Breakfast at Tiffany's Opening Scene Analysis-Will Smith

At the beginning of the film an establishing shot is used looking down Fifth Avenue, New York City one of the most expensive streets in the world which is notorious for being a street popular for shopping in.

A taxi drives down Fifth Avenue and is followed by a panning shot, this signifies that someone important in the film such as a main character is currently inside the taxi. Out of the car steps an elegantly dressed woman. The camera cuts from the panning shot to a low angle shot looking up from the ground. We see the character is looking up high on a building which reads 'Tiffany & Co.".

The character who we now establish as Audrey Hepburn or Holly Golightly, as known in the film, walks over to a jewelry shop window. The audience presume Holly Golightly is upper class and is wealthy due to her dress sense and her interest in the film of expensive taste in clothing and jewelry. Hepburn portrays someone eccentric and a 'café society girl' as she gets out pastry and a drink from a bag. Holly Golightly carries on window shopping, looking at chandeliers before she walks off.

A new scene begins with Golightly running elegantly to her apartment before a man jumps out of his car to chase after her.