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I absolutely adore Breakfast at Tiffany's, but that awful performance is one of the all time worst. I would love to see such an alternate cut! Maybe I'll make a go at it after finishing my current project. Though I wonder how long it'll be before seamless replacement of an entire performance like this becomes feasible.He's only in the film about 5-times but every time it sucks all the joy and fun out of the movie. We need an alternate edit of this film that cuts his scenes out.
^I've always been one of the biggest fans of this film. I love Mann's directing style, if not always the end product. So many early Miami Vice vibes here, this is more of an exercise in tone than a thriller. It's about the audience sinking in to the creeping feeling along with Will, feeling the visceral vicarious empowerment of stalking the helpless victims whilst simultaneously being creeped out and disgusted at our own enjoyment. It has probably been trampled on by all the true crime programming to come out since...we're all just too desensitized to this anymore. But I love every performance in here, especially Cox. He's doing something totally different than Hopkins did, more subtle. It's more conventional on the surface, but I think it's also very special and I remain curious about what a trilogy of films with him as Lector would've been like...Initial reviews of Michael Mann's 'Manhunter' were mixed and it bombed badly, then the utter genius, Oscar glory and stellar box-office of the follow up 1991 narrative sequel 'The Silence of the Lambs' overshadowed it some more but it's been critically reappraised strongly since then. I'd not watched 'Manhunter' since the 90s, so I was curious to see if did hold up well now. Sadly not, it's a decent serial-killer drama on it's own merits but nothing that special compared to the superior TSotL. The synth score is overbearing and the production design is very dated to 1986... and I love synth scores and 80s movies. Tom Noonan is the highlight as the serial killer, every movement of muscle in his body is creepy and awkward, yet he elicits sympathy too. William Petersen is a little too intense as the hero, Dennis Farina is horribly miscast and as much as I love Brian Cox, his Dr. Hannibal "Lecktor" is not in the same league as Anthony Hopkins. It's an interesting performance though, very relaxed and direct in an off putting way, as opposed to Hopkins' controlled and vampiric interpretation. I watched the Theatrical Cut, rather than the Director's Cut.
Totally agree with you here though. I don't get the people who heap praise on this film. I feel like they need to watch more Mann movies and see what he can really do.'Collateral' feels like a B-movie script, elevated by an A-list Director (Michael Mann) and a quality cast.
I absolutely adore Breakfast at Tiffany's, but that awful performance is one of the all time worst. I would love to see such an alternate cut! Maybe I'll make a go at it after finishing my current project. Though I wonder how long it'll be before seamless replacement of an entire performance like this becomes feasible.
Cox. He's doing something totally different than Hopkins did, more subtle. It's more conventional on the surface, but I think it's also very special and I remain curious about what a trilogy of films with him as Lector would've been like...
I had the same introduction to this film as you, and the same horrified reaction when seeing more of Rooney's performance. I don't have any love lost for rom-com's though, and found what I saw of Hepburn here to be aloof and hard to rally behind. I'd love a fanedit of this if it were possible to eliminate her landlord from the story. Then I could give it a proper chance. Ironically, it's absolutely worshipped in Japan, where I think a lot of people probably haven't actually watched it. Hepburn's images from the film are still used in ad campaigns there today, and Japanese women (including teens!) often quote her and specifically her in this film as their most-idolized style icon.Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
it's rightly considered one of the greatest Romantic-Comedies of all-time, except...
We need an alternate edit of this film that cuts his scenes out.
^I'm on record as just not clicking with Malick movies, and I found this film also self-indulgent and interminable. I was also much younger then so....I'd be interested in rewatching if you did a cut down fanedit.
Totally with you! This has always been my least favorite Zucker Zucker & Abraham film, even back in the day. I STILL love Kentucky Fried Movie though, which is such an underappreciated gem of theirs. Granted, I'm a Bruce Lee fanatic, so that probably has something to do with it.The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Those were more about tricky wordplay, clever sight gags, spoofing genre conventions and a million puns, where as much of the movie humour is just slapstick
Amazing film, all your points are so dead on. Also Charlie Sheen doing some of his best work here. Also the origin of the band "Save Ferris", who were a great little ska throwback group.Happily 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' is still a total gem.
Charlie Sheen doing some of his best work here.