With all this sugar daddy business in the news – see: BIP’s Jenna and Jordan & don’t even get me started on my theories of that Playboy “model” murder – I got the itch to re-visit the OG sugar baby movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
I first tried watching this a few months back with a friend in Los Angeles and twenty or so minutes in, we opted out for The Sweetest Thing instead. Butttt last week, I was stuck at home with bronchitis so I decided to give it another go.
Based on Truman Capote’s novel, Breakfast at Tiffany’s is basically the story of two sugar babies who fall in love with each other. One, an expensive escort in search of a rich, older man to marry and the second, an aspiring writer. Audrey Hepburn’s character, Holly Golightly, does a great job romanticizing this “lifestyle” but at the end of the day, she is basically a criminal – assisting the mob.
I found certain parts of the movie to be incredibly irritating. For starters, the racism… Mickey Rooney literally wears fake teeth and pretends to be a Japanese man. How is that okay? And some of Holly’s actions are questionable – even for a hillbilly. What was with the caroling outside her fire escape?! The scene I hated most was when she yells “timber” at her house party. That line was beyond cringe-y, right?
Character flaws (and animal neglect) aside, the movie provides an endless source of fashion inspiration. No lie, I bought a faux cow hide rug for my living room because Holly had a cow hide rug in hers. And job well done by Audrey Hepburn. The iconic character she played is massively frustrating and a total asshole, but yet I still found myself somehow rooting for her to come out on top.
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