Corrected entry: In the party scene at Holly's house, when Paul Varjak sees that Holly's cigarette is about to put a lady's hat on fire, he runs towards it, tilting the bird cage on the column, crossing a lady in a pearly ivory coloured dress. When he sees that the fire was extinguished, he's back at the same spot behind the lady when he touches his glass to her back, and the column is straight. (00:29:55 - 00:30:30)
HuskyMiller
13th Apr 2008
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
16th Aug 2004
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Corrected entry: Early in the film when George Peppard wakes Audrey Hepburn by knocking on her door, she is in bed wearing only one earplug, but when she stands at the door talking to him she has to unplug both her ears.
Correction: She is indeed wearing two ear plugs. You can see the second one dangling from her far ear as she walks from the bedroom to answer the door.
17th Sep 2006
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Corrected entry: During the party scene at Holly's house, her cigarette holder starts out very long but after she lights the lady's hat on fire it becomes short. The next shot it's long again.
Correction: There is no change in length in the scenes you mention - only foreshortening. However, the holder is much shorter later during the party when Holly tells her drunk model friend she is being a bore. That is because it is a telescoping holder. There are many close-up shots of it during the party where you can confirm this.
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Correction: Of course the column is straight - it never totally fell over to begin with. It is only "tipped", and is on its way down when it hits someone and is stopped. Obviously they stood it back up. The party is way too crowded for that thing to have ever made it to the floor.
HuskyMiller