I am sure when Toby Jones was making Infamous he could smell an Oscar nomination and then found out that the similar themed Capote was released at a similar time and Philip Seymour Hoffman got the Best Actor win for playing Truman Capote.
Jones plays the waspish Truman Capote a social climber who ingratiated with high society and the writer of classics such as Breakfast At Tiffany's. He also very much invented the 'non-fiction novel' with In Cold Blood in 1966 which this film is based on. I guess another word for it is 'Faction' a mixture of true events with artistic liberties and subjectivism.
Capote covered the murders of a well to do Kansas family and visited the town with the writer Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock). Capote charms his way into this shell shocked town with celebrity gossip and name dropping.
Capote gets access to the murderers and forms a strange bond with Perry Smith (Daniel Craig) who mixed sensitivity with callousness.
This is a low budget film peppered with star cameos. Sigourney Weaver, Hope Davis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Daniels, Isabella Rossellini and Peter Bogdanovich (check him out doing the Twist.)
English actor Toby Jones is having a delectable time playing Capote and seems to have a more convincing resemblance as Capote than Hoffman. He really gets into the character of Capote and despite his mannerisms gives him a little steel as well which we see as he beats all-comers at arm wrestling.However we note that he is also distrusted by his circle of friends because nothing said to him remains in confidence.
However the film felt slight, lightly textured which itself has mixed imagination with actual events such as a sexual encounter with Capote and Smith in prison. A well crafted film which the actors seems to have enjoyed making but not outstanding.
Jones plays the waspish Truman Capote a social climber who ingratiated with high society and the writer of classics such as Breakfast At Tiffany's. He also very much invented the 'non-fiction novel' with In Cold Blood in 1966 which this film is based on. I guess another word for it is 'Faction' a mixture of true events with artistic liberties and subjectivism.
Capote covered the murders of a well to do Kansas family and visited the town with the writer Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock). Capote charms his way into this shell shocked town with celebrity gossip and name dropping.
Capote gets access to the murderers and forms a strange bond with Perry Smith (Daniel Craig) who mixed sensitivity with callousness.
This is a low budget film peppered with star cameos. Sigourney Weaver, Hope Davis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Daniels, Isabella Rossellini and Peter Bogdanovich (check him out doing the Twist.)
English actor Toby Jones is having a delectable time playing Capote and seems to have a more convincing resemblance as Capote than Hoffman. He really gets into the character of Capote and despite his mannerisms gives him a little steel as well which we see as he beats all-comers at arm wrestling.However we note that he is also distrusted by his circle of friends because nothing said to him remains in confidence.
However the film felt slight, lightly textured which itself has mixed imagination with actual events such as a sexual encounter with Capote and Smith in prison. A well crafted film which the actors seems to have enjoyed making but not outstanding.