![]() ![]() Intoxication leaves Kemp and Sala in serious trouble with the law and looking at a jail sentence. With drug experimentation not yet in vogue, Kemp gets high on alcohol, especially the local favorite, rum. Gonzo, nicely played by Michael Rispoli). Kemp finds adventure elsewhere, moving in with the husky and sympathetic photographer Bob Sala (this film's Dr. Like the motorcycle race in Fear, the astrology column is beneath our antihero and of little interest to both him and us. Aspiring New York novelist Paul Kemp (Depp) arrives in San Juan, Puerto Rico a day late to work as a horoscope writer for The San Juan Star, a modest newspaper whose future seems uncertain to its staff. Depp, who developed a well-documented friendship with Thompson before the latter's 2005 death, treats Rum nearly like another roman à clef, the result of an unmistakably autobiographical protagonist. ![]() Thompson, written in the early 1960s and finally published in 1998. The Rum Diary offers perhaps the closest we'll ever get to Depp reprising Duke, because this film adapts a long-lost novel by Fear and Loathing author Hunter S. In the pantheon of iconic Johnny Depp film characters, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' Raoul Duke ranks somewhere near Captain Jack Sparrow and Depp's many distinctive personalities for director Tim Burton. ![]()
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