10 Amazing Music Movies You Must See Before You Die
9. Walk The Line
As he stands in the corner of the room clad head to toe in black, silhouetted against a beige wall, someone tells Johnny Cash that he looks like he's going to a funeral. With a louche drop of the shoulder and the slightest flick of his well-gelled cowlick he replies: "maybe I am." Elvis aside, The Man In Black is the most iconic figure in American musical history, yet his private nature and glacial onstage demeanour maintained an air of enigma until he died. While this could be put down to a simple courting of pop star panache, Walk The Line suggests that Cash was privately tortured by the tumultuous relationship he shared with his wife. Before this movie, the catastrophic effect that Cashs love life had on his career wasnt so widely known, nor was the extent of his self-destructive personality, so when director James Mangold decided against a mere rags to riches tale and instead focused on the womanising, alcoholism and drug addiction that formed the bedrock of Cash's life, Walk The Line became a surprisingly deep treatise of the dark side of fame.
