THE FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS MOVIE
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There was no point in fighting-on our side or theirs. Not in any mean or military sense we didnвЂ™t need that. And that, I think, was the handle-that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. There was madness in any direction, at any hour. but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change). Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket. My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights-or very early mornings-when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of вЂњhistoryвЂќ it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era-the kind of peak that never comes again. 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.вЂњStrange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas.

Excerpts from the score and bits of dialogue are scattered throughout it all.

THE FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS MOVIE

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.

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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'). 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. 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.

For years, it was speculated that Hunter S.

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