val kilmer played jim morrison in the movie the doors.
val kilmer played jim morrison in the movie the doors.
who played jim morrison in the movie the doors?
val kilmer
a second revival, attracting another generation of fans, occurred in 1991 following the release of the film "the doors", directed by oliver stone and starring val kilmer as morrison. stone created the script from over a hundred interviews of people who were in jim morrison's life. he designed the movie by picking the songs and then adding the appropriate scripts to them. the original band members did not like the film's portrayal of the events. in the book "the doors", manzarek states, "that oliver stone thing did real damage to the guy i knew: jim morrison, the poet." in addition, manzarek claims that he wanted the movie to be about all four members of the band, not only morrison. densmore said, "a third of it's fiction." in the same volume, krieger agrees with the other two, but also says, "it could have been a lot worse." the film's soundtrack album reached no. 8 on the "billboard" album chart and "greatest hits" and "the best of the doors" re-entered the chart, with the latter reaching a new peak position of no. 32.
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bullet::::- lester bangs, "jim morrison: bozo dionysus a decade later" in "main lines, blood feasts, and bad taste: a lester bangs reader", john morthland, ed. anchor press (2003)









































bullet::::- stephen davis, "jim morrison: life, death, legend", (2004)









































bullet::::- john densmore, "riders on the storm: my life with jim morrison and the doors" (1991)









































bullet::::- dave dimartino, "moonlight drive" (1995)









































bullet::::- steven erkel, "the poet behind the doors: jim morrison's poetry and the 1960s countercultural movement" (2011)









































bullet::::- wallace fowlie, "rimbaud and jim morrison" (1994)









































bullet::::- jerry hopkins, "the lizard king: the essential jim morrison" (1995)
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