Breakfast at Tiffany's . USA, 1961.
Director: Blake Edwards
Screenwriter: George Axelrod, based on the novel by Truman Capote
Performers: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Martin Balsam
Thematic interest: prostitution
Synopsis:
Paul Varjak, a young-minded writer, who makes a living maintained by the wife of a wealthy man who offers him moving to New York. Upon arrival is introduced into the whirlwind life of her great neighbor, Holly Golighty, an aspiring actress hustler so foolish as tender.
Comment:
Breakfast at Tiffany's is based on a novella in which 
Truman Capote cleverly blended with a touch romance acids do not quite fit for Hollywood at the time. The challenge for the director Blake Edwards out more than it was getting windy a product comparable to the still powerful censorship of the time without diluting the rich material of the story. To achieve opted for a sophisticated high comedy treatment tailored to Audrey Hepburn, one without the touch Golighty Holly suburban literary character, is surrounded by the famous music by Henry M ancini and a colorful New York almost pop, this package softens but does not eliminate raw aspects of the story of a girl who flirts with the criminal underworld that lives on the edge of prostitution.
is often read that this film is about a prostitute. Holly does not receive calls
of customers, but lives at night, has no known occupation and certainly use their charms to be surrounded by rich men who pay for their expenses in return for the promise of a sexual encounter her at the last moment with more or less elusive skill, as she dreams of marrying a millionaire so dumbest possible. It is a perfect character to illustrate a discussion about where the woman ends up and where begins the prostitute, much of the interest of Holly is unpredictable and random in their future, something she is well aware: it moves in a thin line between everything and nothing, be a model of femininity and social success or fall into the most abject marginalization.
Breakfast at Tiffany's is the story of the fascination that this girl has on everyone, but particularly on its neighbor,
an aspiring young writer for the turmoil of waves and light Holly highbrow and pessimistic vision of things. The film embellishes and heterosexualized a character in the novel, narrated in first person, was an obvious alter ego of Capote himself, and transforms it into a very handsome lover. But it introduces an element not present in the novel: Paul, the writer, lives of women like Holly men. Furthermore, it appears as a passive character who agrees to be used by the girl, who even changed its name to put his brother, and masculinity called into question in shades like being called baby by another man, Holly agent, or enter one of the suitors of this in a bathroom, a situation whose potential would not have been avoided homosexual in a movie today . For he never fails to be a bit grating to separate the character of this tradition in comedy of man before the woman submissive type charismatic Bringing Up Baby and adopt by the end of the story a dominant and conventional pose .
The unquestionable merit
Breakfast at Tiffany is have slipped to the censorship of the time a love story between two characters living in a certain way of prostitution, have a bittersweet story about a character at once frivolous, tender and cruel you are looking for a place in a complicated world, and convert it, without distorting it in a romantic comedy. The allure of Audrey Hepburn is a key element in this success, and so is the splashing the story with inserts very much in Blake Edwards, the sequence of an extravagant celebration, all a test of a director's later work, The shindig. Scenes
Truman Capote cleverly blended with a touch romance acids do not quite fit for Hollywood at the time. The challenge for the director Blake Edwards out more than it was getting windy a product comparable to the still powerful censorship of the time without diluting the rich material of the story. To achieve opted for a sophisticated high comedy treatment tailored to Audrey Hepburn, one without the touch Golighty Holly suburban literary character, is surrounded by the famous music by Henry M ancini and a colorful New York almost pop, this package softens but does not eliminate raw aspects of the story of a girl who flirts with the criminal underworld that lives on the edge of prostitution. is often read that this film is about a prostitute. Holly does not receive calls
of customers, but lives at night, has no known occupation and certainly use their charms to be surrounded by rich men who pay for their expenses in return for the promise of a sexual encounter her at the last moment with more or less elusive skill, as she dreams of marrying a millionaire so dumbest possible. It is a perfect character to illustrate a discussion about where the woman ends up and where begins the prostitute, much of the interest of Holly is unpredictable and random in their future, something she is well aware: it moves in a thin line between everything and nothing, be a model of femininity and social success or fall into the most abject marginalization. Breakfast at Tiffany's is the story of the fascination that this girl has on everyone, but particularly on its neighbor,
an aspiring young writer for the turmoil of waves and light Holly highbrow and pessimistic vision of things. The film embellishes and heterosexualized a character in the novel, narrated in first person, was an obvious alter ego of Capote himself, and transforms it into a very handsome lover. But it introduces an element not present in the novel: Paul, the writer, lives of women like Holly men. Furthermore, it appears as a passive character who agrees to be used by the girl, who even changed its name to put his brother, and masculinity called into question in shades like being called baby by another man, Holly agent, or enter one of the suitors of this in a bathroom, a situation whose potential would not have been avoided homosexual in a movie today . For he never fails to be a bit grating to separate the character of this tradition in comedy of man before the woman submissive type charismatic Bringing Up Baby and adopt by the end of the story a dominant and conventional pose . The unquestionable merit
Breakfast at Tiffany is have slipped to the censorship of the time a love story between two characters living in a certain way of prostitution, have a bittersweet story about a character at once frivolous, tender and cruel you are looking for a place in a complicated world, and convert it, without distorting it in a romantic comedy. The allure of Audrey Hepburn is a key element in this success, and so is the splashing the story with inserts very much in Blake Edwards, the sequence of an extravagant celebration, all a test of a director's later work, The shindig. Scenes Highlights:
- Its interesting neighbor presents Paul explaining that your cat has a name as its owner does not get stabilized in their lives and find a place that is as comfortable as Tiffany & Co. jewelry
- Holly interrupted, while inspired by the work of his neighbor singing with his guitar in a typical step New York fire one of the most famous in film history, Moon river Henry Mancini of .
- Paul and Holly
- embark on a bitter argument in which the young, drunk, asked to accept their money because it is used to keep women. He, cutting, replied that because it saves her unattractive suitor is a very hard earned. She fulminant replicates: takes exactly four seconds to get from here to the door. I give you two.
Anecdotes: Al
- major blockbuster hit by the film, joined two Oscars for best score and best song for Henry Mancini, and three more nominations : best actress, adapted screenplay and art direction.
- apparently composed Mancini Moon River on purpose so that could be sung by Audrey Hepburn, who had no musical training. An executive proposed cutting the sequence in who sings that song so stupid , to which Hepburn said that over his dead body.
- Apparently Truman Capote always thought Marilyn Monroe for the role of Holly Golighty, but the famous teacher Lee Strasberg actors recommended the actress who will not accept it. Interestingly, Audrey Hepburn did not look in the paper and thought to have been chosen as a casting error. About
Blake Edwards (Oklahoma, 1922) works as an actor and screenwriter before becoming one of the major architects of Hollywood over the years 60. After hits like Breakfast at Tiffany and Days of Wine and Roses , their confrontations with the studies weaken his career, will not live a new splendor to the early 80's with the perfect woman 10 and Victor / Victoria , his only Oscar nomination. In the sophisticated comedy that made him famous sexual misunderstandings abound and approaches on issues of gender roles. Links: IMDB
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