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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Movie Clip – watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Hallucinating on acid, Duke (Johnny Depp) checks into the hotel with Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro). TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro Director: Terry Gilliam MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Harold Bronson, Patrick Cassavetti, Richard Foos, John Jergens, Laila Nabulsi, Stephen Nemeth, Elliot Lewis Rosenblatt Screenwriter: Hunter S. Thompson, Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni, Tod Davies, Alex Cox Film Description: Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic $21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunter S. Thompson classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream, about stoned sportswriter Raoul Duke, Thompson’s alter ego, on a wild drug-crazed road trip, a paranoid plummet into the belly of the beast, with his pal, lawyer Oscar Zeta Acosta. Originally serialized in Rolling Stone (November 1971), the book catapulted Thompson headfirst toward the Kerouac-Mailer-Capote pantheon and jump-started the entire movement of “gonzo journalism.” Carrying a suitcase of drugs, Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp with shaved pate) and his attorney Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro) drive a red convertible across the Mojave from LA to Vegas, where Duke has an assignment to cover the Mint 400 desert motorcycle …
