Breakfast at Tiffany's

Good morning/afternoon everyone, thank you for inviting me to this lovely multicultural festival, it’s a great honour to be speaking to all of you today. As you can see behind me, I’m going to try and clear up some misunderstandings in regards to Japan and how they were depicted during World War 2. You might be asking like “oh, why would she be teaching us about how they were misunderstood in WW2? Why not teach us about how they are now, in modern times?” And very good question! Thanks for…

Unlike white Caucasian actors, the number of roles which are available for ethnic minorities are low. A study conducted by University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication shows that black actors occupy 12.5%, while Asian and Hispanic hold only 5.3% and 4.9% respectively for roles in top 100 films in 2014. However, the existence of these roles is likely to be the secondary characters or to merely diversify the movies. Recalling two popular sitcoms in the late 90s and 00s,…

Have you ever watched a movie based on the events of a book or vise versa? Usually the movie follows the events of the book. But not in this case, the movie “The fall of the house of usher” contains some major differences from the book. If I were to just watch the movie, I would have never even know what the book is about. That is how much they differ. There are three major points in which the story and the movie differ. The storylines of both the book and the movie differ by way of a couple…

Breakfast at Tiffany’s was a very successful story and because of this he got more fame and eventually this let him to writing In Cold Blood. After he graduated from high school he started to work at The New Yorker, he also made important phone calls in which later…

and does not start on her next film until after the birth. On July 17, 1960 she gives birth to son Sean Ferrer whom now is 55. Many women would say that after birth they focus on their post baby bod but Audrey focused on her post baby film. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. This film is of a young man, George Peppar who moves into a young women’s apartment, Audrey Hepburn, who is an expensive escort who tries to marry the man and gain the large amount of wealth is soon to inherit. This is considered to be…

Did you yet “discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself and the other for helping others” (Hepburn)? This woman strongly believed in this and spent her life to helping others until her death which was possibly caused because she forgot that she had another hand to take care of her own self. Despite her traumatic childhood, Audrey Hepburn was able to overcome the nightmare experiences through possessing strong morals and beliefs of her own and not only had a successful career as…

On May 4, 1929, philanthropist and style heroine Audrey Hepburn was born near Brussels, Belgium. Unlike many other Hollywood film stars, she was not born into her success. She had an arduous childhood, some of her younger years being spent hiding from the Nazis. Despite the suffering Audrey and her mother endured, she quickly blossomed into a beautiful young woman with a life overflowing with success. All across the world, people strive to follow in her chic and polished footsteps. Hepburn was,…

By applying facial makeup to caricature East Asian features, a non-East Asian actor (normally a Caucasian actor) can transform into his/her character. An example of this controversial method is used in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961); Mr. Yunioshi was played by yellowface-donning Mickey Rooney. Even if the character had been played by a Japanese actor, it still could not have dodged the criticism from the public since it was an extremely offensive role. Similar…

Audrey Hepburn Bio (Rough Draft) Audrey Hepburn was able to tell a story when she was acting, she made you believe that every story was hers. She was a talented performer known for her beauty, elegance, and grace. Audrey made her stage debut in the musical High Button Shoes in London. She didn’t stay on the stage for much longer. Audrey once said “Everything I learned I learned from the movies”. She then turned around and began making her own movies to teach people the pros and cons of life.…

A person’s ethnicity is often defined by their belonging in a social group that share the same cultural traditions, e.g. language, religion and customs that are passed down through time, from one generation to the next. Ethnic groups can span both a broad and narrow aggregation, an example would be that, people living in the United Kingdom are coined as British, however, they can also be more accurately presented as Scottish, Welsh, Irish or English. This is not to be mistaken for race, the…