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Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 romantic comedy film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney. The film was directed by Blake Edwards and released by Paramount Pictures. It was based on the novella of the same name by Truman Capote.
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June 20, 2013
Is it blasphemy to say that this is an instance in which I think the movie is better than the book? Breakfast at Tiffany's has always been a favorite movie of mine and until now I had never read the book. Now that I've read the book, I feel like the movie got everything exactly right...and made is all so much better. The novel is a quick read, which made me feel like the characters were never fully developed...even Holly Golightly seemed a little underwhelming in the novel, and she is supposedly a out-there kind of girl. The movie definitely took the good storyline that was written and made it more than it ever could have been.
January 4, 2024
3.5!! While I LOVED this ending so much better than the book ending, I just feel like the screenplay missed so much. But huge props to ending it with the cat all happy <3 made me think of my lil orange cat
February 17, 2021
Pondría un cinco, pero hay una escena que creo contiene, a mi parecer, un mensaje producto de la época. Fuera del estereotipo del japonés Yunioshi. Creo que la gente ya debería dejar atrás ese pasado.
June 9, 2012
I think nearly everyone has read this book,but always see's the movie before they read the book...i have seen the movie a million times and love the book just as much...prefer the ending in the movie though...
August 2, 2012
Whoops, I didn't read the script ... I meant the book.
September 11, 2025
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, based on the novel by Truman Capote
Nine out of 10
Holly Golightly aka the aristocratic, fabulous, sophisticated, noble, outstanding Audrey Hepburn is one of the most delightful, serene, attractive, provocative, intriguing, sunny and seductive protagonists of a book or film.
http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/03/b...
The film has been appreciated; it won two Academy Awards and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role – the splendid Audrey Hepburn – Best Writing and Art Direction and some other prizes, including two Golden Globes.
Holly Golightly is not just absolutely charming, she has a side that is less bright, given her superficiality, careless attitude, tendency to get involved in murky, subterranean arrangements – with Sally tomato – acceptance of 4 50 bills whenever she gets to the powder room and a rather immoral, materialistic, money orientated attitude towards life, in spite of the other side of her that ignores almost anything that happens around, including the manifestations of wealth and power.
When she accepts to visit the mobster – that would be proved to head a narcotics operation from prison – Sally Tomato at Sing Sing – with her acute sense of humor, Holly remarks upon the ironic name of the infamous jail – she insists it was the romanticism of the proposal, for the one hundred dollar bills she is paid after each trip to see the gangster is not justification enough, given the ease with which she gets fifty dollars whenever she walks to the lavatory.
In the first scenes, the heroine does not have the key for the front door and hence calls upon Mr. Yunioshi to open it for her – this character is played by Mickey Rooney and it has made history for the reason that the reputed actor has made a terrible decision in painting a repulsive stereotype, insulting for Asian people, a ridiculous depiction of a figure that speaks bad English and looks awful.
A writer moves in the apartment above, Paul Varjak, who has in turn to call upon Holly Golightly to open the front door for him, since he has received only the key to his apartment and nothing else – a place that is paid for and decorated by 2E Failenson, a married woman that seems to support the author.
Paul has written a book with seven stories that is now part of the collections in public libraries, as the heroine would discover when she visits one for the first, during a challenge to involve in first time events with her neighbor and new friend.
Nevertheless, the young, handsome writer has failed to create anything else, suffering from blockage, lack of inspiration and relying on 2E to provide money, up to the point where he finds he is in love.
Holly Golightly does lead an easy going life as her name makes clear – she has another name, Lulamae Barnes and her husband appears one day at the entrance of the building, explaining the situation to Paul, how he had married a girl that was not yet fourteen – amazingly, many states in America do not consider illegal a marriage where the girl is under age.
Doc Golightly wants his wife to return to Texas, where he is a veterinarian and has four children and cares for Fred, Holly’s or Lulamae’s brother – this is the reason why she calls her new friend Fred – but the young woman tries to explain that she is not the girl he used to know.
She is a wild thing and he should know better, given the experience he has had taking an eagle with a broken wing in and a wild cat.
Holly intends to marry one of the fifty richest men in /America, under the age of fifty, Rusty Trawler, but he turns out to be a super rat.
The heroine does receive many banknotes, but her free spirit, expensive habits leave her with no more than two hundred dollars in the bank account.
She then decides to partner with the handsome Brazilian Jose da Silva Pereira, a man who has problems with the law.
During the party where he has the chance to meet Holly, the always-aggravated Yunioshi calls the police.
The would be president of Brazil is so worried that he finds his escape through the fire escape ladder.
Furthermore, when Holly is under scrutiny and suspicion in her turn, because she had been visiting the mobster and the police think that she offered help in contraband with narcotics, Jose abandons the woman he claimed he wanted to take to his country.
The heroine was reading books about South America, listening to tapes to learn Portuguese and then she is disappointed.
She should have seen that she has the most deserving knight in writing armor near her, all this time.
Paul Varjak is much more deserving than any of the claimants, suitors, rich useless figures that populated the life of the protagonist.
She refuses to see the obvious, the light, the good, and the worthy and in a scene-taking place in a taxi, the hero is finally overwhelmed and disgusted by this permanent refusal and throws a ring down.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a rewarding, wonderful motion picture, a classic one could say with confidence.
Nine out of 10
Holly Golightly aka the aristocratic, fabulous, sophisticated, noble, outstanding Audrey Hepburn is one of the most delightful, serene, attractive, provocative, intriguing, sunny and seductive protagonists of a book or film.
http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/03/b...
The film has been appreciated; it won two Academy Awards and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role – the splendid Audrey Hepburn – Best Writing and Art Direction and some other prizes, including two Golden Globes.
Holly Golightly is not just absolutely charming, she has a side that is less bright, given her superficiality, careless attitude, tendency to get involved in murky, subterranean arrangements – with Sally tomato – acceptance of 4 50 bills whenever she gets to the powder room and a rather immoral, materialistic, money orientated attitude towards life, in spite of the other side of her that ignores almost anything that happens around, including the manifestations of wealth and power.
When she accepts to visit the mobster – that would be proved to head a narcotics operation from prison – Sally Tomato at Sing Sing – with her acute sense of humor, Holly remarks upon the ironic name of the infamous jail – she insists it was the romanticism of the proposal, for the one hundred dollar bills she is paid after each trip to see the gangster is not justification enough, given the ease with which she gets fifty dollars whenever she walks to the lavatory.
In the first scenes, the heroine does not have the key for the front door and hence calls upon Mr. Yunioshi to open it for her – this character is played by Mickey Rooney and it has made history for the reason that the reputed actor has made a terrible decision in painting a repulsive stereotype, insulting for Asian people, a ridiculous depiction of a figure that speaks bad English and looks awful.
A writer moves in the apartment above, Paul Varjak, who has in turn to call upon Holly Golightly to open the front door for him, since he has received only the key to his apartment and nothing else – a place that is paid for and decorated by 2E Failenson, a married woman that seems to support the author.
Paul has written a book with seven stories that is now part of the collections in public libraries, as the heroine would discover when she visits one for the first, during a challenge to involve in first time events with her neighbor and new friend.
Nevertheless, the young, handsome writer has failed to create anything else, suffering from blockage, lack of inspiration and relying on 2E to provide money, up to the point where he finds he is in love.
Holly Golightly does lead an easy going life as her name makes clear – she has another name, Lulamae Barnes and her husband appears one day at the entrance of the building, explaining the situation to Paul, how he had married a girl that was not yet fourteen – amazingly, many states in America do not consider illegal a marriage where the girl is under age.
Doc Golightly wants his wife to return to Texas, where he is a veterinarian and has four children and cares for Fred, Holly’s or Lulamae’s brother – this is the reason why she calls her new friend Fred – but the young woman tries to explain that she is not the girl he used to know.
She is a wild thing and he should know better, given the experience he has had taking an eagle with a broken wing in and a wild cat.
Holly intends to marry one of the fifty richest men in /America, under the age of fifty, Rusty Trawler, but he turns out to be a super rat.
The heroine does receive many banknotes, but her free spirit, expensive habits leave her with no more than two hundred dollars in the bank account.
She then decides to partner with the handsome Brazilian Jose da Silva Pereira, a man who has problems with the law.
During the party where he has the chance to meet Holly, the always-aggravated Yunioshi calls the police.
The would be president of Brazil is so worried that he finds his escape through the fire escape ladder.
Furthermore, when Holly is under scrutiny and suspicion in her turn, because she had been visiting the mobster and the police think that she offered help in contraband with narcotics, Jose abandons the woman he claimed he wanted to take to his country.
The heroine was reading books about South America, listening to tapes to learn Portuguese and then she is disappointed.
She should have seen that she has the most deserving knight in writing armor near her, all this time.
Paul Varjak is much more deserving than any of the claimants, suitors, rich useless figures that populated the life of the protagonist.
She refuses to see the obvious, the light, the good, and the worthy and in a scene-taking place in a taxi, the hero is finally overwhelmed and disgusted by this permanent refusal and throws a ring down.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a rewarding, wonderful motion picture, a classic one could say with confidence.
July 10, 2022
I always wanted to read this classic. It does deserve the plaudits. I loved the descriptive detail of the narrator's thoughts and observations. Holly is a lost character who is economical with the details of her past and is always looking toward a better future. She is selfish but determined to live a prosperous life after a non-descript childhood that seems to lack love and joy. I wonder where and how Holly continued her life. Good luck to you Holly Golightly!!
November 9, 2020
I am lukewarm on this short story because it is too flat.
August 17, 2014
My edition of this - liberated (read: stolen) from my aunt's bookshelf, because I believe books are made for reading, not decoration - has four short stories in it: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar and A Christmas Memory. I don't know if that's customary, but obviously I, being an idiot, thought they were chapters. Regardless.
I'm not sure what to say about them. A Christmas Memory was vapid, inconsequential, with pretty writing - but it sent a chill through me at the last. A Diamond Guitar wasn't half what it set itself up to be, and the scenario itself wasn't believable for what it was. House of Flowers was pure insane. Breakfast at Tiffany's was definitely the best. I must watch the film; I'm curious to see how they made a script out of that.
I'm not sure what to say about them. A Christmas Memory was vapid, inconsequential, with pretty writing - but it sent a chill through me at the last. A Diamond Guitar wasn't half what it set itself up to be, and the scenario itself wasn't believable for what it was. House of Flowers was pure insane. Breakfast at Tiffany's was definitely the best. I must watch the film; I'm curious to see how they made a script out of that.
July 7, 2011
fun book - I've always been a fan of Audrey Hepburn, who has a reputation for being not only a fine actress, but a woman of character - unusual in the Movie biz. anyway, lots of trivia and interesting tidbits about her life and the making of the movie. My favorite bit of inside info is her not so flattering impression of George Peppard.
July 29, 2014
It started with 'oh! I love Audrey Hepburn, I love the movie so I will like this book'. Holly Golightly is far intense, far gentle, far elegant in the movie than in this book. Characters are not well developed in the book. I could watch the movie thousands times (again! and again!) but cant read the book one more time.
August 17, 2011
holly gets in some pretty amazing one-liners... "I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead." "Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion." and the story might as well be taken from today's city - people don't change that much...
November 2, 2012
I wanted to like it more. I felt the same about the movie. I love Audrey Hepburn so I feel like I should love this book and the film... but I just don't. I did hear Audrey's voice speaking all of Holly's lines tho. Audrey's voice was the best part of the book LOL.
March 9, 2015
Interesting and not quite what I expected......Disney really changed it !!!! Hollis character seemed tormented throughout, and since I live much more logically I was glad the book wasn't more than 100 pages
July 1, 2015
suka dengan karakter Tiffany yg berani (pada zamannya tergolong berani :D), bebas berpikir, lincah, menikmati hidup, ceria, dan tidak membiarkan hal apapun termasuk uang untuk membuatnya menyingkir dari jalan yg diimpikannya.
reach your dreams, set it high! 3 stars.
reach your dreams, set it high! 3 stars.
July 19, 2012
One of my new favorite books. I totally could hear Audrey Hepburn through the whole book.
November 16, 2013
Fabulous book.
Want to read
July 16, 2013I'm very excited about this book
December 14, 2013
It was told from a 2nd perspective like Gatsby. Capote just wrote observations, what happened without adding judgement, it was just what other characters said that assigned judgement.
June 4, 2014
Loved this book!!
June 18, 2014
This book bores me. The character is uninteresting and lacks depth no matter how hard the author tries to portray her otherwise.
June 23, 2014
Just realized I rated the script and not the book. Meant to rate the book ;) It was fun to see where Holly Golightly started. She's a little more independent in the book.
September 10, 2016
Dosadnjikava.
August 5, 2015
Not for me
May 21, 2012
Classy and a classic
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