RetroBites: In Cold Blood

[armaddajam]

A complete homo genius or not one obsessive bitch! what T.F.off

[GMRDUI]

I love how wonderfully eccentric he is.

[Bataja706]

yesterday i watched "Capote" with philip seymour hoffman for the first time, the movie is so cool

[TheLordHodne]

I know. And Philip does a excellent job to play Capote.. I mean, he's excacly like him almost.

[Chepo760]

Do you guys think this book is good? I heard it was but im not sure

[zivadavidismyhero]

yeah it is we just read it for school and its a little slow at times but as a whole it is pretty good

[fallenouttaplace]

Currently reading it. It's suspenseful and kind of a page turner (:

[Chepo760]

Thank man/girl , ima chek it out=D

[sleepyeyeguy]

Jack Black definitely should have been the one to play Capote

[meyoquito]

wtF for a comments !!

[stayjit1]

"Nazi Jew Illuminati", wow, You are some kinda lunatic.

[banjometal]

@ExoticGawdess When someone begins a post with the word "Illuminati" you know the're about to get goofy. I read along and sure enough saw "Nazi Jew Illuminati cabal". Thank you for keeping it weird. It makes it easier to deal with the people who are only a little insane.

[C0rvus]

@ExoticGawdess

Obvious troll is obvious.

[wtoutback]

This book put him on the literary map, and he inwardly loved poking fun at the Kansas people and their seemly backward ways. He nearly feel in love with one of the criminals, yet never once did he think about the surviving children of the Clutter family and address their suffering and grief. He made a load on money on this horrific crime, and laughed all the way to the bank, BUT in the process his life became a sea of drinking and toxic living. So in some ways, the book took its revenge.

[seaLskyn]

I am reading "In Cold Blood" for my english independant study unit..but i havent bought it yet. I don't know what to expect, is it a book that will be easy to write about and report on?

[VitoPossilipo]

It´s is not difficulty written, but very detailed. But I think, it´s not to hard to report on. Most of it is about the life of Perry Smith, his difficult life, his relationship to his father.

[fauyd]

I just realized Hoffman combed his hair the opposite way in Capote.

[TimAllenMD]

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[frenchkids]

Philip Seymour Hoffman did an AMAZING job.

[jimmybrite]

@frenchkids Toby Jones in "Infamous" seemed to have done a slightly better job, and he even looks more like Capote than Philip Seymour Hoffman, that said, I love Philip Seymour Hoffman's work, in ANY movie, especially the movie "Doubt" with Meryl Streep.

[bombbasticluva]

Hoffman won the Oscar, Toby Jones wasn't considered for one. There is where that post loses credibility.

[jimmybrite]

That's where you see it's all marketing and a big popularity contest.

[bombbasticluva]

Or maybe it's because Phillip was actually better. Don't get me wrong, I love Toby Jones but how was Infamous going to cut it being released a year after Capote.

[nickfromCO]

wonder if he ever hooked up with warhol.

[aspergershawn]

Warhal, teenager, used to hang around Capote, adult, to the latter's bemused annoyment.

[VitoPossilipo]

They toured together with the Rolling Stones.

[stephhe]

shawls!I love shawls!

[kingofdepew]

He kind of looks like Brian Doyle Murray in JFK. "I believe that's the 'Fair Play For Castro' committee..."

[scream1my2fuken3name]

wow i never expected him to talk like that

[meddetect10]

When I read his book I thought he would be a rough talking, no-nonsense man the way he wrote about violence. I think he's cute this way though!

[brainjesus]

This man was a real genius.

[wisesatyr72]

Capote's vioice is ridiculous thats why hes a legend

[andysweetwater]

capote blows

[JohnStecchino]

100% faggot

[gldneaglebndo742]

100% true

[ex1le444]

is Truman a Ginger Beer? He seems a little effete!

lol.

[darraghtank]

i would give anything to see his reaction to stepping in dogshit

"ohhh schnarfells"

[subdivision73]

respect,

[constantinexfreak]

"Some queers I've really liked. As long as they didn't try anything. The most worthwhile friend I ever had, really sensitive and intelligent, he turend out to be queer." -Perry Smith, In Cold Blood, pg 134. I always wonder if he's referring to Capote here. It could even be Willie Jay, but somehow, I just think it's Capote.

[geohabe]

The opening of the book In Cold Blood, describing the Kansas setting, is a masterpiece of narrative writing, which I used to assign to my college students studying "The Art of Prose."

[BlueBerry349]

im reading 'in cold blood' right now. i just started and the book already looks interesting :)

[sendtownjose]

@BlueBerry349 I finished it yesterday. It's awesome!!

[dustbunnieboo]

My son is reading "In Cold Blood" for school right now, so I'm rereading it as well. What a great novel. Capote managed to capture the horror of the crime and how it impacted a whole community of individuals. He was a genius at his craft.

[fidobarks]

toby was the best by far

hoffman alwys so ..... sloppy.

[backto1960]

hoffman was more of a sedated, demure version of capote. Toby, on the other hand, captured his spark and energy much better. I thus agree with you lol

[you2begin]

you literary types should get you little fingers typing away to the direction of Kerou(.)net for some enlighenment lite. It's better than listening to the constant clamour of your own mind. Call me a bastard if it doesn't slightly improve your model boat in a bottle life.

[solargesture]

ok, i wont then. i'll just call you an asshole

[andymill32]

Hoffmans performance is very good but not as good as Toby Jones portrayal of Capote in In Cold Blood a film about the same subject that came out 6 months later the film is much better

[sytnh]

i totally agree, i'm watching it just now, never watched before. i never imagined that it was possible to portrait capote better that hoffman did but jones performance is outstanding.

[andymill32]

I also think the film itself is far superior

[andymill32]

sorry, the toby jones film is actually called infamous not in cold blood

[stacksovids12]

he looks like a gay Bob Hope

[ednajo930615]

Seymur Hoffman performance looks like real Capote... My favorite booK In Cold Blood... Just Awesome...

Sadly yesterday 25 years ago we lost an incredible man.

[thetevinator]

The distinction between Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance as Capote and Capote himself are almost unidentifiable.

[DavePlaysTrombone]

P.S. Hoffman is one of the greatest actors of our time. He tops my list!

[thetevinator]

He's among my top ten list as well. One phenomenal actor!

[Kaevar]

Really. The more I confront them, the more I'm convinced of it.

[xBillyTheKidx]

absolutely. i am utterly in shock right now. i looked this up just to do a comparison.

[Death2k6point2]

Amazing book... Capote was truly a literary genius.

[FatalToxin]

in cold blood is an amazing book.

[AnarchyIncProduction]

Almost sounds like Marlon Brando after huffing helium :P

[IrishTeach1]

There is no way a man like Truman Capote who wanted everyone to know how great he was wouldn't take credit for To Kill a Mockingbird one of the best novels in American lit.

[tubbymctubsta]

he is very interesting. <3 i love him.

[messejesse1126]

for once the movie is much better than the book In cold blood is poorly written- and he called Kerouac a type writer

[zoetropez]

PSH is one hell of an actor.

[NastyBadBird]

Who is laughing the whole time? The camera man? I was too.

Truman Capote was more interested in turning Perry Smith into some kind of a legend and then bragging about giving him blowjobs through the bars to his New York friends than he ever was about any crime. The factual parts of the book could be gleaned from any newspaper. Perry Smith is a complete fabricaton, and a pretty one awful too.

[MankindCartoons]

I like your contradiction!

[TheZorkus]

should I laugh at you?

[Gonzoroy]

well, he's here to stay..

[Quex01]

hehe, i never thought that he would talk with voice like this... even if he was a homosexual

[spacerazer]

I don't care what Harper Lee says. Truman wrote "To Kill A Mocking Bird" for her.

[organist08]

I think you are confused dear....Harper Lee wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" NOT Truman Capote.....

[simonandtheghost]

I've heard people talk about this before. Seems pretty mad. What's the evidence?

[goobertay]

i think its VERY peculiar that harper lee, writes ONE book, and doesnt write another book ever again...her reasons, half assed and mysterious...maybe it was so comparisons wouldnt be drawn?

meanwhile, her good friend happens to be one of the greatest authors of the 20th century.

[SamanthaRocket145]

I hope your kidding

[Songsmirth]

I remember reading this book. It was chilling and very well written. Why does that have anything to do with what he looked like or sounded like? I just listened to Susan Boyle again. Don't people like her remind us that the outside means nothing? I sat the other day in the food court at Costco and watched people coming out and thought, "how many of these people would be considered handsome/beautiful?"I didn't see one in 20 mintues. Most of us are plain but we still reverve the outside. Sad.

[RemyFasolla]

It's an old joke but--

This video is terrible

And there's not enough of it.

[SunsetRubdownz]

i never really realized how true Hoffman's interpretation of Capote was until i saw Capote's interviews... genius.. both of them

[EmmaCharlotteStubbs]

yr pretending (?) to be insane & find the appellation "Right Wing Extremist" amusing. But what has any of this to do with the "homo"(your term)Truman Capote? In the potted bio/preamble to his stories, among the first words he writes are "my heart has never missed a beat over what others thought of me"; unusual character, very small in stature(like Toulouse LeTrec )lispingly camp, but so what? Take that leaf from his book & chill da fuck out, bwah. Don't be so confrontationally insecure.

[EmmaCharlotteStubbs]

stunning writer; incapable of writing a bad sentence....breakfast at tiffany's is still one of my alltime favourite books (certainly my favourite 'novella'; above animal farm; of mice and men etc) and holly golightly one of my alltime favourite characters...i knew a girl who reminded me very much of her

[VitoPossilipo]

Well, but I have to make some bad critic about "Breakfast at Tiffany´s": Why does it begin with the describtion with the author´s old flat and why is it said, that it brings him back to that flat? It is said, that a barkeeper phones the author, but not, that he goes back to his old flat.

And I don´t get, when he gets that phone call: While he still lives in that flat or later?

P.S.: Please excuse may bad English.

[EmmaCharlotteStubbs]

i'm a little unclear as to your meaning i'm afraid: i do recall the first page mention of the brown house and him conjuring up the opening scene in that crisply effortless style he has...you're talking about the book not the film, yes? as the two differ quite considerably as one would expect but in the book, if memory serves, he is called by the bar owner/tender and comes down, then shares his past experiences

please restate your question and i will do my best to answer you from memory

[oooowwwwdddd]

oh go recall your ass!

Go fuck off with your deep thought shit

[EmmaCharlotteStubbs]

if you consider THAT "deep" then my description of you as "shallow and self-obsessed" is pretty fucking accurate i'd say, lol

[oooowwwwdddd]

Who the fuck are you Spock? Would you lick my asshole please?

[seonfox]

your obama is a bigger fag than you

[EmmaCharlotteStubbs]

AND sex obsessed...you wear your sexuality publicly; most of us are more discrete/sophisticated...sex is so central to our lives (even when one isn't sexually active) that referencing it as often as you do and in such crude AND COMMERCIAL terms cheapens both it and you. You've got a dick...congratulations; that means you're a male/homo of the species homo sapiens ('homo' is latin for male btw); 'male' is an anagram for another word that conjoined with it describes you in particular perfectly

[VitoPossilipo]

Thank you very much for your reply.

I was referring to the book. Unfortunately, I´ve only have the German translation.

My critic was: The narrator says, it always brings him to the place, he has one lived, but then he described, how the phone call of Joe Bell brings him to Mr. Bell´s bar, but not to the narrow, brown house. Maybe I´m a little nitpicking.

Greetings from Berlin,

Vito

[oooowwwwdddd]

well who really cares. He was such a homo

[EmmaCharlotteStubbs]

well you'd know all about that, lol, but if you hadn't seen or heard capote you'd never connect him to his writing; there's the man and then there's the artist and as often as not the two are at almost complete variance with each other

[oooowwwwdddd]

well, your variance lol connect him to his writing capote said tomorrow toys under the tree.

You're a fag, and I'm a guy who sleeps with guys and girls. I hate women who act like guys and I hate guys who act like girls. They make me sick. But I like Truman but would never be more than friends with him.

But you shouldn't say what you said it's a hate crime & my Obama will put you in a FEMA camp you gay basher

[EmmaCharlotteStubbs]

i'm heterosexual but the sexuality of others is of little or no consequence to me; seems to me you're insecure in yourself or you'd live and let live; don't think capote would accept you as a friend; he'd see you as shallow and self-obsessed; dime a dozen

[JoseGarciaStandUp]

Well I was just telling why everybody slammed the door before he could ask them any questions.

[JoseGarciaStandUp]

Why would someone lie about this!?

[spukums]

A gifted man who is missed.

[JoseGarciaStandUp]

He was gay. I live a mile away from Holcomb Ks. Where the Clutters live. He came to where I live and my history teacher told me nobody wanted him here because he was gay

[BarFAN21]

hey its truman capote, hi im truman capote, im truman capote and i got a robot boner(in his voice)

[KielyGyrl]

so is Capote and Infamous pretty much the same thing?

[catgrl1212]

capote and infamous are very different. capote is strictly based on real life as close as possible, while infamous takes a lot of leaps that were never proved. watch both, and you'll understand.

[koreoh12]

Damn! Toby Jones got it spot on.

[meeraness06]

They got his voice spot on in the movie 'Infamous'

[hoverthroughthefog]

If you admire Toby Jones in 'Infamous', you will probably love Hoffmann in 'Capote': it is an altogether more intellectual film. There is too much that is fake in 'Infamous', such as the almost-rape of Capote by Perry Smith, which - I admit - is a reflection of what many have considered to be Capote's feelings for Smith, but it still doesn't work for me and Daniel Craig's acting is poor. Reading Gerald Clarke's biography is better than any movie for the story behind 'In Cold Blood', however.

[yaknbo]

Toby Jones was better.

[milleralive]

Philip Seymour Hoffman was spot on.

[LightsCameraAaron]

I just finished reading IN COLD BLOOD last night, for gritty, dark, bloody amazing book! Loved it!

[asugar]

If I didn't know this was him, I would complain that the person acting as him was pushing the impersonation too far.

...his voice/mannerisms were parodies of themselves.

[lladsbid]

weird voice, weird man, good writer

[IBMeddling]

Wow, I stumbled upon this on the movie called "Infamous" on HBO just now. Never heard of this story. Toby Jones did a good job with his voice.

[CamdenKat]

No I swear that's sobbing. It doesn't sound at all like regular breathing and it doesn't make sense for it to simply be the camera.

[RightWingCon81]

Toby Jones is creepy in his role as Capote. Look at this and look at Infamous and you'll shit your pants.

[vanbelkom]

SHIT, TOBY JONES BECAME CAPOTE.

[malenkamolly]

hell yeah!^^

[vainillazzz]

capote rulez

[CassieDynomite]

omg wow he really did sound funny.

[Matteino85]

I read Clark's biography about Truman...great...very great...and I love all of his books

[tefisher1984]

Happy 84th birthday Truman Capote!

[jfsimard79]

He died in 1984 too.

[fishnetgirl]

its not sobbing you hear, its either the camera, or someone writing down what he is saying.

[outinsider]

Capote was a literary genius, and the movie wasn't that bad either.

[littlekogis]

Is it just me or does anyone hear sobbing noises in the background...at 1:50...

[jfsimard79]

Yeah, what the hell is that? Freaky.

[vonspre]

Thank you so much Mr.Capote...for all that brilliant,terrible,charming,ho­peful and hopeless masterpieces.

[Roberto75000]

Truman Capote was a great writer. How deep he goes into human mind, how universal is his work. I love when I read him cause I just feel being inside the story.

[carnationsoul]

RIP Truman... I've been reading Handcarved Coffins to mark his death, and he is constantly brilliant..

[tefisher1984]

Truman Capote died 24 years ago today. Rest in peace.

[littlesparrow]

Omg

[PdJen]

Thank you CBCtv for this clip! Capote died when I was very young, so I'd never seen him before in news or interviews, but now I can appreciate this truly fascinating character better.

[qdos10]

Infamous was a much better film than Capote though both films were good. Infamous you got to see a lot more of what Truman was really like. Check it out. Fab interview.

[steerpike66]

Hoffman's was a more complex characterization, but Jones portrayed the Capote that people would actually talk to; a fun and funny man that could wriggle into anyone's confidence.

[vonspre]

I agree whith you.

[blackrainpr]

mjum great writer and Philip Seymour Hoffman did a great job in the film Capote he sound just like him, he deserved the oscar jajaja

[mymoosejaw]

One great writer.

[Cannook]

A Mastermind .

[ble86n]

cbc tv clips! thank you,so friggin much my new fav;]

[autumnstube]

i love Truman Capote! Did you know he was the inspiration for the character of Dill in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird?