{"id":200,"date":"2005-11-30T08:39:57","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T15:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2005-12-01T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T14:36:00","slug":"walk-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/30\/walk-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk the Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joaquin Phoenix has big black eyes and shiny black hair and when he&#8217;s dressed in a black suit, he is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnycash.com\/\"> Johnny Cash<\/a>. When he&#8217;s all jittery and whacked out on whatever it was he used to feed his addiction and can&#8217;t get out of the way of his own bones, just watching him makes your feel like you&#8217;ve joined him on the ride. <\/p>\n<p>Reese Whitherspoon is perky as hell lin tiny waisted dresses, except when she gets tired of Johnny and then she is no nonsense Dorothy yelling at the wizard to deliver on his damn promises, already. <\/p>\n<p>Johnny&#8217;s dad is the meanest porcupine of man with a narrow hard mouth and an evil dispositon. Viv, Johnny&#8217;s first wife, is tight and pretty and bubbling with barely contained frustration. <\/p>\n<p>The acting is so believable that while you&#8217;re watching Walk the Line you think you&#8217;re watching June and Johnny. You know that they&#8217;re actors, you know that it&#8217;s not really Johnny and June, but still, there you sit, watching Johnny and June act out the stories of their early careers, hearing them sing in their own flawed voices. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, after the movie, I went home and picked out &#8220;Folsom Prison Blues&#8221; on my uke. This morning, I&#8217;m listening to &#8220;Live from Folsom Prison.&#8221; Playing Johnny Cash this morning doesn&#8217;t make Walk the Line any less believable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joaquin Phoenix has big black eyes and shiny black hair and when he&#8217;s dressed in a black suit, he is Johnny Cash. When he&#8217;s all jittery and whacked out on whatever it was he used to feed his addiction and can&#8217;t get out of the way of his own bones, just watching him makes your &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Walk the Line\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/30\/walk-the-line\/#more-200\" aria-label=\"Read more about Walk the Line\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}