Breakfast at Tiffany's

[miriam_e]

I read Breakfast at Tiffany's today.
What an amazing story!

The movie, though beautiful is, of course, a pale shadow of Truman Capote's tantalising bittersweet story.

I love to read such brilliant works, but I hate the way they make me realise what a hopeless artist I am. [sigh]

Comments

nod!

[free-dragon.livejournal.com]

yes, after I saw Capote, I wanted to read his books! Cool to know your thoughts.

Re: nod!

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the movie is what caught me too. I knew he (Capote) wrote In Cold Blood because a friend read it and recommended it to me years ago, but murders leave me with a terrible feeling of dread so I had no great desire to read it. When I found out that he also wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's my interest was aroused. I'd always liked the movie (probably just adoration of Audrey Hepburn [sigh]) so I thought I'd get the book. I didn't expect it to be much like the movie -- a movie runs for a couple of hours and a book, if read at speaking speed, runs for many times that long.

The main character reminds me of an incredibly attractive, charismatic girl I loved years ago, whose bed I was lucky enough to share for a time, so perhaps my reaction was intensified by my personal experiences, but I think almost anybody will be moved by Breakfast at Tiffany's.

[jenna2.livejournal.com]

hi Mims,
After reading thru your latest post I have but one thing to comment on .... You so rock............

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

:D
Thanks for the vote of confidence.
I have to disagree with you though. :)

[gothxxangel.livejournal.com]

I really liked the movie, I saw it ages ago and didn't know there was a book. So often a movie completely overshadows the original work, just think about Harry Potter and LOTR and all that. I've been thinking a lot recently about that, especially HP and how the movies have created a fan subculture which would never have come from the books.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

It is an interesting effect isn't it.

I've heard a number of people say that it is a bad thing, but I don't think so. The Capote movie alerted me to the book Breakfast at Tiffany's and the fact that I was interested in reading the story because of my enjoyment of the Breakfast at Tiffany's movie. This is a case of movie culture feeding back into literature. Likewise I've heard many people say that kids who would never have otherwise picked up a book to read have consumed the Harry Potter series.

As you say, the movies are able to excite people intensely enough to generate a fan subculture that books alone aren't able to.

I wonder what will happen when visual storytelling media go through the next level of democratisation with machinima. Everybody will be able to make the equivalent of feature films because it will cost very, very little. Strange, exciting times we are entering.

[gothxxangel.livejournal.com]

That's a good point you made about movie culture feeding back into books, I guess this is happening with "Howl's Moving Castle" as a lot of people are reading the books to catch up with the places the movie glossed over or left out entirely--part of the drawback of translating to screen, I guess.

In non-English speaking countries, pretty much the only English books available are movie-linked ones, unfortunately I've already read most of them. True, you can't deny the exposure movies bring.

Conversely, with the whole HP phenomenon, the books themselves were so popular that I belive the movies actually stopped some people from reading them.