VIDEO: Johnny Depp/Hunter S. Thompson Film

VIDEO: Johnny Depp/Hunter S. Thompson Film

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‘The Rum Diary’ Trailer: (VIDEO)

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“Now all of this may look like some crazed hallucination,” Johnny Depp, as Hunter S. Thompson stand-in Paul Kemp, says, “but it’s all true… I think.”

And so it goes in this long-awaited big screen version of “The Rum Diary,” Depp’s latest film adaptation of a Hunter S. Thompson novel. The film, which sat on the shelf for a while, has a roundabout history that, in a very minor way, resembles that of the book; the semi-fictional story about Thompson’s time in Puerto Rico as a young journalist began being written in 1958, but went unpublished until 1998.

 

 

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The Rum Diary is the second novel by Hunter S. Thompson.

Written in the late 50s, but refused at the time by many publishers, it was not published until 1998. The novel, narrated in first person by the protagonist, a journalist named Paul Kemp, tells of the arrival of the latter in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he worked for the San Juan Daily News. We can already recognize in this alcohol drenched story the excess and the violence that later became the prerogative of Thompson. Throughout the novel, Kemp, led along by fellow degenerates, is mixed up in sordid mishaps, all taking place against a backdrop of debauchery and corruption in Puerto Rico, where tourists and investors are becoming more numerous.

In parallel, the narrator confronts his fear of professional failure and its moral issues. Thompson was inspired by his stay in Puerto Rico, where he worked for the short-lived sports newspaper El Sportivo as a reporter. Having approached his expatriate colleagues from the San Juan Star, he was able to take inspiration from their society and imagine the plot and characters of the novel.

Rhum express (The Rum Diary) est le deuxième roman de Hunter S. Thompson.

Rédigé à la fin des années 50, mais refusé à l’époque par maints éditeurs, il ne sera publié qu’en 1998. Le roman, narré à la première personne par le protagoniste, un journaliste du nom de Paul Kemp, raconte l’arrivée de ce dernier à San Juan, Porto Rico, où il travaillera pour le San Juan Daily News.

On reconnait déjà, dans cette histoire noyée dans l’alcool, l’excès et la violence, le style qui, plus tard, deviendra l’apanage de Thompson. Tout au long du roman, Kemp, entraîné par ses collègues dégénérés, est mêlé à de sordides méfaits, le tout se déroulant sur fond de débauche et de corruption dans un Porto Rico où touristes et investisseurs sont de plus en plus nombreux.

En parallèle, le narrateur nous confronte à sa peur de l’échec professionnel ainsi qu’à ses questionnements moraux. Thompson s’est inspiré de son séjour à Porto Rico, où il travailla au compte de l’éphémère journal sportif El Sportivo à titre de reporter. S’étant rapproché de ses collègues expatriés du San Juan Star, il fut en mesure de s’inspirer de leur société pour imaginer la trame et les personnages du roman.

 

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