Paura E Delirio A Las Vegas

Quello che inizialmente sarebbe potuto sembrare un film di "sfascioni" si è a mio avviso rivelato essere una profonda opera commemorativa del grande (quanto anonimo qui da noi) Hunter S. Thompson.
Vederlo una sola volta non sarà sufficiente ad assaporare il messaggio che ci vuole comunicare.
Sinceramente un film che ha definito un'epoca ed ha grandi risvolti socio culturali.
Può essere visto con spensieratezza e in relax, oppure esaminato sotto il profilo psicologico, cosa molto più complessa e meno spensierata. A mio avviso un'opera d'arte.
Non fatevole scappare!

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Vasco

FANTASTICO

Recensito in Italia il 17 novembre 2020

Poche parole, se siete dei tossici allo sbaraglio questo e il film che fa per voi ,consiglio la visione sotto speciali sostanze per poter godere a pieno l allucinante storia intricata, nonché per immedesimarsi con i protagonisti da subita , una perla del cinema da non perdere

Recensito in Italia il 13 gennaio 2021

buon prezzo.
Peccato che fosse in consegna di sabato ed il corriere me l'ha consegnato alle 18 passate

Recensito in Italia il 14 dicembre 2023

Quando vedo dei film al cinema che mi piacciono molto aspetto che escano in vendita per comprarli e tenerli nella mia videoteca, questo non poteva mancare alla collezione!

Acquisto meritato per un film classico che vale la pena vedere e rivedere

ALESSANDRO VASCO

Recensito in Italia il 2 giugno 2019

Il film si vede in ottima definizione. L'audio è altrettanto ottimo. Il prodotto è stato apprezzato molto in serata a casa di amici. Soddisfatto.

Recensito in Italia il 25 gennaio 2019

Il Film è un capolavoro per interpretazione.... Forse non adatto a tutti ma assolutamente da vedere.
Vorrei davvero una cappero di Steelbook!!!

Da Cecchi Gori mi aspettavo il peggio e invece...

Slask

Recensito in Italia il 14 giugno 2014

...tutto sommato è un blu-ray di ottima fattura. Inferiore di pochissimo all'edizione perfetta rilasciata da Criterion Collection negli Stati Uniti (la fotografia nel video italiano vira un po' troppo sul rosso), ma come livello di dettaglio nulla da recriminare.
Purtroppo le pecche arrivano sul fronte extra e packaging: l'amaray della Cecchi Gori ha una copertina pessima che sembra realizzata con Photoshop in 5 minuti, e addirittura vengono a mancare tutti i contenuti extra che erano presenti nella precedente versione in dvd (che era sempre Cecchi Gori, quindi non si capisce perchè se li siano "persi per strada").
Insomma, se siete estimatori di quel geniaccio di Gilliam questo blu-ray è da avere in collezione, ma magari approfittate di qualche offerta per accaparrarvelo, bisogna mandare un messaggio chiaro a certi distributori....

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Massimiliano Palladini

Recensione

Recensito in Italia il 4 luglio 2017

Arrivato in perfette condizioni. Quarta volta che lo vedo, bellissimo, Depp e Del Toro sono da Oscar, bravissimi, con tutte le volte che hanno tirato di coca non devono recitare.

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This is the best

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 11 dicembre 2019

This Arrow is the best blu-ray transfer of this film: 4K, though not a 4K disc. Sharper with nuanced contrast despite such vibrant colours. Beautiful. Those dutch angles really make you lean into them now.
So there are now TWO indispensable editions of F & L IN LAS Vegas: this blu-ray, and the old American Criterion double DVD with the great animated Menu design that blu-rays just don't do anymore.
(Why did the great tradition of DVD Menus animated in the spirit of the featured film stop with the introduction of blu-rays?)
The old Criterion double-DVD had unbeatable, prolific Extras, mostly supplemental to HST's writing career (including a HST audio commentary, if you can translate what he's mumbling - - not ported over to Arrow's release). Arrow's extras lean toward Steadman's half of the Faustian bargain.
Quite a few new Arrow Extras and some ported older ones here. All new Extras are worth watching more than once.
Benico Del Toro is so intelligent in his interview, I wish there were more footage, so insightful about HST's writing, with his own thoughts instead of the usual cliches, that I thought, 'My God, he should write a Book about the work of HST!' On Criterion's disc release, HST in commentary objected to the way Depp disdainfully treated a midget hotel waiter as something he would never do; HST liked the film but not that scene. That HST commentary isn't the one on Arrow's release. But in an Arrow extra, Benito Del Toro recalls asking HST about the Vegas book, 'Why were you so mean to the working classes?' Now that is a brilliant question no scholar has ever thought to ask, and you can find out what HST replied in this interview.
Terry Gilliam's new audio commentary is a hoot, of course, and well mediated by a moderator who keeps low key to feature Gilliam. Gilliam sounds older now; he's cogent, and recalls a lot, but one or two memory lapses have me worried.
The 2nd disc is the definitive documentary feature about Ralph Steadman, made with Steadman's extensive input, FOR NO GOOD REASON - - already available elsewhere on DVD but this Arrow release has an extra Extra, a short film adaptation of Steadman's work. Johnny Depp shows up a lot in the film and on the soundtrack and reads some HST writing - - always a good thing. Depp is to HST what Richard Burton was to Dylan Thomas: the best narrator of the author's writing on record.
The interview with producer Laila Nabulsi clues you in on what a major contribution she made to the film, and, likewise, the less-than-20-minutes could have been twice that and well worth the extra time.
Four rare interviews bundled together, with the costume designer and cinematographer and editor and production designer, add insight and history to the project that you will not have heard before.
The 2006 feature documentary BUY THE TICKET TAKE THE RIDE has been available on DVD for years, so it feels like no Extra at all on this disc if you already have it - - but if you don't, it's one of the additions that makes this release a genuine bargain even without a sales price.
The small book has some old writing that HST aficionados will already have in full, and some new writing that isn't worth reading - - par for the course as DVD booklets go. The art card photos are garish and as I see it worthless. The double-sided poster is nothing special. This release is all about the 2 discs, and there;s no good reason to pay extra for the paperwork if you can get the discs separately.
The film and the book are about an insurmountable culture clash between the radical underground and the Silent Majority, a generation gap between conservative Americana and youth dissenters: a double-edged Culture Shock where Thompson and his attorney were AT LEAST as appalled by regular people as they were of these creative post-Beat Generation highly creative acid heads.
One more thing. There are many reasons why HST's journalism is vital and his writing right out of the 20th century's top drawer,. HST aficionados have been starved of new writing BY HST ever since he died in 2006, which isn't as paradoxical as it sounds...
The project HST completed before he died, a last volume of collected letters, is still stalled in mysterious limbo all these years later, as if his own wishes and efforts to prepare that book counted for nothing as far as the HST Estate is concerned.
And HST's legendary 1968 20,000-word piece on his ambivalence about the NRA and gun ownership, written after the assassination of RFK has still to see print with no hope in sight - - though Johnny Depp says it's as good as anything HST ever wrote.
And excised chapters of F & L IN LAS VEGAS - - that Depp has read and rates as highly as the rest of the book - -have still never been published.
Which makes you wonder what the HST Estate thinks its function actually IS, other than collecting royalties on existing publications. As I see it, Doug Brinkley and HST's widow ought to have their heads banged together by the ghost of Hunter Thompson and their feet nailed to a perch until they get the job done. Either that, or kicked off the team to let someone else handle the estate who has more respect for HST's literary achievement than to delay important publications for So Long that HST's generation - - the folk who read his works hot off the press and can most deeply relate to his life and times - - are dying off without the opportunity of reading his last works.
Shame on the HST estate: No Excuse.
So we are tempted to grab at anything HST-related by even two-bit scholars who rehash what we already know just to channel the great writing. But this time the merchandise is worthwhile. It was a fabulous film in 1998 and it's a fabulous 4K transfer in 2019 with some very interesting new Extras.

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Jennifer Arenas

No le busquéis el sentido

Recensito in Spagna il 5 agosto 2018

Es una película loca, cuyo argumento es la historia de un periodista que fue muy bueno, pero que no paraba de beber, drogarse y hacer locuras, por lo que no se puede ver la película buscando algo racional, jeje. Todo perfecto!

Nati

Hunter S Thompson - Im Fledermausland

Recensito in Germania il 30 marzo 2012

zur Story:

Raoul Duke, das Alter Ego des Hunter S. Thompson, ist promovierter Sportjournalist und soll Anfang 1971 für ein Magazin über das Offroad-Rennen Mint 400 in der Wüste bei Las Vegas berichten. Dabei wird er von seinem skurrilen Freund und Rechtsanwalt Dr. Gonzo begleitet.
Die beiden fahren mit einem geliehenen Chevrolet Caprice nach Las Vegas. Bereits auf der Hinfahrt befinden sich beide im Drogenrausch.
"Wir hatten zwei Beutel Gras, fünfundsiebzig Kügelchen Mescalin, fünf Löschblattbögen extrastarkes Acid, 'nen Salzstreuer halbvoll mit Kokain und ein ganzes Spektrum vielfarbiger Uppers, Downers, Heuler, Lacher ... sowie 'nen Liter Tequila, 'ne Flasche Rum, 'ne Kiste Bier, 'nen halben Liter Ether und zwei Dutzend Poppers. Nicht, dass wir das alles für unseren Trip brauchten, aber wenn man sich erst mal vorgenommen hat, 'ne ernsthafte Drogen-Sammlung anzulegen, dann neigt man dazu, extrem zu werden."
Die Drogen konsumieren sie im Laufe der Handlung. Für Duke erscheint der Himmel voller Fledermäuse("Wir dürfen hier nicht halten, wir sind im Fledermausland") nach denen er mit einer Fliegenklatsche schlägt...
und das ist nur der Anfang nachdem sie im Mint-Hotel angekommen sind und an der Presseregistrierung teilgenommen haben, sieht Duke aufgrund seiner Halluzinationen Reptilien an der Bar, und der Boden scheint sich mit Blut zu füllen... und es wird nicht besser :-)

Bekannte Schauspieler sind u.a. Johnny Depp (Der auch ein guter Freund von Hunter S Thompson war), Cameron Diaz, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci und Benicio del Toro.

In kraftvollen, witzigen und ungemein fantasievollen Bildern liefert der Film einen grotesken Trip, der entscheidend von Johnny Depp geprägt wird und deshalb kann ich den Film nur empfehlen für alle die sich auf einen Trip einlassen bei dem einem selbst noch vorm TV schlecht werden kann :-)

zur DVD:

Geliefert wird eine normale DVD Hülle in der die DVD gut befestigt in der Halterung sitzt.
Auch ein Wendecover ist enthalten. "Leider" unterscheidet es sich zu dem normalen Cover nur in so fern das das FSK-Zeichen nicht vorhanden ist.
Die DVD wird im DirectorŽs Cut (in diesem Fall ca. 20 min mehr) geliefert und ist nur zu empfehlen, da sich einige neue Szenen einschleichen die man gesehen haben muss.

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Alx

Gran libro y curiosamente una gran película... ojo con los chavitos...

Recensito in Messico il 8 settembre 2023

Si te gusta en ambiente beat aparte de Tom Waits (músico) Hunter S. Thompson es lo mas cercano a Burroghs, Keruag, etc...

No recomendable para menores de 30!!!

Es la guía del viajero inter-pachequico... ojo adultos con los chavitos...

Cliente Amazon

Muy buen film. Lo recomiendo.

Recensito in Spagna il 19 agosto 2020

Muy buen film, es divertido.