< Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's/YMMV
- Adaptation Displacement: No really, a novella, not just a movie.
- Crowning Music of Awesome: "Moon River", which was apparently written specifically to fit Audrey Hepburn's singing range.
- Ethnic Scrappy: Mickey Rooney's character. With Yellowface makeup, silly accent, thick glasses and buck teeth, Mr. Yunioshi is one of the most notoriously racist caricatures in American film. In Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story it is used as an example of how Asians were depicted in Hollywood and how Lee was about to provide something better. Rooney himself stated he was heart-broken over this and has never received a complaint about his portrayal.
- I Am Not Shazam: The protagonist's name is "Holly", not "Tiffany". "Tiffany's" is a jewelry store and the breakfast in question consists of consuming a pastry and coffee while browsing the shop window display.
- Memetic Outfit: The "little black dress", which has become a fashion term in its own right.
- Retroactive Recognition: Paul Varjak is played by George Peppard, later known as Hannibal Smith.
- What the Hell, Casting Agency?: Ms. Hepburn has stated that she was terribly miscast (Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe for the role). And yet she made it work. Mickey Rooney as a Japanese man, on the other hand...
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