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Infamous is a 2006 American drama film, based on the 1997 book by George Plimpton, Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career.
It covers the period from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s, during which Truman Capote researched and wrote his bestseller In Cold Blood, a subject covered a year earlier in the film Capote. Capote is played by Toby Jones. The same role in the previous film version earned an Academy Award for actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
According to writer/director Douglas McGrath in his DVD commentary, many of the scenes in Infamous, most notably a dramatic sexual encounter between Capote and inmate Perry Smith (played by Daniel Craig), occurred only in McGrath's imagination.
Truman Capote (Toby Jones), known in New York City society for his wit and fashion flair as much as he is recognized in literary circles as the celebrated writer of Other Voices, Other Rooms and Breakfast at Tiffany's, reads a small article about the murder of a farming family in Holcomb, Kansas, in the back pages of the New York Times of November 16, 1959.
Listen up now motherfuckers
And I don't give a single fuck if you like it or not
Your picture perfect enemey has become the anomaly
Yeah try all you want, but you won't figure me out
Be careful what you wish for you might just get it
Set fire to your lungs and leave you choking on the ashes
You're wasting all the oxygen, blackballing but you can't stop falling
Then call me a fagot, stand up, now who looks more threatening?
I never asked to be model citizen for your decor
Even if you played the part I wouldn't fuck you for the score
So step up to the plate and take your best fucking shot
But it will never break the skin ‘cause I am something that you're not, fool
I don't care what you have to say, it makes no difference
It's all because of you, we're fucking infamous
I'm not looking for a savior, I have all that I need
And I don't give a single fuck if God likes it or not
Your picture perfect life you see, is quite so fucking disgusting
I put all my faith in your “one two three”
Now I'm your model citizen, nail me to a cross
Crucify me for my sins, and let my body rot
I never asked to be model citizen for your decor
Even if you played the part I wouldn't fuck you for the score
So step up to the plate and take your best fucking shot
But it will never break the skin ‘cause I am something that you're not, fool
I don't care what you have to say, it makes no difference
It's all because of you, we're fucking infamous
Now I'm your model citizen, nail me to a cross
Crucify me for my sins, and let my body rot
I said this before and now I'll say it again
Open your mind before you mouth and “get the fuck out of my way”
I don't care what you have to say, it makes no difference
It's all because of you, we're fucking infamous
We're fucking infamous