The Breakfast At Tiffany's intro is still TOTALLY divine.

Agreed.

I hate how this film is still secretly one of my top 5. its been hijacked by basic white women and fat women who like to remind us that marilyn monroe "was a size 14". oh, and racist stuff isn't great either. still love it though!

I blame this movie for everyone incorrectly calling the store "Tiffany's"

"Breakfast At Tiffany & Co" doesn't have the same ring.

Well that was three minutes of my life I'll never get back.

Every three minutes you spend is three minutes you won't get back.

What a bore!

So I have to ask ...

Does NY Tiffany's have a cafe? I know the "breakfast" is a metaphor, but many high end stores have them (at least tea and crumpets).

Just curious.

[quote]"Breakfast At Tiffany & Co" doesn't have the same ring.

There is nothing wrong with the title to the book/movie, as, I assume, it means "Breakfast at Tiffany's Windows."

If not Capote was stupid.

Wasn't her character an impoverished prostitute?

Why would she be dressed like that?

Supposedly Capote got the title from a story he had heard about a fresh-off-the-bus hustler who, when asked by his new sugar daddy where he'd like to go eat, said he'd always wanted to have breakfast at Tiffany's.

You lost me at "Mickey Rooney" as a Jap.

[quote]You lost me at "Mickey Rooney" as a Jap.

Stop being so hyper-sensitive about everything for GOD'S sake! It's not so terrible. It's a fucking joke.

It bothered me that she didn't use a napkin for that donut. Sorry.

R13 is an idiot. That is the worst racist yellow-face in the history of cinema.

Ariana Grande was given the actual Givenchy dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in the opening scene.

She wants to do a remake of Breakfast at Tiffany's, but who should play the George Peppard role?

The using of (dead) Audrey (& the song) in that chocolate commercial was so tacky it's not true.

The up-do in OP's pic slays me.

This film is tepid filmmaking and neutered content. The glamour is easy. I see how it appeals to 15yo-22yo girls and gay boys who are interested in a bohemian glamour but don't have all that much glamour themselves, or access to it. I have had to rewatch it with that cohort and the only life it provides me, is reflected through the young people who find it alluring. And only a few will, as it is very dated.

Poor anorexic Audrey had a hard time filming that scene because she hated nibbling on a Danish pastry.

George Peppard was so gorgeous in this film. And cat was really a good actor.

You do realize, of course, that LVMH has acquired Tiffany & Co. For $16.2 Billion . . .

[quote]R10 Wasn't her character an impoverished prostitute? Why would she be dressed like that?

She’s a party girl who lives off her male admirers.

I think that’s the most polite way to say it.

I believe Capote’s hustler story because there was a Tiffany’s diner down in the West Village. There was/is a breakfast at Tiffany’s of sorts that’s a catered affair but not a full restaurant. They are undergoing a massive renovation, so perhaps a restaurant is possible. Expect to see a lot of change with LVMH as the new owner, they now own that corner.

I worked across the street and my old boss called that corner the “axis of evil”.

Did she just finish an overnight session with a client ?

Peppard was good looking but cold. They fucked one afternoon but never kissed or touched each other again and suddenly we're supposed to believe they're secretly madly in love? There was ZERO chemistry between them.

[quote]r25 Did she just finish an overnight session with a client ?

She'd been out nightclubbing with him, then took off with the cash. Petty whore.

George could be my fuckleberry friend anytime. Yum!

Cue the pic of George's sad last days.

Uh, r13, do you think someone who was truly offended by that performance would use the word "Jap"?

Back when store windows were works of art.

Her hair looked great in that clip.

As the '60s wore on she adopted that London Mod Look - which was really for the very young only and never flattering. It looked silly on her. I think her light went out, actually.

This is just five years later and she looks twenty years older. Very frau and dowdy.

And she often looked unhappy.

I love this little car.

She was gorgeous, but I never did see the hype of this film. Terribly depressing story, and especially at the time, how awful to be a young lady in her situation socially. Her character was delusional, self-sabotaging, and destructive. I don't see any glamour at all in being a high priced "companion". The film was a bit vague of course, but she certainly was some sort of sex worker. It was all the more sad because she was so beautiful, charming, and witty at times. Couldn't she be better? Terrible film IMHO. Perhaps the book is better?

I still think she is one of the most photogenic actresses of all time in this movie. When she opened the door for George Peppard, in the scene when she had her sleeping mask and pajamas on, she really took my breath away.

Audrey and Albert Finney were exquisite in Two for the Road . . .

If only the rest of the film was as great as the intro.

An empty 5th Ave and 57th street. Tiffany, Bonwit's. The limestone. That dress. The pearls. Breakfast out of a paper bag.

And that beautiful melancholy melody.

[quote]As the '60s wore on she adopted that London Mod Look - which was really for the very young only and never flattering. It looked silly on her. I think her light went out, actually.

True. And she really looked dopey in the Courrèges's space age stuff. She was meant more for YSL and Valentino.

[quote] Peppard was good looking but cold. They fucked one afternoon but never kissed or touched each other again and suddenly we're supposed to believe they're secretly madly in love? There was ZERO chemistry between them.

Well, remember that his character in the original novella is pretty clearly gay, and in the film that same character is being kept by a lesbian. So clarifying sexual matters isn't this movie's strong suit.

A dream of NYC that never really existed.

[quote] As the '60s wore on she adopted that London Mod Look - which was really for the very young only

And for me.

No love for me?

r41 Why would a lesbian want to keep a man?

I preferred this movie when it was just a gay fave remembered by a few old queens like me. It's now a dreadful frau cult thing. They'd better leave Laura Mars alone. It's all we've got left.

Not too shabby

hawt

Audrey Hepburn looked like she didn't get a lot of love and hot sex in her young life. When she was a teen, right after the war, she must have been very very captivating because everyone important she met threw opportunities at her. I think perhaps like Jane Fonda, she was forever challenged with body dysmorphia. Mel Ferrer was bi at best and probably only got really hot with Cary Grant's dick in his mouth, .

It's cute in a dated way. It does not really hold up as a great film- wasn't even realistic in its time- just pretty, a bit clever and with that wonderful actress Audrey H. who had a Garland like quality of making the implausible normal.

[quote]R49 I think perhaps like Jane Fonda, she was forever challenged with body dysmorphia.

She was out and out anorexic - tho her die hard fans freak out at the idea. Shirley MacLaine remembers that Hepburn would eat 1 hard boiled egg for lunch when they worked together.

The basis of the fear is she gained a lot of weight coming over on the boat to NY, to make her Broadway debut in GIGI. She almost got fired and had to starve the weight off. She was terrified of gaining weight from then on.

I thought it was deprivation during the war that caused her eating disorder.

I love that taxi with the wings....and the two-tone paintwork. So cool.

Sorry, fins, not wings.

[quote]r52 I thought it was deprivation during the war that caused her eating disorder.

Well, that makes for a nobler story.

That (and working as a dancer) did give her with a willowy build, but it was the deprivation of the war years (and upcoming career nerves) that made her gorge on so much chocolate while sailing from Europe to America that she frightened the play's producers...and herself.

I don't know how much she actually gained, but it was significant enough to cause panic in the production.

She was Jake Gyllenhaal fat.