barbudean
19Nov11
oh yes, it is.
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Ross Birks
15Sep11
Marlon Brando is so good in this movie, in fact he’s almost too good. It’s as if the screen can’t even hold him. Primal, raw and magnetic. Take his performance and put it in a movie today and it would still wipe the floor with every other performance around it. This is the kind of stuff that even De Niro and Daniel Day-Lewis would struggle to capture. One of those classics that the word masterpiece was invented for.
Mikhael Tarigan
23Apr11
I don’t particularly find anything amazing from the story and Brando’s performance. Instead, Vivian Leigh’s performance here is one of the very few that can be called perfect.
Øyvind Rype
28Mar11
As much as I enjoy Brando's superb performance I really can't deal with the extreme melodrama going on there added by Vivien Leigh's cringe-worthy overplaying. Initially three stars but after consideration: two stars.
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theladyassassin
10Jun10
How does one go about adapting a play to the screen whilst leaving out the two most important details? 1. The boy was gay 2. Stella was raped
Maximilian Bercovicz
12May10
Studied the play in English... all I could think about was Brando shouting "STELLA!"
bees can see ultraviolet light
4May10
Yeah, no wonder we watch this in highschool... everything is at the surface in this play.
Matt Gesicki
10Jan10
Blanche DuBois must be the greatest character ever created. Vivien Leigh goes far and above the strenuous requirements of this challenging role, and she succeeds beautifully. Seriously, greatest performance ever in film. The rest of Kazan's film is almost as fantastic as Leigh's work. The sexual tension between Leigh and Marlon Brando is so alive and intense that it pulsates in their scenes together.
Grafton
17Dec09
Tennessee Williams is a playwright I have major issues with. His characters are too over-the-top; his symbolism is thick and heavy-handed (that's why high school English classes read his plays - they can be analyzed at a surface level); and his female characters fail at being lost because he tries too hard to make them lost (you wanna make a character lost in a dream world? Go for subtlety). Yet, Elia Kazan's film adaptation of Streetcar has proved itself worthy as a classic. Williams' extreme melodrama is still present, but the actors (namely Brando) give top-notch performances. Vivien Leigh plays a great Blanche even though her classic acting style clashes against Brando's visceral method acting. The film has made me sympathize greater with Blanche's character and disdain Stanley's brutish, animalistic cruelty. Excellent work.
Iza Larize
17Feb09
"I've always depended on the kindnes of strangers." Vivien Leigh's classic acting style versus Marlon Brando's method acting - not bad. Tennessee Williams always knows how to make stories that are human and very touching. Kazan's finest film, followed by 1961's "Splendor in the Grass".
