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    In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), various background props from earlier scenes strangely reappear in new locations, which highlights the surreal atmosphere of the film

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    2. samx3i on

      I have watched this movie probably a hundred times and didn’t know some of these.

    4. Flussschlauch on

      I’ve seen this movie more than a dozen times and never realized this stuff.
      tbf I usually was high af and it took me more than 3x watching to even understand the plot

    6. Hedwing on

      I’ve seen this movie SO many times, and the only ones I knew about were the baby doll and gorilla. Maybe because I have it on VHS and the quality is pretty grainy

    7. yeahwellokay on

      The first time I saw this movie in the theater, I was with a large group of people. Half of them hated it and left halfway through it and I was like What, this is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.

    10. dukeofgonzo on

      The stuff in their hotel room is stuff I just figured they pilfered. Ive been on benders and woke up with stuff I don’t remember grabbing. The big gorilla though stands out as extraordinary. Moving that thing seems like something you’d remember.

    11. Tipop on

      Are we sure re-using props is really an intentional choice to accentuate surreality, and not just a choice to save money?

    12. PaulClarkLoadletter on

      The book is pretty clear about their cavalier attitude towards taking things. Our instinct is to regard our hero as an unreliable narrator. While we get fragments of memories interspersed here and there the fact that they clearly reflect the events of the film it’s suggested that everything happened as written. Gilliam seems to allow those concentric circles. The gorilla statue, for example looks, like it just magically appears in the desert but it’s also been vandalized so one of them may very well have stolen it and dropped it off in the desert.

    13. Standard-Muffin on

      Alex McDowell, the production designer, is a mad genius and paired with Terry Gilliam we got this masterpiece

    15. MurkDiesel on

      >which highlights the surreal atmosphere of the film

      mmm, i think it’s to show they were out-of-control and stealing shit

    16. ClaymoreJFlapdoodle on

      This is quite possibly the worst film I’ve ever seen in my life so I definitely didn’t notice.

    18. FlowRiderBob on

      I wasn’t aware of that, but I was also tripping on shrooms the few times I have seen it.

    19. norobo132 on

      It’s also a big tripping thing to just grab random objects and decide they’re yours now lol

    20. sp1cynuggs on

      This probably would’ve been the one post that would benefit from those red circles

    21. Tyrannosaurus_Dex on

      This is probably well known, but the poster in the background of image 3 is from when HST ran for sherrif in CO (the fist with 2 thumbs kind of became his logo). 

    23. SmokeOne1969 on

      Never noticed any of these before and I’ve seen it many, many times. Good eye!

    25. Aggressive_Phase_236 on

      tell me you have never been on a bender?the gorilla i cannot explain, but everything else is standard. 

    26. Gloomy-Sir-9860 on

      I cut the trailer for ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ and had to watch the movie many times but never noticed this. Cool!

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