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The Doors is a 1991 American biographical film about the 1960-70s rock band of the same name which emphasizes the life of its lead singer, Jim Morrison. It was directed by Oliver Stone, and stars Val Kilmer as Morrison, Meg Ryan as Pamela Courson (Morrison's companion). The film features Kyle MacLachlan as Ray Manzarek, Frank Whaley as Robby Krieger, Kevin Dillon as John Densmore, and Kathleen Quinlan as Patricia Kennealy.
The film portrays Morrison as the larger-than-life icon of 1960s rock and roll, counterculture, and the drug-using free love hippie lifestyle. But the depiction goes beyond the iconic: his alcoholism, interest in the spiritual plane and hallucinogenic drugs as entheogens, and, particularly, his growing obsession with death are threads which weave in and out of the film. The film was not well received by his band mates, close friends, and family, due to its depiction of Morrison.
The film opens during the recording of Jim's An American Prayer and quickly moves to a childhood memory of his family driving along a desert highway in 1949, where a young Jim sees an elderly Native American dying by the roadside. In 1965, Jim arrives in California and is assimilated into the Venice Beach culture. During his film school days studying at UCLA, he meets his future girlfriend Pamela Courson, and has his first encounters with Ray Manzarek, as well as the rest of the people who would go on to form the Doors, Robby Krieger and John Densmore.
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A clip from the Doors movie on the Ed Sullivan show.
Neben der Dokumentation "The Doors -- When You're Strange", ist wohl das Werk von Regisseur Oliver Stone der gelungenste Beitrag über die legendäre Rock-Band The Doors. 1965 von den Studenten Jim Morrison und Ray Manzarek am Strand von Venice Beach gegründet, avancierte sie schnell zum Kultobjekt. Neben vielen Exzessen und dem tragischen Tod von Morrison im Jahre 1971, gilt die Band heute noch als unvergessen. Val Kilmer lieferte eine brillante Vorstellung ab, was durch die grandiose Inszenierung von Stone gebührend präsentiert wurde. Eine Biografie die man nicht so schnell vergisst. Mehr Infos unter: http://www.film-panorama.de/
Well at least it was better than Warhol's shit. 'The Doors' [1991] Directed by Oliver Stone Starring Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison Also Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon, and Meg Ryan 'The Doors' [1991] @ the IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101761/ The Doors @ AllMusic: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-doors-mn0000114342 The official homesite for The Doors: https://www.thedoors.com/ Clip edited from source with SolveigMM Video Splitter Business Edition.
The Doors es una película biográfica estadounidense sobre la banda de rock del mismo nombre, dirigida por Oliver Stone y estrenada en 1991. El guión fue escrito tanto por Stone como por Randall Jahnson, basado en el libro "Riders On The Storm" de John Densmore. Fue realizada por los estudios Carolco Pictures y originalmente distribuida por Tri-Star Pictures. Fuente: WIKIPEDIA
This 1997 documentary contains interviews with friends of the late Jim Morrison as well as several people involved with the making of the film, "The Doors" (1991)... delving into what Morrison meant to everyone, including themselves. The film only scratches the surface of Jim's personality and who he truly was... and many other things about him are revealed and shared. This is not an actual look into the movie, but rather a look at Jim's career and those who felt close to him.
Siskle and Ebert review the 1991 Biopic film The Doors which is about the lead singer of the Doors band, Jim Morrison played by Val Kilmer. Gene Siskel liked the movie because of the Music and the art style of the film while Roger Ebert gave it thumbs down because he found the movie to be very depressing and sad during the last part of the film where Jim Morrison's life becomes a living hell for him.
The movie features a tour de force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother http://sohdmovie.blogspot.com/0101761 but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals.
One is the cause
And two is mysterious,
Three is the wisest,
four is so powerful
Five with such kindness,
Six is always in love,
Seven the chariot,
Eight will rule them all!
Nine is a hermit,
Ten is just probable,
Eleven is virtuous,
Twelve’s hanging down a rope!
Thirteen is death and
Fourteen is temperance,
Fifteen the devil,
Sixteen is a tower!
Where did they go,
the numbers of the Lord,
untold?
If I let violence tear up my silence I’ll drown…
Seventeen, there’s much hope,
Yet eighteen can mislead!
Sweet nineteen like the sun
Twenty, the renewal!
Twenty-one is successful,
Zero isn’t just a fool
Pictures of love
And doors to another world!
Where did they go,
the numbers of the Lord,
untold?