Gif Assignment: Freaky Friday & Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Hi Dr. Boessen and DNN classmates! This my submission for the gif portfolio exercise. I ended up making two because I couldn’t decide between them! The first one comes from the movie Freaky Friday (2003).

In case you haven’t seen Freaky Friday, the movie centers around the hijinks that ensue after a quarreling mother and daughter mystically swap bodies on a day that holds very important events for the both of them. In the scene I made this gif from, they’re attempting to merge back into the right bodies by running really fast into each other. The tone of this movie is really playful and upbeat, so I thought capturing this bit of slapstick comedy in repeating gif form was a good representation of the film as a whole.

The next gif comes from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and is a bit sadder.

There’s going to be spoilers for the ending to both the movie and the novel versions of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, so if you were planning on watching or reading either of them maybe stop here. I think the spoilers are pretty minor, though. Basically, the scene this gif comes from appears at end of the movie when the main character, (Holly Golightly), kicks her beloved cat out of a taxi to prove another character that she’s not beholden to or dependent on anyone. She regrets her decision and goes to search for Cat, (that’s its name), in the rain. If you’ve seen the movie, you know that Holly’s about to go open that large box on the left and find a damp orange tabby. But if you’ve read the book, you know that doesn’t happen. In the novel, Holly wanders around in the rain for a long while but ultimately isn’t able to find Cat. I thought my gif was a little bit more representative of the novel’s tone. The colors suggest a sadness to the scene, washing the alley in dreary grays, blues, and browns. From the image itself, it’s a search for something that never reaches fulfillment as Holly will continually loop back to checking the stack of boxes.