Terry Gilliam always knew that “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” would leave a cultural mark far outstripping its modest box-office returns. But he never thought it would morph into a kind of foundational text for the tinfoil-hat right.
“I’m responsible for QAnon,” he says, half in disbelief, referring to the amorphous conspiracy movement that seized on the idea of adrenochrome — a fictional hallucinogen invented by Hunter S. Thompson and later amplified and distorted by Gilliam’s 1998 adaptation.
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“That’s how fucking stupid they are,” he adds, laughing. “There’s madness afoot. Adrenochrome is a complete invention — Hunter started that
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