How Breakfast at Tiffany's Turned into a Totally Different Movie

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BeKindRewind talks about the adaptive process of turning Breakfast at Tiffanys from Queer and Mildly Racist to Compulsory Het and WILDLY RACIST and how that affected both the casting process and how people think about the film now.

Source Full Disclosure:  I was definitely a college dorm room fan of Breakfast at Tiffany's without ever seeing the

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[yuzuruhanyu]

i always wanted to watch breakfast at tiffany's but knowing abt the mickey rooney before watching makes me avoid it

[zoaster_toaster]

Honestly, you could edit Mickey Rooney out of the movie and literally nothing would change.

[sassi214]

I wish they would just do that already!

[rainstormraider]

Having grown up watching a lot of old movies, I feel like Mickey Rooney had pretty racist characters in multiple movies. Maybe we need a Mickey-Rooney-free edit for a lot of films.

[doriiansz]

George Peppard was so dreamy in this 😍

[suzycat]

One of the things I like about it is that he's presented as a visual dish just as much as any woman, which I don't think was that common then. And he's a gigolo! It's quite upfront! Aspects of it were quite daring for the time.

[wintersfire]

I’ll have to give this watch a later! I only saw this movie because I love Audrey but it’s just not that good. There’s some cool looks in it but like that’s it.

Although Moon River always makes me cry, I don’t even know why but even hearing an instrumental of it makes me all teary.

[masterofmystery]

the only good thing to come out of that movie was the song

[sugarspice101]

Yea, I had to download that song. It’s so pretty.

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[saintlys]

I still can't believe that my seventh grade teacher in Catholic school let me present a book report on this to the whole class.

[meadowphoenix]

I didn't realized the movie was so different from the book, and now I'm wondering how I got an accurate idea of the book from the cultural stuff I learned about the movie.