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Raoul Duke

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Depp expertly delivers the quintessential counter-culture anti-hero Raoul Duke, expertly taking on the tics and gestures of Thompson (he spent four months with the Good Doctor at his fortified compound shooting guns and making
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Duke is the main character and narrator of many of Thompson's stories, novels, and articles, often taking part in the events of Thompson's life in Thompson's place. He is portrayed as a cynical, mentally unbalanced,
281:, Thompson describes Raoul Duke as a sports writer friend, one of the few journalists who can truly write objectively instead of merely talking about the concept of objectivity. In the same section, Thompson calls 192:, alive within himself even as the rest of the country forgets it and what it represented. He usually obtains and consumes these substances in the company of his attorney, Dr. Gonzo, a "half-crazed 300 pound 1057: 1179: 268:(June 1970) in which Duke is apparently an ex-police chief raging at the inadequate amount of real "weaponry" used by the police and advertised in the (presumably invented) 1065: 1562: 1542: 1527: 850: 599: 277: 1390: 720: 902: 688: 1041: 290: 387: 369:
character is usually referred to only as "Duke", various other names for him have appeared over the years, including having the first name "Raoul".
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Duke was also used so that Thompson could talk about himself – after a diving accident, Thompson had to spend some time in a
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whose daily life is a near-perpetual state of intoxication on whatever drugs happen to be available – ranging from
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Russell, Jennifer M. (Spring 2011). ""A Savage Place!" Hunter S. Thompson and His Pleasure-Dome".
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portrays an older Duke in a cameo in the Matrix flashback scene where Duke sees himself.
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In Las Vegas, Raoul Duke, Thompson's alter-ego and the main character of the book...
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for many of his works. He is perhaps best known as the narrator for his 1971
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Thompson, Hunter S. (December 2, 1978). "Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision".
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magazine. It was signed "Raoul Duke (Master of Weaponry)".
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Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film
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High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism
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High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism
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The Duke character has been portrayed in three films:
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Part 1 of the original version as first published in
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Duke is first mentioned by Thompson in his 1966 book
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Duke is often characterized as being somewhat of an
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Index


Johnny Depp
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Rango
Hunter S. Thompson
Johnny Depp
Hunter S. Thompson
Bill Murray
Gonzo journalism
author surrogate
Hunter S. Thompson
antihero
autobiographical novel
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
bucket hat
aviator sunglasses
Gonzo journalist
cannabis
amyl nitrite
adrenochrome
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Samoan
Oscar Zeta Acosta
Hell's Angels
author surrogate
Raúl Castro
John Wayne
David S. Wills
decompression chamber

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