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1. What is the meaning of the recurring "cat" in the movie?
Cats can be seen as the epitome of Hao Li.
2. Compared with movies and novels, what important changes have the movie made to the plot?
Unlike the movie's Happy Ending, they separate in the novel's ending. The novel ends with Hao Li holding a plane ticket to South America left by a man who had decided to marry her but changed his mind at the last minute. The wealthy businessman wrote a letter saying that although he loved Hao Li, he couldn't be with her out of helplessness. Hao Li did not give up and flew to South America after bail.
3. Why is the movie called "Breakfast at Tiffany's"?
The title refers to Tiffany's flagship store in New York. In 1958, Truman Capote published the novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's". In the book, the heroine says it's "the best place in the world, where nothing bad happens."
The best-selling novel "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was popular and artistic at the time, and it was made into a movie without changing its name.
The film, for Tiffany, is an all-around excellent film placement. The classic scene in front of Tiffany's window at Hepburn's station in the movie is still used by Tiffany as its own classic advertisement, which is played on a loop all over the world.
4. The heroine of the movie was originally owned by Marilyn Monroe?
well known. The role of the heroine Holly Golightly. It was supposed to be played by Marilyn Monroe.
The original author Capote and Monroe are good friends. (Capote's sexual orientation is known worldwide.) In his mind, Monroe's image is most similar to Haoli. So Capote specified that he wanted Monroe to play Hao Li, and at the same time appointed screenwriter Axelrod to tailor this role for her.
However, Paramount Pictures ultimately chose Audrey Hepburn. After learning the news, Capote was not happy: "Paramount chose Hepburn, they completely deceived me."
A few months before the film started, Monroe said she was very disappointed to learn that she would not be able to co-star in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with handsome blond George Peppard. "That man originally belonged to me, but in the end it fell into the hands of Audrey Hepburn." But at that time, Monroe was already entangled by the Kennedy brothers' scandal and got into a lot of trouble. In 1961, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was a huge success. Sadly, Monroe passed away in 1962.
5. How did the casting of the heroine determine Hepburn?
Producer Martin Jurow felt that Monroe was unsuitable for the role. When he was thinking about casting, he received a call from Monroe's team: Monroe's agent said that he did not want Marilyn Monroe to play a courtesan role.
Zhu Luo finally cast his eyes on Hepburn, but Hepburn was also reluctant to play the role. Zhu Luo and the others spent a lot of time convincing Hepburn, who was pregnant at the time, that the role would broaden her acting career. Hepburn eventually agreed, but she demanded that the heavily explicit footage be replaced by cryptic insinuations.
Capote wasn't satisfied: "She was supposed to end up rich and ugly, but she was still beautiful and poor."
6. Was "Breakfast at Tiffany's" a sexually open movie at the time?
The Filmmaking Code, which went into effect in 1934, banned excessive kissing (not to mention sex scenes) on screen. In 1960, when screenwriter George Axelrod set out to adapt "Breakfast at Tiffany's", Hollywood had to relax its restrictions on filmmaking in order to compete with so many explicit scenes in other countries' film and television productions. constraint.
Screenwriter George Axelrod quickly realized that he was facing a huge challenge: he had to meet the demands of audiences and make films that reflected the changing times and perceptions; on the other hand, he had to abide by the rules , to come up with "decent" works in order to pass the review and obtain screening qualifications.
In the 1955 film "The Seven Year Itch" starring Marilyn Monroe, Axelrod had a successful experience of getting sex scenes past censorship. In this screenwriting, he tried his best to lure the censorship committee, deliberately inserting some explicit footage into the film, providing Schlock with excisable clips (as the head of the film censorship committee, Jeffrey Schlock has the right to by reviewing or banning the release of the film.), including scenes of Hao Li in underwear and a skirt, and scenes of Paul and his patron having paid sex.
7. Who was the original author, Truman Capote?
Truman Capote, American writer. Born in New Orleans in 1924. His mother was used to leaving her children to relatives, and he lingered among men of all kinds, and he went to New York as a teenager. In 1941, he worked as a hand laborer for The New Yorker magazine. With the ambition to become a writer, he worked in a magazine office, and spent the background era of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" like this. The protagonist described in this book is largely a projection of Capote himself.
In some malicious evaluations, Capote was called the "Little Four" of the United States. They do have some similarities. Capote won an award in a composition competition at the age of twelve, and then became famous. He was less than 1.6 meters tall, thin and small, liked boys, and had a great desire for money. He always wanted to get involved in the upper class and succeed. Promote yourself, use your own photos as the cover of your novels, adapt all your works into movies, and even the name "Breakfast at Tiffany's" has a sense of money worship.
8. How do you evaluate the role of Hao Li?
The electric light and flint in the city are so gorgeous, like a dream within reach. It can be said that the history of the development of urban civilization is a history of struggle against desire. Hao Li is like a straw in the wind, being blown by the passionate wind to New York. Although she has stepped out of the narrow living space delimited by social customs for traditional women, and entered and exited public places such as bars, shopping malls, jewelry stores, etc., she is still essentially a weak woman image of "flowers in the mud pond". Always put the hope of a happy life on the pursuit of material life, try to clarify your own value positioning, and live a happy life in your dreams. But she never felt a sense of belonging and happiness.
Holly in the movie is not a prostitute. But her heart is not as simple as it looks on the surface. Capote's portrayal of Holly mirrors himself at the juncture of light and dark. Her human nature is contradictory. She is naive and vain at times. She hopes for the future and stops at it. She is well versed in utilitarian skills, but she always has a beautiful principle - "Don't be a coward. A poser , an emotional liar, a prostitute: I'd rather be sick than have a dishonest heart." So, when she learned the news of her brother's death, she did not hide her feelings for fear of losing the rich Brazilian, but intense destroying everything in the house. Even the "Tiffany" symbolizing the world of fame and fortune.
She always thought of herself as a "wild thing", "when I woke up one fine morning and went to Tiffany's for breakfast, I would have been me." — she kept herself, chasing what she thought A future that is within reach but does not exist.
In the movie, fame and fortune are the goals that Hao Li tries to achieve. However, what she yearns most in her heart is not the flamboyant world, or the upper-class social status with materialistic desires, but the desire to make her Breathing free space, her desires are the embodiment of her personal values.
9. Who is the prototype of the heroine Holly? There has always been disagreement on this issue. The original author, Truman Capote, personally clarified that it was a female neighbor he had just moved to New York in the 1940s. Capote lives upstairs with her and doesn't know her name.
Oddly enough, a woman sued Capote, saying he used her as a model, and lost the case.
There is also a saying that the prototype of the heroine is one of Capote's friends. New York socialite - Gloria Vanderbilt.
10. About the fashionable little black dress
Hepburn collaborated with Hubert de Givenchy on her costume in the film - Holly's iconic little black dress. (The little black dress was originally designed by Coco Chanel.) The dress also became one of the most influential fashion choices in film history. The visual enjoyment after Hepburn wore it made this dress a fashion icon in clothing.
Until January 1993, before Hepburn's death, Mr. Givenchy designed 25 dresses for Hepburn, which were kept in Givenchy's Paris apartment. Later, Mr. Givenchy donated piece by piece to museums around the world. In 2006, Givenchy auctioned off a little black dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" at Christie's in London. The little black dress was later bought by a mystery buyer who bid over the phone for a whopping £467,200 (the dress was originally estimated to be around £50,000-70,000), and the sale also created a film costume Auction record. Fundraising from the charity auction was used to build a school for underprivileged children in Kolkata, India.
11. Was the movie good at the box office at the time? How was the response?
The film reportedly cost $250 million. ($750,000 of that went to Hepburn, making her one of the highest-paid actresses of her generation.) It grossed $400 million in its U.S. premiere and grossed $1.4 billion in subsequent screenings.
It's not just Hao Li's little black dress that leads a new fashion trend for women. Holly's coat, purse and sunglasses were all copied. The Animal Adoption Association reports that demand for adoption of the ginger Tomcat (whose name is, of course, "Cat") is on the rise. The soundtrack album soared to No. 1 and stayed on the billboard for two years.
12. Is the heroine of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" bisexual?
In the novel, Hao Li makes it clear that she is not gay: "Of course I like them, and I don't feel scared. It's just that these stories are too boring for me to put myself in." But soon after, Hao Li Chatting with a former roommate, he changed his mind and said, "People sometimes can't help but think, I must be more or less gay. Of course, everyone does. But so what? It’s not a problem at all, maybe they still find it very exciting.” In order to adapt to the taste of movie audiences in the early 1960s, the homosexual theme in the original book seems to have been completely erased in the film. Axelrod still manages to insert a few shots into the film, and one scene is so cleverly designed that Holly uses only her facial expressions to express her same-sex desire. In that scene, she and Paul are watching a performance in a strip club, with a dancer undressing and writhing on stage. Hao Li gently removed her sunglasses and looked up at her. In the silence, Hao Li's intoxicated expression already explained everything.
13. How did Holly Greitly end up in the novel "Breakfast at Tiffany's"?
At the end, the author meets the cat released by Miss Haoli again. Or the author recalls meeting it: but one day, it was a winter Sunday afternoon, the sun was shining, but the weather was cold, and I found it, sitting on the windowsill of a cosy-looking room, two There are potted flowers and trees on the side, and white cross-stitched curtains are hung. I don't know what it's called now, but I'm sure it has a name, it's definitely found a home. Whether it's an African hut or something, I hope Hurley has found her home too.
Although Hao Li's destination is not written in the book. In this open ending, the author would like to believe that she got a good ending. But no matter what situation she was in, it seemed to worry readers.
Some people have analyzed that the protagonist "I" wants to see Huo Li again, but is not active, and may be afraid to see her appearance after losing her "purity" wings. So I hope to keep Holly in my mind forever as a part of the fairy tale.
14. What happened to that character, Mr. Ren Yuan?
Today, the most unpleasant part of the movie is Mickey Rooney's neighbor, Mr. Inyeon, played by Hawley. Not to mention that having a non-Asian actor with yellow-skinned makeup, Coke-cap glasses and buck teeth is an insult. In a 2008 interview, Rooney said that Edwards invited him to play the role as he had done before because he was a veteran comedian. "We've heard a lot of complaints over the 40-plus years since filming was done," Rooney said. "Everywhere I go in the world people say: 'You're so funny' and Asians come up to me and say 'Rooney, you shouldn't stay in this world.'" Rooney added that he would have known his performance if he knew Offended many, "I'm definitely not going to perform."
15. Comments from other critics online
Morally, Paramount also realized that "Breakfast at Tiffany's" would bring them a catastrophe, so much so that they issued a carefully worded press statement aimed at persuading the American real-life Audrey and Holly? Golightly is very different. They explain: she's not a prostitute, she's a "kook" (a person who transcends worldly values). A prostitute and a geek are completely different. But no matter how they explained it, Paramount failed to fool everyone. In 1961 one critic wrote: "From a moral standpoint, Breakfast at Tiffany's is the worst movie ever made." And the stealing as a joke. I'm really worried that after watching this movie, teen shoplifting will skyrocket." At the time. The sexual revolution is still in the underground, with Breakfast at Tiffany's as a popular novel. May be sought after by young people.
However, it now seems that Hepburn played the "not so good" call girl Hawley Brown in "Breakfast at Tiffany's". It is reasonable for Golightly to subvert the female image of previous films. At that time, the feminist liberation movement that had begun to emerge, along with the increasingly tolerant public opinion and Hepburn's own new adjustment and different understanding of the role, finally made the film. The demure manner revealed a bit of naughty and uninhibited Holly. Golightly became an enduring screen classic.
There's no shortage of erotica in Hollywood movies, but before "Breakfast at Tiffany's," only "bad girls" would play these kinds of roles. Of course, there are a few exceptions. The good girl in the play washes her hands after she has to get married. She picks up her former sexy and flirtatiousness, and no longer associates with those three-sect and nine-rate men. Needless to say, they ended up paying a heavy price for what was once absurd. Whether bad girls end up being miserable/regret, falling in love/marrying, or miserable/regretting/marrying/death, the general idea remains largely the same: woman, be a good IKEA girl. Like all "Not Accidental Accidents", it also makes sense to choose "good woman" Audrey to play "not so good" call girl Holly Golightly, it subverts the female image of previous films, Reveals potential changes in gender attitudes in the 1950s.
16. Did Hepburn sing "Moon River" in the movie?
She sang it. Although when the movie star sang. Someone will be asked to record on your behalf. But the singing segment of the film was performed by Hepburn in his own voice. Hepburn himself was even furious when the clip of Hepburn playing and singing "Moon River" with a guitar was almost deleted for various reasons.
17. A little tidbit for Hepburn fans.
It may be hard to tell from Hepburn's slender figure that Hepburn gave birth to son Sean three months before filming began.
Hepburn caught a cold after spending four days in "Artificial Rain" in the final scene.
Hepburn's husband, actor Mel Ferrer, appeared to be insanely controlling over his wife during the filming. Tried to intervene in his wife's performance until Edwards took Hepburn aside and said he was the only director of the film. After that, Ferre was a disappointment. The only compliment he said to his wife after watching the finalized film sample was: "I like your hat."
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