Does anyone know of mistakes in the movie "Walk The Line"?

Question

just wondering if i'm missing anything interesting!!!

Thanks everyone! just wanted to know because just wondering if i was missing anything..also i don't think they should have dubbed in Johnny & June's voices because it would have been fake...the actors using their real voices made the movie very good! it was a great movie!!!

Answer 1

Goofs for
Walk the Line (2005)

* Continuity: When June is throwing the beer bottles at the guys, (in the long shot) Johnny jumps behind the fallen table and there is nothing in front of the table, but in the close-up there is a chair in front of the table. It is gone again when June leaves.

* Anachronisms: When he's in the Air Force in the early fifties, Johnny Cash is shown making a call on a phone whose style did not then exist, but was introduced later, in the mid to late Fifites

* Continuity: When Johnny falls out of his chair at the concert hall, his beer is in his hand. When he sits up, his beer is to the side of him, as if he set it there.

* Continuity: During most of the "Lewis Boogie" Jerry Lee is wearing a white scarf but it's gone by the end of the song.

* Continuity: When Johnny is in the recording studio for the first time, his guitar strap alternates positions over/under his shirt collar in almost every shot.

* Anachronisms: In an early scene in the movie, Johnny and Jack Cash walk down the road on their way to the fishing hole, and Johnny quote a line from a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon. The scene supposedly takes place in 1944, however, Foghorn Leghorn didn't debut until 1946.

* Anachronisms: When Vivian shows John the eviction notice from their house in Memphis, the document shows an address with a ZIP code. A city the size of Memphis would have had zone numbers in the 1950s ("Memphis 11, Tenn."). ZIP codes started in 1963, and they weren't routinely used in places with one ZIP code for several years after that.

* Audio/visual unsynchronized: The first time we see June singing with her band, the fiddle player standing to the left of her is shown playing a backbeat (bowing on the second half of every beat) but we don't hear any fiddle until later in the song.

* Continuity: When Johnny is hanging pictures, he begins to put a nail in the wall just above a line in the wood, in the very next shot he is seen banging a nail several inches higher.

* Anachronisms: Early in the movie, Johnny Cash walks out onto the street in Memphis and you see old cars and an old mechanical parking meter. He walks along, and you soon see a digital 4-button (4-space) parking meter, definitely more recent technology.

* Anachronisms: Bar code on Sam Phillips's Chesterfield pack.

* Audio/visual unsynchronized: The second time that the band is in the Folsom prison, and Johnny is introduced, the guitar player (playing the telecaster) is playing different chords than what is heard.

* Continuity: In the hotel room when June answers the phone in bed, Johnny's hands caress her lower back. When cut to the reaction shot of June, Johnny's hands are not yet on her back.

* Anachronisms: When Johnny is fighting with Vivian while he is trying to hang up pictures, he is wearing a Hanes tagless white t-shirt from the late-1990s.

* Factual errors: June Carter is shown in one scene writing "Ring of Fire", even though the song was released in 1963, well before this point in the movie.

* Continuity: During the scene inside Johnny's car in the tour caravan, the position of June's feet changes several times.

* Continuity: In one scene where Jerry Lee Lewis is playing the piano, he walks away from the piano before the last note on the piano is played.

* Anachronisms: Waylon Jennings is featured in one mid-1960s' scene with long hair and a beard. At that time, Waylon had short hair that was slicked back and was clean-shaven. He did not adopt the beard and long-haired look until the mid-1970s "outlaw" era.

* Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Jerry Lee Lewis, who is singing right before Johnny Cash on the first show you see, wasn't famous at this time. In the movie "Great Balls of Fire", Sam Phillips says that Jerry's going to be "bigger than Elvis and Johnny Cash", which concludes that Cash was famous already. But when Cash in playing in Walk the Line for the first time, he's clearly not used to the stage and had only had one hit.

* Anachronisms: Heavenly Highway Hymns, the hymnal that was given to Johnny by his mother early in the movie was not published until 1956.

* Anachronisms: There is a shot of Johnny with the "Memphis Business Journal" sign. The scene took place in the '50s, the Memphis Business Journal wasn't founded until 1979, and the sign didn't appear on the Memphis skyline until much later than that.

* Revealing mistakes: In the hotel room when Johnny and June are lying in bed and the phone rings, June picks up the phone with her right hand and starts to put to her right ear. But in the next shot, the phone is in her left hand and at her left ear.

* Anachronisms: When June is in the variety store in Wheeling, W.V. in 1958, she picks up a fat white candle and sniffs it. Candles of that era were almost always tall tapers (unless they were the school-made variety you created by pouring wax into an individual waxed paper milk carton, and gave your mama for Christmas), and they were never scented.

* Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Johnny goes to the Carter family's home to visit June, it's supposed to be fall/Halloween (pumpkins on the porch), but crape myrtle trees are blooming along the driveway. Those are usually done by August.

Answer 2

Yeah, they let the actors sing instead of dubbing in Johnny and June.

Answer 3

I think the song was named Time's a wastin that she(June Carter) recorded with her husband Carl Smith. The song is available on the Deep Roots of Johnny Cash but is sung by June Carter and ex husband Carl Smith. Also, I did a search on Limewire and it there. :-)

Answer 4

I'm not sure, but I read that his daughter from his first marriage was unhappy with the film because of how it portrayed her mother. In fact, she was very supportive of Johnny's career and helped him through most of his addictions... I think they only grew apart because he was on the road so much and away from the kids... don't take my word for it though... I read it in People and well, it's hear say...

Answer 5

Check out moviemistakes.com

Answer 6

Haven't read over these, but here is a listing on imdb.com

Answer 7

You mean other than it was a bit of a white wash?

Answer 8

go here

Answer 9

no