| | I was surprised by how much I didn't like this movie. Yes, Audrey Hepburn is charming as Holly Golightly, a batty socialite trying to find a rich husband. But Holly herself is not the most charming of characters; she and the male lead played by George Peppard (who I totally didn't recognize as the leader of the A-Team! :o) are both whoring themselves out to make money.
Sure, he's a struggling writer, and she's a struggling runaway, but...get a real job, you know? I guess I just have trouble sympathizing with the choices their characters have made.
Also, Peppard isn't quite peppy enough; some of his lines are goofy ("you belong to me"--which is meant to become the main theme of the film, I guess, but feels like a misfire to me), and his romantic technique seems to be that of just kind of hanging around.
Golightly's socialite life frequently dips into parody, and while it's cute to see her flirting with amusingly nerdy millionaires, and chasing her frisky nameless cat (she doesn't like to apply labels, you see), it's also a little forced, and borderline tacky. |
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