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Looks like im gunna be seeing "Walk the Line"

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I liked it, good story.

my GF disliked it just because she doesnt get why we idolize people and respect them when they are married and want other women get with other women etc.
 
I thought it was ok. Went to much into the damn love story tho. I Wanted to watch a movie about more aspects of him.
 
The problem with that is typically a movie that feels too rushed and spread too thin. They chose to focus on his relationship with June because they knew that there was so much else to his life.
 
Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
It's a cool story....especially because I grew up about 8 miles from the Carter Family Fold.
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Where was that? I know the Carters lived in several places. When June moved here to the Nashville area, although every thing you read just states it was 'Nashville', she had to actually have lived in Inglewood, since my mom also grew up there and used to see June with her kids (they were a bit younger than my mom) around town all the time, including the store two houses down from the house my mom lived in. This was the late 50's & early 60's. She may have lived somewhere else in the Nashville area after that, before moving in with Johnny. I don't know. In the movie, when he walked to her house she says "You walked here all the way from Nashville?", so I'm not quite sure where that is supposed to be. When he wakes up face down in the dirt the next day, he's near the house he will buy in Hendersonville (23 miles from downtown Nashville).

I grew up and still live in Hendersonville. Been here since Feb. 1977. I live 1.5 miles from the Cash house, and no more than 1/4 mile from where Johnny and June are buried. We used to ride jetski's/boats right up to his backyard all the time (and Barbara Mandrell's & Reba McEntire's houses). FYI, none of the movie was filmed here. I read that it was too costly and difficult to get the film crew out here and down the hilly, windy and uneven road his house is on. It it were warm enough, I'd take a pic of his house from my jetski. Can't see as much from the road. There's still a security guard posted in the little hut thing at the gate by the road, and the house is still for sale. John Carter Cash lives here as well.
But Reese and Joaquin (& Dolly Parton, Steve Earle) did do a photo shoot for Vogue magazine at the actual Cash house. The pics: 1, 2, 3. The article from Vogue is here (full article link at bottom), and the 'see more photos' link shows a pic that isn't in the other galleries, the one with Dolly & Steve (pics here are smaller though).

Here's an article about the house going up for sale. There's a pic from April 1969 there too (it obviously looks a lot nicer in the summer) . Another article.
My mom tells me she was riding around with her parents and my aunt and stopping to look at a house that was being built and the person there (a contractor or foreman or something) told them Johnny Cash had bought it, and that it wasn't orginally being built for him. She was telling me about all the times they used to see Johnny and June around town in the store, movie theater, etc. Said June sat in front front of them back around '86 at my cousin's Jr. High band concert. My cousin's husband worked on the air conditioner in Johnny's house while Johnny was there.
I've probably seen him when he came into the grocery store I worked at as a teenager. I may have even bagged his groceries. LOL. But hey I was a teenager and didn't care about old music, and didn't/don't like country music (probably not aware that he wasn't just about country music). Also that was 18 years ago so I forget. But it wasn't unusual to see country music stars come in.

BTW, Reese is from Nashville. The hotty actress playing Vivian Cash (Gennifer Goodwin...I remember her from Ed) is from Memphis. Clay Steakley, his drummer in the movie, is a former Nashvillian. Other than Reece and Joaquin, the rest of the band, and the actors that played Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Roy Orbison, are all real musicians. And I have to admit, Reese sings better than many of the newer artists out today (definately much better than Ashlee Simpson, Hillary Duff, etc.). Shelby Lynne plays Johnny's mom. Shooter Jennings plays Waylon.
 
Some articles that appeared in the papers here:

Walk The Line
Walk the Line Interview: Shelby Lynne
Walk the Line: Clay Steakley

"Tribute section: Johnny Cash. A special look at the life of the late country legend."
I think this is from back when he died.

These were actually printed in the Tennessean, but they now charge for their archived articles, but you can still view them through these URL's (probably temporarily):
Joaquin Phoenix walks the line with pride
Witherspoon struggled to find the singer within
Reese Witherspoon elevates Cash biopic
Johnny Cash called him friend
He watched love story unfold
Talk 'the Line' with Johnny's son

My dad, Johnny Cash
This came out today. A good, short read. I'm told the print version had photos.


Good pic.
This is funny. I used to go in this store every week until it closed a couple years ago.

 
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