![]() ![]() But, having taken over the project from Alex Cox, Terry Gilliam returned from the desert bringing the multiplex nation a slapstick fever dream both funny and poignant, as unencumbered in its performances as it is uncompromising in its worldview. ![]() Dispatched by a national magazine to cover a cross-country motorcycle race, Thompson filed a postmortem on the sixties counterculture, while reporting on his brain as though it were the dark side of the moon.Īs extravagantly subjective, linguistically rich, and outrageously bad-behaved as Fear and Loathing is, this lysergic tall tale, which was first published in Rolling Stone in late 1971, would seem to be problematic Hollywood material at best. Thompson’s journalistic prose poem Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas used a lost weekend in Las Vegas as a metaphor for America’s season in hell.
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