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In the early morning, following a drug-fueled evening, Duke (Johnny Depp) recalls the brief magical time and place of San Francisco during the 1960s.
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 L.A. to Vegas, where Duke has an assignment to cover the Mint 400 desert motorcycle race. As the drugs kick in, Duke ventures into voiceover, filling in the blank spots and narrative gaps. "This is not a good town for psychedelic drugs," says Duke, but even so, they consume vast quantities, eventually escalating to ether. Duke notes that with ether "you can actually watch yourself behaving this terrible way, but you can't control it." The two trash their hotel room, and Gonzo goes back to L.A. Thinking the hotel room holocaust will lead to an arrest, Duke begins a drive back to L.A., but after an odd encounter with a highway patrolman (Gary Busey) and a telephone conversation with Gonzo, he returns to Vegas to cover the District Attorney Convention on Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in the glitzy Flamingo Hotel. This time the drugged-out duo trash their Flamingo room. The crazed carnival atmosphere segues into a carney casino, Bazooko's Circus, where a barker (Penn Jillette) spiels amid aerialists, clowns, and a rotating carousel bar. Gonzo worries over runaway teen Lucy (Christina Ricci), who paints portraits of Barbra Streisand. Soon the hallucinations begin: Duke sees Gonzo transmogrify into a demon with breasts on its back, and an acid vision of a Vegas bar features large legit lounge lizards (courtesy of monster makeup man Rob Bottin). Flashbacks depicting Duke's intro to the drug scene jump back to love-Haight relationships in San Francisco's Summer of Love. Cameos and guest stars include Mark Harmon, Cameron Diaz, Flea, Lyle Lovett, Harry Dean Stanton, Ellen Barkin, Tobey Maguire, and Hunter S. Thompson himself. The film features a Geffen Records soundtrack mixing rock of the period with Vegas lounge tunes. Over the years, various script adaptations came and went as did numerous talents; people connected with past efforts to film Thompson's book include Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, and writer-director Alex Cox. Shown in competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
CREDITS:
TM & © Universal (1998)
Cast: Johnny Depp
Director: Terry Gilliam
Producers: Harold Bronson, Patrick Cassavetti, Richard Foos, John Jergens, Laila Nabulsi, Stephen Nemeth, Elliot Lewis Rosenblatt
Screenwriters: Hunter S. Thompson, Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni, Tod Davies, Alex Cox
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@zedooncadhz 8 жыл бұрын

Possibly one of my favourite movie scenes. An unexpected oasis of serenity in a tidal wave of filth.

@GaadorR4zer 7 жыл бұрын

I get Apocalypse Now vibes every time I see that... stunning aura.

@foreverendeavor7383 4 жыл бұрын

And sheer chaos. Totally agree love the way you put it

@iandavies7991 4 жыл бұрын

Sir, that is almost as well written as this scene

@86TheMedia 4 жыл бұрын

Possibly the most accurate comment in the sea of comments

@bombjockeyC 3 жыл бұрын

To think a comment created 4 years ago would inspire a lost nameless nobody, I will use this quote now.

@3nthamornin Жыл бұрын

this part of the film made me tear up a bit. its one of the most chaotic insane movies ever and then this scene just hits you with a wave of calm and real emotion

@Enemieslist Жыл бұрын

try watching it 3.5 tabs deep. me and my close-knit group of friends circa 6 years ago (our late teens/early twenties) adapted this as our favourite ever chunk of literature. Not even being a part of it, but understanding the impact of this period and learning how to appreciate language that entirely capsulated a generation to a T was more than enough for us. we have since all moved in separate directions, but I still hold close to my heart the pulsating momentum that filled the room - Thompson rendered us entirely speechless.

@MrDark21knight 11 ай бұрын

A collective grief erupted after that 🌊 broke.

@josephstalin9575 17 күн бұрын

@@Enemieslistexactly the same my dude, we watched this movie probably 20+ times, and always saw something we hadn’t seen before or understood it in different ways, I think my favorite scene is definitely this one, followed closely by the Jefferson’s Airplane song bathroom scene, I was in this faze in high school, actually read the book and did my main senior book report on it, teacher appreciated it more than I figured he would💀

@Enemieslist 17 күн бұрын

@@josephstalin9575 teacher appreciating good taste in literature - love to see it

@alextrusk1713 8 жыл бұрын

A new word needs to be invented. We are envying another mans nostalgia. Beautiful and sad

@PhantomLord 8 жыл бұрын

there's probably a long German word thaT describes you're feeling.

@gibdopaminepls 7 жыл бұрын

"yearning" is the word you're looking for

@TheNightWatcher1385 6 жыл бұрын

I'd argue that feeling nostalgia for something you never lived through is Romanticism.

@tudore_jams 6 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what I feel, very very deeply, whenever i watch this scene or read this part of the book. It hits me so hard. And I didn't even live back then. I'm glad I lived my college days like Fear and Loathing tho

@radiowilderness9349 5 жыл бұрын

Hiraeth

@HanginWithSnakes 6 жыл бұрын

This is probably the most wonderfully articulated piece of prose I've heard, from any writer. In a way, it reminds me of the mid- to late-nineties. College years. It was all so unique, though we didn't know it at the time. The music, the experiences...the relationships I had, in that era. It's one thing to see films or documentaries about a time period. But like Hunter says, nothing can ever replace the fact that you were part of it; that you lived it.

@julieholbrook5302 3 жыл бұрын

Universally relatable...that's the key. It transcends Hunter's context. Magical.

@TheUpperbutt 3 жыл бұрын

The 90's was in a way an echo of the 60's. We can thank Grunge for that.

@AlecCommentstheInternet 2 жыл бұрын

ya i've also always felt that the 90s were the 60s of the 90s

@derekrushe 2 жыл бұрын

For any of us who lived through it, 90- 96 was, at least in music terms, our 60's. Nothing since has come remotely close.

@predalien1413 2 жыл бұрын

So essentially like everyone in the previous to now, is live in the now knowing you will look back. So pathetic.

@LRC92 8 жыл бұрын

Like Hunter S. Thompson or not, he sure could write!

@julieholbrook5302 3 жыл бұрын

You can go on any steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes, you can almost see the high watermark, that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.... Hauntingly beautiful.

@PLNKYELLOWBLACK 3 жыл бұрын

@@julieholbrook5302 Even his suicide note was hauntingly beautiful

@matthewcardoza1190 3 жыл бұрын

@@PLNKYELLOWBLACK indeed; one single word: COUNSELOR. Whatever it’s meaning or message, that remains a mystery. Who knows what hunter was trying to say? But like all great writers, we’ll never know what truly went through his mind.

@Pendragon981 3 жыл бұрын

All that chaos just to get to that one moment of reflection and clarity, it was all worth it.

@GUSX4NMAN Жыл бұрын

Just like the experience of a God dose aka 10 grams of mushrooms or 10 tabs of acid

@metallicakixtotalass 8 жыл бұрын

The thing Hunter got I think that a lot of people don't about that time and place is that the Hippie Experience was unique even at the time. There was no "Hippie Generation," but a group of people who came to a certain place, i.e. the Height-Ashbury area of San Francisco as well as the Bay Area as a whole, as well as other places like the Village in NYC, Woodstock, Berkeley, etc. The Beatles, Hendrix, and Dylan really were the biggest musicians of the era, but that didn't mean the people, even the teenagers and young people, all lived the Hippie lifestyle and protested the war Hunter experienced. So it doesn't really make sense to pretend that all these Baby Boomers (which by the way Hunter absolutely wasn't - he was born in 1937, which makes his recollections of the era so fascinating) grew out their hair, smoked weed and dropped acid, then suddenly ten years later voted for Reagan and became corporate slaves before retiring to Florida. That's probably why Hunter felt so despairing about the era - it was an outlier even of its time.

@yakovizbitser4703 7 жыл бұрын

Up vote this comment!

@dmwalker24 7 жыл бұрын

Beautiful analysis and beautifully said. It's a realization that these moments can rise up either spontaneously or more likely as a result of the millions of incomprehensible variables influencing humanity at any given time. I take it as an instruction to always be on the lookout for strange shifts in the tide.

@Tanstaafl_74 6 жыл бұрын

He literally said Thompson wasn't a boomer, he was the generation before them. He was older than the boomers, critiquing their hypocrisy.

@chrisleone1035 6 жыл бұрын

Ya know I hear this speech and It makes me reflect of my time I the 90s in New York, we were out with no cause but we believed what we were doing was right, we came together and we left on a high mark knowing that it would crash,

@mark1952able 5 жыл бұрын

@Bryce Thibodeaux When one looses on the crap table you shift gears

@punka92 8 жыл бұрын

Probably my favorite part of the movie. The music, the visuals, the monolog, just perfect

@markjackson2889 6 жыл бұрын

Jack B ik this comment is really old but do you know what the song is called?

@mdj2023 6 жыл бұрын

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@markjackson2889 6 жыл бұрын

mdj2023 cheers mate I owe you lol

@BojkataGreenMan 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks mdj2023 !

@jeremyyoung8793 2 жыл бұрын

@@markjackson2889 The Youngbloods- Get Together.

@TravisBickleNYC76 2 жыл бұрын

Brings tears to my eyes. Anyone who has lived long enough, and been through enough has seen that high watermark, and the waves breaking back. It's all over, only a memory, a phantom thought, unprovable, unidentifiable. Time to go in, pet the cat, and be happy for the memory. Yet, some part of the mind wishes the past were the present, but both are gone a blink.

@swerdna77 Жыл бұрын

Very well put.

@montanagal6958 3 ай бұрын

beautiful

@robb7148 Жыл бұрын

Been watching this movie since my early 20s (now 40) and I finally can relate to this scene. The longing in his eyes as he looks out west. I’ve lived enough to have my own moments, my own eras, that I too now look west and long for.

@toddileelee6935 5 ай бұрын

Ha, im the exact same age and thought the same thing when watching this clip just now, kind of ironic it was made in the 90's. Last great decade in my opinion. Never will be again.

@Brett101792 6 жыл бұрын

..."there was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning."

@Jacob-zv7xw 3 жыл бұрын

yeah we heard it in the clip

@predalien1413 Ай бұрын

Lies

@mouthofxenu 7 жыл бұрын

I finally understand what Hunter S. Thompson was saying here.

@Poszlakowaneopinie 6 жыл бұрын

bitter sweet

@hippiecheezburger5457 3 жыл бұрын

It’s deep, Fear and Loathing is a true commentary on the counterculture of the 1960s and how brief it was and what that exactly means

@ryanjones9498 3 жыл бұрын

Im just wondering what he was smoking in the glass bulb. Meth to keep him up all night to write or maybe heroin.

@macintoshflorida5111 3 жыл бұрын

@@ryanjones9498 hash

@Brainwarts99 5 ай бұрын

@@ryanjones9498the acid alone will keep you up all night lol

@1971SuperLead 12 жыл бұрын

I've watched this a dozen times since it's release. At 1st the movie was about two guys having fun in Vegas, but each time I watched the movie I learned something important. Each time I watch it I get a deeper message. It's actually an incredibly deep movie. There's so much to learn from it. And this scene here you are spot on. Hunter summarizes the goal, feeling and failure of the late 60's so eloquently. I could talk forever about the deep truths this movie exposes. It's truly epic.

@spartanguitarist6579 Жыл бұрын

It’s a beautiful monologue in the middle of a crazy movie, i felt so comforted when I watched it

@freedom_rock18 Жыл бұрын

That truth still stand today only it’s different ina. Way I guess

@grog3514 11 ай бұрын

This movie makes me sad. Like no matter how much good faith and energy there are, the cynical, angry world always wins and anything else is just wishful delusion. It's a mockery of the system and society that I can't disagree with.

@Junger2183 11 ай бұрын

Well go on then

@younggrinch2826 8 ай бұрын

Well yeah, there’s a reason people sing the gospel of gonzo and it’s not bc his drug collection

@aaronbower7498 9 жыл бұрын

It makes me incredibly sad to think that we might never see anything like the beautiful high wave that flowed in the 60's ever again.

@aldezmail 9 жыл бұрын

aaron bower there was no mobiles phones and public internet to speak of in the 60s. If we had something like that high it would be the first thing you see on youtube and the last thing you see on the TV News

@yehndor 9 жыл бұрын

I spoke to a man the other day. He was old, his white hair was braided down to his waist, he had thick rimmed, old glasses and a bushy squirrel tail moustache. He asked to bum a cigarette and as we smoked, he told me stories. Stories of the psychedelic revolution of the sixties. He told me how he had travelled the whole country and watched as peace and love won. How they did it. He told me how history repeats itself, and how it could happen again. He told me how my generation, the generation born between 1990 and 2000, was the generation that had inherited the angst of his generation. The tiredness. The want for change and the will to make it happen. He told me how our generation, even though it may not seem like it, had accomplished great things and could do more if we only work together. He finished his cigarette and flicked it away, and began to leave. He stopped one last time and looked over his shoulder and smiled. He said to me "You give em' hell, kid." and walked away. I still don't know his name. But I'll never forget him as long as I live.

@robertandersson2958 8 жыл бұрын

+aaron bower But also, it's possible we reach a much higher more powerful wave because we have global connectivity through the internet. So the potential for global consciousness change is much greater now.

@emilywilkinson7710 8 жыл бұрын

+Robert Andersson Agreed

@The7thCircuit 8 жыл бұрын

Just some dumb hippies mad that their brain receptors are permanently fried from all of the drug use....lol

@PhantomLord 8 жыл бұрын

I love this scene. perfectly sums up the point of the book and the meaning of their "journey"

@surf7lakemich1 8 жыл бұрын

Well said

@MattyHodge95 7 жыл бұрын

PhantomLord We're this far into the vortex and you want to quit now.

@levenst1 11 жыл бұрын

Thompson is an amazing writer. Gotta give credit to Johnny Depp here too. His tone is perfect.

@acd839 8 ай бұрын

Thinking about 2016 right now somehow feels like this

@Postaldude2003 6 ай бұрын

Same bro

@ryancrawford5163 10 жыл бұрын

I hope the waves roll back in someday

@noxure 10 жыл бұрын

And this time we'll win!

@NothingItsJustNo 6 жыл бұрын

History repeats it self.

@johnnyw8444 6 жыл бұрын

Or the wave will kill us food 4 thought

@Tripp1993 6 жыл бұрын

Do you ever get the feeling that it's beginning to roll in again?

@lolblindslol 6 жыл бұрын

@Sam Hudson uhhhhhh.... wut? lol

@COLovesYou1 11 жыл бұрын

I admire filmmakers like Terry Gilliam. He took Thompson's story and translated it absolutely perfectly to the screen. He took an unfilmable book and made a masterpiece of a movie, if made by someone else this movie could have been ruined in an instant.

@RicardoIv 11 ай бұрын

check Where the Buffalo Roam movie

@ankeriaskaarme8085 10 ай бұрын

NIXON!!!@@RicardoIv

@RicardoIv 10 ай бұрын

@@ankeriaskaarme8085 🐶🐕

@younggrinch2826 8 ай бұрын

@@RicardoIvabout to say the same thing

@JMW_JMW_JMW 3 жыл бұрын

One of Hunter S. Thompsons greatest quotes, and there are many.

@oliviamiller1092 10 жыл бұрын

This scene is the thesis of both the book and movie. The idealism born out of the '60s blinds people to violence. Of course, the blame is both on those who participated in the drug culture and those who fought against it. Thompson is arguing that the media is paying more attention to a phony drug war rather than the war in Vietnam and American protests against it. The inspiration for Fear and Loathing is the wrongful assassination of a Mexican-American journalist reporting on protests of the Vietnam War. Drugs is the vehicle through which Thompson uses to demonstrate the blindness suffered by the victims of the Leary era. Violence occurs all around him--someone ran over by a car, a woman decapitated, bombs falling on Vietnam--and yet it always plays in the background. This scene is the explanation for violence's background role. The characters, the journalists, and America can't acknowledge their own violent realities because they were supposed to win.

@marcag9810 10 жыл бұрын

I think your analisis is incomplete and not exactly accurate. Maybe is just interpretation to fit our personal beliefs but I see the presence of Thomson as an icon of Heidegger's existentialist and full aware and alive being. He celebrates drugs as a way to live more and more profoundly not because of the characteristics of drugs but because of its nature of distorted realities (that you could experience and gather as another moment of full carpe diem, for the purpose is not to live good or long but a lot). All the violence in the background is not meant to be understood as an accidental situation but as a general life context and so the 60's movements were not just a reaction to that but a rethinking of the general human condition where the existential thesis were acknowledged and digested by the masses that reacted with a massive burst of lifewish. I don't mean you're wrong, I'm just saying that what you put as main ideas of the movie are actually a casual setup that could have been completely different with the symbolic adventure being the same: passion for true life and true living.

@oliviamiller1092 9 жыл бұрын

Marc AG I agree that the scene foregrounds the "existential thesis," and it captures the zeitgeist. Proclaiming this as the thesis of the overall film, I think, is inaccurate on my part. The scene is an elegiac reflection, and uncovering the heart of the film requires more contextualization than what's provided in this scene, although the lines are beautifully composed. Ultimately, I do view the scene as a critique because Thompson emphasizes a trust in invincibility as the crux of the zeitgeist, and when he utters the final line, "less than five years later...the high water mark," he's draws attention to how little time has passed since America has moved on into the 1970's. This undermines his previous emphasis on invincibility and "winning," and moreover, the line "it requires the right kind of eyes" indicates that the zeitgeist has ended. My idea of what lies at the heart of the film is contextualized by other scenes -- including his commentary on people crippled by the 1960's and Timothy Leary. I'm not sure that I would agree with my earlier statement that the films is offering drugs as the reason for our blindness to violence, but I would say that violence is relegated to the background with intention. I would simply offer that Thompson feels frustrated with the current state of American society, including Vietnam and its reportage, and he mourns the feeling, even if it was ideologically unsound and drug-induced, that we could overcome injustice.

@williamneal9076 3 жыл бұрын

It's a good point to ponder.

@MomMom4Cubs 3 жыл бұрын

And now? I agree with your comment more now than the day you wrote it. Sadly, your crystal ball is fully functional.

@Nico-wv2cj 2 жыл бұрын

You wrote this on acid

@cellthefun 9 жыл бұрын

This actually made me tear up

@zzzhuh 8 жыл бұрын

I think this scene in particular is better in the movie. Love this quote: "So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark-that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. " I don't understand how Hunter S. Thompson thinks his gonzo journalism was a failure.

@EveForbiddenFruit 8 жыл бұрын

He never thought his writing was a failure. He just doesn't think he ever fully captured the spirit of gonzo journalism he imagined. No one has. It's nearly impossible to do. Regardless, he's still one of the best writers of the 20th century, along with Hemingway, Nabokov, and Faulkner.

@whydoievenbothertoputthish2199 6 жыл бұрын

Those to keep improving always find things to fix

@F1god04 5 жыл бұрын

Austin Faulds add Steinbeck to that and I agree completely.

@clemsonbloke 4 жыл бұрын

He's talking about the 60s zeitgeist or spirit of the times and how fast it came and was over.

@julieholbrook5302 3 жыл бұрын

Same! The word "almost" washes over me so deeply. It powers the quote.

@helicalactual 5 жыл бұрын

This is without a doubt one of the best monologues written of the 20th century. Has nothing to do with drugs, I think that’s what people never understood about Hunter.

@lewstone5273 5 жыл бұрын

I remember reading this years ago. This section was especially beautifully written and true. “That place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.” So true.

@sydIRISH 8 жыл бұрын

In a such a crazy, funny, and psychedelic movie....this a beautifully shot and well placed scene. I love Hunter S. Thompson's work, and I love this film. People who don't "get" it, just haven't experienced this kind of beautiful madness. I've never seen a film so accurately depicting the experiences of an all out drug binge. I'm not encouraging it, nor excusing it....but when you're young life is all about experiencing new things. R.I.P. Hunter S. Thompson, the father of Gonzo Journalism.

@thejakeyl88 8 жыл бұрын

+sydIRISH Wonderful comment, I have that same feeling. For me, I found this movie in 2003 when I was 18 years old and experiencing mushrooms for the first time. I could have never expected the impact and change it would have on me. I think moments like these are for the old souls on this world. I feel like its kind of an honor to know the deep dark secrets and moments of humanity and my own psyche.

@sloppyjo4560 7 жыл бұрын

u rite

@lewstone5273 5 жыл бұрын

thejakeyl88 same here, well said.

@businessman9478 2 жыл бұрын

great comment however its funny because hunter was in his 30s when he took this journey not exactly the age people associate with free experiementation

@thejakeyl88 8 жыл бұрын

For those of us that seem stuck in the 60s, who, even though born decades later, can reach back and touch the waves the 60s era created and sent through time.... This scene is our favorite. Because throughout our research we've accumulated so much data, sounds, sights and feelings that we can almost put them together like a puzzle, almost like a memory from a time before our own. So this scene for us, really allows ourselves to experience what it would have been like to actually have lived through, and looked back on the late 60s from the perspective of early 70s. I know I can relate with those keys moments in my life, and the only way I can really explain it is this, the mid to late 1960's in San Fransisco is to humanity as is late teens and early 20s is to an individual, and this scene is like reaching 30, looking back on that wave of life you were riding until it slowly crashed and rolled away as you hit 30. For some reason I see it like that. Except for the 60s, it was a moment in time that will never happen again. There were SO MANY crossroads during that time, you cannot even begin to put it all together. Those crossroads for humanity will never cross again, at a time like they did in our evolution as human beings. It is like the saying. "The stars aligned" and that is exactly what the mid to late 60's were for humanity, the stars aligned, and it created just a few short years that are so special, they will never be replicated again.

@piecemaster2000 8 жыл бұрын

+thejakeyl88 I think this scene can give you a whiff of what it may have been like to live through Hunters experience, very unlikely that it allows you to experience it...

@thejakeyl88 8 жыл бұрын

Our brains are incapable of differentiating between experiences that are real, or not. It has been scientifically proven. If you are one who is capable of extremely precise thinking and control over certain areas within the brain that control how you experience time and reality, you are able to completely allow a full simulation during meditation which the brain will create a memory from. You will then be unaware of it not having occurred, for real. Lots of people can do this, one can skydive, drive a car (before ever having driven one) etc...

@piecemaster2000 8 жыл бұрын

+thejakeyl88 - Just because you are under the illusion that you are experiencing what was happening back then does not mean you are in reality experiencing what they were experiencing.

@jackmcconnico8286 7 жыл бұрын

thejakeyl88 /r/lewronggeneration

@kylestey 6 жыл бұрын

Jesus, that sure is some heady new wave psychology. Almost makes me faint from the smell of the bullshit.

@Thagros 11 жыл бұрын

I cried the first time I watched this bit. Such a powerful description of a new wave of hope that inspired a generation toward peace and unity. Followed by defeat as it crashed the old war complexes and greed.

@Chatas505 9 жыл бұрын

Best scene in the whole movie

@tomasmaster24 8 жыл бұрын

+Throwing Spork best monologue of the 90

@UnkkRell 3 жыл бұрын

i never watched this movie and i’m born in ‘99 it definitely hit me

@scartee13 4 жыл бұрын

No mix of words or music or memories can touch that very sense of knowing that you there and live in that corner of time in the world whatever it meant. Probably the most beautiful line I’ve ever heard❤️

@Ahead0fTime 6 жыл бұрын

This scene is the most powerful one for me. He tries so hard to reach that peak he had in the 60's but his attorney keeps ruining his trips. And when he finally gets some peace and quiet. This comes out. I've been looking for the right set of words to describe a distant memory

@roddydykes7053 6 жыл бұрын

I remember watching this high with friends in highschool 16 years old, this scene was the first time I ever became nostalgic for a time I was never part of. Started longing for the era so I started learning those old songs on guitar, would string up Christmas lights and use a fog machine, just lying back playing old Cream and Jimi Hendrix songs

@julieholbrook5302 3 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1964. I was a teen in the 70's. My husband and I watched this (also high) while we were dating in the 90's. I was, and am still, dumbstruck with nostalgia (high or not) at this scene. Transcendent.

@dopaminedreams1122 3 жыл бұрын

@@julieholbrook5302 You and your husband are lucky, i would kill to be born in the 60s, being Gen Z sucks, but i still feel nostalgic for that time that i was never alive in...

@percival8193 3 жыл бұрын

This has to be one of my favorite scenes from the movie. Through all the drugs & sporadic moments occurring around him I feel that Raoul was able to show a sense of pure vividness here. I really felt the calmness in this scene. Johnny Depp depicted this character perfectly in this film

@aleahc1379 6 жыл бұрын

The raw emoation in this small part of the book really tells the true meaning of the story. I think the reason Hunter because so manic in his later years was because he was growing into a generation that he didnt fit into and refused to even attempt to step outside of the box and I think a lot of people suffered the same depression. He talks about being a part of the 'hippie generation' as though it was his peak in life, his crowning achievement, no one could ever take away those memories. I think that the mid to late 60's was the only time in his life where he felt like he could do whatever he wanted and no one would care and he was right. He never caused any harm to a single person and in return was forced to live through decades that didnt make sense to him and people who over time forgot what it was like to do more than what they were supposed to. Ive never been more insipred by a writer and it sometimes makes me upset sometimes that all we have left him is quite literally all that was left of him.

@russianretard69420 4 жыл бұрын

Almost cried the first time I heard/watched this scene. So much lachrymose

@NathanCatherall 10 ай бұрын

The quote “There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning…” speaks volumes to me. I think it applies to youthful counterculture as a whole. Not just that of the late 60s. When you are young, you feel like you know everything, and that what you are doing is good and just. Scarcely stopping to think about the consequences of whatever you are fighting for.

@1971SuperLead 12 жыл бұрын

Nicely said. What appears to be a whacky comedy ends up as a deep revelation about the 60's era dream of love, peace and freedom and the 70's rude awakening. It also shows us that although drugs may have opened our eyes to some things, they are also incredibly destructive.

@tommydhammer 11 жыл бұрын

Such a talented writer. He could be hilariously funny, absurdly strange, and heart touching all at the same time. This book's a master piece. RIP Hunter.

@themadmonkey5187 Жыл бұрын

Probably never any words more beautifully written or spoken. Im young as hell. Beyond too young to even know what the 60’s were even like. But this reminds me of my youth. A time where me and many others felt like we were riding the crest of a beautiful wave. And just 5 years later, there’s a house in a small town. Where with the right kind of eyes, you can almost see the memories that were had. Ghosts of a time filled with hopes and dreams. I guess it’s welcome to a new reality

@czperiod2576 5 жыл бұрын

No mix of words, or music, or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world. Whatever it meant.... That perfectly sums up my experience at MIT in the 80's when the Internet/Arpanet was just getting going. Complete with the nitrous tanks..... That kind of peak That never comes again.....

@watchALLthethings 8 жыл бұрын

"That place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." Makes me sad.

@iandavies7991 4 жыл бұрын

One of the best pieces of writing I've ever seen. It's the most important scene in the movie. The book as well. It's the philosophical spine of the story. It gives it meaning. Without it the film would get incredibly tedious and unwatchable. I think that's why it's the mid point of the movie.

@akitarowatanabe5974 9 жыл бұрын

Strange memories in this nervous night in my basement. Has it been 10 years? 12? It seems like a lifetime. The kind of peak that never comes again. 4chan in the middle '00s was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive, in that corner of time on the internet, whatever it meant. There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was hilarious, that we were having fun. And that, I think, was the handle. That sense of inevitable victory over the forces of boredom and lolcows. Not in any upright or kind sense, we didn't need that. Our lulz would simply prevail. We had all the momentum. We were riding the crest of a high, and beautiful wave. So now, less than 10 years later, you can go to any website and scroll down. And with the right kind of eyes, you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke, and rolled back.

@estebanflores1010 9 жыл бұрын

beutiful

@illuminatosavio7746 9 жыл бұрын

thanks

@300daysandnights 9 жыл бұрын

4chan was never that great. There was always gold in tons and tons of shit.

@illuminatosavio7746 9 жыл бұрын

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH

@stealthisname66 9 жыл бұрын

Akitaro Watanabe easy with the feels there wojak

@guslakis 2 жыл бұрын

The look on his face at 1:50 is haunting and profoundly sad, the deep recognition of a special time and place, lost forever.

@mikeway2223 6 жыл бұрын

We’ve all had a time in our lives where we felt this way. For me it was in the mid nineties as a teenager. Times where everything felt limitless and anything was a possibility. Youth does that sort of thing. It gives you the feeling of immortality to a sense.

@drinkingpoolwater 3 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️👏🏻👏🏻🙏🙏

@lordskeletro Жыл бұрын

Sadly, in nowadays work, you might try, but you'll always be alone in your delusions... This is a change that comes genuinely only when everyone really thinks... Instead i see a lot of brick heads people closed in their own ideas of reality, never wanting to get out to explore. Peace is rarely an option today. Have i lost before even trying?

@younggrinch2826 8 ай бұрын

@@lordskeletroof course. The revolution won’t be televised because it happens to everyone in their own time within themselves. Power always corrupts the individual that’s why things Will ultimately never xhangey

@jonathanbirch2022 4 ай бұрын

Your brain chemistry is literally different when you’re in your teens/early 20s. You do feel at the center of the world

@bigdummy9844 5 жыл бұрын

I've seen this movie countless times. I'm up & down, away from the TV, getting food, on the phone, going to the bathroom, whatever..But every single time this scene comes on I freeze, I have to hear these beautiful words

@julieholbrook5302 3 жыл бұрын

The Youngbloods' "Get Together" softly wafting in the background absolutely nails it.

@ThatGuy-te9wh 3 жыл бұрын

I wasn't there or alive, but this scene makes me tear up.

@DreamskyDance 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, because the world has became in a way that against which people stood up then. That kind of time, the feeling, the experience may not ever happen again...

@lamerical 3 жыл бұрын

Introspection after the drugs wear off.. write it down before it fades away like a dream

@vortexart5587 3 жыл бұрын

have you notice the painting on the wall with the sail ships???? could this film foreshadowed jonny depp role for the pirates of the Caribbean films? especially when he talking about waves???? just a thought

@VikingFyre 10 жыл бұрын

This soliloquy always moved me, making me appreciate what that generation did and wishing I had been a part of it, envious of that something that no mix of words or memories could touch.

@COWHATE 10 жыл бұрын

I wish we had this. I think we might, but maybe I'm just pretending. Maybe we could have had it....It's had to tell.

@pookz3067 6 жыл бұрын

This is a criticism of the naïveté of that generation...

@MultiCheeseLouise 5 жыл бұрын

@@pookz3067 finally somebody actually gets it. look at the state that generation left the world in for the ones to come. it's a perfect example of how destructive pure hedonism can actually be.

@clemsonbloke 4 жыл бұрын

@@pookz3067 Exactly and in a sense the naivete of every generation when they are young. It's the growing up process. One day things seem so in reach, possible, and happy. The next day reality sets in.

@newpivot1 9 жыл бұрын

I think this was his departure, he knew he couldn't educate us all, that his image was to much like his parodies, he wanted to leave us this piece of gold. Almost in a way, he was saying goodbye, like he was saying, "You can only buy one ticket, and my ride is over." the rest was just leaving the amusement park.

@isaiahgonzales9989 8 жыл бұрын

That just fucked me up hardcore man

@rumdonkey7826 6 жыл бұрын

... You think what was his departure? The movie made 8 years before his death or the text that was written 34 years prior?

@clemsonbloke 4 жыл бұрын

He lived 34 more years after writing the book. He wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in 1971. Hunter died in 2005.

@snowfrosty1 Жыл бұрын

@@clemsonbloke via suicide, so in a round about way the OP's comment still rings true

@pressmaster1255 Жыл бұрын

Hunter S Thompson was an amazing writer.

@Dougger2006 11 жыл бұрын

The was the most powerful scene of the movie. I believe that Fear and Loathing was about searching for the American Dream but the dream had been there the whole time because it was about freedom and having fun but it all faded away.

@_ivan_ 4 жыл бұрын

And when you search for the moment to stay for generations... All vanish

@kds5895 8 жыл бұрын

Such an unexpectedly beautiful scene! I love it, kinda makes me misty. Why am I a 90's baby?

@julieholbrook5302 3 жыл бұрын

That's what was so powerful about Hunter Thompson. His words transcend space and time.... They call to the most basic human need to reflect on our place in the world...to make sense of the experiences that shaped us. The sign of a poet.

@ilyakopyl 3 жыл бұрын

When I quit from one of my previous jobs several years ago, I put the quote from this scene (albeit, a shortened one) in the epigraph of my farewell company-wide email.

@GungaLaGunga 8 ай бұрын

one of the greatest things ever written. That high water mark indeed. As we live the continued decline now.

@SooperKewl 2 ай бұрын

I watched this scene at the Dobie Theater at the University of Texas in 1998 and felt the same way. Still do in 2024. What a special time and I was so lucky to experience it.

@erikvanwelzen 6 жыл бұрын

a melancholic and sad scene. We need a new revolution over the forces of old and evil...

@utterlyrelaxed9109 4 жыл бұрын

But no explanation,no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world what ever it meant Love it

@jeffdawson2786 Жыл бұрын

My favorite scene in the movie, the footage, the music, the narration, the dark room.

@Arominit Жыл бұрын

I get 2 layers of nostalgia from this clip, like a melancholic inception

@TheBerserkCook 6 жыл бұрын

Beautiful scene. Encapsulates Hunter’s literature perfectly!

@scottlawton9459 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like this was the thesis of the novel. He was trying to understand WHY the movement failed. He goes on and on about drugs and all of this crazy stuff because he’s trying to rationalize why it all failed. Somewhere in the drugs, the haze and the mess, the answer as to why it all failed would appear to him. In the book, it’s the same way. It’s a crazy book, and it’s a mess. But in the middle of the crazy drivel is this amazing scene where we see and read this beautiful passage about trying to understand why things failed. It’s beautiful.

@shschesschamp Ай бұрын

A time that was, a time not forgotten, and a time that is long gone.

@taherbertolinirodrigues9104 4 ай бұрын

This entire scene makes me reslly melancholic for some reason, to me it feels like he is remembering the time where the hippie movement was at it’s strongest, drawing close to achieving the goals of peace and equality it preached, and then the wave died down, and everything receded, the few that remained too little to achieve much, so they scattered, and all that lags behind is melancholy over a time that was so happy

@michaelairton3723 4 жыл бұрын

Watched this scene over and over recently. So poignant. The idealism, the sense of hope, of blazing a new and better trail, of triumphing over evil... and then it ended. Depp spends the movie portraying Thompson under the influence of drugs, but for one brief moment at the end of this soliloquy, he's quiet, reflective, and sad, because the wave did indeed break and roll back.

@NaughtyVampireGod 4 жыл бұрын

The song is Get Together by The Youngbloods (been asked several times)

@NYPATRIOTBX 3 жыл бұрын

I think about what he said in the context of growing up in the Bronx and NYC as whole in the 90’s , there was something magical about the city at that time, but now it’s just a fleeting memory.

@hockeymann88 Жыл бұрын

Dep either did speed to study these mannerisms or watched somebody who did use. Absolutely nailed it.

@younggrinch2826 8 ай бұрын

He just studied Hunter wym

@AngryPossumProds 7 жыл бұрын

Thompson- Gilliam- Depp: three artists burying a decade of promise, hope and optimism. Burying a dream.

@ChairmanMeow1 4 жыл бұрын

Madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere.

@benkleschinsky 4 жыл бұрын

By far Johnny Depp’s greatest performance. Should have won an Oscar.

@mr.president3633 4 жыл бұрын

Blow was pretty good too but i agree he should have won a oscar

@ricardo950535 3 жыл бұрын

Everytime I watch this on DVD, this scene defines the movie.

@flamingship 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much the only part of this movie that was truly great. The film was such a missed opportunity. This moment gives you a tiny glimpse of what could have been.

@jonathanbirch2022 4 ай бұрын

Kind of like the 60s

@SchrodingersCat8813 3 жыл бұрын

First time I saw this movie I was a teenager and ya know just thought it was hilarious and about 2 old guys on a ton of drugs, which I mean yeah there's that, but when I watched it more times later on I caught on to some of the themes he was getting at but this speech...holy hell. So beautifully written, so evocative, and captures such a historic moment, the whimsy and sadness in his lamenting the failure of the 60s and the movie really adds to it, the visuals, him looking out the window when describing the high water mark... brutal I reckon that was indeed the point of it all. To go to Vegas and see the depravity and monstrosity of American culture and look out at that high water mark. Just damn

@FilmedbyEdmund 11 ай бұрын

Me, cinephile, thinking back about the movies made in the 90’s, including this masterpiece

@silentgroyper5069 6 жыл бұрын

My favourite scene in the movie. RIP Thompson!

@setpunks13 4 жыл бұрын

this scene always brings tears to my eyes.

@mossymoose8920 5 жыл бұрын

Wish we still had this Johnny Depp.

@Valka2006 7 ай бұрын

This movie makes me feel like I was born in the wrong time. Amazing masterpiece of a movie! Love it❤❤❤

@simondayan2737 2 жыл бұрын

Love this scene took me three tries to understand what the hell the film was about - was 16 at the time when I first saw it on VHS. Depps Hunter narration in this scene is the golden nugget to understanding and appreciating what this film was all about.

@Nickasauur 6 жыл бұрын

kinda resonates with me.. That time when you would be drugged up but in a positive way, making memories that will last forever and then looking back while you're on the path you chose, tie and a suit, those times will never come again.

@Rollanotheronemyfriend 2 жыл бұрын

There's a fine thin line between genius and madness

@PaulSchuster-yj4zb 5 ай бұрын

The best description of the peace movement and counter culture ever written. If I could write something a tenth as good, I would consider my life fulfilled at 74.

@InfliiKted 7 жыл бұрын

This scene and the 5 minutes before it, are my favorite parts of the movie

@artfan101 7 жыл бұрын

"you know what Billy... We blew it"

@russellpaloor1408 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like he's talking about a generation coming into their own, and not putting up with the bs. We lost that war any way you slice it. So many young men died. And so many proud Vietnamese. I think he is talking about the stand they took, some people say they were just on drugs, but I think that generation found themselves in fighting for their lives. This is a beautiful bit of poetry. And the videowork is great too.

@QueenJosu Жыл бұрын

such an inspirational scene

@leland-bobpalmer4274 4 жыл бұрын

This is applicable to most times, & places usually it is so beautiful, so eloquent, & well-spoken.

@demonizer133 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly! I think anyone who looks back on their life can apply this very same monologue to their childhood days of wonder and discovery; and shed a tear over their own plight at not having realized, while it was happening, that their childhood/adolescent days were ending and their lives as adults had begun.

@johngalt23g 12 жыл бұрын

Some of the finest prose ever written in the English language. In a few hundred words, the rise and fall of a movement described. RIP Hunter, if you can ever find peace

@heck6612 3 жыл бұрын

watching this at the end of an acid trip was a dope experience

@harrywright5705 3 ай бұрын

I always come back to this as my oasis of some sort of tranquility,I don’t know all I do know is this scene made me think of some amazing times in my past high or sober haha. But still the kind of relevance to past and now which we all strive for it’s weird I can’t really word it. But still one of my favourite moments talking lsd for my 21 for the first time and watching this for my first time.. man what a trip eh? 🤣🤘

@TheParisthething 3 жыл бұрын

His realist Lyricism is really profound... Absolutely amazing.

@justjeph6345 6 жыл бұрын

One of Depp's finest roles, I think

@drew8598 5 жыл бұрын

Blow and Charlie and the chocolate factory

@MAXLAWLESSIBIZA 9 жыл бұрын

The finest prose.

@aylmao6647 4 жыл бұрын

U could take any scene from that movie, literally any, and it would still be iconic

@Xavier_Coogat_the_Mambo_King Жыл бұрын

Finally got around to watching this movie and had to watch this scene 3 times. One of my favorite scenes in all of film.

@ad1312ad 4 жыл бұрын

watching this in 2019: damn that's wild wonder what that was like watching this in 2020: lol ok hunter

@williamroper5422 4 жыл бұрын

Today is June 8, 2020 I heard some idealistic young protesters today talking about how they wouldn't stop until they changed the world and it made me think of this scene.

@StealthMaster86 4 жыл бұрын

Watched this movie last night and this scene hits different now than it did when I first saw it 15 years ago.

@PetteriWar 3 жыл бұрын

@Bender Bending Rodriguez You are right about counter culture nowadays. Well I guess that's just how it is when the media vilifies one side over another.

@nickreynolds8391 7 жыл бұрын

"So now, less than five years later -- you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes...you can almost see the high water mark...that place where the wave finally broke...and rolled back."