Everyone knows who you are talking about when you say Johnny Cash, but do they know who J. Cash is? They're the same person as Johnny Cash's legal name at birth was J. It might have stuck, but when he joined the air force they required him to have a first name so he became John R. He changed his name once more to Johnny Cash in when he signed on with Sun Records. His name to this day is one of the most well known and loved in all of country music.
At Folsom Prison became an iconic album in music history as it revived Johnny Cash's career and became one of his most popular records. The country legend took the stage at Folsom Prison on January 13, , which was a long time coming. Cash first became interested in Folsom Prison when was in the air force in after his unit watched the film Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison. The film led him to write his hit song "Folsom Prison Blues," which became popular among inmates who would often write to him to ask him to come to the prisons to perform.
Cash saw his comeback as the perfect opportunity to perform for his biggest fans. Fans might believe this scene was written in to add more drama to the film, but Johnny Cash really proposed to June Carter on stage on February 22, The pair were married a week later on March 1, , in Kentucky.
They stayed together and in love until June's passing on May 15, Johnny Cash followed the love of his life as he passed away only a few short months later on September 12, They walked the line together for 35 years. Kayla Mosley is an avid reader, writer, and sitcom watcher.
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Clay Steakley W. Ridge Canipe Young J. James Mangold. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. While growing up in the Great Depression era, Johnny Cash takes an interest in music and eventually moves out of his Arkansas town to join the air force in Germany.
While there, he buys his first guitar and writes his own music, and proposes to Vivian. When they got married, they settled in Tennessee and with a daughter, he supported the family by being a salesman.
He discovers a man who can pursue his dreams and ends up getting a record with the boys. Shortly after that, he was on a short tour, promoting his songs, and meets the already famous and beautiful June Carter. Then as they get on the long-term tours with June, the boys, and Jerry Lee Lewis, they have this unspoken relationship that grows. But when June leaves the tour because of his behavior, he was a drug addict. His marriage was also falling apart, and when he sees June years later at an awards show, he forces June to tour with them again, promising June to support her two kids and herself.
While the tour goes on, the relationship between June and John grow more,and his marriage to his first wife ends. June finds out about the drugs, and help him overcome it. True love and care helped John eventually stop the drug usage, and finally proposes to her in front of an audience at a show. Love is a burning thing. Biography Drama Music Romance. Rated PG for some language, thematic material and depiction of drug dependency. Did you know Edit. Trivia Co-writer and director James Mangold said that Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon developed a very codependent relationship during filming.
According to him, after the filming wrapped, Phoenix admitted to him that he and Witherspoon had relied on each other so much that they made a secret pact. The deal was that if one of them left or dropped out, the other would leave as well. Goofs A scene shows Johnny listening to June Carter on the radio. The announcer says "year-old June Carter". She was 14 or 15 in Crazy credits In the opening credits, Robert Patrick's name appears to pass through the prison bars, like his T character did in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
That more or less describes last year's " Ray ," but every time we see this story the characters change and so does the music, and that makes it new. We're told in the movie that June learned to be funny onstage because she didn't think she had a good voice; by the time John meets her she's been a pro since the age of 4, and effortlessly moves back and forth between her goofy onstage persona and her real personality, which is sane and thoughtful, despite her knack for hitching up with the wrong men.
Johnny Cash for that matter seems like the wrong man, and she holds him at arm's length for years -- first because he's a married man, and later because he has a problem with booze and pills. The film's most harrowing scene shows Johnny onstage after an overdose, his face distorted by pain and anger, looking almost satanic before he collapses. What is most fearsome is not even his collapse, but the force of his will, which makes him try to perform when he is clearly unable to.
You would not want to get in the way of that determination. When Cash is finally busted and spends some time in jail, his father is dependably laconic: "Now you won't have to work so hard to make people think you been to jail. Although Cash's father played with merciless aim by Robert Patrick eventually does sober up, the family that saves him is June's.
The Carter Family were country royalty ever since the days their of broadcasts from a high-powered pirate station across the river from Del Rio, Texas. When they take a chance on Cash, they all take the chance; watch her parents as they greet Johnny's favorite pill-pusher. It is by now well known that Phoenix and Witherspoon perform their own vocals in the movie.
It was not well known when the movie previewed -- at least not by me. Knowing Cash's albums more or less by heart, I closed my eyes to focus on the soundtrack and decided that, yes, that was the voice of Johnny Cash I was listening to. The closing credits make it clear it's Joaquin Phoenix doing the singing, and I was gob-smacked. Phoenix and Mangold can talk all they want about how it was as much a matter of getting in character, of delivering the songs, as it was a matter of voice technique, but whatever it was, it worked.
Cash's voice was "steady like a train, sharp like a razor," said June. The movie fudges some on the facts, but I was surprised to learn that Cash actually did propose marriage to Carter onstage during a concert; it feels like the sort of scene screenwriters invent, but no.
Other scenes are compressed or fictionalized, as they must be, and I would have liked more screen time for the other outlaws, including Waylon and Willie. Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis make brief excursions through the plot, but essentially this is the story of John and June and a lot of great music. And essentially that's the story we want. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in
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