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Capote || Libertine
2007-06-14 10:20AM / 標準BLOG / MOVIE/s / 會員可以看
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CAPOTE

In 1959, Truman Capote, a popular writer for The New Yorker, learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Holcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story material, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, In Cold Blood. To that end, he arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners, especially with Perry Smith, a quiet and articulate man with a troubled history. As he works on his book, Capote feels some compassion for Perry which in part prompts him to help the prisoners to some degree. However, that feeling deeply conflicts with his need for closure for his book which only an execution can provide. That conflict and the mixed motives for both interviewer and subject make for a troubling experience that would produce an literary account that would redefine modern non-fiction.

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when it started i don't feel like i'm going to 'get into' this movie. but slowly (for sure) it grow, deeper and deeper. got me head thinking and wondering. interesting enough for me to continue. overall, nice story. deep thoughts got in my head. me wonder how professional a person can be in his job, and what's professionalism really mean in a profession...and if i'm a professional in my profession, am i really IN to it? won't professionalism hold me back? is professionalism generalizing me? i should have express more of my personal feelings into my profession, should i? how will that effect my profession??? *bump*.

great movie to watch and ask question/thoughts. the down side, seems slow...and repetitive. but i guess it's part of a biography...gotta find some way to 'shrink' it as a feature movie. cinematography is good though!

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LIBERTINE

In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual intercourse flourish. Thirteen years later, in the middle of political and economical problems, Charles II asks the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from the exile to London. John is a morally corrupt, drunkard and sexually active cynical poet, and the King asks him to prepare a play for the French ambassador to make him pleased. John meets the aspirant actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her a great star. He falls in love for her, and she becomes his mistress; during the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls in disgrace in the court. When he was thirty-three years old, he was dying of syphilis associated to alcoholism and he converted to a religious man.

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it begins with this prologue,

"Allow me to be frank at the commencement. You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be repelled. You will not like me now and you will like me a good deal less as we go on. Ladies, an announcement: I am up for it, all the time. That is not a boast or an opinion, it is bone hard medical fact. I put it round you know. And you will watch me putting it round and sigh for it. Don't." It is a deal of trouble for you and you are better off watching and drawing your conclusions from a distance than you would be if I got my tarse up your petticoats.

Gentlemen. Do not despair, I am up for that as well. And the same warning applies. Still your cheesy erections till I have had my say. But later when you shag - and later you will shag, I shall expect it of you and I will know if you have let me down - I wish you to shag with my homuncular image rattling in your gonads. Feel how it was for me, how it is for me and ponder. 'Was that shudder the same shudder he sensed? Did he know something more profound? Or is there some wall of wretchedness that we all batter with our heads at that shining , livelong moment.'

That is it. That is my prologue, nothing in rhyme, no protestations of modesty, you were not expecting that I hope. I am John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester and I do not want you to like me."

interesting enough for me. heard bout this movie for a while and finally got a chance to watch it. i love it. not just cause it's Johnny Depp, but the movie make me think bout the 'character' played. what more interesting is the female actress manipulative side tht i never expect. she is strong. even Johnny was conned. credits given to Elizabeth (Johnny's wife) as well.

good to watch. i enjoyed it, and it ends with this,

"So here he lies at the last. The deathbed convert. The pious debauchee. Could not dance a half measure, could I? Give me wine, I drain the dregs and toss the empty bottle at the world. Show me our Lord Jesus in agony and I mount the cross and steal his nails for my own palms. There I go, shuffling from the world. My dribble fresh upon the bible. I look upon a pinhead and I see angels dancing. Well? Do you like me now? Do you like me now? Do you like me now? Do you like me... now?"

(i always like you Johnny Depp! LOL!!!)

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