Features The Blue Banner The Doors examines life of Jim Morrison exceptional. Stone concentrated on scenery, Connie Pegg Meg Ryan, also a Top Gun co- as well as characterization and Staff Writer star, played Morrison’s girlfriend, music. He turned entire areas, Oliver Stone’s controversial and Pam. She followed him to his including a main street in New semi-autobiographical movie, Bom concerts, joining in his drug and York, back in time to set authentic on the Fourth of July, a depressing alcohol abuse. She hesitated in scenes for the film. Costumes, yet realistic look at one Vietnam the beginning, but Morrison’s language and mannerisms were veteran’s journey through straight from the 1960s. The rehabilitation, was praised by some flower power, free love and casual and criticized by others. His true nudity of that time period story of Jim Morrison in The dominated the screen. Doors will receive similar One particularly long scene, reactions. showing Morrison at a party, was While the story itself may be shot with the camera moving depressing. Stone spared no slowly up and down, side to side. expense in producing the film. Matched with Kilmer’s authentic Realistic depictions of events, characterization of Morrison in a interesting camera work and the drug-induced daze, the camera unforgettable music of The Doors work for the scene helped the make this a must-see movie. audience see into the network of A true child of the sixties, the singer’s tormented existence. Morrison’s life was one long drug Songs such as "Light My Fire" Photo by LeeAnn Donnelly trip. Statements such as, "Life and "Riders on the Storm" were The wearing of the green hurts. When you die, the pain is heard, mainly in fragments, over," and, "They (his fans) don’t throughout the film. Those Paraders march past in festive attire during the St, Patrick's Day parade in want me. They want my death," persistence finally paid off and she attending the movie strictly for the downtown Asheviiie iast Sunday. permeated the dialogue. Morrison tumbled into the abyss with him, music may be disappointed, but carried around his constant death- In the end, she identified herself large doses of The Doors’ moody, the path Morrison was taking, and, have been, "The Jim Morrison Morrison produced some of the wish like the dark, ominous clouds as nothing more than a decoration somber lyrics may be more than saying that he had watched Joplin Story," as it was strictly an account most haunting and powerful music that Stone used to set the mood of for the band. the majority of movie-goers could and Hendrix and couldn’t go of Morrison’s life, shadowing the of the 1960s. His genius, however, the film in the opening scenes. Morrison’s songs, mainly of love, handle. through that again, tried to get brilliant music of The Doors. was washed away in a tidal wave Val Kilmer, of Top Gun fame, death, chaos and disorder, sprang Morrison’s friends and fans Morrison to sober up. But the Without them, Morrison might of alcohol and drugs. played Morrison in the film. He like swift, troubled waters from never wavered in their support of demons driving Morrison were too have become nothing more than The Doors revives the memories convincingly portrayed Morrison, the poems he wrote. Much of his him, even toward the end of his strong. There was no turning another stoned poet, reading his of past hippies and astounds and both in appearance and voice. work was produced while under life when he obviously cared back. works in the smoky haze of a enlightens those who missed that Kilmer did his own .singing in the the effect of peyote, his drug of nothing for his appearance. One of The movie is not without its California coffee house. decadent decade of history-making movie, and the results were choice. his music producers recognized weaknesses. The title might better Instead, James Douglas music, language and ideas. provides fast food alternatives

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