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The last of the original Gonzo visionaries...WTF?


It is really funny when there is a movie and I do not even know what it is all about. WTF does it mean "the last of the original Gonzo visionaries". I checked Wikipedia for Gonzo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzo) and I'm not even closer a bit. Please, enlighten me!

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I guess it's about this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzo_journalism

Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative. The word "gonzo" is believed to be first used in 1970 to describe an article by Hunter S. Thompson, who later popularized the style. It is an energetic first-person participatory writing style in which the author is a protagonist, and it draws its power from a combination of both social critique and self-satire.[1] It has since been applied to other subjective artistic endeavors.

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Yep, thanks...

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Hi- I'm pretty sure 'Gonzo' is considered a genre of journalism...Gonzo journalism is Thompson's (writer of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) type of journalism, mix of fact and fiction.

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