After hearing about the death of Phillip Seymour Hoffman Sandy and I chose to revisit this movie that won him the Academy Award for this 2005 film. He was more than sensational in this great movie. The acting, especially the point where he is saying goodbye to the men who are to be executed stands by itself as a masterpiece in acting. We lost a great actor. Sandy and I also plan to re-see the movie In Cold Blood. Capote did not write another novel again after the emotional drain of the six years he spent on preparing the book and interviewing the men involved in the killing.
Excerpts from Rotten Tomatoes: The creation of one of the most memorable books of the 1960s -- and the impact the writing and research would have on its author -- is explored in this drama based on a true story. In 1959, Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) was a critically acclaimed novelist who had earned a small degree of celebrity for his (prior) work when he read a short newspaper item about a multiple murder in a small Kansas town. For some reason, the story fascinated Capote, and he asked William Shawn, his editor at The New Yorker, to let him write a piece about the case. Capote had long believed that in the right hands, a true story could be molded into a tale as compelling as any fiction, and he believed this event, in which the brutal and unimaginable was visited upon a community where it was least expected, could be just the right material. Capote traveled to Kansas with his close friend Harper Lee, herself becoming a major literary figure with the success of To Kill a Mockingbird, and while Capote's effete and mannered personal style stuck out like a sore thumb in Kansas, in time he gained the trust of Alvin Dewey (Chris Cooper), the Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent investigating the murder of the Clutter family, and with his help Capote's magazine piece grew into a full-length book.
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