A film that everyone knows about, and even those who have never watched it, is a cinematic classic, Breakfast at Tiffany's. This film was based on Truman Capote's novel Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), and was released on October 5, 1961. It glorified everyone who starred in it, and not only the actors; songs from the film received Oscars in the categories “Best Song” and “Best Soundtrack for Dramatic/Comedy Pictures.” Hepburn herself received $750 thousand for her role, becoming then the highest paid actress in Hollywood, and the black dress worn by Holly Golightly was sold for $807 thousand at Christie's auction in London.
Director: Blake Edwards
Genre: drama, melodrama, comedy
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Jose Luis de Villalonga, John MacGyver, Alan Reed, Dorothy Whitney, Beverly Powers, etc.
Tiffany. Brand history. Interesting facts and quotes
Tiffany & Co is a multinational jewelry company founded on September 14, 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John Young.
Tiffany & Co. sells jewelry, ornaments, accessories, silver, porcelain, crystal, stationery, perfumes, leather goods.
Then they opened their first store, located on Broadway in New York. The company was named after the founders of Tiffany & Young. It's hard to believe now, but the Tiffany store originally sold stationery and haberdashery.
The famous film “Breakfast at Tiffany's” with the brilliant Audrey Hepburn in the title role has long become a cult classic of world cinema.
The film was made in 1961 based on Truman Capote's novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's", published in 1958. In the literary world, it produced the effect of a bomb exploding, it was predicted to have the status of a “classic” and Truman Capote was called “the best writer of the generation.”
The film was a huge success and won multiple prizes and awards.
Two Oscars - Best Music (Henry Mancini), Best Song (Johnny Mercer, Henry Mancini, Moon River).
David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress (Audrey Hepburn).
Grammy Award for Best Score (Henry Mancini).
Writers Guild of America Award (George Axelrod).
The little black dress of the main character of the film, Holly, played by Audrey Hepburn, was made by designer Hubert de Givenchy especially for the film. This was not his first collaboration with Audrey. The dress was sold at auction in 2006 for $900,000.
Especially for the film, Tiffany's jewelry store opened its doors on Sunday for the first time since the 19th century so that filming could take place indoors. To prevent theft, forty armed guards were on duty during the filming.
The most expensive scene required Holly's party - it included extras playing Edwards' friends, champagne, 120 liters of soft drinks, 60 boxes of cigarettes, lots of snacks and devices to create smoke when filming shots for the film.
At one of the film's final release meetings, a studio executive, talking about the "Moon River" scene, said, "Well, I think the first thing to do is get rid of that stupid song." Then Audrey Hepburn stood up from the table and said: “Only over my corpse!” As a result, the scene with the song that won the Oscar was left in the film.
Quotes
“You can tell what a man thinks of you by the type of earrings he gives you!”
“The sad thing is when you get fat or when it rains, but when you climb the wall, it’s different, terrible, you start to be afraid of you don’t know what. And then the only salvation is to jump into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s, there I immediately come to my senses, everything is so quiet and noble there, nothing bad will happen to you there... If I could find a place like Tiffany’s for myself, I would immediately buy furniture and name the cat!”
“A girl can’t read something like that without lipstick.”
“I have never drank champagne before breakfast. At breakfast, on special occasions - that was the case. But never before breakfast.”
“You never know what’s yours until you lose it...”
“It seems to me that I gave you the impression of being a fidget or just a fool.”
"No more than any other girl."
“Come on, everyone thinks so. I do not mind. Sometimes it pays to look like a fool."
“Do you know what’s wrong with you? You are a coward. And nothing more. You are afraid to raise your head and say: “Life is life.” People fall in love, people want to belong to each other, because this is the only chance to be happy. You call yourself free, wild. And you're so afraid that someone will put you in a cage. Baby, you're already in the cage. You created it yourself... It will always be with you, because no matter where you go, you cannot escape from yourself.”
“Tui, you are a very stylish woman. So couldn't we break up in style?"
“My old cat, old lazy fellow, lazy fellow with no name. I have no right to give him a name, we don’t belong to each other. We just met one day. In this world, nothing belongs to us. It’s just that sometimes we and things find each other.”
“Wait, how is this? You like me! Everyone likes me! I paid for five of your friends I don't even know! You asked for change for the ladies' room, and I gave you a whole 50 dollars! This gives me certain rights!
“You never know exactly where it will happen, but when it happens, you can’t go wrong. It's like Tiffany.
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TRUMAN CAPOTE __"BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S"__ - QUOTES FROM THE BOOK - Do you mind? I'll just rest for a minute. And let's not talk. Sleep, please. I pretended to be asleep and breathed deeply and regularly. The clock on the tower of a nearby church chimed half an hour, an hour. It was six when she touched my shoulder with her thin hand, lightly so as not to wake me. “Poor Fred,” she whispered as if to me, but she was not talking to me. -Where are you, Fred? I'm cold. The wind is icy. Her cheek lay on my shoulder with a warm and wet weight. I missed her, and as the days passed, I was overcome by a vague resentment, as if my best friend had forgotten me. Boredom and anxiety entered my life, but did not make me want to see my old friends - they seemed insipid, like a salt-free, sugar-free diet. Its success was clear. She personified the victory over ugliness - a phenomenon that is sometimes more entertaining than real beauty, if only because there is a surprise in it. The trick here was not that she took care of herself or dressed with taste, but in emphasizing her own flaws - by openly admitting them, she turned shortcomings into advantages. ...you cannot love wild animals: the more you love them, the stronger they become. And when they gain strength, they run away into the forest. Or fly up a tree. Then up a tree. Then into the sky. This is how it ends, Mr. Bell. If you allow yourself to fall in love with a wild creature, you will end up looking at the sky. - Do you feel it? - she shouted. - Great! And suddenly I felt it. Looking at how her multi-colored hair flashed under the red-yellow sun breaking through the foliage, I suddenly felt that I loved her enough to stop feeling sorry for myself, despairing, enough to forget about myself and just rejoice at her happiness. As she read, the dry, wooden smile on her face became harder and drier. Then she asked for a cigarette. Took a long time. - Smells like crap. But divine,” she said and threw the letter to me. “Maybe it will come in handy if you decide to write a novel about the life of rats.”
"Breakfast at Tiffany's"
An adaptation of the novel of the same name by the mid-20th century American classic Truman Capote, and the inimitable Audrey Hepburn in the title role, that flower that will never wither. She is beautiful and charming, and also sings and has an extraordinary sense of humor - why not a hero of our time from the women's order? And who else could men dream about if not the Holly Golightly that Hepburn showed on the screen? This is already a significant claim to success for any film, and even more so for a Hollywood one. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" fortunately is not likened to modern American melodramas, in which, wrapping the composition in a metaphor, you can see a pretty blonde dummy with a limply outstretched hand. The plot of the film is consistent with the book, but does not follow it verbatim. And again the viewer got a changed ending, also a happy ending, but not as dull and boring as in the film described above or most Disney cartoons. And I thought that the changed ending was just such a growing “trick” of Mr. Chkhartishvili in the face at number 2.
The music in Breakfast at Tiffany's is fully expressed in just two words: “moon” and “river.” “Moon river” is the title track of the film, which is performed towards the middle by Audrey Hepburn with guitar. It turns out to be almost an American “Irony of Fate.” I would be sincerely surprised if I met an adult now without an iPhone or iPad who would never have heard this wonderful song. Book. One of the best American works of the mid-20th century, Truman Capote's best novel. Such things are difficult to film at the highest level, but Blake Edwards succeeded. The film could have been better if the director had followed the source material even more closely. Despite the fact that the main moments of the literary original found a place in the film, much still remained behind the scenes. But Capote’s novel is already small in volume. The film adaptation appeared 3 years after the book was published. Is it possible to replace reading by watching a movie? No. Only if “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is not needed for an intellectual conversation with girlfriends over a glass of Mojito. But in this case, you can replace the film by watching the trailer. .
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