{"id":2513,"date":"2005-11-10T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/11\/cashs-daughter-doesnt-toe-the-movie-line\/"},"modified":"2005-11-10T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-10T22:36:00","slug":"cashs-daughter-doesnt-toe-the-movie-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/11\/cashs-daughter-doesnt-toe-the-movie-line.html","title":{"rendered":"Cash’s daughter doesn’t toe the movie Line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Speaking of alternative interpretations<\/a> of the life of Johnny Cash, the Associated Press<\/a> reports that his daughter Kathy is none too happy with Walk the Line<\/i>, the film about Cash\u2019s early years:<\/span><\/p>\n

Kathy Cash, one of Johnny Cash\u2019s five children, was so upset about how her mother is portrayed in the upcoming movie \u201cWalk the Line\u201d that she walked out of a family-only screening five times.<\/p>\n

She thinks the movie, which opens nationwide Nov. 18, is good and that performances by Joaquin Phoenix as her dad and Reese Witherspoon as her stepmother, June Carter Cash, are Oscar-worthy.<\/p>\n

But she also said the film unfairly shows her mother, Vivian Liberto Distin, Johnny Cash\u2019s first wife, as a shrew. Actress Ginnifer Goodwin plays her in the movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom was basically a nonentity in the entire film except for the mad little psycho who hated his career. That\u2019s not true. She loved his career and was proud of him until he started taking drugs and stopped coming home,\u201d Kathy Cash said.<\/p>\n

Vivian Liberto Distin died earlier this year as a result of complications from lung cancer. She and Cash were married 13 years and had four children together. He pledged to remain faithful to her in his song \u201cI Walk the Line.\u201d . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m not entirely sure how to respond to this, since I have had a small crush on Ginnifer Goodwin<\/a> ever since I saw her in Mona Lisa Smile<\/a><\/i> (2003) and Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!<\/a><\/i> (2004), and I find it well nigh impossible to dislike her in anything.<\/p>\n

But I think it\u2019s fair to say that the film portrays Cash\u2019s first wife as The Woman Who Wants To Domesticate Our Hero Because She Doesn\u2019t Understand Why An Artist Won\u2019t Take A Regular Job, and she is thus portrayed as something less than the soulmate that June Carter became \u2014 and thus, in a way, the film might encourage us to think that Cash needed<\/i> to leave his first wife in order to be with June because, well, \u201cHave they no right to happiness?\u201d (to paraphrase a famous C.S. Lewis essay<\/a> on sexual morality).<\/p>\n

Oh, and FWIW, Kathy\u2019s account of the relationship between her father, his family, and his drug addiction agrees more-or-less with the account in Cash\u2019s comic book, at least as I recall it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking of alternative interpretations of the life of Johnny Cash, the Associated Press reports that his daughter Kathy is none too happy with Walk the Line, the film about Cash\u2019s early years: Kathy Cash, one of Johnny Cash\u2019s five children, was so upset about how her mother is portrayed in the upcoming movie \u201cWalk the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nCash's daughter doesn't toe the movie Line<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Speaking of alternative interpretations of the life of Johnny Cash, the Associated Press reports that his daughter Kathy is none too happy with Walk the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/11\/cashs-daughter-doesnt-toe-the-movie-line.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cash's daughter doesn't toe the movie Line\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Speaking of alternative interpretations of the life of Johnny Cash, the Associated Press reports that his daughter Kathy is none too happy with Walk the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/11\/cashs-daughter-doesnt-toe-the-movie-line.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2005-11-10T22:36:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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