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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
Remember back when it was cool to like Johnny Depp? I still love the dude. He’s a great actor that has a dash of Nic Cage’s swingin-for-the-fences approach to his performances but does it in a bit more grounded way.
I’m a massive fan of Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas and have been since the first time I saw it, at a dead quiet Austin press screening. That year was Fear and Loathing and The Big Lebowski, two movies which played to dead crowds but worked for me completely and have since found their audiences, thank the movie Gods.
Funny, trippy, involving… it’s Gilliam at his best, Depp at his best, Benicio Del Toro at his best and has a rockin’ soundtrack. Oh, and it’s one of the most quotable movies of the ‘90s, a decade that gave us a ton of quotable movies (from Tarantino to Kevin Smith to the Coens).
Here’s a shot of Depp and Gilliam from the making of the movie, courtesy of Jordan Krug. Enjoy and click to embiggen!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
I think I lost tomorrow’s behind the scenes pic! Where in the world did I leave that thing?
-Quint
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Can't believe it took me so long to do so. Loved it.
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watched the HD recently, fucking beautiful
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The movie's supposed to be out in October. Is there a trailer out yet?
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Aug. 2, 2011, 4:41 p.m. CST
I worked at a movie theater when Fear and Loathing came out...
by Ronald Raygun
Never witnessed a movie with more walk-outs and refund requests than that. Back when Depp had nothing to lose and wasn't afraid to alienate an audience.
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Completely agree with you Quint!
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I love movies as much as the next guy, the Coens and Gilliam are my shit. However, I've never joined the cult of F&LILV and Lewbowski. It upsets me, because I really don't understand why I don't love the films, they have tons of things I do love. It will remain a mystery.
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That's just ugly, man! As your attorney I advise you to re-watch Fear and Loathing... and like it!
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1. Dirty clothes 2. Sunken Eyes 3. Pants crusted with semen from constantly jacking off when He can't find a rape victim.
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How does it look and how are the extras? This movie is terrifying to me as someone who's experimented, what he hell is it like for people who never tried any drugs?
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A worthy attempt. But the source material was pretty unfilmable.
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to people who like Crooked Little Vein. Much much better.
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but 12 Monkeys (needs a BTS!) is still my favorite Gilliam film.
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No. How about some ether? What? Never mind.
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One of six in the theater when I saw this...the other five were my friends Tripped balls that night Hard to think Gilliam said he's never done drugs.
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Aug. 2, 2011, 5:19 p.m. CST
Fear and loathing to me captures the feeling of tripping better than any movie.
by SAILOR_RIPLEY
The scene where Depp is checking into the hotel and the carpet pattern is swirling around and the lady at the counter's face is breathing. Picture perfect. That being said kids, don't mess with the acid, it's no good for ya.
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Aug. 2, 2011, 5:21 p.m. CST
'We need hawian shirts, and we need to arm ourselves....to the teeth
by Arkhaminmate001
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Aug. 2, 2011, 5:21 p.m. CST
you'd better drive...there's something wrong with me..'
by Arkhaminmate001
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I was actually going to cite that scene in my last post. Also just the way the camera never stays still, it's always tilting or rocking back and forth. Great work.
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Aug. 2, 2011, 5:24 p.m. CST
My attorney understands this concept, despite his racial handicap.
by MotherPussBucket
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I was just admiring the shape of your skull.
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it's about the freedom that we all could have had by now if the people behind the movement didn't get all wrapped up in the acid craze and lose their minds. damn it, i can almost see the high water mark!
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-- to when I lived in SF, CA for a short while helping a friend on some of his film school projects (as I had already graduated with my film degree). Anticipating the movie I went and checked out the book, having not read it before, from the main downtown library. Upon leaving SF some short time later, my friend's obnoxious and fat girlfriend implored me to let her read the book and that she would return it to the library for me. Cut ahead about a year and a half later when I returned to visit my friend again in SF only to be told that she had never returned the book and was no longer dating my friend. Of course all this was just passive-aggressive behavior encouraged by my talentless and insecure friend, who by the way literaly thought he was the next Kubrick (even though he couldn't write or adapt a script for shit). Word of advice for any Hollywood hopefuls: There are countless talentless douchebags who will do anything short of murder to thwart you. Just keep that in mind.
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Just watched this movie last night, it is still great!
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Aug. 2, 2011, 5:58 p.m. CST
Panic. It crept up my spine like the first rising vibes of an acid frenzy.
by Prydie
How would Horatio Alger handle this situation?
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Aug. 2, 2011, 6 p.m. CST
I regular drug person could handle something like seeing their dead grandmother crawling up their leg with a knife in her teeth. But no one...should be able to handle THIS trip.
by Squinty CGI Flynn
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It's been over ten years since I've seen it
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Why, the fine folks in the pharmaceutical industry are more than happy to oblige.
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Aug. 2, 2011, 6:17 p.m. CST
you better hope to god there's some thorazine in that bag...
by IWasInJuniorHighDickhead
or you're in big fucking trouble!
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let's get down to brass tacks: how much for the ape?
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Aug. 2, 2011, 6:19 p.m. CST
kudos to HST for chasing Alex Cox out of his house
by IWasInJuniorHighDickhead
nothing against Cox, it would just have been very funny
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I haven't done it in over ten years and never will again, those days are past for me. Shrooms on the other hand?
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Aug. 2, 2011, 6:33 p.m. CST
I've never been able to watch it all the way through to the end
by proevad
Just doesn't do it for me. Gilliam in particular doesn't do it for me I guess--wasn't able to finish Baron Von Whatever his name was or The Fisher King either. I'm usually a snob and love avante garde directors but he just bores the hell outta me.
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Did you like 12 Monkeys?
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and google just told me I spelled Avant Garde wrong.
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Although, I'll always be partial to Fear and Loathing. I know what you mean though, Gilliam is really hit and miss with me. Baron Von Munchausen I didn't care for and even Time Bandits and Brazil just seem off to me for some reason or other. I did love Fisher King though. I never saw that Brothers Grimm flick.
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Take fucking 3 days off from work. Get at least 2 other people to trip with you, and most important under NO circumstances answer the phone. (Even though it seems like a good idea)
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Best time traveling midget movie ever
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Damn this movie rocked the drug trips
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Aug. 2, 2011, 7:28 p.m. CST
#1: One of the things you learn from years of dealing with drug people, is that you can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug.
by golden tribw
Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye. This is one of the most quotablie movies ever!
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Aug. 2, 2011, 7:28 p.m. CST
#2: Terry Gilliam makes crazy movies, completely their own beast, but Fear And Loathing is unassailably excellent.
by golden tribw
I've seen it sober, I've seen it baked, and I've seen it on shrooms. It's a helluva movie.
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Aug. 2, 2011, 7:28 p.m. CST
#3: As great as this movie is, it's true that the book is even funnier. SEE LINK:
by golden tribw
Someone already quoted this scene but it's even better in full: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2011/07/hunter-s-thompson-on-apes.html THIS IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. If you don't agree, there's a padded room with your name on it.
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but he often did really seem like he was on acid. Shit, think I'm having a flashback right now..
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He's got his own weird aesthetic -- very dirty and somewhat technophobic, always filled with air ducts and sparking wires and messes of crumpled paper and god knows what -- but he makes really interesting movies. Monty Python is unimpeachable..... Time Bandits is pretty hilarious (I think it's got a way better version of a Lord of Evil than Ridley's Legend, despite everyone raving about Tim Curry's horribly written part). Brazil is badass and insane. I've always enjoyed Baron Munchausen although the Robin Williams bits fall flat for me (I usually like him and apparently he was included as a big-name box office draw, but he's the low point for me). I think The Crimson Permanent Assurance is one of my favourite things by him; it's like a Coen Brothers movie (Hudsucker Proxy in particular, I guess) on crack. I haven't seen Tideland, Bros Grimm, or Fisher King yet, though. Twelve Monkeys didn't do much for me when I saw it -- I actually preferred 'La Jetee' by a mile -- but maybe I need to rewatch it. Imaginarium of Parnassus was a mixed bag, but how can you fault the guy for pulling off a mediocre movie (Tom Waits FTW!) when he's using CGI for the first time and his star died half way through filming. The last thing I'll say is that Johnny Depp was perfect in that movie (especially since Heath Ledger was noticeably channelling him for the first act) but Jude Law was noticeably out of place and then Colin Farrell was even worse -- they should have kept Depp for all three imagination-land vignettes. I'm interested in whatever Gilliam does next.
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in a couple weeks. Playing Rat Pack tunes the whole way. Gonna smoke dope the whole way too, and sit on the slots for two days getting free booze constantly brought to me at The Mirage. I love being drunk in Vegas, bitches.
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Aug. 2, 2011, 7:35 p.m. CST
Why every poser filmmaking faggot emulates this movie is beyond me.
by alienindisguise
The flick SUCKS on every level. Much like "cult" movies, it's garbage from beginning to end.
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It was practically empty, and I could not stop laughing my ass off. Love my Criterion Collection version.
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All the Python films, especially Meaning of Life, have a similar style as Gilliam's films, even though Terry Jones directed them mostly I believe. You can see Gilliam's ideas and input in them for sure though.
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Aug. 2, 2011, 8:18 p.m. CST
re: The flick SUCKS on every level ........ you poor, demented, wretched creature
by golden tribw
That is all I have to say to you.
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Fear and Loathing is a great film but people seem to have forgotten Bill Murray and Peter Boyle also had a pretty entertaining take on Hunter and Acosta in Where the Buffalo Roam.
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Aug. 2, 2011, 9:12 p.m. CST
I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A FUCKING REPTILE ZOO! AND SOMEBODY HAD BEEN FEEDING THESE GODDAMNED THINGS ALCOHOL!
by cinematt
I made the mistake of getting ridiculously high on some awesome weed, and I was very new to the stuff at the time, and I turned this on and almost laughed myself into a hernia. One of my all time favorite stoner movies! 4:20 FOREVER!
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Aug. 2, 2011, 9:31 p.m. CST
Bazooko's Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday nights if the Nazis had won the war. This was the Sixth Reich.
by Tikidonkeypunch
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Aug. 2, 2011, 9:55 p.m. CST
I was polishing my shoes in the closet when I noticed her sneaking in so I took her
by aleph_null
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Aug. 2, 2011, 11:33 p.m. CST
This is one of my all time favorite movies. Love it and thank you for the BTS pic.
by moonlightdrive
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Aug. 2, 2011, 11:38 p.m. CST
Wish Depp hadn't gone big time and still did interesting films with interesting parts.
by moonlightdrive
I can understand he did it for the big paychecks to fuel the lifestyle he wanted for himself and his family but he was just so much better before he did Pirates and so were his movies/choices. Finding Neverland and Sweeney Todd I enjoyed a lot and Rango was fantastic but other than that, disappointing. Thank you for Rango Johnny.
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Aug. 2, 2011, 11:46 p.m. CST
Turn up the fucking music! My heart feels like an alligator!
by veteran_of_mu
Best line ever.
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Next to Ed Wood.
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Aug. 3, 2011, 12:47 a.m. CST
re: Wish Depp hadn't gone big time and still did interesting films with interesting parts. by moonlightdrive
by ScaryWaitress
Seriously... so he sold his body to Disney for one series, and laughed all the way to the bank. His filmography is STILL way more packed with funny, bizarre, creepy, sexy, and weird little projects that any other actor of his generation. I quit those Pirates movies after #2. They're dead to me. I pretend they don't exist... but hell, if Disney offered me that kind of money to play a character into the ground, I would do it, and so would you... and I'll bet we'd even do it naked if they asked. Granted, I'd feel a little dirty knowing that some of that money was blood money, from projects like Air Bid and Cinderella III Straight-to-DVD schlock that should NEVER have been spawned... and I's probably need to shower a little extra afterward. But I'd still do it.
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This is what I get for posting at almost 2am EST. Christ.
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hehe, have you seen Hunter Thompson??
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Aug. 3, 2011, 6:57 a.m. CST
STRANGE MEMORIES ON THIS NERVOUS NIGHT IN LAS VEGAS.........
by CreepyThinMan
Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run ...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 and the world. Whatever it meant ... History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket ...booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) ... but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that ... There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda .... You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning .... And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave .... 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.
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Aug. 3, 2011, 7:07 a.m. CST
HEARING THE "STRANGE MEMORIES" SPEECH IN THE MOVIE BREAKS MY HEART EVERY TIME......
by CreepyThinMan
I look at the world as it is today and it feels like the same old cultural battles are still going on. Now the forces of Old and Evil have finally won. Democracy in the USA is now dead. I think about August 3rd 2001 and how I still felt a sense of hoe for the future. But since 9/11 our world has spiraled into a deep, dark hole. Wall Street, Corporations and the Military control the USA now. Elecetions truly mean nothing anymore. People embraced "hope and change" and got stabbed in the back by that Uncle Tom motherfucker in the White House who didn't see the Presidency as a transformative figure that could lead the country, if not the world, into a new era of peace and prosperity but instead viewed it as another notch of his resume. I hate this fucking world and the problem is that people are getting dumber by the minute. We are doomed.
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Lots of people constantly getting up and walking out. But the worst was these two guys down the row from me who just kept snickering and reacting to the movie like Johnny Depp acting crazy on drugs was unintentional, like it ended up in the movie by accident or something.
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Depp and del Toro are amazing. The question mark was emphasized...
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...remember that it's not the movie we're actually quoting, but the book.
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Aug. 3, 2011, 8:43 a.m. CST
catchtheman, I too get choked up when I hear that speech in the movie
by THAT_SAID_THE_CHOPPAH
And for me freedom and democracy dies in the U.S. when the Supreme Court over-rid the will of the people and appointed George Bush president in 2000, turning this country into a Banana Republic. And just to not be partisan, I agree that Obama is a shill for Wall Street. I better not hear ever him utter the words Hope or Change again come 2012.
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It's no mystery. You've never done drugs before and you are a square.
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Aug. 3, 2011, 10:07 a.m. CST
Truly one of the greatest and most epic comedy experiences.
by UltraTron
A masterpiece. 100% accurate.
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but I've known tons of people who love those movies that have never done drugs. However, yes I don't do drugs and maybe that has something to do with it. I like both movies, I just don't love them like everyone else does, but both films did have mixed reception on release.
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With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know.
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Set to Supertramp's "Dreamer" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRmrYebff9c
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is how the movie is basically in two parts and the first part ends when Dr. Gonzo gets on the plane and leaves Vegas. You think the movie's over and you are definitely sad to see crazy-assed Benicio leave. But then he comes back in full force Gonzo fashion and the movie gets even MORE fukked up if that is even possible. But, it is and it does!
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As much as I love this movie, Bill Murray had first crack at playing HST in Where the Buffalo Roam. If you haven't seen it, check it out. It's probably Murrary's first real "character" and he nails it. Plus you have Peter Boyle as his lawyer, so you've got that. And I'll also join those recommending the original book. It's one of Thompson's shorter books and makes a great summer read.
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Aug. 3, 2011, 10:53 p.m. CST
scarywaitress Yeah and when did he do the films you're referring to?
by moonlightdrive
He just hasn't been the same since Pirates or maybe I'm just used to him now. He is still does crap like The Tourist for money.
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