Walk the line

Rick Stirling

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/walktheline.html

PLEASE don't suck

Joaquin does look identical to JC in this image at least:



IMDB says the JP sang all the songs and learned to play guitar for the part.

BoBo_the_seal

Yeah I saw the trailer for this the other day. My hopes are high. I can't wait to see it.

- BoBo

Kevin Johnstone

He sang well in the trailer and seemed like a great fit, I loved the trailer too. I'm really excited about this one!

r.

pogonip

He better not shame Johnny Cash ..so help me god ...

AstroZombie

I heard about this, hope it is good as well.

Joshua Stubbles

I'd see the movie if I could stomach his music.....

Moz

what do you have against Johnny fucking Cash?

Dukester

Hey, Jamie Fox doesn't look exactly like Ray Charles, but halfway through that movie I was believing hes was Ray Charles!

Get the mannerisms down, do your homework. This could be a great movie.

And I can stomach the music, that is why I'm interested!

I'm just curious, from a pure knowledge point of view, why you late to mid twenty something Irish and Scottish types are excited? I absoulutely mean no disrespect at all, in fact it thrills me! But tell about Johnny Cash in the UK that that brings that reaction! Thats cool!

MoP

Moz: I'm guessing Vassago doesn't like the music? That is allowed. It's alright, I guess, I'm not that much of a fan though.

Movie looks kinda cool, I think Joaquin Phoenix is usually pretty good anyway.

Dukester

Heh, back in 72 Johnny Cash had a little show on the radio.
My dad would pick me up from soccer practice and it would be on WBAP at eight o'clock (syndicated recorded)

It consisted of him saying at the beginning...

Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
(they played a Johnny Cash song)
commercials...
Johnny Cash saying something like "Folks, don't take any wooden nickels"....
commercials....
another Johnny Cash song...
"Good night folks, may the wind always be at you backs!"
Then it ended with them playing "Ring of Fire"

T'was great

Kevin Johnstone

We may be a continent away Duke but theres an element of hard done by good old boy trash in most scots and irish.

Outside of that, I think anyone thats 'lived' their life rather than spectated it, can appreciate lyrics like 'bound by wild desire.. I fell into a ring of fire' and thats a big hook for the rest of the mans music.

The thing about Johnny Cash is that you only needed to hear one of his songs to know the guy meant it. Where I come from, and I'm not talking about Scotland or Ireland here ( because I dont want to talk for anyone else), we appreciate someone meaning what they through.

We love opinions, we just think they shouldn't go unescorted without experience and johnny cash reeks of experience.

At least, thats my opinion and attraction beyond the fact that the guy can really belt out a good song and it always sounded like it came from the heart.

r.

Joshua Stubbles

I don't have anything against Johnny Cash, not at all. I just don't care for his music. Joaquin looks to be doing a great job at portraying him, though

Rick Stirling

Or perhaps people can appreciate good music no matter where they are from.

Dukester

touche

interesting bit of Cash trivia (or just interesting to me)
Cash grew up in eastern Arkansas in the Mississippi flood plain. If you've read enough about him you've read where they were flooded out and lost their home and had to evacuate with all the other sodbusters to Forrest City. My Dad is about 2 years older than JC and grew up in Forrest City and has told me about all the refugees coming into town because that was where the flooding stopped.

Well, like I said, interesting to me

jzero

Working class is working class, no matter where you're from, so it's no surprise that Johnny Cash's music hits home across the pond. Like with James Brown in 'The Commitments' -- "The Irish are the Blacks of Europe."

Somehow, I never like Joaquin except when he plays questionable characters. I loved him in 'Buffalo Soldiers', he was absolutely perfect. This looks good too.

/jzero