It was over 50 years ago, when Audrey Hepburn emerged as Holly Golightly - with her cigarette-holder in her hand, her hair pinned up, and her little black dress - she is still the poster icon for anyone who is striving for the type of classic romance that seems to not exist anymore. No wonder why this movie is still such a classic. Loosely based on Truman Capote's novel, Breakfast at Tiffany’s is the story of Holly Golightly, played admirably by Audrey Hepburn, and Paul Varjak, played by George Peppard in an tasteful performance that highlights the lengths people will go for security. Holly is an quirky society girl looking for a wealthy guy to marry and support her. While Paul is a “writer” and lover of a wealthy married older woman. Neither of them is happy, but both go through the motions that life throws at them.
For those who only know of the iconic picture and not the film, that is the admirable Tiffany's, this persona of a classy woman who has her life together, is just as much of a fantasy for the main character Holly as it is for everyone else. Holly is someone who’s fake and lies so well, to the point she even believes in her own distortion that she calls her “life”. While receiving $50 every
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But also a beloved actress, probably more loved than the characters she has played. The writer of the novel Capote, shockingly wanted the main character Holly to be played by Marilyn Monroe. However, casting Hepburn could not be more of the right choice, she owned the role of a high end escort and in the end created an icon that is ever more lasting as Marilyn's skirt over the subway grate. Laurie Boeder agrees that, “Hepburn holds the movie together in the role that defined her career. She brings a disarming artlessness to Holly” (Boeder, para. 8). Above all, this is most definitely Hepburn's signature role, even if she was
Lee, Melissa. "Brother, Friends Object to Portrayal of Bonnie Clutter by Capote." Lawrence Journal-World (2005).
They are already in a compromising situation in celebrating her eighteenth birthday at a gas station having coffee which was already established as being not the norm earlier with Marie recounting her own large party where her “mother made a large party” (154). There reality is broken when the teenagers arrive and “One of the girls went to the juke box and put money in” and they are forced to leave because of Carol condition which causes her to have a breakdown from the noise (157). The arrival of the kids forced them to come into contact with their own reality which can never coincide with the one they have fabricated. This small reminder of what the norm is supposed to be is often brought to their attention through others such as when they “could see, in the light shaft of light, a boy, two girls and a dog” (155). In this instance, they are walking on the way to their weekly picnic, which is in itself repetitive, when they are shown the norm of other having fun “the boy splashing in the water with the dog” while they are forced to go through the motions without much emotion. This depiction of the norm unsettles their reality and, even though they don’t stop trying to alter reality to shelter Carol, shows how dysfunctional their own situation is as it can be seen as a potential version of themselves without Carol’s
One relationship that attracts major attention in the film, probably due to its tragic culmination, is the one between Neil Perry, one of the students at Hilton...
The tale of Janie crawford a woman who has growed up looking for love and finding who she is as a person. Janie has spent her life searching for true love, and she has came close a couple of times let’s see how it goes.Sacrifice is an important obstacle everyone goes through. Janie deliberately sacrifices her individuality throughout the story for the well beings of others which establishes the theme of individuality.
The novel begins with the protagonist, April Wheeler, portraying Gabrielle in an amateur-theatre production of the play, The Petrified Forest. The play ends up being a total disaster and leaves April devastated, leaving her disconnected from Frank, her husband, and her neighbors, Milly and Shep Campbell afterwards. The play, The Petrified Forest, is a disastrous love story of a man who decides to have himself die to keep the women he loves out of a life of misery. In the end of The Petrified Forest, Gabrielle is able to escape from her horrible lifestyle and fulfill her dreams; April was never able to do that.
The Breakfast Club is a coming-of-age movie. This movie follows five high school students who all have school detention on a Saturday morning. They all come from various types of group. There is the anxious and bizarre girl, Allison; the sporty guy, Andrew; the hard-acting guy, John; the popular girl, Claire; and the nerd, Brian. They all saw each other that way too because they were “brainwashed” into accepting that. Since they are all from different types of groups, they don’t know each other, nor do they want to. At first they think they don’t have anything in common, but as time passes, that proves to be wrong. Since they were the only people in the library, they can’t help but slowly get to know each other. This movie was written and directed by the brilliant John Hughes, who in my opinion is the “King of 80’s movies.” He has directed great 80’s teen movies like 16 Candles, Ferris Beuller’s Day Off, and Pretty in Pink. This movie has mix of genres any individual could possible enjoy: drama, comedy, and even romance. The actors in the movie performed to be tremendous in their roles. The actors in the movie are known as “the brat pack”. The movie is starring: Emilio Estevez, known for popular movies like The Outsiders; Molly Ringwald, who starred in movies like Pretty in Pink and 16 Candles; Anthony Michael Hall, who was in the movie 16 Candles with Molly Ringwald; and Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson, they both starred in St. Elmo’s Fire. There couldn’t be anyone better to portray the characters in the movie than these actors.
Holly Janquell is a runaway. Wendelin Van Draanan creates a twelve year old character in the story, Runaway, that is stubborn and naive enough to think she can live out in the streets alone, until she is eighteen.She has been in five foster homes for the past two years. She is in foster care because her mother dies of heroin overdose. In her current foster home, she is abused, locked in the laundry room for days without food, and gets in even more trouble if she tries to fight back. Ms.Leone, her schoolteacher, could never understand her, and in Holly’s opinion, probably does not care. No one knows what she is going through, because she never opens up to any one. Ms. Leone gives Holly a journal at school one day and tells her to write poetry and express her feelings. Holly is disgusted. But one day when she is sitting in the cold laundry room, and extremely bored, she pulls out the diary, and starts to write. When Holly can take no more of her current foster home, she runs, taking the journal with her. The journal entries in her journal, are all written as if she is talking to Ms.Leone, even though she will probably never see her again. Over the course of her journey, Holly learns to face her past through writing, and discovers a love for poetry. At some point in this book, Holly stops venting to Ms. Leone and starts talking to her, almost like an imaginary friend, and finally opens up to her.
Tone: Tiffany’s tone seems very straight-forward and angry because Pat just called her a slut. She defends herself and comes out as a strong and self-forgiving woman.
More specifically, Holly also narrates the majority of the film. The narration allows the audience to understand what’s going on inside of her mind through her thoughts, which amplify the point-of-view the film has chosen to follow. Through trailing Holly and Holly’s thoughts, we learn more about her character’s personality and her lack of motives. The audience sees first-hand how unaffected she is from her boyfriend’s psychotic personality causing him to go on a killing spree. The clear-cut point-of-view question the morals and values of this film. Holly’s lack of concern really questions the moral values of good vs. evil. She shares with the audience that “I didn't feel shame or fear, but just kind of blah, like when you're sitting there and all the water's run out of the bathtub” (Badlands, 1973). As the spectator, we are placed in a situation where we watch these murders as they take place. The people that surround them obviously become affected, but the characters themselves are never impacted emotionally nor is the world that surrounds them. For these characters, there’s no stopping when it comes to life vs. death due to the fact that the murders are pushed so far. Their mortal selves personally question the morality of good vs. evil as they never feel remorse from committing such a deadly act—literally. It just goes to show that while leadership can exist so does a sense of passiveness in a corrupted
woman she once knew. Both women only see the figure they imagine to be as the setting shows us this, in the end making them believe there is freedom through perseverance but ends in only despair.
Bette Davis was perfect for the role. Bette Davis, like Margo her onscreen character, was a 40 year old actress who was insecure about her role in filmography due to her age. It was a common perception that women over 40 could not survive in the industry, and Bette Davis felt the same. The parallel
She lives in an imaginary world in her head where her actual life does not match the ideal life she is living. She believes her beauty and charm make her worthy of greater things. She wears knock-off jewelry, clothes, and goes to high end parties, but dresses and acts like she is wealthy. The bliss of her evening at these parties were not achieved by angst, and the reality of her appearance is much different than it seems. The party is a conquest because for the first time, her appearance matches the reality of her life. Her wealth and class are simply illusions, and other people are easily deceived. I liked this short story because it relates to people today being concerned with their appearance and social class instead of their character and being blessed with what they have. I live by a certain quote every day by John Wooden he once said, “ Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while you reputation is merely what others think you
In ‘Paul’s Case’ Paul has created a fantasy world in which he becomes entranced, even to the point of lying to classmates about the tales of grandeur and close friendships that he had made with the members of the stock company. This fantasy falls apart around him as “the principle went to Paul’s father, and Paul was taken out of school and put to work. The manager at Carnegie Hall was told to get another usher in his stead; the doorkeeper at the theater was warned not to admit him to the house” (Cather 8). The fantasy fell apart further when the stories he had told his classmates reached the ears of the women of the stock company, who unlike their lavish descriptions from Paul were actually hardworking women supporting their families. Unable to cope with the reality of working for Denny & Carson, he stole the money he was supposed to deposit in the bank to live the life of luxury in New York. Only a person who felt backed into a corner would attempt something so unsound. After his eight days in paradise, he is again backed into a corner by the reality of his middle class upbringing, and the dwindling time he has before his father reaches New York to find him. The final way out for Paul is his suicide, for which an explanation would be “In the end, he fails to find his security, for it was his grandiose “picture making mechanism” that made his life so deardful.” (Saari). With all the securities of his fantasy life finally gone, his mental instability fully comes to light as he jumps in front of the train to end his
Holly Golightly is one of the most interesting and complicating characters that can ever be written about. She doesn't even know her own self. Holly thinks that she is independent and self reliant. "I've taken care of myself for a long time."(p.27) Even OJ Berman (her agent) knew that she was full of her self. "She isn't a phony, she's a real phony. She believes all this crap she believes." (p.30) Holly also used to steal things, which she thought was a way of being independent and survival.
Holly is not only a physical paradox of a girl and a woman, but so is her personality, she has an odd mixture of child-like innocence and street smart sexuality. This is most apparent in Holly's chosen profession, the one dubbed "the world's oldest". Holly seems to always have a man banging on her door or passing out in her apartment asking for more money or another "appointment". Holly's first real conversation with the narrator takes place some time after the midnight hour when she escapes from one of her drunken clients via the fire escape and knocks on the narrator's window. Much to his surprise, she is wearing only a robe and asks if she can stay in his apartment until the man in her's passes out or leaves.