Where The Buffalo Roam (Art Linson, 1980)

The first film to feature the life and deeds of the great and unforgettable author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Before Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Terry Gilliam, Where The Buffalo Roam would show the flamboyant character of Hunter and Bill Murray would make a truly amazing and terrific job in portraying him. Where The Buffalo Roam is a movie that clearly shows love for the man Hunter and for his "holy" and unorthodox way of living. In the movie we see Hunter in all sorts of occasions where that crazy character of his transforms an ordinary situation into a lunatic circus of laughter and chaos. Hunter was a great man and the film knows and understands that by giving to the audience a totally authentic side of him, a side that we all came and loved that continuous parody of everything where the political and social comment is being blend with the endless and bottomless humour, a humour that many people never understood and they thought that this man was clearly insane, but truth says that Hunter was a man who understood the irrational of life, the futile of life, the pretentious of life and so he behaved like there was no other day for him to live except the one he was living. Where The Buffalo Roam stays to this day one of the most brilliant comedies of the 80s and a film that no matter how good it is, it never got the attention it needed. All people know Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, a masterpiece by all means, but much fewer know of that gem over here, a film that clearly takes out the deeper character of Hunter and a movie that loves his attitude and his craziness presenting it as another, different way of living out of the ordinary, the banal and the boring. Hunter S. Thompson is one of the greatest personalities of America, an author and a journalist that has written miraculous history and the film understands that, understands the greatness of that man and with leader the fantastic Bill Murray it gives to the audience a real and deeply authentic view of the man Hunter. A comedy to break all the conventions in the world. A true cult classic and a movie that screams for bigger recognition.