Although the film captures much of the intention of Capote’s original bestseller, it also takes a number of significant departures that have made Brooks’s In Cold Blood a milestone of popular culture and Kansas history, solidifying Kansas’s place as a significant cinematic symbol and remembered landscape. In few movies is the success of this particular art more evident than in Richard Brooks’s adaptation of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood (1965). However, the art of film adaptation lies less in fidelity to the original text and more in the creation of a unique perspective on that text. Such an adaptation, because of a book’s recognition, opens itself up to countless comparisons and criticisms. Perhaps one of the most difficult types of filmmaking must be the film adaptation based on an already successful and well-known text. *Article used with permission from the Kansas Historical Society* Kansas in the Movies, In Cold Blood Article Washburn University Center for Kansas StudiesĪrticle Written by: Philip Heldrich, Emporia State University
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