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His rise, fall and resurgence were recently told in the biopic Better Man, in which he is portrayed by a chimpanzee.

He says that whilst he commends Rothman's "clever handle" and the cinephile in him values the biopics' "bold statement about the value of cinemas and communal viewing," market realities present cautionary signs.

In 1991’s “The Doors,” Oliver Stone pushed the boundaries of a music biopic to make a calamitous, imperfect work that could accurately reflect the spectacle that was Jim Morrison’s life.

He had extraordinary range: excelling in comedies, westerns, crime dramas, musical biopics and action-adventures films alike.

After his triumphant portrayal of Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s 1991 biopic “The Doors,” he moved to a vast New Mexico ranch where he rode horses, raised buffalo and wrote poetry.