's still known on every
continent, to this day.
983
00:56:47,029 --> 00:56:49,270
You can't do that if you
don't have an empire.
984
00:56:52,326 --> 00:56:55,990
♪ For I can help ♪
985
00:56:57,831 --> 00:57:01,074
♪ Falling in love... “
986
00:57:01,168 --> 00:57:05,207
The Americans wanted to place
army units here in the area
987
00:57:05,297 --> 00:57:07,959
to stop the Russians if
they invade Germany.
988
00:57:08,050 --> 00:57:11,008
And that's the reason why we have
so many American installations
989
00:57:11,094 --> 00:57:12,174
here in the state of Hesse.
990
00:57:16,934 --> 00:57:21,428
There was a lot of German-American
community in the late 1940,
991
00:57:21,521 --> 00:57:23,307
early 1950.
992
00:57:23,398 --> 00:57:28,313
It was a very vital thing and
its changing music, lifestyle.
993
00:57:28,403 --> 00:57:32,522
We just grew up like we'd been
living in the States, many people,
994
00:57:32,616 --> 00:57:36,655
at least half of the inhabitants over
here have been American soldiers.
995
00:57:38,163 --> 00:57:41,246
We can say “The King”
has been living here.
996
00:57:54,763 --> 00:57:56,379
Oh, whoa! Whoa!
997
00:57:57,474 --> 00:57:59,511
Elvis! Over here!
998
00:57:59,601 --> 00:58:02,764
If you look at people's
careers, both music and film,
999
00:58:02,854 --> 00:58:05,141
when you're away from the
public for two years,
1000
00:58:05,232 --> 00:58:06,722
you come back, it's over.
1001
00:58:09,236 --> 00:58:12,069
But what did Elvis
do in the army?
1002
00:58:12,155 --> 00:58:16,615
He got to live in his own house,
with all of his Memphis pals.
1003
00:58:16,702 --> 00:58:18,659
He goes out to nightclubs.
1004
00:58:18,745 --> 00:58:19,745
Wow.
1005
00:58:21,164 --> 00:58:26,876
And this is when, supposedly, he developed
a pill habit by doing guard duty.
1006
00:58:28,422 --> 00:58:31,380
Probably what he discovered
was incredible boredom.
1007
00:58:31,466 --> 00:58:34,834
The tedium in military
service is awesome.
1008
00:58:34,928 --> 00:58:38,137
And it is contrasted, of course,
with moments of stark terror.
1009
00:58:38,223 --> 00:58:40,305
You seek things like drugs,
1010
00:58:40,392 --> 00:58:44,386
you seek things like suicide
in order to escape from it.
1011
00:58:44,479 --> 00:58:47,141
And if Elvis was introduced
to drugs in the ranks,
1012
00:58:47,232 --> 00:58:49,098
it does not surprise me.
1013
00:58:49,192 --> 00:58:52,355
This is what we do to people
when we make them warriors.
1014
00:58:52,446 --> 00:58:54,733
Elvis had a friend in the army.
1015
00:58:54,823 --> 00:58:59,192
This guy knew this young girl whose
father was a colonel in the Air Force,
1016
00:58:59,286 --> 00:59:03,405
and Priscilla got to meet
Elvis at a critical point.
1017
00:59:03,498 --> 00:59:08,243
The loss of his mother, and he
thought the career was over.
1018
00:59:08,336 --> 00:59:09,872
So he was very vulnerable.
1019
00:59:09,963 --> 00:59:13,422
And she was somebody he could talk to
because she was young and innocent.
1020
00:59:13,508 --> 00:59:17,422
And that was the best thing
that happened to him.
1021
00:59:20,432 --> 00:59:23,174
The most publicized
soldier since Napoleon,
1022
00:59:23,268 --> 00:59:26,477
Elvis Presley, with girlfriend
Priscilla Beaulieu to see him off,
1023
00:59:26,563 --> 00:59:29,601
was leaving Frankfurt at the
end of his army service.
1024
00:59:29,691 --> 00:59:34,231
So it was farewell to military glory
and to 16-year-old Priscilla.
1025
00:59:34,321 --> 00:59:38,235
What fame for that girl, to have been a
friend of the Emperor of Rock and Roll.
1026
00:59:46,249 --> 00:59:49,241
He comes back as a mysterious,
unknowable person.
1027
00:59:50,378 --> 00:59:52,665
He radiates Americanness.
1028
00:59:52,756 --> 00:59:54,963
He radiates conquest.
1029
00:59:57,761 --> 01:00:01,095
Welcome home, guys!
Welcome home!
1030
01:00:11,650 --> 01:00:13,961
Now to get down to the
serious side of it, Elvis,
1031
01:00:13,985 --> 01:00:15,976
can you give us some
of your future plans?
1032
01:00:16,071 --> 01:00:19,439
Well, the first thing I have
to do is to cut some records.
1033
01:00:20,784 --> 01:00:24,027
And then after that I have the
television show with, uh...
1034
01:00:25,122 --> 01:00:26,408
with Frank Sinatra.
1035
01:00:26,498 --> 01:00:28,910
We want Elvis!
1036
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:31,116
We want Elvis!
1037
01:00:31,211 --> 01:00:32,497
Hmm.
1038
01:00:35,132 --> 01:00:38,921
When I saw Elvis walk on
The Frank Sinatra Show,
1039
01:00:39,010 --> 01:00:41,001
he was a different Elvis
1040
01:00:41,096 --> 01:00:44,179
than when I said good-bye to him
when he was going to the army.
1041
01:00:44,266 --> 01:00:47,930
♪ It's very nice
To go travelin' ♪
1042
01:00:48,019 --> 01:00:51,887
♪ But if is also
nice to come home ♪
1043
01:00:51,982 --> 01:00:53,347
Where the heck are
the sideburns?
1044
01:00:54,401 --> 01:00:56,438
♪ Well, I'll be a hound dog “
1045
01:00:56,528 --> 01:01:01,022
♪ And that's the
opening Friends “
1046
01:01:01,116 --> 01:01:03,052
Do you have any advice
for the boys your age
1047
01:01:03,076 --> 01:01:06,740
who are now going to have to put in a
certain amount of duty in the service?
1048
01:01:06,830 --> 01:01:09,117
The only thing I can say
is to play it straight,
1049
01:01:09,207 --> 01:01:11,310
get the people on your side,
let 'em know you're trying,
1050
01:01:11,334 --> 01:01:15,202
you... you... as the army would
say, you've got it made.
1051
01:01:15,297 --> 01:01:16,858
If you're going to try
to be an individual
1052
01:01:16,882 --> 01:01:19,795
or try to be different, you're going
to go through two years of...
1053
01:01:21,052 --> 01:01:22,588
misery.
1054
01:01:22,679 --> 01:01:26,013
He had gone from this
underground rebel
1055
01:01:26,099 --> 01:01:30,343
to this accepted major star.
1056
01:01:30,437 --> 01:01:36,854
I think Elvis left the city as James Dean
and he came back somewhat as John Wayne.
1057
01:01:36,943 --> 01:01:39,526
Women“ “ Vietnam... “
1058
01:01:39,613 --> 01:01:43,732
Vietnam is a country which is divided via
civil war which has gone on for ten years.
1059
01:01:43,825 --> 01:01:46,317
The dissatisfaction
of many Negroes...
1060
01:01:46,411 --> 01:01:49,779
To me, Elvis was captured the
same way I was captured:
1061
01:01:49,873 --> 01:01:52,456
by the aura of the dream,
by the myth of the dream.
1062
01:01:52,542 --> 01:01:57,002
The dream has never been what we,
in our history books, say it is.
1063
01:01:57,088 --> 01:02:00,126
The dream has
always been a myth.
1064
01:02:00,217 --> 01:02:04,381
What I did was go to a war with
50,000-plus Americans dying
1065
01:02:04,471 --> 01:02:06,712
and two and a half million
Vietnamese dying.
1066
01:02:06,806 --> 01:02:09,514
And I came to see that it has
nothing to do with democracy
1067
01:02:09,601 --> 01:02:10,641
and the spreading thereof,
1068
01:02:10,727 --> 01:02:12,843
and everything to do with
commercial interests
1069
01:02:12,938 --> 01:02:16,056
and an imperial move
by the United States.
1070
01:02:16,149 --> 01:02:20,438
♪ Elvis, Where are you
When I need you most? ♪
1071
01:02:20,528 --> 01:02:22,690
♪ White comp sequins... “
1072
01:02:22,781 --> 01:02:26,194
Let's not forget Elvis Presley
is living in the 60’
1073
01:02:26,284 --> 01:02:28,070
right alongside the
black power movement,
1074
01:02:28,161 --> 01:02:33,827
right alongside a huge revolt of the very
people whose culture he was “inspired by,”
1075
01:02:33,917 --> 01:02:35,453
and I would say stole.
1076
01:02:35,543 --> 01:02:39,002
You didn't see Elvis in the middle
of no civil rights marches, did you?
1077
01:02:39,089 --> 01:02:40,089
Say that again.
1078
01:02:40,173 --> 01:02:44,542
I said, you did not see Elvis in the
middle of no civil rights marches.
1079
01:02:44,636 --> 01:02:47,378
He didn't side with Harry
Belafonte, did he?
1080
01:02:47,472 --> 01:02:50,305
But now, think about
the alternative Elvis.
1081
01:02:50,392 --> 01:02:52,850
He goes to the military,
he sees a bunch of stuff.
1082
01:02:52,936 --> 01:02:56,850
Imagine him coming home and
marching with Dr. King.
1083
01:02:56,940 --> 01:03:01,855
He had peers and contemporaries
who made braver choices.
1084
01:03:01,945 --> 01:03:04,653
Marlon Brando marched
with Dr. King.
1085
01:03:04,739 --> 01:03:07,401
Jane Fonda met with
the Black Panthers.
1086
01:03:07,492 --> 01:03:09,859
Mr. Presley, on the
subject of the service,
1087
01:03:09,953 --> 01:03:11,819
what is your opinion
of war protestors,
1088
01:03:11,913 --> 01:03:13,654
and would you, today,
refuse to be drafted?
1089
01:03:13,748 --> 01:03:17,992
Honey, I just tend to keep my own
personal views about that to myself.
1090
01:03:18,086 --> 01:03:21,295
Because I'm just an entertainer
and I'd rather not say.
1091
01:03:21,381 --> 01:03:24,610
Do you think other entertainers should
keep their views to themselves too?
1092
01:03:24,634 --> 01:03:26,716
No. I can't even say that.
1093
01:03:26,803 --> 01:03:30,546
I don't give Elvis Presley a pass
because I know how much power he had,
1094
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:33,223
and I know what he could
have done with that power.
1095
01:03:33,310 --> 01:03:35,893
“Former world heavyweight
champion Cassius Clay
1096
01:03:35,979 --> 01:03:38,437
refused to take the oath of
induction into the army.
1097
01:03:38,523 --> 01:03:41,766
The black, Muslim fighter who
is also known as Muhammad Ali
1098
01:03:41,860 --> 01:03:45,069
was immediately stripped of his title
by the World Boxing Association.
1099
01:03:45,155 --> 01:03:49,319
The iconic figures of service
in the military by celebrities
1100
01:03:49,409 --> 01:03:52,071
are Elvis Presley
and Muhammad Ali.
1101
01:03:52,162 --> 01:03:57,282
My conscience won't let me go shoot
my brother or some darker people
1102
01:03:57,375 --> 01:04:01,414
or some poor, hungry people in the
mud for big, powerful America.
1103
01:04:01,504 --> 01:04:02,960
And shoot them for what?
1104
01:04:03,048 --> 01:04:04,459
They never called me nigger.
1105
01:04:04,549 --> 01:04:06,836
How can I shoot them poor people?
Just take me to jail.
1106
01:04:06,926 --> 01:04:10,965
Ali becomes the poster child for
the other side of the coin.
1107
01:04:11,056 --> 01:04:15,175
I believe in this country, but I don't
think this country is perfect by any means
1108
01:04:15,268 --> 01:04:17,930
and I'm going to stay
here and suffer for that.
1109
01:04:18,021 --> 01:04:19,307
I'm going to do my jail time.
1110
01:04:19,397 --> 01:04:21,855
You my enemy. My enemy
is the white people,
1111
01:04:21,941 --> 01:04:24,399
not Viet Congs or
Chinese or Japanese.
1112
01:04:24,486 --> 01:04:26,397
You my opposer when
I want freedom.
1113
01:04:26,488 --> 01:04:27,978
You my opposer when
I want justice.
1114
01:04:28,073 --> 01:04:30,030
And one has to ask
the question now,
1115
01:04:30,116 --> 01:04:33,029
retrospectively, of course,
who was the wiser individual?
1116
01:04:33,119 --> 01:04:36,703
Who more understood what was
happening to the Republic?
1117
01:04:41,544 --> 01:04:43,831
How can it be
1118
01:04:43,922 --> 01:04:50,339
that we have trillions of dollars
to spend on a war in Iraq,
1119
01:04:50,428 --> 01:04:53,887
but we apparently
don't have the money
1120
01:04:53,973 --> 01:04:57,261
to rebuild the crumbling
inner cities of America?
1121
01:04:57,352 --> 01:05:01,141
This is a Bernie Sanders rally...
27, 000 people.
1122
01:05:01,231 --> 01:05:05,145
Mr. Trump, you've criticized Secretary
Clinton for voting for the Iraq War,
1123
01:05:05,235 --> 01:05:06,771
but you yourself
supported the war.
1124
01:05:06,861 --> 01:05:10,320
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
1125
01:05:10,407 --> 01:05:13,525
You're being very mean to me
tonight, Coltrane, very mean to me.
1126
01:05:18,123 --> 01:05:21,286
Hold on a second. All right,
we're taking a little poll.
1127
01:05:21,376 --> 01:05:22,376
Donald Trump!
1128
01:05:23,420 --> 01:05:24,706
Nobody?
1129
01:05:24,796 --> 01:05:25,796
Hillary Clinton!
1130
01:05:27,632 --> 01:05:28,747
Very mild.
1131
01:05:28,842 --> 01:05:30,253
Bernie Sanders.
1132
01:05:30,343 --> 01:05:33,256
- Yeah!
- Beavis and Butt-Head over here.
1133
01:05:38,601 --> 01:05:40,968
People say, “Let's make
America great again.”
1134
01:05:41,062 --> 01:05:45,431
And I say, “Well, America is great
when America does great things.”
1135
01:05:45,525 --> 01:05:47,503
And we have not been doing a
lot of great things lately.
1136
01:05:47,527 --> 01:05:49,438
America has been doing
a lot of bad things.
1137
01:05:49,529 --> 01:05:52,442
It's not about Declarations of
Independence and Thomas Jefferson.
1138
01:05:52,532 --> 01:05:55,399
Because what is the United States now,
really, but a standard of living?
1139
01:05:55,493 --> 01:05:57,985
Hillary Clinton reportedly
attracting more money
1140
01:05:58,079 --> 01:05:59,240
than any other candidate...
1141
01:05:59,330 --> 01:06:02,618
Trump is worth just
under $ 9 billion.
1142
01:06:02,709 --> 01:06:05,576
You know, we angst
about this now,
1143
01:06:05,670 --> 01:06:08,274
but I don't know when this film is
going to come out, or what have you,
1144
01:06:08,298 --> 01:06:10,380
but, I mean, Trump's
not going to win.
1145
01:06:10,467 --> 01:06:12,208
I mean, Trump is
not going to win.
1146
01:06:15,722 --> 01:06:18,384
Excuse me. Excuse me.
1147
01:06:18,475 --> 01:06:20,307
Look into my crystal ball.
1148
01:06:20,393 --> 01:06:24,808
Many surprises await you in the
future when I'm president.
1149
01:06:24,898 --> 01:06:29,938
I'm so glad I finally solved the
issue of Obama's birth certificate.
1150
01:06:30,028 --> 01:06:32,690
Because when I'm president,
all my attention is needed
1151
01:06:32,780 --> 01:06:35,522
for an issue of much
greater national concern.
1152
01:06:35,617 --> 01:06:38,359
Is Elvis Presley still alive?
1153
01:06:39,954 --> 01:06:46,826
We have a significant problem as a
democracy with money in politics.
1154
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:50,163
Once upon a time, the
world regarded America
1155
01:06:50,256 --> 01:06:53,089
as an amazing experiment
in self-government.
1156
01:06:53,176 --> 01:06:58,637
To have a country that thought it could
govern itself was all revolutionary.
1157
01:06:58,723 --> 01:07:00,760
The assumption was,
it would fail.
1158
01:07:00,850 --> 01:07:05,219
That it would be riven by
dissension and corruption.
1159
01:07:05,313 --> 01:07:07,054
People assumed that
the United States
1160
01:07:07,148 --> 01:07:12,393
would have to have a King and
a strong man would come in.
1161
01:07:13,947 --> 01:07:19,158
The fact that we are a capitalist society
where you use money to buy things,
1162
01:07:19,244 --> 01:07:21,781
it is logical that you would
want to use that money
1163
01:07:21,871 --> 01:07:24,989
to protect what you have
by having people in office
1164
01:07:25,083 --> 01:07:27,871
who will write laws that
benefit your company,
1165
01:07:27,961 --> 01:07:30,248
hurt your competitors,
benefit your industry,
1166
01:07:30,338 --> 01:07:32,375
and that's, in fact, what
does happen of course.
1167
01:07:35,385 --> 01:07:39,595
You get up and bowl
about America...
1168
01:07:39,681 --> 01:07:41,592
And democracy.
1169
01:07:41,683 --> 01:07:45,426
There is no America.
There is no democracy.
1170
01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:47,511
♪ It's a rich man's world “
1171
01:07:47,605 --> 01:07:50,097
We no longer live in a world
of nations and ideologies.
1172
01:07:51,359 --> 01:07:53,942
The world is a college
of corporations.
1173
01:07:54,779 --> 01:07:58,272
The world is a business.
1174
01:07:58,366 --> 01:08:03,486
And I have chosen you
to preach this evangel.
1175
01:08:03,580 --> 01:08:05,662
♪ I spend my day preppin'
America overseas ♪
1176
01:08:05,748 --> 01:08:07,428
♪ Pensions for the workers?
Nigga, please ♪
1177
01:08:07,458 --> 01:08:09,540
♪ Embezzlement etiquette
Private settlement “
1178
01:08:09,627 --> 01:08:11,493
♪ I'm better With
confederate rhetoric ♪
1179
01:08:11,588 --> 01:08:14,876
♪ From my mansion in Connecticut
Foreclose, evict hoes out of tenement:
1180
01:08:14,966 --> 01:08:16,610
♪ I twist words Like a
speech impediment “
1181
01:08:16,634 --> 01:08:18,070
♪ I hope you got
Good credit, bitch ♪
1182
01:08:18,094 --> 01:08:20,461
♪ If not, better get
new job with benefits “
1183
01:08:20,555 --> 01:08:22,825
♪ While I play golf with niggas
I get cheddar with, new money ♪
1184
01:08:22,849 --> 01:08:24,089
♪ Buys brand new carats ♪
1185
01:08:24,183 --> 01:08:26,550
♪ My old money bought Your
great grandparents “
1186
01:08:26,644 --> 01:08:28,330
♪ You got grills in your
mouth I ain't mad at ya ♪
1187
01:08:28,354 --> 01:08:30,140
♪ I own every gold mine
In South Africa “
1188
01:08:30,231 --> 01:08:31,847
♪ Thanks, baby You
made me a billion “
1189
01:08:31,941 --> 01:08:34,433
♪ Plus I own a building for each
Of my children's children “
1190
01:08:34,527 --> 01:08:37,610
♪ That's the shit snort coke in the
whip Miss USA suckin' my dick ♪
1191
01:08:37,697 --> 01:08:40,985
♪ Yeah, What! Fuck the law Cause
real jail is for suckers ♪
1192
01:08:41,075 --> 01:08:44,864
♪ I go to country club prison
You dumb motherfuckers “
1193
01:08:44,954 --> 01:08:48,367
♪ I am the one percent
Fucking bitch, yeah ♪
1194
01:08:48,458 --> 01:08:51,996
♪ You know my CEO Corporate
steeze, please ♪
1195
01:08:52,086 --> 01:08:55,545
♪ Overthrow governments
overseas In a breeze “
1196
01:08:55,632 --> 01:08:59,341
♪ Politicians in my pockets
For a few hundred G's “
1197
01:08:59,427 --> 01:09:03,170
♪ So if I'm ever in court My
assets will never freeze “
1198
01:09:03,264 --> 01:09:07,553
Sandra Bland! Michael Brown!
Shut the whole system down!
1199
01:09:07,644 --> 01:09:11,512
Sandra Bland! Michael Brown!
Shut the whole system down!
1200
01:09:11,606 --> 01:09:13,813
Sandra Bland! Michael Brown!
1201
01:09:16,736 --> 01:09:19,899
- I felt it under the transmission.
- Yeah, right here.
1202
01:09:21,658 --> 01:09:26,653
Eugene, it was between the passenger
and the driver on the front seat.
1203
01:09:26,746 --> 01:09:29,033
This is where your
feet are right here.
1204
01:09:29,123 --> 01:09:30,392
What do I do? Just
stand right here?
1205
01:09:30,416 --> 01:09:32,828
- Start the car.
- Start the car?
1206
01:09:32,919 --> 01:09:34,535
Don't take off the brake!
1207
01:09:38,508 --> 01:09:40,465
Why didn't you get one
of his Cadillac’s?
1208
01:09:40,551 --> 01:09:43,714
That would have been poetic.
It's an American-made car.
1209
01:09:52,605 --> 01:09:54,471
I think it's a bad metaphor.
1210
01:09:54,565 --> 01:09:56,543
I think the better metaphor
is one of his Cadillac’s.
1211
01:09:56,567 --> 01:09:59,104
The ones he gave away. You know,
we were Making Cadillac’s.
1212
01:09:59,195 --> 01:10:01,232
- Yes...
- We were driving Cadillac’s.
1213
01:10:01,322 --> 01:10:03,108
- The future was ours.
- Yeah, I know.
1214
01:10:03,199 --> 01:10:04,781
We were masters of
our own universe.
1215
01:10:04,867 --> 01:10:06,357
This is sort of...
This is a reach.
1216
01:10:06,452 --> 01:10:10,662
This is... He got completely outside
of himself. This is the Vegas.
1217
01:10:10,748 --> 01:10:12,159
- Yeah.
- Okay, all right.
1218
01:10:13,751 --> 01:10:16,914
Pardon me, would you
have any Grey Poupon?
1219
01:10:18,297 --> 01:10:19,503
But of course.
1220
01:10:19,590 --> 01:10:22,378
I did think it was weird
that Elvis had a Rolls Royce
1221
01:10:22,468 --> 01:10:25,802
which is very English, very
Royal, not terribly American.
1222
01:10:25,888 --> 01:10:29,347
Pardon me, do you
have any Grey Poupon?
1223
01:10:30,643 --> 01:10:32,975
America made such a point
of not having a King.
1224
01:10:33,062 --> 01:10:37,727
I never understood Burger King,
Muffler King, Elvis the King.
1225
01:10:37,817 --> 01:10:40,309
I never understood why Bruce
Springsteen was “The Boss.”
1226
01:10:40,403 --> 01:10:42,519
I thought, “Don't
we hate the boss?”
1227
01:10:45,992 --> 01:10:47,983
Consumers said they
would not buy cars...
1228
01:10:48,077 --> 01:10:50,910
GM CEO could not fully
answer that question,
1229
01:10:50,997 --> 01:10:54,206
but insisted 25 billion
will keep them afloat.
1230
01:10:54,292 --> 01:10:58,001
You could work at General Motors, and
if you didn't like General Motors,
1231
01:10:58,087 --> 01:11:00,374
you could walk across the
street and get a job at Ford.
1232
01:11:00,465 --> 01:11:02,877
If you didn't like Ford,
you could walk out of Ford
1233
01:11:02,967 --> 01:11:05,174
and go over to Chrysler
and get a job.
1234
01:11:05,261 --> 01:11:06,843
I got laid off in 2011.
1235
01:11:06,929 --> 01:11:10,342
I tried searching for other jobs,
but no call backs, no nothing.
1236
01:11:14,979 --> 01:11:17,016
When I think of going
West with Elvis,
1237
01:11:17,106 --> 01:11:19,017
I think of Route 66.
1238
01:11:19,108 --> 01:11:21,975
West Memphis, Arkansas,
Oklahoma City,
1239
01:11:22,069 --> 01:11:23,980
Flagstaff, Arizona...
1240
01:11:24,071 --> 01:11:28,565
♪ Up the snowy spires “
1241
01:11:28,659 --> 01:11:33,950
♪ Where the air is
thin as glass “
1242
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:39,251
♪ Once a year the
cold mists clear “
1243
01:11:39,337 --> 01:11:44,127
♪ You can see
inside the earth “
1244
01:11:44,217 --> 01:11:46,675
Anytime you go on Route 66,
1245
01:11:46,761 --> 01:11:48,843
whether you're going East
or you're going West,
1246
01:11:48,930 --> 01:11:52,594
it's overwhelming 'cause it's
just so big and it's so flat.
1247
01:11:52,683 --> 01:11:55,141
And the country
looks uninhabited.
1248
01:11:55,228 --> 01:11:58,596
It looks empty. It looks like it's
still waiting to be discovered.
1249
01:11:58,689 --> 01:12:02,933
♪ Mast and wheel Of
polished brass “
1250
01:12:03,027 --> 01:12:05,439
Those were times on those trips
1251
01:12:05,530 --> 01:12:09,524
where he really talked about
important things in his life.
1252
01:12:09,617 --> 01:12:12,075
I read a lot of
philosophy, some poetry.
1253
01:12:12,161 --> 01:12:14,493
Have you ever heard of a
book called Leaves of Gold?
1254
01:12:14,580 --> 01:12:18,414
It's different men's philosophy on
life, death and everything else.
1255
01:12:18,501 --> 01:12:22,210
♪ I set velocitations ♪
1256
01:12:22,296 --> 01:12:24,913
This country is so much
bigger than we thought.
1257
01:12:25,007 --> 01:12:28,921
Its story is so much more complex
and deep than we thought.
1258
01:12:29,011 --> 01:12:33,676
♪ Set careful calibrations ♪
1259
01:12:37,562 --> 01:12:42,181
♪ Ever inward ever in ♪
1260
01:12:42,275 --> 01:12:45,484
The United States of America!
1261
01:12:48,114 --> 01:12:54,030
♪ I sailed deep
Into the hollows “
1262
01:12:54,120 --> 01:13:00,742
♪ Deep inside the earth ♪
1263
01:13:00,835 --> 01:13:05,671
The politics of today are
politics of grief and nostalgia
1264
01:13:05,756 --> 01:13:09,420
and lament for something that
seems to be slipping away.
1265
01:13:10,553 --> 01:13:12,214
This is an empire in decline.
1266
01:13:17,810 --> 01:13:21,553
Everyone I know, they're stuck in like
restaurant jobs and stuff like that.
1267
01:13:21,647 --> 01:13:25,015
It's not really like a
good job, a career.
1268
01:13:25,109 --> 01:13:28,647
Something that they love, they just do
it because they have no other choice.
1269
01:13:28,738 --> 01:13:33,653
Back in the day, minimum wage was
what, $2 an hour, $2.15 an hour?
1270
01:13:33,743 --> 01:13:37,907
Yet, you would get a soda pop
at that time for 10 cents.
1271
01:13:37,997 --> 01:13:41,661
Nowadays, minimum wage
is $7.50 an hour.
1272
01:13:41,751 --> 01:13:45,915
Yet, you go and get a soda for
$2 in a soda pop machine.
1273
01:13:46,005 --> 01:13:48,417
So, if that doesn't give you
a comparison, what does?
1274
01:13:51,260 --> 01:13:53,547
You never stood in
that man's shoes,
1275
01:13:53,638 --> 01:13:56,881
or saw things through his eyes.
1276
01:13:56,974 --> 01:14:02,970
Or stood and watched with helpless
hands, while the heart inside you dies.
1277
01:14:03,064 --> 01:14:08,355
So help your brother along the
way, no matter where he starts.
1278
01:14:08,444 --> 01:14:11,903
For the same God that
made you, made him too.
1279
01:14:12,740 --> 01:14:14,230
These men with broken hearts.
1280
01:14:15,534 --> 01:14:17,366
I'd like to sing a song
along the same line.
1281
01:14:25,878 --> 01:14:29,246
♪ If I could be you
If you could be me ♪
1282
01:14:29,340 --> 01:14:32,799
♪ For just one hour “
1283
01:14:32,885 --> 01:14:38,506
♪ If we could find a way to get
inside Each other's mind “
1284
01:14:38,599 --> 01:14:41,512
♪ Oh ho, walk a
mile In my shoes ♪
1285
01:14:42,812 --> 01:14:45,429
♪ Walk a mile in my shoes “
1286
01:14:45,523 --> 01:14:49,687
♪ Yeah, before you abuse
Criticize and accuse “
1287
01:14:49,777 --> 01:14:52,064
♪ Just walk a mile
in my shoes “
1288
01:14:53,906 --> 01:14:56,113
Now you may find Hollywood
to be a lonely town.
1289
01:14:56,200 --> 01:14:59,158
You're new here and good
friends are hard to find.
1290
01:14:59,245 --> 01:15:01,737
Just as in any other industry.
1291
01:15:01,831 --> 01:15:05,995
And I want you to know that you may feel
free to regard my home as your own.
1292
01:15:18,723 --> 01:15:21,590
♪ Well, it's been building
up inside of me ♪
1293
01:15:21,684 --> 01:15:26,144
♪ For, oh, I don't
know How long ♪
1294
01:15:26,230 --> 01:15:28,096
Elvis the actor.
1295
01:15:28,190 --> 01:15:31,399
It's interesting that right when he
was changing the world with music,
1296
01:15:31,485 --> 01:15:33,647
some part of him
wanted to be an actor.
1297
01:15:33,738 --> 01:15:36,651
I mean, nobody wanted to hear anybody
else play more in the world.
1298
01:15:36,741 --> 01:15:39,052
And what's this guy start doing?
He starts acting in movies.
1299
01:15:39,076 --> 01:15:40,345
Why don't you stick
to what you know?
1300
01:15:40,369 --> 01:15:42,556
- You mean stay where I belong?
- You might say that, yes.
1301
01:15:42,580 --> 01:15:45,823
Well, thanks for the advice. I hope
you won't mind if I don't take it.
1302
01:15:45,916 --> 01:15:48,408
♪ Don't worry, baby ♪
1303
01:15:48,502 --> 01:15:49,867
Elvis loved Hollywood.
1304
01:15:49,962 --> 01:15:53,876
He liked being the star. He
liked being Elvis Presley.
1305
01:15:53,966 --> 01:15:58,506
♪ Don't worry, baby ♪
- Don't worry, baby ♪
1306
01:15:58,596 --> 01:16:01,304
♪ Ooh ooh ♪
1307
01:16:01,390 --> 01:16:03,552
Anybody ever tell you
you're very handsome?
1308
01:16:04,351 --> 01:16:05,351
Only girls.
1309
01:16:06,729 --> 01:16:11,815
When I first started dating Elvis,
there was a little bit of trepidation.
1310
01:16:11,901 --> 01:16:16,270
This is Elvis Presley, you know, and
he has dated movie stars and models.
1311
01:16:16,363 --> 01:16:19,276
There were moments when
I was even awestruck
1312
01:16:19,366 --> 01:16:25,328
by the magnitude of who he was, his
fame, and how he was idolized.
1313
01:16:25,414 --> 01:16:27,997
So right now we're in Hollywood.
1314
01:16:28,084 --> 01:16:32,453
We're about to go see the legendary
man himself known as “The King.”
1315
01:16:32,546 --> 01:16:36,039
We're about to see his star.
It's over here.
1316
01:16:36,133 --> 01:16:38,295
Absolutely, I've seen
the celebrities.
1317
01:16:38,385 --> 01:16:40,046
Katy Perry, Quentin Tarantino.
1318
01:16:40,137 --> 01:16:42,174
The Kardashians
live in that area.
1319
01:16:42,264 --> 01:16:46,178
Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis.
I can go on forever.
1320
01:16:46,268 --> 01:16:47,758
Cameron Diaz, Jack Black.
1321
01:16:47,853 --> 01:16:51,062
I've seen Johnny Depp, Billy
Zane, big names like that.
1322
01:16:52,149 --> 01:16:53,230
God, it's so endless.
1323
01:16:53,317 --> 01:16:55,399
Next on your left,
across the street,
1324
01:16:55,486 --> 01:16:57,693
you will see the
mansion of Jack Benny.
1325
01:16:57,780 --> 01:17:00,943
You'll mainly probably see
them if you're lucky enough
1326
01:17:01,033 --> 01:17:04,571
to drive by as their gates are opening
and you look into their windshield.
1327
01:17:04,662 --> 01:17:05,823
Hi, Ashton!
1328
01:17:05,913 --> 01:17:07,713
- Think about driving the least.
- Okay.
1329
01:17:08,124 --> 01:17:09,124
Let's do it.
1330
01:17:10,501 --> 01:17:11,853
- Hey, guys.
- Oh, hi!
1331
01:17:11,877 --> 01:17:14,289
- Say hello to Mila!
- Love you!
1332
01:17:17,675 --> 01:17:19,111
I never really
wanted to be famous.
1333
01:17:19,135 --> 01:17:21,154
It wasn't like something that
was like on my sheet of things
1334
01:17:21,178 --> 01:17:22,614
that I want to
accomplish in my life.
1335
01:17:22,638 --> 01:17:24,366
I wanted to be an actor
because I like acting.
1336
01:17:24,390 --> 01:17:29,305
Fame came with that. It was fairly
awesome for a good portion of time.
1337
01:17:31,856 --> 01:17:38,068
You look at Elvis, was anybody ready to
be in a world that everyone's watching?
1338
01:17:42,533 --> 01:17:45,901
This is America, not
the Soviet Union!
1339
01:17:45,995 --> 01:17:48,362
The US is entering its own
version of the Dark Ages.
1340
01:17:48,455 --> 01:17:50,696
This is the time
for real Wisdom.
1341
01:17:52,459 --> 01:17:55,417
I think what happens when
you rise very quickly
1342
01:17:55,504 --> 01:17:58,417
to a position of enormous,
overwhelming power
1343
01:17:58,507 --> 01:17:59,943
is that you don't
know how to use it.
1344
01:17:59,967 --> 01:18:02,208
And in fact, it can use you.
1345
01:18:02,303 --> 01:18:05,512
I think something similar
happened to Elvis in the sense
1346
01:18:05,598 --> 01:18:09,341
that he became the creature of
other forces in American life.
1347
01:18:09,435 --> 01:18:12,223
Corporate forces, the
forces of popular culture.
1348
01:18:12,313 --> 01:18:16,102
Making all of us worshippers of
things not worth worshipping.
1349
01:18:17,610 --> 01:18:21,399
Around here, there's just one
reason the show must go on:
1350
01:18:21,488 --> 01:18:22,488
the gross.
1351
01:18:22,573 --> 01:18:23,859
That's why I'm here.
1352
01:18:23,949 --> 01:18:26,441
So the Colonel signs him
up to this, at the time,
1353
01:18:26,535 --> 01:18:29,277
the biggest movie contract
in the history of movies.
1354
01:18:29,371 --> 01:18:32,909
And everybody thinks that's a good
thing, that he signed the biggest deal.
1355
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:37,164
Well, what it did, is it totally
sabotaged him as an actual performer.
1356
01:18:37,254 --> 01:18:39,165
Really, I give credit
where credit is due.
1357
01:18:39,256 --> 01:18:41,463
When Elvis was young, he was
a bad motherfucker, boy.
1358
01:18:41,550 --> 01:18:43,040
Elvis was bad.
1359
01:18:43,135 --> 01:18:44,375
Singing his ass off.
1360
01:18:44,470 --> 01:18:46,670
He sang so good they let him do movies.
He couldn't act.
1361
01:18:48,098 --> 01:18:50,305
They said “Fuck it, let him
sing all his dialogue.”
1362
01:18:50,392 --> 01:18:54,010
♪ You get the sandpaper
You get the pails ♪
1363
01:18:54,104 --> 01:18:57,187
♪ You get the hammer, bah
♪ You get the nails ♪
1364
01:18:57,274 --> 01:18:59,436
You don't even have
to be able to talk.
1365
01:19:00,611 --> 01:19:02,147
Just sing and get famous.
1366
01:19:02,238 --> 01:19:05,606
Elvis got absorbed by
the rules of Hollywood.
1367
01:19:05,699 --> 01:19:12,366
A very powerful structure that will not
bend to anything from the outside.
1368
01:19:12,456 --> 01:19:14,322
Hollywood is...
1369
01:19:14,416 --> 01:19:16,874
You put out movie
posters, right?
1370
01:19:16,961 --> 01:19:18,998
Are they horizontal or vertical?
1371
01:19:19,088 --> 01:19:21,079
- Vertical.
- All the time?
1372
01:19:21,173 --> 01:19:22,834
- Yes.
- Why?
1373
01:19:22,925 --> 01:19:25,667
To fit in the little glass
box outside the theater.
1374
01:19:25,761 --> 01:19:27,092
Exactly.
1375
01:19:27,179 --> 01:19:28,715
So all that
outside-the-box shit...
1376
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:35,642
♪ Oh, I went to the doctor “
1377
01:19:35,729 --> 01:19:37,766
♪ And I said, “Doctor, please ♪
1378
01:19:39,316 --> 01:19:43,355
♪ What do you do When
your true love leaves?” ♪
1379
01:19:43,445 --> 01:19:47,814
♪ He said, “The hardest thing
In the world to do... ♪
1380
01:19:47,908 --> 01:19:50,115
I got a feeling I'm
heading for disaster.
1381
01:19:50,202 --> 01:19:54,036
♪ ...Is to find somebody
Believes in you ♪
1382
01:19:54,123 --> 01:19:58,037
He becomes, essentially, an
employee in his own factory.
1383
01:19:58,127 --> 01:20:00,164
♪ Don't make a sound... “
1384
01:20:00,254 --> 01:20:03,792
He does what he's told over
and over and over again.
1385
01:20:03,882 --> 01:20:06,965
Is that the beginning and the
end of the world for you?
1386
01:20:07,052 --> 01:20:09,510
Is there no emotion left in
you but the lust for money?
1387
01:20:09,596 --> 01:20:11,382
And begins to curdle.
1388
01:20:13,642 --> 01:20:16,054
So, you understand,
this is Elvis Presley.
1389
01:20:16,145 --> 01:20:19,683
It's like he's put on the bench doing
these shit-ass movies for like ten years.
1390
01:20:19,773 --> 01:20:21,514
Their lives are not worth that.
1391
01:20:21,608 --> 01:20:26,694
♪ Then I went to the whale and I
said “Killer whale, please “
1392
01:20:28,198 --> 01:20:31,736
♪ What do you do When your
true love leaves?” “
1393
01:20:31,827 --> 01:20:36,993
♪ He said, “I only have
One trick up my sleeve “
1394
01:20:37,082 --> 01:20:39,870
♪ I sing it over and over ♪
1395
01:20:40,961 --> 01:20:43,453
♪ Till she come back to me ♪
1396
01:20:47,092 --> 01:20:50,130
Elvis Presley... Right
beside the Beatles.
1397
01:20:55,017 --> 01:20:56,974
What do you think of the comment
1398
01:20:57,061 --> 01:20:58,580
that you're nothing but a bunch
of British Elvis Presley’s?
1399
01:20:58,604 --> 01:20:59,844
It's not true! It's not true!
1400
01:21:01,607 --> 01:21:03,439
I'm... I'm an Elvis
Fan, you know.
1401
01:21:03,525 --> 01:21:06,212
You know, you went to see those movies
when we were still in Liverpool.
1402
01:21:06,236 --> 01:21:08,648
And you'd see everybody
waiting to see him, right?
1403
01:21:08,739 --> 01:21:10,321
And I'd be waiting there too.
1404
01:21:10,407 --> 01:21:13,024
And they'd all scream when
he came on the screen.
1405
01:21:13,118 --> 01:21:14,984
So we thought,
“That's a good job.”
1406
01:21:15,079 --> 01:21:18,242
♪ I believe in yesterday ♪
1407
01:21:18,332 --> 01:21:20,494
When the Beatles came to
California to visit Elvis...
1408
01:21:20,584 --> 01:21:22,166
♪ Suddenly ♪
1409
01:21:22,252 --> 01:21:24,038
he was a '50s relic.
1410
01:21:24,129 --> 01:21:28,043
♪ I'm not half the
man I used to be ♪
1411
01:21:28,133 --> 01:21:31,467
What Elvis had meant to John Lennon as a
young man was he lit the world on fire.
1412
01:21:31,553 --> 01:21:33,089
Poor old Elvis.
1413
01:21:33,180 --> 01:21:35,700
Somebody said today he sounds like
Bing Crosby now, and he does.
1414
01:21:36,725 --> 01:21:39,012
Here are the Beatles!
1415
01:21:40,479 --> 01:21:44,097
I'm reminded of a famous story
about Colonel Parker and Elvis.
1416
01:21:44,191 --> 01:21:47,729
That at the height of Elvis's popularity,
he was doing these movies at Paramount.
1417
01:21:47,820 --> 01:21:52,781
And there were so many girls at the gate,
that the Colonel put a blanket over Elvis
1418
01:21:52,866 --> 01:21:56,404
so that the girls wouldn't see him and
go crazy, and they'd let the car in.
1419
01:21:56,495 --> 01:21:59,954
But then when the Beatles came,
it was all Beatles all the time,
1420
01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:03,374
Elvis was still doing movies at Paramount,
but there weren't any girls there.
1421
01:22:03,460 --> 01:22:06,373
And the Colonel still put
a blanket over Elvis,
1422
01:22:06,463 --> 01:22:09,376
so that Elvis wouldn't see
that there was no girls there.
1423
01:22:09,466 --> 01:22:12,925
When I heard that story, it really
did open my heart to Elvis.
1424
01:22:13,011 --> 01:22:15,719
He went from a comic
figure to a tragic figure.
1425
01:22:17,349 --> 01:22:18,868
I think people get
trapped in fame.
1426
01:22:18,892 --> 01:22:20,553
Yeah, it's been
good for my life.
1427
01:22:20,644 --> 01:22:22,009
It's also been bad for my life.
1428
01:22:22,104 --> 01:22:24,892
You know, started to feel,
at a certain point,
1429
01:22:24,982 --> 01:22:29,567
where... my fame was
outstripping my talent.
1430
01:22:29,653 --> 01:22:31,213
Based on what I've
done professionally,
1431
01:22:31,238 --> 01:22:33,730
I should not be getting
this much attention.
1432
01:22:33,824 --> 01:22:36,156
- Love you, Ashton!
- We love you!
1433
01:22:36,243 --> 01:22:42,080
I think in some people's case, they reach
a point in fame that is so large...
1434
01:22:42,166 --> 01:22:46,330
that they have to be able to afford a
kind of living to protect themselves
1435
01:22:46,420 --> 01:22:49,754
from the very fame that
they've created, or go away.
1436
01:22:49,840 --> 01:22:54,084
♪ I walk along a
thin line, darling ♪
1437
01:22:54,178 --> 01:22:58,513
- ♪ Darling ♪ - ♪ Dark
shadows follow me ♪
1438
01:22:58,599 --> 01:23:03,309
You know, Elvis, at a point, thought
about going into a religious life.
1439
01:23:03,395 --> 01:23:05,511
The time when he was
unhappy with the movies,
1440
01:23:05,606 --> 01:23:10,225
he actually wanted to go in and
have us live in a commune,
1441
01:23:10,319 --> 01:23:12,856
and just kind of do
a religious thing.
1442
01:23:12,946 --> 01:23:15,358
I am submerged in eternal light.
1443
01:23:15,449 --> 01:23:17,907
I am submerged in eternal light.
1444
01:23:17,993 --> 01:23:23,784
LA has been a place of crackpot
religions since at least the 1880s
1445
01:23:23,874 --> 01:23:29,540
Scientology is just one
more version of the cults
1446
01:23:29,630 --> 01:23:34,841
offering transcendence, Making you
the being God wanted you to be.
1447
01:23:34,927 --> 01:23:36,213
Making you God.
1448
01:23:36,303 --> 01:23:41,048
♪ The age of reality
1449
01:23:51,693 --> 01:23:54,435
A few miles from where
we are right now,
1450
01:23:54,530 --> 01:23:58,740
Elvis had the most dynamic
experience of his life.
1451
01:23:58,825 --> 01:24:02,693
We were driving through the Arizona
desert on the old Route 66.
1452
01:24:02,788 --> 01:24:07,533
And Elvis was just transfixed
thinking at the clouds.
1453
01:24:08,752 --> 01:24:10,584
Elvis, all of the sudden, said,
1454
01:24:10,671 --> 01:24:16,292
“Look! What the hell is Joseph
Stalin's face doing in that cloud?”
1455
01:24:16,385 --> 01:24:18,547
It was unmistakable
Joseph Stalin.
1456
01:24:18,637 --> 01:24:20,969
The eyebrows and the
mustache and that hairline.
1457
01:24:21,056 --> 01:24:23,923
He pulled the bus over. He
said, “Larry, follow me!”
1458
01:24:24,017 --> 01:24:28,136
We run into the desert and Elvis
turns around, and he said,
1459
01:24:28,230 --> 01:24:32,849
“A lightning bolt came out of
that cloud and pierced my body.
1460
01:24:32,943 --> 01:24:36,561
And now, Larry, I don't
believe in God anymore.”
1461
01:24:36,655 --> 01:24:40,569
“I don't have to. Now I know.
God is love.”
1462
01:24:40,659 --> 01:24:42,696
Elvis said, “That's it, man.
1463
01:24:42,786 --> 01:24:45,244
I'm done. I'm quitting
show business.
1464
01:24:45,330 --> 01:24:49,540
How could I go back and make one
of those teenybopper movies
1465
01:24:49,626 --> 01:24:52,459
that don't mean a damn thing?
1466
01:24:52,546 --> 01:24:55,254
I've gotta do something
meaningful in my life.”
1467
01:24:57,551 --> 01:25:00,589
When I went to work for
Elvis in the '60s,
1468
01:25:00,679 --> 01:25:04,092
I felt I missed out on
all of the excitement.
1469
01:25:04,182 --> 01:25:06,093
The rock and roll
part, if you will.
1470
01:25:06,184 --> 01:25:07,766
Because we were
doing the movies.
1471
01:25:07,853 --> 01:25:10,345
But then there was the
'68 comeback special.
1472
01:25:10,439 --> 01:25:12,021
Elvis hated that word,
the “comeback.”
1473
01:25:12,107 --> 01:25:14,940
He said, “Look, ain't no comeback
because I ain't been nowhere.
1474
01:25:15,027 --> 01:25:17,880
I've been Making movies. So I just wanted
to show them I could still do it.”
1475
01:25:17,904 --> 01:25:20,091
He said he was a little nervous
because he didn't want to flop.
1476
01:25:20,115 --> 01:25:23,358
Colonel Tom wants
25 Christmas songs
1477
01:25:23,452 --> 01:25:25,284
because it's a
Christmas special.
1478
01:25:25,370 --> 01:25:27,111
And Elvis actually says no.
1479
01:25:27,205 --> 01:25:31,540
Singer, maker of the world's
finest sewing machines, presents:
1480
01:25:31,627 --> 01:25:33,994
“ELVIS,” Starring Elvis Presley.
1481
01:25:34,087 --> 01:25:36,704
In his first personal performance
on TV in nearly 10 years.
1482
01:25:43,263 --> 01:25:45,755
♪ Warden threw a party
In the county jail ♪
1483
01:25:45,849 --> 01:25:48,216
♪ The prison band was there
And they began to wail “
1484
01:25:48,310 --> 01:25:52,679
He burnt the house down. It was the
most rockin' thing you'd ever seen.
1485
01:25:52,773 --> 01:25:56,767
But the best part of the whole thing
was he and the original band.
1486
01:25:56,860 --> 01:25:58,817
♪ That's all right, mama “
1487
01:25:58,904 --> 01:26:01,862
♪ Just any way you do
That's all right '
1488
01:26:01,948 --> 01:26:06,693
And just played all those Sun Record hits.
I got chill bumps thinking about it.
1489
01:26:06,787 --> 01:26:10,451
I was like, “That's rock and roll!
That's it! That's the Elvis I like!”
1490
01:26:10,540 --> 01:26:15,706
♪ Well, since my baby left me I
found a new place to dwell ♪
1491
01:26:15,796 --> 01:26:18,128
This is a man breaking
out of a prison.
1492
01:26:18,215 --> 01:26:21,003
♪ Well, bless my soul
What's wrong with me? “
1493
01:26:21,093 --> 01:26:23,460
♪ I'm itchin' like a
man On a fuzzy tree ♪
1494
01:26:23,553 --> 01:26:25,510
He's got this full
black leather outfit.
1495
01:26:25,597 --> 01:26:28,931
He's in control of his body,
he's in control of his voice.
1496
01:26:29,017 --> 01:26:31,554
He's direct, he's
relaxed, he's funny even.
1497
01:26:31,645 --> 01:26:33,477
♪ I was... “
1498
01:26:34,690 --> 01:26:36,272
Hold it, hold it, man.
1499
01:26:36,358 --> 01:26:38,349
Ho! Ho! Hold it.
1500
01:26:38,443 --> 01:26:40,275
I got my lip hung
on this microphone.
1501
01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:45,000
You remember that, don't ya?
You know that...
1502
01:26:46,201 --> 01:26:48,192
Did 29 pictures like that, baby.
1503
01:26:49,871 --> 01:26:54,206
And at one point, he just lifts up the
microphone stand. He lifts it up.
1504
01:26:54,292 --> 01:26:57,956
And he holds it like a harpoon.
And he says “Moby Dick.”
1505
01:26:58,046 --> 01:26:59,753
Moby Dick!
1506
01:26:59,840 --> 01:27:02,753
I thought, “My God,
he's Captain Ahab.”
1507
01:27:02,843 --> 01:27:04,195
He's saying, “I'm
going for it all.”
1508
01:27:04,219 --> 01:27:05,880
It's just one of
these epiphanies.
1509
01:27:05,971 --> 01:27:10,010
Where thousands of meanings
come crashing down all at once.
1510
01:27:10,100 --> 01:27:15,015
He is a living metaphor for any picture
of America you might want to draw.
1511
01:27:15,105 --> 01:27:16,891
That's the American fantasy.
1512
01:27:16,982 --> 01:27:21,067
Not untold riches. Not
power over other people.
1513
01:27:21,153 --> 01:27:24,942
Life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.
1514
01:27:25,031 --> 01:27:26,487
♪ I know you'll have me “
1515
01:27:26,575 --> 01:27:28,612
♪ And I know I'll have me too “
1516
01:27:28,702 --> 01:27:30,909
“ Don't be cruel “
- I Ah ah ah “
1517
01:27:30,996 --> 01:27:32,612
♪ To a heart that's true “
1518
01:27:34,249 --> 01:27:36,832
♪ I don't want no other love “
1519
01:27:36,918 --> 01:27:40,252
♪ Baby, it's just you
I'm thinking of “
1520
01:27:40,338 --> 01:27:45,424
It looks to the world like in the
comeback special, there you are again.
1521
01:27:45,510 --> 01:27:47,421
- Yeah for that one night.
- Yeah.
1522
01:27:47,512 --> 01:27:48,573
- That's all.
- That's it?
1523
01:27:48,597 --> 01:27:49,957
- That's it...
- That was it.
1524
01:27:56,772 --> 01:27:58,683
I said, “Elvis, you're back, man.
You're back.”
1525
01:27:58,774 --> 01:28:00,501
He said, “Yeah.” And he said,
“And I'm going to stay back too.”
1526
01:28:00,525 --> 01:28:04,393
He said, “I ain't gonna make
no crappy movies for a while.”
1527
01:28:04,488 --> 01:28:08,732
The '68 special was so hot with great
ratings, that Vegas started calling.
1528
01:28:24,466 --> 01:28:27,049
They did so many nuclear
testings under Vegas,
1529
01:28:27,135 --> 01:28:32,301
that in many ways, Vegas is like a
radioactive mutation of capitalism.
1530
01:28:32,390 --> 01:28:36,224
Most people don't understand Las Vegas.
They understand it backward.
1531
01:28:36,311 --> 01:28:41,147
They think it's a city of fantasy and
deceit when, in fact, it is probably
1532
01:28:41,233 --> 01:28:47,445
the most pure and honest expression of
the prevailing values of our society.
1533
01:28:48,949 --> 01:28:51,691
And where the only thing
that counts is the money.
1534
01:28:55,997 --> 01:28:58,159
♪ Never know How
much I love ya ♪
1535
01:28:59,793 --> 01:29:03,627
♪ Never know how much I care “
1536
01:29:03,713 --> 01:29:06,956
♪ When you put Your
arms around me ♪
1537
01:29:07,050 --> 01:29:09,792
♪ I get a fever That's
so hard to bear ♪
1538
01:29:09,886 --> 01:29:11,718
♪ You give me fever “
1539
01:29:14,015 --> 01:29:15,505
♪ When you kiss me “
1540
01:29:15,600 --> 01:29:18,058
♪ Fever when you
hold me tight “
1541
01:29:19,646 --> 01:29:20,977
♪ Fever “
1542
01:29:21,898 --> 01:29:23,059
♪ In the morning “
1543
01:29:23,149 --> 01:29:26,062
♪ Fever all through the night “
1544
01:29:27,362 --> 01:29:29,854
Heather, go see if she's
got any better wine.
1545
01:29:31,449 --> 01:29:33,531
- Want me to tell you a story?
- Please.
1546
01:29:33,618 --> 01:29:37,111
Casino. They filmed it here.
True story.
1547
01:29:37,205 --> 01:29:39,492
I know where the bodies are
buried, some of them anyway.
1548
01:29:39,583 --> 01:29:40,744
How come?
1549
01:29:40,834 --> 01:29:44,452
Because I'm Jewish. I move
in the right circles.
1550
01:29:44,546 --> 01:29:46,253
I kiss the right ass.
1551
01:29:46,339 --> 01:29:49,798
Elvis came into town in 1969.
1552
01:29:49,885 --> 01:29:53,094
In those days, all the
characters hung around here.
1553
01:29:53,179 --> 01:29:57,889
Presidents, ex-presidents,
stars, the boys.
1554
01:29:57,976 --> 01:30:00,968
They're all friends of mine.
And I take good care of them.
1555
01:30:01,062 --> 01:30:07,308
If you look at vintage Las Vegas,
from the Rat Pack to Elvis Presley,
1556
01:30:07,402 --> 01:30:09,018
the casino was the King.
1557
01:30:09,112 --> 01:30:13,481
It's a place that the mob staked
out as a playground for adults.
1558
01:30:13,575 --> 01:30:15,236
It was sin city.
1559
01:30:16,578 --> 01:30:19,491
The takeover of Las Vegas
from being owned by the mob
1560
01:30:19,581 --> 01:30:24,451
to being owned by the corporations
marked a radical turning point.
1561
01:30:24,544 --> 01:30:30,711
The Hilton International was the beachhead
of corporate control of Las Vegas.
1562
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:33,292
And Elvis was a very
conscious choice
1563
01:30:33,386 --> 01:30:37,596
to clean up the image because he's
about as American as apple pie.
1564
01:30:37,682 --> 01:30:40,891
“Here's hoping you have a very successful
opening and that you break both legs.”
1565
01:30:42,228 --> 01:30:44,765
Signed Tom Jones.
1566
01:30:44,856 --> 01:30:48,190
I can only imagine the
deleterious effects
1567
01:30:48,276 --> 01:30:51,439
that this city had
on Elvis Presley.
1568
01:30:51,529 --> 01:30:55,989
You could rent anything here.
It's all you can eat.
1569
01:30:56,076 --> 01:30:58,192
Last year alone,
this hotel had some
1570
01:30:58,286 --> 01:31:01,028
seven million pounds
of leftover food.
1571
01:31:01,122 --> 01:31:06,208
That's right. Pig slop. Made
from sushi and roast beef.
1572
01:31:06,294 --> 01:31:07,480
Money, money, money.
That was it.
1573
01:31:07,504 --> 01:31:08,665
Money, money, money.
1574
01:31:08,755 --> 01:31:11,042
He got big money in Vegas
because of the Colonel.
1575
01:31:11,132 --> 01:31:13,794
Colonel lost a lot of money gambling.
Millions.
1576
01:31:13,885 --> 01:31:15,501
Elvis sang for it.
1577
01:31:15,595 --> 01:31:16,835
Bring your cameras over here.
1578
01:31:16,930 --> 01:31:19,388
I like to live up to my
reputation of being a nice guy.
1579
01:31:19,474 --> 01:31:20,760
This is it, folks.
1580
01:31:20,850 --> 01:31:23,182
The story is, after the
'68 comeback special,
1581
01:31:23,269 --> 01:31:25,101
Elvis is screaming he
wants to go on tour.
1582
01:31:25,188 --> 01:31:27,099
And the Colonel's like,
“Let's jut play Vegas.
1583
01:31:27,190 --> 01:31:28,851
I'll make the world
come to you, Elvis.
1584
01:31:28,942 --> 01:31:30,211
You don't have to
go to the world.”
1585
01:31:30,235 --> 01:31:31,671
Well, why does the
Colonel want to do this?
1586
01:31:31,695 --> 01:31:34,778
Because he's a lying sack
of shit is my opinion.
1587
01:31:34,864 --> 01:31:36,926
See, the Colonel was not
an American citizen.
1588
01:31:36,950 --> 01:31:39,487
We found out later that he
wouldn't take Elvis overseas
1589
01:31:39,577 --> 01:31:41,568
because if he did, he'd
have to have a passport.
1590
01:31:41,663 --> 01:31:44,826
I'd like to go to Europe. I'd like
to go to Japan and all those places.
1591
01:31:44,916 --> 01:31:47,061
I've never been out of this
country except in the service.
1592
01:31:47,085 --> 01:31:50,077
I think if you look at
the first year or two,
1593
01:31:50,171 --> 01:31:52,458
Elvis was a fan of Vegas.
1594
01:31:52,549 --> 01:31:54,756
But as the years went by...
1595
01:31:58,430 --> 01:32:00,717
You know, we were there
two shows a day,
1596
01:32:00,807 --> 01:32:02,468
40 days at a time.
1597
01:32:02,559 --> 01:32:06,177
You know, it's easy to get
prescriptions for sleeping pills.
1598
01:32:06,271 --> 01:32:09,434
♪ It's 4:00 in the morning
And I'm turning in my bed I'
1599
01:32:09,524 --> 01:32:14,519
You get immune to one thing,
you get something stronger.
1600
01:32:15,905 --> 01:32:17,862
And it's just a vicious cycle.
1601
01:32:20,410 --> 01:32:22,526
You know, you just drop
a pill and drop a pill,
1602
01:32:22,620 --> 01:32:25,533
and then you double it,
and you triple it.
1603
01:32:25,623 --> 01:32:29,287
♪ 5:00 in the morning And
I'm wishing it was 1:00 “
1604
01:32:30,587 --> 01:32:33,420
Celebrity is the industrial
disease of creativity.
1605
01:32:33,506 --> 01:32:35,793
And it's toxic. And then
when you get to Vegas,
1606
01:32:35,884 --> 01:32:40,173
it's the condensed soup version of
any idea that human beings have had.
1607
01:32:40,263 --> 01:32:43,221
It's the sludge
of Making things.
1608
01:32:44,934 --> 01:32:46,654
Excuse me. I can't take
this fresh air, man.
1609
01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:48,885
I'm used to the back...
1610
01:32:48,980 --> 01:32:51,438
The garbage can at the
International Hotel, man.
1611
01:32:53,318 --> 01:32:55,963
If I can't smell some garbage, I don't
feel at home, man. I'll tell ya.
1612
01:32:55,987 --> 01:32:58,524
We were awake all night and
asleep during the day.
1613
01:32:58,615 --> 01:32:59,901
We lived like vampires.
1614
01:32:59,991 --> 01:33:01,857
Four hours a night.
1615
01:33:01,951 --> 01:33:03,817
Something like that,
if I'm lucky.
1616
01:33:04,454 --> 01:33:05,535
Tough to relax.
1617
01:33:05,622 --> 01:33:08,034
Just walk around, swallow and...
1618
01:33:09,667 --> 01:33:11,829
I knew he had a problem.
1619
01:33:11,920 --> 01:33:13,957
But I never looked
at him as an addict.
1620
01:33:21,304 --> 01:33:25,423
The insecurity of being an
entertainer is the worst.
1621
01:33:25,517 --> 01:33:29,761
You go on the stage, you're in dream land.
Then you crash.
1622
01:33:29,854 --> 01:33:34,940
Down a very deep hole info a
strange place called wonderland.
1623
01:33:37,529 --> 01:33:39,440
I get things in my
mind and I, uh,
1624
01:33:39,531 --> 01:33:42,865
I get a little confused and a
little, about half mad, you know.
1625
01:33:42,951 --> 01:33:44,595
You get in moods sometimes
Where you're very happy,
1626
01:33:44,619 --> 01:33:46,219
you get in moods where
you're very sad...
1627
01:33:47,288 --> 01:33:49,100
Where everything looks
dark and gloomy
1628
01:33:49,124 --> 01:33:51,957
and it looks like there's
nothing for you in life.
1629
01:33:52,043 --> 01:33:53,829
I guess everybody
feels that way.
1630
01:33:53,920 --> 01:33:57,129
I ask him, “What do you think
your biggest flaw is?”
1631
01:33:57,215 --> 01:34:01,254
And he said, “I'll only say this once, and
I'll probably never admit to it again,
1632
01:34:01,344 --> 01:34:04,052
but I recognize that
I'm self-destructive.”
1633
01:34:04,139 --> 01:34:06,826
It's like one of my relatives was
dying right in front of my eyes.
1634
01:34:06,850 --> 01:34:08,716
But I didn't know what to do.
1635
01:34:08,810 --> 01:34:13,054
From three different sources I
heard I was strung out on heroin.
1636
01:34:13,148 --> 01:34:14,934
It was just prescription
medication,
1637
01:34:15,024 --> 01:34:17,686
but you're an addict just
like a street addict
1638
01:34:17,777 --> 01:34:21,987
if you're addicted Percocet
and Dilaudid and Demerol.
1639
01:34:22,073 --> 01:34:24,155
In his mind, he was
able to rationalize it.
1640
01:34:24,242 --> 01:34:28,076
America's public enemy number
one, in the United States,
1641
01:34:28,163 --> 01:34:29,745
is drug abuse.
1642
01:34:29,831 --> 01:34:32,869
Didn't Elvis want to be the
head of the FBI or something?
1643
01:34:32,959 --> 01:34:34,436
He wanted to be the Drug Czar.
1644
01:34:34,460 --> 01:34:37,202
Might that go into the
irony hall of fame?
1645
01:34:37,297 --> 01:34:38,833
“Yeah, Elvis, that'd
be a great idea.
1646
01:34:38,923 --> 01:34:41,085
Go talk to Nixon
to run the DEA.”
1647
01:34:41,176 --> 01:34:44,168
Rumors that you hear
about me are trash.
1648
01:34:44,262 --> 01:34:46,094
I'm an eighth-degree
black belt in karate.
1649
01:34:46,181 --> 01:34:48,263
I am a federal narcotics agent.
1650
01:34:48,349 --> 01:34:50,841
They don't give you that
if you're strung out,
1651
01:34:50,935 --> 01:34:52,079
if you're...
1652
01:34:53,354 --> 01:34:55,812
Thank you very much, ladies
and gentlemen, thank you.
1653
01:34:55,899 --> 01:34:59,938
“Pure products of America go crazy,”
said William Carlos Williams.
1654
01:35:00,028 --> 01:35:01,610
That's where we are in America.
1655
01:35:01,696 --> 01:35:04,529
That's basically where we
are in the movie, okay?
1656
01:35:04,616 --> 01:35:07,904
We're in the second act where
it's just all gone to hell.
1657
01:35:07,994 --> 01:35:11,737
Let's deregulate the banks.
The bankers are oppressed.
1658
01:35:11,831 --> 01:35:15,244
What could possibly go wrong
if we deregulate Wall Street?
1659
01:35:15,335 --> 01:35:16,791
These towers got knocked down.
1660
01:35:16,878 --> 01:35:19,040
Let's go start a bunch of
wars in the Middle East.
1661
01:35:19,130 --> 01:35:20,666
Somebody's using crack cocaine.
1662
01:35:20,757 --> 01:35:22,998
Build prisons from
coast to coast.
1663
01:35:23,092 --> 01:35:28,508
I mean, just ridiculous failure
after ridiculous failure.
1664
01:35:28,598 --> 01:35:29,909
There's a new report out.
1665
01:35:29,933 --> 01:35:33,176
Gender pay gap won't close
for another 170 years.
1666
01:35:33,269 --> 01:35:36,887
America is going to be
guided by Christian values.
1667
01:35:36,981 --> 01:35:39,894
Have you ever taken the time to
talk to somebody Who is homeless?
1668
01:35:39,984 --> 01:35:41,337
How should we
handle immigration?
1669
01:35:41,361 --> 01:35:43,602
The legislators are
not doing their jobs.
1670
01:35:43,696 --> 01:35:49,783
The fact is, it's a disaster of the
first order on the world stage
1671
01:35:49,869 --> 01:35:53,407
for seven billion people to see,
and there's no escaping that.
1672
01:35:53,498 --> 01:35:56,206
This election is gonna be Who
can get their supporters
1673
01:35:56,292 --> 01:35:57,202
to come out and vote.
1674
01:35:57,293 --> 01:35:59,521
Trump got his final digs
in on Hillary Clinton.
1675
01:35:59,545 --> 01:36:02,107
Presidential candidates are Making
their final pitch to voters.
1676
01:36:02,131 --> 01:36:04,839
They marched for civil
rights and voting rights
1677
01:36:04,926 --> 01:36:08,294
for workers' rights and women's
rights, for LGBT rights...
1678
01:36:09,806 --> 01:36:15,643
What do you have to lose
by flying something new?
1679
01:36:16,729 --> 01:36:17,764
And here we go.
1680
01:36:17,855 --> 01:36:20,938
It took us a long time to get here,
but it is the final countdown.
1681
01:36:21,025 --> 01:36:22,670
Big voter turnout is expected.
1682
01:36:22,694 --> 01:36:24,651
I'm a Southern belle.
I voted for Trump.
1683
01:36:24,737 --> 01:36:25,943
This is a fuming point.
1684
01:36:26,030 --> 01:36:27,841
It's going to change the
course of this country.
1685
01:36:27,865 --> 01:36:33,952
I want my daughter to grow up
seeing a woman lead our country.
1686
01:36:34,038 --> 01:36:36,198
- I'm not voting.
- And that's a perspective...
1687
01:36:36,249 --> 01:36:40,834
If the Democrats lose, you are
so fucked, you have no idea.
1688
01:36:40,920 --> 01:36:43,958
Pennsylvania goes
to Donald Trump.
1689
01:36:44,048 --> 01:36:45,567
This is one of the most
stunning results...
1690
01:36:45,591 --> 01:36:46,672
No one saw it coming.
1691
01:36:46,759 --> 01:36:49,592
From Pennsylvania...
Gets Trump to 260.
1692
01:36:49,679 --> 01:36:51,907
We can now project the Winner
of the presidential...
1693
01:36:51,931 --> 01:36:53,200
The son of a Queens millionaire.
1694
01:36:53,224 --> 01:36:54,965
The president-elect
1695
01:36:55,059 --> 01:36:58,723
of the United States of
America, Donald Trump.
1696
01:37:02,025 --> 01:37:03,481
And here we go.
1697
01:37:20,752 --> 01:37:23,619
Go right ahead, sweetheart.
That's it.
1698
01:37:23,713 --> 01:37:24,919
Right around that.
1699
01:37:25,006 --> 01:37:27,464
How are you? Hi.
1700
01:37:27,550 --> 01:37:29,430
And in one second, we'll
be ready to roll.
1701
01:37:30,678 --> 01:37:32,589
- Isn't she pretty?
- She's pretty.
1702
01:37:32,680 --> 01:37:33,680
She's beautiful.
1703
01:37:33,765 --> 01:37:35,347
- Monique.
- Isn't she pretty?
1704
01:37:35,433 --> 01:37:37,094
- Hi, Monique.
- Hi.
1705
01:37:37,185 --> 01:37:40,098
This is a Medallion of
Life for you, Elvis,
1706
01:37:40,188 --> 01:37:42,976
from the Sioux... from
the Sioux Nation.
1707
01:37:43,066 --> 01:37:45,023
Oh, that's lovely.
Thank you, sweetie.
1708
01:37:45,818 --> 01:37:48,105
Thank you.
1709
01:37:48,196 --> 01:37:53,532
The look that he gave my daughter
Monie was such a serene look.
1710
01:37:53,618 --> 01:37:56,235
All I remember when I met
him, he kept saying,
1711
01:37:56,329 --> 01:37:59,492
“Who's this beautiful little Indian girl?
Isn't she beautiful?”
1712
01:37:59,582 --> 01:38:02,415
- It, like, touched his heart.
- Yeah.
1713
01:38:05,213 --> 01:38:08,126
This is sacred land
that we're living on.
1714
01:38:08,966 --> 01:38:10,206
It's our land.
1715
01:38:11,511 --> 01:38:14,299
It seemed like he just
knew he was going home.
1716
01:38:20,728 --> 01:38:22,435
And just that quick it was over.
1717
01:38:23,272 --> 01:38:25,730
They hustled him out.
1718
01:38:25,817 --> 01:38:30,232
He put his head up and took a deep breath,
and then he turned and he was gone.
1719
01:38:35,368 --> 01:38:38,781
I wonder if you're
lonesome tonight.
1720
01:38:40,706 --> 01:38:42,743
You know someone said
1721
01:38:42,834 --> 01:38:45,246
the world's a stage and
each of us play a part.
1722
01:38:50,216 --> 01:38:51,297
Plus tax.
1723
01:38:52,510 --> 01:38:54,672
You read your lines so Le...
cleverly.
1724
01:38:54,762 --> 01:38:58,471
I saw the CBS special and
I called the Colonel.
1725
01:39:00,017 --> 01:39:01,928
And I said,
1726
01:39:02,019 --> 01:39:07,389
“How could you let him be
filmed thinking like that?”
1727
01:39:07,483 --> 01:39:10,646
I just remember standing and
thinking at the television set
1728
01:39:10,736 --> 01:39:14,024
and thinking , “Oh, my God,
this is not even the same man
1729
01:39:14,115 --> 01:39:16,072
that I said good-bye
to eight months ago.”
1730
01:39:17,076 --> 01:39:19,283
It was horrifying
to me to watch.
1731
01:39:23,291 --> 01:39:27,580
But the power that he had on
“Unchained Melody” that night
1732
01:39:27,670 --> 01:39:29,331
was just gut wrenching.
1733
01:39:29,422 --> 01:39:31,663
This is a song that
I just recorded.
1734
01:39:31,757 --> 01:39:34,590
And, uh, it's an old song
called “Unchained Melody.”
1735
01:39:34,677 --> 01:39:36,997
And I'd like to play the piano
so it'll take just a second.
1736
01:39:39,807 --> 01:39:42,453
That song brings him pain for some reason.
I don't know why it does.
1737
01:39:42,477 --> 01:39:44,559
But it was just...
1738
01:39:44,645 --> 01:39:46,965
It was like it was the greatest
performance he'd ever done.
1739
01:40:08,836 --> 01:40:10,873
You put the butter
in the skillet
1740
01:40:10,963 --> 01:40:14,456
and do it like you do a
grilled cheese sandwich.
1741
01:40:17,094 --> 01:40:20,382
When he was home, I would
fix his breakfast.
1742
01:40:21,933 --> 01:40:25,927
That day, I was gonna
make him some bacon...
1743
01:40:27,480 --> 01:40:31,565
an egg omelet, some coffee.
1744
01:40:34,487 --> 01:40:38,446
But when she called
down, she was crying,
1745
01:40:38,533 --> 01:40:40,695
saying something
bad has happened.
1746
01:40:40,785 --> 01:40:42,321
So, I went upstairs.
1747
01:40:44,789 --> 01:40:47,952
When I saw him on the
floor in the bathroom,
1748
01:40:48,042 --> 01:40:50,124
one of the body
guards was there.
1749
01:40:50,211 --> 01:40:53,920
He was standing thinking at me, and I
went to screamin' and just hollerin'.
1750
01:40:56,133 --> 01:40:57,919
“Don't look at me. Do something.
1751
01:40:58,010 --> 01:41:00,342
Don't look at me. Do something.”
1752
01:41:17,154 --> 01:41:20,021
Elvis, at every
turn, picked money.
1753
01:41:20,116 --> 01:41:21,969
“Should I stay at Sun Records
or should I go to RCA?
1754
01:41:21,993 --> 01:41:23,220
Well, there's more
money at RCA.”
1755
01:41:23,244 --> 01:41:25,360
“Should I take this big
giant movie contract
1756
01:41:25,454 --> 01:41:27,254
even though I don't have
any creative control?
1757
01:41:27,331 --> 01:41:29,493
Well, it's the biggest movie
deal ever, let's take it.”
1758
01:41:29,584 --> 01:41:31,200
“Should I go on tour
like I want to?
1759
01:41:31,294 --> 01:41:34,082
Or should I take the biggest offer
a live performer's ever had?”
1760
01:41:34,171 --> 01:41:35,627
Which is what he got in Vegas.
1761
01:41:35,715 --> 01:41:37,797
Every chance, he
prioritized money.
1762
01:41:37,883 --> 01:41:39,169
And where did it put him?
1763
01:41:39,260 --> 01:41:42,252
Dead and fat on
the toilet at 42.
1764
01:41:42,346 --> 01:41:46,214
You know, Ronald Reagan was really
the person that lit this fuse.
1765
01:41:46,309 --> 01:41:49,392
Ronald Reagan said, “Would you
like to have a new swimming pool?
1766
01:41:49,478 --> 01:41:52,345
Or will children be able
to get testing for AIDS?”
1767
01:41:53,399 --> 01:41:55,015
And what Reagan
basically said was...
1768
01:41:56,319 --> 01:41:57,879
“You want the swimming
pool, don't you?
1769
01:41:57,903 --> 01:41:59,769
And you should have
the swimming pool.”
1770
01:41:59,864 --> 01:42:03,323
You can take lessons
from a lot of things.
1771
01:42:03,409 --> 01:42:07,824
We are vulnerable, our
heroes are vulnerable,
1772
01:42:07,913 --> 01:42:09,904
our country is vulnerable.
1773
01:42:09,999 --> 01:42:13,788
Addiction leaves a
spiritual void.
1774
01:42:13,878 --> 01:42:18,167
As a nation, we seem to be addicted
to so many things, you know.
1775
01:42:18,257 --> 01:42:22,125
I think man's inhumanity
to man went wrong.
1776
01:42:22,219 --> 01:42:26,964
We have to make sure that art and culture
stays honest and true as much as possible.
1777
01:42:27,058 --> 01:42:30,346
It can protect human
beings from dogma,
1778
01:42:30,436 --> 01:42:32,803
and brings human beings
together for our similarites
1779
01:42:32,897 --> 01:42:34,808
and knocks aside
the differences.
1780
01:42:34,899 --> 01:42:37,311
That's why, you know,
you make films.
1781
01:42:37,401 --> 01:42:41,190
We make music. We do art.
1782
01:42:42,281 --> 01:42:46,491
And those are the three things that
governments always want to control.
1783
01:42:46,577 --> 01:42:48,784
But they're too slippery.
1784
01:42:54,043 --> 01:42:58,537
♪ Oh, my love “
1785
01:42:59,298 --> 01:43:01,380
♪ My darling “
1786
01:43:01,467 --> 01:43:02,582
♪ I hunger for... ♪
1787
01:43:02,677 --> 01:43:05,385
Elvis Presley, the
Mississippi boy
1788
01:43:05,471 --> 01:43:07,508
whose country rock
guitar and gyrating hips
1789
01:43:07,598 --> 01:43:12,684
launched a new style of popular music,
died this afternoon at Baptist Hospital.
1790
01:43:12,770 --> 01:43:15,137
Presley was 42 years old.
1791
01:43:15,231 --> 01:43:16,667
I! didn't even
matter a great deal
1792
01:43:16,691 --> 01:43:19,649
whether you liked Elvis or
not, he changed our lives.
1793
01:43:19,735 --> 01:43:21,476
The King is dead.
1794
01:43:22,655 --> 01:43:25,693
♪ I'll be coming home ♪
1795
01:43:25,783 --> 01:43:30,823
♪ Wait for me “
1796
01:43:30,913 --> 01:43:32,995
♪ My love “
1797
01:43:33,958 --> 01:43:36,700
♪ My darling “
1798
01:43:36,794 --> 01:43:40,879
♪ I've hungered
for your touch “
1799
01:43:42,133 --> 01:43:49,051
♪ A long lonely time ♪
1800
01:43:51,142 --> 01:43:55,386
♪ Time goes by “
1801
01:43:55,479 --> 01:43:56,310
Really.
1802
01:43:56,397 --> 01:43:59,389
♪ So slowly “
1803
01:43:59,483 --> 01:44:04,353
♪ And time can do so much “
1804
01:44:04,447 --> 01:44:11,820
♪ Are you still mine? “
1805
01:44:11,912 --> 01:44:19,751
♪ I need your love ♪
1806
01:44:19,837 --> 01:44:22,249
♪ Ooh ♪
1807
01:44:23,591 --> 01:44:28,757
♪ I need your love ♪
1808
01:44:30,347 --> 01:44:35,592
♪ God speed your love ♪
1809
01:44:47,782 --> 01:44:54,870
♪ Me ♪
1810
01:45:44,213 --> 01:45:47,877
♪ Heading down to Baton Rouge ♪
1811
01:45:47,967 --> 01:45:51,210
♪ To ease my worried mind ♪
1812
01:45:51,303 --> 01:45:55,843
♪ I'm heading down
To Baton Rouge ♪
1813
01:45:55,933 --> 01:45:58,595
♪ Maybe I go tonight ♪
1814
01:46:06,235 --> 01:46:07,270
♪ Oh ♪
1815
01:46:18,205 --> 01:46:23,291
♪ On the Memphis train
To Heaven, hey ♪
1816
01:46:23,377 --> 01:46:27,917
♪ I'am take it From
Beale Street to LA ♪
1817
01:46:30,843 --> 01:46:32,584
♪ I'am make it ♪
1818
01:46:32,678 --> 01:46:36,717
♪ On the Memphis train
To heaven, hey ♪
1819
01:46:38,100 --> 01:46:40,091
♪ You want to ride off
Into the sunset ♪
1820
01:46:40,185 --> 01:46:47,399
♪ You want the White horse
To come and save you ♪
1821
01:46:47,484 --> 01:46:49,191
♪ You want the white horse ♪
1822
01:46:50,654 --> 01:46:52,895
♪ To come and save you ♪
1823
01:47:05,002 --> 01:47:06,584
♪ Once upon a time ♪
1824
01:47:07,963 --> 01:47:11,001
♪ When I was in high school ♪
1825
01:47:12,885 --> 01:47:15,843
♪ I was in love with a lady ♪
1826
01:47:15,930 --> 01:47:19,594
♪ And you treated me so cool ♪
1827
01:47:21,977 --> 01:47:23,968
♪ I was driving ♪
1828
01:47:25,022 --> 01:47:28,435
♪ A Chevy '73 ♪
1829
01:47:29,944 --> 01:47:32,936
♪ Had four on the floor, girl ♪
1830
01:47:33,030 --> 01:47:36,648
♪ 120, it would be me ♪
1831
01:47:36,742 --> 01:47:41,327
♪ And I remember Marvin Gaye ♪
1832
01:47:41,413 --> 01:47:42,869
♪ Singing ♪
1833
01:47:45,167 --> 01:47:49,252
♪ “Let's Get It On” ♪
1834
01:47:50,422 --> 01:47:52,004
I hope you got it, brother.