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Jim McLaine = Jim Morrison

posted 18 years ago by mab8485
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There were obvious physical similarities between the two. Both became increasing self-centred and abstract, did drugs etc.

[–] always_drunk 18 years ago

That is quite possibly the most boring comment you could have made, It would even be more realistic to say Jim McLaine = Diana Ross.

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[–] lazylaurablue 17 years ago

That's an unnecessarily rude comment to the OP. I was thinking exactly the same (about Jim Morrison, that is) as I re-watched the film today.

[–] lazylaurablue 17 years ago

That's an unnecessarily rude comment to the OP. I was thinking exactly the same (about Jim Morrison, that is) as I re-watched the film today.

[–] junk-mail-4 18 years ago

Sid Barrett, surely? Fact is, no matter how rock revisionists rewrite it, at the time of this films making Morrison was very much filed under "who gives a cr*p?"

[–] thecutz 18 years ago

The character Jim McLaine is an amalgamation of different 60's rock stars. Most obviously John Lennon (abandoning the wife and kid, Stray Cats akin to early Beatles), then he becomes kind of a Marc Bolan character when he goes solo(The concert we get to see seems based on footage of T Rex in the film Born To Boogie) and in the last part of the movie he is reclusive and drug-addled, bringing to mind Syd Barrett.
Jim Morrison is no where to be found. This is *beep* England.

[–] Sadycal 18 years ago

Like Jim Morrison had no similarities with the three other men you mentioned. The poster was just presenting a theory. Why the hostility?

[–] dennyben 18 years ago

I saw the film "That'll be the Day" and a preview to "Stardust".

I believe there's a scene in "Stardust" where Jim McLaine is being carried away in an ambulance after a drug overdose and he says something like "I wanted to write something for my mother". That immediately brought to mind Elvis. The decline into drug abuse and self-obsession would also suggest Elvis, making the film kind of prophetic because this was made a couple of years before Elvis died.

In the earlier film "That'll be the Day" which begins in 1958, Jim is a fifties rocker and there's a scene where he dances with a door, swinging it open and shut and there's a poster of Elvis on the door.

[–] otsuboken 17 years ago

I want to get a copy of Stardust, probably no DVD is available but VHS is fine. Anybody have one or a place I can get it, tried Ebay

Ken

[–] The_Editor_of_Milk 17 years ago

I got both on the same DVD from HMV for about £9.

You could try the HMV website.

[–] andrewbrighty 17 years ago

Allegedly the similarity between Jim MacLaine and John Lennon is one of the reasons that Ringo didn't reprise his role as Mike.

[–] Windywoo 16 years ago

I just watched a scene where Jim's name is up in lights at the Whiskey a Go Go which is where the Doors used to play.

However, Jim Morrison is a bad parallel to draw, since musically there is no similarity, the two are of different nationalities, Jim Morrison was never a "working class hero", and never went solo.

The similarities of drug taking and drifting off into a personal fantasy apply to any number of rock stars and are not a strong link.