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The film is primarily about the death of the American Dream.
Hunter (books author) grew up in a time in America where it was promised that you would be given all you needed, work, home, income, family, if you just worked hard and followed the rules. Hunter would begin to realize that all this was a farce and illusion to hide the hard truths of American reality, the hippies failed, the culture was shifting, fear, consumerism, he had to accept that the America he believed in never really existed.
No it's about tripping your fucking ass off and giving the finger to "normal" people!
Fun fact: The idea of adrenochrome being used as a drug originated in this book. In reality, adrenochrome is not particularly difficult to get, and doesn't get you high. The adrenochrome incident in the book is entirely fictional, and with it, Thompson essentially created an urban myth that's fueled a thousand conspiracy theories.
That "high watermark line where the wave finally broke" passage is, in my opinion, one of the greatest pieces of American writing so far. It captures every aspect of the time -- the hope, the triumphs, the failure -- and does so with poetry.
Beautiful and a little sad. I recommend all Hunter S. Thompson's books. He may have been a wild man, but his writing was out of the park.
The central theme that ties the whole film together imo is that short,somber part in the middle about "riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave"...the counterculture of the 60s came and went,with all its hopes and dreams...and what you see is just 2 remnants who couldnt let go, 2 freaks stuck in that drug culture mindstate of that time,chasing the dragon of a bygone era
Perfectly put. That is the theme of the movie
And to go up another level for a bit of context, Hunter wrote a column for Sports Illustrated for years and was on the payroll for them here in this story. On the surface, this film is just a double-header weekend reporting trip for him where he was supposed to be covering the Mint 400 motorcycle race and a police conference on drugs. So, with a combination of the company account, press credentials, and fake names, they take to a madly irresponsible bender in the spirit of what you describe.
Once you have traveled far enough on a particular road turning back is not only pointless it's more detrimental than to just keep pushing ahead regardless of how dark that road may _seem_ be.
I kinda miss the 60's-70's but I also, with older eyes, can see the absolute insanity and desperation in those times. Everything known and familiar was being cast under a bright spotlight and questioned, there were many casualties, there were many regrets, but the ones who survived and emerged (more or less intact) literally changed the world for the better.
I always saw the theme at the end with the lawyers send off.
"There he goes. One (out of 2) of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
At the end, hes satisfied with how they lived. It was insane but it was them. You can see it like they are "stuck" but how can you be stuck in a counter culture of freedom?
I always saw the story as one of liberty, but liberty and freedom is also chaotic and madness.
There's no real antagonist in this film, but there is the cold, lifeless, and cruel portrayal of law enforcement, authority, and "normal" people in general.
I guess there 2 types of people in the world.
The subtitle of the book is "A Savage Journey To The Heart Of The American Dream" and it couldn't more succinctly describe the theme.
Guy licking the LSD off his shirt is the bassist (Flea) from the Red Hot Chilli Pepper. 24:38. He also plays one of the nihalists in The Big Libowski.
There was also a part in that club scene where he sees himself. The older man he is looking at is the real Hunter S. Thompson aka Raul duke. The writer of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and the man Depp is playing.
This film is great to rewatch because there are so many little details.
The director Terry Gilliam was a part of the Monty Pythom crew. He did all the animation for Monty Python.
Johnny Depp and Hunter were friends IRL. Hunter wanted his ashes shot out of a cannon when he passed. Johnny carried out his friends request and I think you can still find the video of it.
yes - watched the video about Hunter S Thompsons funeral - its easy to find on youtube
25:30 "Dang, he's a pretty good writer". Yep.
Depp is playing Hunter S Thompson. Look him up, he looks and sounds just like him.
Didn't know he was actually playing someone 😳
@@FriendRequestReviewsOh very much so. Hunter S Thompson was a famous gonzo journalist and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a originally a book by him chronicling, well...this.
@@FriendRequestReviews pretty much fear and loathing in Las Vegas is a book written by Hunter S Thompson he was originally going to go write about the race the mint 400 in Las Vegas but got sidetracked obviously Hunter S Thompson’s writing revolutionized journalism as he more conducts in gonzo journalism more of a point of view instead of regular journalism
@@FriendRequestReviews Terry Gilliam is the only American member of Monty Python. He directed all the python movies and made the cartoon parts of the TV show Monty Python's flying circus.
Hunter's books are great also, The Hell's Angels book is more straight forward about his time living among the infamous biker gang. The Rum Diary book was better than the movie. Some of the audiobooks are narrated in an impression of his voice. This movie is best viewed when you know Depp is playing a real life accomplished journalist, and lived in his basement for 3 months researching the role. They remained close friends until Hunter's death.
His life was amazing. Basically invented Gonzo journalism. Was on presidential campaign trails, almost got elected to Sherriff in CO. Wrote for rolling stone. The list goes on and on
Fun Fact: His lawyer was a real guy. Oscar Zeta Acosta, real life attorney. He disappeared without a trace in 1974 during a trip to Mexico, presumed dead. "Too weird to live, too rare to die."
This film is better on repeat viewing, ideally with an understanding of who the real man was. Highly recommend the documentary "Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride".
This was a tough story to adapt to film. Terry Gilliam even said the book kind of runs out of steam in the 2nd half. The movie could have spent more time fleshing out who Hunter is, what he was doing in Vegas, and who his lawyer was before thrusting the audience down the rabbit hole. There is great joy to be found in showing a friend this film for the first time.
A 101 course in the political history of the 50's and 60's wouldn't hurt either.
That diner scene towards the end really just takes the air and fun out of the whole movie, it's such a good scene - it's a real little moment of reality, the "not fun anymore" part of it, and it hits so hard!
Even in the book you loose any sympathy for them….I really respect the fact they included it in the film, it’s knee jerk scene that pivots the whole from it’s “we were the hope of the future” to they’re just like all the other monsters leaving a trail of carnage in their wake
Problem is, we should have seen that coming with Lucy.
The tone and the hijinx associated during Lucy was still humorous, but just how old is Lucy…it’s disturbing and a likely CRIME among the spree of petty crimes. Duke’s atavistic phrase comes to mind.
@@mradriankool That's what happens when all your dreams are shattered.
By that point it's all gutter
@@mradriankoolI mean they were always doing that. It’s just that the rose tinted glasses were knocked off when the diner scene showed.
I'd recommend another movie by Terry Gilliam, 12 Monkeys. That one does have Brad Pitt. 😀
Another awesome Gilliam movie, and imo. Bruce Willis' best work. Also the best performance I have seen from Brad Pitt (that I am not a big fan of, otherwise).
The part where he says, "1965....there I was. GOOD GOD, THERE I AM!"
That was the real Hunter S. Thompson he looked back at. Depp lived with Thompson for months learning his mannerisms...he's never been the same since 😂
It's hard for me to put in words how much I love the late Hunter S. Thompson. I have read every one of his books, articles and watched all the documentary's about him. He was the last of the true rebels in this world.
The whole movie and really Hunter’s bit in culture as a whole was summed up in the monologue where he’s talking about the wave of their movement of the 60s ending and how close they feel they got to something special. It’s all encapsulated in Thompson himself. The whole story is like Thompson throwing a last gasp bender to mourn the end of an era.
Hope you guys check out more Gilliam. 12 Monkeys is an easy pick.
Time Bandits is another great movie directed by Terry, and Brazil is another of my favourites to re-watch
The opening quote along with the Benico del Toro's character, a once young & hopeful attorney now jaded & cynical & in great pain go hand in hand perfectly.
There's also another movie about Hunter S Thompson produced in 1980 titled "Where the Buffalo Roam" starring Bill Murray and just as crazy. Definitely, worth watching.
And there's the sequel "rum diary"
I didn't know it even existed until about a year ago. IMO the best movie about any part of his life/books.
I like to say that Fear And Loathing is from Hunter's perspective and is hence super tripped out. Where the Buffalo Roam is a bit more outside looking in at Hunter. Watching both though you can see that both actors went hard on their HST impression and mostly nailed it.
Look at Bill Murray and Johnny Depp both before they played Hunter Thompson, and after.
They both changed.
Getting baked out of your skull and sitting down to this is ideal viewing conditions. A lot of the movie messes with your head under the influence. Almost seems to make sense more than it should. Side note, really accurate depiction of what an acid trip is like. Specifically the part towards the beginning where the valet is taking their car, and the carpet colors bleeding onto the guys pant leg.
The funny thing is that this is basically a true story of what Thompson went through in Vegas
One of my favorite book-to-film adaptations. Because of its episodic, often frankly bizarre nature, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was long considered an unfilmable book, though several filmmakers were interested in the project over the years. In my opinion, it landed with the right director. I don't think anyone could've better distilled the insanity of that fractured story into a motion picture than Terry Gilliam. The movie lands all the absurdity and bedlam, without losing sight of the central theme...that America has become a commercialized hellscape of our own making, where the revolutionary impulse is crushed via commodification.
Hunter Thompson was, his eccentricities and rampant substance abuse notwithstanding, a very intellectual and philosophically and politically inclined writer. His style was inimitable, and the movie does well by quoting it almost word for word throughout, in both the dialogue and narration. The names of a few business entities have been changed, no doubt for legal reasons, but nearly every line is directly from the book...and a few that aren't actually come from Thompson's original notes and recordings, from when he was writing it. It's hard to find a more faithful film adaptation, both in content and tone, than Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
The premise of the film is contained in the opening quote - He Who Makes A Beast Of Himself Gets Rid Of The Pain Of Being A Man - Samuel Johnson
First time hearing that quote and I love it
The high-water mark” speech is one of my all-time favorite scenes
man we used to get so stoned and watch this movie so many times. there was a time where this movie was playing in every stoners home when you went to hang out. everyone was watching it over and over again.
Excellent choice, my friends. This one treads that line between repulsive and profound so perfectly. Love your insights
HST popularized the writing style called “gonzo journalism”.
“Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story using a first-person narrative.”
Depp and Del Toro absolutely nailed their roles, Hunter S Thompson is the man 😅check out fear and loathing in Aspen a biopic about Hunter S. Thompson and his 1970 attempt to run for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado,which was before his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fame. The movie fear and loathing in Aspen wasn't better than the movie fear and loathing in Las Vegas but the story is pretty cool Hunter s Thompson has lived many lives.. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a fictionalised account of two trips Thompson made with his friend Oscar Zeta Acosta from LA to Las Vegas.
The book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is even better. You mentioned why so many people agreed to be in this movie. The answer is that Hunter S. Thompson was a legend and invented Gonzo journalism. Hunter is played in this by Johnny Depp who spent a lot of time with Hunter and really studied the way he behaved and his general outlook on the world. This was based on an actual job Hunter was given to cover (as a journalist) a motorcycle event in Vegas, and, yes, he did take his attorney. Most of it was captured on audiotape, and although I'm sure it's exaggerated, it's not too far from the truth of how they behaved.
Part of what makes this movie funny is that, throughout the whole story, the only;y threat they face is themselves. Even that room full of cops leaves them alone.
Johnny Depp is playing an exaggerated version of Hunter Thompson himself, and does a solid job, having lived with Hunter for some time in preparation for the role. The red convertible is Hunter's actual car, and much of the wardrobe Depp wears in the movie is either Thompson's own clothes, or recreations made by the production, based on that clothes that he brought from Hunter's ranch. Hunter also personally shaved the actor's head for the role. Johnny Depp got very into the part, just as Bill Murray (another personal friend of Thompson's) had when he played Hunter in Where the Buffalo Roam...not nearly as good a film, overall, but I think Murray played Hunter even better than Depp. But again, Depp was playing almost a caricature of Thompson, based on a book that often embellishes reality for satirical purposes, so his more over the top performance is fitting. They're both excellent performances.
Fun fact, the lawyer is Acosta Zeta a famous Chicano lawyer. He disappeared in Mexico in the 70’s but wrote a Gonzo classic book called the Revolt of the Cockroach People
It's pretty much word for word how it happened. The basics are Hunter was a journalist who was asked to go and cover the race in vegas by rolling stone. His attorney friend (who was an actual attorney) went with him and they, as you saw went on a drug fueled bender. Before they left they bought a tape recorder which Hunter carried everywhere and recorded everything that happened. At the end of the bender he didnt have any articles, and rolling stone were given the tapes which they transcribed and released as articles, and it was eventually published in the book fear and loathing in las vegas. Its pretty much all true. You should read up about Hunter S Thompson, he was one of the realest men to ever walk the earth.
I took a photo of that strip of highway '40 miles outside Barstow' when I was trucking for a couple years.
A similar - yet quite different - film you might want to check out is NAKED LUNCH. That one really takes you on a trip! "The centipedes are getting downright arrogant..."
Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era--the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something Maybe not, in the long run...but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch the sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...
History is hard to know because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes ot a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. [...]
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda...You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning...
And that, I think was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting--on our side or theirs. We all had the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave...
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
This, my friends, is why you need to read books. Authors, no matter how fucked up they are, are the best of us, and they can teach you quite a lot about what navigating this crazy place is all about.
Terry Gilliam was the animator for Monty Python who made all the weird animations, he's got some GREAT movies.
I love that Hunter was hired by Rolling Stone to cover the Mint 400 race in Vegas - instead he did whatever he wanted and sent in the story at deadline lmao! Love the reactions, same way I felt first time!
Johnny Depp was playing Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson was a journalist who wrote a piece called Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. This movie follows the book really shot on. It's based on a true story. This shot happened. DR. Gonzo was a lawyer he happened to know when he was writing the book.
One of the best adaptations of a book ever and one of the best performances of playing a real person ever. Depth and hunter became very good friends during the making of this. So much so that johnny fulfilled his dying wish of shooting him out of a cannon. He did such a good interpreting hunter as thompson. Spot on perfect impersonation. As a life long conesure of the good things, I can verify the accuracy. The book is a work of genius. And yes, I have been as close. Beleven it or not this is based on a true story... by hst. Both guys were real people. Now I have definitely gone this hard in my life. Not recently but it happened. Quite crazy ten years. Please take some time to review the rest of Terry gilliams movies. by far. My favorite of his is the fisher king
@@pmbbmp you certainly aren't wrong!
Hunter S Thompson was one of the first true psychonauts, basically a person who explores the limits of the mind, perception, and their own sanity. He was on an introspective journey to find the meaning of life, and the American Dream. He lived his life as recklessly as possible to prove that he was actually free. Sadly he ended his life to prove he wasnt trapped in his body. He is one of the most original writers you could ever read, and truly unique. He was God's own prototype. Too weird to live, but too rare to die...
A lot of people want their ashes buried at sea or sprinkled over Disneyland. Hunter S. Thompson had his blown into the sky from a cannon at the top of a 153-foot tower.
I did but we ran it back at the end 🤣😂
So, adrenochrome is just oxidized adrenalin. It was tried in treatment of schizophrenia and stuff, but instead led to the development of carbazochrome, which is a antihemorrhagic agent. It's got a cool name, though, so it lends itself well to urban myths.
i remember watching this movie during highschool days me and my friends were stoned as hell i was tripping watching this.
It seems very different watching now as an adult. Back then, I found the reckless living was to be celebrated, and the weed/cop paranoia an endless source of amusement.
This is a really funny video reaction because these guys are coming in _in media res_ on Hunter S. Thompson's whole life story and it's always hilarious watching people try and figure out what his deal was when they're encountering him for the first time.
The questions are always the same: was he insane? Was he simply a depraved substance abuser? Was he an idealist who had found himself spurned by the system one too many times and chose to find his solace in counterculture and hedonism? Or was it a mixture of all three? We may never truly know.
The death of hope, the realization that the American dream is just that. We're still dealing with the fallout of the 60-70's.
Damn you boys drop gems. No one reacts to stuff you do... if you ever start Boardwalk Empire, a show, deeply connected to the Sopranos.... I'll be a happy man.
gta iv was heavily inspired by the sopranos they even have a actor from the show to voice ray.
Give it time pretty sure it'll make it to the channel 😉
@@greed42o Naturally. The sopranos was on air in the development time of gta 4 and yes I remember that game well. It really felt sopranoish with that part of the city that was based on Jersey. FWY quite a few voice actors for many gta games we're actual actors from sopranos. Ralphie, Phill comes to mind, pretty sure there's more, can't remember.
Now I can sleep easy, f yeah!@@FriendRequestReviews
read the book...it's gets wilder. Hunter S Thompson was a savage!!!
One of the best movies I've ever seen. Masterpiece! 👌🏼
During a snow storm the winter after 9/11 I got this movie's narration voice stuck as my internal monologue for at least four days. Was an amazing journey.
You definitely need to trip harder to understand, the whole point is the chaos of drugs. He lived it! Hunter S. Thompson a true free and creative soul❤🔥
Can you really say he was free if you’re constantly high? Like not knowing what’s real or not.
@@flowerbloom5782 Reality is in the eye of the beholder i guess. Great question to ask.
@@flowerbloom5782 Well, If you look deep enough into all matter, it's just waves. So if you really want to know, everything is just an illusion and our reality is just how we perceive it. Drugs alter our perception and therefore how we see reality in a new way.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is another fantastical Terry Gilliam film starring Heath Ledgers and a slew of famous faces join the cast.
Thompson attempted to give a talk at UNR when I went there. After they managed to drag him out of the Circus Circus he was so hammered he couldn’t sit upright in the chair
The book is great. Kind of biographical - both characters actually existed - one being Hunter S Thompson, and the other being his Samoan attorney who wasn't Samoan, but a Mexican American civil rights lawyer, who I think disappeared a few years after the events depicted.
Dr. Gonzo absolutely existed. Then one day, he took a one way walk off a boat and disappeared.
You have to READ the book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" to understand this movie. But you'd also have to understand the 60s drug culture to "get it" all anyway.
“This man ain’t no lawyer…”
…said the guy who never met a lawyer. 🤔
My absolute favourite movie of all time. Think I've seen it about 5 times a year, for the past 20+ years... But only recently have I started questioning the timeline, it doesn't add up.
This was based on a book which was based on real events, only if anything, the drug use was probably downplayed. Hunter Thompson (Johnny Depp) and Oscar Zeta Acosta (Benicio del Toro) went to Vegas with a trunk full of drugs so Thompson could cover a motorcycle race. Thompson was the inventor of "gonzo" journalism, or "fake news", and wrote for Rolling Stone magazine for many years. Acosta disappeared in South America somewhere not long after this happened. Thompson and Johnny Depp were good friends, and Johnny actually lived with him for several months so he could learn to copy his mannerisms for the movie. The moral of the story is to keep any eye open for weird stuff happening in the background.
I discovered this movie long ago in college. I've watched it 100 times. One of the greatest
We Can't Stop Here!!!!! This is Bat Country!!!!!
This movie centers around the Hunter S. Thompson, an iconic writer/journalist of the 60s. It's my favorite movie. Definitely one of the most crazy movies made in the 90s. Both Depp and Del Torio are just beyond amazing. The style, music, screen magics and the general vibe... it sure reflects my own life during the 90s without saying too much. lol. I was really curious to your reactions... Few channels have covered this awesome flick. The movie Rum Diaries is a follow up to this one. And another monster flick you REALLY need to check out is : Perdita Durango ! It's got some of that crazy vibe and is set in the desert.
This is a fantastic adaptation of a book that defeated attempts at making it into movie for more than 20 years.
It's funny that you mention the attorney being a figment of his imagination. In a lot of the stories Hunter S. Thompson used his attorney, people began to speculate that the attorney wasn't real, or was possibly an extension of the writer's drug-fueled brain. Hunter did have an hispanic attorney named Oscar Zeta Acosta, who was also a writer, and it was said that the attorney in these stories is actually him and he went on record claiming everything Hunter wrote was true. We may never know the truth. Acosta went missing many years ago and we have no knowledge of his whereabouts or if he's even alive.
If you want to understand the 60s, read the book.
This is my favorite movie ever. I had it on repeat in my DVD player for like 3 months straight.
Thompson was quite a character, the books are fantastic. The man was a drug fiend, he was the inventor of Gonzo journalism. Terry Gilliam has directed some excellent films, Brazil is one of the greatest ever sci-fi films.
Terry Guilliam is a top director. Check out his other movies, you wont regret it. "Twelve Monkeys", "Brazil", and "The Fisher King" are some of his best ones.
Movie is absolutely hilarious. If you've experimented, you just get it.
This is in my top 5 all time movies (the book it's based off of is pretty much word for word too).
Absolutely one of my favourite films. Depp is amazing in this.
omg, I had the criterion collection dvd of this in high school, the commentary was great. Johnny Depp "Fucking spider man was in my back seat!"
What Thompson did was create a whole new genre of journalism, and I use that term loosely. Instead of being objective and spitting cold facts, the writer inserts him or herself into the story as the most compelling character that keeps the story alive and drives it. Of course a straight-laced journalist who is used to being outside looking in is not the right perspective. What is essential is someone hopped up on every substance known to man while starting to come down, then discovering a substance extracted from the adrenal glands of, (who's to say), then following that thread of horror into oblivion.
Buckle up!
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If you are unfamiliar with Hunter S. Thompson it's hard to wrap your head around this film. And the amazing job Depp does portraying him. Some will think that this story and Hunter's antics are greatly exaggerated but it's close to the real deal.
Rango the movie and Johnny Depp voices Rango not sure if anyone has seen that but in the beginning of the movie he's walking on the highway in the desert and he lands on the red convertible with his character that he played in the movie as well as the lawyer
I am still stoned from the Patreon full length reaction. Thanks again PMNM! Look forward to future requests!
You guys usually like the casting deep cuts, I got one. The gay hotel clerk is Christopher Meloni. He’s usually bald in roles, been in tons of stuff. I know him from Oz, Law and Order probably his most known.
‘ Looks like we might be tripping on some sort of drugs here… “. Yes. all the drugs.
This is the best adaptation of a book I’ve ever seen. The Book is exactly the same. This is a true story by the way
Johnny Depp agreed to let Hunter S. Thompson shave his head for the role. He looks, acts and speaks a lot like Hunter in this film. 😊
23:06 I’m Actually Dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That’s funny I took the opposite from this movie. “ Do Drugs” look in too Hunter S Thompson he is a genius.
I got to see Hunter S. Thompson speak when I was in high school. To give you some idea of how long ago it was, he opened by saying that a vote for Ronald Reagan was just a vote for George H.W. Bush because Reagan was so old that he would be dead by Groundhog Day. He started the event in a pretty coherent manner, although he did ignore the panel and moderator. Somewhere around the midway point his coherence went away and he started pacing the stage mumbling lists of dangerous wild animals and saying that he was going to taken away by "rich Greeks." The event didn't end so much as it fizzled out.
That sounds like a hilarious way to end something.
Who was able to get all these actors in one film? Terry Gilliam, of Monty Python fame. Also did other films, like Brazil in 1985.
This movie needs multiple rewatches to really appreciate it. As it is so chaotic and strange. On a 1st watch, by the time its over most people are thinking 'I dont know what the hell I just saw.... but I like it'. I keeps getting better the first 4 or 5 times. One of my all time favourites.
Never judge a taco by its price!😉
Hunter s Thomas is the Gonzo legend! You should watch a documentary on him after he went up on the hill and took his own life as he said he would in the '60s Johnny Depp erected a memorial that was well over 100 ft high and paid for his funeral and everything Johnny Depp was an amazing man and before this roll him and Hunter prepared for it together he would go through Hunter's daily routine using cocaine and alcohol it's an amazing documentary
Before he start directing movies Terry Gilliam did all the Monty Python animation sequences.
I used to think this was the movie Johnny Depp deserved a academy award for the most but he atleast had the real life Hunter S Thompson by his side during the entire film & plus Bill Murray already set the characters "character" bar back in the 80's when he played as Hunter S Thompson in "Where The Buffalo Roam" !!!! But....wit both characters being based on real ppl , i think Benicio del toro deserved the Oscar way more because he didn't have the real life person he played as to be around to learn from because the real Dr. Gonzo was already long dead when they made this film!!! Del Toro had to literally guess on how to act like Dr. Gonzo & he completely knocked it out of the park better than any other role he did like if any movie deserves a Best Actor & a Best Supporting Actor Oscar , its this film because they both killed this shit better than any other films they both been in!!!! Johnny deserved one for Black Mass too & Del Toro already has a Oscar for Traffic but this is both of them at their complete peak of acting !!!!! Can't believe this movie got so much hate for the acting when it came out cuz this is literally a film in the Criterion Collection!!!!! Its going to forever be a masterpiece of "trippy crack clucked out cinema" !!! Yes u gotta watch this movie high the first time & then sober another thirty more times afterwards to catch the amazingly written & acted humor cuz its impossible to catch the funniest parts on a first watch especially with all the damn distractions 😂😂😂😂
Best acting by far by both Johnny Depp & especally Benicio del toro , they both deserved a Oscar for this more than anything else they ever acted in 💯 This both knocked this movie straight out of the universe!!!!!
28:59 how about that carpet!
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This movie is legend... unfortunatelly the movie is very underrated and many people do not now that it exists.
everything was based on real events when Hunter and Oscar went to Vegas. there're even casset tapes that Hunter made during their trip, you can listen to them online.
Got a link?
@@FriendRequestReviews Here you go: ua-cam.com/video/HJoDOo9gpzU/v-deo.html The surviving recordings were made while they were relatively sober. The photo while the video plays is of Hunter Thompson and Oscar Acosta (the "attorney's" real name) in Los Angeles just before leaving for Vegas. Acosta really was an atorney, and Thompson was working on an article about the murder of a journalist named Ruben Salazar during the Chicano riots in the LA barrios. Acosta, a Chicano activist, was surrounded by heavies and gangsters who didn't appreciate his gringo journalist friend. Thompson was working on the theory that the cops had murdered Salazar. Both were feeling highly paranoid, so when Thompson got an assignment (from Sports Illustrated) to cover a motorcycle race in Vegas, the two leapt at the chance to get out of town for a while. They loaded up the car with drugs and took off--the results became the book Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Thompson fictionalized a lot of it, but yes, the basic outlines happened. The book is a classic now and is in the Library of Congress. It's way better than the movie, whic is just kinda fun..
Yoooo this movie an hidden gem! So glad you guys reacted to this 🤘🏽
Loved Hunter Thompson and his books and Rolling Stone articles. Looks like y'all had fun reacting!
It was! 😂
Weird to think that Rolling Stone used to be cool.
“The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.”
This takes me back. Watched it about 30x at uni. Tbh I never even thought about what the story means, I just saw it as a representation of deep hedonism played comedically. There's a lot of layers of stuff going on in the background which you don't notice on 1st viewing. It's detailed. (And yes they were taking that stuff the elites are rumoured to take. The writer of the book is rumoured to have attended Bohemian Grove.)
The chemical Adrenochrome began being studied by scientists in the 1950s. That inspired it being mentioned in a lot of fictional writing from 1950's-70s. A Clockwork Orange, The Doors of Perception, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas all have different theories about how it affects you, and how one would theoretically obtain it. The most popular myths about it today have been based on Hunter S Thompson's writing.
Hey guys, i took it, has zero effect, its all fictional.
@@christophstuwe4330 Well that can't be true because eating raw animal meats and organs gives you an adrenaline buzz. So I'd imagine eating the adrenaline gland is on the potent side.
@@nellsun2521 oh i was talking about adrenochrome i aint eating fucking organs.
There's another movie called "where the Buffalo roam" from 1980 where Bill murray plays Hunter. There's a scene where he blacks out and the next scene is 2 years later. Fear and loathing fits squarely in that black out.
this is one of the best movies ever made! the more you watch it the funnier it gets.
I always tell my friends that this movie made me NOT wanna take any drugs
The first time I saw this movie, I had never done any drugs, and I didn’t like it. Now 20 years later having done all the drugs, it’s one of my favorite films of all time! Seriously though, it’s an absolute masterpiece that is literally impossible to fully appreciate on first viewing.
Yet the director of this movie never took drugs in his entire life.
"Withnail and I" worth a look after this! ❤️