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I think film maker Oliver Stones Jim Garrison (in “JFK”) is as accurate as his Jim Morrison in his film “The Doors.”

Oliver Stone said he was using HIS Jim Morrison character to show the flip side of the 60s.

That it wasn’t as fun and light as many in the 80s remembered it being.

To show the dangers of excess.

BUT- if he was going to fictionalize a real person THAT much why use a real person at all?

Why not a fictional film about a very Morrison-esque character, like they did in the movie “Eddie and The Cruisers.”

This 80s movie that was SORT OF the Jim Morrison story (mixed with Brian Wilson and Bruce Springsteen)? The actor looks just like Jim Morrison ( but sounds like Bruce Springsteen) and the story is set in the 50’s not the sixties.

The movies story is clearly based on the pop culture rumor that Jim Morrison was still alive somewhere. I don’t mind this movies’ fiction because it SAYS its fiction! No one could watch “Eddie and The Cruisers” and think it might be a true story.

I wonder if THIS Jim Morrison wasn’t more of an auto biography of Stones own personal 60s experience than Morrison.

I have also heard that Stone met with the real Doors and many other people who knew the real Jim and knew the real stories, but Stone ignored them to get the version he wanted.

Stone said he regretted using a real persons name ( Patricia Kenneally) for a ficticious / composite character in “The Doors.” He apologized in public to Patricia Kenneally. Will he ever realise he should do the same to Clay Shaw and David Ferry?

I have also heard that Oliver Stone met with many real Kennedy assassination witnesses, but only listened to those whotold him what he wanted to hear, I heard that when he met with the real Jim Leavelle, Leavelle told Stone on several occasions “That’s not what happened” but Stone didn’t listen to him.

Oliver Stones Jim Garrison believed in a semi realistic, semi believable theory that anti Castro Cuban militiamen (backed by the CIA) from New Orleans went to Dallas to shoot Kennedy.

But people who knew the real Jim Garrison say he spouted various completely insane theories about gay thrill killers like in Hitchcocks “Rope,” theories from Flying Saucer buffs, shooters in the sewer, the limo driver drew a pistol on Kennedy…..

The movie JFK would have you believe that Garrison had a rock solid case but was undermined by ( a non existent character) “Bill Broussard” who was working for the feds.
But in reality, he arrested Clay Shaw based on not much more than the name “Clay” and THEN tried to construct “evidence” against him. Isn’t it supposed to be the other way around? You collect a certain amount of credible evidence about a suspect and THEN arrest him?

How many true crime shows have you watched where the cops say :
“We are pretty sure it was _____________ but we didn’t have enough to arrest him”

Ironically, it was the fictitious character “Bill Broussard” (the supposed FBI mole) who first told Jim Garrison “Clay Bertrand is Clay Shaw.”

Oliver Stone said he wanted the film “JFK” to be his “Godfather.”

and JFK is a LOT like “The Godfather.”

The original Godfather novel was based not interviews with real Mafia members. The strict “Omerta” ( code of silence) was in full effect back then.

Just about everything done by any mobster ever has been written about nowadays, but not back then.

R.I.C.O. wasn’t around to break minor Mafia members resolve.

Mario Puzo said he based his book on interviews with black jack dealers and bartenders in Vegas, who had heard many rumors and juicy stories about the mob.

Rumors from bartenders? Thats myth not history.

Note, we never heard about any of the Corleones being “made men” in the Godfather movies, like we did in “GoodFellas,” “Donnie Brasco” and “The Sopranos.”

Thats because no one outside the mob ever knew these insider secrets back then.

They knew about the Five Families of New York City, the phrase “sleeps with the fishes” and sticking a canary in an informers mouth came from the one Mafia person who had talked. Joseph Valachi.

It turns out that many of the major scenes in the first Godfather did have a very vague basis in history. Michaels shooting the Police Captain, Sonny being shot at the turnpike booth had some parallels in real mob history. But of course there never was a Corleone family.

The movie Godfather also has some things that Francis Ford Coppolla and Mario Puzo just made up for the movie.

Like kissing the ring of the new Don of the family. Thats based on Catholic tradition for when one met a high ranking Bishop or Pope.

I’ve heard the real mobsters laughed at that scene- they never did that.

Note that the home video cover of “JFK” had Oliver Stones words:

“This is our counter myth to the Warren Commission Myth”

This is Kennedy researcher Dave Reitzes comprehensive essay (list of articles) challenging almost everything in Oliver Stones MOVIE “JFK:”

http://www.jfk-online.com/jfk100menu.html