Viva Pod Vegas #031 – Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Viva Pod Vegas returns with Live a Little, Love a Little — Elvis’s third and final film from 1968, and one of his most fun to date! After reading some emails suggesting things to cover in our near future — and asking if Elvis love dogs more than anything else — we run through the film’s six (!) taglines, which Mike finds issue with. We talk about Michele Carey as a proto manic pixie dream girl, the relatively few (but truly spectacular) songs in the film, and Elvis’s sort of legitimately crazy stunt work in this movie. Joey explains why he connects with this version of Elvis. We find an oddity: a bearded Elvis? We talk about the all-time great dream sequence, how Live a Little, Love a Little benefits from leaning into the weirdness and randomness, and what Elvis’s film career would have looked like if he was in charge of things. We have fun with Elvis’s double duty/Mrs. Doubtfire-esque scheme. We talk about this film’s ties to James Bond — including the incredible ending shot — before playing our end of episode games and looking ahead to Charro!
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