hunter s thompson fear and loathing movie

They lose themselves in the minds of their subjects. Wolfe and the like attack the truth with the techniques of the novelist. His Gonzo style was often confused with New Journalism, made famous by Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese. Hunter Thompson was that path the only fully fledged grand master of Gonzo. Gonzo comes from the French-Canadian word gonzeaux which means something along the lines of shining path. That, battle weary, he’d given up on the Gonzo cause. Word had it that Thompson was burned out. Five in the morning would have been a more approriate time. The sun was already sinking behind the Rocky Mountains, bathing the area around the Tavern in a chill and cheerless light, when finally the great Doctor made his appearance. But we managed, once, after endless waiting and drinking our way into the local bar, The Woody Creek tavern. ‘Prince of Gonzo’ he called himself, ‘Doctor Gonzo’, ‘Doctor of Journalism’, ‘Outlaw Journalist’, ‘Doc’, ‘The Duke’: Hunter Stockton Thompson (Louisville, Kentucky, 1939).Īnd as with rock stars meeting one is never an easy task. The inventor of Shotgun Art and Shotgun Golf fatally shot himself at his Owl Creek farm in Woody Creek, Colorado. Thompson, the counter culture ‘gonzo’ journalist, died on Februby a weapon of his choice. “It’s a bromance and yet this is what you’re showing?!” he says of the lizard hallucinations.Hunter S. Fear and Loathing, he laughs, was “a romantic comedy.” Gilliam, finally celebrating the release of his long-long-long-developed The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, reflected on a number of his films on Couch Surfing, including 12 Monkeys, Monty Python, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. “I put the best-looking of all the female extras on his table and whoosh! There he was.” “Finally we had to get him for his scene,” Gilliam recalls.

RELATED VIDEO: Sean Connery had one request while filming Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits “Harry Dean Stanton was there that day, and Hunter was throwing bread rolls around the set all the time.”įear and Loathing in Las Vegas brought to life Thompson’s book of the same name about his “true” story road trip to Vegas with his psychotic lawyer and their mind-altering escapades that ensued.

“Hunter has to be the center of attention,” Gilliam divulged. Shooting that scene, where Johnny Depp’s Hunter turns around during an acid-trip concert to see the real Thompson, was a “horrible” experience. On PeopleTV’s Couch Surfing, director Terry Gilliam recalls that day on the set of his film, based on Thompson’s psychedelic literary odyssey. Thompson and his cameo appearance in 1998’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, it appears there was less fear and more loathing. When it came to famed gonzo journalist Hunter S. Watch the full episode of Couch Surfing streaming now on, or download the PeopleTV app on your favorite device.

Hunter s thompson fear and loathing movie