content: The book fear and loathing in las vegas, by the brilliant Hunter S. Thompson, was a fantastic book filled with social issues like the death of the american dream. The movie, however, had all of the high points of the book taken out and was turned into a crappy stoner flick. The high point of this film, is an astonishingly good preformance by Johnny Depp as deranged sports writer Hunter Thompson, aka Raoul Duke. Buy the book not the movie.