Watched "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Yesterday...

[Lukus Alderman]

The song is one of my favorites!

Facepalm

 

[aowells]

Or AD actual accomplishments based on reality. Like yourself.
Breakfast at Tiffany's,

Award[24] Person

Best Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Henry Mancini

Best Original Song: "Moon River" Henry Mancini

Johnny Mercer

Nominated:

Best Actress in a Leading Role Audrey Hepburn

Best Art Direction Hal Pereira

Roland Anderson

Sam Comer

Ray Moyer

Best Adapted Screenplay George Axelrod

Other awards

Golden Globe Awards, 1961: Best picture (musical or comedy)

Golden Globe Awards, 1961: Best actress (musical or comedy) - Audrey Hepburn

Henry Mancini won the Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album or Recording or Score.

George Axelrod won the Writers Guild of America, East for Best Written American Drama.

Blake Edwards was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.

The film was ranked #486 on Empire's The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time list for 2008.[25]

As said in Water Boy:

"Looks like Mamas (AS) is wrong again".

Don't let facts deter you.

Don't make me compile a list of horrible movies that won a boatload of awards. Breakfast at Tiffany's isn't terrible, but it's definitely overrated, and apparently over-awarded too.

 

[armadillo slim]

Or AD actual accomplishments based on reality. Like yourself.
Breakfast at Tiffany's,

Award[24] Person

Best Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Henry Mancini

Best Original Song: "Moon River" Henry Mancini

Johnny Mercer

Nominated:

Best Actress in a Leading Role Audrey Hepburn

Best Art Direction Hal Pereira

Roland Anderson

Sam Comer

Ray Moyer

Best Adapted Screenplay George Axelrod

Other awards

Golden Globe Awards, 1961: Best picture (musical or comedy)

Golden Globe Awards, 1961: Best actress (musical or comedy) - Audrey Hepburn

Henry Mancini won the Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album or Recording or Score.

George Axelrod won the Writers Guild of America, East for Best Written American Drama.

Blake Edwards was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.

The film was ranked #486 on Empire's The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time list for 2008.[25]

As said in Water Boy:

"Looks like Mamas (AS) is wrong again".

Don't let facts deter you.

you completely missed the point of the post which was simply to needle Lukus, who is a good friend of mine.

 

[echeese]

Haters gonna hate.
Be prepared for a movie review per week from me.

You are lucky this site does not have a down vote feature. . . .

s-t-p with the line of the day. . . .

 

[Tulsahorn]

Haters gonna hate.
Be prepared for a movie review per week from me.

Nothing to do with haters.

Has all to do with your movie critic skills are on par with your football observation skills.

Two movies you need to see;

Dumb and Dumber;

Clueless and Clueless

 

[JimR]

That movie was too long and slow. I knew it'd be boring so I didn't watch it.

you really are proud of your cluelessness.

 

[doc longhorn]

...with the wife.
What an awful movie. Aside from the blatant racism featuring Mickey Rooney playing the oriental landlord, there wasn't much to like about the movie. Yes, Hepburn was very pretty, but she was basically as thick as a toothpick and had the voice of a 65 year old lady with emphysema.

Now on to the plot of the movie: two prostitutes, one male and one female, basically fall in love while living next to each other in an apartment building. Of course, the woman is hesitant to leave the comfort of her gold digger lifestyle, but relents at the end of the movie. Did I miss something? There wasn't much else aside from the painful last scene where the two main characters kiss in a badly set rainstorm in a New York alleyway while looking for a cat the crazy Hepburn threw out of the cab.

The movie wasn't even good.

Should've watched "Ten Things I Hate About You".

You just now watched it? Better late than never, I guess.

 

[Juan]

Moon River .............

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and from the 90s --

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[doc longhorn]

The song is one of my favorites!

Mine too and only Celine could sing that song. I take that back - the angel from heaven, Jackie Evancho, sang it pretty well too. If any of you, that don't listen to rap and garage screeching and actually have a musical ear, want to be stunned by a creature not of this earth - listen to u-tubes of Jackies voice.

She was 11 years old when she sang this and she dedicated the song to the 20 babies that were murdered in Connecticut. Her comment was "I am heartbroken".

She will bring tears to your eyes and make a grown man weak in the knees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSj31u3urvs

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

Mine too and only Celine could sing that song. I take that back - the angel from heaven, Jackie Evancho, sang it pretty well too. If any of you, that don't listen to rap and garage screeching and actually have a musical ear, want to be stunned by a creature not of this earth - listen to u-tubes of Jackies voice.
She was 11 years old when she sang this and she dedicated the song to the 20 babies that were murdered in Connecticut. Her comment was "I am heartbroken".

She will bring tears to your eyes and make a grown man weak in the knees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSj31u3urvs

Loved it!

 

[doc longhorn]

Loved it!

LOL - she is super-natural. This moment, when she sang "The Lords Prayer" was one of her virtuoso performances. I have listened to this over a hundred times and it affects me the same way, every time.

Another virtuoso performance, IMO, was the following:



Now, remember, she is only 11 years old and she was singing in a a foreign language - perfectly. Nessun Dorma was written for male Italian singers and a little girl, like Jackie, was not supposed to be able to master it. Jackie winds up owning it!

No doubt she is a musical genius, but she is Americana personified as well. She comes from a grounded Pittsburg family that is the epitome of the average American family.

As you can tell, I have been smitten by her. My wife and I have been to three live performances and I have all her albums. As David Foster said "I have never seen anything like this".

 

[JimR]

mine too and only celine could sing that song. I take that back - the angel from heaven, jackie evancho, sang it pretty well too. If any of you, that don't listen to rap and garage screeching and actually have a musical ear, want to be stunned by a creature not of this earth - listen to u-tubes of jackies voice.
She was 11 years old when she sang this and she dedicated the song to the 20 babies that were murdered in connecticut. Her comment was "i am heartbroken".

She will bring tears to your eyes and make a grown man weak in the knees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsj31u3urvs

omg

 

[doc longhorn]

omg

LOL - I told you.

 

[BevoBlake]

I think half of Lukas' reviews will be summed up with:

tl;dw (Too long didn't watch)

 

[JimR]

I think half of Lukas' reviews will be summed up with:
tl;dw (Too long didn't watch)

NTHI

no taste hated it

 

[JimR]

LOL - she is super-natural. This moment, when she sang "The Lords Prayer" was one of her virtuoso performances. I have listened to this over a hundred times and it affects me the same way, every time.
Another virtuoso performance, IMO, was the following:

Nessun Dorma is my all-time favorite song. wow, she nailed it.

 

[streettopeschel]

NTHI
no taste hated it

SAS. NMM. short attention span. need more Muppets.

 

[armadillo slim]

that little girl hit the internet when she was six or seven and has been doing it that well for that long. she's amazing. lot's of you tubes that go way back. she sang Ave Maria when she was six or seven and it blew me away. i hope success doesn't ruin her the way it has so many talented kids.

 

[doc longhorn]

that little girl hit the internet when she was six or seven and has been doing it that well for that long. she's amazing. lot's of you tubes that go way back. she sang Ave Maria when she was six or seven and it blew me away. i hope success doesn't ruin her the way it has so many talented kids.

So true. But her voice didn't start to gain real strength until she was around 9 - 10. Like David foster said "It's hard to take an 8 year old seriously".

Ave Maria is one of the most difficult songs to sing - for an adult, much less an 11 year old.



Do you think your 11 year old could do this? For that matter, what 11 year old could?

 

[doc longhorn]

lsampson - please forgive me for hi-jacking your thread. I just have a few passions - beautiful music and Jackie Evancho are a couple.

By-the-way, for those on here that think I am a classical music snob - I am far from it. But I am a fan of good music and the talent that performs it. I'm a blues fan as well - who doesn't like T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Lead Belly and Stevie Ray Vaughn?