Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
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Title: Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Peter Boyle | ... | Lazlo | |
| Bill Murray | ... | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| Bruno Kirby | ... | Marty Lewis | |
| Rene Auberjonois | ... | Harris (as René Auberjonois) | |
| R.G. Armstrong | ... | Judge Simpson | |
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Danny Goldman | ... | Porter |
| Rafael Campos | ... | Rojas | |
| Leonard Frey | ... | Desk Clerk | |
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Leonard Gaines | ... | Super Fan |
| Otis Day | ... | Man #1 (as De Wayne Jessie) | |
| Mark Metcalf | ... | Dooley | |
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Jon Shear | ... | Billy Kramer (as Jon Matthews) |
| Joseph Ragno | ... | Willins | |
| Quinn K. Redeker | ... | Pilot (as Quinn Redeker) | |
| Lisa Taylor | ... | Ruthie | |
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The deranged adventures of Gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson and his attorney Oscar Acosta, referred to in the movie as "Laslow". Thompson attempts to cover the Super Bowl and the 1972 Presidential election in his typical drug-crazed state, but is continually and comically sidetracked by his even more twisted friend Laslow. Allegedly based on actual events. Written by John Rumpelein <usviking@imageek.york.cuny.edu>
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25 April 1980 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Blast - Wo die Büffel röhren See more »Filming Locations:
Los Angeles International Airport - 1 World Way, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Edit
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$1,750,593, 27 April 1980, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
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Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland
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In an early scene, the establishing shot outside a seedy bar contains two seedy characters standing outside it, lighting cigarettes. They are musician Neil Young and music producer David Briggs, who contributed to the soundtrack selection and recording. See more »Goofs
In the bathroom scene when Murray is washing his shoes out in the sink, then hits them repeatedly against the urinal to get the excess water out, he is wearing glasses but his reflection in the mirror behind the urinals isn't. See more »Soundtracks
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Fist of all, as far as the comparison to Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas (1998) goes, these films are completely different beasts. Fear & Loathing is a adaptation of a fictional work based on real events. Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro are playing Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo, not Hunter S. Thompson and Oscar Zeta Acosta. They are playing caricatures of real people, indirect representations funneled through HST's imagination and exaggeration. Where The Buffalo Roam is more based in reality. Bill Murray is directly playing Hunter S. Thompson as he writes his writings, Johnny Depp played a character from his writings, there is a massive difference. And as such, in my opinion, both films succeed brilliantly. Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas is a visually dazzling, imaginative, cinematic adaptation of HST's novel and Where The Buffalo Roam is a quirky, splendidly fun quasi-biographical journey and pure snapshot of life.
Bill Murray is fantastic in this film. His portrayal of HST is taken from life, more realistic, more from the man rather than from his text or the legend of HST. The whole film itself, mainly because of Murray's characterization and the realistic structured style of the abrupt interconnected randomness of everyday life, is infused with a undying sense of fun and love for words, imagination, writing, and the whole creative process, which seems to me to get more to the core of HST as a man than the various vignettes of Fear & Loathing.
Where The Buffalo Roam is wildly entertaining, frenziedly hilarious, and immeasurably fun. But when the general viewing audience, who presumably do not have a true passion for HST and his works, views both films and are given the choice between the legend and the man, they more often choose the legend, which is usually the trend in history.
Whereas Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas has a romance for the stories and the myth, Where The Buffalo has a romance for the man and the process, and both have it for his personal style, politics and priorities.