homosexuality and The dreary depressing movies of the 1960s

The 1960s almost destroyed the movie industry. The movies already were facing stiff competition from TV, but the introspective movies of the 1960s many written by Homosexuals who internalized their own loneliness and bitterness of a repressive society by putting up on the screen bitter stories of loneliness and lives that were nothing more than living lies, many with sad tragic endings. Of course it was Tennesse Williams Who got this ball rolling, With his unsentimental stories of dashed dreams and hidden lives, and Hollywood being the copycat that it is, overindulged in this area for the next 20 years.
one of the worst aspects of this headlong rush into stories about antiheroes and faded Belles and closet homosexuals-movies like " Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" or " reflections in a Golden Eye." left audiences anything but enthused and wanting more, if anything it made them wish for a different type of movie, because the characters on screen were as different from them as Martian or Aliens, and they sensed the hidden manipulation.
Breakfast at Tiffany's had the chance to be such another movie, but Blake Edwards, a director who truly knew what American Audiences wanted, had the good sense to do an end run on Truman Capote, and take his story and his characters and change them into something much more commercial and emotionally pleasing.
You can almost see Truman Capote grousing to Tennesse how they tricked him and ruined his story for nothing more than a bunch of edible cotton candy. But the audiences didn't care about any of that-though Tennesse and Truman and all the rest didn't realize it-audiences went to movies to be emotionally satisfied, by watching stories in which the characters reminded them something of themselves.
A whole generation of writers and directors would go to school on movies like 'Tiffany's' and see how important it was to have a character that the audience loved and rooted for. Many of the movies of the 60s had none of this, they were full of characters that the audience either despised or felt no emotional attachment too. Even movie like " Whose afraid of Virginia Wolfe" no matter how many awards it garnered or glowing critical reviews written in its favor, is one of the movies we know all about but have never actually seen. the 1950s, it is true was a repressed time, in which people suffered in silence in failed marriages because divorce was looked down on by society as a mark of failure, and Homosexuals if they wanted to work and get along in society kept their sexual proclivity hidden like a deadly secret- and the movies of the sixties acted to cast a light on a closed society of lies, but in many ways it was like force feeding a reluctant diner. It still serves to nourish the body without any of the pleasure involved in eating.
Holly is the first 'sexually empowered' american female character, but it is done in a pleasing entertaining fashion, the message is delivered to an accepting audience, the fact that Holly has decided to emancipate herself from a society that wished to see Women subservient to men is told using the charms of Miss Hepburn to trick the audience into accepting it, this is the gift of Audrey that few actresses could have pulled off. Its Alchemy to be sure, and it points the way to future entertainment.
As it's been said before: If you want to send a message -use Western Union. Hollywood final got the message by the 1970s, when a dead box office and closing movie theaters showed them the error of their ways, the closeted emotionally distraught Homosexual, a major theme of the movies of the 1960s soon faded from the movie screens, never to be seen again.
In the 1970s Hollywood portrayed homosexuals as just that, and it changed everything, symbolism will never take the place of reality. And this tact was much more healthy to the Homosexual community as a whole then all the lies and hidden messages.