Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
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Neutral, kinetic, measured documentary / political, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.
Our read · Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive documentary · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Gonzo
What watching it is actually like.
“You want wild archive journalism, gonzo myth-making, and a rebel writer unmasked.”
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