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them00ch
Marlon Brando makes me question my position on the kinsey scale.CDF
What is wrong with you people? Stanley is emotionally and physically abusive. He even rapes a main character. In what possible way could anyone consider him to be a hero? He's not cool; he's cruel.caley
Karl Malden deserves more credit. I thought he kinda stole every scene he was in. For some reason, every single time Brando said "Napoleonic code" it got funnier and funnier and finally after the 4th or 5th time I broke into gutbusting laughter.jacktrewin
brando dominates this his screen presence is incrediblerwj
This is Vivien Leigh's film all the way... A well deserved Oscar!ShibbyMary
I found this movie a bit difficult to watch. While yes, Marlon Brando character is super hot (just... hot damn, those shirts) I felt uncomfortable and angry every time he was on screen. He did a great job of getting across that feeling of violence and tension. His character is an abuser, and I like the implication in the movie that she might leave him for real this time.I do feel like Vivien Leigh overdid it with the acting, but I can make an allowance for that since I think that is part of the actual character. There were a few scenes during the confrontation with that dude she was gonna marry (whose name escaped me rn) where her whole voice and manner changed. I think that glimpse between the "real Blanche" and the mask she puts on around others was my favorite part of the movie.
Let The Flames Begin
Phenomenal perfomances! This movie is magnificent in every possible way. I am very interested in Stanley's and Stella's relationship. It shows a dark, unhealthy and abusive side of love.Jeckit
I can't stand Vivien Leigh's character.onedarkdog
Marlon Brando turned me gay - (i was already a masochist).Sobchak
Stella!!!Siskoid
The classic 1951 production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire had director Elia Kazan get his theater cast together again (all but Jessica Tandy as Blanche, who had to give her role up to bigger star Vivian Leigh) four years after they'd made it big on Broadway. It made Marlon Brando a movie star. Hadn't seen the film in a long time, but it and the play have real staying power. Kazan's noir lighting, strong focus on Blanche and rightly too (in the theater, your eye goes where you want it to, and apparently that was Brando), and sexy jazz score all add something to what was already a complex piece of psycho-poetical drama, on the surface about a woman going mad and pushed over the edge by her sister's brutish husband, but at least on one level about the mythical South and what you find when you scratch at its veneer. Powerful as straight-up drama, filled with characters whose portrayal is at once deceptive and honest, sympathetic and repugnant. You'll discover nuances every time you watch it.Scratch47
Brando? Brando.Dieguito
Awesome performance of Marlon Brando, wild wacko!MarkE89
As with all Tennessee Williams plays, this is great drama superbly directed by Kazan and featuring an awe-inspiring performance by Brando. Unfortunately, the film does not reach the highs of the trinity's next collaboration.juanittomx
I enjoy both actings, of course distracting by brando all the time, but I enjoy the character or vivian.Showing items 1 – 15 of 28