I seem to catch these posts mid-stream. Anyway, we've recently been discussing unfilmable films on another listserv (Presence) -- If I'm taking this discussion in an entirely different direction, I apologize. The filmic Fear and Loathing transcends our understanding of the print version, more so to help us better understand Thompson's (aka Raoul Duke) take on the sixties culture and the paranoid milieu that it begets in the 1970s. However, in the book, he faults his sixties counterparts for falling into the trap of subscribing to Tim Leary's "consciousness expanding" drug as a way to better understand reality (isn't this essentially what film is all about?) -- However, Thompson claims to have used that (and numerous other drugs) for quite the opposite -- not so much as a better way to understand reality, but rather an escape from it, therefore distorting it. He hated the time in which he lived, hated the Nixon Administration yet he often wrote about it as if it were near and dear to him. I doubt Thompson's escape is anything close to a heightened mental state. bill << >David Cronenberg's version of Naked Lunch...IMHO Certainly an >interesting >effort to confront the challenges of creating a narrative >to film a >(nearly) unfilmable novel >> ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu