The Doors directed by OLIVER STONE SIXTIES America. It was a whole different scene, man. Vietnam and shit, it blows your mind.
Music was different then too, none of today's manufactured shit. Hell, we had Dylan, the Stones, and Herman and his Hermits. But the craziest dude of them all was Jim Morrison.
Hey, and that new film by Oliver Stone (great name!), sure brings it all back to life. And it's the truth man. We ain't talking typical Hollywood bionin, in this, limbo meets his future keyboard player (looking remarkably like Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks with an unconvincing blonde wig), who says: 'Let's form a band and make a million bucks'. And, hell, they do!
Liberated
Sure in those days we were liberated. Why, when Jim sees a groovy chick by the name of Pam, he just follows her home. Before you can say Lizard King, he's grabbed and kissed her and she's fallen for his animal power.
Hell, though, what free-love rock star wants to be held down by just one woman? So later on Morrison even gets Nico of the Velvet Underground to give him blow job in front Weird but true, Pam freaks at this. Stone, though, sure makes us feel this is just one of Pam's hangups. Later on again when Pam just gets a little too heavy, why Jim's so together that he locks her in a closet and sets fire to it The director-man just luurves this Dick Like though, Jim is shown to be on the edge, man. While chicks and dudes opposed the war and called for black rights, he was taking on the police. For not letting him show his dick on stage.
Also, man, Jim was deep - and so's this film. The man's shown to be a full-blown mystic. He's followed round by the ghost of an old Indian his parents killed by accident when he was young. Its like Stone is saying that he's been infused by the old man's spirit and is in touch with a higher culture. Why the final scene shows that of all the great writers in ere Lacnaise cemetery, incluains Nilde and Balzac, hey Morrison's the greatest of them all.
More than this, the deep trip Stone lays on in this film is if you continually drink and take drugs, you get stoned. If you carry on, you get stoned and put on weight. And if you still keep on, you die. Heavy man.
PS. This film does have some strengths. Val Kilmer makes a totally convincing Jim Morrison. Moreover the large doses of concert footage are one-dimensional video-promo kind While some critics have described it as too long, this combined with the unsteady camera style, gives the film a convincing trippy quality.
Overall though Stone's grandiose epic is a triumph of style over substance, and stiflingly sexist. FILMS