Capote

[Zens7s]

I have it home on NetFlix tonight, so let's start discussing...

Anyone seen it?

Worth the hype?

[phit_demon]

I watched it two nights ago. It's really good.

***SPOILER ALERT***





I totally love that they portray Capote as a flawed individual, instead of the usual heart of gold treatment that we usually get from biogs.
He is shown blatantly lying to the prisoners for his own benefit, pretending to care (and sometimes genuinely caring) about their well-being, and failing to get over himself enough to congratulate his closest friend, Harper Lee, at the premier of To Kill A Mocking Bird.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman has always impressed me, but he totally blew me away in this.....and I could watch Catherine Keener recite the dictionary.
Top notch.

[Zens7s]

Agreed Agreed. I could also watch Catherine Keener do anything. Have you seen Lovely & Amazing? If not check it out.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was fantastic. It took until watching the special features for me to remember what his voice really sounds like. Even his nostrils were in character with that weird haughtly sniff thing that Capote used to do.

I did not know that this movie only concentrated on the period in which he was involved with In Cold Bood. I had just recently finshed this book on a trip to Boston. I am glad I did that first, because it really brought home certain parts. I had wondered, while reading, how he managed to paint such a sympathetic portrait of these killers and the same time have unprecented access to the townspeople and families.

They did show what a master manipulator Truman was, and you are right, they did not paint him to be a hero that he wasn't. By the end of his life he had alienated almost everyone near to him and there are the shades of why showing here.

Also I did not know that it was Richard Avedon who Truman had do the portraits of the killers. I just saw Avedon's "Into the American West" exposition and it just socked me in the gut. It really fits his choice of subject.

[phit_demon]

Have you seen Lovely & Amazing?
No, I haven't seen it yet, but I'm going on a rental-fest at the weekend, so it just made the list.

I haven't read In Cold Blood and I was afraid it would be essential reading before seeing Capote, which thankfully it wasn't.
After I finish this accursed Dark Tower series (it's great, but looooooooooooong) it'll be the first book I pick up.

[Monster of Rock]

I saw it. I liked it. I'd recommend it. His writing reminds me of my posts here. Although I am a better writer,I have to give him his props. I did however, keep getting the strangest feeling that Truman might be gay. He certainly wasnt when Jim Carrey played him.

[ozchick]

Great. Now you've ruined it for the rest of us.

[Zens7s]

I saw it. I liked it. I'd recommend it. His writing reminds me of my posts here, even tho I am a better a writer.I did keep getting the strangest feeling that Truman might be gay. He certainly wasnt when Jim Carrey played him anyway.
You are actually insinuating that you are a better writer that one of the greatest American writers of all time? You cannot even manage to type the post above without making gross grammatical errors. I am dumber for having read it.

It's official. Mama, he's crazy.

[Monster of Rock]

I gotta admit he was a great President.