Breakfast at Tiffany's and The harsh truth about Manic Pixie Dream Girls
Channel: Self- Writeousness
Date: 2023-07-21

Well, the book was better (duh). Now for the gruesome details.

00:01 Save the Cat
00:30 Truman Capote vs. Cat vs. Hollywood
01:16 The Manic Pixie Dream Girl
02:00 Comparing Breakfast at Tiffany's (-es)
02:36 No one writes characterization like Capote
03:07 A prelude to racism
03:24 Contrasting Breakfast at Tiffany's (-es)
03:38 Gayness in the text
04:09 How old is Holly again? Yikes years old. Got it. 
04:31 What year is it, again? 'splains a lot.
05:55 Yikes City, USA
06:33 Mr. Yunioshi 
08:01 The cat that needs no saving
10:01 Where the video should have ended.
10:21 Why is there a birdcage in Holly's apartment?
11:54 Other things 
12:37 How Capote describes the Manic Pixie Dream Girl
13:03 Capote's tough love for the protagonist
14:14 Fern Gully being the best thing ever

By the end of this video, you may or may not agree with my assessment of Holly Golightly as the original manic pixie dream girl, or that Blake Snyder's Save the Cat rules apply to ancient works by Truman Capote. But I hope you see things like the Breakfast at Tiffany's birdcage and the rewriting of the Breakfast at Tiffany's ending in light of themes from the book and possibly worthy of scrutiny under the lens of feminism.

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