Everyone raves about this movie, and after watching it, I can't understand why. I also don't understand why people like Woody Allen movies either, so that may have something to do with it. Andy Rooney doesn't make it any better. Hepburn does a great job, as does Peppard.
Many of us have known or have even been in love with someone like Golightly, and Paul's frustration throughout is very well-done. A movie with a more complex female lead was a great advancement in 1961, so I applaud them for that, but I don't think this movie stands up today like it did in 1961.
There is a little bit of comedy that's not racist (like the lady's hat catching fire from the cigarette holder), but it's nothing at which I would laugh out loud.
The whole situation with Tomato is pointless - they get arrested for one scene and are immediately released - it just seems like they did that to force her hand and end the movie. Moon River isn't that great of a song (Somewhere Over the Rainbow is WAY better), some of the overacting is annoying, Yunioshi is extremely off-putting, the plot is rather boring (boy meets girl, she's weird and misguided, she won't love him, he finally changes her and loves him all of a sudden), the ending is rather unbelievable (people like Golightly rarely change in an instant), and the part about her being a child bride is creepy and also rather outdated (except maybe in Utah?). The movie would actually have been a lot better if she had told the cabbie to go to the airport, remaining stubborn, and would have left a much stronger impression in 1961. But, in the end, she's just another female who needs a motivational speech and jewelry to be broken, and that just ruins it for me.
This is a movie that I would recommend everyone watch once as a curiosity, but I don't think it deserves a lot of the praise it gets these days. Sure, it's iconic for its impact on culture, fashion, women, etc. but that doesn't mean it's objectively high quality. I like many older movies better than this and many new ones better, and I've cared a lot more about the characters in other movies as well, which was really missing here. I can appreciate it as an artifact of 1961, but I won't be watching it again.
Breakfast at Tiffany's was great. Equal parts charming and poignant, it was heaps of fun and Audrey Hepburn was a delight to watch. The rest of the cast was mostly great too, with the notable exception of a ridiculously racist Japanese caricature that nobody should have ever approved. That's one really patient taxi driver at the end.
I watched it for the first time
Things I dislike about the movie:
-full grown man marrying a 14 year old girl
- kicking the cat out of the car!
-The ongoing racist characature 'joke'
- some plot aspect were pointless (tomato)
Things I did like about the movie:
- Audrey Hepburn
- Her adorned tassel earplugs
- the scene at Tiffany's engravement and in the toy Store when they were putting on the masks was cute
-Love over money
probably held up better in the 60s than today but i suppose worth a watch at least once
I don't care if they did fall in love... I will never forgive her for throwing the cat out in the rain
This is such a charming film and story, with a great love story and one of the most iconic protagonists of all time. It's just really sweet, and it made me so happy when watching it. That said, I'm so torn between giving it a 9 or an 8 because I'm soooo in love with the movie up until the moment where they sleep together, but everything that happens after that felt weird and Paul's whole "you belong to me" thing was incredibly off-putting, but I guess you have to try and contextualise these movies within the time they were made. I can't help but feel like he had a weird personality change tho, from caring and understanding, to possessive and unkind. It reminds me of that typical male character trope where they're only nice to women so they can get them naked, and if they don't put out, they turn gross and angry. But, I guess, if you try to look at it from the perspective of Holly being scared of love, because she has never truly experienced it before, and if you interpret "you belong to me" more as "you belong with me" or "we belong together", which I genuinely think was the intention in the film, then the weird attitude and slightly unnerving ending can be forgiven. I'll just have to see how I feel about it after a while.
I cannot believe how much of the book they cut out or changed an insane much. After the book, the film sounds overomanticized and happier. Aesthetically, it looks beautiful, but knowing the original book story, it's hard to love it.
A tiny bit underwhelming and tedious at points, but Audrey Hepburn was delightful to watch.
Audrey Hepburn is delightful. I need to see more of her work. The movie is charming for a romance. Not so much a comedy.
it's amazing!!! i like it so much, now it's one of my favourite film!
I genuinely love this movie.
"I don't wanna put you in a cage, I wanna love you" :D
I just came across this on, um the This channel (4 free!). As I try to disregard the "lack of a gay thing" & the obviously unfortunate Asian stereotype played by the L8 Mickey Rooney, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is beautifully directed, & Audrey & that actor from "The A*Team" got good chemistry. & I conclude by saying he name again. This motion picture is for sure, an Audrey Hepburn classic.
Audrey Hepburn's performance is great, I loved it.
A really bad movie. The actors were great but the script was really really bad! Not recommended even if you have 2 hours to spare.
I just saw the movie to find out what the fuss was about!
Although i love most of the classic movies from this era. This one was a real let down.
Loved this the first time when I didn't have expectations, rewatching it with a lot of expectations made me feel a bit underwhelmed.
I still love Moon River and I do think this is a beautiful movie overall but I can't say I was very captivated.
Perhaps on another rewatch I'll be surprised again.
The Rooney character is completely misplaced and ads nothing but annoyance, would've been a 8 without it since I a bit surprisingly liked this very much.
The best thing in all of the movie, at my pov is the fact that Holly can mantain her personality sweet and feminine even dealing with rats and super rats everyday, she's my hero :heart:
From a young age, I have been told by those of previous generations that older movies were nicer; that is, they didn't have the content concerns that ninety-five percent of the primetime shows or theatrically released films of the past two decades have had. According to those people, that's why they don't have MPAA ratings; back then, no such system was needed. Weil, I'm not as well-versed in the cinema of yesteryear as some people, but, I was disturbed by this film's content. Between the sexual content--including sexual relations between unmarried people and a scene implying nudity--the smoking and drinking, and even the profanity--yes, I know there were only three such words, but, I wasn't expecting any!--this is proof that cinema has a history of being morally offensive, even in the days before the ratings system.
I know many of you are likely thinking, "If you think this is bad..." and will point me to something in your collection that makes Breakfast at Tiffany's look like an episode of Sesame Street. Yes, I know that there's much worse entertainment out there, and that there has been for a long time...but, as a Christian, I'm commanded to "avoid every hint of evil," and I wasn't raised around such content like most millennials--even many who grew up in Christian homes--were. So, if even this was a shock to my system, I think it's obvious that I should avoid edgier fare like the plague...and that's just what I'll continue to do.
Probably should've watched this before reading the book. Now I was slightly disappointed.
Watched an HD version, which was amazing. Maybe I would've enjoyed this more if I hadn't read the book first. Good thing the ending was different from the book's.
Very good movie, sweet and sometimes funny. Audrey was a true star and fantastic on its role as Holly.
Oops. I reviewed this already. But still, I like this film regardless of how I described it twice.
This Audrey Hepburn classic, what w/ her iconic little black dress & natural on-screen charm reminiscent of mid-20th Century color cinema, deserves a 9 - notably for 1. Mickey Rooney's now-inappropriate yellowface role that irked Bruce Lee & his sweetheart and 2., the happy ending that undoes many tropes in the Truman Capote book - but besides those coupl'a flaws "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is arguably a cinematic romantic classic. It also evokes numerous pop culture references, from "The Simpsons" to "Seinfeld" to the 1995 classic eponymous song by Deep Blue Something. I'm watching it on #thisTV in the themed "From the ♡ Monday," but I also got the DVD. So like me, enjoy this nearly perfect yet remarkably romantic film starring Audrey & that actor from "The A-Team."
This film honestly changed my life, I can honestly understand the whole Audrey Hepburn phenomenon and how I want to be exactly like Holly Golightly.
One of my favourite classics, but I wish they named the cat! :(
a great classic movie ❤ loved it ❤
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I only started watching Audrey's work yesterday, but the whole chain of movies and how different her characters are just show what a charming actor she is. Watching her change her expressions from prideful to one of sadness and realisation in one of the last scenes was great to watch. I thought that these older movies would have more cliche'd scenes in it but I liked how she only realised she liked him at the VERY end, and she was SO close to going to South America and being someone else. Obviously I hated the Mr Yunioshi stereotype, but what are you gonna do? It was the past, and they don't do it anymore.