For No Good Reason Page #3

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


"It's a fantastic scene,

thousands of people fainting,

"crying, copulating,

trampling each other

"and fighting with

broken whiskey bottles."

I think what he saw,

in our connection, was

somebody that somehow

saw the thing in pictures as

he saw it in words, you know.

And that seemed to me to be part

of the whole chemistry of it,

that our chemistry there

made Gonzo possible.

"What I'm trying to find,"

he said, Hunter,

"is a certain kind

of Kentucky face,

"the face of

the Kentucky Derby."

And the point is that

by the end of the week,

the very face

we were looking for

was us looking back

at ourselves in the mirror.

I don't recognize

anyone anymore.

Yeah. Ah.

What I in fact had done,

without realizing it,

was scored

a bull's-eye first time...

Yeah.

...on my first

visit to America.

I mean, I met up

with the one man

I needed to meet

in all the world,

in the whole of America,

to work with.

Yeah.

I got very depressed when I got

back on the plane to England,

because I was going

to have to go back

to a completely conventional

cartoon job.

And that really didn't fill

me with much happiness.

Let's go, Beanie.

Now, take it easy.

A bit... Ever so free.

A phone call

came and it was Hunter.

"Ralph,

I've got this manuscript.

"Could you do us

a dozen drawings

"of something that

could go with it?"

"Well," I said, "I'll try."

And I just, uh,

set about it.

Got myself

some booze as well,

'cause I seemed to need to be a

bit drunk to do it, you know.

I did about

a dozen drawings,

rolled them up in a tube

and sent them off.

"We were somewhere around Barstow

on the edge of the desert

"when the drugs

began to take hold.

"I remember

saying something like,

"'I feel a bit light-headed.

Maybe you should drive.'

"And suddenly there was a

terrible roar all around us

"and the sky was full of

what looked like huge bats,

"all swooping and screeching

and diving around the car,

"which was going

about 100 miles an hour

"with the top down

to Las Vegas."

When Fear and

Loathing in Las Vegas came out,

I think people

were stunned by it.

I mean, nobody had really

seen anything like that.

It was

a full-out celebration of

the most outrageous

kind of behavior,

and then it was so...

Funny and dangerous

and eccentric and wild.

Looks like it's gonna be a classic

of 20th century literature.

So you're down on the

main floor playing blackjack

and the stakes

are getting high.

When suddenly

you chance to look up

and there,

right smack above your head,

is a half-naked

14-year-old girl

being chased through the air

by a snarling Wolverine,

which is suddenly

locked in a death battle

with two

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