Capote

Watched Capote last weekend. Philip Seymour Hoffman was classic in his role as Truman Capote though throughout the movie I was struggling to understand his dialogues only to read later that Truman Capote had a very thin voice.

This movie directed by Bennett Miller is the true (I don’t claim this!) story of Truman Capote, author of Cold Blood, a childhood friend of Harper Lee. In fact, the character of Dill in ‘To Kill a Mocking bird’ was inspired by Capote’s life.

Catherine Keener as Harper Lee seems very calm and composed in her role which makes me think if there would be much of a difference in their behavior in real life, leave apart their accomplishments.
Chris cooper (American Beauty) has got a role in this movie too.

Capote was working as journalist in New Yorker when a family of four is brutally murdered in Holcombe, Kansas. Capote covered this story and it somehow convinced him that non-fiction can be handled as good as fiction and he set on writing a novel on this murder. In the process, he befriends one of the accused and this is how the story goes on.
He completed this novel ‘In cold blood’ but never wrote anything again and died of alcohol complications in 1984.

In real, Capote even hinted that he ghosted the story of ‘To Kill a Mocking bird’. He also wrote ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s'.