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impersonation is not the point

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In Reply to: "Capote:" why all the enthusiasm? posted by tinear on February 8, 2006 at 14:14:58:

I do not think there was any attempt at mere impersonation. Hoffman carefully and thoughtfully constructed a fictional character, based upon and starting from the real Truman Capote. This is not a documentary, not meant to teach people about Capote in a literal sense. If you find the characterizations, a "bore", then it is no wonder you didn't like the movie. It is all about characterization, but I found them uniformly excellent and interesting.

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As I said, I was not bored at first but there seemed to be no dramatic - tinear 18:27:02 02/08/06 (0)
current in the sea of dialogue.
Hoffman was shackled by a weak script and was left only mimicking as a one-dimensional character.

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