Problem
Book: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Movie: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1998, directed by Terry Gilliam
Compare the book and movie based on the questions below
1. What do they tell us about the narrative and its range of potential meaning, its limitations, or its major themes and problems? (such as Mass culture, binary culture, sarcasm, fable, history aspect, and symbolism)
2. How are important scenes from the texts staged onscreen?
3. Which scenes are omitted from the film?
4. How do the films differently represent characters and their relationships?
5. Is the setting as described, or does it change?
6. How is "mass culture" represented in this mass-cultural medium?