History Trivia / WalkHard

* AcclaimedFlop: One of the few parody movies released Post-''Scary Movie'' to actually do well critically, but releasing it during a crowded Christmas season killed the chances of it turning a profit.

* StuntCasting: Parodied - many of Dewey's buddies are themselves (real life) famous musicians... who are often played by (intentionally) [[WTHCastingAgency ludicrously miscast]] famous actors (such as [[Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle Frankie Muniz]] as Buddy Holly and Creator/JackBlack as Paul [=McCartney=]), or famous musicians being played by other actual musicians... who are absolutely at the other side of the musical style (such as Music/ElvisPresley played by [[Music/TheWhiteStripes Jack White]]). Similar to the DawsonCasting example, they intentionally keep referring to themselves by name to underscore the absurdity.

* DawsonCasting: Parodied, given the trend of several biopics (especially musical ones) where this happens, such as then-39-year-old John Goodman playing a teenage Babe Ruth in ''The Babe'', then-34-year-old Creator/DennisQuaid playing an early 20s Music/JerryLeeLewis in ''Great Balls of Fire!'', then-33-year-old Gary Busey in ''The Buddy Holly Story'', wherein he plays Music/BuddyHolly from ages 19 to 22, and Creator/KevinSpacey playing Bobby Darin throughout his adult life in ''Beyond the Sea''. To put the last one in perspective, Spacey was older than Darin was ''when he died'' when he took the part.

* TrendKiller: While musical biopics are far from done commercially or culturally, this film helped deflate the ''reverence'' surrounding such movies, and provided a very easy template with which to mock them. If there's been an overwrought, too-obvious, or ridiculous moment in any biopic made since 2007, expect the negative reviews to bring up a similar or even identical scene from ''Walk Hard'' for comparison.

* GenreKiller: Downplayed. While musical biopics are far from done commercially or culturally, this film helped deflate the ''reverence'' surrounding such movies, and provided a very easy template with which to mock them. If there's been an overwrought, too-obvious, or ridiculous moment in any biopic made since 2007, expect the negative reviews to bring up a similar or even identical scene from ''Walk Hard'' for comparison.

* ThrowItIn: All over the place; most notably, when the band confronts Dewey over his shitty treatment of them, Tim Meadows saying "And you never ONCE paid for drugs! ''Not once!"'' was only one of several lines in the script, but he decided to just keep insistently repeating it. The result became one of the film's most quoted scenes.

** 59-year-old Cheryl Tiegs plays herself in her early 30s as Dewey Cox's wife. Still, it can be argued that she [[OlderThanTheyLook pulls it off fairly well]].