Walk the Line

Washington Area Film Critics Awards. There are also some local formats that in one or other way are pretty similar with Endemol's Big Brother:. Screen Actors Guild Awards. It also had its own version in USA for the latin market airing in Telemundo. Satellite Awards. It's a mixture among Big Brother and Star Academy and has had a huge success in different latin countries, as Chile, Spain, Brazil (formerly known as Casa dos Artistas), Venezuela, Colombia or Mexico. San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards. Protagonistas..., a format from the Spanish producer house GloboMedia, developed by its subsidiary in America, Promofilm.

Phoenix Film Critics Awards. The Bar, another format from Strix. Online Film Critics Society. It's the third biggest 'people-living-together' reality show on Earth, only defeated by Star Academy/Operación Triunfo (France/Spain, 2001, Endemol) broadcasted in 50 countries and Big Brother (Holland, 1999, Endemol) emitted or planned to be emitted in 68. New York Film Critics Awards. The Farm, created by the Swedish producer house Strix, creators of Survivor. National Society of Film Critics Awards. There are three specially important formats around the globe that attach to rules kind of similar with Big Brother:.

Las Vegas Film Critic Awards. Indeed, in the second Polish edition, one of the housemates was taken to a psychiatric hospital, and the winner of the first season in Portugal tried to kill himself several times. Kansas Film Critcs Awards. One interesting development is that German scientists have discovered that former Big Brother contestants may be at risk from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a condition sometimes suffered by those who leave the armed forces. Golden Globe Awards. The amount of sex shown on the televised versions varies from country to country depending on censorship rules, with some countries editing out all sex and nudity, and others allowing the show to border on the pornographic. Florida Film Critic Awards. With the passing of time, it has been demonstrated that the most successful versions were the ones that emulated a soap opera, whereas the versions where the principal attraction was sex have been eliminated, as in Hungary or Poland.

Broadcast Film Critic Awards. Some versions have been filled with sex-crazed housemates, whereas others decided to base the conflict within their programs around difficult or romantic personalities, as in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand, Philippines or Spain. Boston Society of Film Critics Awards. On the other hand, other versions have involved plotting in the vein of the most cruel soap opera. In addition, some critics also state that this movie is more of an actor/actress showcase than a movie itself. This only happened once, as afterwards, Big Brother modified its rules to prohibit this type of agreement. Further, Anderson wrote, the director Mangold "stretches and dilutes the core story until it resembles less a great man's life than a TV movie of the week.". While any pretences to be a cultural experiment are dubious, reports of the different results of the show around the world have been mildly interesting from a pop-anthropology standpoint; i.e., in Spain, the competitors designed an agreement to achieve they all were nominated automatically and annul then their power of decision inside the process of elimination in the contest.

Anderson [2] believed the film suffered from the typical fate of the biopic, stating that important events are distilled into meaningless and unrealistic circumstances. More generally, the voyeuristic nature of the show, where contestants volunteer to surrender their privacy in return for minor celebrity status and a comparatively small cash prize, has attracted much scorn. Yet some, like Las Vegas Weekly reviewer Jeffrey M. Criticisms typically are based on the ironic aspects of George Orwell's dystopic vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four being consciously aped by producers for public entertainment. They do their own singing with a startling mastery of country music's narrative musicianship.". Despite derision from many intellectuals and other critics, the show has been a commercial success around the world. They act with every bone and inch of flesh and facial plane, and each tone and waver of their voice. The house is even shown live on satellite television (with a 10-15 minute delay to permit muting of unacceptable content in the UK).

For example, Baltimore Sun reviewer Michael Sragow[1] wrote, "What Phoenix and Witherspoon accomplish in this movie is transcendent. In some countries, the Internet broadcasting was supplemented by updates via email, WAP and SMS. Critics generally responded with positive reviews, garnering an 83% on Rotten Tomatoes. These websites were highly successful, even after some national series started charging for access to the video stream. Phoenix and Witherspoon performed their own vocals in the film's numerous stage appearances. Although the main show, typically broadcast daily with a weekly roundup, is by necessity heavily edited, viewers can also watch a continuous, 24-hour feed from multiple cameras on the web. June, despite her shock, says yes. The series is notable for involving the Internet.

Cash responds that he can only continue singing the song with her if they will get married and so proposes to her onstage. The last remaining housemate is declared the winner and receives a substantial sum in prize money, the amount of which has varied widely around the world. In the middle of the song, Cash stops singing and June looks concerned. After the votes are tallied, the "evictee" leaves the house and is interviewed on-camera by the host of the show, usually in front of a live studio audience. At the concert, June tells Cash that he can only talk to her onstage.
The concert features "Ring of Fire", which Cash credits to June before persuading her to join him in a duet of "Jackson". The ones with the most nominations are then named on the television show, and viewers can vote for whom they want to be evicted. This appears to have been a common event, as Cash tells her that that was the last time - June's response is that she doesn't like "re-runs". Each week, the housemates each privately nominate a number of people who they wish to see removed from the house more than the other residents.

En route to one performance (at 2AM), he proposes to June, who turns him down. Of course, their allowance is lessened if they fail to complete the weekly task. His record company is dubious, arguing that the musical world has changed in the time Cash was rehabilitating, however he says bluntly that he will perform on a given date and the label can use the tapes if they think the music is any good.
The concert is a great success, and Cash embarks on a tour with June and his old band. To obtain a greater allowance, they may gamble some of their initial amount on the success of the completion of tasks. As he returns to normal, Cash notices that many of his fans are prisoners, so he presents a proposal to record a live album inside Folsom Prison. The housemates have a weekly allowance with which they can buy food and other essentials. Under the influence of the Carters (which extends to June's father chasing away Cash's drug dealer with a rifle), Cash cleans himself up. The tasks are designed to test their team-working abilities and community spirit.

Cash's response is to try furiously to remove a stump from the ground with his tractor, an attempt which ends with the tractor reversing into the lake and Cash being rescued by June (who was told by her father "You're already down there", in response to her protests that she was not going to help him out). To fill in time, the residents have various chores to maintain the house, and are set apparently random tasks by the producers of the show, who communicate with the housemates through one (unseen) individual issuing commands, termed "Big Brother". His parents, and the extended Carter family (June, her daughters and her parents) arrive for Thanksgiving, at which time Cash Snr berates Cash over his lack of achievement. in contraposition to other zones, or characteristics, of the house, more common, even precarious. On the way back, he collapses in the rain and - on coming round the next day - sees a large house near a lake and promptly buys it. Now almost every country has a modern house for the contest, with jacuzzi, sauna, VIP suite, etc. The pair separate and Cash moves to Nashville, where he shares living quarters with Waylon Jennings.
Cash attempts to reconcile with June, which involves a long walk to her house. This added an element of survival into the show, thus increasing the potential for tensions within the house.

Later again, the tensions in Cash's marriage flare up as he attempts to put up "pictures of my band" (including a very large one of June) over his wife's objections. Although essential amenities such as running water, furniture and a limited ration of food were provided, luxury items were forbidden. It is at this point that a distraught June begins to write "Ring of Fire". Initially, the hostel in which they had to reside for the duration of the competition was very basic. As a result, the rest of the tour is cancelled and June gets rid of Cash's drugs. Besides the same living together, which is the principal axis and major attraction of the contest, this one turns concerning 4 basic props: the stripped-bare back to basics environment in which they live, the evictions system, the weekly tasks set by Big Brother, and the "diary room", in which the housemates individually convey their thoughts, feelings, frustrations and their eviction nominees. That night's concert sees Cash incoherent during his customary "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" opening, as well as forgetting the lyrics to a song, losing control of the microphone stand, kicking the footlights and ultimately passing out. The last remaining is the winner.

The next morning, as June is on the phone to one of her daughters, she notices Cash taking several pills. At weekly intervals, the public is invited to vote to evict one of the contestants. After one performance, Cash and June sleep together in her hotel room. Private chats with a psychologist are a special exception. Despite his wife's objections to the level of interest he is paying her, Cash persuades June to come out of semi-retirement and tour with him.
The tour is a great success, although backstage Cash's wife is critical of June's influence. Originally shown in the Netherlands in September 1999, and subsequently cloned across the world, the "housemates" are confined inside a specially designed house where every single point in the house is within view of a video camera, and not permitted any contact with the outside world (although some versions, like the ones from Philippines, Mexico, Germany or Spain have introduced in some seasons precise changes, allowing the contact with the outside in certain situations): no TV, radio, telephone, Internet or other media are available to the housemates, not even writing materials. Some time later, Cash, still addicted (his father tells him that he would do well to start "sleeping at night...or eating"), takes his wife to an award show to which June also goes. .

Despite her objections, Cash decides on a love song and kisses her in the middle of the performance, after which she storms off the stage and they go their separate ways - despite Cash's protest that "it was only a song". The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopia in which Big Brother is the all-seeing leader. June tells him (and many of the other artists on the tour) at one point that they cannot "walk the line", prompting Cash to write "I Walk The Line".
This erratic behaviour peaks one night when Cash invites June onstage to sing a duet. It has been a prime-time hit in almost 70 different countries, earning Endemol large sums. When his romantic intentions are rebuffed one night in rural Georgia, Cash is offered drugs and alcohol and soon begins to behave erratically. The show, a kind of 'real life soap', was invented by John de Mol of the Netherlands and developed by his production company, Endemol. Cash's career goes from strength to strength, and he finds himself spending more time with June, who divorces her husband at this time. Big Brother is a popular reality television format, where, over 15 weeks or so, a number of contestants (typically 12) try to avoid periodic publicly-voted evictions from a communal house and hence win a cash prize.

On this tour (along with Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley), he meets June Carter, who is both a singer (although she claims to have no talent) and a comedienne in the performances. Ukraine, Dom. Despite his bandmates not knowing the tune, he strikes up "Folsom Prison Blues" and is rewarded with a contract, which soon has him touring with the other Sun artists. UK, Back To Reality. One day, he walks past a recording studio and is inspired to put a band together (which his wife describes as being made up of "two mechanics who can't even play") to play gospel music.
Cash and his band audition for Sun Records in front of Sam Phillips, and Cash is told to play a song which sums him up. Turkey, Biri Bizi Gözetliyor. Vivian and John (as he is now generally known) live in relative poverty while John works as a door-to-door salesman. Spain, La Casa De Tu Vida.

Following his discharge, he marries his girlfriend Vivian. Spain, El Bus. He appears not to enjoy his time there, but finds solace in playing a guitar he bought and writing songs - one of which becomes "Folsom Prison Blues". Slovenia, To Sam Ja. joins the Air Force and is posted to Germany. Slovakia VyVolení. J.R.'s relationship with his father was strained since he was young, yet was made much more severe with the death of Jack.
Several years later, J.R. Serbia, To Sam Ja.

quickly learns, Jack has been fatally wounded by the saw. Russia, Za Steklom. As he is walking back home, he is intercepted by his father, flush with blood stains on his overalls, asking "Where have you been?" As J.R. Russia, Golod. With Jack's permission, he leaves to go fishing. Russia, Dom. A few scenes later, Jack is sawing wood as a job for a neighbor when Johnny declares it to be boring, and would rather be somewhere else. Russia, 12 Negrityat.

J.R., who can sing well like his mother, is very adept with the hymns they sing at church. FYR Macedonia, Tom Sam Ja. Jack, who is training to become a pastor, and therefore "needs to know the Bible front to back", is much better at dealing with the wording and stories of the Bible. Puerto Rico, 360 Estudio. Early in the movie, Cash and Jack discuss their different strengths and weaknesses in regard to the Bible and hymns. Peru, La Casa De Gisela. The next scene depicts Cash as a boy (then called "J.R.") and his brother Jack listening to the radio, and hearing a 10-year-old June Carter singing, providing a foreshadow into J.R.'s obsession with her in the future. Norway, Singel 24-7.

After repeated calling, we are made aware that the hand belongs to Cash, and it is later revealed that the voice belongs to the prison's warden, calling for him to go on stage. Netherlands, De Bus. A buzz saw sits ominously on a table in the center of the screen, as a solitary hand casually strokes the blades. Latvia, Barbarossa. The camera settles on an shot of inmates cheering as Cash's band is playing a loop of notes. Latvia, Fabrika. As the camera passes empty halls and cells, the music becomes louder and clearer, and cheering of inmates can be heard. Israel, The Yacht.

The camera moves towards the prison as faint music plays in the background. Israel, Project Y. In the opening scene, we see an outside shot of Folsom Prison, where the grounds are quiet, and the two solitary guards on their perch peer towards the main building. Ireland, Cabin Fever. The film details Cash's (Phoenix) life from his growing up as the son of a cotton picker in rural Arkansas to his drug addiction and subsequent rescue by future wife June Carter (Witherspoon) in his famous concert at Folsom Prison. Indonesia, Penghuni Terakhir. . Hungary, Való Világ.

This film has been nomininated for five Academy Awards including Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) and Best Actress (Reese Witherspoon). France, Nice People. The film previewed at the Telluride Film Festival on September 4, 2005 and went into wide release on November 18. France, Les Colocataires. Walk the Line's production budget is estimated to have been $28,000,000. Czech Republic VyVolení. The title is taken from the title of one of Cash's best known songs, "I Walk the Line". Croatia, To Sam Ja.

Walk the Line is a film chronicling the life of Johnny Cash, American country singer, focusing on his younger life, his romance with June Carter and his ascent to the country music scene, with material taken from his autobiographies. Bosnia, To Sam Ja. Johnny Holiday: Carl Perkins. Bosnia, 60 Sati. Johnathan Rice: Roy Orbison. Bolivia, Uno Busca. 'Fluke' Holland. Austria, Taxi Orange.

Clay Steakley: W.S. Albania, To Sam Ja. Dan Beene: Ezra Carter. Albania, Syri Magjik. Sandra Ellis Lafferty: Maybelle Carter. Albania, Kafazi i Arte. Shooter Jennings: Waylon Jennings. Countries: Argentina, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland.

Waylon Payne: Jerry Lee Lewis. Countries: Algeria, Bahrein, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Comoros Islands, Denmark, Djibouti, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Palestine, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, UK, Yemen.. Tyler Hilton: Elvis Presley. Big Brother winner with the highest percentage: 87.2%, Pepe Herrero, GH7 Spain. Shelby Lynne: Carrie Cash. Most housemates left on the final night: 6, Celebrity BB4 UK. Larry Bagby: Marshall Grant. First non-celebrity winning Big Brother VIP/Celebrity: Chantelle Houghton, Celebrity BB4 UK.

Dan John Miller: Luther Perkins. First non-celebrity on Big Brother VIP/Celebrity: Chantelle Houghton, Celebrity BB4 UK. Dallas Roberts: Sam Phillips. 2006