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

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

Still, better Henri Mancini music than B@T's.

On a very highbrow note, the Seinfeld episode where George cheats on his book club was on yesterday. "So--are we still talking, or are we watching the movie?"

i am reminded of robert crumb's angry letter to ivan brunetti in schizo: 'i HATE audrey hepburn and all her ilk!!!'

I think it's mentioned that Holly or "Lula" was 14 when she got married - that implies that she might have been running away from a genuinely awful situation and not just some kindly old dolt who she doesn't love.
― Hurting 2, Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:24 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In the book, Doc says that Holly and her brother were orphaned and fending for themselves when he took them in, and Holly claims her sexual history before she married Doc (at age 14) "doesn't count," so yes, Holly was coming from a very rough background.

Officially I don't believe in the concept of the "guilty pleasure." But the BoT film is such a glossy-gorgeous shell around such a grotty story, that I hate to see it held up as a fashion or lifestyle icon.

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