The Re-created Silhouette Scene in 'Crossfire Hurricane'

The most famous re-creation in Brett Morgen’s 2012 Rolling Stones documentary ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ is the opening scene: the band arriving at a hotel in 1964, shown only as silhouettes against a bright, chaotic backdrop. No actual film footage existed of that specific moment—the mob of fans, the flashbulbs, the sheer frenzy—so Morgen hired actors to mimic the Stones’ movements and filmed them