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Call it Rock n1 Roll great White by Pau Chutkow new York times a. One morning last summer san Francisco awoke and found itself Back in the ,1960s. The Corner of Haight and Ashbury was again a swirling carnival of psychedelic Street theater and protests against the Vietnam War. Streams of Flower children poured in Bells on their wrists and blossoms in their hair All converging for that sacred rite of the counterculture a be in at Golden Gate Park. There under placards pleading make love not. A War Quot the sons and daughters of America again frolicked in a rapturous collective High denouncing capitalism militarism and sexual repression the spirit was feverish hippie couples rolled in the grass and one Young woman shed her clothes and burst into a Ballet of dionysian abandon tired on by the pulsing music and primal taunts of Jim Morrison and the boors Quot Day destroys the night night divides the Day try to run try to hide break on through to the other  \ standing on the Edge watching this scene of joyous anarchy take on a life of its own was Oliver Stone he and his staff had spent months creating this be in and its enveloping time Warp. V with his cinematographers in Tow the director circled. The action orchestrating camera angles and mini scenes. Usually manic and driven Stone seemed thoroughly Mellow As swept up in the rekindled spirit As everyone else. 77 7 7 7 7. To the crowd of onlookers it might have seemed As though Stone was making a celebratory period piece of the hippie Era. A. A a 7. His new film the doors is on the surface a tribute to the doors and their legendary poet Prince Jim Morrison. But beneath its musical and visual opulence the doors is the work of a self styled guerrilla film maker out to unearth the darkest sides of human nature. Morrison died in 1971, at the age of 27, and Stone portrays him As a tragic figure emblematic of his times. 7. 7 ,7/ in Wall Street Salvador and talk radio Stone defined what he saw As the greedy and reactionary 80s. The doors now stands with platoon and born on  of july As the film maker s personal triptych of the troubled 60s, when he and a generation of Young americans saw their innocence and their moral bearings shot out from under them.  Quot i first heard Jim and the doors when i was in. Vietnam in the infantry in 67,&Quot the. Director 44, says. Quot i had never heard this kind of music before. There was a sense of liberation about it. Break on through was to me an Anthe the lyrics of his songs spoke of life and death fear and Eros All those Good things infantrymen want to be in touch with. Right away i identified with Jim. He became one of my  in making the film Stone immersed himself in the Morrison legend and came to see the Rock Star As something of a spiritual older brother. He also came to see in Morrison s life and quest for new values Stark parallels and contrasts to his own ambitions As a writer and artist. 7_ .7in a similar Way Morrison became a counterculture hero to millions of Young americans. At a time of War and National confusion he was a charismatic rebel with an enticing message shed the old embrace disorder toy with danger. The doors were  priests of mind bending acid Rock and Morrison wrapped his anti War and pro drug politics in the mythology of the american Indian and the philosophy of William Blake Morrison often paraphrased Blake Quot when the doors of perception Are cleansed things will appear As they truly Are Quot. ?. Stone s screenplay traces the evolution of the doors a beginning roughly with the birth of the group in los 7 Angeles in 1965, when Morrison As Singer lyricist joined forces with Ray Manzares on Organ Robby Krieger on guitar and John Densmore on Drums. The film is swathed in their music including still celebrated songs like Light my fire riders on the storm a oedipal Odyssey the end with its infamous line. F Mathei want to kill you Quot doors concerts were a tribal Gal ii ring Vith Morrison Adonis like insouciant and a sensual m skin tight leather pants As shaman leading his. To users out of what he Calls in one song Quot the wilderness of  a -. The doors is Stone s portrait of Rock Star icon and romantic poet a documentary of sorts that chronicles. Stripes Magazine March 7, 1991