For No Good Reason a film about Ralph Steadman. Johnny Depp guides the visually stunning journey, smashing narrative con | dG1fS3NMNjVKU1FZZkU
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00:00Right. You ready? Wow. I like that.
00:08You just simply have a flick of the wrist, a proper semicircle.
00:14And I, in there, I blow like so.
00:18And things happen.
00:21Cartooning meant more to me than just funny pictures.
00:25I needed to apply it as a weapon, almost.
00:27I really thought if I ever learned to draw properly, I would try to change the world for the better.
00:33Are you ready for this? Because it might not be very good, but it might be great, too.
00:37Wow. Ooh, I love it.
00:41This guy, Ralph Steadman, was a very evil-minded, twisty kind of guy.
00:45My idea of humor was that it would be slightly maniacal.
00:49I wanted to get it out of my system. It was something that was just waiting to erupt.
00:53I need a couple of drinks, actually, to start on this. Really do.
00:56On my first visit to America, I met up with Hunter S. Thompson.
01:01When Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas came in, I think people were stunned by it.
01:04It was so funny and dangerous and wild.
01:07Ralph was willing to go to extremes that Hunter was not willing to.
01:10Hunter realized that Ralph was crazier than him.
01:15It was the essence of my work to distort and yet maintain the likeness.
01:20The energy, the anger, the venom, it was just spewed out.
01:24And that's what I loved.
01:25It's what we're thinking at the back of our heads but aren't capable of getting it out.
01:30Good Ralph was a person. Never met a warmer, generous.
01:34He's not his paintings.
01:39If you surprise yourself still, really, you can have a good trip.
01:43It's a good way to do stuff, for no good reason.
01:46Still as relevant today as it was then.
01:48Great. Amazing. Just incredible.