"I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "Good morning, Hollywood camera." "How are you?" "Gentlemen, how are you?" "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me and Bridge Over Troubled Water." "We can fake it." "These are the same guys that I use all the time." "My rhythm group." "These are my backbone of my whole show." "As you can tell, we don't know this song." "We haven't rehearsed it." "We're just fooling around." "One more time." "This one just gave up, didn't it?" "Lunch." "I need another pair of pants." "You didn't?" "I burst the seat of my pants." "We never did get it right on stage because we..." "It was retarded and I wanted it quick." "I wanted the group to say "heart away"." "Were we in tempo?" "Where's the director?" "There he is." "You want me to let you know when we're gonna do that..." "What do you call it?" "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me." "Just to let you know." "We're not gonna do it now." "And Elvis will cut you off." "Just keep watching him." "You want to try "Twenty Days"?" "Yeah." "We don't sing unless..." "It worked." "Here he comes." "Hi, Phil." "They say ignore these cameras." " Where's Gigi?" " Gigi is no longer with us." "You've got to be kidding!" "He had to quit." "See, what happened, Gigi was married and had a baby, an infant and he had a little boy back in Memphis." "So he had to leave the little boy in Memphis, because his wife's parents were keeping the little boy and they wouldn't let him take him out of town." "So, they had one child in California, and one back there." "They were traveling back and forth and it was too much for him." "But if it was his child." "Can't he take his child with him?" "It's not really his child, it was his wife's child by a previous marriage." " And she couldn't take him?" " She wouldn't take him away." " It was just a family thing." "He quit." " Yeah." " I sure hated to lose him 'cause..." " I know he hated to go, too." "Okay." "The horns are answering it here." "Right on top of "friend"." "Right on top of "friend" like..." "Hold it." "Right." "I'd like to point out a problem." "When it switches, it sounds like..." "When it switches, it sounds like some of the guys are just lost  which is the way it is, but we don't have to emphasize it." " I made a mistake." " It's all right." "I wanna try something." "This is the last verse." "We can do a yodel." "Play that song." "Sing it slow." "Mary in the Morning." ""Mary at suppertime"" "Kill that blower." "Or blow that killer." "Whatever." "James, one minute, man." "Wait a minute." "They don't tell you when to start." "Like a big old screaming eagle out there, man." "You can't use those words." "They'll cut it right out." "They'll cut it out." "They'll put an X rating right across your big mouth." ""Mouth" I said." "That shows how you think." "I wouldn't say that." "They'll cut that out." "They won't leave it in." "You can't say "big ass" in this family." ""Okay." Mary in the Morning." "Sing it again." "Just a chord." "You only got about another 45 minutes of sitting around." "I know you've been great, but listen to this." "That's the wildest laugh." "That's about how I feel." "No wonder he can't have a good time." "He's reading telegrams while we talk." ""Here's hoping you have a very successful opening and that you break both legs."" " Goddamn!" " Tom Jones." ""My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"" "Signed, "The Pope"." ""Best wishes for a continuing successful Vegas show."" ""I hope you get a raise in the next six months, Joyce Brazil."" "Don't pick your nose on camera." "Don't pick your nose on camera, man." "It starts to get tense about this time." "I just hope I don't forget the words to "I Just Can't Help Believin'"." "I hope I don't forget the words." "Right there, that's the first verse." "You got the rest of it." "If I get through the first one, I get it." "Very proud." "Nice to see you." "Hope you enjoy our show tonight." " Have you seen Elvis before?" " I've seen him twice." "Good." "We've a better show tonight." "Well, he was absolutely fantastic that time." "Nice to see you tonight." "Nice to have you with us." "Glad to have you aboard to see Elvis tonight." "Well, of course." "He sings those Spanish songs like nobody." "Hello!" "Mrs. Xavier Cugat." "How are you?" "Good to see you." "You came to see Elvis?" "You should've seen me at dinner tonight." "I was going..." "In tempo." "I never swallowed any of it." "It was all right here." "Hello, how are you?" "I came to see that "pectoral destruction"." "If the songs don't go well, we can do a medley of..." "We can pray." " Has the show started yet?" " Yes." " Who's on?" " Sammy says bring in the machine." "Straight vodka, man, it's good for you." "We could put the words of "I Just Can't Help Believin'" on that stool." "That's it, you know." "I just..." "Tapers off to nothing." "I knew a song about..." "I don't know, when I was a baby." "You got to lean on your knee, like this." "Like a fool." "It's a very tender love song." "It's a ballad." "You get up into a girl's face, you know, very close  and you say:" ""Yeah!"" "And it blows her hair straight back." "You know, when I first started  in this business  I was a little, bitty guy  with a shaky leg." "So, Ed Sullivan saw me and said:" ""Son of a bitch."" "Anyway, they put me on TV and filmed me from the waist up." "You know, I'm going..." "Anyway, MGM is doing a movie  called Elvis Loses his Excess." ""Shakes his Excess Off", or whatever it is." "So don't let these cameras throw you." "Give me an E, or a G, or an F, or a D." "Or a B-flat minor, plus one." "I don't know what I'm talking about." "If you milk this thing long enough..." "I'll put this in front of you, Ronnie." "Play it, Jim." "I made a movie about it." "What are you laughing at?" "This is my first guitar." "I was little." "I told you." "Little bitty cat, trying to get people to listen to me." "Listen to me, I'm good." "Not with that voice, you ain't." "Anyway..." "Anyway, my first movie, ladies and gentlemen." "That's really this guitar doing that." "How you doing, sir?" "Thank you." "Are you afraid of me?" "Hang loose, I'll be with you in a minute." "I'll be over there." "Sorry I couldn't make it up there." "Take it home, baby!" "That's it." "Thank you very much." "Everybody ready?" "I'm not." "I'm not." "Okay." "What you got there?" "What's that look for?" "Picture of me?" "That's very nice." "Looks like Engelbert Humperdinck." "Yeah, sure will." "Time-out, folks." "Just one second." "Bahija." "Is that your name?" " You want me to have this one?" " Do you like it?" "Thank you very much." "Yes, it's very nice." "I can't do that." "I'm sorry." "Hang loose, you'll get it back." "Okay." "I just did a country and western album." "In it is a song." "It's called:" "Just Pretend." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "Thank you." "Play the song, James." "One, two, three, four!" "What are you looking at back there?" "Thank you." "Good evening." "Just grab hold, honey, anywhere." "There you go." "Hi, little girl." "Oh, what's the matter, baby?" "Please, kiss me!" "I love you!" "Okay." "Sure." "You want to get serious or just play a little bit?" "Okay." "If we start doing those, we'll be up here all night." "Okay." "Play the song, James." "Thank you very much." "Water." "Suspicious Minds." "Thank you very much." "Fantastic audience." "Thank you very much." " Hello, Elvis." " Glad to meet you." "Harry, what have you got on?" "The show was beautiful." "How you doing?" "Nice to meet you." "I've made it back, huh?" "I almost put it off, because..." "I was a little too nervous at first." "The show was beautiful." "You were terrific." "You did all my moves." " How are you?" "Good to see you." " Good to see you." "You've met my wife before, I think." " It was a great show." " Thank you." " It was a sweaty show." " You worked awfully hard." "Maybe too hard, I don't know." "I don't know, but he started to rev up." "You started to rev up, and it never stopped." " Hi, I'm Ann." " Nice to meet you." "Subtitles conformed by SOFTITLER" "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "One, two, three, four!" "What a feeling that was." "Summer of 1970." "Elvis in his prime." "MGM made a movie about it. "Elvis:" "That's The Way It Is."" "No more scripts, no more storylines." "Elvis could do his own thing:" "Be Elvis Presley." "Good morning, Hollywood camera." "How are you?" "Gentlemen, how are you?" "Thirty years later, Turner Classic Movies and Turner Entertainment Company  hire award-winning producer, Rick Schmidlin, to create  a restored, special-edition of "That's The Way It Is"  using dozens of reels of historic, never-before-seen footage." "What we tried to do was to put together the ultimate Elvis performance." "We had gone in knowing that we were going to take all the interviews out and most of the talking heads." "This version stays strictly Elvis." "I like what you guys have done with it, because it shows the personal side of Elvis." "It shows what he was really like, instead of cutting in and out to different scenes that to me, I didn't care for." "Nothing against the original people  but I think this shows the better side of Elvis to me." "No wonder he can't have a good time." "He's reading telegrams while we talk." ""Best wishes for a continuing successful Vegas show."" ""I hope you get a raise in the next six months, Joyce Brazil."" "We had people going down two miles below the earth, in Kansas, looking for unmarked cans that possibly contained the footage." "We found things!" "We found the original 16-track masters." "So, we were able to go in the studio  and digitally remix it from the 16 tracks so that you could now hear things  never heard before, and see separations of music that you'd never seen before." "I think they're going to love it for several reasons." "The interaction between us and Elvis and, like you said, the way it all came together." "It was great." "It really gives people an idea of what it was like." "That's literally what it was like." "I remember we were all pretty nervous about it, because there's just no script." ""What are we supposed to do now?" We just did what came natural." "We did what we did, and that's why it is so accurate." "When I watched this film, I enjoyed it, because I knew all that stuff was there." "I'm just happy that they brought it to the forefront." "He made everyone feel at home by the way he was easy, and easy to get along with." "Just couldn't have been easier." "We followed the camera in an intimate way to find out what  the interactions and relationships were between each individual  so that we could see the eye contact." "I really concentrated a lot on the eyes." "We had great eye contact on stage, and he watched me a lot." "I never took my eyes off him because you never knew what was going to happen next." "You had to keep your eye on him at all times." "There's one point in the film right towards the beginning of it he goes in the song, "When I say"" "He wanted me to be there." "We rehearsed probably 200 songs with him." "When we played them with him, it wasn't like a rehearsal." "It was more like we were just having fun." "It was more like jamming." "But Elvis was always in charge." "There was nobody else in charge but him." "James, one minute, man." "Wait a minute." "They don't tell you when to start." "It was a team." "It wasn't just Elvis and his band." "If he wanted to change something, do what he wanted, he did." "The band was great." "They could do anything Elvis wanted." "Elvis loved that." "That's why he got along so great with them." "You forget some of the silliness." "Just like he's sitting there  and the mike starts going over and he's looking at it." "I know what he's thinking." "It's just the craziness of the time." "He wouldn't allow the seriousness of a paying crowd to keep him from getting tickled or getting crazy about something." "He didn't care in that way." "He was very spontaneous, too." "He could be very serious one minute and the next minute he'd be completely into something else." "He did everything he could for his fans." "He goes into the audience, and walks through the audience." "He acknowledges fans." "You never see him pushing someone off." "His goal was to really please his fans  and work as a package with his band." "First time it happened and the last time it happened, it was amazing." "We were all shocked that he even did that." "And I'm sure Colonel Parker was, too." "It was great." "When he got back on stage he said, Boy, I don't know if I'll do that again." "But he loved it." "I think it's going to shock people when they see how good he looked." "When he put on his white stage suits in 1970, he had a 32-inch waist and was in the top physical shape." "Probably the best physical shape of his life." "Thank you very much." "I remember what those days were like, what he was like, how he treated people and the warmth you got out of him." "It was like one big, happy family working together and playing together." "I feel good I was there for the filming of that." "It just gives me great feelings  to see and remember Elvis that way." "Elvis was a true musician  and a true vocalist." "When he sang, I really believe the lyrics went through his mind and through his heart, and then came out of his mouth." "Thirty years later, this is Elvis from the heart." "A film that finally captures Elvis at the peak of his powers." "A film not about the legend, not about the celebrity." "A film about the artist, the performer:" "Elvis Presley." "This is what Elvis is supposed to be." "It's not just for Elvis fans." "It's for people who want to be entertained by truly  the greatest vocalist of the 20th century." "Thank you."