Breakfast at Tiffany's 50 years old

mikeos

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Jan 15, 2011, 2:15:46 PM1/15/11

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I wonder what it would have been like with Marilyn Monroe and Steve
McQueen, as, apparently Truman Capote and the director originally
wanted. Maybe a bit more like the novel. After all, Holly Golightly was
closer to a hooker than the character Hepburn portrayed.

Movie Buff

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Jan 15, 2011, 3:36:58 PM1/15/11

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Having read the book, it seemed to me that Holly was a call girl.
This was whitewashed in the film version, where she seems practically virginal.

tomcervo

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Jan 15, 2011, 7:54:24 PM1/15/11

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On Jan 15, 3:36 pm, "Movie Buff" <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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Anybody else see it recently?
It takes a real effort to believe that any man would want to dump Pat
Neal for Hepburn. Maybe he was supposed to be gay in the movie
too. . . .

Opry phantom

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Jan 16, 2011, 12:01:22 AM1/16/11

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On Jan 15, 12:36 pm, "Movie Buff" <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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Leave us not forget, Truman wanted Jodie F. in a remake. More
sex angle...
According to Truman, "Holly" was streetwise, *not chic!

Stone me

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Jan 16, 2011, 5:13:35 AM1/16/11

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On the other hand, did the film make a dollar?
If it were such a failure, wouldn't a remake around the lines it has been
suggested (Holly = call-girl) etc., be called for?

There are many curious choices for acting leads, and using women whose
looks are slight, even boyish, is not unusual, especially for a chick-flic.
I don't feel the movie has an overt gay theme.

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Stone me

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nick

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Jan 16, 2011, 9:11:04 AM1/16/11

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He wanted Marilyn Monroe in the original, didn't he?

I'm surprised it hasn't been remade.

tomcervo

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Jan 16, 2011, 11:00:27 AM1/16/11

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It's "iconic". That means people who nothing about it besides the
poster or a still of the opening scene think it's a masterpiece. Kind
of like "True Grit".
In "Fortune and Glory" Brian Michael Bendis describes his time in
Hollywood pitching an adaptation of his graphic novel "Torso", about
the Cleveland Kingsbury Run murders of the 30's-- Eliot Ness headed
the first serial killer investigation. After his pitch, one exec said
that it was a good idea, but Eliot Ness belonged to (whoever made The
Untouchables). Bendis said, no, he's a real person, a historical
figure. The exec said no, he belongs to . . . .
And Holly Golightly belongs to Audrey Hepburn. It would take a lots of
guts to play her in a new adaptation, and Amy Ryan is booked up.

David O.

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Jan 16, 2011, 11:21:34 AM1/16/11

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On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 06:11:04 -0800 (PST), nick
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>He wanted Marilyn Monroe in the original, didn't he?

According to Felix Barker, the authorized biographer of the Oliviers
version 2, Vivien Leigh was asked to do the part, but refused on
pragmatic, logistical grounds.