Gay Talese

-“I believe that if you go deep enough into characters they become so real that their stories feel like make-believe. They feel like fiction. I want to evoke the fictional current that flows beneath the stream of reality” Gay Talese.

About this quote, I think that the stories that Gay Talese is going to write are going to be non-fictional stories based on reality, as he says he wants to evoke the fictional current that flows beneath the stream of reality. He wants to take reality and transformed it in a fictional story, he wants to take real details such as a character and transform it kind into a fictional character.

Movie Questions

CAPOTE 

2. What is it about the Clutters' murder that interests Truman so much? Why does he believe so strongly that this case will produce a great book? What does its eventual success say about society's fascination with the morbid?

The Clutters’ murder interested Truman so much because when he heard about this, he thought it was stranger the reason for which the murderers kill such good family, the authorities give a reason because the murderers give such but for Capote it seemed weird, he asked himself what really happened in the Clutter’s house. He believed that with a true story he could make a great book, he would show what really happened. Also we can see the morbid within the book of Capote because although he thought about Perry as a good man, the society liked the way in which he was described as a murderer.

4. How does Truman manipulate Perry into trusting him and revealing details about his life? How does this affect the way you see Truman?

He manipulates Perry because he visits him and he gave him things that help him in prison. Also, he heard many stories about his life and he became a real friend inside that lonely prison, so Perry started to trust him and in the same way he started to reveal details about what happened. This affect the way of how I see Truman because in the beginning I thought he really had good intentions but what he really wanted to know was the truth about the murder. 

All The President's men

"All The President's Men" is a very good movie because it refers to a real event that happened in the US. In my opinion the kind of movies that show real facts and help to understand very interesting things that event that is shown. In this case was the Watergate scandal, where the president Nixon was accused to be involved in the spying of the Watergate building of the democrats in the time of reelection. In this movie there are two journalists from the Washington post that never stop the investigation of this crime, they never stop until they find the truth. In relation with the topics seen in class we can say that they based all their facts to make a brief and complete journal with the real facts they were finding.