The Science of Scoring Sofia Coppola’s Movies

Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” was blasting as Priscilla Presley drove through the gates of Graceland one last time — or, rather, as Cailee Spaeny drove through them. Sofia Coppola played the wistful ballad that would close Priscilla while Spaeny sat behind the wheel, her character steeling herself to leave Elvis and begin a life of her own. Tears stung Spaeny’s eyes as she heard Parton sing those famous words: “And so I’ll go, and yet I know / I’ll think of you each step of the way.”