[rhema]

More on Johnny Cash's faith: Man in White

[VOA]

I really do like Cash's cover of "Personal Jesus" on one of his later albums.
Parts of it get played on "The Jesus Christ Show" that airs on
the very secular KFI radio station here in Los Angeles.

[Siena Dreaming]

will likely garner Reese Witherspoon an Academy Award nomination

Why her and not him? He did as good a job or better IMO.

A good movie. A couple mentions of God early on which I appreciated. But this article makes me want to go out and buy the autobiography.

[Michael.SF.]

"Who should I believe, your textbook or his diary?" I asked the professor.

Bet he got a C- in the class.

[gondramB]

I have not seen the movie -I'm looking forward to it.

But I wasn't expecting to see that much about Christianity since my understanding is that movie covers his early life up to the Folsom Prison concert - I have pretty much all of Johnny Cash's music and it didn't seem to have a very strong Christian theme at that point. There were hints of - like Grey Stone Chapel but his best religious expression came later - particularly the Man in Black album.

[redpoll]

There's a story like this in a book I read many years ago. A man is in Moscow during the Soviet era. He's standing in front of a large church, but the map he's been given by the authorities don't list it at all. There's just a blank space on the map. So he asks the Intourist guide why the church isn't on the map and the guide says, "In the Soviet Union, we don't believe in religion."

[Salamander]

What a pity.
I guess I'll be waiting for it on DVD, then.

If you haven't seen it yet, look for Johnny's music video cover of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt".
It is absolutely eerie in its prescience.
Trent Reznor watched it and wept.

You will too.

[Revolting cat!]

Me, I don't get it at all. Why would I want to watch a movie about a celebrity, Johnny Cash or Truman Capote, when I can listen to one's music or read the other's books? Heck, one year not long ago you could read two fictional accounts of one Hollywood starlet's life written by tweo celebrity writers. (Know who?) And why would anyone want to do that? Celebrities (known for being known) writing about and acting as other celebrities and reducing their targets to their own celebrity status: 'known for being known'. 'Nuff already!

[SkyPilot]

It figures Hollyweird would do this, but it is very disappointing.

I remember as a little kid listening to Johnny Cash being played on our old Hi-Fi by my father. I listened to recordings of his live concerts to prisoners in absolute awe.

I even watched him when he made a guest appearance on the show "Colombo." Cash played a musician who killed his wife and stepdaughter by putting them to sleep with drugged coffee, and then jumping out of the Cessna he was flying with a homemade parachute and then the plane crashed.

Hollywood runs from God at every turn. The bible says those who hate the light run from it.

Myself, I will be forever inspired by Cash's honest (brutally honest) testimony and story.

P.S. Cash said his wife June once danced naked on a piano for him, and he said she was "just sexy as all hell." What a rascal!

[Cicero]

I'm sorry to hear this. Apart from his biography, some of Johnny Cash's greatest songs are religious. It seems stupid to take that out of the movie, since it is going to offend a fair number of his fans and drive away a lot of the natural audience for this movie.

This song, for instance:

http://hit-country-music-lyrics.com/johnnycashlyrics-mancomesaround.html

[Prost1]

If the movie ignores Johnnie Cash's faith, it is not worth a dime.

I am not a Christian, but I am an student historian. And I believe that truthfulness is best. Johnnie Cash was a Believer and and his Faith saved him.

I can only wish my beliefs are as strong as his!

[Clemenza]

Great movie about a great man. Johnny struggled with temptation, although temptation usually won in his younger years.