South of the Border - Oliver Stone

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  • unsung
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    Pepe Silvia wrote:

    like a small thing in it that always irked me was the ed sullivan performance of light my fire, jim didn't sing the 'get much higher' part like the movie had him do it, he sang it as it was written, not some big flamboyant act


    Yeah I've seen the footage, it was certainly uneventful.
  • Pepe Silvia
    Pepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    catefrances wrote:
    Pepe Silvia wrote:
    i think i read john densmore was pretty disappointed too, but i did read in somewhere that ray had helped originally and answered a lot of stone's questions, it must have sucked to have been so helpful and then see things totally twisted around


    like a small thing in it that always irked me was the ed sullivan performance of light my fire, jim didn't sing the 'get much higher' part like the movie had him do it, he sang it as it was written, not some big flamboyant act

    clearly you have no sense of the dramatic. :P :lol:


    yeah, i get it's a movie do it has to be more flashy than the uneventful performance that was actually given but it just kinda bothers me that so many see that as a fact laden biography of the band instead of a hollywood movie. morrison could certainly be a prick and a tool but i think stone's movie focused a lot more on that aspect of him. it's been so long since i've seen it and i can't remember what else he changed other than that reporter/wiccan lady that he marries in the movie, her actions in the movie are a combination of other people, some of the stuff in the movie she didn't do

    a local record store used to have one of the post morrison doors albums and i'd laugh when i saw it. :mrgreen:

    i had read a few biographies on morrison/the doors including densmore's book, he seems a tad whiney but i can understand his frustration if i was in such a huge band and having my singer behave like morrison did at times and how shit just went downhill pretty quick. their manager, danny sugarman is a huge prick, i remember back in the day he threatened even fan sites with legal action if they had lyrics on their page for a while.

    it's a shame there wasn't really anyone around back then to help people like morrison or syd barrett
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