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Kimba K Cine 105-Tues/ Thurs 6:00 p.m. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas/ Film Analysis August 14, 2011 In the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Johnny Depp delivered an over the top performance with his depiction of Hunter S. Thompson, the notoriously wild and drug addicted father of “gonzo journalism.” His acting is considered “believable” as Depp applied a variety of techniques to accurately portray this author. Depp used facial expressions to convey the roller coaster of tumultuous

Criminology has chosen to concentrate on the social influences that contribute to criminality, instead of concentrating on the neurological and genetic factors of violent behavior. For many years, psychologists have attempted to fathom the idea of murder and what it truly takes for someone to become a ruthless killer. There is an ample amount of factors that can lead to an act of violence, like murder, or the creation of a murderer such as nurture (the way one is raised or the type of environment

Every journalist student will tell you that the most important aspect of being a journalist is to be impartial, objective, and to always report the facts - not your opinion. Everyone knows what objectivity means, yet do they all follow the rules? Is it even possible for journalists to be objective? Most importantly, is objectivity a concept that even exists? I’m going to examine the evidence. We live in a word where most journalists and news corporations are labeled as being corrupt , biased and

President Richard Nixon and the Senator from South Dakota, George McGovern. The election of 1972 saw McGovern come out of the democratic National Convention over Senators Muskie and Humphrey but only to lose to the incumbent president Richard Nixon. Hunter S. Thompson writes about the Election of 1972 from December 1971, before any primaries, to December 1972 after Nixon has won the election. It is a truthful first person account of what happened during the presidential race that year with much personal

where a lot can be gained but a lot can be lost. Everything that happens there is based on luck. If you are feeling lucky Vegas might be the option for you. Vegas is a place for risk takers and gamblers and for people trying to achieve something. In Hunter S. Thompson’s novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Duke and Gonzo take a road trip to Vegas. Drugs and alcohol were prominent in the main characters’ journey and the substances were used to show Duke and Gonzo escape from life, their path to find

Hunter S. Tompson and Gonzo Journalism In the late sixties a young journalist and free-lance novelist named Hunter S. Thompson (HST) emerged with a new, crazed and exaggerated brand of reporting. It was sooner or later referred to as “Gonzo”. HST’s own definition of gonzo has varied over the years, but he still maintains that a good gonzo journalist “needs the talent of a master journalist, the eye of an artist/photographer and the heavy balls of an actor” and that gonzo is a “style of

rhythm and blues musician James Booker recorded his hit single ‘Gonzo’ in 1960, he most likely had no idea that the title of his single would be used, almost a decade after its release, to refer to the unabashedly radical style of journalism that Hunter S. Thompson with his illustrator Ralph Steadman happened to invent with their breakthrough article “The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved”. It’s exactly how it sounds. The annual Kentucky Derby Festival, known in the United States as "The Most

Within Hunter S. Thompsons book “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” and the movie “Easy Rider” directed by Dennis Hopper the involvement of drugs is important as the represent a greater picture of the American values and where they are headed. The use of drugs is looked down upon by American values due to the effects that it has on people, and the amount of deaths it leads to each year. The use of drugs does not fit in with the American values of having the American Dream, which is represented through

In my view, the most significant time period in the development of literary journalism is the 1960’s through early 1980’s; also known as the period of New Journalism. The innovative journalistic style is a combination of fact and fiction writing. The literary journalists of this time period wrote about real-life situations using vivid descriptions and literary devices such as, characterization, scene setting, and dialogue. They wrote longer and more complex pieces similar to novels, consisting of

Lester Bangs was a rock journalist in the 1970’s whose preferred style of journalism was gonzo journalism. According to Michael Pollick from Wisegeek.com, “Gonzo journalism is a radical from of news reporting where a journalist is free to participate in events and circumstances which they consider newsworthy. One of the trademarks of gonzo journalism is a personal immersion into the world the writer ultimately wishes to expose. The purpose of this style of journalism is to produce a brutally honest