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Infamous

While watching Capote I was alternating with youtube recordings/readings by the real Truman and his late 60's/early 70's TV interviews and I remember thinking "Well why didn't they let that Berberian Sound Studio guy take a crack at it"... and LO AND FUCKING BEHOLD Toby Jones enters the chat! I learn this while googling for Jones' height versus Capote's height and did the IRL vocal equivalent of a key smash when discovering this exists. And in production at nearly the same time? Checked the film out very next day. Folks, I'm thinking Toby nails it, based just on the stuff I've been watching and listening here these last 24 hours. It is a crying shame this got overshadowed. To say nothing against Hoffman's take on things! The two films could not be more tonally at odds with each other. Haha, I think I actually hate the bubbly, tabloid framing and a lot of the corny script on this one... but it isn't trying to tell the same tale. Their facts contort in two different directions. Which anecdotes would you pick, which persons would you combine to fit a script, which liberties would you take, which themes do you spotlight? You've got your pick, and it's not about any aspect being more or less "true", it's all Art! It's all filtered, processed, & sensationalized any old way, through different mediums even. Maybe it is all about being truthful to the story you want to tell, and further maybe-maybe's, from that standpoint, there's a bead on Capote himself which allows these various tangents to co-exist. Hell, I would've loved to see Jones tackle the meatier texture and manipulative aspects of the 2005 story. I would've loved to see Hoffman lit up in the warmer, quirkier environment of the 2006 socialite scene and be more greatly contrasted in the before-book/after-book times. It's like the meme about one cake being better than another, and we're over here like "Holy shit two Capotes!