History Awesome / WalkTheLine

* We get a glimpse as to why Sam Phillips became such a legendary record producer in the scene where he shits all over Cash's initial audition offering, stating that it "didn't feel real". He tells Johnny that he only produces music that sells", lets him know what Cash is spewing wouldn't sell, and tells him why, in vivid detail. This prompts Cash to basically pull a song out of his ass (his band didn't even know he wrote it) that impresses Phillips and compels him to sign the up-and-comer and his band.

--> '''Sam Phillips:''' All right, let's bring it home. If you was hit by a truck and you were lying out in that gutter dying...and you had time to sing one song, huh, one song people would remember before you're dirt, one song that would let God know what you felt about your time here on Earth, one song that would sum you up...you telling me that's the song you'd sing? That same Jimmie Davis tune we hear on the radio all day? About your "peace within" and how it's real and how you're "gonna shout it"? Or would you sing Or would you sing something ''different''? Something real, something you ''felt''? Because I'm telling you right now, ''that's'' the kind of song people want to hear. That's the kind of song that truly saves people. It ain't got nothing to do with believing in God, Mr. Cash...it has to do with believing in '''yourself'''.

* Can we acknowledge that Joaquin completely improvised ''pulling an entire sink out of a wall?''

** Or can we acknowledge that Joaquin completely improvised ''pulling an entire sink out of a wall?''

* The entirety of Reese Witherspoon's performance.
** Especially the part where she starts throwing beer bottles at the entire drunken band and yells, "You can't walk no line!"
** It gets even more awesome because after it was announced that Witherspoon was cast, [[WTHCastingAgency people were outraged that she was cast]], given she was known for fluffy romantic comedies at the time and her casting was seen as disrespectful to a music icon like June Carter. Instead, she proved them all wrong and gave the most acclaimed female performance of 2005, garnering all the awards, culminating in the Academy Award for Best Actress. [[SarcasmMode Disrespectful, indeed]].

** Especially the part where she starts throwing beer bottles at the entire drunken band and yells, "You can't walk no line!"

* Johnny's dealer shows up to his new house just after Thanksgiving, and is promptly told to leave. By June's father. At shotgun-point.

* The entirety of Reese Witherspoon's performance.

* Johnny's dealer shows up to his new house just after Thanksgiving, and is promptly told to leave. By June's father. At shotgun-point.