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.