The Unauthorized Truth About Oliver Stone’s ’The Doors’ (2022 Update)

Oliver Stone’s film ’The Doors’ starring Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison was released in 1991. Like most biographical films, ’The Doors’ takes many liberties with the actual facts about Morrison’s life and the band overall. Unfortunately, too many movie viewers accept what they see onscreen as reality and rarely make an attempt to learn more about the subject. So, if you think Jim Morrison was nothing more than a somber, drug-addicted psychopath in leather pants, you might want to watch this video and learn the Truth About Oliver Stone’s The Doors. “It’s not Jim Morrison, it’s Oliver Stone in leather pants.” -Ray Manzarek “Oliver made a great impressionistic painting of our career. [A friend] said to me, ‘they’re gonna take six years and cram it into two hours and blow it up to the size of a building. It’s gonna be an impression.’ And it was a beautiful impression.” -John Densmore. “The problem with that movie was that the script was kind of stupid. It doesn’t really ca