The big entertainer Capote: You think I'm pompous

Verda 2022-04-20 09:01:39

The first contact with Capote was not the movie "In Cold Blood", nor "Breakfast at Tiffany's", but his "Christmas Memories", look, I am a reader (bah, shameless).

"Christmas Memories" is his autobiographical novel, chronicling Capote's childhood, an eccentric old maid, a little boy and a puppy living in the backcountry of Alabama, earning readers a So many tears made me want to say to him with affection every Christmas: Merry Christmas, Mr. Capote! As a Chinese who is too lazy to celebrate any festivals, this is probably the only reason why I have a good impression of Christmas, but dear Mr. Capote, how many people have been deceived by your book.

The adult Capote wandered in Hollywood, chasing fame and fortune, pretentious, and Huang Duanzi came at his fingertips. But he said boldly, "I'm sincere." Whether

he's sincere or not, the answer is not in the wind, but in this movie.

The film is about the process of writing the book "In Cold Blood". For this documentary literature, Capote tracked down a cold-blooded killer Perry and another murderer in a murder case for six years, and even paid for a lawyer to continuously appeal to postpone the final trial. Because in the interview, he found that the murderer in front of him was strikingly similar to himself, and the extreme inferiority complex and sensitive character caused by his childhood misfortune became a fatal flaw. "We seem to be brothers in the same family, it's just that Perry left the house through the back door and walked through the front door himself." Despite full sympathy and understanding for Perry (perhaps Capote was the only person in the world who understood him), in order to complete the manuscript, Capote gave up continuing to support their appeal, and the hanging was carried out.

For Capote, it was like seeing himself killed by himself, and never finished a manuscript. In fact, this is an extremely cruel process. It is like a wounded person who keeps revealing his scars in the mirror. He has never walked out of the little boy in Alabama in his life, and his flashy life should be regarded as exaggerated. Exaggeration is only because Very scared, I dare not question the sincerity of this great entertainer.

PS: Capote's venomous tongue has a very good slogan in the film "I was at Marilyn's place last week talking about cinema and art, and I finally had to tell her that there were two of the four Matisse paintings on her wall. It's hung upside down." (This is a good gay secret that Marilyn Monroe has used her whole life, TAT)

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Extended Reading

Capote quotes

  • Perry Smith: I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

  • [last lines]

    Truman Capote: And there wasn't anything I could have done to save them.

    Nelle Harper Lee: Maybe not. But the fact is, you didn't want to.