{"id":17981,"date":"2019-01-24T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=17981"},"modified":"2023-08-29T16:29:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:29:22","slug":"three-things-about-the-king-with-eugene-jarecki-and-steven-soderbergh","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/three-things-about-the-king-with-eugene-jarecki-and-steven-soderbergh\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Things About &#8220;The King,&#8221; with Eugene Jarecki and Steven Soderbergh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki&#8217;s pedigree is impressive. He has twice won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and the Peabody Award for:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/documentaries\/house-i-live-in\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The House I Live In<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, his 2013 film about America\u2019s War on Drugs (which had its broadcast premiere on <em>Independent Lens<\/em>); and for his 2005 film about American foreign policy, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why We Fight<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. While he&#8217;s often taken a thoughtful yet sweeping approach you&#8217;ll find in his new film <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/documentaries\/the-king\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The King<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it still represents a fascinating departure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with co-producer Steven Soderbergh, Jarecki passed along a few thoughts about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The King<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is ostensibly &#8220;about&#8221; Elvis Presley, but really about all of us as Americans. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Eugene Jarecki: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI set out in Elvis&#8217; car because he\u2019s the poster child of what we\u2019re taught to think of as the American dream, right? \u00a0The poor country boy who rises like a rocket and ends up a king. But from there, it gets more complicated, for Elvis and America. For Elvis\u2019 dream ended in a tragedy of lost authenticity, addiction, and self-destruction. And, at this point, I don\u2019t think I need to tell anyone what a tangled mess America has become. But how did this happen? And is there, in the demise of Elvis, a cautionary tale for his country? For the world?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFrom the start, Elvis was a metaphor for the best and worst of America. This was never going to be a puff piece but a cautionary allegory: power and money compromised Elvis\u2019 life and authenticity and did the same to the democratic health of his country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;As I went along, the American dream itself came into question. What had it ever been? For whom was it true? \u00a0For whom not? Suddenly, when a billionaire oligarch was elevated to high office, the story became a warning siren of national, and even global, concern.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><pullquote class='left'>&#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[I]t was designed to promote a continued love affair with the very country whose direction it despairs.&#8221;<\/pullquote><\/span>Jarecki: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;This film is a departure for me in that, rather than identify a specific area of modern life and advocate its reform, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The King<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> puts the whole system on trial, using the metaphor of Elvis to explore how he and his country got so far off track. It seeks something deeper, encouraging nothing less than national therapy to break free from the toxic grip of power and money on American life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;More than any film I&#8217;ve made, alongside the inevitable intensity of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The King<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;s content, it was designed to promote a continued love affair with the very country whose direction it despairs. \u00a0This is why such a wide and colorful tapestry of luminary and non-luminary Americans appear, sharing their stories, thoughts, and songs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;As the Rolls traverses the scorched landscape of an apocalyptic modern America, its passion to make things better is fueled by the beauty, majesty, and awesome resilience of their collective spirit. No other force can possibly hope to compete with the perilous cocktail of power and money that daily undermine all walks of American life.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Steven Soderbergh: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt has a wonderful kaleidoscopic quality that I think is not only unique to Eugene, but also, I think unique to the country. I don&#8217;t know of any other country would allow for the level of exploration that the United States provides just strictly because of its geography. So the idea of Eugene taking Elvis&#8217; Rolls-Royce and driving through the country to talk to people, that&#8217;s a very specifically American movie idea. And I think would only work in America.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jarecki:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;The idea that we &#8212; and Elvis &#8212; were young once and beautiful but then lost our way is dangerously idealistic. It might be more accurate to say that America and Elvis were always imperfect \u2013 works-in-progress, full of greatness and shortcomings. While Elvis was ultimately by consumed his, we seem to be very much at work on ours, and there is clearly much work left to wake up tomorrow and do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki&#8217;s pedigree is impressive. He has twice won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and the Peabody Award for:\u00a0The House I Live In, his 2013 film about America\u2019s War on Drugs (which had its broadcast premiere on Independent Lens); and for his 2005 film about American foreign policy, Why We Fight. 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