The Doors (film)

The Doors is a 1991 film about Jim Morrison and The Doors. It was directed by Oliver Stone, and stars Val Kilmer as Morrison, Meg Ryan as Pamela Courson (Morrison's companion), Kevin Dillon as John Densmore, Kyle MacLachlan as Ray Manzarek, Frank Whaley as Robby Krieger and Kathleen Quinlan as Patricia Kennealy.

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1991 - Film - Jim Morrison - The Doors - Oliver Stone - Val Kilmer - Meg Ryan - Pamela Courson - Kevin Dillon - John Densmore - Kyle MacLachlan - Ray Manzarek - Frank Whaley - Robby Krieger - Kathleen Quinlan - Patricia Kennealy

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The film is very much focused on Morrison, portraying him as larger-than-life and an 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 obsession with death are threads which weave in and out of the film. Attentive viewers (or those who listen to Stone's DVD commentary) witness Death personified throughout the film by Richard Rutowski, who even appears in drag in one scene.

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1960s - Rock and roll - Counterculture - Drug-using - Free love - Hippie - Alcoholism - Spiritual plane - Hallucinogenic drug - Entheogen - Death - Death personified - Richard Rutowski - Drag

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The film's soundtrack contains over two dozen of The Doors songs; in the film, original recordings of the band are seamlessly combined with performances by Kilmer as Morrison. So eeriely accurate was Kilmer's portrayal of Morrison, that even the remaining band members of The Doors found it difficult sometimes to distinguish between his vocal renditions and Morrison's original recordings of their songs.

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