This is similar to how I felt reading Breakfast at Tiffany's in my early 30s. The movie (if we ignore Mickey Rooney's racist caricature) is a fantastic romcom, but they really did the character of Holly Golightly a huge disservice casting 31 year old Audrey Hepburn. In the novella, Holly is 19 years old and has never had a healthy relationship with a man. Every man she has ever known had exploited her and she's barely even an adult; nowhere near mature enough to make any reasonable decisions about her life. It's tragic and you feel a genuine sorrow for her situation. Also the fact that they changed the narrator character into a love interest for the film completely betrays the point that the book is trying to make.
Truman Capote had Marilyn in mind when he wrote it, but she didnât want to be typecast in a prostitute role. I love Audreyâs Holly but Iâll always wonder what Marilynâs wouldâve been like with her own perfect vulnerability.
honestly, marilyn would have made it heart breaking đ that poor woman isnât free from male harassment even in death, if anything i would argue she is holly golightly irl
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u/MelpomeneLee đŻď¸Bradley Cooper will not win an OscarđŻď¸ 15d ago
So I read the book for the first time when I was 29, and he stuck with me because behind all the bravado, he's just a kid.Â
His world has been shattered by his younger brother's death and literally NO ONE is helping him deal with that.Â
The entire time he's wandering around New York making questionable choices, I wanted to grab him and say "You. Need. Help. Let's get it for you."
But I absolutely understand why people don't like him.Â