UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

chancedelhomme Imagining/fantasizing about being a character in the film, I'd love to inhabit the talked about role of Blanche's former boyfriend Shep Huntleigh, reconnecting with her while visiting New Orleans (one night when she sneaks off to a high class Mardi Gras ball), sweep her off her feet again (better than Malden managed to!) and rescue her from Stanley's sexual wrath! I'd take her on a cruise around the world and show her what its like to really be loved! God, Vivien Leigh was so sexy in this movie despite her deteriorating mental state and youth-obsessed nature (how old was she? 37 or 38???). There's hope for the character even in the real ending, leaving among the kindness of strangers, away from that hellish hovel!

jacobs-greenwood Brando's pleading wail "Stella! Hey, Stella!" (#45 of AFI's 100 Greatest Movie Quotes list) is just one of the many great lines in this essential Tennessee Williams drama; another is Vivien Leigh's "I have always depended upon the kindness of strangers" (#75 on AFI's 100 Greatest Movie Quotes list).Directed by Elia Kazan, Williams's screenplay earned him the first of his two Oscar nominations for Writing (he received his second for his only other collaboration with the director five years later, Baby Doll (1956)). Kazan, who received his second Best Director nomination, would win his second Oscar on his third (of five) Best Director nomination three years later with his Oscar winning Best Picture On the Waterfront (1954), which also features actor Karl Malden. In fact Malden, who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in this film, would receive his only other Oscar nomination for his Supporting role in On the Waterfront (1954). I'm guessing the playwright and the actor have nothing but nice things to say about their director.The love story is between Stanley Kowalski (Brando, who received his first Best Actor nomination) and his wife Stella (Kim Hunter, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar on her only nomination). Stella is pregnant with their first child when her older sister Blanche DuBois (Leigh, who earned her second Best Actress Oscar on her second nomination; the other was for Gone With the Wind (1939)) comes to visit.Blanche is a destitute Southern Belle who finds Stanley to be too crude for her tastes, even as his animalistic sexual energy overwhelms her. Stanley thinks Blanche is a phony, and begins checking up on her story, finding financial malfeasance and more in her recent past. Malden plays a card playing buddy of Brando's that believes Blanche is the idealistic, refined lady of the South she pretends to be, until he learns otherwise.In addition to Leigh, Malden, and Hunter, this Best Picture nominated film's B&W Art Direction-Set Decoration also won an Oscar; its B&W Cinematography and Costume Design also received nominations as did its Dramatic Score and Sound Recording. #45 on AFI's 100 Greatest Movies list. #67 on AFI's 100 Greatest Love Stories list. It was added to the National Film Registry in 1999. #19 on AFI's Top 25 Film Scores list.

elvircorhodzic A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE is a great film that pulsates in plenty of passion, cruelty and sharpness. This is a character drama in which you have a very complex and contradictory characters. Scene are scary realistic and relentlessly. I agree with the individuals that this film is milestone in Hollywood. This fact does not apply exclusively to acting. It includes the atmosphere, expression, music and partly scenery.The film is the true wealth of visual succubus. Of course, it's not nice to look at any kind of abuse. However, in this case the abuse is caused by the hopelessness, loneliness and insensitivity. Physical confrontation is tangible and real, full of fury and passion. It's funny to talk about conflict of aristocratic behavior with workers' hooliganism. This is the conflict between reality and illusion.In some scenes are definitely feel the excess energy turns into violence, lust or passion. A dramatic illustration of life in a society that fails. It is a story of anguish and tickles your fancy. Perhaps in this case, censorship is welcome. Let's leave aside the realism. Violent emotions are completely exempt. Therefore, we can talk about immorality, profanity and sinfulness. Two sexually voracious women express their sexuality in a completely different way. Violent husband who does not understand anything beyond his world and a bit confused suitor who recognized something different from the crude everyday.Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois, her amazing expression, expression, emotions and mood swings are memorable. Torment and tragedy of a woman who at any time he wants to be a lady. The fight led by herself, which is caused by the suicide of her boyfriend from her youth was an incredibly passionate. After all appearances breakdown preceded by a brutal rape (which should mean a sort of wake-up) and brings it to a complete collapse. Her performance is truly moving and flexible.Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski is brilliant. A loud, healthy, brutal and energetic male in shirt lesser of two numbers. It's amazing how much sympathy garnered immoral, smelly and sexually charged character. However, it is generally attentive husband who expresses his own frustration with physical force. He managed untangle a ball and unfortunately "punish the cat" in his own way.Kim Hunter as Stella Kowalski She's a young woman, torn in all directions. Character, which is a connection between two irreconcilable character. Pregnancy, beatings and stress are somewhat confused. It is interesting that she enjoys the rough, almost animal sexuality by her husband. Karl Malden as Harold "Mitch" Mitchell was somewhat embarrassed and shy suitor who wants to please his mother, who was on the bed. Uncouth character who is actually in the end defeated.Very realistic representation of the human tragedy through the game of shadows, violence, lust, passions, dreams and needs.

blanche-2 "A Streetcar Named Desire" from 1951 is a brilliant adaptation of the Broadway play that catapulted Marlon Brando to superstardom. The performances in this film are formidable.There is talk on this board of Leigh's classic style of acting versus the "method" acting of the rest of the cast, but somehow it all works beautifully. Leigh's Blanche has all the frailty and disillusionment necessary to the character, as well as the sweetness and flirtatiousness. It is a delicate, soft, heartbreaking performance. We can see her disintegrate before our eyes, first after Mitche's total destruction of her emotionally, and then Stanley's destruction of her physically.Marlon Brando, with his bulging muscles and macho style, is the epitome of the new, non-class-conscious South, the swaggering man with the bad temper and the strong sexual hold he has on his wife. His performance needs to be appreciated as it was in the time period with all the handsome, heroic, classic leading men, well spoken, and wearing tuxes. Enter this walking, talking, overt sex machine, a real macho man with his mumbling voice, tousled hair, t-shirt, and major attitude. It was a shock. It was even a shock to Tennessee Williams, since the main character is supposed to be Blanche. It wasn't on Broadway.Here, Elia Kazan's skillful direction and the magnificent acting brings the play into balance and shows the new south obliterate the old south of jasmine perfume, pretty frocks, and class distinctions.Someone said Leigh's Blanche was an extension of Scarlett O'Hara had we seen her age. But Scarlett was one who changed with the times. In what was left of her mind, Blanche was stuck in the old days of manners, flirtation, and gentleman callers.An incredible play, a beautiful film, even with the slightly softened ending. Because we know Stella will return to Stanley, no matter what he did to her sister. The game, after all, is "seven-card stud," the last words in the play. In that game four out of seven cards are exposed to other players. Like the game, certain aspects of human nature, such as cruelty, remain hidden. Poker is based on the ability to bluff. Stella is also trapped in a world of fantasy, perhaps even more so than her sister.