In fact, if you just watch Infamous, it's still a very attractive film: the star-studded cast, solid performances and tight plot can attract you to watch it in one breath. But compared to Capote, this biographical film with the same theme cannot but be said to be a little too soft, too fancy, too brainy, too preachy, and when a film's cast list can be crowded to the point of being soy sauce When the Oscar winner, people can't help but wonder if this arrangement that obviously distracts the audience's attention is the director's original idea? In today's business pursuit is still the paramount goal, we naturally do not know. Of course I mean "probably not" if anyone really cares about my opinion, even though they (most of them) are top notch.
Truman Capote, a legend of American middle-class literature, is a man born in Louisiana, abandoned by his parents and raised in a small town in Alabama. He almost experienced the contradictions of the joys and sorrows of the world when he was a teenager. The narration of his earlier works is almost cold and contemptuous. But how delicate and steady his writing is, how many ups and downs in his life, from a penniless little man, to a big star in the snobbish New York social circle, to a self-saboteur of high society, Capote as a writer is certainly famous , but Capote, as a celebrity, has attracted the attention of various biographers. Whether it's talking about his Hollywood anecdote or digging into his love-hate relationship with a death row inmate, you're guaranteed to keep your book at the top of the bestseller list thirty years after the death of its protagonist. Always love puzzles, especially puzzles that will never be answered - Capote died of liver cancer caused by long-term alcoholism and drug use at the age of 59, and he died without a relative. Poor generation of social celebrities, the evening scene is so bleak.
Back to the film. Since it is a biographical film, the performance of the protagonist is naturally crucial. In terms of physical condition, Toby Jones, who is only 1.65 meters, is naturally closer to Capote, who is 1.60 meters, than Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who is 1.77 meters. Only Capote's fancy and fragility on the surface, which is not entirely the responsibility of the actor, but has a close relationship with the creator's choice. Jones' Capote is too emotional, and most of the time ignores the character's identity, the class he represents, and the obvious personality characteristics; compared to Capote's scalpel-like, sometimes hard-to-see straightness and sternness, Infamous's narrative has Many of them were exaggerated or even fabricated. The director later admitted that many of the plots contained personal imagination. As a biopic, he had already lost for a while on this point; It must be very strange, but since this is a film adapted from the memoirs of many people, it is barely understandable, but it is inevitable that there are too many elements of justification and preaching in it; and since the protagonist himself already has a two-dimensional Tendency, it's no surprise that the other minor characters stray to the surface and stop at clichés, but except for one thing - while falling short in most comparisons, Infamous has one highlight throughout the film that overwhelms Capote as a whole: they find Got a perfect Perry Smith.
Perry Edward Smith and Richard Hickock are definitely at the top of the list of the most notorious killers in American history. On the evening of November 15, 1959, the two broke into a farm in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, and killed a family of four farmers surnamed Cutter. They were all brutally murdered; after five years of long trials, the two were eventually hanged, and Capote's culmination of his life, In Cold Blood, is a record of this horrific crime and two murderers. In pursuit of a new writing style of "non-fiction novel", Capote conducted extensive and detailed interviews with the two men in custody, especially Smith, which made his close and enigmatic relationship with Smith a favorite of biographers. . It is implied that the two have a relationship far beyond the interviewer, the interviewee, or even the general friend. Although Capote has never admitted any intimate contact with Smith in any public or private occasion, after all, the famous writer fell in love with the death row inmate The gimmick is too strong, and no one has the heart to give up completely. Infamous played a big romance at this point, making Capote and Smith's life-and-death love come true, but you can't completely blame the director, if you can find such a perfect figure, low voice, melancholy, dangerous and sexy, The whole body is agitated with male hormones, except for the short stature, Perry Smith, who looks almost like a sculpture of a Roman god, doesn't need to pour a few buckets of dog blood, and I'm sorry for the diligence of the casting director.
Before the slender, delicate, curly-haired, pitiful Bambi water-eyed, often sexually suspicious young actors popped up, the bum/gay/dead king of the British Isles It belongs to Lee Village bar villain Daniel Craig, whose arms are two laps thicker than their thighs. James Blonde, who had several unsuccessful Hollywood ventures before picking up the Walter pistol, threw himself headlong into stage and low-budget films, and quickly became a figurehead in British independent cinema. After playing George Dyle, Francis Bacon's tragic lover in 1998 (look, I watched that too), Craig once again takes on a real character this time, playing a murderer engulfed in a tragic whirlpool. Compared with the simple-minded, ignorant Smith in Capote, who was completely played by Capote, Craig's Smith is much stronger. He has a strong physique like an entire arsenal. Killing is easy for him. But the fragility and loneliness in his heart are so cruel that you can't bear to touch them; you know that he can easily break your neck with one hand, but you can't help but secretly hope that the soft and heart-breaking Kiss... Craig's Perry Smith is a three-dimensional and complex figure, conqueror and captive, perpetrator and victim, like a bloodthirsty lamb, or an old soul still with teenage dreams, his tragedy It may have nothing to do with the era, but it is not as sensational as a melodrama but it is fleeting, his low and gentle baritone sings shy and unpolished, but it can't go around, and it will provoke you for a long time. tears. Craig is more mature and powerful than he was in Love is the Devil, and his performance can make you completely believe that the sensitive but stubborn Capote is facing such a Perry Smith, regardless of the earth-shattering love story. Happened or not, it's no accident that In Cold Blood was Capote's best work.
But unfortunately, the highlight of a supporting role is always overshadowed by other imperfections in the whole film, and another breakthrough performance of Craig can only stay at the level that is dug up and talked about by the curious masses from time to time. Speaking of which, I can't help but think of George Lazenby, the second Bond who can only be used as a quiz question for a lifetime. Secret Service is one of the best Bond novels/movies in the present, and his performance is far better than lackluster. As Bond, Daniel Craig, who is anti-traditional but walks out of his own way, is brave and lucky, but as the blond Bond is stepping into legend step by step, what he has built in is his accumulation in the independent film circle in the past few decades, After films like Layer Cake have gradually become anecdotal collections of the official Bond films... whoever actually picks them up and watches them will always have some regrets in their hearts.
Capote won Humphrey Bogart in an arm wrestling, and the little guy must be able to unleash a lot of energy to survive in this world. Life is like a battlefield. Everyone walks on the footsteps of their predecessors on the white snow, but not everyone can realize how many little people's souls are buried under the snow. They were angry, trembling, struggling, and died forever before they could make a sound.
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