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“ Truman Capote delivered a version that – with its intimations of repressed sexuality – allowed in flavours of Capote’s own southern mayhem. “The picture took a convoluted route from page to screen,” wrote Donald Clarke in The Irish Times. The screenplay was adapted by William Archibald (who had written a stage version of the book) and Truman Capote, who principally looked to said play – rather than the novella – as his prime source of inspiration. THE INNOCENTS (1961) One of the greatest and most wonderfully restrained entries of 1960s horror cinema, The Innocents was based on the novella, The Turn Of The Screw, by the American novelist Henry James. “Instead of another Maltese Falcon, we turned it into a… on this type of film.” “John Huston and I decided to kid the story, to treat it as a parody,” the writer said of the film. According to Capote, their aims were wholly comedic. Based upon the novel by British journalist Claud Cockburn, writing under the pseudonym James Helvick, the film’s script was written by Huston and Truman Capote as the film was being shot. Brusquely directed by John Huston, Beat The Devil is the blackest of black comedies. Co-starring top-shelf character actors, Peter Lorre, Robert Morley and Bernard Lee, and the incendiary Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida, the film centres on a rogue’s gallery of crooks and grifters looking to lay their grubby hands on land rich in uranium deposits in Kenya.

AUTOMATIC SLIMS PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN MOVIE

I was very lucky to get it.”īEAT THE DEVIL (1953) Undeniably the most cultish movie on the iconic resume of Humphrey Bogart (along with In A Lonely Place), Beat The Devil is a bizarre meld of action, adventure and comedy. I fell in love with Audrey, and it was great fun. But I got over that the minute I met Audrey. I was hired as a director much to my happiness and excitement, even though I was somewhat critical of doing it in that kind of commercial way. But when I came into it, Audrey was already the one who was going to do it. Before Audrey came into it, they were thinking of actresses like Marilyn Monroe, which was more like the Capote character. “He hated the film and I understand why, because it really is nothing like the book. “I never met Capote,” the late Blake Edwards said in 2003. An inveterate partygoer and it-girl on New York’s swinging social scene, there has been much debate over the years as to whether or not Holly Golightly is actually a classy call girl, or merely a young lady who likes the company of wealthy older men. “Well, I’m about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy,” the famously witty Capote once said.īREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) Blake Edwards’ stylish, artful adaptation of the great Truman Capote’s 1958 novella will never date too horribly thanks to its luminous central character, Holly Golightly, played by Audrey Hepburn, who lives a life filled with obvious joy, but who longs for so much more, both materially and emotionally. Though film was very much a secondary aspect to Capote’s career, he certainly made his mark in the medium. Several of his works were made into films, he appeared in a few himself, and there were even two competing biopics made about the creation of his epochal literary work, In Cold Blood.

AUTOMATIC SLIMS PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN TV

An author, screenwriter, social commentator, playwright, notorious party goer, actor, and frequent TV talk show guest, Truman Capote was short in stature but truly larger than life, with a rapier wit and a damning way with words.

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