The Doors 1991 Film Full Length
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Watching this movie & realizing I missed the "good drug" days by 20 years. π
J. Alan
2025-06-13 03:49:11 +0000 UTC57:36 amyl nitrate, a strong vasodilator and the original "poppers", came in little glass capsules enclosed in cloth, which you popped to break open and inhale the fumes from. Best thing about this film is Val Kilmer actually singing all his vocals in the songs. Obviously there's a lot of debate over the facts of the film and how Morrison is portrayed, especially from his worshipful sycophants. The fact is, Jim was an amazingly talented visionary, artist and performer and a very good guy in many ways. He was also a very deeply flawed, troubled, individual. He created many amazing moments and experiences while also engaging in hurtful and destructive behavior. I love him. I would also have found him difficult to relate to on a day to day basis and would probably not be able to include him in my close circle of friends. π€·ββοΈ
BRT
2025-05-19 07:53:46 +0000 UTCA lot of the things in the movie -- if not most -- are things that actually happened, though, like with literally EVERY biopic, events are moved around, people get swapped around or condensed into one person, etc. Tbf, that's always going to happen with biopics bc you're trying to take years and years of someone's life and tell the whole story in a two hour movie. Unless you literally focus on one major event from the person's life, you're obvs going to have to condense and remix a few things to tell a compelling story. As far as the opinions of the Doors, what you said is not entirely true. John Densmore had mixed opinions on the movie but not because it was inaccurate. His opinion was that it not only focused on the negative aspects of Jim's drug use and alcoholism more than his good aspects but it also focused mostly on Jim and not so much the rest of the band (which is fair; they're barely background characters in the movie). He said the movie should've been called "Jim Morrison" and not "The Doors." Robby Krieger also had mixed feelings about it, but he said parts of it were well done. He just felt some of the story was overblown -- which is intentional, for reasons I'll get to in a moment -- and that it missed capturing what really made Jim tick. The biggest critic of the film from the band was Ray Manzarek. He talked about it a lot (and, honestly, I think he's the reason most people have the idea that the movie was so "wrong" about the story of the Doors). But here's the thing: I saw Ray play a live show in a tiny auditorium at UCSB with Michael McClure. After the show, they held a Q&A session and he went into depth about his feelings regarding the movie. His biggest complaints as he expressed them that night were that they mostly showed Jim in a negative light and didn't focus on the good aspects of him as a person. And he didn't like the fact that certain events were conflated or moved around. When asked how he would've made the Doors movie, he described a movie that might've, to him, seemed more reflective of the reality as he lived it but would've bored audiences to tears. Seriously, the movie that Ray would've made would've killed the legend of the Doors and flopped hard at the box office. My hot take that came from that Q&A session is that Ray is too close to the Doors and, from his view on the inside, doesn't really understand what people loved about the band. And there's a reason Ray is a great musician but not a great filmmaker (despite going to USC film school): The man doesn't really know how to tell a story on film. I went into that show that night super excited to hear his perspective on the movie and came out of it realizing that Ray doesn't really understand the art of filmmaking. What I think Ray didn't really get was that Oliver Stone wasn't making a dry documentary-style movie about the trials and tribulations of a band touring around and playing shows. He was putting the mythology of the Doors as the public experienced it (and felt it) at that time on film. He was making "the legend of the Doors," not the dull story of a group of guys on a tour bus, occasionally dealing with their drunk front man, and making sure to have scenes of Jim writing people Christmas cards to show that he wasn't always a drunk, drugged up wildman. Tbh, even though he was portrayed as increasingly out of control, I have to think Jim would've actually liked Stone's movie bc it did exactly what he set out to do: Make the myths. Create the legends. As a poet, Jim would've understood what Stone was doing way more than the other guys seemed to. But as for the events portrayed in the movie not being accurate, here's an example of how they're innacurate: Did Jim see the commercial with "Light My Fire" and then throw a TV in the studio? No. Did he throw a TV in the studio at some point? Yes. According to Densmore, Jim threw the TV and wrecked the studio and instruments with fire extinguishers and whatnot when he was on acid after recording "The End." He came back the next day and claimed not to remember doing it. So, with incidents like that, Stone used the story of throwing the TV and damaging stuff in the studio to relate the idea that Jim wasn't happy with them "selling out" one of their songs to commercials, bc he already had plenty of movie showing Jim getting wild and destructive on acid and/or alcohol. As a piece of art, the movie gives a sense of the truth by taking parts of the truth and rearranging them in a way that tells the story, communicates the vibe, and creates more of a compelling, coherent narrative than the actual messy, disorganized layout of real life which, as every director who's ever made a biopic has discovered, doesn't translate to film.
Funk McPuke
2025-05-11 19:32:09 +0000 UTCOliver Stone always plays fast and loose with the truth. The remaining Doors were not happy with the portrayal of Jim Morrison even though they consulted on the movie. They had no control over the final product. Don't let this movie change your opinion of Jim Morrison or the Doors. Read one of the many biographies of him that are out there for the real story.
s8150f
2025-05-11 18:45:18 +0000 UTCthere was an album made in the late 70's called "An American Prayer". It was recorded by the Doors 3 surviving members using recordings of Jim's poetry and previously unreleased tracks. They used pieces of throughout the movie including the final scene.
Steven Costa
2025-05-11 06:21:36 +0000 UTC
