What did you think of Tom? I alternated between liking him somewhat (as in "oh brother, what will he say next?") and dismissing him as a selfish egoist. The fact that he didn't have much feeling for Audrey until he discovered that she wanted to preserve his letters for posterity said a lot about him. Clearly, the way to his heart was through his vanity.
Which of the male characters most intrigued you? Tom the intellectual of limited resources; Nick the cynical man about town; Charlie the self-important man of sincerity; or Fred the sleepy alcoholic (I loved the scene where he was dozing in the chair but got excited when he heard the cha-cha music).
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With the exception of Audrey, the male characters seem more sharply drawn than the female. Nick said some of the funniest things with his outrageous cynicism but was mostly static and one dimensional. Tom was well done. The movie rarely strays from his point of view. Because of this, and because he is presented just sympathetic enough, we are generally inclined to take his side at least at first. But he is a selfish egoist and Charlie is right about his hypocrisy in taking part in the deb scene. Charlie is the most interesting since he at first dislikes Tom for his hypocrisy—and even more because Audrey likes Tom—but by the end of the film Charlie and Tom are having long silly intellectual conversations and Charlie helps concoct Tom’s harebrained plan to rescue Audrey.
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