Fear and Loathing - Wave Speech

[laurenxxx69]

What song is playing here?

[friscobay01]

youngbloods - get together

[HateMachine103190]

You guys need to read "The Great Shark Hunt" and "Kingdom of Fear." This wasn't the only piece of genius HST produced...

[kingjames712]

Hunter S. at his best. This is, perhaps, one of the greatest pieces of prose ever written--regardless of the language abd subject matter. Thank you for posting this clip...you're badass for doing so.

[juangrande91]

i've read almost everything he's wrote and i can never read or hear that enough

[TheBiscoDiscuits]

I think this is my favorite scene from the movie. I've seen this movie 50 times +, and I still get chills when I hear it. Beautiful beautiful words. <3 Hunter S Thompson. Go out and rent Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride. Good documentary.

[InvaderChrissy]

Thanks for posting this. Fantastic scene.

[vonkaltenborn]

Wow ... yikes ... thizzzman speaks the most truth. HST had a good speech, for its time (which was during Nixon's proven criminal time as president).

I still look West when in Vegas.

[showmew]

elogent madness. The deliberate and direct path to a climatic end, a strong back bone is a must when traversing the portholes that extend for miles within; opening the flood gates of induced delerium and a conscious understanding of the significance of a captured moment and being devinely inspired to force from the pen in hand words such are these

[thizzzman]

this scene is supposed to be hunters favorite piece of writing he'd ever done. makes me sad i missed the great san francisco acid wave

[luvrip4life]

sad it makes me wanna cry

[uncreativejackass]

I missed the boat...

[CrazyJustin2006]

I always stop and listen and watch the scene with full attention when it comes on no matter if I'm sober or totally shitfaced. The best thing Hunter Thompson ever wrote!

[raoulduke881]

Of course it has anoher way of lecture, i agree with you. HST's words are also full of regret and bitterness for a dream that finished with "fear and loathing"...

[Tressco]

Brilliant!

[tHexALA]

"Once in a while you get shone the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right"

that's not Hunter S. Thompson, that's Robert Hunter, the lyricist of the Grateful Dead lmao.

[1200Flashbacks]

Don´t forget the song. What makes this sequence so good is the combination of the song, "Let´s get together", by the youngbloods, HST´s words and Terry Gilliam´s cinematography. It all comes together as one

[CruzanMassive06]

So poetic! Absolutely brilliant. I think that this speaks for the current time period as well...

[raoulduke881]

one of the most touching moments ever written by H.S.T: a declaration of deep love for the 60's.

[ScarfaceFtR]

Do you really think so? Could be.

But I think you can see the intention of this speech otherwisely:

In the most important of the speech (the ending...) he shows his listeners the "watermark, where the wave broke and finally rolled back". I think this is what he wants to show: The failure of the hippie movement.

I think, what he wants to say, is that it all had been an illusion: a world in peace, a all loving mankind. It just didnt work. I think he wants to show naitivity of that idea.

[ripple1983]

Best bit in the movie!

[Bob117]

...holy shit...

[rafalt938]

i totally agree with you man! it's the best movie of mankind ever produced by the man. it's not only entertainment, it's a philosophy of life! "when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"

[SydLennon79]

"in that corner of time in the world, whatever it meant" this is so nostalgic. the mid 60's surpassed me by 15yrs. there is something about this clip that really touches my soul. did it really feel that way back then. shivers down the spine. "once there was a way to get back homeward"

[reallyblackops]

thats some soul stirring shit....i love hst..i quoted him in my yearbook as saying "once in a while you get shone the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right". fucking awesome dude and amazing movie with fucking awesome memories with my friends. thanks for posting.

[cindoo15]

I love this speech. I hadn't seen that it was already here; so I added it again yesterday! Now, of coarse, I find it. Oh well, it's good in enough to be on twice.

[3qtrtym]

...Hunter.

[davidwhyrick]

As a huge fan of HST I say with no reservation that this passage was among his finest of works. The fealing and meaning conveyed in those short words add up to what many a writer (myself included) wish they could live up to in a lifetime

[spammachine]

Fantastic film and amazing clip

[drgonzo767]

IMHO, this is the best written description of the 60's.

[noodleboy5]

I believe that Hunter S. Thompson said in an interview somewhere that this passage of "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas" was the best thing he ever wrote.

[sansmatthew]

best movie ever