Breakfast at tiffanys
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Publicado: 3 de diciembre de 2009
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S
-The book and the movie-
The movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s was based on one of most popular Truman Capote’s novella. Although the book and movie versions of "Breakfast atTiffany's" are very similar in many ways, specially Holly’s character, who is very well represented by Audrey Hepburn as a beautiful and mysterious young woman who doesn’t belong to anyone oranywhere and who is a heartbreaker, we can find some differences between them.
One of the most differences between the movie and the book is the ending: in the movie, when Holly is running away fromthe police to Brazil, looking for a rich man to marry, the narrator confesses his love to her and ends up convincing her to stay in New York with him by making her realize that, like her and hercat, they belong to each other. This totally changed the theme of the story. In the book, Holly is always traveling and searching for a place to belong, a place she never finds. And this also appearsin the end, when she leaves the cat and goes to Brazil, without seeing the narrator again. This very big change in the ending of the movie was made to make it happier than Truman Capote's novel,because it was a Hollywood product, which public used to need “happy ever” endings.
In Capote’s novella, names are a very important part and each character is named in a special way, like narrator’sname, which is a mystery during the entire book, but we only know that Holly calls him Fred, like her brother, who is in the war. In Capote’s writings in general, we can find similar situations,like in A Christmas Memory, where the old woman Sook calls her little best friend Buddy, like her previous best friend. However, this interesting characteristic of the author is missing in themovie, as Fred’s character has a known name (Paul Varjak).
There are a lot of differences between the movie and the book, but both of them, in their area, are very good and well recommended work.
-The book and the movie-
The movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s was based on one of most popular Truman Capote’s novella. Although the book and movie versions of "Breakfast atTiffany's" are very similar in many ways, specially Holly’s character, who is very well represented by Audrey Hepburn as a beautiful and mysterious young woman who doesn’t belong to anyone oranywhere and who is a heartbreaker, we can find some differences between them.
One of the most differences between the movie and the book is the ending: in the movie, when Holly is running away fromthe police to Brazil, looking for a rich man to marry, the narrator confesses his love to her and ends up convincing her to stay in New York with him by making her realize that, like her and hercat, they belong to each other. This totally changed the theme of the story. In the book, Holly is always traveling and searching for a place to belong, a place she never finds. And this also appearsin the end, when she leaves the cat and goes to Brazil, without seeing the narrator again. This very big change in the ending of the movie was made to make it happier than Truman Capote's novel,because it was a Hollywood product, which public used to need “happy ever” endings.
In Capote’s novella, names are a very important part and each character is named in a special way, like narrator’sname, which is a mystery during the entire book, but we only know that Holly calls him Fred, like her brother, who is in the war. In Capote’s writings in general, we can find similar situations,like in A Christmas Memory, where the old woman Sook calls her little best friend Buddy, like her previous best friend. However, this interesting characteristic of the author is missing in themovie, as Fred’s character has a known name (Paul Varjak).
There are a lot of differences between the movie and the book, but both of them, in their area, are very good and well recommended work.
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