Breakfast at Tiffany's group

While I admire the Cat on a Hot Tin Roof group for picking a theme for their discussion, our group found that there were just too many excellent talking points in Breakfast at Tiffany's to limit ourselves to any one of them. My job for the presentation was to find a few movies that shed light on issues in the novella. After much deliberation, the two I finally selected are "Notting Hill" and "Moulin Rouge."
At first it is difficult to believe that these films could have anything in common, but look closer and you'll see that they both have ambitious female "artists" at the lead (similar to Holly Golightly). They also feature men who are involved in a certain variety of intellectual pursuit, one is a book store owner and the other is a writer (like Capote's unnamed narrator).

What is the significance of this you may ask? Perhaps writing (or reading) about these types of women offers a catharsis of sorts; this is the only way that men can have possession of, or control over them. By the same token, the glamour and ambition of the female leads is a way to retain the identity of a "wild thing" and escape their perceived captivity.
I had to choose clips from the beginnings of these movies because Julia Roberts' and Nicole Kidman's characters do not remain ineffable signifiers for long before succumbing to the siren song of romance. Holly, as we know, doesn't give in to her feelings, but the price of her independence is loneliness.
When faced with the tragedy of capitulation and the tragedy of holding-out, which one do you choose?