Breakfast at Tiffany's

[miriam_e]

Woke up with a massive headache today so achieved very little. Couldn't face working (the lies we tell ourselves) so watched Breakfast at Tiffany's. Sweet film. Didn't realise how much I'd forgotten about it. I'd read the story recently and found to my surprise that the film keeps very much to the storyline... except at the end where the film-makers did the traditional chicken-out. It would have been a much more powerful story if they'd kept Truman Capote's original ending.

I can see why I had such an enormous crush on Audrey Hepburn when I was young. :)

Does everyone get to know someone like Holly Golightly? I knew Vicci. [sigh] She was gorgeous, hopeless, strong, weak, willful, sweet, and the most wonderful, annoying person. She brought home drunks the way others brought home stray cats and dogs. Everyone she met fell in love with her. Amazing.

I see why Breakfast at Tiffany's doesn't get played on TV anymore. I don't think I've seen a movie where the characters smoke so much... and litter! They drop wrappers in the park or on the footpath, stub out cigarettes on people's floor, all as if it was perfectly natural... and I guess it was then. My, how much we have changed. It gives me great hope. Perhaps in a little while we will see religion the way we now view with astonishment the casual smoking and littering of that period.

Comments

[prime-radiance.livejournal.com]

Audrey was very beautiful. She never really faded as the years passed, either.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I must get her final movie Always out from the video library. I never saw it. She wasn't one of the main stars, but featured as an angel.

[gillen.livejournal.com]

I still have such the mad crush on Audrey.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I think probably a large part of the movie-viewing public feel that way. :)

[gillen.livejournal.com]

"I've never been alone with a man before, even with my dress on. With my dress off, it's most unusual!" - Roman Holiday

After that I was smitten.

[revbobbob.livejournal.com]

She was brilliant in some other movies as well. She had the exact right tone of elegant naiveté in Charade. And she was spunky but fragile in Wait Until Dark. But through it all, she was still somebody you wanted to know. Delicate, but not helpless. And she was surrounded by actors who gave brilliant performances themselves. Remember Alan Arkin in Wait Until Dark?