Walking the Line.....of Credibility
Though sometimes these stupid ultra-self-righteous purists (I mean, who really misses non-interleague baseball play, anyway) really make it hard for the Real Dookie to do his duty (pun intended), yours truly really has to agree with them about the new pseudo-Johnny Cash flick Walk the Line. While it is hard to agree with the hardcore Nashville-based native country music fanatics about most anything, I give credit where credit is due that the movie has major credibility problems. I agree with the crowd, though, for different reasons.
So, what is it that the R.D. really finds disingenuous about the movie?
Is it the major inaccuracies in the portrayal of Cash's first wife (and, coincidentally the inspiration for the song which the movie is titled after) and the reasons his first marriage ended?
Is it the fact that Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon both look and sound nothing like the characters they portray?
Is it the fact that whole sections of Cash's career are bypassed or rewritten?
Is it the fact that a great story about a man's life, career, and amazing songwriting skills has been turned into a sappy and average love story?
NO!!!!!!!! IT'S THE MULLET FACTOR!!!!
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Every Johnny Cash lover knows that Cash spent a good portion of his career, even when before he was the old crooner Generation Next grew up with, rockin’ a wave and/or a mullet – often at the same time! But this important, humanizing detail was woefully absent from the film. The fact that these now-defunct and oft-ridiculed hairdos are considered faux pas in 21st Century America does not mean they should have been left totally off of the storyboards. In fact, jeers to you, 20th Century Fox, for insulting the American public this way. If Cash had a junior mullet the entire film, it wouldn’t scare potential consumers away. Did Mozart have no tights in Amadeus? Did they put her highness in a thong in Antony and Cleopatra? Did they give the title character an Escalade, 24's, and dubs in Othello?
All I have to say to you, the makers of Walk the Line, is this....
Shame! Shame!!!!!!
So, what is it that the R.D. really finds disingenuous about the movie?
Is it the major inaccuracies in the portrayal of Cash's first wife (and, coincidentally the inspiration for the song which the movie is titled after) and the reasons his first marriage ended?
Is it the fact that Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon both look and sound nothing like the characters they portray?
Is it the fact that whole sections of Cash's career are bypassed or rewritten?
Is it the fact that a great story about a man's life, career, and amazing songwriting skills has been turned into a sappy and average love story?
NO!!!!!!!! IT'S THE MULLET FACTOR!!!!
vs.Every Johnny Cash lover knows that Cash spent a good portion of his career, even when before he was the old crooner Generation Next grew up with, rockin’ a wave and/or a mullet – often at the same time! But this important, humanizing detail was woefully absent from the film. The fact that these now-defunct and oft-ridiculed hairdos are considered faux pas in 21st Century America does not mean they should have been left totally off of the storyboards. In fact, jeers to you, 20th Century Fox, for insulting the American public this way. If Cash had a junior mullet the entire film, it wouldn’t scare potential consumers away. Did Mozart have no tights in Amadeus? Did they put her highness in a thong in Antony and Cleopatra? Did they give the title character an Escalade, 24's, and dubs in Othello?
All I have to say to you, the makers of Walk the Line, is this....
Shame! Shame!!!!!!
posted by TheRealDookie | 3:22 PM
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