The Doors Page #26

Chaos, confusion now erupt in the crowd! The BOYFRIEND is

running at JIM as the BODYGUARDS throw him back into the

crowd. Jim flicking his shirt over his crotch, back and forth

like a drunken matador. The Doors look at each other, don't

know what's going to happen.

JIM:

Didja see it! You wanna see it

AGAIN???

The crowd roars its approval. Confusion reigns. Drunken

CATCALLS. Things, bras, cans thrown at the stage.

VOICES:

(ad lib)

Take it off! Take it all off!

JIM:

What if I pull it out fer ya!! And

SHAKE IT AROUND!!! Will that do it

for you! Would ya, would ya, would

ya!! Now watch -- I'm gonna show it

to ya!

He feigns opening his belt and exposing himself, flipping

his shirt back and forth over the crotch in a mock striptease.

JIM:

There it was! Ya see it? Ya see it?...

Ya wanna see it again?

A flock of TEENAGE GIRLS are sure they've seen it, hysterical.

TEENAGE GIRL:

I saw it!... Yes, yes! Jim! Jim!

TEENAGE GIRL 2

Where? I didn't see it.

JIM:

(roaring out his

commands)

COME ON UP HERE AND LOVE MY ASS! I

WANNA SEE SOME ACTION OUT THERE! I

WANNA SEE SOME ACTION OUT THERE! I

WANNA SEE SOME ACTION OUT THERE! I

WANNA SEE SOME ACTION OUT THERE! I

WANT YOU TO LOVE MY ASS! I WANT SOME

LOVE... LOVE... LOVE... LOVE C'MON,

C'MON... NO LIMITS, NO LAWS YOU WANNA

F***? COME ON! COME ON UP HERE!!!!!

He looks like he's really gonna tear it all off now. A flash

of boxer shorts. RAY moving. SIDDONS moving. DOG getting to

him first, wrapping him in a bearhug from behind, lifting

him holding his pants up.

VINCE THE ROADIE

DON'T DO IT MAN. DON'T DO IT!

RAY:

HEY JIM.

JIM:

C'MON! C'MON! NO LIMITS, NO LAWS! NO

LIMITS, NO LAWS! NO LIMITS, NO LAWS!

The place is in PANDEMONIUM now. GIRLS jumping on stage and

dancing with Jim still in Vince the Roadie's bearhug. Another

RIOT... COPS fighting the TEENAGERS off the stage, now

wobbling under the weight.

PROMOTER:

(pissed, head bandaged)

GET OFF THE F***ING STAGE! GET OFF

THE F***ING STAGE!!

(stiffarms Jim off

the stage)

RAY starts playing BREAK ON THROUGH trying to keep things

normal.

JIM now out there in the arena in a CONGA LINE, doing his

rain dance, hands on hips, the TEENAGERS forming a long snake

behind him.

The huge speaker columns teeter and fall. A corner of the

STAGE now COLLAPSES from the weight, PEOPLE spilling on the

floor, screams. The power console tips over next to DENSMORE.

He bails. Manzarek and Krieger follow.

The PROMOTER is yelling at SIDDONS about his insurance

contract as the COPS and FBI AGENTS close in, looking for

Jim.

COPS:

Where's the guy with the penis!

Who is out there leading his naked drunken FLOCK, hundreds

of them in a phallic Pied Piper dance thru the darkened

seaplane hanger. From BREAK ON THROUGH PART TWO:

JIM ET AL & DOORS

You know the day destroys the night

Night divides the day

Try to run, try to hide

BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE

BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE

BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE

Dead cats! Dead rats! Did you see

what they were at Dead cat in a top

hat! Sucking on a young man's blood

Fat cat in a top hat

Thinks he's an aristocrat

Thinks he can kill and slaughter

Thinks he can shoot my daughter

Dead cats! Dead rats! Think you're

an aristocrat Crap, that's crap

Ray watching from the corner of the stage, littered with

bras, bottles, shirts, shoes, socks, panties, hats, broken

equipment, debris -- the end of the dream. The Doors as a

live band are dead.

DISSOLVING TO:

INT. MIAMI COURTROOM - DAY (1970)

The "Charges" are being read by the JUDGE, distant, not of

this world. The court is lit in southern gothic daylight,

ghostly chiaroscuro, all colors bled. Camera moving along

the sweaty white faces of the six older JURORS, all of them

straight "silent majority"... past the PROSECUTOR, his shadow

cutting the jury box... onto JIM bearded, smoking 2 packs a

day, a deep racking cough, sitting with his elder ATTORNEY...

RAY, ROBBIE, JOHN, PAMELA, OTHERS in support are there in

background. The trial is going down like a morphine dream,

Jim featured in diopter close-up.

JUDGE VOICE:

...you are charged under four counts

with lewd behavior, simulated

masturbation, public drunkenness,

profanity, and public exposure.

A blues riff goes by -- brief, ghostly from RUNNING BLUE.

JIM SONG:

Poor Otis dead and gone

Left me here to sing his song

Pretty little girl with the red dress on

Poor Otis dead and gone

JIM (V.O.)

I can't believe this is happening

I can't believe all these people are

sniffing each other & backing away,

teeth grinning, hair raised, growling,

here in the slaughtered wind

This is it

No more fun the death of all joy has

come

The PRESS SECTION is full as Jim's older LAWYER argues in

front of the JURY, a distant voice.

LAWYER:

Your Honor, I would like to bring to

the Court's attention the contemporary

Broadway musical "Hair" in which

cast members disrobe and appear naked

on the stage.

JUDGE:

(pounds his gavel)

Inadmissable evidence.

JIM VOICE OVER:

I had a vision of America

Seen from the air 28,000 ft. & going

fast

A one-armed man in a Texas parking

labyrinth

A burnt tree like a giant primeval

bird in an empty lot in Fresno

SUPERIMPOSITION:

LAWYER:

Your Honor... any difference from

the Miami nightclubs where comedians

frequently incorporate profanity

into their acts

JUDGE:

(gavel)

Inadmissable evidence.

JIM VOICE OVER:

Miles & miles of hotel corridors &

elevators, filled with citizens

Motel

Money

Murder, Madness

Change the mood from glad to sadness

Play the ghost song baby

The backbeat of WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER starts, into its

spiralling descent.

SUPERIMPOSITION:

LAWYER:

(distant)

...there has not been one shred of

evidence:
300 photographs and not

one shows a thing; not reliable

testimony, nothing but hysterical

heresay

The PRESS is bored, their numbers reduced. The spectators

have changed from kids to OLDER PEOPLE intent on preserving

their way of life. A TAPE is playing of Jim's devil voice at

the concert, cursing: "Come on up here. No limits! No laws",

etc... (screams, obscenity)

JIM & DOORS

(SONG)

When the music's over (3)

Turn out the lights (3)

For the music is your special friend

Dance on fire as it intends

Music is your only friend

Until the end (2)

SUPERIMPOSITION TO:

LAWYER:

...this is a major First Amendment

violation by the Police and

Politicians of Miami. Every witness

they've brought has admitted under

oath to not actually seeing the

client's genitals -- except one who...

The PRESS section is now down to about THREE bored FACES,

one of them PATRICIA KENNEALY who looks pregnant.

JIM smiles at her.

JIM & DOORS

Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection

Send my credentials to the house of detention

I got some friends inside

EXT. ORANGE BOWL - MIAMI - DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE (DAY)

ANITA BRYANT & JACKIE GLEASON at the NATIONAL DECENCY RALLY.

A large CROWD in the vicinity of 100,000. NIXON addressing

them.

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