Beyond a certain point, you don't have an attitude, you simply inhabit a state. The two characters wander witlessly past the bizarre backdrops of Las Vegas (some real, some hallucinated, all interchangeable) while zonked out of their minds.
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The result is a horrible mess of a movie, without shape, trajectory or purpose-a one joke movie, if it had one joke. Both Duke and the Doctor are one-dimensional walking chemistry sets, lacking the perspective on themselves that they have in both the book and the strip. The hero here is named Duke, which was his name in the original Thompson book and is also the name of the Thompson clone in the Doonesbury comic strip. Now comes "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," with Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro.
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The relationship of Thompson and his attorney was the basis of " Where the Buffalo Roam," an unsuccessful 1980 movie starring Bill Murray as the writer and Peter Boyle as his attorney. Hurtling through the desert in a gas-guzzling convertible, they hallucinated attacks by giant bats, and "speaking as your attorney," the lawyer advised him on drug ingestion.
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In the trunk of their car they carried an inventory of grass, mescaline, acid, cocaine, uppers, booze, and ether. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is a film based on the book of the same name, a stream-of-altered-consciousness report of his trip to Vegas with his allegedly Samoan attorney. Ah, but he was funny before he flamed out.