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Old 02-23-2012, 02:09 PM   #100
Prestidigitweeze
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For me Mickey Rooney as the Japanese gentleman upstairs tips the balance strongly toward the book.
That and the fact the movie completely whitewashes the narrator's homosexuality and Golightly's fruit fly aspect. Blake Edwards' rather literal-minded political incorrectness can be wearily amusing in a Pink Panther flick, but Tiffany's demanded a lighter touch and Edwards bludgeons his way to the ethereal. The only reason we think he accomplished the task is because Audrey Hepburn made it work.

Besides which, Capote's a gorgeous stylist when he's at his best, and Tiffany's and Music for Chameleons are probably his best.

And I can see Barty's point about The Godfather in theory, but I can't sign off on Puzo's supposed mediocrity because I've never been interested in reading him.

It doesn't matter what others say about a book. What matters is the empirical.

Another example of that is Jules Dassin's Rififi (a classic jewel heist flick that deserves a place alongside Melville's Le Cercle Rouge), which is a completely rewritten film based on a garish novel by an equally garish gangster known for his conspicuous lack of literary talent. For all I know, even that novel might be good.

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