I've just seen "Breakfast at Tiffany's" for the first time

It's really not very good.
― Hurting 2, Friday, March 16, 2007 11:44 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she's much more tolerable in Charade, where her airheadedness is used as a comic device ("What does all this have to do with the CIO?")

Yeah, "Charade" is the best

I kept wondering if they made Breakfast at Tiffany's today, would Holly be like some Cobrasnake Kreayshawn MySpace scene kid?

Mandy Moore as Holly, Peter Saaaaarsgaaard as the Not Gay One, Meryl Streep as the Jap.

I kept wondering if they made Breakfast at Tiffany's today, would Holly be like some Cobrasnake Kreayshawn MySpace scene kid?

No.

ok then?

its settled

i kind of wish i knew some people old enough to see this in 1961, because I'm curious what the general opinion of Mr. Yunioshi was back THEN, unfiltered through 50 years of discussion and deconstruction

Anglo actors did broad racial shtick quite frequently then. Then you add in Rooney's subtle instincts.

it's not like it's gone away xp

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2007_I_Now_Pronounce_You_Chuck_And_Larry/big/fhd007ICL_Rob_Schneider_007.jpg

right, but I think everyone (at least with a brain) agrees that's fucked up in 2012?

oh. my. god. xp.

sure, I don't think you'll find someone on ilx defending the 'performance'. can't say the same for the rest of the country. xp

well, frogbs still posts here iirc

Did a quick check of some books, and Sarris, Simon, and Farber turned up nothing in the way of on-the-spot reviews. One sentence from Dwight Macdonald, calling the film "botched." Kael liked Rooney a lot; you can weigh that against her penchant for provocation, especially when it came to political incorrectness, before it had a name. You can get the original Times review online, though: "Mickey Rooney's bucktoothed, myopic Japanese is broadly exotic."

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A05EED9173AE13ABC4E53DFB667838A679EDE

the cat is pretty much the focal point of the movie for me.

The cat is the only non-annoying character. As such, I applaud whoever made this edit, featuring only scenes with the cat in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai8oArl7qGo

The cat has his own imdb page, by the way: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1248838/bio

I kept wondering if they made Breakfast at Tiffany's today, would Holly be like some Cobrasnake Kreayshawn MySpace scene kid?

― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, April 1, 2012 10:25 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

she totes would

she'd be a m4rie call0way type right?

I went to Tiffany's (NY)

Was in the lift. Was gonna ask lift dude if they get many people asking for the cafe/restaurant.

(bottled)

Love this--via Sullivan, art from people (by Craig Alan, who I take it is not unknown, though he is to me):

http://dellioandwoods.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/audrey2-e1335031249119.jpg http://dellioandwoods.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/audrey1-e1335031225836.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/British_Airways_Face_(1989).png
(from his kindergarten years)

nah -- I wish more women used cigarette holders and named their cats Cat.

Don't forget about her earplug/rings!

It's a heartwarming story of manipulative urban whores with some touching old-style racism for leavening. Cat was hot tho, despite being left out in the rain.

did y'all know that this film was originally john frankenheimer and george axelrod's baby? then the studio hired audrey hepburn and she wanted frankenheimer off the project.

i think f. maybe wanted kim stanley to star.

kinda wish we'd all stop talking about the "racism"

The Mickey Rooney character is egregious!

Patricia Neal is kind of lovely in this, though.

misread that as Patrice O'Neal at first and lol

I dunno. The film is fraught in more interesting ways than Mickey Rooney's textbook caricature..

Holly is definitely more louche in the novella - it kind of reminds me of whom Cole Porter wished to play him in a film bio ('Night and Day'); Cary Grant.

but Cary Grant COULD have played him a better film! I mean, Cary Grant is the distillation of every Cole Porter song character.

It was a hit too

I like my demi-mondaines a little real and cruffy around the edges or I like them like Zola's Nana, entirely too OTT.

i reread the novella a couple years ago and was amazed how dislikeable holly was! which of course is the point -- in real life, ppl like holly are impossible to be friends with.

the film kind of gets that across a little maybe?

It does if you look past Hepburn's natural charm. I like her so much better in 'Roman Holiday'.

It just occurred to me that José Luis de Vilallonga is in both "Breakfast at Tiffany's' and 'Darling' - interesting comparing the two.

Having been to Rome a few times over the past 2 years, we watched RHol recently.

The scene where they're driving crazy through town on scooters, I keep expecting them to crash into all the market barrows selling Audrey Hepburn souvenirs!

so there's a stage adap opening on Broadway in March; faithful to Capote, ie, set during WW2 and presumably FRED IS GAY.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/173395-Broadways-Breakfast-at-Tiffanys-Goes-on-Sale-to-General-Public-Dec-24

gonna disappoint a lotta Audrey-lovin' tourists