Capote (2005)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.6/10   

Director:

Bennett Miller

Escritores (WGA):

Dan Futterman (screenplay)
Gerald Clarke (book)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 febrero 2006 (USA)

Género:

Biografía | Crimen | Drama

Plot:

Truman Capote (Hoffman), during his research for his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, the writer develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers.

Plot Keywords:

Kansas | Writer | Truman Capote | Execution | Murder

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 44 wins & 43 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Mr. Hoffman, you are Truman Capote.

Reparto

Allie Mickelson	...	Laura Kinney
Kelci Stephenson	...	Nancy Clutter
Philip Seymour Hoffman	...	Truman Capote
Craig Archibald	...	Christopher
Bronwen Coleman	...	Barbara
Kate Shindle	...	Rose
David Wilson Barnes	...	Grayson
Michael J. Burg	...	Williams (as Michael J. Berg)
Catherine Keener	...	Nelle Harper Lee
Kwesi Ameyaw	...	Porter
Andrew Farago	...	Car Rental Agent
Ken Krotowich	...	Courthouse Guard
Chris Cooper	...	Alvin Dewey
R.D. Reid	...	Roy Church
Rob McLaughlin	...	Harold Nye (as Robert Mclaughlin)

También conocida como:

Truman Capote (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for some violent images and brief strong language.

Duración:

114 min | Canada:110 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

País:

Canada | USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Canada:14A (British Columbia) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Australia:M | UK:15 | Germany:12 | Norway:15 | Netherlands:16 | Ireland:15A | Singapore:NC-16 | Finland:K-15 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Brazil:14 | Malaysia:U | Argentina:13 | Hong Kong:IIB | USA:R (certificate #41953) | France:U | Sweden:11 | Iceland:16 | Hungary:16 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | South Korea:15 | Portugal:M/12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Austin, Texas, USA

Compañía:

A-Line Pictures

Trivialidades:

The boy known as Danny Burke in the movie was actually Bobby Rupp in Capote's novel In Cold Blood, while the girl called Laura Kinney in the film is actually Susan Kidwell. The names were probably changed for legal reasons.

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: When Harper Lee is leaving Spain, Capote walks her out to the waiting taxi. When they both bend over to put her suitcase into the trunk, a cordless microphone unit can be seen just under Lee's shirt, attached to the waist of her pants.

Citas:

[first lines]
Laura Kinney: Hello? Nancy?

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Natalie Portman/Fall Out Boy (#31.13)" (2006)

Banda de Sonido:

My Man Is Gone

Mr. Hoffman, you are Truman Capote.

The easiest role for an actor to play is a historical figure - we have no idea how Julius Caesar really sounded, how he moved his body, punctuated his speech, bit his lip, walked into a room, held his cigarette. The hardest role is the living, or recently deceased, celebrity whom we watched, heard, studied, mimicked and thought we understood. JFK, Martin Luther King, Ray Charles, and, above all, the inventor of self referential celebrity, Truman Capote (with apology to Andy Warhol and, of course, Noel Coward)..

After exploding to meteoric fame with his novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, Capote became the New York café society's darling, heir to Coward's gay-man-child-bon-vivant. He drank and held court with the best of New York, which just also happened to be the nexus of television in the early 60s. Before long Capote was the quintessential modern celebrity, famous for being famous. And he did it all before our eyes.

Philip Seymour Hoffman does not so much play Capote as become him. And not just in mannerism, no mean feat, but in personality, because we are convinced that Hoffman feels what Capote felt, cries over the lies, accepts his moral failings. For a short story writer-raconteur from New Orleans, Capote found himself at the center of a nationally enthralling multiple homicide, facing the ultimate journalist's Faustian dilemma: if he perpetrates a lie for the sake of exposing the truth, is he ever worthy of redemption. Capote, in the end, concluded that he wasn't; he never wrote another book. He descended into drunkenness and died a lonely soul. This is not the stuff of Holly Golightly.

I saw this picture at the Toronto Film Festival with Hoffman, Catherine Keener and director Bennett Miller in attendance. Though they had seen it many many times before, it was obvious even they were moved by it and by our reaction. As we stood and applauded them, we turned to one another, glowing in the realization that we had witnessed an amazing performance.

We knew Truman Capote. We watched him live on television. Truman Capote was (we imagined) our friend. Mr. Hoffman, you are Truman Capote.