tbh even i said ouch when i wrote that lol

Potentially avoiding thee great compromise

This takes a new meaning for me as a single woman living in NYC 🗽

This line gave me big Joni Mitchell vibes- you could say Holly is “on a lonely road... looking for the key to set [her] free” or that “she’s too busy being free” or she “loves her lovin but not like she loves her freedom”. In both Tiffany’s and Mitchell’s work, that longing for freedom is what holds her down, you’d think it would be the opposite but it’s her tragic flaw.

Everyone: oof

Astonishing? people in tv shows, target to teens, where parents are in their 30's and the kids are in their 20's, portreying 14 or 15 years old hischoolers.This is going on forever.Older women in entreteinment are doomed.

she was?? must be the costuming and make up, she looks at least 10 years older than them!

@@paillette2010 Only?

Anne Bancroft would like a word. 🎶so here's to you🎶...

Angela Lansbury played Laurence Harvey’s mother in The Manchurian Candidate and she was younger than him. Same with Eileen Herlie as Laurence Olivier’s mother in Hamlet. Nina Foch as the seemingly older woman in An American in Paris was younger than Gene Kelly. And Ann Bancroft in The Graduate was, I forget, only 7 or 8 years older than Dustin Hoffman. This kind of thing was very common.

Audrey’s real life story is by far a more fascinating one than the book, movie, or any other the other actors!

True. Wish I could go to the multiverse with that timeline where Marilyn was Holly.

Audrey Hepburn is also perfect. Nobody deny the fact that Marilyn Monroe is a good actress. Call me crazy but I just can't imagine if Holly Golightly is not played by Audrey Hepburn

Capote was friends with Marilyn Monroe. I recall reading in Gerald Clarke's biography that Capote had actually written the story with Marilyn in mind for any potential film adaptation.

I love her performance too. I just wish it was in a different movie that fit the character. Everything in the movie you can tell it was meant for someone else. Audrey is the only good thing in the movie.

Marilyn would have been... just perfect for the role.

@@lissiz3432 she would have been herself

It probably could’ve been her best role, I just wish I could see a photograph with both Marilyn and Audreyw

I agree. Marilyn had the perfect tone of vulnerability for that character. I tend to think that the heaviness beneath her bubbly blond persona (probably the reason that Capote wanted her) could have absorbed too much of the film. That opening scene with Marilyn would have definitely tasted of a lonely and unglamorous morning after. It just would have been a different film. Maybe someone should make it now, as a character piece.

Wow. I never considered that. What a beautiful imagery! Her soulful eyes as Holly has stories to tell; has seen things in this life; she’s a survivor. Audrey is beloved beyond measure, but Marilyn as Holly Golightly would have given the groundedness to the adaptation. Marilyn as Holly telling Doc “I’m just not Lulu Mae anymore” would have broken my heart. Thank you for sparking such an intriguing image for me.

true fans know!!!!

Fabulous meta reference!

I started singing after that. Perfectly placed reference

@ and the sun will rise and the moon will set and you learn how to settle for what you get…

@@vanessadalpiaz6423 It would all go on, if we're here or not...

Just looking at Audrey Hepburn is enough for me

You need to get over yourself

@@colleenconger5265 For those of us of "a certain age", it's Casablanca and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Of the tail end of that age I tend to add American Graffitti to that list. What else should be on it?

I can't show the movie to the Asians in my family they will be VERY offended by the Mickey Rooney bit. Otherwise a good movie. Maybe just skip the first scenes.

@@ivangreen3995 I'm Asian and when I first saw the movie, I wasn't offended (distracted by Audrey's beauty and the awesome Moon River song) and I understand that movies need comedic relief regardless of race. But at the time I didn't even realize that a white actor was playing the character, and also knowing the marketing campaign behind that definitely spoils it for me. This was clearly racist. Mind you, I'm usually one of those conservatives who often sigh at the overtly sensitive liberal politically correct stuff.

I hate that song (I understand why people like it though, just saying it's not the kind of music I like) but I watched this video yesterday and I've had the song stuck in my head. It is definitely catchy.

@@michaeldebellis4202 On it's own l didn't get the song until "Holly" sang it. Audrey was not allowed to sing in other movies like My Fair Lady. She finally got her chance here. Apparently they suggested deleting it from the final cut but she put up a fight and it stayed. I'm glad she sang it. I dislike the operatic sound of the singers she had to lip sync in other movies.

@@heidibee501 Yes, it really does fit the revised more wholesome but still kind of stretching proprietary limits for that time. Audrey Hepburn was just IMO in a class by herself. She had such grace and charm and beauty. There was one line I never got until this last time when it was stuck in my head: "Huckleberry friend". I think it means as in Huckleberry Finn and Jim. Two drifters just heading down the beautiful river turning their backs on the traditions and morality of the time. (Huck thought he was doing the wrong thing by helping an escaped slave but he did it anyway, love that book)

Robin & Marian has a sad ending. RIP Richard Harris and Sean Connery

Didn't both Shirley MacLaine and Audrey Hepburn push for the original ending to the film? Actresses have a long history of this, like Jessica Lange fighting to include the incest/sexual abuse of Patsy Cline's by her biological father, Glenn Close fighting for an accurate representation of a woman with BPD/C-PTSD/DID in Fatal Attraction instead of the murder mess they made of a "single white female" BS stereotype of ~all womEn Are CraaaZy~ (clearly invented by men at the dawn of time, no thanks to Freud, the asshole) and used in the film? SO many more examples....

I found The Children's Hour on youtube years ago and I was shocked that they were able to make that when they did, obligatory tragic ending or not

@@ImnotassweetasIusedtobe Oooh. Alex having BPD instead of OLD or ROCD sounds really compelling (I'm not sure how much it was discussed during the 80's.) It's hard to believe that they were considering Gilda Radner instead of Glenn Close because they thought that Glenn Close couldn't play sexy.

Oh god her performance in children's hour is phenomenal. Her and Shirley MacLaine played off each other brilliantly, I actually can't think of another film where she has an extended scene partnered with a woman besides Kay Thompson in funny face and that's very succinct.

Same here. It took me several viewings and then when I found out....🤦 all I remember was that character was so over the top and annoying, with little humor.

Same. I'm not sure if the makeup department should get an award or be thrown out an airlock. Maybe just throw the director out an airlock. 90% of those Micky Rooney scenes could be cut in the original and nothing would be truly lost plot nor tone wise. It very much distracts and afterwards is mostly forgettable.

@@Fickji it really ruins the film :( it’s so sad

The annoying thing is if they had just let him play an obnoxious obviously white male landlord it wouldn’t have cost the film any comedic affect.

I always imagine Pat Morita in the role. Thats how I get through the awfulness of that scene.

too good

If done today, it would be criticized to no end.

@@amuletk That's true.

It could definitely take a remake, because the original film was so different to the book it should be possible to see them as different and good (I pretend that Micky Rooney isn't there) and avoid the 'the original was better' trap.

There was a Broadway play starring Emilia Clarke that was a much, much closer adaptation to the book

Yeah the filmmakers really effed the movie up. Audrey saved it with her performance alone. The romance doesn’t work. Because Paul is GAY in the book. The original story is more about true friendship than romance. Holly is from Texas. Always roll my eyes when I hear that. No way Audrey Hepburn is believable as a texan. They should have rewrote that. No clue why they didn’t.

And i would add that in the movie, her dream of excellence is shown as impossible not because she's mediocre as an artist, but because she blends seamlessly into a cheap, worn-down art scene doomed for failure. Its suggested that she may be good, but perhaps no better than the other chorus girls she's introduced with: the only figure allowed to stand out in that place is the master of ceremonies. And then you have her flightiness, and her unconventional "vulgar" looks contrasted with prim upper-class styles. It's made very clear why she can never rise, and it's got nothing to do with her natural talent.

Yes! My answer about Liza’s being “too good” to be Sally is that it’s how Sally sees herself. She’s flighty enough to change personae at the drop of a hat-a movie vamp, the girl next door, Daddy’s Little Girl, the flapper bohemian, the gold digger, the sexual adventuress-so why not the Star of Stage and maybe someday Screen? We don’t really meet Sally without all the trappings until near the end of the move

@@biancachristie So true! And also, from an audience perspective, as someone who has seen the stage show when she's been portrayed by a non-singer...it's just too much music for someone who is not great at singing to get through. I know this is an unpopular opinion to some extent, among some theater people. For me, having to listen to someone "sing badly" is squirmy, even at a kid's school play, much less a professional production.

@@marypagones6073 I think my favorite interpretation of Sally is when she’s played by an obviously very good singer who leans into the acting and takes some of the polish off her voice.

As a live production in a theater it works very well.

BRILLIANT!! Im gonna bounce off you and add a third & fourth element to your already brilliant take: Truman Capote during the movie production fighting the studios, coming off as difficult, and then flashbacks of a young Truman Capote’s encounters with the real inspiration(s) of Holly Golightly when he arrives in New York. I always felt Holly was always a little bit of him leaving behind his past in the South and coming to NYC.

this is epic

@@lepetitenellie i love this! It’s very Gret Gerwig’s Little Women…very meta.

excellent... too good. you could write that and pitch that ! i think that would even have. a shot at being made ! considering how huge the original film was , and how people still know it today

this would be excellenr. who would you cast as each holly?

So, asking for the money is "code" for "are we doing it?". If he gives her money, she puts in the diaphragm. Is she tipping the ladies room maid to stay quiet?

@@2degucitas It's not code. She isn't sending a signal so much as she is requesting payment in advance. Also, none of that money is for the washroom attendant, hush or otherwise. There is an attendant, however, so in this way anyone looking on from the restaurant, bar, or club might assume the innocence of or at least allow themselves to explain away the exchange of cash between a man and his unmarried escort (date).

In "Goodfellas", when Ginger asks for money for the powder room, is given $50 by Ace, and later gives a bs answer why there isn't any change, it's more cut a dried and without question who is getting what for what.

Saffron, thank you. As wise in the way of the world that I am, I can also be as dense as the next guy.

Absolutely! I really think it's just about the best way. And let's be honest, studios are not shy of remakes now days and especially cult favorites. I never realized how much I wanted to see that until now! I really love the whole platonic loving relationship they seem to have in the book as I relate heavily to that relationship with my best friend who you would think we were lovers from afar but in reality we just love hanging out together and enjoy each others company, plus it'd be cool to see the erasure gone from the film (Along with the disgusting racism of course, but I think that's a given).

I wanna see an a24 breakfast at tiffanys so bad

Nope. The remakes would flop. They didn't make the original films based on the original sources because those sources were not movie-material. These movie adaptations became cult classics because they deviated from their source materials.

I'm not sure I'd really consider Rebel Without A Cause an adaptation with the book being published after the movie was released. I don't know much about it though with it not being in print anymore and I don't think I've heard anyone even mention it. (Unless I'm missing something or mixing something up.) But I like the idea of a new rendition being open with things that are implied in the movie! And I love the idea of a new film version of Breakfast At Tiffany's that's faithful to the novella, especially as Richard Greenberg's stage production was akin to the novella and not the movie.

I don’t know, I recently read Breakfast at Tiffany’s and I don’t think it would be an enjoyable watch. I disagree with this take actually, I was really surprised by how much Yunioshi racism was in there & it’s pretty rough. I think this video is pretty kind to the source material honestly.

She wanted to do her own singing in My Fair Lady too, but Warner Brothers nixed the idea in favor of Marnie Nixon. I think Audrey Hepburn's voice was perfect for Moon River.

@@reikun86 right? it fits her character. and imo at least pre-transformation in "mfl" her real voice would've fit the character too.

Maybe that could be the next BKR video?🙏

I liked her singing tho. It fits her character perfectly

Exactly, Audrey's posture with Hubert's style made it atemporal!

agreed ! i like that quite a bit... Paul's more a sex worker than a writer, as for sure he's gotta be giving it to get all of that in exchange... and he's more of a sex worker than Holly for sure. it's questionable how often the Holly character actually gave it away... and probably only to the cute ones .. that she might have done for free anyway !

Exactly, this narrator woman is a sexist liberal

Ohayou Arigatou does not even make sense translated. "Good morning Thank you."

I think it's a case of them making it so it could be read multiple ways, depending on who is watching, and/or why they are watching it. I have watched it with a critical eye knowing perfectly well what is going on between cuts.... but I prefer to watch it like you say, with the most innocent interpretation possible, just because it feels better that way. It's a brilliantly made film I think because of that ability to read it, not incorrectly, multiple ways and get whatever they want out of it.

YES! Why can't they remake some real classics instead of remaking Spider-Man for the 25th time and rebooting like the same six franchises every couple years. I wish they would get away from comics as source material and focus on classic literature instead. There's nothing wrong with comics and it was a good idea to make movies based off of comics but that's been done to death. There are a million different ones and I'm sick of it. I want rebel without a cause and breakfast at Tiffany's and slaughterhouse five and 1984 and the catcher in the rye and Mrs Dalloway. I wish Hollywood would remake some of these since they insist on remaking franchises instead of coming up with new material. But I doubt these movies will never be made and do you know why? Because they can't be turned into a series and a franchise. That's why these movies will never be made. Hollywood isn't just making movies for the United States and Americans anymore. They don't care how crappy a movie does in America because the sh"tty remakes make millions upon millions upon millions of dollars in the international market particularly in china. So they don't care if it bombs in America. They make an astronomical profit overseas.

@@WhitneyDahlin I can't tell you how many times Hollywood and Britain have remade Little Women and Pride and Prejudice. Because they constantly remake them. Constantly. Stop whining and maybe don't see capeshit (No Way Home was the best movie of 2021).

As someone who lives a similar lifestyle in nyc, I have to say.. the fact that people do not notice her lifestyle & regard her as classy is so… bizarre. It’s glaringly obvious I thought

She wasn't in it for that long, but I loved her in Cookie's Fortune.

A great Patricia Neal performance is A Face in the Crowd! It has Andy Griffith (in his big screen debut!) and it's directed by Elia Kazan. Never heard of it before my history of 50's film class this spring and I'm obsessed! And the theme of the film is so relevant to today's times.

@@mkg72892 We watched it in school when my club used to have monthly movie nights. It's a really good movie.

I remember at the time thinking, "Hilary Swank? Wasn't she the next Karate Kid?" Compared to the other actresses nominated that year, I was pleasantly surprised that she won the Oscar.

I know nothing about this! I would love an explainer vid.

Audrey was perfect. Not sure why all of a sudden people hate her.

Nobody hates her. But Marylin is naturally more like Holly @@nitely2345

@@Ale-ke5vd seriously? I had no idea it was such a toxic fan base. It’s crazy how they act like the women were at fault for “stealing” from Marylin as if they could have predicted any production issues. I didn’t know Mina lee hated Audrey. I already didn’t agree with a lot of her points but that just sounds unreasonable. How can anyone see Audrey’s breakfast at Tiffany’s performance and dog on it is beyond me.

Absolutely. Before she was even mentioned, I said, " This would have been perfect for Marilyn. But she was so sick by this time bc of all the abuse she had been enduring. All she needed was one serious roll for people to see what she could do but even then, Holly wood just takes..." (And I am neither a massive supporter of either Audrey or Marilyn. I respect them both for who they were and the lives they led.)

In the book holly is a teenager

It's amazing that not one person in the decision factor, except Axelrod, was like "You know...."

@@reikun86 Exactly right. I saw ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ for the first time two years ago on Netflix and I liked the film a lot…. But Yunioshi’s character could’ve been changed (script wise) or scraped😬🤷🏾‍♂️

And 1940s and 1930s and 1920s and 1910s and 1900s and 1890s until the dawn of time.

It was so common... Charlie Chan, King and I. Even John Wayne played Genghis Khan?! It is less common, but still done - Peter Ustinov, Hugo Weaving, Nicholas Cage... sometimes whitewashed, sometimes yellow faced... But the fake actor for Yunioshi is over the top. 😎

@@TitoTimTravels Peter Ustinov played Charlie Chan!?! Who's idea was that? And Ustinov plays him like Poirot which is just nutty. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. It's on youtube for free at the moment. Probably abandoned by studio and God. It's like watching a train wreck being filmed by Uwe Boll while watching Trolls 2. I can't look away. It must be riffed relentlessly. With popcorn.

exactly. Capote even acknowledged that himself, as quoted in this video at the end. there's nothing wrong with escapist romantic comedies, and Breakfast at Tiffany's the movie is a fantastic one. the whole "which is better, the movie or the book?" becomes irrelevant because they changed so much in transition to the screen.

Like Kubrick's The Shining. Its nothing like Stephen King's book and the director purposely changed so much in the movie but King still admits its a good movie. Not his book but a good movie.

Audrey. Not that it's important. But it's Audrey.

@@randomfornow you are correct. Thank you

Thats the problem. There is no romance in the story. Paul is gay and Holly is Bisexual in the book. I don’t think its a coincidence that the weakest element of the film is the “Romance” or lack there of. Because it was shoehorned into the plot by the filmmakers. Its supposed to be story of friendship not romance. Audrey Hepburn could have definitely done a film closer to the book. It would have probably been a way better movie. Instead we got a mediocre movie with a Great filmsaving performance by Audrey Hepburn.

@@sit2go Paul was bi

@@randywhite3947 Eh came off more gay than Bi in the book to me. Also Truman Capote based the character on himself. Without question Capote was gay. Fun fact: Truman Capote wanted to play the Paul character himself.

Paramount wants to but the Alan Schwartz, who's the Trustee of the Truman Capote Literary Trust is shopping around a TV series and has had offers. At this point it's up to the courts to decide if Paramount sat on the rights for too long and lost them.

The thing is, West Side Story is a musical. It’s not a straight remake of the 1961 movie, but also an adaptation of the stage musical. A lot of people love the stage musical. There is room for interpretation there and for an updated version in 2021. Breakfast at Tiffany’s is wholly iconic because of the film, not the novella. The film and tv industry can make multiple adaptations of well-loved books and novels, but that’s not what Breakfast at Tiffany’s is. Even if the new adaptation is more faithful to the novella, I still think it would live in the shadow of the original film. Especially for the actress who would play Holly Golightly. Not saying it’s impossible that they would make a more accurate adaptation of the novella, but I do think it would be poorly received by most people.

West Side Story got a remake, in case you don't know.

I disagree but to each their own

I think I really liked her mannerisms and how she carried herself. But the fashion was interesting.

totally not agree. Audrey was magical in it. It had not much to do with the book, but Audrey was adorable as she always was. George Peppard was totally wrong for the leading man. Not enough talent. Not enough charisma. This movie has very little to do with the book. Truman wrote it with Marilyn Monroe in mind. But this movie goes way beyond the costumes.

for me, the emotions and especially the masterfull Music makes it worth for watching. The music is so great!

@@ClashGamerGTA Yes, it was. I once read that some genius wanted to cut Moon River out of the movie. And then Audrey said: When that song is cut, I walk out. It was JFK's favorite song, by the way.

❤❤❤

But it would have to be bankrolled by Apple, Netflix, HBO or similar. THIS is the bane of modern day life in Amerika. (Misspelled on purpose.)

As much as I love Audrey’s version, this may actually work in 2024 🤔 I am intrigued!

I was thinking about this, and I'm not sure if she is one! I need to read about how they're actually defined but my impression was always that they serve to "save" or "enlighten" the boy, which isn't what really happens here since he kind of wrangles her in. I'm curious what other people think tho!

i wouldn't say she was! only bc a female charcater is quirky doesn't mean she automatically is a mpdg. i mean, they only exist to further the male protagonist's character development and never get to be the main character, very surface level. And well in this case, Holly IS the protagonist and she's way more complex to only be a mpdg.

She fits into a form of The MPDG, which has slowly evolved and been reclaimed

Shirley Maclaine in the Apartment 1969, would go on to work with A Hepburn in the Childrens Hour , and then star in Sweet Charity in 1969 is another early MPDG in my opinion. In both the Apartment and Sweet Charity she is sweet and kooky and has man problems that include not really noticing the sweet guy next door. Not that this is a defining trait for the MPDG role. I think that these characters, Holly Go Lightly and Charity Valentine exist for the audience to fantasize about.

The key part of the manic pixie dream girl is the "dream"; they are a tool, an illusion, an angel and never feel like real people. Always the dream, never the dreamer.

that's not a bad choice at all... Foster has. a boyish quality which Truman wrote about in the book for Holly, a description that has been much overlooked. especially when she was quite young. i do remember now him saying that. that is what is so stunning about Holly, she's so hard to find, that people are still struggling to find an actress after several generations .... i cannot think of anyone that really fits, and i am a huge fan of films and mini series alike...and there are few proposals here. i think many actresses would love to play it , in fact they would probably all fight for it if it ever came up, but who ? maybe the idea for a remake will present itself when an actress comes along that inspires it. Harrison Ford actually made a comment like that about Ryan Gosling, when asked why in earth it took thirty years to sequel Bladerunner, "well Ryan wasn't available before " ( was too young before ) Harrison said that's exactly what came to his mind when the producers proposed the sequel to him, Both he and they were thinking the exact same person. maybe that magic will happen when we get the right actress. truthfully the only people that come to my mind are way european , like french actress Jeanne Balaban, and Holly should really be a bit more american

@@kweejibodali3078 Kristen Stewart also had (has?) a boyish quality, and is queer enough that the literary Holly's various encounters could all seem plausible. I know that she divides audiences, unfairly weighed down by the baggage of some of her early roles, but I happen to think she's phenomenal. This isn't to say that she'd be right for the role (can we see her as either streetwise or elegant? Her sensibilities may simply be too modern for a period piece), but even if she might not be the ideal candidate, I can't think of any other contemporary actress quite like her, which makes her... I don't know, the least worst? I'm just spitballing.

If the studio didn't even want to adapt Truman Capote's book in the first place, I never understand why they kept the creepy older husband plot point and the seedier prostitution angle, instead of just making Holly a lonely, aloof girl in an apartment who meets an understanding guy and falls in love for a more straight forward romantic comedy. Peppard is so forceful and possessive that he's too mean to be the romantic lead. They should have cast a gentler, empathetic actor.

@@SleepFan771 fun fact both Steve McQueen and Tony Curtis were nearly Paul but studios got in the way of those.

@@randywhite3947 Damn! I love Tony Curtis, his cheery personality would have been perfect with Audrey Hepburn! Steve McQueen could definitely have pulled off a nice boyfriend type too with his more nuanced style. Why did the studio go with the milquetoast George Peppard?

@@SleepFan771 🤷‍♂️

If you are not in the "mainstream", then you have to die at the end of the movie. Like Miss Saigon (Asian leading lady) and Brokeback Mountain (Gay leading man).

I agree 100%. I don't care much for the movie, but I can't take my eyes off Audrey Hepburn when she is on the screen. She doesn't qualify as the typical "sex symbol" in my mind, but she does have a magnetism that makes her impossible to ignore, no matter who else is on the screen or what is happening.

Hear! Hear! I love this movie and I think Audrey deserved the Oscar for it. Yes even over the brilliant Sophia Loren in

Two Women. Which role is more remembered today?

She was like lightning in a bottle during Twin Peaks.

I love that episode!

Still didn't see the movie but definitely remember watching that episode and that particular scene, ha!

Where does this dialogue come from?

@@catherine.marial I'm going to say Seinfeld because George

That’s very true it’s interesting in the case of my fair lady bc given how excellent Julie andrews in the original Broadway version it could’ve been another case Hollywood movie star trying to recapture Broadway talent but Audrey was not that

Ditto.!!!!

You make an interesting point about the parallels with the Great Gatsby. The crucial difference between Gatsby and Holly is that Gatsby did everything specifically to impress and earn the love of Daisy. Holly does it all for herself, and actively shuns relationships. But still, interesting parallel

It would be hard bcos nowadays ppl associate that movie with audery.

It’s one of my favorite movies. It doesn’t get mentioned a lot today.

@@Pinkladyisv It’s definitely worth a watch.

Among the sadder things I've ever learned is that someone tried to cut it out and failed

I will literally PAY somebody out of my own money to edit a version without the racist scenes

A few years ago I tried re-watching it but had to stop because the Yunioshi portrayal was so repugnant.

I keep forgetting he is in it. When I picture the movie... his scenes are happily missing. It really seemed like they took 2 different movies and just cut them together. Regardless of any racial issues (and there are many), it was just so poorly done.

Mickey Rooney would agree with you. I read on IMDB that he deeply regretted this role.

@@Ohboycommentsection Unfortunately… he clearly didn’t feel that way at the time. He and his roommate seemed to think it was SO funny that they marketed the whole movie on their racist frat boy joke.

right…i wish they would just make a version excluding all his scenes

Don't forget her sensational portrayal of Judy Garland.

Judy Davis amazes me with her depth of talent in her channeling of different characters she portrays. I would love to see an installment that looks at her uniqueness.

That would actually be a good idea to name it something else but films nowadays also rely on media buzz to become successful so once people learn of the adaptation they may become skeptical.

You could easily name it "Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's." I don't think I would watch it though.

Tiffany at Breakfast

​@@AlexanderJWei Truman Capote isn't really a selling point in 2021.

Or simply call it "Holly Golightly" - you know exactly what it's about, but it won't be the same

Remember to put this movie in the timeframe in which it is made. The movie was made 16 years after the end of World War II, and Americans were still pretty pissed off about Pearl Harbor. Therefore very few people in the audience would have considered Andy Rooney’s portrayal as being racist, just comedic. Remember the movie Back to the Future? The 1955 version of Doc Brown says a gadget is “junk” because it was made in Japan, and the 1985 version of Marty tells him that “all the best stuff made in Japan.” The 1955 Doc Brown was being true to the era. I’m not saying racism is good. I am saying to accept movies for the way they are. Don’t expect 21st century standards In a mid 20th century movie.

@@Hayseo I agree with you, but i also think that saying this shit is worse than i thought (because look, this type of caricature is nothing new and hell, was still done in the 90s) is valid, because it's not just about the part in the film, it's about the whole PR strategy, which i previously had no idea happened. I agree that saying 'oh LORD those people in the 50S, what ANIMALS', is counterproductive. However i could still be amazed at the length of racist shenanigans they actually went to back then. And political context doesn't exactly make it better, since such practices existed even before WWII and still existed in the 80s, when back to the future came out, specifially Japanese were framed as an existential threat to America (but now not in a militaristic way, but in a capitalist one)

Stop viewing everything through 2020s cancel culture goggles. Howard Stern performed in full black face and "black English" making fun of Whoopi 20+ years ago. How many of you have called for him to be cancelled?? Howabout the Wayans Bros. dressing like white women and making fun of white culture? Have you seen the shit the Chinese say about other cultures? So miss me with this virtue signal outrage and just appreciate shit for what it was.....FUNNY.

OMG PERFECT

What about Aubrey Plaza in a New version?

Omg soo true.. RIP Ms Murphy

Oh she'd have been FABULOUS 😍

This is actually a really inspired casting idea! Her mix of warmth, sex appeal and childlike vulnerability (not unlike Capote’s ideal Holly, Marilyn) would have worked perfectly. Such an underrated talent.

Mickey Rooney?

@@beejls welp besides that of course

love this idea (producers? where are you?)

They did it on Broadway in 2013 with Emilia Clarke... I don't recall it being well received.

@@Andy-nx8fv why the hell would they have Emilia Clarke play Holly Golightly

Wow, thanks for pointing that out! I was unaware of that aspect of her career. Just watched her in "Rachel Rachel" with Joanne Woodward the other day.

Literally no older film would be watched if we upheld if unwatchable by one terrible scene, actor, director, etc as they ALL have them. This one is just in our face obvious now.

@@shannond7437I doubt that fact eases her devastation. There's a huge difference between bad actor/director/script and blatant racism for the fun of it. I won't watch The Jazz Singer anytime soon. The feelings of non-white people has never been a concern in Hollywood. To this day, Hollywood movies are made to appeal primarily to white audiences at everyone else's expense.

@@shannond7437 You're on of the people she was talking about at 15:58.

@@myathegrandmalol ok but if you knew anything about the actor you would know he did much worse things than this. Sorry but I’m keeping it real, you can point out the obvious, but that does the mean the other 20 that did not get the same attention didn’t happen.

@@shannond7437 I'm confused. You defending him or not? Cause if he did much worst than play this role then he seems like a pretty crappy person.

I always assumed she was a call girl in the movie. I don’t understand how anyone wouldn’t piece that together.

my thoughts exactly!

Its 2023, and as it feels we are on the cusp of another World War, just like the Weimar Republic of Isherwood's novel- a true remake of Goodbye To Berlin would be really appropriate right now. American society in 2023 is Germany's Weimar era.

That's what I thought as well until I remembered Katharine Hepburn's Susan in Bringing Up Baby.

Doesn't sound like it though when his book seems the fantasy of being bff's with Marilyn Monroe....unless this was written before she existed?? Also if you mean talking about working women and/or homosexuality that's been a known thing since ancient Greece so...yeah.

@@ari3lz3pp that is the farthest from the truth

Nah Splendor in the Grass is one of the most critically acclaimed films ever far from underrated.

I saw “Splendor” once and it affected me. I haven’t been able to watch it since, but I’d recommend anyone into films from that era watch it.

I agree with this 1000%

I don't know, I feel like casting S or A would pressent the same problem as casting Audrey, they're too much in control of themselves in a very natural way to play someone who had to "learn" how to do it. Maybe a newcomer?

Saiorse came to my mind, too. That girl can do pretty much any role at anytime.

@@hectorrobertocontrerasmiranda I like your idea

There’s no one as natural and raw as Marilyn nowadays. If she tried really hard, the 2021 Kristen Stewart would be an INTERESTING take. But def not saoirse because she’s almost sexless in the way she acts Altho a FANTASTIC actress. They need an almost Edie Sedgwick modern day version of holy. A grl who is unaware she’s unaware, vulnerable, loveable, lost. No one too self aware or serious, which Jane and Saoirse would be.