Elvis Presley: The Searcher Page #2

Synopsis: Elvis Presley's evolution as a musician and a man.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Thom Zimny
Production: HBO Documentary Films
 
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
Year:
2018
109 min
780 Views


but the music and the church.

It wasn't like you'd be

going there and sitting back

and crossin' your legs

and relaxing.

You know, you get very involved

and very energetic.

It's as much a feeling

as it is a hearing.

Elvis Presley:

I've always liked music.

My mother and dad

both loved to sing.

They'd tell me that when I was

about three or four years old,

I got away from

them in church

and walked up

in front of the choir

and started beatin' time.

Man:

Have you seen

Where the Lord's gone?

Tell me now

Where he's gone

Where he's gone

(singing continues, indistinct)

Ferris:

The hymns were more

than religious.

They were fundamental

building blocks of music.

Rhythmic, hard-hitting,

you had the foundation

of rock and roll bands,

playing in churches.

When I sit down

Lord, sit down

Something will be over

Lord, sit down

When I sit down

Lord, sit down

Gonna say come over here

(screaming)

(indistinct excited speaking)

(inaudible)

Man:
I'm so glad!

I'm working over here!

Ferris:

People came to be excited,

and taken out

of their daily experience.

Elvis was like

Huck Finn exploring.

At night, he would slip

in to black churches.

He would listen

to gospel music

and to the sermons.

Priscilla:

Gladys let him

pursue the music

that he could

surround himself with.

Petty:

Elvis was very different.

Color lines were

rarely crossed.

You just didn't find

white people

that tuned into black music

and stayed there

and found it interesting

and studied it.

David Porter:

A time where the country

was into racism

and segregation,

and here was a young kid.

He was not afraid to go

and be exposed to it,

so he could learn

even more about it.

Schilling:

He was doing what

he enjoyed doing.

I don't think

it was conscious,

but he absorbed

everything that he saw.

Man:

That's all right

Jackson:

He would seek out people

in his neighborhood

who could play music

or had records,

or had a radio.

Man:

Any way you do

Bruce Springsteen:

You could turn a dial

and hear gospel.

Well, my mama,

she done told me

Springsteen:

Turn a dial

and hear country.

Turn a dial and hear blues.

Turn the dial and hear

Sunday Night Creatures,

you know?

I mean, it was all just there

in the Southern atmosphere

he grew up in.

That's all right now, mama

(Elvis humming)

Elvis:

If today

Was not an endless highway

If tonight

Was not an endless trail

If tomorrow

Wasn't such a long time

Then lonesome

would mean nothing

To me at all

Yes, and only

Elvis:

I always felt that

someday, somehow,

something would happen

to change everything for me.

And I'd daydream

about how it would be.

If I could hear her heart

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Alan Light

Alan Light (born August 4, 1966) is an American journalist who has been a rock critic for Rolling Stone and the editor-in-chief for both Vibe and Spin. more…

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