Amid years of strange, unconventional friendship, Johnny Depp and the late Hunter S. Thompson developed a relationship built on trust, love and admiration.
It was back in 1998 when Thompson’s iconic piece of Gonzo journalism, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, was adapted into a film by director Terry Gilliam. The high profile project, which went on to be hugely successful at the box office, starred Johnny Depp in the lead role. It was from that moment onwards he and Thompson developed a close understanding.
(Source: Enjoy Johnny Depp reading letters from his close friend Hunter S. Thompson)
The preceding excerpt says it all. That is, of course, if you know what “all’ is.
First, it’s crucial to understand that the original American gonzo journalist was a chap by the name of Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson could be described as the original Alt Media investigative journalist with an axe to grind with the establishment.
Having been born in 1937 made Thompson a generational beatnik; only in his particular case a Beatnik journalist on super-steroids. Which means he had a penchant for looking under any rock and telling the rest of the world exactly what he saw, no matter how ugly the warts and warthogs he saw.
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