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Brutal Brando, I love Marlon Brando, but he was too mean in this movie. No heart or feelings for poor Blanche. Blanche was an outcast. The subject of her rejection was an indication of her being the way that she was. What Blanche did was by all means wrong and it couldn't be excused. You could see the beauty in her despite her heavy burden. Blanche was too hard on herself. She was always wanting approval from others. Not knowing how graceful, refined, and beautiful she was. I agree she was a little frayed around the edges and she took refinement to another level. But still she showed signs of the proper up bringing and breeding. Blanche had fallen from grace. <
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>The cast was outstanding. Wright King one of my favorite actors never quite made the grade in movies. Kim hunter made some progress on the screen. Kim's movie acting was limited to a certain degree. Perhaps these people were stage actors. Mitch who was to be Blache's savior was excellent as well. Karl Maulden was a fine actor. <
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>They tell me John Garfield was up for the part of Stanley. I think Marlon Brando was the best choice. John Garfield could be rough. He had a tough guy attitude. But I don't believe he could be as brutal as Brando. <
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>I could not bear the last scences in the picture. It was hard to see Blanche reduced to what seem like a fleeing animal. The way she ran and fell to the floor. The matron perhaps envious of this delicate women wanted to put her in a straight jacket and have her nails cut. Poor Blache, but the doctor an older gentlemen understood Blanche's personality. He knew what would work for Blanche. She was a lady and well mannered at that. So he treated her like a lady. To see him tip his hat, take her arm gentlely and escort her out to the waiting car was so touching. <
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>My favorite scene in this movie was the first scene. The sight of the train making it's way to New Orleans. The cabs pulling up just in time to load pasengers. This reminded me of days gone by. Then out of the smokey steam comes Blanche. <
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>This is a very snsitive movie. A study of the lost and lonely with nowhere to turn. <
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A Modern Masterpiece
A Streetcar Named Desire, was "a modern masterpiece" that "took Broadway by storm." Considered by many to be the finest drama of America's finest post-war playwright, A Streetcar Named Desire made an indelible impression on American culture. Under the muscular direction of Elia Kazan, the incendiary play, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics' Circle Award in 1947, was the follow-up to Williams' 1944 debut.Its melodramatic structure, however, is never allowed to eclipse the emotional and atmospheric authenticity of the play. It is particularly revered for its multi-faceted characterizations; its rich dialogue, which is masterful in its lyricism as well as its use of working-class vernacular; The play recounts Blanche's efforts to adapt to her new circumstances with her dignity and sanity intact, and documents her poignant attempts to conceal her advancing age, her professional failure and her highly sexual nature from those who might judge her harshly.

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Excellent but I would have wanted more realism
This is a very emotional film. It induces emotion in the viewer, and for that I give it five stars. I'm more interested in constructive criticism than in praise, so even though I think it is an excellent film, I will just focus on what I think is wrong with it. <
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>One problem is that Blanche DuBois is simply too pretty for the role. We don't understand, on a gut level, why this beautiful girl would worry about hiding behind dim lighting. The script makes it clear that she is supposed to look "old", and yet she doesn't. That's a fault of the film. It makes her final passionate scene with Karl Malden incomprehensible. He holds her up to the light, she looks very pretty, and yet we are supposed to believe that she looks terrible in bright light. For that I blame the director, Elia Kazan. What in God's name could he have been thinking of, and why did he mess up so badly on that important detail? <
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>Another important fault of this film is that Stanley Kowalski's attack on Blanche isn't set up properly. Are we just supposed to believe that he is an animal, and chalk it up to that? Sorry, not good enough. We should have seen it coming. Again, another big mess-up by Kazan. When the script has the characters doing something that doesn't ring true, there's a problem. We needed to see that attack being led up to. We needed to think "Oh my god, I know what he is about to do." <
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>Stanley Kowalski is actually the good guy throughout most of the movie. All of a sudden it turns. It's incomprehensible. Somewhere between the writing, directing, and acting, somebody dropped the ball somewhere. The Stanley Kowalski who attacks Blanche is not the same man who appears earlier in the film. He's not an "animal". He's not set up that way for us. Blanche is the snob, and Stanley is okay, but that is turned on its head at the end. <
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>Insanity is a nice little copout. We can make our actors do anything, and just say okay, they went nuts. Very touching, but not very realistic. How does someone go insane? What stages do they go through? Blanche's descent into insanity, into an inability to tell reality from fantasy, should have been more realistic, more researched, more consistent with the way it actually happens. It does happen to people, people who are extremely bipolar, people who are schizophrenic. More research should have been done, to show what the descent into insanity actually does look like. <
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>I have high standards, but that's a good thing, I think. Still, I've given this film five stars.