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Genres:
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Biography /
Crime /
Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Bennett Miller
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Actors:
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Kwesi Ameyaw,
R.D. Reid,
Craig Archibald,
Kate Shindle,
Michael J. Burg,
Allie Mickelson,
Kelci Stephenson,
Bronwen Coleman,
David Wilson Barnes,
Andrew Farago,
Ken Krotowich,
Rob McLaughlin,
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Catherine Keener,
Chris Cooper
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Duration:
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114 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)126
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Plot Summary:
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In 1959, Truman Capote, a sought-after pen-pusher for The New Yorker, learns everywhere the horrific and senseless murdering of a next of kin of four in Holcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the fortunes important, Capote and his accessory, Harper Lee, travel to the town to analyse for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the scheme into what would be his greatest work, In Cold Blood. To that end, he arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners, primarily with Perry Smith, a quiet and articulate crew with a troubled record. As he works on his publicati... on, Capote feels some compassion for Perry which in part prompts him to commandeer the prisoners to some estate. After all, that feeling deeply conflicts with his need for closure because his hard-cover which simply an manner can care for. That conflict and the mixed motives for both interviewer and subject act as if get by for a troubling experience that would produce an literary account that would redefine modern non-fiction.Read more Less
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Over Hyped
This flim and its reviews have hyped the style and skill of this film far too much. It has raised expectations past what any film can achieve. The first hour or so is made of bland and largely uninteresting conversation pieces between Capote and various other actors.
The film uses dull colours and shading so much that this lighting method becomes incredibly obvious adn thus ineffective. The acting is largely drab with many seeming to rely on Seymour-Hoffmans strong acting.
There is a strong lack of exploration of the psychology between Capote and Perry. When quite obviously Capote sees a huge similarity between himself and Perry.
Also what comes accross is Truman Capote's callousness, self adulating arrogance, attention seeking and arrogance in how he used these tw...
The Whispering
Philip Seymour Hoffman must do an incredible job of impersonating Truman Capote in this movie (I don't know this for sure because I, unlike the self congratulatory critics it seems, never knew Mr Capote). I have no idea why else this film would have met with the critical acclaim it did. I refuse to believe that I just didnt get it or that it was too smart for me--this film was anything but.
Hoffman whispers his way through the movie making the dialogue very difficult to hear, let alone care about.
The film plods and this is compounded on by underdeveloped characters for whom the viewer can build no kind of empathy.
Capote
Claudia PuigAs Truman Capote tells a friend before writing his seminal true-crime novel In Cold Blood, "When I think how good it could be, I can hardly breathe." In Capote, Philip Seymour Hoffman's brilliant transformation into the mannered writer takes your breath away.
Though he already has proved himself as one of the finest contemporary actors in films such as Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Happiness, Hoffman astonishes in his ability to get into Capote's skin. He masters the writer's flashy facade, wispy voice, tics and fey traits. He also reveals the wounded child from Alabama beneath the pompous jet-set persona.
The meticulously researched script by Dan Futterman, based on the book by Gerald Clarke, and the perfectly conceived direction by Bennett Miller...
Capote
In 1959, at the outset of this coat, Philip Seymour Hoffmans Truman Capote announces that I find...
Capote
The convolution of a gifted author, as well as his self-aggrandizing world, are what the murkiness focuses on. Hoffman delivers a thrilling and complete Oscar-caliber performance that leave around viewers well after the talking picture is over
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