The second half of the book follows much the same trajectory as the first, with the pair compounding their felonies of statutory rape, fraud and larceny. Duke and Doctor Gonzo must be admired for their sheer bravado, if condemned for the political unsoundness of their behaviour. The novel alternates hilarious scenes of madcap knavery with elegiac essays on the lost promise of the s, but it does not become bogged down. This is because of its gleeful, manic energy. I embraced the doctor wholeheartedly, developing a lifelong love for melodrama, overstatement, lurid imagery and damaged romanticism.
This might not be as disturbing as it is if the trip to Vegas were not also a quest for the American Dream. What was the story? Nobody had bothered to say. So we would have to drum it up on our own. Free Enterprise. The American Dream.
Horatio Alger gone mad on drugs in Las Vegas. Do it now: pure Gonzo journalism. Alger was a 19th-century author who typically wrote rags to riches stories; in Vegas, his relevance is about greed as a distinctively American quality. The owner, who dreamt of running away to join the circus as a child, now has his own circus, and a licence to steal.
He, it is said, is the model for the American Dream. If this seems cynical, so it should. Hunter was a patriot… [but] he was not a jingoist.
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Like in this iconic passage…. Our energy would simply prevail. 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.
When the source material is this good, why change it? Thompson on Film. Famous faces pop up throughout Fear and Loathing , most of them in the kind of two-minute roles they gave up three agents ago. Mother of God, There I am!
Thompson himself. Depp wound up taking several Hawaiian shirts, a patchwork blazer, and a safari hat to wear in the film. To honor its 20th anniversary, you can catch screenings of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in local theaters across the country. We and our partners use cookies to better understand your needs, improve performance and provide you with personalised content and advertisements.
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