Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Difference between revisions

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Dr. Gonzo.

* [[Casting Gag]]: The real Hunter S. Thompson shows up in a hallucination/flashback sequence to his youth.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "As your attorney, I advise you to..."

* [[Celebrity Paradox]]

** Duke has the same fascination with pimped out hats and feather boas as [[Actor Allusion|Jack Sparrow]].

* [[Critical Research Failure]]: In-universe example: The Drug Convention. Our protagonists, being heavy into drugs, [[In-Universe|call them out on it.]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Raoul Duke.

* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]] (Duke's musings(?) about what to do with the hitchhiker should he discover the truth about him and Dr. Gonzo; complete with [[Lampshade Hanging]])

* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: In the book, Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo repeatedly visit the Circus Circus casino; in the movie, it becomes Bazooko's Circus.

* [[Long List]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJbVPJo4S2A The drugs in the trunk of the car.]

* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]: Subverted ''hard''.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Subverted by the first editions of the book, despite the best efforts of the publishers. When publication of the book was still being negotiated, the lawyers of the publishers tried to get Thompson to delete the references to his attorney engaging in criminal acts, since; even as depicted through an expy, could have badly damaged his reputation and been considered libelous. Thompson reached out to Oscar Zeta Acosta; the real life model for the fictional Dr. Gonzo, and asked him to sign a release. Acosta however initially refused. Not because he was concerned over libelous content, but because he took offense at being portrayed by a fictional version of himself. He would only sign the release on the condition that he be explicitly named as the basis for Gonzo on the book's cover. In other words, he insisted on taking full credit for the very criminal behavior the lawyers feared would harm and or offend him.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: Lampshaded: Flash Forward and back again to the aftermath of the second hotel-room trashing and vandalism spree, including a mini-riot that ensues when they're caught vandalizing their own car (a brand-new Cadillac), an ape assault, dried ketchup stains that look like blood, a burned out mattress, and an entirely flooded room filled with a pyramid of TV screens. And Duke wakes up wearing a strap-on alligator tail with a microphone taped to his face. (Some of these incidents are recounted first-hand in the book, however.)

* [[Opening Monologue]] ("We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold...")

* [[Pineal Weirdness]] (Adrenochrome. Good ''lord''.)

** The man on the phone while Duke is waiting to check in is talking about some gang murder on a girl and says they were after her pineal gland. This comes from a scene in the book (the movie leaves it out) in which Gonzo and Duke make the story up to terrify a flyover-country D.A. whom they meet in the hotel bar.

* [[Rebellious Spirit]] (Raoul Duke)

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Gonzo and Duke

* [[Refuge in Audacity]] (How the heroes get away with anything and everything)

* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]] (the hotel bar sequence)

* [[Road Movie]]

* [[Running Gag]]: Each hotel room Duke and Gonzo check into gets consecutively more and more trashed.

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