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In reply to the discussion: Movies you just don't get why they're so popular. [View all]OldBaldy1701E
(9,682 posts)And, to a lesser extent, any film that was made about any major event in the last 50 years.
I watched it go down. I don't need to see it again through the 'Hollywood glasses'. They will just sensationalize it/sanitize it for their own ends.
(Example... 'The Doors' starring Val Kilmer. Their appearance on Ed Sullivan. I have watched the footage many times. Morrison stands there and sings. That's it. Yet, poor Val was made to leer and mug at the camera, like a snotty five year old, when Morrison did not change the lyrics in 'Light My Fire' that the show's people wanted him to change. The moment was about artist integrity. Not 'trying to score points with the rabble by being a brat'. Morrison was way more sophisticated than that, despite his desire to be as trashed as possible whenever he could.)