DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV Series)

Amazing Grace (2018)

Luke Bilyk: Elvis Presley, Jesse Presley

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Quotes 

• Elvis Presley : Hey, what's going on out there?

  Sheriff : The whole town's been overrun by ghosts!

  Elvis Presley : Well, let us out!

  Sheriff : Let me in!

• Elvis Presley : Hello, sir. Um, I've been saving up for a while now, and I... I think it's time. I'm here to buy a guitar. Now, I... I know it ain't much. But what do you think I can get for what I got?

  Shopkeeper : Well, I'm sure we could find you something. You know, a boy picking his first guitar is a sacred moment. In fact, some say the instrument chooses you.

• Elvis Presley : I'll take that one.

  Shopkeeper : Oh. You don't want that guitar.

  Elvis Presley : What happened to the intsrument choosing me, sir?

  Shopkeeper : I-I was just, uh, building a moment. Besides, you can't afford it.

  Elvis Presley : Well, I'll get the money. I'll come back.

• Shopkeeper : Before that guitar found its way here, it belonged to a one Robert Johnson.

  Elvis Presley : *The* Robert Johnson?

  Shopkeeper : Uh-huh.

  Elvis Presley : Legend said he sold his soul to the devil to play as good as he did.

  Shopkeeper : Legend also says that guitar is cursed because of it.

  Elvis Presley : I ain't afraid of no guitar, sir. You gotta let me try it, at least.

• Elvis Presley : An instrument as good as this, I promise, one day you'll hear my name on that radio.

  Shopkeeper : Hey, what is your name, son?

  Elvis Presley : Presley, sir. Elvis Presley.

• Nate Heywood : Can you believe this? The first show we see together is Elvis live.

  Amaya Jiwe : You're not the only one who's excited.

  [teens in the front pew titter as Elvis steps on stage] 

  Elvis Presley : This one's called "Onward, Christian Soldiers".

  Nate Heywood : [quietly]  Okay.

  Amaya Jiwe : [as he starts to play]  So this is rock and roll? I mean, it's no Benny Goodman, but...

  Nate Heywood : No, we did not come all this way to listen to Elvis play grandma songs.

• Nate Heywood : Hey, kid. I don't think you wanna keep this lying around. Something tells me it's special.

  Elvis Presley : You have no idea. There's no way I'd ever be able to thank you for this.

  Nate Heywood : [handing him a slip of paper]  Well, if you wanna write a song about me, here are several words that rhyme with "Nate".

• Elvis Presley : Y'all gonna think I'm crazy, but my guitar, it's more than just a guitar. Now it ain't working right, I just...

  Amaya Jiwe : You don't feel like yourself anymore.

  Elvis Presley : Yes, ma'am. And I'll tell you why. Usually, when I play... I got my twin brother, Jesse, up there to back me up.

  Amaya Jiwe : You have a twin brother?

  Elvis Presley : Well, he ain't with us no more. Passed when he was a baby. But this guitar of mine used to connect me to him. I told y'all would think I'm crazy.

  Amaya Jiwe : No, not at all. I've always believed that objects can connect us to our ancestors.

  Elvis Presley : Yeah, I guess we call it a spirit, like. On stage... on stage just now for the first time, Jesse wasn't with me. I mean, he's gone. All of a sudden, I just don't know where he is.

• Elvis Presley : That's what's so strange about my brother. I ain't never met Jesse, but somehow I-I missed him all my life.

  Nate Heywood : Until you bought your first guitar.

  Elvis Presley : Yeah, the store said it was cursed. He was only half right. It was also a blessing, too. Well, my brother's out there somewhere without me. I can't imagine he's too happy.

• Elvis Presley : Now, I-I-I know this all sounds like hogwash. Magical guitars, the ghosts of gone family members. But I can't play without him. I got a session to record at Sun Studios tomorrow. I saved up to buy it.

  Nate Heywood : It's your first recording session. You're gonna keep that appointment. And we're gonna get you Jesse back.

  Elvis Presley : You will?

  Amaya Jiwe : We will?

• Elvis Presley : Uncle Lucious, what are you doing here?

  Uncle Lucious : Well, well, well. You missed choir practice. Then I hear 'cause you're down at Sun Studios. Well, no kin of mine is gonna record the devil's music. Not after what we saw in church.

  Elvis Presley : Look, I-I got talent. My manager says so.

  Uncle Lucious : You got my nephew into this?

  Nate Heywood : Yeah.

• Uncle Lucious : Your mama's been too easy on you, boy. Look at the sort you got mixed up with. These are the types that go on down to Beale Street and dance the hoochie-koo like heathens!

  Elvis Presley : You keep on preaching hate. I'm only trying to bring folks together.

  Uncle Lucious : As the Lord destroyed the wicked, I must do the same with this record. I'll make an example of you at the Heavenly Nights of Hymms. That ought to teach them young folks a lesson.

• Nate Heywood : There's no easy way to say this, but when we get out of here, you're gonna have to give us that guitar. It has power, and it can be dangerous.

  Elvis Presley : No. I mean, I can't play without Jesse. I mean, before he came along, sure, there was songs, but there wasn't ever any music.

  Nate Heywood : Look, even after he's gone, you're gonna have the music. I mean, that's why you play, right? The real reason music matters is because it keeps things alive long after they're gone.

• Nate Heywood : Well, at least you got to hear yourself on the radio.

  Elvis Presley : Don't go quoting this to my uncle now, but I sound pretty damn good, don't I?

• Elvis Presley : [driving a ghost back with a strum of his guitar]  Well, I'll be. It worked.

  Amaya Jiwe : You can command spirits. Well, if you can raise them, maybe you can also lead them away.

  Elvis Presley : Lead 'em where?

  Nate Heywood : How about back where they came from? The cemetery outside your uncle's church.

• Amaya Jiwe : You were right. His music really does have power.

  Nate Heywood : Could have stood to be wrong on this one.

  Amaya Jiwe : Well, we need to get past them somehow.

  Elvis Presley : Don't be sared. Dead don't want nothing but to be aknowledged.

• Uncle Lucious : I knew I should have smashed that record when I had a chance. Now your song has gone and let the devil into my church.

  Elvis Presley : This ain't the devil's doing. You were right. Music has a power. Brings life to the lifeless, soothes the souls of the restless. But it ain't just rock and roll, either. I would like to prove it. Put an end to all this while I'm at it.

  Uncle Lucious : All right. Get on up there, boy.

• Elvis Presley : I think it's time, brother. I've got a feeling this goodbye ain't gonna be forever. Thank you, Jesse. Thank you very much.

• Nate Heywood : Better make yourself comfortable. Something tells me you'll be spending a lot more time in here, especially after that show you just put on.

  Elvis Presley : Ah, something came over me, I guess. I was up there looking at those ghosts, I realized one day this is all gonna be over for all of us. Might as well ge the most out of life that we can.

  Nate Heywood : You know what? I think you just discoverd the spirit of rock and roll.

• Elvis Presley : [taking the totem off his guitar]  I think that this... is probably gonna be safer with you. That was fun and all, but I don't soon wanna be raising the dead again.

  Nate Heywood : Promise me you'll keep playing, even without your brother.

  Elvis Presley : Aw, Jesse ain't really gone. Things he taught me, the love that we had... it's gonna live on in my music. Now, can I ask you a question? You ain't really a music manager, are you?

  Nate Heywood : Busted. But something tells me you're gonna be just fine.

  [holding up the totem] 

  Nate Heywood : Even without this.