He's also rumoured to have done the same with Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Scott Fitzgerald's novel 'The Great Gatsby' word for word, from start to finish. To improve his writing style and while working for Time he copied F. Thompson's own convertible, while much of the clothes worn by Depp were also direct from Hunter's own wardrobe.Īt 15, he made an electric go-kart using a washing machine engine. The 'Red Shark' in Fear And Loathing., a 1971 Chevrolet Impala convertible, is Hunter S. The highlight of the message comes when he brilliantly forgets his own phone number. Hunter S Thompson once left this expletive-laden voicemail for a company who installed a new entertainment system for him. where Raoul Duke tosses change at a dwarf waiter. The author objected to this scene in Fear And Loathing. Make sure your next role is some drastically different guy.' Prior to filming Fear And Loathing, Bill Murray, who played Hunter in Where The Buffalo Roam rang Johnny Depp with the advice: 'Be careful or you'll find yourself ten years from now still doing him. Thompson can be seen inexplicably wearing a miner's hat. The moment was caught on camera, check it out here. Hunter himself shaved Johnny Depp's head in preparation for the actor's role as Raoul Duke in Fear And Loathing. Present were Jack Nicholson, Bill Murray, Josh Hartnett, Sean Penn and Lyle Lovett (to whom he once sold a Cadillac Eldorado). Bob Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man played as the ashes launched in a ceremony close pal Johnny Depp paid for. His ashes were fired from a 150ft tower topped by a red fist with two thumbs clutching a peyote button (pictured), the symbol of Thompson's first-person gonzo journalism. Then he called me later and pretended it had never happened.' He wanted to double the bet, but I said, “No, just pay me.” And he was like: “You motherf*cking c*cksucker!” and hung up. 'I once bet against him on a Minnesota Vikings vs Chicago Bears game and he lost. Hunter once, for a brief moment, turned on his good pal John Cusack. Your opponent would thwack the golf ball and you'd be charged with blasting it from the skies. Writing for ESPN, Hunter once called Bill Murray (pictured) at 3am to pitch his idea for a new sport which combined clay pigeon shooting and golf.

And although we're not about to impart great wisdom like that on you, right now, hopefully we are about to teach you a thing or two about the gonzo god that you (probably) didn't know.ĬHECK OUT THE GREATEST PIECES OF HUNTER S THOMPSON WISDOM HERE “He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.” The words of the great Hunter S Thompson.

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