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• One For The Road
  Posted on December 31, 2009 12:00PM
  
  
  
  
  

  I've mentioned in a previous entry that I'm an Audrey Hepburn fan, and that Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's are two of my top three favorite Audrey films. There's a less popular movie of hers that completes my list, slotting between the two aforementioned entries: Two for the Road, in which she stars opposite Albert Finney.
  
  Aside from the use of nonlinear narrative to demonstrate the finer and lesser points of a marriage over the years, Two for the Road is one of my favorite films of all time because it is an honest portrayal of married life through the story of main characters Mark (Albert) and Jo (Audrey), even providing one of the most spot-on definitions of marriage that I know: "Marriage is when a woman asks a man to take off his pajamas--and it's because she wants to send them to the laundry."
  
  Not only his PJs, I wish to point out; also his shirts, trousers, handkerchiefs, and socks. And--God help all married women--his knickers.
  

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• Happy, Unsatisfying Endings Versus Sad, Inevitable Ones
  Posted on December 29, 2009 12:00PM
  
  
  
  
  

  SAN FRANCISCO - The other day, I got into thinking about how much stock we put into happy endings when, upon catching sight of Tiffany & Co. from where I was seated at Union Square in San Francisco, I remembered the Audrey Hepburn film Breakfast at Tiffany's. The movie, which was based on a novella by Truman Capote, was of course set in New York. The Tiffany & Co. it featured was the jewelry company's flagship store in the Big Apple.
  
  I'm a big Audrey Hepburn fan, and while Truman Capote might have been very vocal about his disapproval over Audrey's casting as the lead character, I adored her in the movie. True, her take on Holly Golightly wasn't quite how Capote penned it--his version of Holly was flighty, relentless, someone who fluidly seeps in and disappears through the cracks in one's defenses, whereas Holly as Audrey portrayed her had a bit more whimsy and a whole lot of heart. I think the important thing is, the two different versions each yielded well- and fully-developed characters.
  
  Which I can't say for the plot line--not for the movie's, at least. I don't blame Capote for being upset because his story underwent so many changes to better appeal to Hollywood demands and mainstream sensibilities. Holly and Paul (the unnamed narrator in the novella) predictably ended up together, because that's what the audience wants to see. It totally goes against Holly's character, and the events progressing from the turning point eventually leading to the lovers' embrace at the end was a sloppy, hasty, kitschy affair. The only thing I'm happy with in this ending is the reunion with Cat.
  

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