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Breakfast At Tiffanys vs Mr. Skeffington SPOILERS!


okay so maybe people might think I'm totally insane or understand where I'm coming from.

While I was watching this film for the first time last night, It reminded me of a variation on Holly Golighty and perhaps how it would of been like if Bette Davis played "holly golightly".

The reason being that if you've seen Breakfast At Tiffanys, Holly is this narcissistic woman who has many suitors like Mrs. Skeffington and Holly is very fashionable, and cares about how she looks most of the time rather than the men she goes though. So forgive me if this sounds totally a stretch but I found both characters to be similar personality.

Also I noticed that both characters have strong affection with their brothers and in both narratives, the brother dies in war/military and both characters become hysterical.

Both Mrs. Skeffington and Holly hook up with someone wealthy in order to help their brothers out and be fianacially well off again.

Both characters have this myth or mystery of living the greater life or wealthy life and wearing beautiful clothes but in reality, they really aren't super wealthy at all.... except in Skeffington's case she does get some money after the divorce.

Both characters have a man that falls in love with them and love them for who they are and both characters totally dump the males only to reunite with their true lovers in the end.

So I guess there might be more parallels and I'm sorry if this sounded offensive or really odd just that when I was watching this film, it really reminded me of Breakfast At Tiffanys for some odd reason.

Komunickashun

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We don't see Holly age. I wonder what she'd be like in 2008. With Audrey, we never got to find out....

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Holly Golightly was actually a prostitute in her book. The cinema morality at the time dictated that she had to be backed off to "party girl".

In thinking about Komuni's post, the more you make Holly be herself, the more accurate the comparison is.

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