Starring: Audrey Hepburn & George Peppard. Produced by
Martin Jurow and Richard Shepherd. Music by Henry Mancini, Screenplay George
Axelrod. Directed by Blake Edwards
Genre : Romantic Comedy
Storyline: Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) was a aspiring
and hyperactive social escort girl who left her husband ending her child
marriage in search of wealth and fame to support herself and her brother Fred,
working in Army. Her long cherished wish was to buy something at Tiffany’s, an
up-market jewellery store in New York. She tries to get into relationship with
rich men of USA always and in the meanwhile be-friends her neighbor, Paul
Vajrack (George Peppard) a small time writer. Paul falls in love with Holly but
Holly never accepts the same due to her long cherished wish of becoming rich.
She fails in all her attempts to hotfoot rich men and finally gets into a drug
racket unknowingly due to which her sure shot marriage with a rich Brazilian
falls apart. Just then even her brother Fred dies in an accident. The movie
ends with a happy note when Paul explains her that the path she chose to become
rich was wrong and would finally end up nowhere. She then realizes her mistake
and accepts Paul’s love after she was left with no-one in the world.
Pros: One of the best
Classics of the 1960’s which brought name and fame to this Hollywood actress
from Belgium. The shy and introvert actress in real life shows her real talent
with her eccentric performance that can be remembered for a long time. The
Director was quite successful in portraying the truth of anyone not being
successful through short cut methods, through this beautiful story. I liked the
way the actress’s emotions were shown in the climax rain scene in the car when
Paul reads out the letter from her Brazilian fiancée and he makes her
understand everyone belong to each other and no matter wherever she runs, she
would finally end up in her own cage and that’s ‘nowhere’. That’s how she
rediscovers herself and runs back to Paul. Loved the way Holy’s life was
compared to that of her cat in the end, both having no meaning to their lives,
without belonging to someone who love them. Music and Screenplay were one of the
best anyone could experience, in this movie.
Cons: There were many speculations about Holly’s role as a
Call Girl or Social Woman. Her choice of path after breaking her marriage in
this film was not accepted by many of her fans worldwide. Though there were
many instances where her role was portrayed as a ‘call girl’, it was always
shown as narrow escapes from such highly objectionable sexual encounters, in
those days. But I would like to ask the
author as to what’s the real character of Holly? Was it a ‘sense of insecurity’
or ‘inferiority complex’ that drove her behavior?
My rating is 4.25 out of 5
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