I am in love with Walk The Line
Nov. 20th, 2005 02:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieSaw Walk the Line tonight and I am in love. It is definitely an amazing movie because:
a. I saw it on 5 hours of sleep and I went to the 10:30pm showing and I still loved it and
b. I know nothing about Johnny Cash (I never even heard of him before the movie. Yeah, I know, I am from another planet) except that he was a singer, and I still loved it.
Joaquin Phoenix is amazing (and so is Reese), and he is this combo of a guy who is incredibly magnetic and at the same time a bit uncomfortable in his body. It's a killer combo and I would have had much less willpower than June who justifiably refused him all these years. Because yes, he is married, and yes, he is a drug-addict and a mess, but oh boy. Because if a man like that looked at me as if I am his whole world. and I'd jump him problems or not problems. And whoa, I never knew they could sing like that. I think I know who I am rooting for at the Oscars.
I want to see it again, and I am definitely buying a copy on DVD. My Top 5 of the year, definitely.
My favorite scenes really were the two of them singing together on stage, because it really looked as if they were making love and they weren't even touching. Crazy chemistry.
In fact, when at the end he proposes for the umpteenth time and she finally accepts (on stage) and he picks her up and they kiss, it's actually a relief, because really, all their scenes performing are just rife with this amazing sexual tension and intimacy. (Also, if a guy during a proposal told me and meant it that I was his best friend, I'd be a goner).
Other scenes I loved: Johnny going off the drugs and the little aftermath with June taking care of him and trying to convince him he is a good person. The bit where they first almost kiss, and there is this lovely uncertainty and sweetness. The bit where they first perform together and she bolts because she has all these feelings and he ends up trashing that bathroom out of sheer rage and frustration. When he first hits his head against the wall, someone in our audience gasped. The bit at the Thanksgiving dinner where Johnny and his father finally have it out (what a horrid thing to say to your kid whose brother died, that God took the wrong son). When June and Johnny finally fall into bed together and we don't see anything but the morning after but it's so funny and right and easy and you can tell these people belong together. The scene where Johnny has that huge fight with his wife.
Joaquin is totally, totally amazing, as this mess, but glorious passionate mess of a person. And Reese is equally good as a strong-willed, practical woman whose head won't let her give in no much how much her heart wants it. I had no idea this movie was going to be quite so romantic, but at its heart it's really a love story, and an amazing one. I have to say when by the end, Johnny tells June she is his best friend, I believe it. And that's quite something else.
I also saw trailers for two movies I would love to see. First one was for Casanova with Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller. While having about as much in common with the real Casanova as I do, it looked funny and romantic and sumptuous and totally a dream. But the trailer tha really made me want to scream was Tristan and Isolde with James Franco, Sophia Miles and Rufus Sewell. The few people who were around when I first started this lj, remember my picspam about this film. I wanted to see it for ages, as it's one of my favorite stories (I need to dig out the icon![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vierran45 made for me). And the trailer looks amazing: passionate, and beautiful, and with fights and mud and complications and angst. And for once, Mark is not an evil pig, which makes the whole story really tragic. If the movie is half as good, I'd be extatic. Of course, the tag line is really really wrong as it's "Love conquers all" or similar which is a huge malaprop considering they died.
ETA: I found the avatar. It's from this pic. But lj is being really weird about uploading.
a. I saw it on 5 hours of sleep and I went to the 10:30pm showing and I still loved it and
b. I know nothing about Johnny Cash (I never even heard of him before the movie. Yeah, I know, I am from another planet) except that he was a singer, and I still loved it.
Joaquin Phoenix is amazing (and so is Reese), and he is this combo of a guy who is incredibly magnetic and at the same time a bit uncomfortable in his body. It's a killer combo and I would have had much less willpower than June who justifiably refused him all these years. Because yes, he is married, and yes, he is a drug-addict and a mess, but oh boy. Because if a man like that looked at me as if I am his whole world. and I'd jump him problems or not problems. And whoa, I never knew they could sing like that. I think I know who I am rooting for at the Oscars.
I want to see it again, and I am definitely buying a copy on DVD. My Top 5 of the year, definitely.
My favorite scenes really were the two of them singing together on stage, because it really looked as if they were making love and they weren't even touching. Crazy chemistry.
In fact, when at the end he proposes for the umpteenth time and she finally accepts (on stage) and he picks her up and they kiss, it's actually a relief, because really, all their scenes performing are just rife with this amazing sexual tension and intimacy. (Also, if a guy during a proposal told me and meant it that I was his best friend, I'd be a goner).
Other scenes I loved: Johnny going off the drugs and the little aftermath with June taking care of him and trying to convince him he is a good person. The bit where they first almost kiss, and there is this lovely uncertainty and sweetness. The bit where they first perform together and she bolts because she has all these feelings and he ends up trashing that bathroom out of sheer rage and frustration. When he first hits his head against the wall, someone in our audience gasped. The bit at the Thanksgiving dinner where Johnny and his father finally have it out (what a horrid thing to say to your kid whose brother died, that God took the wrong son). When June and Johnny finally fall into bed together and we don't see anything but the morning after but it's so funny and right and easy and you can tell these people belong together. The scene where Johnny has that huge fight with his wife.
Joaquin is totally, totally amazing, as this mess, but glorious passionate mess of a person. And Reese is equally good as a strong-willed, practical woman whose head won't let her give in no much how much her heart wants it. I had no idea this movie was going to be quite so romantic, but at its heart it's really a love story, and an amazing one. I have to say when by the end, Johnny tells June she is his best friend, I believe it. And that's quite something else.
I also saw trailers for two movies I would love to see. First one was for Casanova with Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller. While having about as much in common with the real Casanova as I do, it looked funny and romantic and sumptuous and totally a dream. But the trailer tha really made me want to scream was Tristan and Isolde with James Franco, Sophia Miles and Rufus Sewell. The few people who were around when I first started this lj, remember my picspam about this film. I wanted to see it for ages, as it's one of my favorite stories (I need to dig out the icon
vierran45 made for me). And the trailer looks amazing: passionate, and beautiful, and with fights and mud and complications and angst. And for once, Mark is not an evil pig, which makes the whole story really tragic. If the movie is half as good, I'd be extatic. Of course, the tag line is really really wrong as it's "Love conquers all" or similar which is a huge malaprop considering they died. ETA: I found the avatar. It's from this pic. But lj is being really weird about uploading.
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Date: 2005-11-20 04:11 pm (UTC)I was definitely amused by the 1960s hairdos in the movie btw.
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Date: 2005-11-20 04:16 pm (UTC)It's funny, because I had no idea this movie was going to be so much about love (I just thought it would be the usual, "from rags to riches fight problems" type of thing) and it really was totally unexpected but it moved me like crazy.
Oooh! I'm so looking forward to this.
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Date: 2005-11-20 07:13 pm (UTC)Re: Oooh! I'm so looking forward to this.
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Date: 2005-11-20 11:22 pm (UTC)Have you seen the movie yet, btw?
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Date: 2005-11-20 11:29 pm (UTC)