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Thompson characterized him as a heavyweight Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in his 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Acosta disappeared in 1974 during a trip in Mexico and is presumed dead.
May 22, 1998 · Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Directed by Terry Gilliam. With Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Michael Lee Gogin. An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Terry Gilliam
- 1998-05-22
The novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is based on two trips to Las Vegas, Nevada, that Hunter S. Thompson took with attorney and Chicano activist Oscar Zeta Acosta in March and April 1971.
- Hunter S. Thompson
- 1971
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 American stoner road black comedy film adapted from Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel of the same name. It was co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam , and stars Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro as Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo , respectively.
Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) is sipping Singapore slings by a hotel pool with his lawyer, Dr Gonzo (Benecio Del Toro), when he receives a phone call from ‘headquarters’. “They want me to go to Las Vegas at once,” he tells Gonzo. “That sounds like real trouble,” Gonzo warns him.
May 22, 1998 · The attorney is Dr. Gonzo. Both Duke and the Doctor are one-dimensional walking chemistry sets, lacking the perspective on themselves that they have in both the book and the strip. The result is a horrible mess of a movie, without shape, trajectory or purpose--a one joke movie, if it had one joke.
Raoul Duke is a drug addled gonzo journalist. He is sent to cover a motorcycle race as an article for his magazine, but then the situation escalates into him and his psychotic attorney searching for the American dream, aided by almost every drug known to man in the boot of his red convertible. — palmtreehead.
