FEAR AND LOTHING IN LAS VEGAS....
by Terry Gilliam
Hunter S. Thompson and Johnny Depp
enjoy a drink while preparing for filming...
enjoy a drink while preparing for filming...
Mowie from 1998 based on a book by Hunter S. Thompson;
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream) (1971)
"And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas..."
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas premiered at Cannes in May 1998, where the movie was In Competition. It was released across the States on 22 May (head to head with Godzilla!). The film is based on the book of the same name by Hunter S. Thompson. It is "a savage dissection of the American dream" - journalist Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr Gonzo enter Las Vegas armed with an arsenal of heinous chemicals, as knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power. Taking the roles of Thompson and his attorney are Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.
Gilliam told Dreams in 1997, "I hope it makes a noise - I don’t want it to go unnoticed. A lot of people will get angry but they’ll probably get angry for the wrong reasons though. I actually don’t think it’s a drugs movie, strangely enough - if you make a film where people are at a bar drinking and smoking a lot, you don’t say it’s an alcoholics’ movie, or a smokers’ movie. It’s not about that. The fuel may be drugs just like in other movies, with Sam Spade the fuel may be alcohol and cigarettes. What we do is allow our characters to get caught in a distorted world, which is already distorted by reality. We make it an altered reality which may be for the better and sometimes for the worse, depending on how much you have just imbibed."
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