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If all you know about Breakfast at Tiffany's is that cheesy song by Deep Blue Something, then it's time to acquaint yourself with this Manhattan cinematic classic. Nothing says New York like Breakfast at Tiffany's, it's a more disquieting and complex movie than you'd imagine from all of the cutesy Audrey Hepburn postcards.
Based on Truman Capote's short story, the film tells the story of a young man in Manhattan who meets girl-about-town Holly Golightly, whose city hard living necessitates early morning window shopping on Madison Avenue to soothe her harried soul. Like many of us, Holly's image and material goods obsessed, but will she give it all up for the love of struggling writer (and also a rich lady's man himself) "Fred"?
Listen to some of the soundtrack, with Harry Mancini's classic "Moon River" track featured prominently.
Breakfast at Tiffany's screens this weekend on Friday and Saturday at midnight at the Landmark Sunshine Theater on Houston Street at First Avenue.
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I'm a big fan of the movie, and an even bigger fan of Hepburn, but if you like the movie, I'd suggest you read the original story, because it is even more dark and disquieting, and I think ultimately more profound, than the filmed version, which has been slightly Hollywood-ified, especially in its ending. I once read that Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe for the role, and the more I read the original story, the more I think it's a pity she didn't get to make it, because it would have fit her persona very well.
I heartily second ladygoat. Truman Capote is an excellent short story writer, and Breakfast at Tiffany's would have been a whole different (yet more faitful to the story) movie with Monroe. If you do buy the book, be sure to read "A Christmas Memory." It reminds me of Harold and Maude
I too love that film...until Mickey Rooney shows up with huge buck teeth, squinting eyes, coke bottle glasses, and a yukata affecting a fake japanese accent. Easily the worst attempt at humor at another's culture's expense I've seen on screen since the golden days of Al Jolsen's "mammy" routines.
It took me a minute there to realize that that was and old picture of Hepburn and not some anorexic celebrity sneaking into town last week for treatment.
Hepburn described (in some magazine article) how she basically willed herself into hating food just to mentally "get through" the time in her life when she had little to eat.
Hepburn was alleged to have said that she could never get used to how food was so abundantly displayed in America.
I can't think of many things more upsetting than to think of how this Woman, surrounded by luxury and extravagant displays of food and wealth, could never bring herself to actually enjoy any of it.
More upheaval followed in 1939, when her mother moved her and two sons from a previous marriage to the neutral Netherlands: the following year the country was invaded by the Nazis and Hepburn and her family were forced to endure the resulting hardships. During the German occupation, Hepburn suffered from malnutrition (which would permanently affect her weight), witnessed various acts of Nazi brutality, and at one point was forced into hiding with her family. http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hc&id=1800016366&cf=biog&intl=us