among the worst films made. - Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Discussion

[–] nymichael2002 9 years ago

I didn't read the book but this must be one of the most overrated films ever made.

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A Clockwork Orange is worse, more overrated, and ruined the book's ending making the author regret ever writing it to begin with.

Communism was just a red herring!

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[–] hilaryjrp 8 years ago

The film is self-satisfied and obnoxious and boring and any other adjective synonymous with "banal." The sixties were a pretty embarrassing--no, make that a very embarrassing--decade. This film sucked; and Hepburn was no actress.

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[–] SoAudreyHepburn 9 years ago

Mag, darling you're being a bore.

Yes the original novel was an incredible piece of work but you're overlooking the fact that this film was made in the 60s, it was taboo to include the fact that Holly was a call girl, dabbled in bisexuality and Paul "the writer" in the book was gay. That simply wouldn't have been made nor seen in the 60s let alone no studio would have touched the source material.

But also all adapted works are usually rewritten for on screen adaptations. Don't you know/remember that Gone with the Wind omitted Scarlett's two other children with Charles and Frank leaving in her daughter with Rhett? It just sells better to fix what wont work for the big screen. It happens all the time.

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[–] artistathome 9 years ago

Not only is the movie way overrated and seems pointless to me, but the book, omg. It is so boring and I couldn't stand it.

Truman Capote was very talented and he did write about people and things that link us to his own life and upbringing. The novellas he wrote about small town people are just excellent.

obviously he knew someone like Holly but he has said his Holly was a Marilyn Monroe type.

Seriously? I read BATs and I cannot even remotely see Marilyn as Holly.

so all the way around the novella and the movie are terrible. Of course this is in light of 2015. Back when it was written it was supposed to be the war years, or after. But which war? Korean? WW2?

Just puzzling.

I just watched it and on the DVD special features it says TC wanted MM for Holly. But when they picked AH, no way would they let her be a true call girl. It wasn't right for AH.

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[–] oknar1977 9 years ago

i've read that crime novella by truman, it is boring like hell.

this film also was boring to me to watch in full when i was a kid, i remember my sister and her friends loved it. i didn't get it, why having party was so fun or all that fuss with cat.

but now...
i love it. it made me cry in love scenes, made me inspire when i prepare a party, relate to her loneliness, running away, accepting love. nice, very nice movie.

You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken. You've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say "Okay, life's a fact." People do fall in love. People do belong to each other because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness. You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing. And you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

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[–] singjohn 8 years ago

And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somalia. It's wherever you go.

AND HERE IT IS! THE MOST IMPORTANT LINE IN THE WHOLE MOVIE!

Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

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[–] singjohn 8 years ago

BAT is a definitely flawed but thoroughly enjoyable movie. It turned a gritty novella into a whitewashed Hollywood romantic comedy. If you just enjoy it for what it is, it's actually not a bad film. Definitely not deserving of "worst ever made".

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[–] liscarkat (17136) 4 months ago

The quality of a movie is not predicated upon its faithfulness to its literary source. To expect it to be so is naive and foolish.

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