Monday, November 28, 2005

Jumping on the bandwagon

Walk the line.... When I first heard this movie was being made I began to prepare for a nostalgia suck fest . Knowing the pretenders could now slither out of the of the woodworks mad it all the more dreadful.

I can admit I came to Johnny Cash late in his life, his retreated sound under the tutelage of Rick Rubin was focused a bit at my demographic " late teens, post grunge, a bit smarter than the average bear" and I enjoyed what I heard. His remake of the NIN cover Hurt was by far better than thoriginalal and spoke volumes to me at the time and still does in so many ways. His past had been scrubbed with the grit of nostalgia. Suddenly he was the man in black, the one who sang like a rabid south Baptist minister. He cast down fire and brimstone, and like it or not, it was a damn cool.

Later I discovered a bit more about the man, who he was, as opposed to who we lead to assume he was. I saw the heartbreak through documentary and magazine article and "Cash" by Johnny Cash. I saw a man who represented sin to show people the light, who was willing to look back into the darkness time and time again to reassure himself that he did have the strength to keep walking on, and to show others that it could be done.

Yesterday when I woke up and knew I would see "Walk the Line." And I was a bit bitter because I knew this movie was going to sell Cash the way Cash was meant to be sold, perhaps better than he ever could have sold himself. And much like "Ray," this film would bring the undeserving into the light of greatness, unleashing a wave of faux nostalgia, the kind of people Nick Hornby described as "shaving their heads and saying they always were punk."

So, as I prepare for the bandwagon I can only say this.

Walk the Line will win "Best Picture" and if Reese Witherspoon (yummy) doesn't get a strong nod for Best Actress, well, the academy will be even more of a lame ass, guttless, and completelyly devoid entity.
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