Directed by James Mangold
Writing credits Johnny Cash (book)
Tagline: Love is a burning thing.
Main cast: Joaquin Phoenix.... Johnny Cash; Reese Witherspoon.... June Carter
Marathoned watching Walk the Line (WtL) and The Constant Gardener this week. Thought this movie gonna have a sad ending, so when it turned out to be otherwise, there was a slight unfinished feeling left in me. My first attraction for this movie was Joaquin Phoenix, his movies had so far never disappointed me---well, except for that one, the one that tells the story of a cloned ice-skater (for god sake!! A CLONED ICE SKATER!!! How goofy is that??). Hmmm… cannot remember the title, Love… something. The second was the genre: musical movie.
Watching Phoenix on WtL was like watching a time bomb! Through out the movie, I never stop expecting him to explode. His eyes while watching Witherspoon whenever they were on stage’s scenes, made me tensed. It was like waiting for him to jump and strangle her. Phoenix, as always, has the knack in playing twisted characters. Remember him in Gladiator? Reading the movie’s tagline, Love IS a BURNING thing indeed!
The story was about Johnny Cash, a singer in Elvis’ and Jerry Lewis’ time. Yup, THE Elvis Presley. He was madly in love with his co-singer, June Carter, who apparently hesitated to return his love. Witherspoon had gotten herself an Oscar with this role, but I found something lacking in her performance. Her emotion didn’t reach me. But hey, I’m not an Academy Award judge, so… never mind. The whole movie concentrated on Cash’s problems, with drugs, his unhappy childhood and his cold-hearted father. But as I said before, this one ended with a happy ending, so to the all happy endings’ fans out there, no worries!
I must comment on their singing! It was brilliant!!! I read that Phoenix and Witherspoon took some sort of vocal lessons so that they didn’t have to dub any songs. Wow, bravo! I enjoyed listening to their music, even Witherspoon’s crispy voice! (in Indonesian: cempreng! Hehehe) The memorable part of WtL was Phoenix saying, “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash” with a deep low voice that sounded not like his own. And I thought that “Thank you, thank you very much” was Elvis’ trademark. But it turned out (in the movie anyway), that Cash was using the same phrase when addressing his fans. The big surprised was when they put Cash and Carter duet as the credit title’s song. While Phoenix’s voice was kind of similar to Cash’s, the same cannot be said about Whiterspoon’s voice to Carter’s.
Tagline: Love is a burning thing.
Main cast: Joaquin Phoenix.... Johnny Cash; Reese Witherspoon.... June Carter
Marathoned watching Walk the Line (WtL) and The Constant Gardener this week. Thought this movie gonna have a sad ending, so when it turned out to be otherwise, there was a slight unfinished feeling left in me. My first attraction for this movie was Joaquin Phoenix, his movies had so far never disappointed me---well, except for that one, the one that tells the story of a cloned ice-skater (for god sake!! A CLONED ICE SKATER!!! How goofy is that??). Hmmm… cannot remember the title, Love… something. The second was the genre: musical movie.
Watching Phoenix on WtL was like watching a time bomb! Through out the movie, I never stop expecting him to explode. His eyes while watching Witherspoon whenever they were on stage’s scenes, made me tensed. It was like waiting for him to jump and strangle her. Phoenix, as always, has the knack in playing twisted characters. Remember him in Gladiator? Reading the movie’s tagline, Love IS a BURNING thing indeed!
The story was about Johnny Cash, a singer in Elvis’ and Jerry Lewis’ time. Yup, THE Elvis Presley. He was madly in love with his co-singer, June Carter, who apparently hesitated to return his love. Witherspoon had gotten herself an Oscar with this role, but I found something lacking in her performance. Her emotion didn’t reach me. But hey, I’m not an Academy Award judge, so… never mind. The whole movie concentrated on Cash’s problems, with drugs, his unhappy childhood and his cold-hearted father. But as I said before, this one ended with a happy ending, so to the all happy endings’ fans out there, no worries!
I must comment on their singing! It was brilliant!!! I read that Phoenix and Witherspoon took some sort of vocal lessons so that they didn’t have to dub any songs. Wow, bravo! I enjoyed listening to their music, even Witherspoon’s crispy voice! (in Indonesian: cempreng! Hehehe) The memorable part of WtL was Phoenix saying, “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash” with a deep low voice that sounded not like his own. And I thought that “Thank you, thank you very much” was Elvis’ trademark. But it turned out (in the movie anyway), that Cash was using the same phrase when addressing his fans. The big surprised was when they put Cash and Carter duet as the credit title’s song. While Phoenix’s voice was kind of similar to Cash’s, the same cannot be said about Whiterspoon’s voice to Carter’s.
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