Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

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The 1998 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards Nominees". The Stinkers. Archived from the original on August 18, 2000 . Retrieved June 13, 2023. The 2013 album Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! by Panic! at the Disco (originally from Las Vegas) was named after a line from the book.

Minsker, Evan. "Watch: Lil Wayne Pays Homage to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for "No Worries" Video". Pitchfork. Johnny Depp and Director Bruce Robinson THE RUM DIARY Interview". Collider. October 26, 2011 . Retrieved July 10, 2017.

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Compare this with the drug collection of Raoul Duke, the first person narrator of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971): The music videos for Lil Wayne's "No Worries" and The Weeknd's song "Heartless" draw heavy inspiration from the 1998 film. [28] [29]

In The New York Times, Stephen Holden wrote, "Even the most precise cinematic realizations of Mr. Thompson's images don't begin to match the surreal ferocity of the author's language." [40] Stephen Hunter, in his review for The Washington Post, wrote, "It tells no story at all. Little episodes of no particular import come and go...But the movie is too grotesque to be entered emotionally." [41] Mike Clark, of USA Today, found the film "simply unwatchable." [42] In The Guardian, Gaby Wood wrote: "After a while, though, the ups and downs don't come frequently enough even for the audience, and there's an element of the tedium usually found in someone else's druggy experiences." [43] Roger Ebert found the film disgraceful, giving it one star out of four and calling it: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". Criterion Collection. Archived from the original on October 23, 2007 . Retrieved January 24, 2008. For the desert scenes, Pecorini wanted a specific, undefined quality without a real horizon to convey the notion that the landscape never ended and to emphasize "a certain kind of unreality outside the characters' car, because everything that matters to them is within the Red Shark." [25] For the scene where Duke hallucinates a lounge full of lizards, the production was supposed to have 25 animatronic reptiles but they only received seven or eight. [25] The production used motion-control techniques to make it look like they had a whole room of them and made multiple passes with the cameras outfitting the lizards with different costumes each time. [25]Ed: You have said already that you doubt McGovern could have won. What do you think is going to happen in ’76? a b Doss, Yvette C. (June 5, 1998). "The Lost Legend of the Real Dr. Gonzo". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved May 18, 2023. HST: Well, let’s first deal with the fact that “drugs” are not necessarily narcotics. We want to get that clear in our minds. The narcotic is one type of drug and… HST: Coffee is a drug… yes, there were drugs being used… booze is a drug… many drugs…. They’re all around us these days.

The film was nominated for a variety of awards that both praised and condemned it. Terry Gilliam was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival [30] while Johnny Depp won the Best Foreign Actor award from the Russian Guild of Film Critics in 1998.

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.… He walked around the desk and sat down in his chair, propping his feet up on the middle drawer. I half-expected him to ask me why a girl had been arrested in my hotel room, but it was clear from the look on his face that his mind had already moved on to whatever might come next. McGovern is a very private person – which might be part of the reason why not even his friends call him “George”– and you get the feeling, after being around him for a while, that he becomes uncomfortable when people start getting personal. Ed: So the Edge we’re talking about would be really the greatest if one were the candidate himself? Hunter, Stephen (May 22, 1998). "Thompson's Worst Trip". The Washington Post . Retrieved May 18, 2023.

a b "Terry Gilliam Interview - Fear & Loathing". September 21, 2008 . Retrieved February 19, 2017– via YouTube. Holden, Stephen (May 22, 1998). " 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas': The Attitude Is Missing". The New York Times . Retrieved June 13, 2023.

What is the book about?

Duke and Doctor Gonzo’s trip is “a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country.” Their ostensible mission is covering the Mint 400, but their actual goal is ill defined: But what the hell? This was certainly acceptable, I felt, and preferable beyond any doubt to the horror of being lashed into hamburger with chain-whips by Mankiewicz and Barger in the Clubhouse Bar… The novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is based on two trips to Las Vegas, Nevada, that Hunter S. Thompson took with attorney and Chicano activist Oscar Zeta Acosta in March and April 1971. The first trip resulted from an exposé Thompson was writing for Rolling Stone magazine about the Mexican American television journalist Rubén Salazar, whom officers of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department had shot and killed with a tear gas grenade fired at close range during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War in 1970. Thompson was using Acosta—a prominent Mexican American political activist and attorney—as a central source for the story, and the two found it difficult for a brown-skinned Mexican to talk openly with a white reporter in the racially tense atmosphere of Los Angeles, California. The two needed a more comfortable place to discuss the story and decided to take advantage of an offer from Sports Illustrated to write photograph captions for the annual Mint 400 desert race being held in Las Vegas from March 21–23, 1971.



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