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Title: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Post by: AlanBama on July 30, 2006, 04:06:17 pm
We just watched "Breakfast at Tiffany's"....I always cry at the end when Holly goes back in the rain and finds Cat.....

Capote actually wanted Marilyn Monroe to play the part of Holly...can you imagine that?  I can't.

In my opinion, we have no one today in the same league as Audrey Hepburn...
but I'm a sentimental old fool.

Alan
Title: Re: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Post by: The Canuck on July 30, 2006, 04:10:40 pm
Alanbama,

Audrey was perfect for this role and can't imagine this movie without her. Of course I'm a sentimental fool as well and always cry at the end of this movie.  ;)

Not easy these days to have actors/actress in the same class as Audrey Hepburn...just sayin' ( Jonathan's trademark )

Regards,

The Canuck
Title: Re: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Post by: lydgate on July 31, 2006, 01:20:51 am
I suppose the movie version had to have the happy ending; the novella by Capote ends with Holly going off to Brazil if I remember right. I've always thought that Sally Bowles (in Isherwood's Berlin Stories, played by Liza Minelli in Cabaret) was a kind of ancestor of Holly Golightly. I've loved both characters since I was a teen. Speaking of sentimental -- I love the Mancini "Moon River" song/tune as well, don't think it cheesy at all.

Jay
Title: Re: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Post by: Benc7 on July 31, 2006, 02:40:20 pm
It's funny that the movie played it safe with a happy ending but played dangerous with having George Peppard  play(Paul 'Fred' Carjack) as a  gigolo; he isn't that in the novella and has no sexual relationship with Holly at all. But it does make for a good cinematic balance between the story of two "whores".  Blake Edwards has stated that, if he could,he'd do away with the offensive Mickey Rooney portrayal of Mr.Yunioshi , a character that is in the novella for only a few lines. Maybe in a "director's cut" he will.  But, as for Marylin doing the role of Holly.....every word on the page is Audrey Hepburn to a "T".

By the way, the black dress Audrey wore in the movie is up for auction; if any of you have a spare 50,000 pounds, now's your chance!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5216740.stm
Title: Re: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Post by: david25luvit on July 31, 2006, 04:08:31 pm
Alan.........Yeah buddy.  I loved that movie.  Loved Audrey Hepburn in everything she played...
And Yes I could imagine Marilyn doing the movie...of course it would have taken years for her
to remember her lines......... :o

But then I loved movies like "Some Like it Hot" &  "Gentlemen Prefer Blonds"
I'm such a homo ::)