As the mind-bending drug mania takes hold, the paranoia and violent hallucinations mount to what one can only assume are unrepairable levels, with the duo stumbling through a neon glittering town that’s garishly dehumanizing in the most clear-minded of states (though, let’s be clear, as far as I’m concerned, there is only pleasant wonder to be found in the happy shuffling tones of Vegas icon Tom Jones that the soundtrack keeps returning to), with Gonzo introducing a dangerously desirable (and I mean that from the legal standpoint) vulnerable lost young runaway (Christina Ricci) into their hazy maniacal lair (with Gonzo feeding her some LSD before realizing she’s never tripped before), the duo suddenly finding themselves covering a district attorney’s convention, doing their best to discreetly snort cocaine as a hysterical ‘anti-marijuana’ film plays to the a very stiff and imposing crowd of law enforcement, and Duke, waking in total confusion at one point, managing to gather his wits just in the nick of time to stop the still mid-bender Gonzo from slicing up the poor unsuspecting room service boy.
Journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp), with his ( very sharp) knife-wielding lawyer Dr Gonzo (Benicio del Toro) at his side, a loyal ally in their war against grotesque humanity (well, until the drugs kick in and the paranoia starts, then all bets are off), whose primary advise for Duke is to join him in consuming massive quantities of illegal substances (be they uppers, downers, psychedelics, or any other mind-altering chemicals, including eventually some kind of adrenal fluid the good attorney claims was extracted from a live victim that Duke ends up taking way too much of – not that either of them are particularly moderate with anything else out of Gonzo’s impressively loaded briefcase) speed, convertible-style, across the desert to Las Vegas with the goal of ostensibly covering a popular motorcycle race.
Besides it contains an exclusive fold-out movie poster.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998) This release got a laser etched D-side and secret inscriptions in the run-out grooves. The 21st anniversary Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas edition is available for the first time on vinyl, as a limited individually numbered edition of 2500 copies pressed on ‘’Bat Country’’ black vinyl. The movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a financial failure, but later gained a cult following and was eventually included in many ‘’best of’’ movie lists. The psychedelic and classic rock songs on the soundtrack includes songs from Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, Bob Dylan, Buffalo Springfield, and the Dead Kennedys. It contains songs used in the film with sound bites of the film before each song. The music is perfectly fitting in the psychedelic story of the movie. The film details the duo’s journey through Las Vegas as their initial journalistic intentions devolve into an exploration of the city under the influence of psychoactive substances. Thompson’s weird and hallucinatory book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was in 1998 translated to the screen by director Terry Gilliam, and stars Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro as Raoul Duke and Dr.