{"id":8439,"date":"2013-02-14T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8439"},"modified":"2013-02-12T20:57:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T01:57:10","slug":"the-rum-diary-2011-bruce-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8439","title":{"rendered":"The Rum Diary (2011, Bruce Robinson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prequel to <em>Fear &#038; Loathing In Las Vegas<\/em> that I was very excited for in 1999, less so in 2011 when it finally came out.  Depp does a good job dialing back to an earlier, less insane Hunter S. Thompson impersonation, but this origin story for HST&#8217;s career, based on his early (but belatedly-published) novel, doesn&#8217;t have much to recommend it besides the pleasure of hanging out with Depp&#8217;s HST and a new comic sidekick in Michael Rispoli (<em>Summer of Sam<\/em>) and a decent comeback for Robinson (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6519\">Withnail &#038; I<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/rumdiary2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Aaron Eckhart plays a slick wealthy bad guy (and Depp&#8217;s part-time employer), gets to make a nice F&#038;L reference, pointing at the ocean saying he needs someone with the right kind of eyes (or maybe HST just wrote that dialogue twice).  Amber Heard (star of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7005\">The Ward<\/a><\/em>) is Eckhart&#8217;s hot wife with a thing for Depp.  Giovanni Ribisi isn&#8217;t entirely successful as a drunk and dangerous crime correspondent on the newspaper (run by Richard Jenkins with a hairpiece), but he isn&#8217;t significantly outclassed by the rest of the film so it works out.  Someone uses the term &#8220;living wage&#8221; &#8211; did that exist in the late 1950&#8217;s?<\/p>\n<p><em>Drunken Fantasy scene 1: rum bowling alley<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/rumdiary1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Drunken Fantasy scene 2: Rispoli tongue<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/rumdiary3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prequel to Fear &#038; Loathing In Las Vegas that I was very excited for in 1999, less so in 2011 when it finally came out. Depp does a good job dialing back to an earlier, less insane Hunter S. Thompson impersonation, but this origin story for HST&#8217;s career, based on his early (but belatedly-published) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,296,1175,159],"class_list":["post-8439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-book-adaptation","tag-bruce-robinson","tag-johnny-depp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8493,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions\/8493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}