The Doors Page #2

Synopsis: Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971. The movie features a tour-de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, 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.
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
54%
R
Year:
1991
140 min
1,321 Views


SONG:

Girl you gotta love your man (2)

Take him by the hand

Make him understand

The car pulling away across the giant 1940's landscape

DISSOLVING TO:

EXT. ARIZONA DESERT - DAY (1963)

SUBTITLE READS:
ARIZONA DESERT, 1963. CREDITS CONTINUE TO

ROLL.

Panning up the black chino pants to JIM MORRISON, now 20,

steel seaman's suitcase in hand, thumbing a ride, the road

sign behind him saying "Los angeles 370 miles"

SONG:

The world on you depends

Our life will never end

Girl you gotta love your man

A LARGE LIZARD in the dust c*cks its head, blinks, as the

boots walk by to the car pulling over.

INT. CAR

JIM in the backseat packed with HUSBAND, WIFE, CHILDREN,

DOG, MOTHER-IN-LAW. Between boy and man, eyes ancient and

new. He wears his favorite color: black -- torn black chinos,

paint-spotted black t-shirt, a slouch his favorite pose but

the eyes and smile can be warm and shy like a little boy,

gentle surface, storm in the brain.

The HUSBAND, now looking at Jim a little nervously, pushes

up the Perry Como on the radio... as it cuts to a sudden

news flash:

RADIO:

...from the Texas School Book

Depository. We repeat. President

John F. Kennedy was shot a few minutes

ago in Dallas!

SLOW MOTION:
The Husband's face distorting, saying something

on the track like: "What! God NO!" but it's subdued, low.

Trying other stations.

Jim turns to look out his window, as if he already knew.

RADIO:

(2nd VOICE)

...taken to Parkland Memorial

Hospital. There's no word on the

President's condition. Mrs. Kennedy

is...

The WIFE'S and HUSBAND'S VOICES seem lost in the background.

WIFE & HUSBAND

Oh God, Oh God. Not the President

for Christ's sake. Oh God -- WHO'S

NEXT?

On Jim -- staring out the window. "Who's next!"

SONG:

Riders on the storm (4)

On the DESERT.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. VENICE BOARDWALK - LOS ANGELES - DAY (1965)

SUBTITLE READS:
VENICE, CALIFORNIA 1965

CREDITS continue to their conclusion as we segue into the

BLUENESS of VENICE, CALIFORNIA, 1965 -- the dawn of a new

age. All was possible.

Individual SHOTS of the BOARDWALK throbbing with a feast of

HIPPIES, head shops, ARTISTS drawing psychedelic murals, POT

SMOKERS, MUSCLE BUILDERS, tambourines accompanying the

transister radios on the Beach Boys and "I Got You Babe",

dogs chasing frisbees, BIKINI BODIES on the beach, LSD sold

over the counter... set to the upbeat chords of HELLO I LOVE

YOU:

DOORS SONG:

Hello I love you

Won't you tell me your name?

Hello I love you

Let me jump in your game

She's walking down the street

Blind to every eye she meets

Do you think you'll be the guy

To make the queen of the angels sigh?

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Randall Jahnson

Randall Jahnson is an American writer, director and producer. His works include Dudes, The Doors, The Mask of Zorro, Sunset Strip, and episodes of the HBO TV series Tales from the Crypt. Jahnson also directed music videos for Stan Ridgway, Henry Rollins, Black Flag, and Minutemen. In the 1987, he launched the independent record label Blue Yonder Sounds in Los Angeles. The label released four albums: Civilization and Its Discotheques by The Fibonaccis, Bigger than Breakfast by Slack, Three Gals, Three Guitars by The Del Rubio Triplets, and Motel Cafe by Michael C. Ford. more…

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