Elvis
Movie • 2021
ReportA biopic about Elvis Presley, with focus on his early years.
This movie contains 41 potentially triggering events.
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Avaaaa
No but Elvis's mother is sort of protective over him and they get into a few fights throughout the movie
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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elvis repeatedly forgives the colonel who is very manipulative and exploitative of him
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Is someone stalked?
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REPRESSEDCAP
His manager, Colonel Tom Parker, in the beginning, keeps following him, trying to talk to him.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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HannahHoffman
Elvis Presley is manipulated by his manager into thinking he needs him but eventually breaks free
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Addiction
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HannahHoffman
Elvis, who famously died of overdose, uses many drugs in the movie. You never see the actual drugs, (except one time where you see a small white pill handed to him) you simply see him take pills. There are also implications he is being injected with drugs but again, you never see them actually being injected into him
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Is there addiction?
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HannahHoffman
Elvis is shown to be addicted to both the drugs and the fame. He is constantly taking pills and the narrator even says he turned to drugs to hide his pain.
It is also implied he is addicted to the fame he has gotten
It is also implied he is addicted to the fame he has gotten
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Elvis’s mother uses alcohol to cope with her son’s life and her worries. She eventually succumbs to alcohol
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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Anonymous
Elvis is given drugs to help him sleep during a rigorous tour schedule
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Is there pedophilia?
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forufourfour
Elvis was 24 and Priscilla 14 when they started dating
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Is someone held under water?
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It’s in the beginning, while suspicious minds is playing, only for a brief moment
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Bodily Harm
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Mait
Both Elvis and his manager are show in weak health states.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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fraisierdesbois
Some of Elvis' dance moves kinda look like seizures, tho
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Mait
Elvis mother fall down stairs in her death
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Euphorikitten
Not mutilation but graphic eye zoom ins for perspective. Can be triggering to those eye sensitive. Camera zooming in to the characters eye (beginning of movie to —) to relay memories, can see inside the eye, etc. Potentially disturbing depending on the sensitivity to viewer.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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quietpoem
Not on screen, but it's mentioned that Elvis' twin brother was stillborn.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Mait
Well, it's a little creepy if you think that Elvis was so young when his dance moves are criticized for its "sexual depravity" by older men. Also, he is shown kissing his future wife, who was 14 years old at the time. He is also show watching a kind of brothel as an child, while couples are basically in fore play.
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Mait
It's implied that Elvis sacrificed himself for his public.
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Does a major character die?
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NightmareLyra
Elvis' mom dies from alcoholism. Elvis himself dies off-screen
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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planetjess
Not explicitly and not on screen but it is somewhat implied. The film tells us Elvis died of heart failure and suggests that his drug usage could have been the cause
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Family
Does a family member die?
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NightmareLyra
Elvis' mother dies from alcoholism.
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Does a parent die?
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HannahHoffman
Elvis’s mother dies due to heart failure, most likely caused by her alcoholism. You see Elvis and his father crying and mourning her loss in front of paparazzi
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Does someone cheat?
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Mait
Elvis is in the phone, talking with his wife, while another woman is in her underwear beside him. He cheated on his wife for all of their marriage. She cheated too.
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Fear
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Are there jump scares?
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mstryke
Nothing scary, just loud/sudden noises during changes of scene sometimes
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Are there clowns?
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mstryke
Elvis’ manager comes from a carnival background, so there’s lots of clowns early in the movie. He also carries a cane that has a clown knob on the top.
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Is someone possessed?
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Sid
In a flashback Elvis as a kid gets the Holy Ghost in some kind of Pentecostal church
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Sid
He drinks water from a tap in the bathroom and someone gives him a pop to settle his stomach
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Needles and Syringes are shown on screen however they are never shown being injected into anyone
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Sid
Elvis checks into hospital for exhaustion
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Mental Health
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Mait
Well, you can tell Elvis was self harming in his last years, abusing prescriptions and heavily depressed
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Mait
Elvis, who famously suffered from bad mental health, is show getting really aggressive and screaming
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there misophonia?
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MrSpacey
There is SO much gum chewing in this film. I don't understand why people are voting 'no' here.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Sid
Elvis is shown to be very anxious before performing
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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zzlyn
Not sure if this counts as claustrophobia, but there is a scene where the Colonel and Elvis meet in a mirror maze at a carnival.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Sid
It’s not really shown in the film but Elvis had some kind of binge eating disorder
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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KirstenParriott
Occasional profanity
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Sid
The style of the film means there’s a lot of flashing lights and jump cuts
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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quietpoem
The Colonel talks to the audience throughout the film.
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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HannahHoffman
While never shown on screen, Elvis’s twin was born stillborn and this was mentioned in a small scene and again at another time in the movie
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Mait
Elvis became a father and his little daughter is show.
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Is there childbirth?
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LeoBug
Yes, but not on screen. It’s shown from the perspective of the father, in comic form, breifly waiting outside as his first son is stillborn and then is told that there’s a second child. The movie cuts to the mother holding baby elvis, still in comic style
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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quietpoem
At a concert a man calls Elvis a fairy.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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HannahHoffman
The movie uses the word Negro often as was the case in the time period. It is rarely used as a negative term, however. The words colored are also used to describe black people.
In one scene, a Segregation rally is held where they use derogatory language about black people while in front of the Rebel flag
In one scene, a Segregation rally is held where they use derogatory language about black people while in front of the Rebel flag
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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AmberMorrill
kind of as they think elvis dresses in a way he shouldn't and the want to make him less girly and make a "new version"
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Are there fat jokes?
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Mait
While the movie don't show it explicitly, in his last years the press talk about Elvis weight gain in a really cruel way.
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Does the black guy die first?
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TreyJ
There is news of MLK and Mahalia Jackson dying, but Elvis' mother passes away before then.
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Is there hate speech?
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HannahHoffman
The movie takes place during segregation so many scenes are about that divide.
There is one scene where it shows an angry white man screaming hate towards black people and promoting segregation while in front of 3 confederate flags
There is one scene where it shows an angry white man screaming hate towards black people and promoting segregation while in front of 3 confederate flags
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Mait
Elvis is 10 years older than his wife
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Sex
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Mait
Elvis, somehow, is heavily objectified by older men.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Mait
Just some seconds of Elvis having sex with a groupie, seducing his wife while in bed and some zoom in his crotch during his first years dancing in public.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Tom Hanks plays a character that is older and heavier than he is in real life so he's in very realistic special effects makeup that includes a fat suit. It's never acknowledged or used as a joke that he's in one though.
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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HannahHoffman
Elvis died at the end, and the end is somber as he performs for the last time and his manager is taken off of life support.
However It does say some good things in words before the credits roll, and we know that the impact Elvis had on the world is still felt today. So even though the ending is not fun, it isn’t necessarily all bad
However It does say some good things in words before the credits roll, and we know that the impact Elvis had on the world is still felt today. So even though the ending is not fun, it isn’t necessarily all bad
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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In one scene, after Bobby Kennedy is shot, you can see a small bit of blood on the hand of a man helping him.
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Is there gun violence?
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Mait
Elvis, famous irresponsible gun owner, shoots his TV while having a kind of paranoia attack.
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