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In the movie The Doors, how accurately are Jim Morrison and the other band members portrayed as compared to the actual band members?
Introduction
This paper gives an in-depth analysis of the theme of hyperbole in Oliver Stone’s The Door, a film he personally directed and produced in 1991. The film was presenting on the life of the members of The Door Band. This band was formed by a celebrated American vocalist Jim Morrison together with a keyboardist Ray Manzareck, drummer John Desmonere and a guitarist called Robby Krieger. Actually, the eight times gold LPs winner was a very controversial band mainly because of Morrison’s charismatic, poetic lyrics along side his unpredictable stage persona. In this film, Oliver exposes the life of Morrison and other band members. However this is highly criticized for being done in an exaggerated manner just to tarnish the name of this pioneer American psychedelic and hard rock band (Riordan, J., 2006).
Stones’ Exaggerations
Just like the synonymous The Door Band, The Door film is really controversial. Even if it has been credited for giving some truth about the crew members of the Jim Morrison’s led band, Oliver Stone has received a lot of criticisms because of the way in which it portrayed Jim Morrison and his colleagues. In fact, many people assert that his story was not based on the real band members, but on a mystical one. Some of the exaggerated claims about these people are explained herein:
First, Jim is portrayed as a larger than life icon of his time. His drug using, rock and roll lifestyle is quite abnormal. His drug addiction makes him behaves so queerly. He deviates from standards most of the times, a conduct that infuriates his band members and funs. For instance, when playing at Whisky Go Go Bar, his improvised lyrics and onstage antics infuriate the owners of this club. Similarly, while at the bar, he orders the bar attendant to serve him with Des Equis. He was doing this even if he knew that this was an illegal drug that was not supposed to be imported in USA until its ban was lifted in 1973.
At the same time, he turns into promiscuity particularly when he starts engaging in sexual intercourse with a lot of women. For example, his mystical sexual encounter with Patricia Kennealy, a very funny rock journalist who was accused of practicing witchcraft is also blamed on his alcoholism.
Besides, Morrison loses interest in his work as a band leader and a leading vocalist who was in charge of his crew. He does not show any commitment in his duties. In fact, he starts from being late before graduating to deliberate missing of recording sessions and concerts. Even after doing this, he did not bother to apologize and give explanations on his whereabouts (Riordan, J. & Prochnicky, J., 2001). One day, he decided to come late during a live concert at Miami, Florida. Surprisingly, he goes ahead to expose himself onstage and confront his colleagues. They never took this conduct lightly. It was an embarrassment to all in attendance. In fact, it landed him in problems when he was arrested and charged in the court of law for indecent exposure.
In addition, Oliver reports that Morrison was compelled to act under influence of drugs to torture Courson. Oliver says that most of his ideas were muddled through the haze of alcoholism. This was witnessed when he locked her in the closet and set fire on her and defied his audience’s to change for them the lyrics. Instead of listening to them, he opts to shout at them, a tendency he continued doing even in the recording room. However, this was just a mere hyperbole because this did not actually happen. It was one of the many instances in which Stone decided to twist a story in order to suit his cinematographic goals. Even if Jim shouted at his funs, he never did the same when recording his trucks.
Similarly, Oliver’s assertion regarding Jim’s childhood experiences is exaggerated. Despite the fact that the film was produced at a time when The Door was releasing n American Prayer, his reflections on his possessions with death are quite perplexing. It makes him lure his colleagues to go to Death Valley just to experience the consequences of psychedelic drugs. However, this is not a real representation of his personality because many critics, who observed him, claim that they are mere exaggerations meant to conform to Oliver’s cinematographic goals (Manzarek, R., 2000).
Moreover, Morrison is reported to have had hostile relationships with Kennealy. As Oliver puts it, their interactions were always hostile because they would not have any peaceful dialogue. However, this was not true presentation of this friendship because many people who were there during that time said that Morison and Kennealy were known to be great friends. Unlike Oliver’s assertions, they always related cordially and had harmonious dialogues throughout. They never exchanged bitterly as claimed by Oliver.
A part from Jim, Oliver thrills readers with amusing claims about other members of this band. This was also done in a way that was contradicting truth because it is one of the proofs of the exaggerations he had made in this film. To begin with, he claims that Desmore hated Jim for his drunken conducts. However, the critics insist that this is not true because the two guys are known to have been great friends. This is not real since they never confronted one another. Their friendship began before Jim became an addict. Then it continued even after becoming obsessed with drugs. It was toleration from Densmore that enabled their friendship to continue existing even after that kind of change in Jim’s lifestyle.
Consequently, Patricia is portrayed by Oliver to have been a liar. This was evidenced when she is reported to have said that Jim pursued his university education at the University of Florida while the truth is that he did the same at the Florida State University. This statement as exaggerated because those present during this time never attributed her with deception. She was a straight forward lady who should not be tainted with such a trait.
The other exaggeration was made concerning the behavior of Morrison’s audience. While Oliver reports that they were nude during certain concerts is criticized for being inappropriate. Those who witnessed these concerts refute this claim as misleading and instead insist that nudity was not practiced by any of these funs. After all, it could not be tolerated in the American society. This is not justified because it gives misleading information about these crowds (Densmore, J., 2009).
In conclusion, I would like to agree with the fact that even if there are some elements of truth in Oliver’s, The Door, a lot of his claims were exaggerated. In fact, Hollywood is accused of making silly claims that injured the reputation of the America’s pioneer rock band. Such claims like Morrison being an out of control sociopath carrying alcohol bottle all the time was exaggeration technique.
Works Cited
Densmore, J. (2009) Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors. Delacorte
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Manzarek, R. (2000) Light My Fire. New York: Berkley Boulevard Books.
Riordan, J. (2006) Stone: A Biography of Oliver Stone. New York: Aurum Press.
Riordan, J. & Prochnicky, J. (2001). Break On Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison.
New York: Quill.
In the first reading by Lawrence Gostin, Global Health Law In The Broader Currents Of Global Governance For Health And Global
Alejandra Villegas
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In the first reading by Lawrence Gostin, Global Health Law In The Broader Currents Of Global Governance For Health And Global Health, International Trade And Intellectual Property, Gostin writes about the major sources of global health law, the failures of global health laws, and global health in the global south. Global health laws are directly connected to public international laws whose source is primarily the state’s sovereignty. However, apart from the state, international laws are also a subject of international organizations whose influence comes in through the development of human rights laws. International law is limited as it fails to include the nonstate parties, lacks enforceability, and has fake standards. The above disadvantages reflect on the global health law which further demeans it. Global health laws should be firm enough to spell out priorities; various coordinate activities, encourage investment, foster transparency, and accountability, and help in dispute resolution among other chief functions. In the south, globalization is getting popular through the deliverance of international trade. However, global health is bound to face certain impacts as globalization thrives. The trade, especially on health-related goods and services, is beneficial to the public health, but the trade system is expected to adjust its trading tariffs to maintain quality and affordability for the health-related goods and services. Trade in the south is not as effective as it is in the north and has left the people in the region stuck in poverty. Trade liberations demean the health and the lives of the poor in the region by favoring the interests of the richer individuals and the multinational corporations in the north.
The other reading by Howard Waitzkin, Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire, Waitzkin writes about the relationship between the wealthy and the poor in the empire and philanthropic foundations. There has been a wave that suggests that the wealthy should bring back to society and for that reason, there have been foundations aimed at helping out in the needs of the society. In the reading, Waitzkin gives an example of the Rockefeller foundation which was initiated internationally to run campaigns against infectious diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. The foundation developed research institutes and disease eradication programs in almost all continents. The foundation helped in stabilizing the cost of health care which had initially risen due to lack of effective treatment of the infectious diseases. International health became a concern especially in Europe which led to the development of international public health organizations which aimed to control the spread of infectious diseases across the global borders especially in the regions affected by epidemics. The main aim of the concern on international public health was to preventing diseases from paralyzing international trade and investment. There was a need to protect the ports from ships that had been to the affected regions — Walkins in his writing focuses on the empire, public health, and health services. Later on, the World Health Organization (WHO) emerged as a sub-organization of the United Nations concerned with public health worldwide. Unlike the previous public health organization that focused more on trade protection, WHO is more concerned with the distribution of healthcare services.
Both of the above readings are concerned with public health and the connection between international public health and international trade. Major concerns in the public sector arose after the liberation of trade. Public health is a subject of globalization, and from the readings, it is clear that major health concerns particularly the epidemics such as malaria were a challenge to international trade between various continents. Safeguarding trading activities requires certain health-related restrictions have to be put in place, for instance, quarantine zones at the borders and even prevention of entry into different countries without clearances related to public health such as yellow fever cards. In previous times, public health concerns aimed more at protecting trade relations rather than controlling and eradicating the epidemics. However, in the present day world, public health is concerned with distributing health care services across the world and ensuring all the public can access these services. Through WHO, services such as the distribution of mosquito nets, vaccinations, and even distribution of drugs in the epidemic affected areas have been made available worldwide. Initially, the main focus was on preventing the epidemics from spreading across the geographical domain. The ports were major points of concern. The current public health organizations aim at supporting even the low-class members of society in fighting against infectious diseases. The organizations are more concerned with the global public health and distribution of health care services across the globe. The first reading by Gostin covers the trade relations and global health laws between the trading domains. Its main focus is on maintain trade while the second reading by Waitzkin covers public health care and distribution of health care services globally through organizations such as WHO.
The concern on public health globally has me thinking about the efforts of various public health care organizations and governments. Is health care supposed to be solely a function of the state government? Do global health laws count? According to both readings I discussed above, public health care and international trade are related. The United Nations have a sub-organization, WHO, concerned with health care and distribution of health care services globally. Are such organizations there because the trade has to be protected from health care challenges or the organizations are about humanity and conserving life?
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