Despite the success of Walk the Line, it was also an immediate target of mockery, most notably by the 2007 parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, which I consider one of the greatest movies ever made. While Walk Hard is a parody of music biopics in general, it most directly pokes fun at Walk the Line and Ray, the 2004 Ray Charles movie. It was a direct response to the genre’s rise, mocking the fact they’d fallen into a predictable structure with each film following the same predictable story beats about infidelity, addiction, and tumultuous relationships with fathers.