Infamous

[MacGuffin]

Trailer

Release Date: September 1, 2006

Starring: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sigourney Weaver, Isabella Rossellini, Hope Davis

Directed by: Douglas McGrath (Emma)

Premise: What starts out as the irreverent journey of the openly gay writer Truman Capote to the middle-class world of 1950's Kansas, where he goes--with his childhood friend Harper Lee--to research the murder of the Clutter family, turns to something altogether darker when Capote forms an intense and complex relationship with one of the murderers. In doing so, he produced his greatest work, "In Cold Blood," but at a devastating personal cost.

[polkablues]

The polite thing for this movie to have done would be to disappear.

[matt35mm]

I like most of the people involved behind the camera, and some of the people in front of the camera... but this looks terrible.

Sandra Bullock, in particular, looks to be embarrassingly... just embarassing.

[Pubrick]

Release Date: September 1, 2006

shut up, modage.

this piece of shit is another sign that child' of men is obviously being released when there is no other competition. i'm keeping my faith in premises (eg. lil miss sun)

a healthy reaction to this trailer/movie: qwhat the fuck god what is happennign i don't know what is happening, is this real is this what the fuck is this why is this happening, i don't understand i don't , what the fuck were they thinking, sandra bullock i am so confused right now.

[Pozer]

qwhat the fuck god what is happennign i don't know what is happening, is this real is this what the fuck is this why is this happening, i don't understand i don't , what the fuck were they thinking, sandra bullock i am so confused right now.

[modage]

release dates are meaningless.  this is going to be great!

i did not watch the trailer.  and no, it wont be great.

[Pubrick]

release dates are meaningless.  this is going to be great!

they are obviously not entirely meaningless as the studio puts what it thinks is the popular shit out in the summer and the arty shit out in december, but you shouldn't let this blind you to the possibility that a film just got a bum deal. with this it's clear from the trailer and the premise that it should never have been made, and the trailer just confirms what a big piece of shit it really is. the children of men trailer was not crap, and the premise is brilliant, the only thing that you had going was the release date, you never explained why it looked like the "worst movie ever", that was the ridiculous comment i reacted to.

[pete]

I haven't seen capote so can someone please tell me how similar the plot is to the plot of capote?

[MacGuffin]

I haven't seen capote so can someone please tell me how similar the plot is to the plot of capote?

Here are the first lines, as described by imdb:

Capote - Plot Outline: 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.

Infamous - Plot Outline: While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote (Jones) develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

[modage]

completely different!

edit: ok, i just watched the trailer.  and its not that these films look similiar, but that this looks IDENTICAL to capote to the point it seems like a REMAKE!  there are movies called remakes that are 're-imagined' more than this film will have been from Capote.  poor, poor movie.  the director probably wanted to slit his wrists when capote ended up doing well at the oscars.  the worst part is: premiere says this is actually good.

[MacGuffin]

Capote returns to big screen with new film, gay kiss

Truman Capote returns to the big screen with a new star-packed Hollywood film about the brilliant but conflicted writer and an "abrasive" kiss between its two main male characters.

Douglas McGrath's "Infamous," presented at the Venice film festival, comes hard on the heels of Bennett Miller's critically acclaimed "Capote," which won Philip Seymour Hoffman an Oscar as best actor for his portrait of the fey, elfin-like author.

Both films, which were virtually shot at the same time, tell the story of how Capote came to write "In Cold Blood," the book that made him one of the most celebrated writers in America but ultimately destroyed his life.

McGrath picked British theater actor Toby Jones, who bears a striking physical resemblance with Capote, to play the writer alongside a cast including Sandra Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels and Daniel Craig.

The film chronicles the painful six years it took Capote to write "In Cold Blood," the tale of how two drifters brutally murdered a family of four in a Kansas farmhouse in 1959.

Capote spent months researching his book in Kansas, where his transparently gay manners and high-pitched voice initially met with widespread hostility.

As he gradually became friends with many of those involved in the case, he developed an intense, tortured relationship with one of the murderers, Perry Smith, played in the film by Craig, the new face of James Bond.

At one point in the film the two kiss in a prison cell and Jones described the experience on Thursday as "slightly abrasive, ultimately rewarding."

KISSING JAMES BOND

"I've never dreamt that I would kiss James Bond, it's not something I have ever aspired to. Now I've done it, I can say that I hope I am the first of many," Jones told reporters.

McGrath said the emotional and ambiguous bond between Perry and Capote, who needed the murderers to be executed so that he could write the last chapter of his book, was eventually what eventually ruined him.

"Truman says in the movie 'All I ever wanted to do my whole life was to create a work of art'. I think he saw early on that that was his chance to be remembered and he was willing to do whatever it took to make that happen," he said.

"The bond he formed with Perry Smith and then having to see Perry Smith hanged was so shattering that he never really fully recovered from it and I believe he actually became desperate after that."

McGrath said knowing that "Capote" was being made just as he shot his own film did not have an impact on his work, and Jones said he had had little time to be intimidated by Seymour Hoffman's Oscar-winning performance as he prepared for the role.

"They'd only just wrapped when we started filming, so there was no element of being intimidated other than the fact that Philip Seymour Hoffman is a fantastic actor," he said.

"I had so much work to do on all levels, so much stuff to read and so much stuff to watch, to listen to and to imagine, that the idea of other people performing in anything was kind of a distraction from what I was doing."

After publishing "In Cold Blood," Capote never wrote another full-length work. In the 1970s and 1980s he drifted into drug use and alcoholism. He died in 1984 at age 59.

[picolas]

theonion.com

Oscars Create New Truman Capote Biopic Category[/size]

LOS ANGELES—The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences announced today the introduction of a new Oscar category honoring the Truman Capote–themed feature film genre. "We are now able to honor excellence in the emerging field of Capote-inspired filmmaking," said Academy president Sid Ganis, referring to the new film Infamous, as well as such upcoming features as 20th Century Fox's Truman, Paramount's Truman Capote, Universal's Truman Capote, Jr., DreamWorks' animated Truman And The Big Black And White Ball, and Columbia's road picture Harper & Tru. Warner Bros.' Goin' Capote, scheduled for a Thanksgiving release, stars Oscar hopeful Jimmy Fallon in what many are calling his most understated role yet.