Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Discussion
I tried, but I failed! I just lost interest half way through but fear I'm really missing out on a good film. Has anyone read the book?
Hunter's popularity may well have been reinvigorated recently by the many thousands of threads on different fora discussing the 'denser' / 'dancer' debate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_(The_Killers_so...
Anyone for a wee dab of Acid first thing?
Hunter's popularity may well have been reinvigorated recently by the many thousands of threads on different fora discussing the 'denser' / 'dancer' debate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_(The_Killers_so...
Anyone for a wee dab of Acid first thing?
One of my favourite films of all time. Benicio del Toro as his lawyer is brilliant. That scene where he (Hunter)wakes up in a flooded hotel room with an 8 track microphone gaffer taped to his head and wearing a strap on kangaroo tail is brilliant.
Also love the book..but found Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail a bit hard going.
PS....now about that acid
Also love the book..but found Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail a bit hard going.
PS....now about that acid
It's one of my favourite books, he's one of my favourite authors. You have to try and get in his mindset really to enjoy the books - it's my hedonistic escape from reality. Although, that said, the fear is painfully strong in his last book, appropriately named "Kingdom of Fear".
I would recommend "The Rum Diary" to anyone - it was HST's attempt at (in his words) "The Great American Novel".
As for the F&LiLV, I have purposely avoided the film. Sometimes the pictures are better in words.
I would recommend "The Rum Diary" to anyone - it was HST's attempt at (in his words) "The Great American Novel".
As for the F&LiLV, I have purposely avoided the film. Sometimes the pictures are better in words.
MentalSarcasm said:
aclivity said:
I would recommend "The Rum Diary" to anyone - it was HST's attempt at (in his words) "The Great American Novel".
They're making a movie of that, due to be released in 2010 with Johnny Depp playing Paul Kemp.aclivity said:
MentalSarcasm said:
aclivity said:
I would recommend "The Rum Diary" to anyone - it was HST's attempt at (in his words) "The Great American Novel".
They're making a movie of that, due to be released in 2010 with Johnny Depp playing Paul Kemp.This is one of my all time favorite films. I can honestly say that I have seen over 100 times and each time I catch something new.
I remember watching with friends and we all took shrooms. It was an experience! When JD was bugging out on adrenal gland so were we, it was like we were sucked into it!
I remember watching with friends and we all took shrooms. It was an experience! When JD was bugging out on adrenal gland so were we, it was like we were sucked into it!
fear_and_loathing said:
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 that 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 bulls
t, 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 to 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.
My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights — or very early mornings — when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .
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 had all 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.
Fantastic!History is hard to know, because of all the hired bulls
t, 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 to 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.My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights — or very early mornings — when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .
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 had all 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.
On mushrooms?!!! Hahahaha I bet that was interesting.
I saw the film when it came out at the cinema. My uni flatmates and I had free cinema tickets from some student givaway/barclaycard/railcard/free with ten vodkas offer. I was the only one that enjoyed the film. I think it was the first film I saw where quite a few people walked out after not very long!
What film EVER has lines in it like this page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120669/quotes
I love the sheer craziness of the film and the tripping out scenes, I think devised by Terry Gilliam. I think there is a cameo from Hunter S. Thompson in the scene where the guy is licking LSD off Jonny Depp's sleeve, where he comes face to face with himself. I thought Depp and Del Toro were excellent and it shows that only actors of their calibre can actually play such parts convincingly. Del Toro appears so different to his roles in The Usual Suspects and Traffic.
I saw the film when it came out at the cinema. My uni flatmates and I had free cinema tickets from some student givaway/barclaycard/railcard/free with ten vodkas offer. I was the only one that enjoyed the film. I think it was the first film I saw where quite a few people walked out after not very long!
What film EVER has lines in it like this page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120669/quotes
I love the sheer craziness of the film and the tripping out scenes, I think devised by Terry Gilliam. I think there is a cameo from Hunter S. Thompson in the scene where the guy is licking LSD off Jonny Depp's sleeve, where he comes face to face with himself. I thought Depp and Del Toro were excellent and it shows that only actors of their calibre can actually play such parts convincingly. Del Toro appears so different to his roles in The Usual Suspects and Traffic.
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