![]() ![]() ![]() The young journalist was trying to find his voice as a writer. ![]() The novel recalls a brief period around 1960 in which the 22-year-old Thompson worked for a small newspaper in Puerto Rico, when the island was on the cusp of being transformed by big-money interests from a sleepy backwater to a glamorous vacation destination. He wrote the story years before 1966's "Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs" brought him renown, but it wasn't published until 1998. Best known as the creator of Gonzo journalism, Thompson was a rabble-rouser, aiming to expose the cynical underside of politics and culture-which he dubbed "a savage journey to the heart of the American Dream." "The Rum Diary" shows a completely different side of the writer. But this time out, Depp dips into Thompson's younger years. Thompson," Depp slips on the patent-leather loafers of the Wild Man of Woody Creek once more. Not content to just play the journalist as the drug-deranged Raoul Duke in Terry Gilliam's 1998 surrealist road trip "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," or to recite the author's words as narrator of the 2008 documentary "Gonzo: The Life and Times of Dr. In "The Rum Diary," Johnny Depp again channels his literary hero, Dr. ![]()
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