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)

If you think that's big, then you should see the size of his parent's refrigerator.

watched cat clip, maaaaan I'd heard about Golightly as the ur-MPDG but damn

I had to look up MPDG, but here's a list with Tiffany's at #11:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/wild-things-16-films-featuring-manic-pixie-dream-g,2407/

Never really had any interest in I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, now I do.

Hepburn's got the MPDG thing goin' on as far back as Sabrina.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FBNss2PMj60

'Moon River' is a depressing song.

Do not agree

Well I can just about stand it when Audrey Hepburn sings it, as it's an insight into Holly's always running attitude. But the string and choir heavy version that plays over the final scene is terrible.

Some other versions I've heard are cool

"Moon River" is easily the best thing abt the BTF film

youtube clip of Nelson from the Simpsons, teary-eyed, watching Andy Williams' do an encore of Moon River in Branson, MO while en route to Tennessee with Bart and Milhouse in a rental car to thread!

Richard Brody vs Glenn Kenny on the casting of Hepburn.

Interesting comment in there by, surprise, David E:

Carol Matthau (a woman who REALLY knew where all the bodies were buried) said Holly was a mash-up betwen her and truman himself. She was right.

i love that line from (i think) wilson's onegin review, but it's how i feel about literally all of my friends. doesn't everyone?

Nabokov is always called the "winner" in their spat – why, because he was a better "stylist" and dickhead than Bunny?

well at least he spoke russian.

is there a word for "courtesy" in Russian

Never really did get into this movie much. Even the cat edit is sort of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"poshlust" xp

i hated this movie when i saw it but i was like 15.

Kenny's right inasmuch as Hepburn makes the transformation from po' white trash to Manhattan socialite credible but I've a problem generally with how Hepburn looks encouraged by Edwards to act more sophisticated and daaahling than she is. It's a cloying performance.

Don't think Hepburn ever needed any extra coaxing to act sophisticated and daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahling.

(That's what undoes her otherwise good Wait Until Dark performance.)

Holly is 19 in the book, which is why Capote said circa 1980 that Jodie Foster would be great.

What mostly undoes her WUD work is how she's encouraged to act stupider than she is.

And blinder.

why couldn't Efrem Zimbalist Jr. have a fridge fall on him