Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote | Book & Movie Review
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- Опубліковано 18 січ 2020
- I've finally put together and filmed my thoughts on Breakfast at Tiffany's, the novella by Truman Capote. I then watched the movie so that I could share my feelings on both with you all. Let me know what you thought of either one!
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Nice. Pls do a quasi-review of ,The secret history’ and WHY Donna Tartt is allowed to remain so hush hush about her next book and Why.
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I loved the movie and enjoyed the book. Truman has unique pose which makes the book enjoyable.
Holly is indeed SO interesting! I think I called her just a hot mess of a human being, going around, being a hot mess. LoL. Train wreck is exactly right. But she's a fun freaking time!
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To add some more connections and depth to this story, look into Capote's childhood and friendship with Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Some very interesting sharing in a pile of articles and memoirs by folks who knew Capote and the social scene of the time.
Great review! I was one of the lucky ones who read the novella before watching the movie :D
I feel like we're a rare breed when it comes to this story
good review mate! I've just re-read the novella which holds a special place in my heart as well as the film. Cheers!
Never read the novella.. Thus is a 2020 must. I love the movie and most of my life was in love with this story. Can't wait to get my hands in the novella. Thank for the review!
Just know they're quite different when you actually read it! I hope you like it too!
Nice review! I just wish I had enjoyed the book as much as you, but I really didn’t, especially with all the prejudice (with Brazilians also). But I really like the movie, it’s quite a different vibe. Trying to convince myself to record a review for my channel at some point.
Thank you! I definitely think you should do a video so there are more videos that point out issues with the story and with the way it was written from different perspectives.
I read In Cold Blood last semester for college and I thought it was brilliant so I should definitely read more of his work. Maybe I'll pick up Breakfast at Tiffany's next!
Breakfast at Tiffany's is definitely his other most well-known work! They're quite different in terms of subject matter, but I hope you like it!
I think BaT is a much easier read (shorter and lighter) compared to ICB, so it's definitely not a huge investment and definitely worth it.
You cant really go wrong reading Capote.
@@bill90405you really can’t. I’ve been whiting his books since I was in high school; starting with Other Voices Other Rooms, which resonated with me (being unlike other boys growing up in a small town).
I read a book written by Walter Matthau's wife (Carol Grace) called Among The Porcupines. It'a an autobiography of sorts.
She had a wide social circle which included Truman Capote, Oona O'Neil, and Gloria Vanderbilt. Carol, Oona, and Gloria were debutantes and Truman Capote wrote about them..
The character of Holly is most assuredly a composite of those three. Mostly just Oona O'Neil and Gloria Vanderbilt. That's why ll the talk about fashion and being paid to show up somewhere.
Oona's travels took her to Hollywood where she met and married Charlie Chaplin. Carol was married to the author William Saroyan, then Walter Matthau. Oona remained friends with Carol and Walter after she married Chaplin.
That's why when the Academy Awards gave a lifetime achievement award to Chaplin Walter presented it, to him. It was supposed to be Woody Allen but he couldn't so it.
I'm a big Chaplin fan so I read a lot of books about him, or anything to do with him.
Hey Connor! Wonderful review and a nice, balanced approach to both mediums. Same here, I watched the movie first, then read the book. Both are great in my opinion. Love the movie just a bit more. :) The one thing that I keep coming back to is that even though there are differences in book vs movie, especially towards the end -- the movie is mostly viewed as a "romantic comedy" in most mainstream media and on social media. I saw the movie first and was thinking..."This movie is kind of dark...o.o So you're saying...*this* is what a romantic comedy meant in the sixties...? Wow!!" :O xD
True, the movie is more similar to a romantic comedy... Up to a point. After that, it's a hilariously sad psychological drama about the mess of life and love and baggage. I'm thinking that many people have not actually seen the movie, only heard and read about it via social media and in magazines. And maybe this is due to how the movie was marketed? And many don't even know of the great book it is based on.
Keep up the good reviews! :)
the writer is paul. fred is holly's brother. the book and movie are different. the book is more interesting. but the movie is entertaining.
I had to use copote work for my Americana story for literature. Next up is the Brent Weeks assassin series night angel series. Week after that I am tackling the 63 fairy tail mangas for the popularity portion of my literature
Which ones did you have to read for that? I'm curious how you felt about each one. I haven't read anything by Brent Weeks yet, but I have a couple of his that I want to borrow from the library at some point. I hope you enjoy Fairy Tail! Cana is my favorite lol
Connor O'Brien sorry my reply is so late business school is mad and I was prepping for finals. I did a personal memoir of David Attie as we had to do a travel and autobiography. That book was mind-blowing seeing how Brooklyn was in 1959, we had to use the book to write a story slash non-fiction about the photographer and piece together the story of David Attie. We did breakfast at Tiffany’s I enjoyed this, but saying that I was 16 and just learning about “sexual work” and it actually kinda shocked me women and men (not sexist) can do this kind of work for cash. My last project was discussing how you took and what you thought of his work. To be honest, I loved his works, the ones I studied, I always took his work with a grain of realism, unlike most writers of his time he created art and I really enjoyed the works of his I read.
Watched the movie and both actors are great, but I honestly don't like either Paul or Holly. However it is a really well made movie so might give the book a read some day just cause I'm curious.
Is this the time when I will give Truman Capote another chance.... we'll see. :D
Haha 🤣
Mickey Rooney's portrayal of an Asian man is gross in the movie. I'm glad that it was addressed in the DVD extra.
Same, I don't watch a whole lot of older movies, so it really was appalling. I was really glad they went back and addressed it in the edition I have.
Makes sense why Truman Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Holly in the movie damn it could’ve been a huge career change for her since she wouldn’t play a dumb blonde even though I loved Audrey in it.
I didn't really like the movie, but I might give a chance to the novella if it's not that cheesy. In the movie I felt like they want us to love Holly, but she was just annoying for me, even though I felt sorry for her for some extent. According to this review I might vibe more with the book.
Thanks for your analysis of this book and film. However, I never have and still dont understand the fascination with this story. Hepburn in the movie is merely an on screen fashion model with a self-centered eccentric personality that is not the type of person I wish to be around. What was Capote's goal in writing this no vel ?
Why is the book called a novela?
Novellas are just short novels. Breakfast at Tiffany’s is only 87ish pages long
Interesting to hear how you enjoy the movie compared to the book- I certainly enjoy the movie, but after reading the book I think Audrey was not the right pick for Holly solely for the reason that she is TOO OLD. Holly is 19 at the top of the novel, and it’s that naivety and immaturity that (partly) makes the characters (and the reader) want to take care of Holly… and although I think Audrey did a great performance of that immaturity, I think she is, alas, too old for us to have the same response. Nobody feels like they have to take care of a grown woman. And the ending of the movie….. nahhhh, just another hash up of the straight white movie ending norm. So not the story. But maybe I’ll save my opinion for my own video lol
Thanks!
Se ela fosse tão má pessoa assim o "Fred" não teria escrito sobre ela com tanta saudade. Ele não teria tantas coisas para contar para ela. A Holly era uma pessoa precisando de amor, pois ela sofreu muito, a vida toda... todos julgam ela, mas ninguém se interessa por sua alma. 🎯🎯🎯🎯
I think people write a lot about bad people. True crime would never have been a popular genre unless people found bad people interesting and compelling to write about and want to understand more. Not that Holly is on that level of bad, but morally grey people and bad people are very interesting.
I think Holly is intriguing to any guy (or perhaps woman too) who's known an attractive and popular women who lacks a father figure or similar and totally allows herself to spiral downwards, enjoying the attention she gets from guys but losing her innocence and good heart in the process. As a guy who worked in the media, I saw plenty of women like this and of course there's always that one that you wish you could have saved from self-destruction but she was too busy getting another 'bit of rough' instead. Many books aimed at female readers have a flawed male character that the female lead helps turn around and that appeals to the nurturing nature of the female reader and in some ways I think Holly appeals to the male reader in that way; you want to help her, to save her but you know she's bought a one-way ticket (literally) to a dumpster-fire life and you just have to stand there and watch and learn to forgive yourself for not doing more. Is it clear that this comment has turned into a confession on my part? That Fred still thinks about Holly years later in such obsessive detail is relatable. NYC should also be credited as a 'character' in this story; she lures young people in with the promise of fame, fortune, socializing and fun and later spits them out, most often in a word state than when they arrived, having spent years pining away in a hovel appartment.
At this point, I think this story sting anyone with the savior complex. I've read the book ages ago, and left me with such a profound feeling of sadness. Now watching the movie, I came back to refresh my memories, and it reminded about those feelings again, your comments kinda intensified it (in a good way). Good note on NYC being a character!
I understand that agencies need to be taken when translating a book into movie format. The two are extremely different mediums and communicate in a different way to a different audience.
However.
I do think that the choice of ending for the movie version was so drastically different as to alter both the tone and the underlying point of the entire story. The happy ending didn't really feel like it added any substance, it just Hollywood-ized the story during an era where happy endings were expected (see also: book vs. film Grapes of Wrath).
The retconing of Fred's sexuality was also...a choice. That most people don't really talk about. I know that Fred's homosexuality in the novella was never explicitly stated, but it was heavily, heavily implied (and also confirmed by Capote himself).
Spoilers below
Really enjoyed your review though i have to disagree on a few points - you call Holly a ‘bad person’ on a few occasions, and maybe thats just your shorthand because she is certainly no angel but it seems a bit too damning for me, we know she has had a really difficult childhood/ adolescence where she was a child bride and presumably underwent statutory rape, so i think you can see why she is who she is, her ‘crimes’ basically involve taking advantage of older, wealthy men who should know better, and petty theft so i think calling her a bad person is harsh. Annoying maybe, but not bad.
The ending to the movie is certainly more commercial and palatable to the audience of the time but i don’t really like it at all. The ‘fred’ character basically tells her she is loving an immoral life as a libertine and she basically ends up agreeing and presumably decides that as he loves her she does in fact ‘belong to him’ as he says and she presumably settles down to be his wife. Patriarchy running wild right there 😂 whereas in the book she runs off to brazil and africa, travelling the world in glamour and leaving a trail of obsessed men in her wake. I love that ending! Interested to hear what others think of the two points above :)
@Patrick Smith I whole heartedly agree with your points on Holly's childhood affecting her character; and the movie's ending. The movie and the novella seem completely different IMO. I really liked Capote's version. The movie seemed so watered down and unlike the Novella. The racist stereotype in the film was insulting and was NOT amusing ; it was very offensive and NOT FUNNY.
@@marymargaretlindstrom4381 i think we are all agreed on the Rooney character
I love the movie but hated the book
I totally understand that for sure. They're very different, especially the direction the story takes later on