Sunsets aren't always necessary...
So...I'm watching Walk the Line right now and Johnny Cash seems like the ultimate A-Hole right about now. What I find weird is that in the movie Ray, Ray turned out to be the same druggie-womanizer that Johnny Cash finds himself becoming becuase of the influence of fame. I mean, I understand they made good music and maybe there's some interests in their history and how they reached their climax of fame, but why make a movie that, to me, makes me just look at them in a very different way, but not in any better of a light. I get disappointed in finding out that while they were being looked up to by millions for their influence through music, they were cheating on their wives, getting themselves into drugs, and losing their souls to the path to fame. Obviously no ones perfect, and seeing a movie about a person's life shows who they really were, but I really don't want to see how much of a disappointment their life was. I don't usually consider myself one of those "need a happy-ending and a ride into the sunset to be satisfied" type movie people, I can take a few deaths and dissapointments at the closing scenes, but I'd so much rather see movies, like Freedom Writers for example, that leaves you walking away with a feeling of optomism towards the good in people and the hope they carry in life, along with their ability to spread it. So, why make a million dollar Hollywood Production on something that we see in the daily People magazine? Their voice might produce a unique sound and some good tunes, and the story of their path to fame might be a good one, but leave it at that. I don't want to know the corruption and unhappiness that followed them until the end. Doesn't leave a good light on the people we have all admired for so long.
-purgalicious
-purgalicious
posted by sobereyedconclusions at
9:34 PM
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"His voice from behind the paper, the Earl of Slander says, “A journalist has a right...and a duty, to destroy those golden calves he helps create.” (Haunted) Writers and the such love tearing down old Hollywood types; they feel its their just desserts in a way. Besides, isn't it better to live with the truth, regardless of how bad that truth is, rather than live in a willful ignorance? I mean celebrities are just glorified court jesters that people tolerate these days so they get to ridicule them later when they take their fall...Maybe Harvey Dent was right..."You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
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We should remember that Cash's life is part of history and there are lessons to be learned, but I do have to agree with shadows in the sense that celebs are often so idolized by their "perfection" that society fails to realize that they have things about them that aren't so admirable. In order for the public (and I'm speaking generally) to snap back into reality and realize that starving themself and using drugs to make them be like their favorite celeb will just give them a life of distress, they must veiw the horrific and sad effects on these idols.
I understand that part completely... But I don't understand how people can reflect back on the movie and STILL see them as resonably good people. I'm not saying that your mistakes reflect you as a person but I know that I wouldn't repsect my role models, like my dad, as much if he took the same turns as Cash... so in the end they are still idolized. They are seen as better as normal people and their drug habits and domestic abuse are looked at as a "wow look what he did" type deal, i mean they are still Hollywood-ized, as opposed to the reality of how bad these things normally are seen in a normal person's everyday life
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