"Legend of Gang Zuo: The Past and Present of Hunter Thompson"
, director Alex Gibney, who won the 80th Academy Award for Best Documentary for his "Taxi to the Darkness", made persistent efforts and was filmed in 2008. A very "Gonzo" biopic, as the name suggests, the protagonist is of course this deviant, indulgent maniac, known for his wild writing style full of strong subjective colors and his philosophy of action that intervenes in reality. At the age of 67, he used a gun quietly. The man who killed himself and shot his ashes into space with a 47-meter cannon.
The play of two lunatics
Many people know Hunter Thompson through the "Las Vegas Style" starring Johnny Depp, although later generations have a lot of controversy about this film, thinking that it is easy to make a generation of "Father of Gang Left" simple Turned into a pure drug addict, but to say that these two weirdos are really related, Depp's first film "The Rum Diary" after setting up his own production company is adapted from Thompson's novel (the film has already started), In the film "Legend of Gang Zuo: The Past and Present of Hunter Thompson", Depp appeared many times to read Thompson's works. The ashes of the "Father of Gang Zuo" used the red, white, blue, and green fireworks ejected by a 12-inch cannon designed by himself, blasting a 600-foot-wide dazzling light in the 800-foot-high sky. Luxurious funeral", the expensive cost of up to 2.5 million is also paid by Depp.
According to Depp's recollection, his first encounter with Thompson was on a certain night in December 1995, when the handsome guy was on vacation near the old handsome guy's farm. A screeching voice made people get out of his way, and threatened that if any pig dared to linger here, he would punch his shit out." , wearing a knitted wool hat in the native American style that is dragged to the shoulders", the old and new generations of handsome men hit it off at first sight - both of them are from Kentucky, and the fellow owner Ali, a fellow boxer, can always travel from the South The chivalry talks about the ramblings and delusions of mountain people, and more importantly, both men love guns.
The old and the young went to Thompson's back garden to test marksmanship, "About 2:30 in the morning, on this pitch-black night, with billions of stars shining in the sky overhead, as calm as death, the neighbors were Safely curled up in a comfy quilt to sleep soundly—and then, Boom! One hit, the target exploded into an 80-foot-diameter fireball..." Depp was impressed by the scene after Thompson's compliments Impression, "Now, almost 10 years later, I recall that scene, we were here, he was gone. But we still have his words, his books, his insights, his humor and the ones he found. The truth. His grinning face will guide us in the days to come - by the way, he is always pointing in the right direction, no matter how crazy it may seem on the surface. He is a brother, a friend, a father , son, a teacher, and accomplices -- in our common sin, play with us." A
life-long madman
Thompson was born on July 18, 1937, into a middle-class single-parent family, and all the street bad boys Similarly, drugs, alcohol and juvenile detention centers are indispensable spiritual homes. Before graduating from high school, he joined the Air Force as a pilot, but was dismissed for being "rebellious and arrogant". The film "Legend of Gangzuo: The Past and Present of Hunter Thompson" focuses on his life from 1965 to 1975. In that era of raging fire, Thompson was like a tiger returning to the mountain, and his in-depth coverage of "Hell's Angels" made him an instant hit. , witnessing the personal experience of the entanglement with the rogue motorcycle party and the unexpected experience of running for the local sheriff are all precious historical materials presented in the film. Basically, this reporting experience and unsuccessful candidacy laid the core idea of Hunter Thompson's "just left journalism" - personal experience, political intervention, the vision of artists and photographers, and the presumptuousness of actors.
After working for "Rolling Stone" in 1970, Thompson's political ideas and journalism ideas were further developed. In addition to the well-known experience of "Las Vegas Style" in finding the "American Dream", his report on the US election "Fear and Disgust: Tracking the 1972 Presidential Campaign, which emphasizes the primacy of his own subjective consciousness over objective facts, a clear focus on the nature of the Democratic Party and its inevitable decline, and the repeated attacks on Nixon that made his "new journalism" The idea is finally established.
According to Rolling Stone founder Jane Wenner, when Thompson was reporting (long nightly calls, strategy discussions that lasted all night), he often started in the middle and then rewinded, or jumped to the point where he felt There's room to write, free play, and go straight to the clips that might fit the scene later, or, more likely, into a state of total fantasies (like inserting swastikas and "midnight speeches"). He has an inexhaustible level of creativity, honesty, and a superb sense of humor - he loves to speak on crises, and if there isn't one he thinks he thinks exists in reality, he'll create one.
Although the authors of "Gang Zuo News" are often in a state of drunkenness and drug use, and experience the confusion and indistinguishability of the world, Thompson believes: "Psychedelic drugs are like a spiritual filter, filtering out the effects on people. It also allows reporters to get rid of the hypocritical and secular mask and present a more primitive and naked life." It is Thompson's honest and frank attitude that makes it unprecedented in the history of "gang-left news". By. This way of writing greatly influenced the writing style of later alternative news and rock reports, including the most famous rock critic Lester Bunce and the man who wrote "Fuck him, get him, Chongqing is a very funny city" "The Chinese Celestial Master.
Involuntarily Last Years Although the
film focuses on Thompson's golden period between 1965 and 1975, the writing and ink on his later life is especially precious, because Thompson, who was in a frenzy period, was held hostage by the times and drugs, which is a kind of unconsciousness. Involuntarily, all the fantasies and indulgences he does are closely linked to his environment, as his friend said in the movie - "He was the right person, came to the right world, captured the In history, he is the most capable of this. He exposes the disorder of human beings, and it is a blessing for this society to have him as a person to express this ridicule, anger and despair. This is a normal person, a reflection of this nightmare. "
Or that he, like all the majestic writers of that era, will return to silence in his later years. Unlike Ginsburg and Kerouac who converted to Eastern Buddhism, Thompson’s world seems to be nothing but motorcycles and guns. His excellent motorcycle driving skills benefited from his time with the "Hell's Angels", and his obsession with guns became more and more than the words he could no longer control. In his later years, Thompson kept peacocks (a gorgeous peacock at the beginning of the film), was keen on hunting, and could understand more about the confusion and sadness of his idol Hemingway in the last years of his life, "He was an old, sickly, and troublesome man. People," Thompson wrote, "for him, there is nothing to satisfy him." In 1964, Thompson, who was also a freelance writer for the National Observer, walked down a pair of antlers at Hemingway's house. Decades later, referring to the pair of memorabilia, he said, "Forget the story of running with a bull, fighting a tuna, or slaughtering a rhino, I took Hemingway's antlers, and with it came a kind of anti-literature. The infinite sense of responsibility, right now, it's a fucking rivalry between me and him. The antlers then shattered and never returned to the way they were."
Thompson's son was next door when Thompson committed suicide, in the movie Described as the sound of a book falling to the ground, the "Father of Gang Zuo" took care of himself. The idea of a funeral was long overdue, and he left no will, his second wife and friends were calm about his suicide, "His death was nothing new, he was a few years ago. It was announced." Afterwards, it was verified that the reason why he committed suicide was because he couldn't bear the empty window period of his beloved American Football Super Cup, but for such a romantic character who used to be all-powerful, Lao Jing could no longer take it out. Influential works, in fact, he has been rewriting them all the time. In the movie, the picture of his second wife shot with DV is restored. Thompson has been using old-fashioned music in Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine". The typewriter he used to create, but apart from greeting Bush Jr. and making fun of Clinton, it is impossible for him to have much substantial influence on the US election and current political affairs.
Although as one of the "new journalism troikas", it has been named "the originator of blogging spirit" and "suicide countercultural pioneer" by later generations, and left behind the term and concept of "gang-left", although he has long given him The LOGO with two thumbs that he designed and the fireworks that caused many people to exclaim were scattered, but let's use his own words to give him a conclusion - "It is difficult for us to see the history clearly, because it is some expired garbage, But even without knowing the 'history', we have absolutely every reason to believe that the energy of an era will mature after a dazzling flash, and why this is so, no one understood it at the time, and there is no way to explain it in retrospect."
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