Talk:Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Latest comment: 7 years ago by Lion348 in topic Use of the word midget

Spoiler Warning?

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How about adding a spoiler warning to the article? I just had to movie destroyed, thanks alot wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.235.204.180 (talk) 18:00, 26 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

It does say "Plot".... if you didn't want to know about the film, you shouldn't of looked at it's profile......71.115.17.228 (talk) 02:07, 5 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Jim Morrisson

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Anybody else think that this movie is in many ways a spoof of Oliver Stone's The Doors as well as Walk the Line? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.226.25.215 (talk) 23:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Not spoof. Parody. Its an intentional parody, as shown in the article, of biopics of many stars and artists. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.183.241.170 (talk) 00:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Rename

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Rename and move to Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story? MahangaTalk 03:44, 8 September 2007 (UTC)Reply


Is there a need for a spoiler warning in the plot section?--Jdesouza00 (talk) 08:26, 1 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Cite(s) for use

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Finish up.

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Expand more on the entire plot, otherwise this section should be considered a summary. The Trivia paragraph does not belong here, and needs some serious cleaning up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wycked (talkcontribs) 00:54, 23 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Full frontal male nudity

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Can somebody add that this film has several scenes of full frontal male nudity? When it appeared in the movie I was completely shocked and disgusted. I believe that there should be some kind of warning. Maxtro (talk) 01:58, 19 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Interesting that the full frontal female nudity seems perfectly acceptable, but the male nudity brings about reactions like this. The way I see it, as it is stated that "nudity" (note: without gender) is one of the reasons the MPAA rated this movie R, the viewer should be prepared for nudity of any sort. Differentiating between female and male nudity in this respect represents a gender bias. --Gooseage (talk) 04:05, 4 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Gender bias indeed, though if female genitalia were so predominantly displayed the MPAA would have issued an X rating. The fact that a woman has to spread her legs to show as much a man does by simply standing means that the full frontal nudity in this film can be as jarring as a woman spread wide using both hands to pull her labia aside and fully display her clitoris. The gender bias is yours and the industry's Goosage, not Maxtro's. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.122.170.66 (talk) 17:33, 9 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

"Once upon a time", frontal male nudity would get a film an X rating. When this changed isn't clear. Amadeus had brief frontal male nudity and was rated PG. So did An American Werewolf in London, but it got an R for horror violence. Someone "shocked" by brief, non-sexual male frontal nudity has problems. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 22:51, 28 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

More ways than one?

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The article says that "His attitude and drug problems cause him to become unfaithful to his first wife Edith in more ways than one." The last few words of this sentence seem like a "teaser" remark designed to stir up curiosity while obviously and deliberately leaving the information to satisfy that curiosity. That approach seems more appropriate for an advertisement than an encyclopedic article. I suggest either deleting the words "in more ways that one" or rephrasing to provide the missing information. -131.107.0.73 (talk) 16:56, 29 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

at the end of the credits

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What about the end of the credits were it shows a man they say is the real Dewey Cox can someone explain this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.64.141.170 (talk) 04:14, 30 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

I think you have missed the point of the movie my friend =) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.49.151.238 (talk) 07:41, 3 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Parodies in the Movie

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I think a section that lists and explains the specific parodies within the film would be a great addition to the article. 98.110.177.20 (talk) 23:53, 11 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

intentional "anachronism"?

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The "short people" song is obviously (???) a parody of Bill Joel's style, yet Dewey sings it a few years before Joel became popular. And while we're at it... I don't think Yiddish is anyone's "native" language. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 22:54, 28 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

I have no idea how you can hear Billy Joel in Let Me Hold You (Little Man). The fact that both songs use the nonsense "na-na-na-na" singalong sound? The song is stylistically just a folk song, not in reference to any artist or song. The point was that Cox is embracing a variety of causes that he doesn't understand, and displays his ignorance in the songs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.136.22.4 (talk) 20:57, 21 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

Ray Charles

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While it is true that the film pays homage to many "biopics", it is most closely related to Walk the Line (Johnny Cash) and Ray (Ray Charles), which came out shortly before Walk Hard was written. While Walk the Line is specifically mentioned, Ray is not. The beginning scenes with the death of the brother and "smell blindness" and the later scenes involving Tim Meadows and drugs were particularly reminiscent of Ray. Let's give credit where due. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Springfield Bob (talkcontribs) 19:18, 16 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

I agree with this. I'm watching Ray now and it seems almost exactly paralleled by Walk Hard. 24.49.49.228 (talk) 22:23, 25 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Use of the word midget

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This article makes use of the word midget in the plot section, which is generally regarded as offensive, and I feel that unless the use of that word is relevant to the movie it should be changed to a non-offensive term such as dwarf or little personLion348 (talk) 18:50, 18 July 2017 (UTC)Reply