Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Movie vs. Book
There are many similarities and differences between the book In Cold Blood and the movie Capote. In the book In Cold blood, Truman Capote describes Perry as a killer. He makes the reader hate Perry as a person for killing this innocent, normal family that is from a small town in Kansas. Capote tells the reader about how Perry isn't supposed to be in Kansas, because he swore to both himself and the state of Kansas that he would never again go back when he was locked up in jail. Also, on page 55 Capote describes Perry, "Perry was that rarity, "a natural killer" - absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive". Here, Capote is describing Perry as someone who kills just to kill. In the movie, the director and writer of Capote have Perry being a friend to Truman. From how Capote is writing his book, he talks about how evil Perry is. In the movie, they are friends and it seems as though Perry did not kill the people until he was describing the night to Truman. Him and Truman were friends in the movie, and Truman even tried to get Perry out of being killed. Also, Capote describes the family in such detail in the book, so that the reader can feel sorry for them when they get murdered. He is describing them as sort of "the family" in the town of Holcomb. In the movie, the family was not talked about at all, so the viewer didn't even know the family very well. The movie focused on Truman interviewing the killers. It also talks about Truman and Harper Lee being good friends, which is not at all mentioned in the book. The movie also makes it seem like Perry didn't kill the Clutters, and that Dick killed them. However, in the book, it talks about Perry being the one who killed the Clutters and him being the killer, and that Dick was just there and didn't kill anyone. There is a definite difference between the movie and the book about the same story with the same characters.
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The movie Capote draws pretty significant parallels to the book In Cold Blood. The main parallel so far is the relationship between Perry and Capote. Capote’s mother died and his father left him. The same with Perry. In fact, both of these two people felt that they needed love because they were abandoned when they were little kids, basically. In ICB, Perry, “…did give a damn-but who had ever given a damn about him? His father? Yes, up to a point.” The metaphor capote uses is the “house” metaphor. He says Perry and he grew up in the same household, but Truman walked out the front door while Perry walked out the back. In other words, they were brought up in the same environment, the same nurture, but their nature was different. Perry was the one to be a superstitious killer and Capote was the one to be a reporter, a novelist, an author. Perry’s lack of love also leads to one of the reasons why he was in Kansas. To see a man named Willie-Jay. Willie-Jay was an awesome friend of his, who was in prison, but he was smart and he almost reminded me of Justice in Flight for one reason or another. It just so happened that Willie-Jay was being released from jail at the same time Dick wanted to be in Kansas. So for Perry, he was going to see Willie-Jay, and if things didn’t work out, he would go with Dick since he thought Dick was a lot of fun anyway. Unfortunately for Perry, and the Clutters, Willie-Jay jumped away the first second he was released and Perry went with Dick to their encounter with the Clutters and their adventures with a shotgun. But the main reason why Perry was in Kansas was because Willie-Jay was the best friend, the “truest” friend he ever had and since, like Capote, he wanted to be loved so much, he chose to go to Kansas.
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