Grace Rydberg, I'm not sure what the show is called, but the guy doing the interview is famous criminal attorney F Lee Baily. (OJ, Albert De Salvo, Sam Shepard)
Don’t shame people for not knowing……encourage a person to know more. There are things you don’t know and you don’t deserve to be shamed for what you don’t know.
I find Truman Capote a very interesting charecter it is so sad that he sabotaged his happiness by betraying confidences that his friends told him. I believe gossip to be a symptom of lack of humility and low self-worth. I would far rather have had him as a chum than the husbands most of his friends had to turn themselves into pretzels for in order keep themselves in their favour. I find him and his Swans interesting and am reading about them at the moment.
In Cold Blood was fiction based on facts. It was never intended to chronicle or to tell the story of the murders exactly as they occurred. What Truman did was humanize the killers. He didn't downplay the horror of the crimes. He didn't forgive them in my opinion though I understand why many would disagree. The said its one of the best works I've read.
Not true. Truman Capote did not spend 5 plus years on this book to not get the facts correct. It is not Historical Fiction. It is a True Crime Novel that is not considered or called Fiction. He and Harper Lee interviewed a good portion of the community. Truman Capote did everything possible to get all the available facts to accurately tell what actually happened. He documented entire conversations and asked the murderers what was going through their minds.
@@JesusSavesSinners Truman did spend years interviewing and writing. Publishing extracts in The New Yorker was one thing, but the book began to take on a form in his mind, and he believed this required the proper end : the execution of the two murderers. Jack Olsen said Capote fabricated conversations and scenes. The English journalist Ken Tynan said Capote did not do enough to stop the two men from being executed (Tynan was very anti capital punishment) and in truth he delayed publication of the book until their execution. Some say the last pages were invention. I remain a Capote admirer, I just wish he had not wasted his last years drinking.
Nobody knows how the murders went down, except for the murderers. And TC explained the murders the way the KBI and the FBI believe how the murders happened. And the way the killers (scum) said they happened, and as we know they pointed their crooked fingers at each other. And TC did have empathy for the killers. But the beginning of book he makes sure everyone that reads it. Falls in love with the all American Clutter family, especially Nancy ❤. But what is strange on my behalf is I never saw the movie 🍿
Truman was a social chameleon. He knew what people wanted to hear, he understood their motivations. I think a lot of this had to do with his abandonment by his parents at a young age. He adapted to learn how to make people like him, so they wouldn’t leave him, But in the end they did because he betrayed their trust.
I like this because it shows him before he destroyed his mind and abilities with alcohol. I've read just about everything he wrote. He was an incredible writer.
he never destroyed his mind or abilities by alcohol...in fact the mind is the last thing to go///most alcoholics die from organ ...liver/kidneys etc...shutdown long before they lose their "abilities"....show me one who can run a hundred yard dash but cant write his name
I believe in the Gerald Clarke bio of Truman, he writes that after Truman was arrested a few times in eastern Long Island, doctors determined that his brain had physically degraded from alcohol abuse. I’m citing that from memory but I do remember that detail because it was so horrific.
@@josephballerini3730 You are correct with your first statement. He absolutely did destroy his abilities with drugs and alcohol. He wasn't able to finish his later works because he had degraded his abilities to concentrate and focus on productive writing. To say mental faculties aren't effected by alcohol and drug use is absurd.
I think it's beautiful and sad the way Truman acts when the interviewer talks about the kiss on the cheek that Perry gave to him (to Truman) before he died. Just look at him, he's almost crying..
CAPOTE CLAIMS that perry fell in love with him(perry told him so) during the time they spent together....though he capote also says he DID NOT fall in love with perry.
@@jadezee6316 WHERE DOES HE SAY THAT??!! PLEASE GIVE LINK! I've seen it before but i wanna see it for myself. I think capote was in love with perry though. I mean, i can just tell from his writing.
i find him to be utterly facinating but how he could lie so easily and assuredly is astonishing!! Quote: "the impact of Harper Lee on Truman Capote's true-crime novel, 'In Cold Blood.' Lee helped her childhood friend with much of the research for the book, although she was not credited when the book was published." he was not a very good friend...
"In Cold Blood" is a work of art---a literary masterpiece. Many of its sentences are elegant, even stately, in their prose----these include the first and last sentences of the book. It is a book you will never forget having read.
To say Truman Capote was a great author is a gross understatement. To write "In Cold Blood", he did countless hours interviewing the townspeople of Holcom, Kansas, the Kansas police, and even the killers themselves. He was even present for their executions! Capote was so smart he never brought a recorder to the interview with whoever he was recording and claimed close to a 90% recall. One of my book reports in high school in the '60's was of this book. I admit it was rather easy, since I had seen the movie as well! Capote just had a way with words that totally encapsulated the reader. One of the finest authors of our time.
i just watched a documentary that revealed his friend Harper Lee was at his side while he did his interviews and research for his book. apparently she took copious notes and handed them over to him.
I read it in 1970 in Spanish translation, and I dare to say, maybe Gabriel García Márquez was inspired by it to write his Chronicle of a Foretold Death who is also based in a true story that happened in Cartagena, Colombia, and became one of the 100 novels ever written. I like both novels, but if Gabo was influenced by Capote, I also dare to say, the student overpassed the master.
I remember reading how frustrated Truman Capote was during the writing of his book when he was approaching the final chapter and could not finish it because the murderers were not executed. He was in a hurry to finfish his book (deadlines) so he was in a hurry for them to be executed so he could finish it.
Aside from Harper Lee, one other figure to not overlook in the development of "In Cold Blood": Random House's co-founder and publisher Bennett Cerf. He was Truman Capote's mentor for getting the book published, and you have to wonder if Cerf hadn't died in the early '70s, Capote might have been talked out of his "Answered Prayers" debacle. Bennett Cerf championed authors as diverse as Capote and Dr. Seuss, and he was a raconteur, a toastmaster, a connoisseur of humor (having a syndicated newspaper column and compiling several books on quips and stories), and he was best known as the enthusiastic panelist on the 17-year run of the panel game show "What's My Line?". On that show, the tuxedo-clad Cerf oozed Manhattan sophistication without being snobby; he was just as much of a cheerleader for contestants coming on the show in mundane jobs as he was for the celebrity guests.
What I remember of the movie is that he betrayed his subject by not hiring a lawyer which he promised. He didn t show real interest to the man interviewed. I could be mistaken, but all this positive feedback is overrated. He maybe a great writer, but with lousy personality.
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Robert Blake was great in that movie. His character wasn't great, but his character had one redeeming quality in that he prevented the other guy from assaulting the young girl. He said something like "I can't stand people that can't control themselves" or something like that. That always stuck with me for some reason.
Very talented, successful writer! Miserable human being that couldn’t square up his success with his inferiority and the need to expose and humiliate members of “high society”. Quite interesting persona…..heavily damaged underneath.
Perhaps it's the distance in time but I found Hickock and Smith drifting into myth, Americana, and the American landscape. But then the front cover of my copy had the photos of the killers which brought the reality of their being to the fore. The effect was profound.
A grifter at work - if you don't record anyone, then you can claim they said just about anything you want. He invented the last scene of In Cold Blood, the killers' confession and lots more, then completely invented a non-fiction book for his next work because he got away with so much for In Cold Blood
@@meghanmisaliar Its a very well written non-fiction book but many key elements are invented, and the Sunday Times exposed how he completely invented the murder for his next work. That's the level of deception
@@jillsmcfarland2001 Well heck...Jills he is (was) an Artist ! Not a politician or A General. or even a used car salesman who lies to make a sale on a beat up old car. All good artists are complicated....the very nature of Art.
“a cast entirely unknown .. all new faces ...”? ... Robert Blake? Had he been that forgotten? We know the experience of writing the book had a dramatic effect on Capote! What about Blake? Just wondering ...
Murderer killed 4 people for just $10,000,got punishment and remember as monster for ever but capote took fame and millions of dollars by what they done. So there is a lesson for everyone to don't choose wrong way to make money.
you are the only joke...since the book was genius and ground breaking creating a style totally new in writing...the non fiction novel. another idiot on line thinking he has knowledge....
Whatever he may have embellished, one, the story of the crimes themselves, the killers and their lives, and the trial and the denouement, are essentially true, and two, he created a literary classic. I read a year or two ago that a son of one of the KBI investigators was writing a book about the facts and Capote's embellishments, and if so, I'll want to read it. But "In Cold Blood" will always be one of the greatest books ever written by an American.
