[pimeys]

I've been trying to think for a while, why the downvotes, and one thing definitely comes to my mind: For many people, the idea of Hunter S. Thompson is this drug-fueled lunatic acted by Johnny Depp. That this is all he is; leaving behind the amazing amount of writing about American society and politics.

Las Vegas is a tiny book. It's a great book, a story about excess and the American dream. And the movie is the dialog word-for-word, but it adds nothing to the legacy of Hunter S. Thompson. It's Depp getting famous by riding the fame of Hunter. And it is generally thought as a movie about taking drugs and doing crazy things. And, I might be wrong here, but this is how I see it after many of my schoolmates watched it and were quoting the scenes.

And I like the movie. I love his writing. And I think Terry Gilliam was the right director to do this movie. I still kind of want to reject this idea of this movie to be the first thing people think when they talk about Hunter. He was so much more.

[bryanrasmussen]

>It's Depp getting famous by riding the fame of Hunter.

Depp was already more famous than Thompson when the movie was made, not that that counts for much.

[pimeys]

It's funny to think how he also destroyed it all by following his hero's footsteps, isn't it?