Country: USA
Year: 1998
Duration: 118'
1971. On their way to Las Vegas, two men from Los Angeles, Raoul Duhe (a penniless journalist hired by a sports magazine to cover an off-road motorcycle race) and his friend and accomplice, Samoan lawyer Dr. Gonzo, have only two things on their minds: to consume as much of every conceivable drug as possible (their Chevrolet convertible is stuffed full of them) and, once they reach their destination, to revisit the roots of the American Dream in the most absurd and hallucinatory metropolis. At the height of his career in Hollywood, Gilliam found it natural to bring Hunter S. Thompson’s visionary novel, a faithful and autobiographical account of a hallucinogenic experience, to the screen. The result is a surreal, “Felliniesque” film that comes to terms with the failures of a generation of dreamers and is frightened by the even crazier reality of American society...
Biography
film director
Terry Gilliam
(Minneapolis, Usa, 1940) earned a degree in political science at Los Angeles’s Occidental College and then worked as a magazine illustrator and in an animation studio. In 1967, he moved to London. Two years later, together with Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese and Graham Chapman, he created the famous comedy group Monty Python. He also appeared and acted in the television series Monthy Python’s Flying Circus. He co-directed the group’s first film, The Holy Grail (1975) and he produced the short film The Crimson Permanent Assurance, which was presented as an opener to the troupe’s final film, The Meaning of Life (Grand Prix Spécial du Jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1983). He then started a long and highly appreciated filmography as a director, with films such as Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King (winner of a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival), 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, presented in competition in Cannes in 1998… In 2011, he made his debut as an opera director with La Damnation de Faust at the English National Opera.
FILMOGRAFIA
Jabberwocky (id., 1977), Time Bandits (I banditi del tempo, 1981), Brazil (id., 1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Le avventure del Barone di Munchausen, 1988), The Fisher King (La leggenda del re pescatore, 1991), 12 Monkeys (L’esercito delle 12 scimmie, 1995), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Paura e delirio a Las Vegas, 1998), The Brothers Grimm (I fratelli Grimm e l’incantevole strega, 2005), Tideland (Tideland - Il mondo capovolto, 2005), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Parnassus - L’uomo che voleva ingannare il diavolo, 2009), The Zero Theorem (id., 2013), The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (L'uomo che uccise Don Chisciotte, 2018).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Terry Gilliam. STORY: from the novel by Hunter Stockton Thompson. SCREENPLAY: Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni, Alex Cox, Tod Davies. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nicola Pecorini. FILM EDITING: Lesley Walker. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Alex McDowell, Chris Gorak, Nancy Haigh. COSTUME DESIGN: Julie Weiss. MUSIC: Ray Cooper. CAST: Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Ellen Barkin, Christina Ricci, Gary Busey, Mark Harmon, Cameron Diaz, Katherine Helmond, Michael Jeter, Christopher Meloni. PRODUCTION: Patrick Cassavetti, Laila Nabulsi, Stephen Nemeth for Universal Pictures, Rhino Films, Shark Productions, Summit Entertainment, Fear and Loathing.
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