For No Good Reason Page #2

Synopsis: Johnny Depp pays a visit to Ralph Steadman, the renown artist and the last of the original Gonzo visionaries who worked alongside Hunter S. Thompson.
Director(s): Charlie Paul
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
63%
R
Year:
2012
89 min
£67,105
Website
48 Views


who just shaved his head,

Hunter S. Thompson.

Hunter, he always

called you in the middle of the night.

It was always 3:
00, 4:00 in the morning.

You knew it was Hunter.

He said, "God damn it."

He always said, "God damn it."

"Uh, gotta go to

the Kentucky Derby."

"Well, it was, like,

Wednesday or Thursday.

Kentucky Derby was Saturday.

I was like,

"Well, okay, you wanna go

to the Kentucky Derby,

we'll go."

He says, "Well, a photographer?"

I said, "We'll find somebody."

So, it was short notice, so I

thought of this guy Ralph Steadman,

who was a British cartoonist

whose work I'd seen many times,

- very evil-minded, twisted kind of guy.

- Mmm-hmm.

And so we dragged him

to Kentucky

and they ended up

going through

this haze of alcohol

and drugs, madness,

and so they became part

of the story themselves.

The next day

was heavy.

With 30 hours to post time,

I had no press credentials,

and according to

the sports editor

of the Louisville

Courier-Journal,

no hope at all

of getting any.

Worse, I needed two sets.

One for myself

and another

for Ralph Steadman,

the English illustrator who was

coming all the way from London

to do some derby drawings.

AH I knew about him was that this was

his first visit to the United States,

and the more I pondered that

fact, the more it gave me fear.

Would he bear up under

the heinous culture shock

of being lifted

out of London

and plunged into a drunken mob

scene at the Kentucky Derby?

We had to find

each other, as it were.

Oh, God. Where is he?

Eventually, I heard this

voice behind me saying,

"Excuse me.

"Uh, are you...

Are you Ralph Steadman?"

He said, uh,

"Would you like a drink?"

Anyway, we went on

this binge for a week.

I was making notes

and drawing.

Hunter said,

"It's a filthy habit

"you've got there,

scribbling dark pictures.

"And around these parts

that's an insult."

He said,

"I've got a horrible feeling

"we're gonna have

to get out of here."

From that point on,

the weekend

became a vicious

drunken nightmare.

We both went

completely to pieces,

and since poor Steadman had no choice

but to take what came his way,

he was subjected to

shock after shock.

We sort of went

along with whatever happened,

and we'd made

that agreement

with ourselves, you know,

between each other.

"That's what we do. We just

go and see what happens."

"I'll do the drawings,

you write," you know?

So that became

the beginning of Gonzo.

Now, looking down

from the press box,

I pointed to the huge grassy

meadow enclosed by the track.

"That whole thing," I said,

"will be jammed with people,

"50,000 or so, most of

them staggering drunk.

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