Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 American psychedelic road comedy directed by Terry Gilliam, based on Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel. Johnny Depp stars as Raoul Duke, a barely fictionalized Thompson, and Benicio del Toro as his attorney Dr.
Gonzo, who load a red convertible with a suitcase full of drugs — including mescaline, acid, cocaine, amyl nitrate, and ether — and drive to Las Vegas ostensibly to cover a motorcycle race but actually to pursue the American Dream through a haze of pharmaceutically induced hallucination. Terry Gilliam's direction transformed Thompson's already hallucinatory prose into a visual onslaught of warping carpets, melting faces, lizard-people in casino lounges, and adrenochrome nightmares that made the audience share Duke's chemically altered perception. Johnny Depp, who lived with Thompson for months and adopted his mannerisms with obsessive precision, delivered a performance that was simultaneously comic and disturbing.
Fear and Loathing earned $10 million on a $18 million budget but became a massive cult classic.





