7/4/2023 0 Comments Hunter thompson the rum diary![]() This version is seeking employment at a newspaper, the San Juan Star, hoping to earn money for his words, which he writes anyway, because writing is his primary addiction, among a host of notorious addictions.īased on Thompson’s unfinished 1959 novel - which Depp discovered in the writer’s basement while he was researching his role in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - the movie is respectful and dopey at once, faithful to the source and so, episodic, and also fine with using characters as props for Paul’s mostly internal journey. ![]() ![]() He’s had a rough night, but you know that before you saw the socks on the floor or the disheveled bed, because every night is rough for Paul, yet another of Hunter S. ![]() It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.Īs Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) wakes in a wrecked hotel room in Puerto Rico, the camera in The Rum Diary pushes close to his bloodshot eye. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. ![]()
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