Walk the Line Goofs, Mistakes and Bloopers

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Walk the Line DVD Cover Download “Walk the Line” 2005	Actors: Johnathan Rice Joaquin Phoenix John R. Cash Reese Witherspoon June Carter Ginnifer Goodwin Vivian Cash Robert Patrick Ray Cash Dallas Roberts Sam Phillips Dan John Miller Luther Perkins Larry Bagby Marshall Grant Shelby Lynne Carrie Cash Tyler Hilton Elvis Presley Waylon Payne Jerry Lee Lewis Shooter Jennings Waylon Jennings Sandra Ellis Lafferty Maybelle Carter Dan Beene Ezra Carter Clay Steakley W.S. ‘Fluke’ Holland Roy Orbison
	Directors: James Mangold
	IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 out of 80,775 votes

“Walk the Line” 2005 by James Mangold – Movie Goofs

“Walk the Line” Plot Summary

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash’s life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. add synopsis

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“Walk the Line” Goofs List

• 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 it. In the close-up there is a chair in front of the table. When June leaves, the chair is gone again.
• 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: Jerry Lee Lewis wears a white scarf during most of the “Lewis Boogie.” It’s gone by the end of the song.
• Continuity: When Johnny is in the recording studio for the first time, his guitar strap goes from over his collar to under it, and back, in almost every shot.
• Anachronisms: In an early scene, Johnny and Jack Cash walk down the road on their way to the fishing hole. Johnny quotes a line from a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon. The scene takes place in 1944; Foghorn Leghorn debuted in 1946.
• Anachronisms: When Vivian shows John the eviction notice, the document shows an address with a ZIP code. In the 1950s, a city the size of Memphis would’ve had zone numbers (ex. “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 plays a back beat (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 bangs 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. As he walks along, you soon see a modern 4-space parking meter.
• Anachronisms: Sam Phillips’s Chesterfield pack has a bar code.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The second time that the band is in the Folsom prison, when 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.
• Continuity: During the scene inside Johnny’s car in the tour caravan, the position of June’s feet changes several times.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In one scene where Jerry Lee Lewis plays the piano, you hear the last note after Lewis walks away from the piano.
• Anachronisms: Jerry Lee Lewis, who sings right before Johnny Cash in the first show, wasn’t famous at the time. When Cash plays in Walk the Line for the first time, he’d only had one hit, and was clearly not used to the stage.
• Anachronisms: In one mid-1960s scene, Waylon Jennings has long hair and a beard. At the time, Waylon was clean-shaven, with short, slicked back hair. He adopted the beard and long hair in the mid-1970s “outlaw” era.
• Anachronisms: Heavenly Highway Hymns, which Johnny’s mother gives him early in the movie, was published in 1956.
• Anachronisms: One scene in the 1950s shows Johnny with a “Memphis Business Journal” sign in the background. The Memphis Business Journal was founded in 1979, and the sign appeared on the Memphis skyline much later.
• Continuity: Johnny and June are lying in bed in the hotel room when the phone rings. June picks up the phone with her right hand, and starts to put to her right ear. In the next shot, the phone is in her left hand and at her left ear.
• Anachronisms: In the variety store in Wheeling, W.V. in 1958, June 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 a waxed-paper milk carton, and gave your mama for Christmas. Either way, they were never scented.
• Revealing mistakes: When Johnny goes to the Carter family’s home to visit June, it’s supposed to be fall (pumpkins on the porch), but crepe myrtle trees are blooming along the driveway. Those are usually done by August.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In Jerry Lee Lewis’ performance scene, you see him being backed up by a bass player playing a Fender Precision electric bass, but the bass heard on the soundtrack is an acoustic upright bass.
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): A 1944 scene shows Johnny listening to June Carter on the radio. The announcer says “10-year-old June Carter”. She was 14 or 15 in 1944.
• Factual errors: “I Still Miss Someone” was about June, not Jack. “Walk the Line” was about Johnny’s first wife, Vivian.
• Continuity: When June goes to the theater one morning on the tour to meet the boys, she finds they’ve partied all night and she becomes angry. In the shot of her approaching the stage, only 3 bottles are within reach. When she throws them, she throws 4 bottles.
• Continuity: When the tractor hits the water, it has no engine or smoke stack. The tractor reappears later in the scene.
• Continuity: In June and Johnny’s last concert scene, Johnny is singing. In the shot before June sings, the microphone is above her head. In the next shot of her, the microphone is level with her mouth.
• Continuity: When Vivian prepares to smash June’s picture, she is holding a hammer, which disappears when the picture is smashed.
• Revealing mistakes: After Johnny leaves June’s house after walking from Nashville, it rains later in the scene. Johnny passes out and falls on wet grass and mud. The next morning, when he wakes up near the house he eventually buys, his face and white shirt are clean. They should have been dirty from wet grass, if not muddy.
• Anachronisms: The copy of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet that June gives John on one of the first 1950s tours is a 1986 Alfred A. Knopf edition.
• Anachronisms: When Johnny Cash reads fan mail from prisoners (late 1967/early 1968), all of the addresses have two-letter state codes. The Postal Service did not formally adopt two-letter state codes until 1970.
• Factual errors: The “US” collar brass (in-the-circle) seen properly on the collar of the long-sleeve khaki shirt, was not worn on the left side of the overseas cap. Anyone doing so would have been out-of-uniform and subject to disciplinary measures.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Before Johnny passes out on stage from overdosing, if you look closely, his mouth never moves when he says “I’m O.K.”; he simply waves his hand.
• Errors in geography: When Johnny Cash is reading letters he received (mostly from inmates), the movie shows one from the Texas State Penitentiary in Austin. The Texas State Penitentiary is in Huntsville, TX.
• Anachronisms: When Sam Phillips tells Johnny about singing “the one song you would sing if it were your last”, a shelf in the background to the right of Sam (slightly out of focus) has vacuum tubes sitting on it. A large box with the ‘National’ (Richardson) logo is in the middle of the stack. That logo wasn’t used until the 1970’s.
• Anachronisms: Some of the plastic tape reels (the clear ones) in Sam’s studio did not exist in that design until the late 70’s/early 80’s.
• Anachronisms: When Johnny is talking with Vivian on the phone from Germany, an apparently US military aircraft is visible through the window. Although most of the markings appear to be correct, the fuselage has an FAA-assigned alpha-numeric N number. US Military aircraft designators are all numeric, and displayed on the vertical stabilizer.
• Anachronisms: The Radio Flyer Tiny Trike on the top shelf in the toy section of the 1958 WV Variety store did not appear until 1981.
• Factual errors: In the movie, Johnny smashes the footlights in Las Vegas. In real life, he smashed the footlights at the Grand Ole Oprey.
• Anachronisms: When Johnny walks back from the Carter house, he is near a railroad crossing. The scene is set in the 1960s, but modern crossing gates are shown. In addition, a signal shanty with a white light on the front is to the right of the crossing. The shanty didn’t exist in the 1960s. The white light, a sign that the power is on, was introduced in the 1990s.
• Factual errors: The real Johnny Cash had a scar on the side of his chin. In the film, Johnny has no chin scar.
• Anachronisms