Mickey Rooney's Bizarre performance

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Breakfast at Tiffany's

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JohnQ1127 — 9 years ago(February 05, 2017 10:39 AM)

What were the film makers thinking when they created/developed this role?
A lot has been talked about his racist caricature performance and that it's really a product of the time period. What I don't understand is what that bizarre/wacky/slapstick performance is doing in a movie like this anyway? He's crazy, every 5 minutes he's screaming that he's going to call the cops and then he's falling all over the place. I could see if this was just some broad slapstick comedy from 1961 but I have no idea why he's in a film like this.

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beautifulsadlife — 9 years ago(February 05, 2017 07:41 PM)

I think it was just supposed to be campy and over-the-top. Comic relief. It didn't work.

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J-Curl-BiggernBlacker — 5 years ago(June 29, 2020 11:45 PM)

His presence almost ruins the movie entirely. Not only is it horribly racist, his also feels like it’s from a completely different movie. Like a Marx brother movie.
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AndrewDavidscott76 — 4 years ago(February 20, 2022 02:08 PM)

Channel 5 in the UK have removed his scenes from recent airings of the film.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10530961/Breakfast-Tiffanys-censorship-claims-Channel-5-axes-scenes-featuring-Mr-Yunioshi.html