Ro.go.pa.g.(1963)
This is the most famous segment. Pasolini was charged with blasphemy and given a four-month suspended sentence for his portrayal of the scene . It remains a powerful critique of the class divide and the commercialization of religion . Il Pollo Ruspante " (Free-Range Chicken) Director: Ugo Gregoretti
The legal battle over Pasolini's "La Ricotta" remains a key case study in the history of film censorship and artistic freedom . Ro.Go.Pa.G.(1963)
Set in a Paris where an atomic explosion has occurred high in the atmosphere, a man notices the people around him—including his girlfriend—have begun to act with a strange, detached logic . This is the most famous segment
It captures a specific moment in cinema history where Neorealism (Rossellini) met the Avant-Garde (Godard and Pasolini) . Ro.Go.Pa.G.(1963)
“this is alas just another film that panders to the image Thompson himself tried to shirk – the reckless buffoon that is more at home on fraternity posters than library shelves. It is a missed opportunity to take the man seriously.”
This is an excellent summary on the attitude of the seeming majority of HST ‘admirers’.
It just makes me think that they read Fear and Loathing, looked up similar stories of HST’s unhinged behaviour and didn’t bother with the rest of his work.
There is such a raw, human element of Thompsons work, showing an amazing mind, sense of humour, critical thinking and an uncanny ability to have his finger on the pulse of many issues of his time.
Booze feature prominently in most of his writing and he is always flirting with ‘the edge’, but this obsession with remembering him more as Raoul Duke and less as Hunter Thompson, is a sad reflection of most ‘fans’; even if it was a self inflicted wound by Thompson himself.