All of this plays better if you know the book or seen the movie, but it still has a certain warped charm that's pretty fun, regardless of your familiarity with the crown prince of gonzo journalism. Excerpts from the score and bits of dialogue are scattered throughout it all. Cast Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey, Christina Ricci, Mark Harmon, Cameron Diaz, Katherine Helmond. There's also a clutch of Las Vegas lounge standards, such as Tom Jones' 'She's a Lady,' Perry Como's 'Magic Moments' and Debbie Reynolds' 'Tammy,' that hammer home the fact that the movie is set in Vegas. An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades. Gonzo definitely put the 'sin' in Sin City, and the Gonzo.

Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a fascinating look at the end of the counterculture hippie movement, Gonzo journalism, and even at Las Vegas itself. Gilliam has stocked the film with familiar cuts from the late '60s and early '70s - 'White Rabbit,' 'For Your Love,' 'Get Together,' 'Mama Told Me (Not to Come),' 'One Toke Over the Line' - plus album cuts (albeit classics) from Bob Dylan ('Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again'), Buffalo Springfield ('Expecting to Fly') and Big Brother & the Holding Company ('Combination of the Two'). Created by Roadtrippers - June 27th 2016. Promising cast, promising director, and a bunch of promising cameos (Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire, Cameron Diaz, Lyle Lovett, etc.) - all the ingredients for a good movie, plus a good period-piece soundtrack, as well. Nevertheless, Terry Gilliam - possibly one of the only contemporary directors with enough visual panache to pull it off - brought it to life in 1998 with Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke and Benicio Del Toro as Duke's Samoan lawyer, Dr. Accompanied by his Samoan attorney and with a suitcase full of drugs. Thompson's wild, dope-fueled, hallucinatory Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was simply one of those books that couldn't be adapted for film. Psychedelic road movie based on Hunter S Thompsons seminal 1970s novel, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. For years, it was speculated that Hunter S.

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