Breakfast at Tiffany's

May 2024 · 13 minute read

They're going to remake it, aren't they?

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by Anonymousreply 80May 16, 2018 2:40 AM

Our fucking nightmare culture.

Every other guy is a hooker. Every other girl is high.

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by Anonymousreply 1April 21, 2018 3:44 PM

I hope not! Leave the classics alone!

by Anonymousreply 2April 21, 2018 3:46 PM

Was Breakfast at Tiffany's considered vulgar when it came out? It's a story about a sex worker...

Did only the *extremely* old money elite consider Audrey Hepburn trash?

by Anonymousreply 3April 21, 2018 3:48 PM

Not a bad idea. They could make it true to the Capote's novella this time, by making it a love story between a Southern gay man new to NYC, and a call girl based on Marilyn Monroe.

by Anonymousreply 5April 21, 2018 3:48 PM

They can make Mr. Yunioshi actually Asian and a woman.

by Anonymousreply 6April 21, 2018 3:50 PM

[quote] Not a bad idea. They could make it true to the Capote's novella this time, by making it a love story between a Southern gay man new to NYC, and a call girl based on Marilyn Monroe.

Or just make it true to the reality of Truman Capote's sexuality and make it a love story between a Southern gay man new to NYC and a male escort?

by Anonymousreply 8April 21, 2018 3:52 PM

This will replace Moon River.

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by Anonymousreply 9April 21, 2018 3:54 PM

Set it in Atlanta. Make George Peppard a pot dealer.

by Anonymousreply 10April 21, 2018 3:55 PM

The breakfast will be a McDonald's Sausage Egg and Cheese McMuffin and there'll be a tie-in with Cat toys.

by Anonymousreply 12April 21, 2018 3:56 PM

[quote]Not a bad idea. They could make it true to the Capote's novella this time, by making it a love story between a Southern gay man new to NYC, and a call girl based on Marilyn Monroe.

Holly Golightly was not "based on" Marilyn Monroe. The character was based on someone Capote knew in New York. But Capote thought that Marilyn should play her in the movie. The character he envisioned was a lot closer to Monroe than to Hepburn.

by Anonymousreply 13April 21, 2018 3:57 PM

They chose Hepburn because she wasn't going to hold up shooting anywhere near as much.

by Anonymousreply 15April 21, 2018 4:10 PM

The narrator in the novella was gay in my mind, modeled after Nick Carraway. The movie was a little risque for its time, but the male escort had to be a kept straight man instead of a gay whore.

by Anonymousreply 16April 21, 2018 4:10 PM

Yes. They need to. Audrey Hepburn is so wrong for that part. And obviously get a real asian this time. I can't believe they even did that. What is wrong with white people?

by Anonymousreply 17April 21, 2018 4:16 PM

I was a laugh riot in this movie!

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by Anonymousreply 18April 21, 2018 4:16 PM

Will it be hip hop or the original version?

by Anonymousreply 19April 21, 2018 4:17 PM

The neighbor should’t be Asian. ALF should play him.

by Anonymousreply 20April 21, 2018 4:18 PM

I believe Holly was based on model, Dorian Leigh, Suzy Parker's sister

by Anonymousreply 21April 21, 2018 4:19 PM

I like Audrey in the movie. She made Holly memorable because there was nothing erotic in the least about Audrey Hepburn. She was damaged but not a victim, vulnerable but not really annoying, and she was a hooker but demure in her sexual presentation. Very interesting IMO.

by Anonymousreply 23April 21, 2018 4:23 PM

Jennifer Love Hewitt vaguely resembles Hepburn but is annoying as fuck.

by Anonymousreply 24April 21, 2018 4:24 PM

No. Hepburn is way too upper class and well spoken. No way was she a former hick with tons of kids trying to hide her past now as an nyc "party girl" Not believable for one second. She's also like 40 years old in that movie. Looks it anyway. I LOATHE Jennifer hewitt.

by Anonymousreply 26April 21, 2018 4:27 PM

[quote][quote]And obviously get a real asian this time. I can't believe they even did that. What is wrong with white people?

All the Asian actors working in Hollywood must have been in [italic]Flower Drum Song[/italic].

by Anonymousreply 27April 21, 2018 4:27 PM

Holy is trans in the new version.

by Anonymousreply 28April 21, 2018 4:28 PM

^^^ah yes. That MUST have been it. 😂😃👎

by Anonymousreply 29April 21, 2018 4:28 PM

R28 must have seen [italic]That's the Way I Like It[/italic], the movie Harvey Weinstein released intact while gutting the gay-themed [italic]54[/italic].

by Anonymousreply 31April 21, 2018 4:31 PM

Worth redoing. Hated Hepburn - knowing that it was supposed to be Marilyn. Both she and George Peppard were way too uptight to play sexually free hustlers. Ruined a good book.

by Anonymousreply 32April 21, 2018 4:39 PM

[quote]She's also like 40 years old in that movie. Looks it anyway.

Are you 12 years old? Hepburn was 31 at the time.

by Anonymousreply 33April 21, 2018 4:45 PM

Beyonce. Directed by Jay Z. Remake it like The Glass Menagerie.

by Anonymousreply 34April 21, 2018 4:46 PM

I mean, The Grest Gatsby.

by Anonymousreply 35April 21, 2018 4:47 PM

R33 well she looks and acts older to me. Definitely not a young party girl vibe. REMAKE IT. miley virus? Haha.

by Anonymousreply 36April 21, 2018 4:48 PM

Beyoncé is older now than Audrey was then and was the least interesting cast member of [italic]Dreamgirls[/italic].

by Anonymousreply 37April 21, 2018 4:50 PM

^^Not a 2018 version of a party girl, no. The movie was made in 1961, in case you hadn't noticed.

by Anonymousreply 38April 21, 2018 4:50 PM

I love the movie and the doll

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by Anonymousreply 39April 21, 2018 4:52 PM

It's going to be a trans chick with a big booty. It'll go with the trend. Hip hop all the way. Keep watching Drag Race and it'll be a reality.

by Anonymousreply 40April 21, 2018 4:55 PM

R38 let it go eldergay. Times have changed. Remake it. When i first watched, i thought holly was a rich socialite and then when the back story came in i laughed. Not believable. Hepburn is so wrong. I know she holds a special place in y'alls little worshipping nostalgic gay hearts but the answer is clearly no.

by Anonymousreply 41April 21, 2018 4:57 PM

I ask myself that all the time r17

by Anonymousreply 42April 21, 2018 5:01 PM

Maybe the book was the problem in the first place.

by Anonymousreply 43April 21, 2018 5:02 PM

r26

That's cause Henry Higgins taught her how to walk and to talk and to dress like a regular laydee.

by Anonymousreply 44April 21, 2018 5:05 PM

Why "Tiffany's" instead of "Tiffany"?

by Anonymousreply 45April 21, 2018 5:23 PM

Probably the only current stars who understands what Audrey was singing about.

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by Anonymousreply 46April 21, 2018 5:26 PM

I liked both the movie and the book.

by Anonymousreply 47April 21, 2018 5:32 PM

Some of you may disagree, but this is the (re-thought) role DL fave J Law was born to play.

Could we get Bradley Cooper for the Peppard role?

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by Anonymousreply 48April 21, 2018 5:38 PM

R45, it's colloquial. Like Nordstrom's.

by Anonymousreply 50April 21, 2018 5:44 PM

The whole payoff of the movie is that it’s disjointed and counterintuitive. Holly Golightly is a special kind of mentally ill. She is a hillbilly hooker who dresses like a socialite and has a fake accent, and people are so wrapped up in their own wants that no one cares or even seems to notice.

by Anonymousreply 51April 21, 2018 8:43 PM

I like this movie, Rooney notwithstanding, because of how little sense it makes—like Bringing Up Baby. In that movie, refined Katharine Hepburn inexplicably becomes a lovesick stalker of Cary Grant after she hits his car, and then antics ensue as she uses her pet cheetah and his dinosaur bone to keep him from marrying his fiancee. It makes no fucking sense, and that’s why it’s so memorable and great. It’s like improv...you just go with it. What do you guys want Breakfast at Tiffany’s to be? A sincere melodrama about a hooker with a heart of gold? Gag.

by Anonymousreply 52April 21, 2018 8:48 PM

I'm ready for my comebac....er...return!

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by Anonymousreply 53April 21, 2018 8:52 PM

In the Patricia Neal role, John Barrowman.

by Anonymousreply 54April 21, 2018 9:21 PM

Normally I loathe remakes, but in this case the idea might have merit. The original was such sanitized treacly twaddle. As much as I dislike Marilyn Monroe, the Holly role should have gone to her, as Capote wanted.

by Anonymousreply 55April 21, 2018 9:50 PM

I would love to see Amy Sedaris as Jeri Blank as Holly Golightly, I think there's a lot of unmined truth to be found there.

by Anonymousreply 56April 22, 2018 2:45 AM

Marilyn didn't do the film because she did [italic]The Misfits[/italic] instead. Audrey Hepburn did a film for John Huston a year before that, another western called [italic]The Unforgiven[/italic] where she was the daughter of an Indian.

by Anonymousreply 57April 22, 2018 2:50 AM

Lesley Jones as Holly. Rami Malek as Paul.

by Anonymousreply 58April 22, 2018 2:52 AM

Lesley Jones as Holly Goheavily.

by Anonymousreply 59April 22, 2018 6:24 PM

Both Holly and the kept boyfriend need to played by actors in their early 20s. 30 something people are over the hill as partying prostitutes, especially in 1961 where the Big 30 means old. That and Hepburn plummeted to like 90 pounds during filming. This at 5 ft 8 make her look gaunt and at least 40 like r26 / r36 has correctly pointed out.

by Anonymousreply 60May 15, 2018 7:35 PM

Nah, don’t mess with it. It still holds up great aside from the Yunioshi scenes and there’s no topping Audrey’s “Moon River.”

by Anonymousreply 61May 15, 2018 7:43 PM

This is one movie I wouldn't mind remaking. Hepburn was miscast and George Peppard wooden. The ending was trite. Yunioshi was ridiculous, even by 1960s standards. The only thing good about it was the party scene, which I'm assuming inspired Blake Edwards to do The Party years later.

by Anonymousreply 62May 15, 2018 7:52 PM

Jim Parsons as Holly, Jon Hamm in the Peppard role, Christine Baranski in the Neal role, Margaret Cho in the Rooney role.

However, the movie changed a lot of the book. It's originally set in the 1940s. And Holly is not a prostitute, Capote called her an American geisha.

by Anonymousreply 63May 15, 2018 8:11 PM

Geisha a is kind of courtesan which is still a prostitute, just a pricy one who gets to choose her client. They still have to be young to be in demand. By 1961 Hepburn was showing her age and looked more brothel madam than meat. Had Hepburn done it in her Gigi heyday, where she did play a young courtesan, it would have been perfect. As it was BaT has to rely on Givenchy and the music to make an unbelievable movie entertain as an effective fashion/lifestyle ad.

by Anonymousreply 64May 15, 2018 8:28 PM

[quote]Geisha a is kind of courtesan which is still a prostitute, just a pricy one who gets to choose her client.

The word prostitute signifies that the woman is just going to have sex. A geisha has a whole "entertain" function and she doesn't necessarily have sex with her clients.

by Anonymousreply 65May 15, 2018 8:31 PM

A geisha doesn't necessarily have sex with all her clients. She still has to put out for the more powerful among them: they're the ones who're gonna back her against harassment from the less savory clients as well as rivaling geishas.

And American Geisha like Holly definitely have to put out. People don't fund her apartment living just to have platonic parties with her. She needs to be young enough to still be seen as desirable in the early 60s.

by Anonymousreply 66May 15, 2018 8:45 PM

But who would play Buddy Ebsen?

by Anonymousreply 67May 15, 2018 8:51 PM

[quote]All the Asian actors working in Hollywood must have been in Flower Drum Song.

Yes, that's why I was unavailable.

by Anonymousreply 68May 15, 2018 8:52 PM

Slightly off topic, but since we're talking about Audrey -- there was this nugget in the current New Yorker profile of Ryan Murphy:

[quote]As an escape plan, in 1995, he wrote a romantic comedy, “Why Can’t I Be Audrey Hepburn?” He sold the screenplay to Steven Spielberg. Many major actresses read for the lead.

The movie never got made, but I'd be curious to know more about it.

by Anonymousreply 69May 15, 2018 8:57 PM

A real Asian hamming it up as Holly's ugly accent heavy neighbor will be just as offensive.

by Anonymousreply 70May 15, 2018 10:26 PM

Holly Golightly was a prostitute!?!?!?!?!?

WHAT???????!!!!!!! When?!?!?!????

Why???!!?!?!?!

George Pappard was a gigolo?!?!????? WHAT??? Hehe, I actually did see he was a kept man, but only with that one lady.

I NEVER caught on to that fact about Holly, and I’ve seen the movie multiple times!!

☺️☺️☺️☺️

by Anonymousreply 71May 15, 2018 11:42 PM

AH was even more bejeweled and glammed up than Patrica Neal, who looks understated in comparison. It looks like AH's ALREADY decked in Tiffany's pearls and such. So it's hard to realize how her character was supposedly a hum drum prostitute making ends meet by hooking up with johns at parties. She skipped on the whore act so I guess its no surprise how she did not get an Oscar for this movie.

by Anonymousreply 72May 16, 2018 1:39 AM

R71 What the heck did you think Audrey was doing and talking about throughout the movie?

by Anonymousreply 73May 16, 2018 1:43 AM

r73 Wasn't she making a career being witty at parties?

by Anonymousreply 74May 16, 2018 2:01 AM

I'm curious New Yorkers (as well as those in L.A., San Francisco, Boston, etc.), is this "lifestyle" still common? I wouldn't call Holly a straight-up prostitute, but of course, there is a fine line. I've know women (and a few men) who eat and drink everything on other men dime's, but they still worked (so could pay for the bare necessities). Are kept women still common? Especially in a place like NY, I just can't imagine making ends meet on powder room "tips" (or whatever the equivalent is today). Either you go all in and ask for cash up front, or you just get free food/drinks on "dates". I just don't see Holly surviving today. How many $50 bills does it take to pay $2500 (minimum) monthly rent?

by Anonymousreply 75May 16, 2018 2:07 AM

I don't see Holly surviving in 1961 either just partying. NY was expensive even then. She had to have a steady cliente of upper class men and sleeping with them all. That and she couldn't have been a day over 25. Or she'd be a has been at hook up parties.

by Anonymousreply 76May 16, 2018 2:15 AM

R75 See Tinsley Mortimer, Real Housewives of New York.

by Anonymousreply 77May 16, 2018 2:19 AM

Holly Golightly, Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian...all cut from the same cloth. Known for being pretty, will take an ass pounding for a few thou.

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by Anonymousreply 78May 16, 2018 2:24 AM

R64 Gigi? Leslie Caron portrayed Gigi not Hepburn.

by Anonymousreply 79May 16, 2018 2:32 AM

Hepburn played the stage version in the early 50s.

by Anonymousreply 80May 16, 2018 2:40 AM

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