plot i changed this is a highly fictionalised account of thompson and attorney oscar zeta acosta's actual trip to las vegas around the same time period this is contracticed many times through out the article in one instance under the pre production sub heading it says depp remembers he saved it all not only is the book true but there's more and it was worse later on under the sub heading reaction it says apparently it all came flooding back to him he was reliving the whole trip he was yelling out and jumping on his seat like it was a rollercoaster ducking and diving shouting 'shit look out goddam bats ' that was fantastic if he thought we'd captured it then we must have done it although it is a far fetched story it is not highly fictionalised and regardless it can't say it is if there are statements throughout the rest of the article from direct sources that are saying it is real