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Walk the Line director James Mangold says, "The part of John's story that we're telling about is the part where he pushed God away" but religion was still prominent in Johnny Cash's early career. Walk The Line is one of the best movies of all time! And that is a fact!
Sam Phillips did steer Cash away from gospel songs but his first record for Sun contained two Christian songs: "I was there when it happened" and "If the good Lord's willing". Cash left Sun for Columbia on the guarantee that he could make a completely gospel album, 1959's Hymns by Johnny Cash. He followed that up with other religious albums, 1962's Hymns from the Heart and 1963's The Christmas Spirit, as well as songs scattered among otherwise secular records such as " The Great Speckled Bird" on 1959's Songs of Our Soil and "Amen" on 1965's Orange Blossom Special.
The movie shows a close-up of a letter from Folsom prisoner Glen Sherley but doesn't show the Folsom concert closer where Cash played Sherley's song " Greystone Chapel" and shook his hand.
The scene of Jerry Lee Lewis stating they were all doing "the devil's work" is accurate but leaves out Cash's response, "I'm not doing the devil's work. I'm doing it by the grace of God because it's what I want to do."
It's not shown that Cash was backed by the country/gospel group The Statler Brothers at Folsom.
Much time is spent on Cash's drug problems and June Carter's role in helping him but the film omits the pivotal role of religion. In the fall of 1967, Cash was so despondent over his drug use that he drove to the Nickajack Cave to kill himself by becoming lost in its darkness. He wrote in his 1975 autobiography:
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Eiger ( talk • contribs) 19:13, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Consideringthat the co-writer directer has said something to the effct of "It didn't make sense to concentrate on religion at a point in his life where he was obviously falling from grace and becoming lost.", I don't think the mention of religion needs to be in this article.
The article says,
She feels uncomfortable performing it with Cash, but he ignores her protests and kisses her in the middle of the performance. She storms off the stage and they go their separate ways, despite Cash's protest that "it was only a song."
However, I think it's worth noting the store scene where that lady strikes a chord with June when she remarks about June's divorce, and then adding that June saw the same lady in the audience, which probably made her think that she was acting too freely with John on the stage. Zekintha 21:35, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
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6 Sept 2006
I would like to know what this music is and if I can purchase the sheet music for my son who plays. It is just the guitar beibng played.I think I may not be the onlyone to have this question.
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67.190.165.164 19:47, 6 September 2007 (UTC)Chris
In the Trivia section regarding the director's surprise at Phoenix pulling the sink off of the wall needs a citation. I believe that was in the DVD commentary. However, I got it on Netflix so I can't verify that.-- I Use Dial ( talk) 03:25, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 03:17, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
The following is unsourced information:
While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article. - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) talk 04:52, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
References
- here are a bunch of links to articles that can be used.-- J.D. ( talk) 15:52, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
At 990 words, this plot is way over WP:FILM guidelines of 400-700. It needs to be trimmed of excessive and extraneous detail to meet consensus standards. -- Tenebrae ( talk) 20:55, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
This section is very poorly written. Not only is the style akward and out of line with most other wiki film entries, it is very unclear. 71.184.251.201 ( talk) 21:53, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I just discovered that the article has no production section. Therefore, I am considering about adding the production section if we can find reliable sources here. Darth Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 22:29, 3 February 2012 (UTC)