Every page feels like the sequence where Tommy Lee ( Colson Baker) describes life on the road from his wobbly, drunken, pukey, tunnel-vision point of view. The effect is a little different in the movie, because the book is heavily devoted to cataloging the band's bad behavior. The book is written in a very conversational tone that lends itself to narration, which the movie borrows liberally. The movie changes perspectives every few scenes to be narrated by a different band member, their manager Doc McGhee ( David Costabile), or record executive Tom Zutaut ( Pete Davidson), a technique taken directly from the book. Consider this your book-to-screen compendium of truth. ( The Dirt is a very crazy book!) But most of the wild scenes in Jeff Tremaine's movie really happened, according to Nikki and Tommy and Mick and Vince, and the movie is upfront about a lot of the stuff that's fudged - shout-out to vanished manager Doug Thaler. It has, of course, undergone much of the condensing necessary when adapting a book for film, and many of the anecdotes in the self-consciously outrageous book are too depraved to be shown on-screen, like the part about how the band members used to stick their own members into breakfast burritos to hide the smell of other women from their girlfriends. For the most part it's a very faithful adaptation. Netflix's Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt is based on a book by the same name by the band with ghostwriter Neil Strauss, who later wrote the pick-up artist memoir The Game.
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