Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

*this post contains spoilers*

Watched Breakfast at Tiffany's, finally! What I loved so much about the movie was Audrey Hepburn; I completely love her! She has so much class, so much grace, and so much style. The moment the movie began at the scene where the taxi drops her off in front of the Tiffany & Co. store and she begins walking to the window with that famous iconic black dress of hers and then stands in front of the window while eating -what was it, a bagel, a croissant? I forgot what- she already radiated so much elegance and set the bar up and initiated as one of the most elegant fashion icons (if not the most) if Hollywood history. And her hair, oh I love her hair so much in that movie, especially when she wears it up like that. I don't think that the story itself was extraordinary, but there are other things which makes this movie worth watching. I personally wanted to watch this movie because Breakfast at Tiffany's is famous for that Audrey Hepburn scene in front of Tiffany & Co. at the beginning and I wanted to see for myself the classic elegance and style of an actress so well-known, the Audrey Hepburn. I don't know how many times I've said her name already, I just love saying it! There's already such elegance in the name itself, Audrey Hepburn.

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a funny, quirky, romantic story of two people who never dreamed of falling in love for the other. It tells about this quirky, flirtatious girl, Holly Golightly, who lives in an apartment in New York, and she gets a new neighbor, a guy named Paul Varjack. The personalities of the two characters here aren't ones who we can really fall in love to; Holly, this beautiful, stylish, loquacious girl, though 'phony', whose object is to marry man of wealth and grand and who sometimes acts rather silly even though she's apparently smart, and deems herself as a wild thing to beheld and cannot be caged; Paul, a man trying to make a living out of writing, and although he is gentleman-like, open, kind, and considerate, he apparently is also a 'kept' man, the 'other man' of his decorator who is married, in which he is also (it seems) being paid to be one, and is attracted by Holly's quirkiness. After a series of incidents, including the part where he discovers who Holly Golightly truly is, even revealing who she was in the past, and after spending more time together, they fall in love. Holly steps back before the feeling could do more harm to her and pursues another rich man, leaving Paul bewildered and hurt. In the end though, after a particular incident causing a twist and turn in the story, Paul finally talks to her and manages to break down here defense, her 'wildness', and Holly comes after him; hence the happy ending.

It was particularly hard for me to be fond of the Holly Golightly character, her living a phony life and stuff, especially after her true identity is revealed. Nonetheless, I loved Audrey Hepburn's acting, she really lived up the Holly character, and shone throughout the movie. But I did expect the movie to be more romantic, you know. Is Paul Varjack not romantic enough? Hmmm, I just don't think so. This is also, I guess, one of the reasons why I'm not able to fall in love with his character much. He doesn't have that sort of fighting spirit in him, does he? In the end, he kind of makes it up though, you know, those things he said to Holly, I think they really did it, they hit good.

Well, anyways, even though I didn't fall in love with the characters much, I definitely enjoyed the story, the light comedy-romance story, sometimes funny, sometimes sad. In fact, wasn't Audrey Hepburn's act as Holly Golightly, hence Holly Golightly herself, the one that rose Audrey Hepburn's name up so high and made her a classic legendary icon for elegance in fashion and Hollywood? (Kindly inform me if I'm wrong:]) And let me say this again; Audrey Hepburn is enough to be the single reason to watch this movie. It's like the whole package of pluses and the magic is completely in her. I don't know, perhaps I'm being too subjective. Or maybe I need to reinstate; Holly Golightly may not be such a lovely character that we could all fall in love with deeply, but she is something we should love to see as a character, and Hepburn's acting is definitely something everybody should appreciate. Truth is, in later generations in movies, I've seen many characters like this before I saw Breakfast at Tiffany's; the wild one, the one who doesn't want to belong to anything, the one who doesn't want to feel attached, etc etc. But I guess Holly Golightly is one of the originals, eh? And although I don't love her, she definitely sparks.

Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly radiates, thus making the film worth watching. :)