Articles for tag: Capote, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote

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Capote : A Film About a Book and Its Author

In the movie Capote, we see the man by the same name in his element. Cigarette and drink in hand, he is playing the raconteur at a New York literary soiree. He is telling a story about another writer’s novel, but we notice how everyone at the party is eating up his jokes and his ...

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Thoughts on Capote and Perry Smith

It is fascinating to me, that a man can see the work of the devil, and still worship him. The man in this case, being Truman Capote, and the devil being Perry Smith. Smith and his cohort, Dick Hickock brutally murdered four members of the Clutter family in 1959. Capote, an established writer, author of ...

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Analysis of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

When looking at the back of a novel that depicts a murderer case you usually see the basic plot of the novel being that of finding the murderer’s identity. In Cold Blood on the other hand is that of finding the murderer’s motive. In Truman Capote’s masterpiece In Cold Blood, he organizes it in a ...

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Capote or Infamous? Why Choose When Both Films Offer Excellence?

Although it is certainly rare that two movies cover the same subject within a very constricted timeline, it’s hardly unprecedented. Remember that there were no less than three TV-movies made about Amy Fisher in under a year! And then there was Tombstone and Wyatt Earp both contributing to the big lie about how the Earps ...