Who has seen "Capote" ? No spoilers please!

[Scout]

I'm probably going to the 5pm show.

Any DU reviews?

[AngryAmish]

1. Good movie.

I still can't beleive that cruise liner got hit by the tidal wave...

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. But what about Frodo and Sam in Mount Doom?

That was pretty unexpected...

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

3. Yes, Frodo and Sam

marrying other women but always longing for one another... :P

[edbermac]

4. I cried when Tom Cruise got executed at the end of the movie.

:cry:

[mitchum]

24. LMAO!!!

nice :)

[tigereye]

5. it's excellent

intense, understandably. The acting is stellar.

[Montauk6]

6. I REALLY felt the actor who played Perry Smith deserved a Best Supporting

nomination.

[Darth_Kitten]

7. it was filmed in my hometown.....

or at least part of it...

I really want to see it. :D

[ccjlld]

10. Where did they film the scenes

that were suppose to be Garden City and Holcomb? Just curious as I spent a good portion of my childhood in Garden City in the 1970's. Haven't seen the movie yet, I didn't even watch In Cold Blood till I was late into my 20's. It just hit too close to home.

[Darth_Kitten]

17. I have to see the movie to see if I can identify....

which parts were filmed in Winnipeg. :)

But rural Manitoba could fill in for Holcomb, I'm sure, just don't know if they shot any scenes outside of Winnipeg.

[terrya]

8. Absolutely first rate

Excellent performances all around (and not just Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Catherine Keener as Harper Lee is excellent as well)

Terrific screenplay (co-written by Dan Futterman, his first screenplay)

One of the best films of the year.

[mitchum]

21. I agree with you about the performances, but I found the screenplay...

to be rather pedestrian.
The screenplay of "In Cold Blood" is FAR superior, but I guess that's going to happen when your source material is Truman Capote rather than Gerald Clarke.

[SharonRB]

9. It was an excellent movie.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman gave an outstanding performance.

[Scout]

11. thanks for the info ... I really enjoyed the movie

excellent performances and screenplay, as noted.

It's been years since I read In Cold Blood and saw the movie. I was a teenager and was really bothered by both.

[bertha katzenengel]

12. What bothered you more:

The acts Capote detailed in In Cold Blood, or Capote as portrayed by Hoffman: a self-centered lout?

For a few days after I saw "Capote," the murders and what an asshole he was were running neck and neck . . .

[CBHagman]

13. Yes, the film stayed with me for weeks afterward.

I had put off seeing the film, because when I was growing up, Truman Capote was more famous for being famous than for being a writer. I had seen the trailers and wasn't sure I could deal with two hours in the man's company (Though I had watched "Tru" on PBS when Robert Morse played that part on Broadway.)

But a friend suggested we go see it one Saturday, and off we went.

Frankly, it helps to see the film in the company of another person, for the material is so unsettling as be haunting. What makes it more painful is the knowledge that it's based on fact.

On a purely artistic level, the film was brilliant. Hoffman gives a brave performance, and of course Chris Cooper and Catherine Keener are well worth watching in almost anything they do.

I must confess, however, to looking for anachronisms (a habit of mine with any film with a period setting). The jury's still out on that score.

[mitchum]

22. I also grew up when Capote was "the most famous writer in the world"...

(Remember when they had real authors on talk shows?) and even as a kid, I found him rather amusing. It made me seek out his work and I discovered what a truly astonishing talent he possessed. To this day, I still read his entire body of work once a year (it's actually rather small, but exquisite)
Capote had a wretched childhood which led to a lot of his adult behaviors. He could be a monster, but always a beautiful monster.

[Scout]

16. when I was a teen and read ICB and saw the movie with Robert Blake

as Perry, the murders were what bothered me the most. And the ending of the movie ICB with Perry's heartbeat fading out to black really upset me.

Now, after seeing Capote film, I'm still bothered by the murders and the executions, but also by Capote as portrayed. What a fucking jerk! He did not deserve the devoted friendship he received. The way he talked didn't bother me, but what he said sometimes revealed what a jerk he could be.

Does anyone who really knew Truman have much to say about how he was portrayed?

[CBHagman]

19. I haven't read any articles on that.

Apparently the film is based, for the most part, on a recent biography of Capote. I'm blanking out on the name, but it's probably on display at your local bookstore.

I haven't seen any recent articles concerning how Capote was portrayed and what his surviving contemporaries have to say, though The New York Times did recently run an article or two on the reclusive Harper Lee.

When the play Tru was on Broadway, I read a bit about how much of a user Capote was. If anything, it was an even more unflattering portrayal than in Capote.

[Kathryn STone]

14. Phillip Seymour Hoffman ROCKS as much as r/o

I love all the actors who are nominated in Best Actor for Oscar, he is the bomb.
I have tried reading In Cold Blood and just couldn't relate (I'm Gen X)
Glad you are going it's a super groovy movie.
Peace Out

[mitchum]

23. I'm actually rather shocked that you couldn't relate to the book...

over the past 30 years, I have turned dozens of people on to it, and they were all enraptured by it. I don't understand what your being Gen X (and that's just a MARKETING term) has to do with your dislike. It's longer than a magazine article? People don't fly? I really am confused by that rationale.

[Kerrytravelers]

15. E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T.

[Paladin]

18. Very Well Done

PSH's portrayal of Capote is an absolute triumph. Great story of an artist being consumed and ultimately destroyed by his own works.

[mitchum]

20. I DON"T recommend it (and I'm a huge fan of both Capote...

and Hoffman) The performances are excellent, but the movie is rather mediocre. It falls into that recent category that I term "A Handsome Production"- others are "Mystic River", "The Hours", "Elizabeth", etc...
These movies are "good" only because they aren't mindless action flicks. "Quality" by default.

[Botany]

25. Great!

But the actor who plays Capote does his voice so well it is sometimes hard
to understand.

[UTUSN]

26. It's my pick for Best Actor (but I'm lacking Good-Night/Luck yet)

Haha, "my pick"---like I'm such an important chooser.

I was biased for Joachin before seeing Walk, but was Johnny CASH that much of a fucking ZOMBIE? I mean, he certainly had grounds for growing up PTSD, but Reese WITHERSPOON was all that made that flick bearable.

As for the real CAPOTE, his society pals shunned him for pillaging THEIR lives for his writing. They liked it when he did it to the murdering nobodies, but not to them.

Otoh, the cliche is that the artist will sacrifice his grandmother for the sake of mining a bit of art.

As for the awards, Samuel L. JACKSON just told an interviewer how he and most/all Hollywooders do their voting: He looks over the ballots for names of friends, if any, and checks those off and leaves the ballots on a side table. His wife checks off some from some movies SHE's seen. The maid, yardman, and personal assistant check off the rest, and the personal assistant gets the ballots in the mail. So much for awards.

[mitchum]

27. I honestly think that the far more interesting period of Capote's

life to cover would have been the era of the fallout from "Answered Prayers" "In Cold Blood" is certainly the superior book, but Capote's dismay and depression when he was dropped and shunned by his "swans" was truly a tragic period in his life. Yes, the jet set all knew those stories, but they were outraged when we peasants were allowed to peer through the hedges of Versailles. Capote's rationale was, "What did they expect? I'm a writer!" Yes, he was indeed a writer. A brilliant one. Those like Babe Paley and Slim Keith were just useless people whose only talents were being born to, or marrying, money. A thousand of them are not worth one Capote.

[Patiod]

28. How do you spoil a bio-pic?

I used to tell people who were going to see Titanic "Oh, and not to spoil the movie, but the boat sinks in the end."

[mitchum]

31. LOL!!! I used to spoil "The Last Temptation of Christ" in the same way

[Skittles]

29. me

I LOVED IT and I think Mr. Hoffman is hands down the winner of the Oscar

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

30. When Harper Lee told Capote to use the force

I almost wept.

[benny05]

32. Philip Seymour Hoffman

Excellent as Capote as well as his supporting cast. But since you asked for no spoilers, I cannot comment further.