Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision (Part 1)

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13 жыл бұрын

"Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood" (1978) also known as "Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision" is a short documentary produced by BBC Omnibus (basically, arty British tv series). It pictures Hunter S. Thompson in the late 70's, when he was eventually getting bigger than life. It was directed by Nigel Finch.
This smoothly directed road trip movie pairs Thompson with his inseparable fellow, famous illustrator, Ralph Steadman. The party travels to Hollywood via Death Valley and Barstow from Las Vegas being closely pictured by BBC crew and certainly interviewed at the spot.
This is a rarity and must-see for die-hard fans!
Long live the GONZO!
Hunter S. Thompson for a pope! Stomp on the Jesus, mon!
Where the fuck are you when people need you the most?

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@jojoface1703 12 жыл бұрын

"I am living a normal life, wife, child, peacocks..." only hunter would mention 'peacocks' while trying to explain how normal his life was

@liltick102 Жыл бұрын

Thinking ab this..I can reallly picture Björk, and the filmmaker Werner Herzog saying exactly this, tbh.

@marcelloventuri8898 Жыл бұрын

I think hunter Life was 100 times Better than every fucking single billionaire tooday... thats world Will never come back,oso people like him was too much rare

@BushyHairedStranger Жыл бұрын

How is it NOT normal?? Peacocks for pets, here in Western Oregon are just like dogs or cats…at least here up Wolf Creek.

@liltick102 Жыл бұрын

@@BushyHairedStranger nice, def not common knowledge - but that is something I am v jealous of

@s.bulloch151 7 жыл бұрын

One thing about it this man lived life to the fullest like there was no tomorrow he's probably done and seen more than half the human race could do in 2 or 3 lifetimes ...R.I.P.Hunter

@damienholland8103 5 жыл бұрын

As have I.

@petersonlafollette3521 2 жыл бұрын

What would Hunter make of the modern gun violence epidemic- merely the natural extension of the crazy American dream gone off the rails? Observe right wing vice: they smoke copious amounts of weed that fuels their crazy terrorism of the weaker- the non-white the politically non-correct- some becoming Pot moguls following decriminalization. Trump supports should smoke it more- anything would improve their fascism. As Thompson was fond of demonstrating: when the going gets weird, the weird turn Pro...

@KoruKinshi 2 жыл бұрын

I....*guess*...?

@karlirani 8 жыл бұрын

I cracked up when he said, "the secret service thought i was an astronaut".

@alpacacide 5 жыл бұрын

Hunter was a great dude. Plain and simple. Won’t be another. He was a slithery intellect and made his way about. I do admire him but at the same time despise because he reminds me of myself. But he was something else.

@deafmusician2 2 жыл бұрын

God bless him though... One of America's literary treasures...

@monkeyman8265 8 жыл бұрын

Fear and loathing is definitely alive today

@medicah 4 жыл бұрын

You are based and such a free thinker

@markrago7217 4 жыл бұрын

It always has been Monkey Man. What made 4 years ago so special?

@nzer48 8 жыл бұрын

He was NEVER a Hells Angel, he was a hang around. That's not a put down to Hunter he would confirm this.... but obviously can't. He rode a 650 BSA and had permission to record and write about them. He didn't leave on good terms but did take away quite a few bruises. And of course wrote the the book, "Hells Angels" How do some journalists get things so fukin wrong. RIP Hunter you helped me laugh my way through my teenage years.

@antonhaq3503 10 жыл бұрын

At last, a version with sound! Thanks so much for this.

@SpXPtwn 3 жыл бұрын

His loss speech at 4:00 has got to be the most sober anyone had ever seen him 😂

@heeggie 7 жыл бұрын

Haha smoking on planes back in the day. I remember flying to Australia as a child and would go to the back of the plane with my old man while he had a smoke. Good ol days

@azforu29 2 жыл бұрын

Hurts to see. All these little freedoms have evaporated. Smoke in hospitals. Planes. Schools. Shit, I remember all the teachers in their breakroom laughing and hooting it up, smoking cigars and butts during lunchtime. Goddamn shame liberties like that are gone.

@1954telecaster 10 жыл бұрын

back in the 70's when you could openly smoke joints on a commercial airline...

@xxedgecumberveggietaleslma9874 6 жыл бұрын

1954telecaster oh man I wish lol

@monkeyman8265 8 жыл бұрын

That artwork is timeless

@joeygaskins4278 5 жыл бұрын

6:20 At one point I saw myself as the bird *hunter aggressively yanks the bird out of the cage* Me: jesus christ

@dasadopeboy 8 жыл бұрын

this is like one of those wild animal shows on discovery,

@hellblazer4359 8 жыл бұрын

Nice profile pic! I love Constantine.

@dasadopeboy 8 жыл бұрын

cool man!

@iseewhatyoudidthere1245 5 жыл бұрын

Apparently the fact-checker was on vacation.

@azimovwatts6425 7 жыл бұрын

nickel beer and lemonade.

@bathingatbaxters 7 жыл бұрын

yazu karuku i just read your comment in the same moment she said it

@azimovwatts6425 7 жыл бұрын

we are all one

@nickloch7483 6 жыл бұрын

+Azimov Watts lol same thing..nd april 7 is my bday

@rockets4kids 5 жыл бұрын

that's the 'murica i want made great again.

@MrJosephdrummond 5 жыл бұрын

90 secs in and i'm furious!! nickel beer and you can smoke on the plane?? that's maybe the coolest thing i've ever heard of, ever

@MrShempenman 12 жыл бұрын

wicked - love this - will watch soon

@charlesmonti4120 9 жыл бұрын

Poor Edward

@jesseholywood1161 7 жыл бұрын

Such a fascinating and beautiful human being!

@raff23able 3 жыл бұрын

He’s was an insane cruel narcissistic maniac. And a genius writer. He was never beautiful ! More the embodiment of pain and horror.

@Adjutat9r 7 жыл бұрын

'That'll kill a bear at 200 yards'

@mamabradley5414 7 жыл бұрын

Oh to have him in his prime now. I love to think He would blow the top off of a lot of shady going onings nowadays.

@stairwaytoholiday 2 жыл бұрын

We need Johnny Depp to do the audio books for his work

@nancychace8619 3 жыл бұрын

An interesting mind - genius with a little bit of a bolt loose. Also I think the drugs took their toll after awhile. Hard for anyone to see that when they are stuck in the middle of it.

@Cougar139tweak 12 жыл бұрын

If anything is worth doing,.....it's worth doing right.

@haroldbirge6881 2 жыл бұрын

Damn straight

@IHTECIGARETTES1 5 жыл бұрын

watching him torment that bird makes my blood curdle

@habfewufbq3ouwfwfcq3r 5 жыл бұрын

IHTECIGARETTES1 yeah same

@rose4490 3 жыл бұрын

I know, it's such a stupid, pointless thing to do!

@x2bannedyoutubeaccount408 3 жыл бұрын

I loved it

@Autsin_Reilly Жыл бұрын

Talk to me Edward

@Psychjazzybeat 8 жыл бұрын

Like his humour with imaginative jonction to the point . Not a final point but a mean point to something more ... just there .......

@redbeardfacebaldhead5099 7 жыл бұрын

sorry to say but he was never a Hells Angel, he wrote a book about Hells Angels. Big different!

@azimovwatts6425 7 жыл бұрын

yea but they let him ride with them and almost killed him

@Bonesph 6 жыл бұрын

He was and wasn't one. Just put it that way.

@carlhartt8346 6 жыл бұрын

Just like different and difference.

@xxedgecumberveggietaleslma9874 6 жыл бұрын

Doc Bummings he never had HA patches but he did live with them.he just got kicked out because he fought someone who was beating their girlfriend and they had lol jumped in and beat him back in the 60’s but aside from that he wasn’t really a member or trafficker,he just bought lots of coke and used it with them whenever he came up

@xxedgecumberveggietaleslma9874 6 жыл бұрын

Jesus price he lived with em but he was pretty much in a “roommate” situation with them

@thecasualfront7432 8 жыл бұрын

He invented electricity don't ya know

@krumplethemal8831 2 жыл бұрын

The film crew have to approach him with caution, as if they are in the wilderness trying to document a rare and dangerous animal. No, he is actually benevolent towards people, he loves the chaos outside rigid order that makes life boring and routine..

@crosshairs3 9 жыл бұрын

He was from Louisville, Kentucky not Aspen

@shanemathews4177 2 жыл бұрын

Smoking on the plane and nickel beers

@heatherh7834 8 жыл бұрын

god i love him

@TheMoonunit13 13 жыл бұрын

If I could only go back......

@The.Original.Potatocakes 4 жыл бұрын

I want that red and blue circle button shirt. Anyone know where I can aquire one... Thanks

@winningbiggly6419 6 жыл бұрын

Former Hell's Angel? He hung with them for a year or so to do a story, but he was no Hell's Angel.

@rmiddlehouse 3 жыл бұрын

“This is our good old summertime flight”

@TheOnioncheese 12 жыл бұрын

The American Dream really is fucked.

@haroldbirge6881 2 жыл бұрын

RIP 💀

@thadesweatt303 5 жыл бұрын

I'll bet that plane is still in circulation today haha

@SuperOmnicronsj44 12 жыл бұрын

He eventually got beat down...Hunter told one of them.."You're a punk for beating a woman", one of the Angels replied "You want some?" - then they started hitting him...he began to end his relationship with H.A. at that point. Sonny Bargar still called him; One of America's greatest writers ever.

@sabretooth5404 6 жыл бұрын

SuperOmnicron he actually said "only a punk beats a woman and a dog" to which he got a beatdown from a few HA's and took a trip to hospital

@pungisotu 4 жыл бұрын

Ironically, he would beat his wife many times years later.

@youngfrankmcclintock 12 жыл бұрын

a VALIANT ATTEMPT lol brilliant

@keepitwitmine 9 жыл бұрын

Why does the guy say "ah!" Everytime someone pulls the trigger of the gun?

@Matthewhuntable 6 жыл бұрын

Johnny depp really got it spot on

@jindy3677 5 жыл бұрын

He spent quite a bit time with him actually staying at his house to prepare for the part in the movie. There's a video or 2 about it on here.

@eighteennakedcowboys 5 жыл бұрын

Nickel beer... Damn

@TheBockChannel 2 жыл бұрын

Johnny Depp was here! #johnnydepp

@felipewerner6670 9 жыл бұрын

POOR EDWARD!!! HAHAHAH

@anthonynavarro6074 6 жыл бұрын

When I headed he shot himself I wasn't shocked. The time Conan went to his farm was hilarious. Target practice was funny

@milascave2 Жыл бұрын

HST was never a Hell's Angel. He hung out with them for a while in order to write a book about them, until they beat the shite out of him.

@skateordie361361 13 жыл бұрын

classic

@HC-cb4yp 3 жыл бұрын

Is it true that Thompson was a customer of Franklin Community Federal Credit Union?

@MrDoubtfulguest 12 жыл бұрын

@13thfloor18 I read the novel in 1975. The movie kept most scenes intact, and Mr. Depp was astonishing, but the pacing was all wrong. Many words are ITALICIZED in the book, which gives it a speed/booze feel in addition to a psychedelic one. In the movie, everyone seems like they are on tranquilizers. This is the fault of the director, Terry Gilliam, whose films are invariably glacially paced. And how they could leave out the song "Sympathy for the Devil" is beyond comprehension.

@JackEStoicism 4 жыл бұрын

Need to find that Audiobook of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the primary one on KZfaq and Audible have an awful reader who thinks everyone has a southern accent. NOTE: People from Nevada don't have any twang or distinctive accents... its 4 hours from Los Angeles

@warshipsatin8764 2 ай бұрын

nickel beer and lemonade

@arturasmilasius1200 4 жыл бұрын

pause in the ! it means ... ask your self what is the golden middle :P

@cocorkiller2322 5 жыл бұрын

He Used to make snuff films

@BonesBroken 5 жыл бұрын

He was NEVER a Hells Angel, and the childish crap Steadman is spouting on the plane is laughable, trying to terrify the 'squares' with his tales of this wildman that may just maim or kill them. Hunter worked very hard on his image and although he did indeed do some crazy things while out of his mind on drugs it is unfortunate that he became a charicature of himself. Towards the end of his life he realised he had become a bit of a joke, Hunter wanted to be like F. Scott Fitzgerald and write a great American novel and instead he ended up like P.T. Barnum with himself as the freakshow. It depressed him make no mistake but it sold and he settled for that.

@Scribe13013 2 жыл бұрын

He did write the great American novel though

@user-vg5rv5xf4u 5 жыл бұрын

11:10 That will kill a bear at 200 yards

@MrRocketpowerG 10 жыл бұрын

"speak up edward speak up!!!" aww man hes a riot:) wish i could go up to a cop like that, this man blows me away every day. humter is such a sweetheart, it breaks my heart that people were scared of him..such an amazing man

@lilaalexinglis1436 9 жыл бұрын

Fuck those who were scared of him! I love him too!! And Edward I do that to my cat too Cletus! I'm coming for you Cletus :) I think of Hunter like like one of the lines out of Fear and Loathing Las Vegas There goes one of gods own prototypes Not even considered for mass production Too weird to live; too rare to die

@21loondog 12 жыл бұрын

@Scrotetasticular Steadman is Scottish, right?

@mudbeast21 7 жыл бұрын

Whats the score here ?

@lucasascacibar2043 8 жыл бұрын

does anyone know who made the illustrations ??

@courtneyvaldez7903 8 жыл бұрын

I think you're referring to Ralph Steadman.

@patefutch1140 7 жыл бұрын

+Courtney Valdez lol like how did they even ask that?? Lmao im seriously laughing my ass off at that

@trissloan663 3 жыл бұрын

HST was never a Hell's Angel or former one.

@essanance 11 жыл бұрын

hey it said alot that he stood up for a woman being beaten , knowing he would get beat into the ground

@chops5853 6 жыл бұрын

“Fear and loathing’ appears in nearly all his titles” you mean two of them? God dammit.

@jojoface1703 12 жыл бұрын

gonzo - give me a surreal naturalism of a subject in which i thought i understood, i shall approach that subject in an entirely different manner. i shall look that said subject and view a perverted and distorted world, but in said world i shall realize many wonderful truths.said truths may not be profound or magnificent, but they shall be eye opening. they will make me view subjects in an entirely different manner. does this different manner make sense? perhaps.... but it shall open the senses

@fritzidler3480 7 жыл бұрын

Hunter Thompson deserved his fame making his job too hard to do.

@tommypearson9260 3 жыл бұрын

When Smoking on Planes was ok

@valkor73 5 жыл бұрын

who drew the images in his books

@joeygaskins4278 5 жыл бұрын

valkor73 the guy who says in some ways I became the bird

@jindy3677 5 жыл бұрын

The guy in the beginning of the video with grey shaggy hair.

@Airon0727 2 жыл бұрын

Ralph steadman

@lizardsboy81westcoastshawn7 6 жыл бұрын

He was never a hells angel ffs

@falconemoto6943 6 жыл бұрын

Treating the bird like that isn’t cool.

@udubidub 5 жыл бұрын

only an arse hole would do that to a little Bird.

@pungisotu 4 жыл бұрын

Hunter wasn’t some PC woke type.

@arturasmilasius1200 4 жыл бұрын

hmmm ya whut ? brain and not understanding what you understand is a final frontier :)

@daz4787 Жыл бұрын

1:38 There is qwhite a difference you see

@davidhughes8315 3 жыл бұрын

He wasn't a hell's Angel he just spent time with them to research his book "Hell's angels"and he ran for Mayor of Aspen not sheriff.

@ihavenolegsihavenolegs1853 9 жыл бұрын

He made snuff films for the elite

@fkerpants 7 жыл бұрын

Citation needed.

@TheThing2011 6 жыл бұрын

He also cannibalized people and raped a dwarf....cuz i said so.

@fluffhead7105 6 жыл бұрын

He was also the king of the moon and lived for 3000 years before coming to earth

@robwells5753 6 жыл бұрын

crock of shite buddy

@xxedgecumberveggietaleslma9874 6 жыл бұрын

I have no legs I have no legs that was a rumor from the 1960’s and it was used against hunter when he made books about the government,so the government tried to make him look bad by saying he did “satanic rituals” and such but it was all a lie,take it with a grain of salt because I don’t have the “agents” “locations” and “units” on the top of my head but I know it wasn’t true ,plus he would’ve surely been investigated which if he was I doubt it would just go unnoticed in the media

@Xhanthan 7 жыл бұрын

How pathetic of my for having such an educational gap - I din't know that Thompson was really that close to Depp's character in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas >.

@joseperalta8295 6 жыл бұрын

Don't you know there's a picture of a young HUNTER wearing the famous jacket. Educational You would be able to see the dopleganger in Johnny depp.. Ohh my bad you would know because your so open minded to what you have been educated... With...

@deafmusician2 5 жыл бұрын

And carter brought the worst economic policy in 50 years...

@theonlyantony 2 жыл бұрын

More sensationalist codswallop! They just wanted to portray him a certain way - as this crazy guy but his writing, his polemicist in his political tracts and his reporting are unique and he shouldn’t be treated as a freak, which is what everyone used to try to do - they shoulda taken him seriously you know they look for the salient outrageous law bending stuff and then project that onto the backs of our eyes -utter bollocks and Steadman should know better. The introductory appraisal is again littered with tabloidy non-sequiturs and neon drivel. Bums on seats glue