Breakfast at Tiffany's- not a love story

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I should start by saying I'm a big fan but isn't it kind of fucked up? The kind of film which people rave about and you don't know if they've actually seen it or remember it, or have considered it by today's standards.
They're kind of both prostitutes.
I love Holly Golightly but she must be maddening to live with, or next door to!
Her and Fred would never work, what would they do? Get jobs? Who would hire the work shy pair?
Much prefer the grittier novela.

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Not to mention the Manic Pixie Dreamgirl subgenre…

I caught a bit of the Mr-Yunioshi-free cut of the film a few years ago, and had this weird sensation of something missing without realising until later it was a recut. The novella is very different, and the prose is lovely, but it’s the loosest of loose adaptations.

@Lovebeingamummy2, you've posted on a thread about a film. You need to navigate to the Christmas section and start a thread over there.

This is a thread about Breakfast At Tiffany’s!

Though Meat Hamper At Tiffany’s would be a nice change.

I adore Audrey Hepburn. She is one of the most beautiful women who ever lived, in my view, and I would watch her in anything. I love her speaking voice. She is excellent in The Nun's Story, which is very different indeed from BaT. It's a pity she wasn't given more really good parts.

Ooooh yeah Alison King is lush. Gorgeous lass. Looked so hot in 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet' and 'Shanghai Nights' and 'Mile High,' and a few other dramas from the noughties... And she is still gorgeous! 😍

But OMG that voice. Could cut glass! 😆

Why on earth would you bring your daughters up watching such a fucked up, misogynistic, racist film? It's a horrible story and only people who haven't watched it think it's a heart warming classic

If you were trying to play the cool mum, showing old films to your kids, then you could have a done a lot better than BAT.

Now, Roman Holiday...that is a great film, much nicer story , funny and more 'honest'.

Maybe it was just that one film then. I have honestly never seen her in anything else (I don't think...) But her voice in Breakfast and Tiffany's was supremely irritating (IMO, and DH's opinion too!)

Wrong thread @Lovebeingamummy2 ???

People enjoy all sorts of different things - there's nothing inherently wrong with watching an old film that's racist and misogynistic as long as you can acknowledge that those things are wrong and unacceptable in today's society.

I'm so sorry everyone I have no idea how my post got on here I was starting a thread in the Christmas section so sorry about that

That's all right @Lovebeingamummy2

My favourite all-time old-school actress by a mile is Doris Day: I love all her films and have watched them until every line is seared into my memory. Yes, some are misogynistic - Pillow Talk has some dreadful moments in that respect but I can't not love it.

Different films for different times. To me the racism jars far more, but I have to agree with PPs about the troublesome 'tart with a heart' Hollywood trope. Same with 'man recreates woman in his preferred image': cf. 'Pretty Woman' and 'Pygmalion/My Fair Lady'.

To quote what is perhaps the best line of that movie: 'you're a pretty pair of babies, playing with your live doll'.

It rankles.

One of the theories about the novel is that Holly/Lula-Mae represents the (gay, male) author, Truman Capote. So it's already full of euphemisms and hints and disguises.
The film is a grotesquely bowdlerised travesty of the book, beaten only by the 1958 version of The quiet American for perverting the meaning of a novel.

You sound very angry indeed about it. And snarky. 'cool mum'?
It's quite possible to watch something and simply enjoy it on one level (in BaT I like the music, clothes, scenes of NYC etc) AND also be able to view it critically (Mickey Rooney, the messages about women).

@Redbrickrebel isn’t it you playing ‘the cool mum’? sheepling along, shaming others, ensuring your children are only exposed to things that fit your agenda?
My world simply doesn’t work this way. You do you 🤷‍♀️

Also we don’t like it because it’s a heartwarming classic. We like it because it’s SO VERY STYLISH. And I make no apologies for finding it so.

Indeed.
I love the party scene with all those people crammed into her tiny apartment.