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Walk Hard

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26 referencing feature instances

Walk Hard	type	TVTItem
Walk Hard	label	Walk Hard
Walk Hard	page	WalkHard
Walk Hard	comment	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 Judd Apatow-produced movie that parodies musical biopics like Walk the Line and Ray.Walk Hard tells the tale of Dewey Cox, a musical prodigy whose musical career spanned the 1950s to the 1970s. Along the way Dewey takes lots of drugs, bangs lots of groupies and eventually learns that the path to happiness lies in spending time with his dozens of illegitimate children.Walk Hard stars John C. Reilly, who spent a year recording 40-plus of the songs that his character supposedly wrote. He proves himself to be a more than capable singer and, much like the cast of The Naked Gun, he approaches the ludicrous situations with the same sincerity he uses in his more serious dramatic turns (The Aviator, Magnolia, Gangs of New York, We Need to Talk About Kevin).See also Weird: The Al Yankovic Story for a similar musical biopic parody, this one based on a real musician.
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Walk Hard / int_10f35f3a	type	Creator Breakdown
Walk Hard / int_10f35f3a	comment	Creator Breakdown: In-universe; Dewey's lengthy and bizarre production of his masterpiece during the The '60s mirrors the similarly troubled making of The Beach Boys' Smile, which only got completed as a Brian Wilson solo project in 2004 (and wouldn't be finished in its original Beach Boys incarnation until four years after the film's release). Many of Dewey's other songs are thinly-veiled references to other issues going on in his life (from his difficult relationship with his father to how he'd very much like to sleep with his backup singer).
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Walk Hard / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Walk Hard / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Averted as the fake celebrities keep mentioning that exactly who they are, no matter how bad the impression is.
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Walk Hard / int_1440584e	type	Heroic RRoD
Walk Hard / int_1440584e	comment	Heroic RRoD: Dewey dies of a heart attack a mere three minutes after finishing his last performance.
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Walk Hard / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Walk Hard / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Not to mention the highly suggestive carpentry.
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Walk Hard / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Walk Hard / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Pretty much every single thing Nate says or does before they play machete fight.
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Walk Hard / int_16e94b0a	type	Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
Walk Hard / int_16e94b0a	comment	Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: Exaggerated. Yes, all three.
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Walk Hard / int_1722aaf	type	Hitler Ate Sugar
Walk Hard / int_1722aaf	comment	Hitler Ate Sugar: After Dewey's performance of "Hold My Hand" causes a moral outcry in the town, the town preacher attempts to justify the song's "immoral" nature;
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Walk Hard / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Walk Hard / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Spoofed to hell and back. Everything he does is designed to impress his father, but no matter what he does, he gets only one response: Even when the scene when he FINALLY starts to enjoy his son's music and dances with his wife, his wife dies tragically when she dances out the window, with the radio playing Dewey's music falling on her head. Naturally, Dad blames Dewey for it. He even sings that while there's nobody else around.
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Walk Hard / int_211eedd	type	All Crimes Are Equal
Walk Hard / int_211eedd	comment	All Crimes Are Equal: How dare you, Edith? You drink all Dewey's milk, but you condemn him for a little bigamy?!
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Walk Hard / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Walk Hard / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Dad's ultimate plan for Dewey. It backfired.
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Walk Hard / int_280333d4	type	Hollywood Heart Attack
Walk Hard / int_280333d4	comment	Hollywood Heart Attack: The final scene of the film is a still shot of Dewey suffering a fatal heart attack.
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Walk Hard / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Walk Hard / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Much of the movie's humor is based around lampshading all sorts of old rock & roll tropes and cliches as much as possible.
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Walk Hard / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Walk Hard / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: At the height of his hard drug problem, Dewey starts shouting instead of singing and telling his band to play extremely fast and dissonantly. One of his band members is disgusted by the result — nobody's ever going to listen to this garbage, especially not with Dewey singing like some kind of "punk". A deleted scene had a variation on this joke with him performing moody Neil Young esque folk-rock, which is dismissed by his peers as "sounding grungy." Dewey's family and wife are constantly telling him he'll never gonna make it even after he has already made it.
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Walk Hard / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
Walk Hard / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: Jack White's Elvis starts off as mildly mush-mouthed before descending into outright Elvis-sounding gibberish when he and Dewey meet backstage at Dewey's first performance. And as soon as he walks away...
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Walk Hard / int_32956961	type	Explosive Breeder
Walk Hard / int_32956961	comment	Explosive Breeder: Edith is constantly pregnant, she and Dewey have approximately 10 children in less than seven years... Dewey himself has several dozen more over the years.
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Walk Hard / int_33f095a8	type	Jaded Washout
Walk Hard / int_33f095a8	comment	Jaded Washout: While Dewey is able to maintain some success in the 60s, his career hits a wall in the 70s and remains dead until a rapper samples one of his songs in the 2000s.
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Walk Hard / int_34b33a09	type	You Should Have Died Instead
Walk Hard / int_34b33a09	comment	You Should Have Died Instead: "The wrong kid died!"
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Walk Hard / int_34f1b472	type	Mad Artist
Walk Hard / int_34f1b472	comment	Mad Artist: Dewey plays this up in his breakdown.
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Walk Hard / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Walk Hard / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Dewey's brother. Well he is played by Jonah Hill...
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Walk Hard / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Walk Hard / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Parodied mercilessly by "The Beatles", particularly by Jack Black as Paul McCartney, who practically delivers each of his lines with a different accent.
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Walk Hard / int_3618ebb9	type	TheSixties
Walk Hard / int_3618ebb9	comment	The '60s (Parodied)
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Walk Hard / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Walk Hard / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: (Played with) There are numerous spoof songs that evoke everything from Johnny Cash to Bob Dylan to the Beach Boys, but they're all funny and well done.
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Walk Hard / int_44cf7d2c	type	Incredibly Long Note
Walk Hard / int_44cf7d2c	comment	Incredibly Long Note: Dewey and his band hit one in his country western cover of "That's Amore." As a joke, of course.
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Walk Hard / int_4623b3bb	type	Why Couldn't You Be Different?
Walk Hard / int_4623b3bb	comment	Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Dewey's brother was ludicrously talented and ambitious. Dewey, not so much.
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Walk Hard / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Walk Hard / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: We catch a glimpse of "the real Dewey Cox."
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Walk Hard / int_4db42cf3	type	Male Frontal Nudity
Walk Hard / int_4db42cf3	comment	Male Frontal Nudity: From the Roger Ebert review:
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Walk Hard / int_4fb60159	type	Do Not Do This Cool Thing
Walk Hard / int_4fb60159	comment	Do Not Do This Cool Thing: Done In-Universe. See Drugs Are Bad below.
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Walk Hard / int_515eeccc	type	Sampling
Walk Hard / int_515eeccc	comment	Sampling: In-Universe. Dewey's Career Resurrection comes when a contemporary rapper samples "Walk Hard" and it becomes a viral hit.
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Walk Hard / int_51d3ca9b	type	Hates Being Nicknamed
Walk Hard / int_51d3ca9b	comment	Speaking of which, Elvis constantly referring to himself as "the King" is deliberately nonsensical: Elvis didn't like the title at all, partially due to his religious convictions ("the only true King is Jesus Christ", he once remarked), and would always correct people using it by bringing up earlier artists he admired, like Fats Domino. In particular, he would've found the idea of God "hand-pluckin'" him to be the King offensive, not something to brag about.
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Walk Hard / int_53968093	type	Wet Blanket Wife
Walk Hard / int_53968093	comment	Wet Blanket Wife: Parodied; practically every single thing Dewey's first wife says to him involves either nagging him about spending more time with his family (not without cause, granted) or themed around him being a hopeless failure whose dreams of stardom will come to nothing no matter how hard he tries to succeed. Which becomes increasingly absurd when he's recording number one hits and touring the country in front of adoring crowds and she's still lecturing him on how pursuing his dreams of making music is futile and doomed to failure.
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Walk Hard / int_6492f4ca	type	Spirit Advisor
Walk Hard / int_6492f4ca	comment	Spirit Advisor: Dewey's brother.
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Walk Hard / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Walk Hard / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: In a confrontation with his first wife about his always being on the road pursuing his movie career, his wife (yet again) brings up the fact that he's doomed to failure and is destroying his life and family. Dewey, who has already achieved a fairly respectable amount of success at this point, protests that "I'm actually doing quite well for a fifteen-year-old with a wife and a baby!"
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Walk Hard / int_6c81c95	type	True Art Is Incomprehensible
Walk Hard / int_6c81c95	comment	True Art Is Incomprehensible: In-Universe with both "Black Sheep" and the Bob Dylan-style songs.
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Walk Hard / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Walk Hard / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Jack Black and Jack White both in cameos. Don't try to convince yourself this is a coincidence.
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Walk Hard / int_714342fb	type	Erotic Eating
Walk Hard / int_714342fb	comment	Erotic Eating: Dewey and Darlene do this with soft-serve ice cream cones in the "Let's Duet" montage.
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Walk Hard / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Walk Hard / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: The conceit of the movie is that it's photographed and directed like a normal music biopic, but has been "hijacked" by popular comedians.
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Walk Hard / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Walk Hard / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Dewey to his father.
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Walk Hard / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
Walk Hard / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: The Jewish producers who sign Dewey are heard whispering to one another how a white performer singing a song called "You've Got To Love Your Negro Man" is racially insensitive. Obviously, this would not have been a concern in the 1950s, but then again, historical accuracy is not this movie's goal.
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Walk Hard / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Walk Hard / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here
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Walk Hard / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Walk Hard / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Dewey's bandmates call him out on his many, many instances of Jerkass behavior such as sleeping with their wives, Sam's one complaint is that he never once paid for the drugsnote though considering just how many drugs they, and Dewey in particular, go through (in both variety and sheer number), this could be considered more "simple assault" than "jaywalking".
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Walk Hard / int_814356cb	type	White-Dwarf Starlet
Walk Hard / int_814356cb	comment	White-Dwarf Starlet: Dewey becomes a male version of this trope in the '70s.
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Walk Hard / int_85bcc5a8	type	Lampshaded Double Entendre
Walk Hard / int_85bcc5a8	comment	Lampshaded Double Entendre
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Walk Hard / int_8a800d36	type	Bilingual Dialogue
Walk Hard / int_8a800d36	comment	Bilingual Dialogue: Dewey and record producer L'Chaim have one where Dewey's speaking German and L'Chaim's speaking Yiddish (the two languages can be mutually comprehensible).
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Walk Hard / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Walk Hard / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Dewey's brother came down with a really bad case of getting cut in half with a machete. As did his father.
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Walk Hard / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Walk Hard / int_916c72b3	comment	"Black Sheep" plays with this; though the lyrics themselves are bizarre, the song's heavy symbolism is very clearly Dewey trying to exorcise the guilt he feels over accidentally killing Nate, and how he, the inadequate, unwanted brother, is still alive.
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Walk Hard / int_9558599b	type	The New Rock & Roll
Walk Hard / int_9558599b	comment	The New Rock & Roll: The movie parodies the panic over rock and roll in the 1950s; at his high school talent show, Dewey and his band perform a sweet, gentle pop ballad called "Take My Hand" about two people holding hands. It immediately turns all the teenage girls present into sex-crazed nymphos, the teenage boys into violent thugs, and causes the older generation to picket Dewey's house with Torches and Pitchforks screaming about how he's going straight to hell:
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Walk Hard / int_97105187	type	BioPic
Walk Hard / int_97105187	comment	Biopic: Parodied. Very much.
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Walk Hard / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Walk Hard / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Any celebrity who appears will loudly announce who they are multiple times. This is done to self-consciously highlight the fact that they (intentionally) put absurdly little effort into imitating the celebrities they're supposed to be.
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Walk Hard / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Walk Hard / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Dewey noticed there's some tension among the Beatles.
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Walk Hard / int_9dd2af4a	type	Inspirationally Disadvantaged
Walk Hard / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Parodied. He can't smell, but he still manages to learn how to play guitar. By ear.
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Walk Hard / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Walk Hard / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly-Long Gag: Two are beautifully done back to back with Dewey destroying anything he can find in his house during a breakdown, then playing catch with more and more children as his redemption.
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Walk Hard / int_aedf28fe	type	Falling-in-Love Montage
Walk Hard / int_aedf28fe	comment	Falling-in-Love Montage: Seen between Dewey and Darlene. As it happens, their montage includes such questionable activities as licking, sucking, slurping ice-cream cones with very ambiguous expressions... Not to mention the highly suggestive carpentry.
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Walk Hard / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Walk Hard / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Dewey’s father repeatedly reminds him "The wrong kid died!", and tries to murder him.
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Walk Hard / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Walk Hard / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Dewey constantly pulling sinks out of the wall serves as one to Walk the Line. The Beatles deliver one to their bandmate Ringo, as they remind him he should be glad they let him keep playing the drums. Paul and John make increasingly-mean shots at each other as well, and openly ignore George's legitimate attempts to write music so they can bicker. This a major source of Shown Their Work as Paul and John having trouble connecting with their differing music styles and George becoming a more active (and ignored) songwriter were all major reasons for the Beatles breaking up. The bit where John tells Ringo that he's lucky they still let him play the drums is a reference to a supposed John quote that Ringo wasn't the best drummer in the band (which he never actually said), when in reality John remained close with Ringo even after the band broke up and frequently hired him as his drummer.
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Walk Hard / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
Walk Hard / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: Subverted with Dewey eventually falling in love with his back up singer Darlene and divorcing his first wife, whom had previously won. Similar to how Johnny Cash ended up with June Carter after splitting with his first wife Vivian.
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Walk Hard / int_ba0b808e	type	Tantrum Throwing
Walk Hard / int_ba0b808e	comment	Tantrum Throwing: A standard event when Dewey experiences some life setback.
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Walk Hard / int_bf75c797	type	Binge Montage
Walk Hard / int_bf75c797	comment	Binge Montage: "God damn, this is a dark fucking period!"
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Walk Hard / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Walk Hard / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Dewey's schlocky 70's TV show.
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Walk Hard / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Walk Hard / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Played for laughs, it finally looked like that Pa was going to forgive Dewey and reconcile. Until his wife died...
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Walk Hard / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Walk Hard / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: The reverend when proving "take my hand" means satanism.
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Walk Hard / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Walk Hard / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: John C. Reilly, naked.
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Walk Hard / int_c6d0ce84	type	Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity
Walk Hard / int_c6d0ce84	comment	Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity: As Dewey's life crashes around him, one of his many sons asks him if he'd like to play catch. This simple act acts as a catalyst for him rebuilding his life.
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Walk Hard / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Walk Hard / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The ghosts of Dewey's parents, brother, and ex-manager all appearing at the end is similar to the Force ghosts of Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin watching Luke in Return of the Jedi. The bad trip resembles Yellow Submarine. Dewey's Dylan period, shot in black and white and featuring him performing under spotlights in a large auditorium and insulting a TIME Magazine reporter, is a shout-out not just to Dylan, but to the acclaimed Rockumentary film about '60s Dylan, Don't Look Back.
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Walk Hard / int_cff53786	type	Cover Version
Walk Hard / int_cff53786	comment	Cover Version: One of the songs attempted during Dewey's first recording session? A country version of "That's Amore". It's so bad that it shakes the producer's faith in the Jewish people. Later, during Dewey's disastrous 70s variety show, he does a disco cover of David Bowie's "Starman." The music actually isn't half-bad, but he does it in a goofy spacesuit costume surrounded by go-go dancers. During the montage around this scene, he also covers Paper Lace's "Billy, Don't Be a Hero" and Alicia Bridges's "I Love the Nightlife". The scene at the lifetime achievement award show at the end has Jackson Browne, Lyle Lovett, Jewel, and Ghostface Killah covering "Walk Hard" live on stage.
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Walk Hard / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Walk Hard / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Every song Dewey comes up with.
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Walk Hard / int_d5a060a8	type	Interchangeable Asian Cultures
Walk Hard / int_d5a060a8	comment	Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Elvis tells Dewey that two kinds of people know karate: The Chinese and the King.
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Walk Hard / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
Walk Hard / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: The first scene of Dewey in the 1960s has him acknowledge societal change with a line (mostly) lifted from "For What It's Worth."
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Walk Hard / int_dbfe8427	type	Intercourse with You
Walk Hard / int_dbfe8427	comment	Intercourse with You: "Let's Duet", a song made entirely out of double entendres.
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Walk Hard / int_dc031fde	type	Inelegant Blubbering
Walk Hard / int_dc031fde	comment	Inelegant Blubbering: Played for laughs when the band ponders if Dewey "seems unhappy" right as he's weeping openly a few feet away from them.
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Walk Hard / int_dce640ce	type	Real-Person Epilogue
Walk Hard / int_dce640ce	comment	Real-Person Epilogue: Parodied. The film ends with performance footage of the "real" Dewey Cox five years before his death — played by Reilly again, just with slightly more convincing and naturalistic aging effects and a realistically scratchier, more weathered voice.
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Walk Hard / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Walk Hard / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad / Drugs Are Good: Played with. Dewey frequently opens a door to find Sam behind it, indulging in some illicit narcotics in the company of some beautiful women. Sam always insists that Dewey wants no part of it, only to then insistently list all the benefits of doing that particular drug. Dewey inevitably ends up hooked on it. But he really doesn't want none of that stuff that gives you a boner. "It's marijuana, Dewey. You don't want no part of this shit." "It's cocaine, Dewey. You don't want no part of this shit." "We're doing pills— uppers and downers. It's the logical next step for you." "I want me some of that shit!" Sam seems to have no problem with drugs other than resenting Dewey for never paying for them, but sure enough, Dewey has to go to rehab.
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Walk Hard / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Walk Hard / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: Mostly related to 20th century musicians and their respective biographies. Like Johnny Cash, Dewey communicates with his dead brother's spirit, who grows into a young man despite dying as a child. Dewey going "smell blind" is a reference to Ray Charles losing his sight from glaucoma, which is depicted in Ray as being brought on by the trauma of seeing his brother drown. Dewey's cover of Dean Martin's "That's Amoré" references Elvis Presley trying to sing like Dean Martin when he first showed up at Sun Records, only for Sam Phillips to force him and his band to jam on "That's All Right, Mama" instead. Speaking of which, Elvis constantly referring to himself as "the King" is deliberately nonsensical: Elvis didn't like the title at all, partially due to his religious convictions ("the only true King is Jesus Christ", he once remarked), and would always correct people using it by bringing up earlier artists he admired, like Fats Domino. In particular, he would've found the idea of God "hand-pluckin'" him to be the King offensive, not something to brag about. "Black Sheep," Dewey's drug- and psychosis-fueled attempt to be "artsy" and purge his demons, parodies Brian Wilson's breakdown when trying to record Smile. The Beatles sequence has everyone dropping titles from Beatles and solo Beatles songs; like with the stunt casting gag, it's meant to underscore how unsubtle these moments are when played straight. Dewey sawing his couch in half in a fit of rage comes from John Denver taking a chainsaw to his and his wife's bed after she left him.
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Walk Hard / int_e016e53f	type	Throwing Off the Disability
Walk Hard / int_e016e53f	comment	Throwing Off the Disability: Dewey regains his sense of smell when reuniting Darlene, smelling her hair, then sniffing horse manure rapturously.
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Walk Hard / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
Walk Hard / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: "I never realized until this moment how easy it is to accidentally cut someone in half with a machete..."
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Walk Hard / int_e18675e6	type	Word Salad Lyrics
Walk Hard / int_e18675e6	comment	Word Salad Lyrics: Parodied with "Royal Jelly", recorded during Dewey's "Dylan" phase; he himself admits he has no idea what he's singing. "Black Sheep" plays with this; though the lyrics themselves are bizarre, the song's heavy symbolism is very clearly Dewey trying to exorcise the guilt he feels over accidentally killing Nate, and how he, the inadequate, unwanted brother, is still alive.
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Walk Hard / int_e8cb930f	type	Accidental Suicide
Walk Hard / int_e8cb930f	comment	Accidental Suicide: Dewey tries to reconcile with his father who has not forgiven him for accidentally killing his younger brother by cutting him in half with a machete years ago. The two men end up dueling with machetes and Dewey's father cuts himself in half with his own machete. He does forgive Dewey before he dies though, as he now realizes how easy it is to cut someone in half with a machete.
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Walk Hard / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Walk Hard / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Reilly playing 14 year old Dewey. And 20 year old Dewey. And 30 year old Dewey. And 40 year old Dewey.
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Walk Hard / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Walk Hard / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Dewey is selfish and narcissistic; among other things, he cheats on his wife, attempts to marry Darlene while married to Edith, never pays for drugs, refuses to take responsibility for raising his many children both legitimate and illegitimate, never pays for drugs, sleeps with his bandmates' wives and girlfriends, never pays for drugs, has a homosexual experience with a bandmate that leaves him confused and hurt, and he not once pays for drugs!
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Walk Hard / int_ebb57e1a	type	Duet Bonding
Walk Hard / int_ebb57e1a	comment	Duet Bonding: Dewey and Darlene, when they sing "Let's Duet", a song filled with double entendres.
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Walk Hard / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Walk Hard / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Dewey's father, who realizes how easy it apparently is to accidentally cut a person in half with a machete only after being cut in half with said machete.
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Walk Hard / int_f210d3d7	type	Magnum Opus
Walk Hard / int_f210d3d7	comment	Magnum Opus: Dewey spends much of his musical career and, indeed, much of his life working on his magnum opus "Beautiful Ride," a song that encompasses an entire lifetime of ups and downs and which is so grand in scope that at various points in its creation it requires a veritable army of singers, musicians, and barnyard animals to perform it. Indeed, it is such a crowning achievement in Cox's life that, after its first and only live performance, he drops dead, his life's work complete.
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Walk Hard / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
Walk Hard / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun: Near the end, Dewey finally quits drugs, saying that he'll no longer give into "the temptations." Cue the clean-cut R&B vocal group.
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Walk Hard / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Walk Hard / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Dewey lies to Darlene (and probably cheats on her with anything that moves), ignores all his children, is a Jerkass and The Prima Donna to his band, is extremely selfish in general, but they all take him back with open arms when he needs them.
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Walk Hard / int_f6c3d469	type	Fanservice Extra
Walk Hard / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: Dewey has some really good-looking groupies.
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Walk Hard / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Walk Hard / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Everytime something goes wrong for Dewey, he rips one or more sinks off the walls. "Wrong kid died!" "Get outta here, Dewey! You don't want no part of this shit!"note Yes. Yes he does. "It's not what it looks like!"note It is what it looks like. Dewey's first wife takes every opportunity to point out how he's going to fail at everything he tries, telling him "You're never gonna make it!". Even when he's clearly succeeding at everything he tries. Finding ridiculously awkward ways to let the audience know how old they are at that time. Making darn sure everybody knows exactly what famous person Dewey is encountering at that moment, with Dewey calling all of them by their full names. Isn't that right, Elvis Presley?. Dewey and others meeting all stereotypical fashions and trends of the era the scene is set in. Horribly miscast Celebrities
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Walk Hard / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
Walk Hard / int_fabef10f	comment	And then Dewey's song gets sampled by a rapper named Lil' Nutsac. Because Cox and Nutsac go great together.
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Walk Hard / int_fadd79b2	type	Flashback Stares
Walk Hard / int_fadd79b2	comment	Flashback Stares: Right before he begins an act, Dewey can be found staring at a wall in the dark, backstage. His best friend explains that he has to think back on his entire life before every show.
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Walk Hard / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Walk Hard / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: Dewey accidentally killed his younger brother by cutting him in half with a machete as a kid.
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Walk Hard / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Walk Hard / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Having been reminded three times during the band break up that “You never once paid for Drugs! Not once." Dewey shows up at Sam’s with a bag of drugs as an apology.
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