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s240779
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Re: What are your favorite drug documentaries? [Re: WhoManBeing]
#18887309 - 09/24/13 11:23 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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WhoManBeing said: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
-- In the book The Great Shark Hunt, Thompson refers to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as "a failed experiment in the gonzo journalism" he practiced, which was based on William Faulkner's idea that "the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism — and the best journalists have always known this".[18] Thompson's style blended the techniques of fictional story-telling and journalism.
He called it a failed experiment because he originally intended to record every detail of the Las Vegas trip as it happened, and then publish the raw, unedited notes; however, he revised it during the spring and summer of 1971. For example, the novel describes Duke attending the motorcycle race and the narcotics convention in a few days' time; the actual events occurred a month apart.[19] Later, he wrote, "I found myself imposing an essentially fictional framework on what began as a piece of straight/crazy journalism".[20]
18. Thompson, Hunter S. Jacket Copy For Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
19. Taylor, Andrew F. 1997 The City: In search of Thompson's Vegas. Las Vegas Sun
20. Thompson, Hunter S. Jacket Copy For Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas#As_a_work_of_gonzo_journalism
-- The coconut-smashing scene towards the end of the film was not originally in the book. Hunter S. Thompson wrote the scene when he wrote Fear and Loathing and then omitted it. Terry Gilliam inserted it back into the story for this movie. --
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120669/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv
Edited by s240779 (09/25/13 12:05 AM)
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pcplease
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Re: What are your favorite drug documentaries? [Re: s240779]
#18887338 - 09/24/13 11:33 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Skip to 1:15 to see him start losing it
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Re: What are your favorite drug documentaries? [Re: pcplease]
#18887413 - 09/24/13 11:54 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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poor guy haha, the inner-city streets aren't really the place to be using dissociatives
-------------------- No sympathy for the devil, keep that in mind. [url=]Buy the ticket, take the ride. [/url]Are you lost?
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s240779
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Re: What are your favorite drug documentaries? [Re: Moonshoe]
#18901299 - 09/28/13 01:35 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said: Just watched the house I live in, that was great too!
I'm watching it now. It's a great documentary. But why wouldn't they make it available for free? LOL.
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Fire is Born
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Re: What are your favorite drug documentaries? [Re: Sheekle]
#18901391 - 09/28/13 02:51 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Legend said: Idk if Id call it a drug documentary per se, but I just watched 'fear and loathing in gonzovision'.
is that like the las vegas one except gozos POv instead of hunters wtf?
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Re: What are your favorite drug documentaries? [Re: s240779]
#18913677 - 09/30/13 10:41 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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