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This review isn't really about 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. But if you mark me 'Not Helpful' or 'Off Topic', you can believe that the ghost of Dr Gonzo is gonna come down and blast you out of bed with a fire hose.
He shot himself. After over three decades of raging against the ... Read review
When a writing assignment lands journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and sidekick Dr. Gonzo ... more
(Benicio Del Toro) in Las Vegas, they decide to make it the ultimate business trip. But before long, business is forgotten and trip has become the key word.Fuelled by a suitcase full of mind-bending pharmaceuticals, Duke and Honzo set off on a fast and furious ride through non stop neon, surreal surrounding and a crew of the craziest characters ever (Including cameo appearances by Cameron Diaz, Christina Ricci, Gary Busey and many others). But no matter where misadventure leads them, Duke and Gonzo discover that sometimes going too far is the only way to go.Capturing the insane madness of Hunter S. Thompson's literary classic was the challenge that director Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys) openly embraced.Buy The Ticket. Take The Ride!
When a writing assignment lands journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and sidekick Dr. Gonzo ... more
(Benicio Del Toro) in Las Vegas, they decide to make it the ultimate business trip. But before long, business is forgotten and trip has become the key word. Fuelled by a suitcase full of mind-bending pharmaceuticals, Duke and Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of the craziest characters ever (including cameo appearances by Cameron Diaz, Christina Ricci, Gary Busey and many others). But no matter where misadventure leads them, Duke and Gonzo discover that sometimes going too far is the only way to go.Capturing the insane madness of Hunter S. Thompson's literary classic was the challenge that director Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys) openly embraced. Buy the ticket. Take the ride!
For Thompson, it was somewhere around Barstow that the drugs started to kick-in. For the ... more
listener it'll seem to be before they've even hit Play by looking at the cover and contents. Terry Gilliam's efforts to warp expectation stretch out to you before you've seen or heard a thing. And once you're in, it's a case of blasting from one song to the next via constant nasally-delivered dialogue from Johnny Depp. Strung together they somehow make a sense they never did individually. "One Toke Over The Line", "Expecting To Fly", or "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again" were never career bests for Brewer & Shipley, Buffalo Springfield, or Bob Dylan. Yet slotted betwixt the likes of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" and Perry Como's "Magic Moments" there's an unexpected chemistry anyone can get high on. --Paul Tonks
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Combination of the Two - Big Brother & the Holding Company One Toke over the Line - ... more
Brewer & Shipley She's a Lady - Tom Jones For Your Love - The Yardbirds White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane Drug Score (Pt. 1 - Acid Spill) - Ray Cooper Get Together - The Youngbloods Mama Told Me (Not to Come) - Three Dog Night Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again - Bob Dylan Time Is Tight - Booker T. & the MG's Magic Moments - Perry Como Drug Score (Pt. 2 - Aorenochrome the Devil's Dance) - Ray Cooper Tammy - Debbie Reynolds Drug Score (Pt. 3 - Flash Backs) - Ray Cooper Expecting to Fly - Buffalo Springfield Viva Las Vegas - Dead Kennedys
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We were somewhere around Barstow when the drugs began to take hold. It is 1971: ... more
journalist Raoul Duke barrels towards Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney Dr. Gonzo. But what is ostensibly a cut-and-dry journalistic endeavor quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey and an excoriating dissection of the American way of life. Director Terry Gilliam and an all star cast (headed by Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Torro) show no mercy bringing Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's legendary Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to the screen creating a film both hilarious and savage. Gilliam took over the reigns as director after Alex Cox (Repo Man) left the production due to creative differences. Gilliam quickly re-wrote the screenplay in its entirety to fit his unique creative vision and style while staying true to Thompson's writings.
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Advantages: Opens things right up, down to the marrow. Disadvantages: Vain, egotistical, and i love with his own voice.
I always thought that I was too individual to have heroes. I always sneered at footage of people weeping and lighting candles over the likes of Elvis, Lennon and Princess Diana.
Then Hunter S Thompson shot himself. I stood for a good five minutes in Smiths, transfixed by the headline in the Independent, about ready to blub. Unlike any other author you may admire or revere, if you bought into his maniacal vein of invective, you were ... ...dismiss you as a pussy, a faggot, a bagman or a shill, but you were still kind of his friend. Thompson wrote for all the people who found that the boot on their neck was growing a little uncomfortable, for those whose politician's 2 + 2 equalled five. He mapped the atlas of double speak and hypocrisy.
This review isn't really about 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. But if you mark me 'Not Helpful' or 'Off Topic', you can believe that ... more
I always thought that I was too individual to have heroes. I always sneered at footage of people weeping and lighting candles over the likes of Elvis, Lennon and Princess Diana.
Then Hunter S Thompson shot himself. I stood for a good five minutes in Smiths, transfixed by the headline in the Independent, about ready to blub. Unlike any other author you may admire or revere, if you bought into his maniacal vein of invective, you were part of his club. On meeting you, he may dismiss you as a pussy, a faggot, a bagman or a shill, but you were still kind of his friend. Thompson wrote for all the people who found that the boot on their neck was growing a little uncomfortable, for those whose politician's 2 + 2 equalled five. He mapped the atlas of double speak and hypocrisy.
This review isn't really about 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. But if you mark me 'Not Helpful' or 'Off Topic', you can believe that the ghost of Dr Gonzo is gonna come down and blast you out of bed with a fire hose.
He shot himself. After over three decades of raging against the system, rallying against the powers that be, he put a gun in his mouth and blew his own brains out. Couldn't he at least take a potshot at a Bush motorcade, and let the FBI finish the job for him? At least that way, he'd die the way he lived and wrote.
Despite the suicide references and the death defying lifestyle, I always got the impression that when the time came for Thompson, they'd have to strap him down to a table and surgically extract life from him. But he shot himself.
I hate that gimpy, slaphead bastard right now. I spent a year trying to get over plaigiarising his style. I've spent numerous spells in Prague, living a Gonzo lifestyle - that is, pump yourself full of everything to hand, then write abou the consequences afterwards. Without "Fear and Loathing", I don't think expat lifestyle would be as hedonistic as it is, or was.
"Fear and Loathing" will be the thing he will be remembered for, although it is not his best work. When you step back from the apocalyptic flurry of absurd and dangerous situations, the sheer eruption of words and sentences, you see it for what it is. Despite all the hatred and depravity, there is Thompson's dignity, a dark soul with a courageous fiath in the human spirit.
The highlight in a career of guns, bile, drink, drugs, disgust, outrage, puke, hatred, guns, outrage, contempt, drink, rum, LSD, vanity, is a few paragraphs of "Fear and Loathing", where he speaks of the crest of a wave, all the well being of the love generation breaking and rolling back.
That says everything. A wish for a better world that could not be fulfilled. So to Hell with everything, and fuck the consequences. The Genie is out, but he's not dishing out wishes, he's claiming them.
I don't think Thompson was a great writer. He was a frustrated egomanic with a talent for rhetoric, that could beat any politican taking the stump. But at his best, he could be inspirational.
His best book was "Hell's Angels", because for once he put himself to one side and gave an authentic, balanced portrait of a particular sub-culture at a specific time and place. This showed him at his best - able to make you laugh and wince, and also be political without ever brushing against the subject.
Reading a lot of other Thompson, you have to wade through it. At times he's like a jazz soloist, riffing on his own brand of hatred filled diatribes and specific verbal style. Nothing is more self-centred than a jazz soloist virtually humping his instrument on stage, and many of Thompson's writings give the uncomfortabe feeling of interrupting a private act.
But then Thompson couldn't exist without that candidness - he lets you in on a visceral level. He lets you in while his pants are round his ankles, or while he's hunched over the toilet bowl.
Without that, "Fear and Loathing" wouldn't exist. The book is like a heist movie without a central prize. You're constantly gasping at how he manages to negotiate the dangers he puts himself in harms way of. He doesn't know how to take it down a couple of notches, and even when he's at his most egotistical, you forgive him, because he never fails to write at the most basic human level.
The world is full of Hunter S Thompson wannabees - I should know, I was one of them. Go into an expat bar in Prague, Budapest, Belgrade or Krakow, and chances are you'll see a scraggy looking individual tapping away in a notebook. Chances are, he'll be writing in an expletive laden, staccato style, raging against the ills of the world in a seat-of-the-pants kind of fashion.
I hear there's a job going, advertised widely in the Prague Post and the Budapest Sun - Dr Gonzo - Life Experience Necessary.
Plissken 22.02.2005 (22.02.2005)
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Advantages: You'll quote it forever Disadvantages: You feel very sick and drugged up afterwards
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson is " a savage journey to the heart of the american dream". Is it? I sure as hell don't know and I don't have enough fingers and toes to count how many times I've read it.
What's the novel about? What's next? Raoul Duke, a freelance journalist and his Attorney travel to Las Vegas with enough drugs to kill as many teenage ravers that America has in the boot of their car. Why? Who knows,all we know ... ...a man amidst an ether binge) and pretty much anything else that bends,manipulates and confuses the mind.
Along the way they terrorise a hitchhiker, screw up a few hotel rooms(without paying of course), drive numerous rental cars at extremely high speeds, wind up a traffic cop,come across a weird Barbara Streisand obsessed artist, see many interesting reptilia, go to a circus casino and go through many other drug crazed, hilarious scenarios.
The ...
EmmaAdams 17.01.2004 (06.02.2004)
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Advantages: An amazing drug induced voyage Disadvantages: none
I'll get it out the way now - this book is amazing. So you don't need to read any further to find out more. However: This book is an amazing read, with brilliantly vivid imagary and imagination that you think could only come from Hunter S Thomson's one-man-one-party life. You follow the exploits of a jounalits travelling with his Samoan lawyer to Las Vagas to cover a race. However, everything that happens on the way is completely unpredictable and ...
stoduk 05.12.2000
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This is a very funny book. Thompson's writing is sharp and, whether intentional or not, full of self mockery, reeling out things like "I'm a resonably respectable citizen, multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous. It chronicles his and Steadman's trip to Las Vegas with a suitcase of 'heinous chemicals' and hurtles through their bizarre incidents at breeak neck speed, my favourite being at the Circus Circus. Despite this there are melancholy ...
Alishas 23.08.2000
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Advantages: different, very funny, interesting, well written Disadvantages: can be a little confusing at times
...Thompson uses distinct imagery during fear and loathing which cleverly portrays the life of excess he is living.
There are very few books like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Even fewer books are written with such skill and in addition, a high level of character development. I found it very interesting to read about his thoughts, at times quite weird but wonderful all the same.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking for something diiferent. ...
simmy.uk 17.07.2006
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Advantages: Hallucinagenic humour at it's best! Disadvantages: Can be hard to follow. Jumps around.
This book is great. I don’t advocate the use of drugs under any circumstances. But if you have never taken drugs then this book makes you feel like you have. The descriptions of each drug and the dramatic effects on the narrators body are hilarious. Each hallucination more intense that the last. The book is not all funny, there are some pretty dark and disturbing sections that wake you up. The scary thing is that it is a true story. The story follows ...
kitt 30.07.2000
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Hunter S. Thompson
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This is a quest by journalist Hunter S. Thompson into the heart of the American Dream - undertaking perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers with a special interest in the narcotics problem, and other representatives of the silent majority.
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