Vegas, baby!
I am heading to Las Vegas for the first time in my life. Though I’m not traveling there to participate in the usual behaviors (gambling, getting married, eating endangered species), but instead to visit family, I fear it’s impossible not to get sucked into the spectacle.
I can’t help but ponder the representations I have seen in books and on film of this larger-than-life place—it is the standard by which I will end up judging the real thing!
The movies I keep referencing in my mind are Swingers, The Hangover, Ocean’s Eleven, and cameo appearances in The Big Lebowski and Knocked Up. As for books, well, I can only think of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. (I read it, though I didn’t see the movie adaptation.)
After this weekend, I will only be able to compare representation of Vegas in film and movies to the real thing.
I’d love to know what those might be—if I am missing some major seminal works about, or set in, this notorious and ultimately unavoidable phenomenon of a city. Enlighten me, please!
Through the looking glass I go…
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