Primarily the story of the love that grew between country stars Johnny Cash and June Carter during the early years of Cash's career, WALK THE LINE is the result of intense collaboration between director James Mangold, co-writer Gill Dennis, Johnny Cash, and June Carter Cash. Though both Cashes died in 2003, they oversaw the script's development for seven years.
Based on Johnny Cash's books Man in Black and Cash: The Autobiography, and developed over a period of seven years with the help of Cash and June Carter Cash, James Mangold's Walk the Line toes it pretty well. Named for one of Cash's biggest hits, it also describes the linear progression of the story, which moves briskly from milestone to milestone, pausing along the way to photograph the monumental moments in the life of the artist, and more or less making a moral beeline for redemption.
Johnny Cash's work requires no explanation or justification, but pop icon biopics do. So we get the artistic creation myth as moral allegory: a wayward soul saved by the ...
Walk the Line "This one's for the warden!" Joaquin Phoenix IS the Man in Black in James Mangold's outstanding Johnny Cash biopic, chronicling the highs and lows of the towering musical icon
About a third of the way into James Mangold's Walk the Line, divorcee June Carter (Witherspoon) hands her touring partner Johnny Cash (Phoenix), then unhappily married to first wife Vivian, a copy of Kahil Gibran's 'The Prophet' as a parting gift. This is what Gibran has to say on the subject of marriage: "Sing and dance together and be joyous, but each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music." We never find out whether Cash rumi...
Walk the Line is a strongly acted, musically vibrant, conventionally satisfying biopic of country/rock/blues legend Johnny Cash and his second wife, June Carter. Absorbing and entertaining, James Mangold's heartfelt feature follows the predictable format for musical bios, encompassing popular singers' performance highs and drug-addled lows, and could have benefited from a rougher edge in line with the main subject's outlaw image. Already being pushed as this year's Ray, Fox release can look forward to swaggering B.O. generally, especially from Middle America.
It's an exceptional time for biographical performances in Hollywood films, what with Philip Seymour...
Awesome Movie Songs stick in your head !! Reese is great actress, the funnies part of the movie is when he wakes up by the Lake and just decides to buy the house!!
