Features News Commentary. Georgetown Explained DC News. Music Movies Performance Art. Columns Voices Editorials. Halftime Leisure Halftime Sports. How-tos D. Living Georgetown Explained. By stretching herself in this part, Hepburn extended her range at just the right moment. The Audrey Hepburn of the fifties was a gamine — an exquisite, often shy young beauty.
Her approach was to make Holly an adorable but frustrating kook — an essentially lonely person, set adrift, who tells herself the key to happiness is discarding her old life, recreating herself, and finding a rich husband.
True love is not even a consideration. What he and Holly share draws them together but also keeps them apart: a powerful emotional connection, and a shared poverty. Newcomer George Peppard was perfectly suited to play Paul.
Peppard was fanatical about his Method Acting training, which caused him to play scenes in line with his own understanding of the character. It hardly mattered in the end. On-set frustrations aside, Blake Edwards got one other thing very right: hiring Henry Mancini to do the score.
Edwards and Hepburn, knowing a good thing when they heard it, would each tap Mancini to do the soundtrack for several more of their films. Producers suggested casting a Japanese actor, but Edwards insisted he wanted Rooney, who could give him the broad performance he was looking for. Listen in as Greg and Tom recap the story and explore some of the historical context for the film.
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Which would all be well and good, except that Holly literally has no idea that that's what she's doing. It's not that she's dumb, she's just glaringly uneducated. Again, not a moral defect. But again, let's all pay close attention to the woman behind the Little Black Dress. Paul is a writer. A good writer? We don't know; we don't meet anyone who's read anything of his.
We do see a few lines of a piece he writes inspired by Holly, but in any case, he doesn't spend very much of the movie "at work.
She leaves him cash on his nightstand and even offers to bankroll a weekend away for him and Holly. She talks about him, to his face, like he's an employee or maybe a piece of meat. Homeboy gets paid for sex. Again, not a "bad" thing. He gets a sick apartment; the older woman gets hot sex with a good looking guy.
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