After meeting her new neighbor, Paul Varjak, she insists on calling him Fred because he looks like her brother Fred who is in the army. That night, when Holly goes out onto the fire escape to elude an over-eager date, she peeks into Paul's apartment and sees Tooley leaving money and kissing him goodbye. Salvatore "Sally" Tomato is a mob boss incarcerated at Sing Sing prison on racketeering charges.
The book and film are both all about society roles ; you can frame Holly as a step backward , a master manipulator of the patriarchy , a feminist icon, or at least, an icon for feminists , and even an everywoman.
What's impossible to ignore is that Holly is also a criminal. Her steadiest source of cash is relaying coded messages from an imprisoned mobster to the outside world. Which would all be well and good, except that Holly literally has no idea that that's what she's doing.
It's not that she's dumb, she's just glaringly uneducated. Again, not a moral defect. But again, let's all pay close attention to the woman behind the Little Black Dress.
Paul is a writer. A good writer? We don't know; we don't meet anyone who's read anything of his. We do see a few lines of a piece he writes inspired by Holly, but in any case, he doesn't spend very much of the movie "at work. She leaves him cash on his nightstand and even offers to bankroll a weekend away for him and Holly.
She talks about him, to his face, like he's an employee or maybe a piece of meat. Homeboy gets paid for sex.
Again, not a "bad" thing. He gets a sick apartment; the older woman gets hot sex with a good looking guy. It's a win-win. But let's not be naive and pretend this doesn't complicate the love story. Paul's main attraction toward Holly seems to be that she's even more screwed up than he is, and he wants to save her. He literally says he wants to help her. While the film never directly states it, it is implied that Holly is merely providing men with platonic company or, at the very most, is a courtesan.
Paul's role as a kept man while a struggling writer is also never discussed in great detail, although in one scene his female companion is seen leaving money for him on his nightstand as she exits his apartment after a late-night encounter. The Hays Code of may have also played a role in the specious interpretation of their shared occupation.
The Oscar-nominated screenplay was written by George Axelrod , loosely based on the novella by Truman Capote. Capote, who sold the film rights of his novella to Paramount Studios, wanted Marilyn Monroe to play the role of Holly Golightly in the film.
Barry Paris references a quote by Capote: "Marilyn was always my first choice to play the girl, Holly Golightly. A number of changes were made to the storyline to adapt the story to fit the medium of cinema. Capote's novella included language that was toned down for the film. The character of 2E Patricia Neal was invented for the movie. This character, Mrs. Failenson, is called 2E because her real name is Emily Eustace. In the novella, Mag Wildwood, a model with a stuttering problem , moves into Holly's apartment after Holly falls out with the novelist upstairs.
Wildwood appears briefly in the film, as a guest at the party at Holly's, with her stutter intact. The film also changed the novella's unresolved, open ending to a more conventional "Hollywood" romantic happy ending.
Originally producers Martin Jurow and Richard Shepherd had picked John Frankenheimer as the director, but as production began they replaced him, fearing that Frankenheimer would make the film "too dark".
Kim Novak was approached to play the role of Holly Golightly, but she turned it down, for fear of being typecast as a scared sex kitten. Sung by Hepburn herself, it was written to her singing range based on the vocal solos she had performed in 's Funny Face. According to Mancini and Edwards, a studio executive hated the song and demanded it be cut from the film; Hepburn, who was present when this proclamation was made, responded to the suggestion by standing up and saying, "over my dead body.
Most of the exteriors were filmed in New York City , except the fire escape scenes and the alley scene at the end in the rain where Holly puts Cat out of the cab and then Paul and Holly look for Cat. It has been rumored that the film's on-location opening sequence, in which Holly gazes into a Tiffany's display window, was extremely difficult for director Blake Edwards to film.
Although it was simple in concept, crowd control, Hepburn's dislike of pastries, and an accident that nearly resulted in the electrocution of a crew member are all said to have made capturing the scene a challenge. However, Edwards, in an interview given for the 45th anniversary DVD, said that the sequence was captured rather quickly due to the good fortune of an unexpected traffic lull despite the location in the heart of Manhattan.
Hepburn as Holly, carrying a cigarette holder , is considered one of the iconic images of 20th century American cinema. The film rejuvenated the career of s movie song-and-dance man Buddy Ebsen , who had a small but effective role in this film as Doc Golightly, Holly's ex-husband.
The film has been criticized for its portrayal of the character Mr. Yunioshi, Holly's bucktoothed, stereotyped Japanese neighbor. Played by Caucasian Mickey Rooney , Rooney wore Yellowface makeup to change his features to that of a Japanese person.
The issue was raised in the film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story , when Bruce Lee and his girlfriend Linda Emery portrayed in the film by Jason Scott Lee and Lauren Holly watch Breakfast at Tiffany's in the theater, but Linda suggests they leave midway through the picture after she notices that Bruce is upset at the stereotypical depiction of an Asian man portrayed by Mickey Rooney. In the 45th anniversary edition DVD release, producer Richard Shepherd repeatedly apologizes for this, stating, "If we could just change Mickey Rooney, I'd be thrilled with the movie.
In a interview about the movie, year-old Rooney said he was heartbroken about the criticism and that he had never received any complaints about his portrayal of the character.
A free outdoor screening in Sacramento , California, scheduled for August 23, , was replaced with a screening of the animated movie Ratatouille after protests about the character Mr. In light of the protest, Sacramento vice mayor Steven Cohn stated that "the intent was never to create controversy, to make political statements or to be on the avant garde of the movie world, let alone to offend significant members of our community. American Film Institute recognition. Breakfast at Tiffany's was one of the first Hepburn films to be released to the home video market in the early s, and is also widely available on DVD.
On January 13, , a remastered Centennial Collection version of the film was released.
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