What kind of film do you think the above image is from, listeners? If you answered “Why, a biopic of a 1960s rock band, of course”, congratulations – you are Oliver Stone, and this is an episode of Pop Screen about your 1991 film The Doors. Join Doors fan Aidan and Doors, uh, not-fan Graham for an exploration of this fabulously lavish, maddeningly shallow account of Jim Morrison’s life and death, which occasionally remembers there were some other guys with instruments standing behind him.
Along the way we’ll discuss Aidan’s tendency to turn up on 27-club episodes, the strange decline in modern conspiracy theories about pop star deaths, the odd position that The Doors has right in the middle of Stone’s run of political films, and the early ’90s nostalgia bonanza that saw The Doors sharing chart space with The Stone Roses and The KLF. We also talk about the film’s many inaccuracies and Ray Manzarek’s amusing appearance on The Adam and Joe Show.
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