History Film / BreakfastAtTiffanys

* SleepCute: In one scene, Holly climbs into Paul's apartment through the window (while he is in bed) to escape a drunken client. Eventually, she cuddles up to him and falls asleep on his chest, emphasizing that it is okay because they are friends. Curiously at this point in the film, Holly and Paul know each other for a few hours, have barely interacted, and Paul is naked (after having sex with another woman) and she's only in a bathrone. It is Holly who insists that they are friends.

* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: Creator/MickeyRooney's portrayal of Mr. Yunioshi in the movie follows this.

* BlitheSpirit: Holly, naturally.

* CaughtInTheRain: Holly and Paul, in the climax.

* RedemptionInTheRain: The climax of the film.
* RomanticFalseLead: Jose.
* RomanticRain: The final kiss between Paul and Holly takes place in a heavy rain.
* RunningGag: Holly answering the door with her sleeping ear plugs still in.

* SleepCute: In one scene, Holly climbs into Paul's apartment through the window (while he is in bed) to escape a drunken client. Eventually, she cuddles up to him and falls asleep on his chest, emphasizing that it is okay because they are friends. Curiously at this point in the film, Holly and Paul know each other for a few hours, have barely interacted, and Paul is naked (after having sex with another woman). It is Holly who insists that they are friends.

* SpySpeak: Sally's "weather reports" which Holly passes forward. Basically Holly is getting paid to visit imprisoned crime lord Sally Tomato every week, receive from him strange weather reports about Palermo (in Sicily), Cuba, and New Orleans, and pass forward the reports to Sally's supposed lawyer. Later in the film, Holly is arrested for participation in a drug smuggling ring. The weather reports were actually coded messages, concerning shipments of drugs.

* {{Timber}}: Holly shouts "Timber!" as a woman at her party passes out and [[FaceFault falls face first to the floor]].
* {{Yellowface}}: Mickey Rooney's role as the buck-toothed stereotype-Japanese Mr. Yunioshi is a notorious example. Recent DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film have people involved with its making apologizing for this, as well as a featurette titled "Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective" discussing the depiction of Asians in Hollywood.

* WritersBlockMontage: Not a montage, but a panning shot with the same effect.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

** Holly is bisexual in the novella. This being Hollywood in the 1960s, this was changed.

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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl : Holly guzzles quite a lot of booze throughout the film. One of her first scenes is waking up with an implied hangover. Oddly, one of the first times we see her take a sip of liquor, she winces.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The two lead characters are more or less prostitutes, but the film never openly admits as much.

* CanonForeigner: Emily "2E" Eustace does not appear in the source novella. The subplot of Paul serving as 2E's "kept man" was apparently added to the movie to establish Paul's heterosexual credentials. This then allowed for the movie's boy-gets-girl climax, something also not found in the novella. It also parallels Holly's career of living beyond her means through handouts for her looks, putting the pair on equal footing. It doesn't hurt that it gave Creator/GeorgePeppard a chance to appear bare-chested in a bedroom setting.

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''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' is a 1961 romantic [[{{dramedy}} comedy-drama]] film directed by Creator/BlakeEdwards, loosely based on the [[Literature/BreakfastAtTiffanys 1958 novella]] by Creator/TrumanCapote. Creator/AudreyHepburn stars as Holly Golightly; also in the cast are Creator/GeorgePeppard, Creator/PatriciaNeal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and (in a notorious {{yellowface}} role) Creator/MickeyRooney.

This is well-known for being the movie in which Hepburn [[PopCulturalOsmosis wears a fabulous Givenchy dress and holds a cigarette in a holder]], and for introducing Music/HenryMancini's Oscar-winning song "Moon River". In this version Holly probably isn't a hooker (though she does seek out wealthy men to have flings with, more like an old-world courtesan), while the gay writer is now a straight gigolo--or something close to it--named Paul Varjak who has a tumultuous relationship with Holly.

** The unnamed narrator in Truman Capote's novel has an ambiguous sexuality, but it's fairly certain that his feelings for Holly are asexual. In the film, he becomes a straight love interest, Paul.

''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' is a 1961 romantic [[{{dramedy}} comedy-drama]] film directed by Creator/BlakeEdwards, loosely based on the [[Literature/BreakfastAtTiffanys 1958 novella]] by Truman Capote. Creator/AudreyHepburn stars as Holly Golightly; also in the cast are Creator/GeorgePeppard, Creator/PatriciaNeal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and (in a notorious {{yellowface}} role) Creator/MickeyRooney.

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''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' is a 1961 romantic [[{{dramedy}} comedy-drama]] film directed by Creator/BlakeEdwards, loosely based on the [[Literature/BreakfastAtTiffanys 1958 novella]] by Truman Capote. Creator/AudreyHepburn stars as Holly Golightly; also in the cast are Creator/GeorgePeppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and (in a notorious {{yellowface}} role) Creator/MickeyRooney.

* BadDreams: Holly gets into bed with Paul and talks in her sleep about, apparently, losing her beloved brother in the snow. The trope is slightly averted in that she'd already revealed, earlier in that scene, that she worries about her brother, but not the extent to which it distresses her.

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the ending of the original novella, Holly [[spoiler: leaves New York for good.]]

* {{Timber}}: Holly shouts this as a woman passes out.

''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' is a 1961 romantic [[{{dramedy}} comedy-drama]] film directed by Creator/BlakeEdwards, loosely based on the [[Literature/BreakfastAtTiffanys 1958 novella]] by Truman Capote. Creator/AudreyHepburn stars as Holly Golightly; also in the cast are George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and (in a notorious {{yellowface}} role) Creator/MickeyRooney.

* CanonForeigner: Emily "2E" Eustace does not appear in the source novella. The subplot of Paul serving as 2E's "kept man" was apparently added to the movie to establish Paul's heterosexual credentials. This then allowed for the movie's boy-gets-girl climax, something also not found in the novella. It also parallels Holly's career of living beyond her means through handouts for her looks, putting the pair on equal footing. It doesn't hurt that it gave Peppard a chance to appear bare-chested in a bedroom setting.

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''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' is a 1961 romantic [[{{dramedy}} comedy-drama]] film directed by Creator/BlakeEdwards, loosely based on the [[Literature/BreakfastAtTiffanys 1958 novella]] by Creator/TrumanCapote. Creator/AudreyHepburn stars as Holly Golightly; also in the cast are George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and (in a notorious {{yellowface}} role) Creator/MickeyRooney.

* AsianBuckTeeth: Mr. Yunioshi.

* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Though Holly somehow thinks she is too young to wear diamonds without being "tacky".
* FiveFingerDiscount: Holly claims to have shoplifted for years (makes sense, she was reportedly a child thief before meeting Doc). In a humorous scene, she dares Paul to shoplift from a dime store with her, but are constantly stymied by the world's most astute store patron. They ultimately grab two Halloween masks and hustle out, giggling.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The two lead characters are more-or-less prostitutes, but the film never openly admits as much.

* HardDrinkingPartyGirl : Holly guzzles quite a lot of booze throughout the film. One of her first scenes is waking up with an implied hangover.

* InvisibleBackupBand: When Holly performs her "Moon River" song on the window ledge, her guitar play is accompanied by a string orchestra.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Holly, after TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

* SocialClimber: Holly aspires to be one, at least.

** The unnamed narrator in Truman Capote's novel has an ambiguous sexuality, but it's fairly certain that his feelings for Holly were asexual. In the film, he becomes a straight love interest, Paul.
** Holly was bisexual in the novella. This being Hollywood in the 1960s, this was changed.

* CanonForeigner: Emily "2E" Eustace does not appear in the source novella. The subplot of Paul serving as 2E's "kept man" was apparently added to the movie to establish Paul's heterosexual credentials. This then allowed for the movie's boy-gets-girl climax, something also not found in the novella. It also gave Peppard a chance to appear bare-chested in a bedroom setting, the very best "beefcake" scene in his entire movie career.
* TheCapitalOfBrazilIsBuenosAires: Almost averted, but not quite. Holly does learn Portuguese in order to go to Brazil, but she nevertheless pronounces her Brazilian fiancé's name, José, as if he were Brazilian. The pronunciation should be Zhoo-zeh, not Ho-say.
** Worse, José even mispronounces ''his own name'' in this manner. Understandable though, as the actor playing him (José Luis de Vilallonga) is Spanish - and Ho-say is indeed the way it is pronounced in Spanish.
* CaughtInTheRain: Holly and Paul, near the end.

* CompensatedDating: What Holly does.

* ADogNamedDog: Holly's cat is named...Cat. (She states that "The way I see it I haven't got the right to give him [a name]".)

* FiveFingerDiscount: Holly claims to have shoplifted for years (makes sense, she was reportedly a child thief before meeting Doc). She dares Paul to shoplift with her, and the two simply steal two Halloween masks from a shop full of customers.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: For a film in which the two lead characters are more-or-less prostitutes, it's remarkably roundabout in its approach to sexuality.
* TheGhost: Fred, Holly's mentally retarded brother who joined the army. [[spoiler: Eventually he dies in the road accident.]]
* GoldDigger: Once she gets tired of CompensatedDating, Holly aims for this. Unfortunately, one of her targets (who was broke to begin with) gets married, and another gives up once she is arrested.

* HardDrinkingPartyGirl : Holly.

* HollywoodKiss: The kiss between Holly and Paul at the end.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Holly in the film.
* MayDecemberRomance: Holly's husband was much, much older than her, and had several kids before marrying her. Holly was still a teenager when they got married, and it sounds like their marriage was relatively innocent, with her doing nothing but sitting around at home all day -- most of the chores were done by the children.
** According to Doc Golightly, Holly was 14-years-old when he married her. He expected her to be a good stepmother for his children.
* MeaningfulName: What better surname than "Golightly" could there be for a free-spirited ditz with an unserious approach to life?

* SettingUpdate: Although the story in the movie occurs in 1960, the story in the novella is penned as occuring in 1943.
* [[SimpleCountryLawyer Simple Country Doctor]]: Holly's ex-husband. Doc Gollightly apparently works as a veterinarian in Texas, specializing in horses. He also owns his own farm and considers himself a farmer.

* SleepMask: Holly has one.

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[[caption-width-right:280:Creator/AudreyHepburn as Holly Golightly.]]

This is well-known for being the movie in which Hepburn [[PopCulturalOsmosis wears a fabulous Givenchy dress and holds a cigarette in a holder]], and for introducing Music/HenryMancini's Oscar-winning song "Moon River". In this version Holly probably isn't a hooker (though she does seek out wealthy men to have flings with), while the gay writer is now a straight gigolo--or something close to it--named Paul Varjak who has a tumultuous relationship with Holly.

* ActorAllusion: Paul's "decorator" says to him, "Well, love has found Andy Hardy." Film/AndyHardy was the lead character of a series of films (including ''Film/LoveFindsAndyHardy'') portrayed by Creator/MickeyRooney, who plays Mr. Yunioshi.

** The unnamed narrator in Truman Capote's novell has an ambiguous sexuality, but it's fairly certain that his feelings for Holly were asexual. In the film, he becomes a straight love interest, Paul.

* FiveFingerDiscount: Holly claims to have shoplifted for years (makes sense she was reportedly a child thief before meeting Doc). She dares Paul to shoplift with her, and the two simply steal two Halloween masks from a shop full of customers.

* MayDecemberRomance: Holly's husband was much, much older than her, and had several kids before marrying her. Holly was still a teenager when they got married, and it sounds like their marriage was relatively innocent, with her doing nothing but sitting around at home all day.

* SpySpeak: Sally's "weather reports" which Holly passes forward. Basically Holly is getting paid to visit imprisoned crime lord Sally Tomato every weak, receive from him strange weather reports about Palermo (in Sicily), Cuba, and New Orleans, and pass forward the reports to Sally's supposed lawyer. Later in the film, Holly is arrested for participation in a drug smuggling ring. The weather reports were actually coded messages, concerning shipments of drugs.

* ActorAllusion: Paul's "decorator" says to him, "Well, love has found Andy Hardy." Film/AndyHardy was the lead character of a series of films (including ''Love Finds Andy Hardy'') portrayed by Creator/MickeyRooney, who plays Mr. Yunioshi.

* HighClassGloves: Her fancy evening dress is paired with long, black gloves.

* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Though Holly somehow thinks she's too young to wear diamonds without being "tacky".

* SpySpeak: Sally's "weather reports" which Holly passes forward.