Oliver Stone's "The Doors" was a big disservice to Jim Morrison, this according to Ray Manzarek. Ray was angry over the depiction of Morrison in the film and said Jim was nothing like the character portrayed. Morrison saw himself more as a struggling poet rather than a musician.
When I visited Morrison's grave at Pere Lachaise in Paris, the cemetery attendant there told me that the Morrison grave accounts for 90% of the visitors to the cemetery. He also told me, interestingly, that the visitors were predominantly male, for whatever that's worth. I was further informed Pere Lachaise wants Morrison's body removed from there and was working to do that in the next few years.
A any rate, it occurred to me that the music of the Doors has had an enduring impact that has crossed several generations and is truly international in scope. This, in no small part, was due to Manzarek and Krieger's musical genius, and Manzarek's ability to keep the band together under difficult circumstances.