This is an interesting question.
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This is an interesting question.
Right. I don't have the movie.
Marlboro kings. He described it in the book "fear and loathing in las vegas." I honestly thought the book was better than the movie.
Count me as one who was profoundly disappointed by the film. I thought it was campy. It was too...it's hard to describe. It tried to push some image. It seemed inauthentic and more like a Gilliam film than a Thompson film. I don't think Hunter came out in either of the films.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guitarman88
I totally agree. Johnny depp didnt do that good of a job. I mean hes great in pirates and all but Hunter S Thompson wasnt his type of character. I believe the book brings you deeper into Hunter himself.
He was the true American outlaw and all
Of course the movie wasn't as good as the book, they never are(except Fight Club). I was a big fan of Hunter before the movie was made and have read most of his books, but I really liked the movie too. Of course I like Depp, Gilliam and Del Toro a lot. I think it captured the spirit of the book for the most part and stayed true to the central themes. Of course it went through a bit of transformation being made into a film, but I thought the end result was quite satisfying and that most directors and actors would have totally butchered and mistranslated it. Hunter's mojo was totally imprinted on Depp when he played him, he's been channeling it in almost everything he's done since. He even paid for the construction of the freak fist cannon that Hunter had designed to shoot his ashes out of.
God damn right Depp did a good job portraying Thompson, and like the last guy said its been seeping out of his characters ever since, much the same way its been doing to me since I started reading the books. If you have ever had in your possession the special edition of that DVD which is all they sell anymore, watch the special features. It has lots of things on the both of them. In fact, in the movie that flashback he was having in the acid club where he looks down at some old guy sitting at a table and is like "huh?? Is that me?" The guy at the table is Thompson. If you dont think Depp did a good job portraying the real Hunter S. Thompson, perhaps you have a false image of what Thompson is really like?? He was there for every part of the movie scrutinizing over it, so you know he didnt let Depp deviate at all.
I cant help but slowly start to transform more and more into Thompson it seems. His gonzo journalism makes so much sense to me on so many different schizophrenic levels I invented it in the past through him before I was born.... ?? ... Whatever. Anyway I must keep the tradition alive. Like he said "Crazy lives forever." And I know god damn well Im beyond crazy. Fuck... my arm has been telling me that for years.
SO heres to Thompson. And hell.. why not? Heres to Depp as well. Amen. Git R DOne.
I'm not sure but I can tell you that he did not kill himself...Quote:
Originally Posted by Profane Motherfucker
Is Courtney Love behind this one too?Quote:
Originally Posted by rollyourown
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moron. How would you know this?Quote:
Originally Posted by rollyourown
There are several theories about why some people think he was killed, but as far as what is known for a fact, there was something fishy with the gun recovered from the scene: "Deputy Ron Ryan said there was a spent shell casing, but there was no cartridge in the firing chamber, as there should have been under normal circumstances. Sheriff's officer DiSalvo confirmed this opinion; 'I think a bullet from the magazine should have cycled into the chamber'." And it doesn't make sense to me that a man like Thompson would kill himself for no apparent reason without leaving a note or something behind. Who knows, but there are a number of unanswered questions surrounding his death.Quote:
Originally Posted by KingsBlend420
Well one thing IS for sure: Not everything Hunter S. Thompson did made sense to everybody. In fact, it seems like most everything he did made sense to hardly anybody. But the people that did get it, GOT it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mycologic
Also, Im not sure which gun he used to kill himself as he had a few of them, his revolver being his favorite one to shoot, but if it was a semi-automatic cartridge-loading pistol, he could easily have loaded a single shot in the chamber and cocked it without a clip. Depending on the type of gun, anyways.
Democracy Now! | Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) on the Iraq War & the Bush Presidency
Hunter Thompson was working on WTC collapse story before mysterious sudden death, warned he'd be 'suicided'
On Sunday the founder of 'gonzo' journalism, died at the age of 67 of an apparent suicide. Today we are air a Jan. 2003 interview Thompson gave on KDNK in the Roaring Fork Valley in Colorado. An excerpt: "Bush is really the evil one here and it is more than just him. We are the Nazis in this game and I don't like it. I am embarrassed and I am pissed off.
I mean to say something. I think a lot of people in this country agree with me - a lot than that are saying anything...we'll see what happens to me if I get my head cut off next week -- it is always unknown or bushy-haired strangers who commit suicide right afterwards with no witnesses." [includes rush transcript]
It is most definitely odd how there are varying stories... it looks like it could easily be a CIA or Secret Service hit to me. Fuckifikno though.