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Summary: One of my all-time favorites
Review: What can you write about "A Streetcar Named Desire" that hasn't already been written about it in the past 48 years? This is one of my absolute favorite films of all-time and the film that demonstrated to the world just how wonderful an actress Vivien Leigh was. Forget Scarlet O'Hara. Great as that characterization was, it pales in comparison to Blanche Dubois, all Southern manners and gentility yet equally haunted, tormented and painfully vulnerable. In comes Marlin Brandon as one of the most hateful and brutal characters ever to be immortalized on celluloid and deliberately berates this obviously ill woman until he eventually destroys her Stanley Kowalski is, in my opinion, Tennessee William's personification of inhumanity manifested, because you find it incredulous that such a human being could ever exist without being ultimately ruined by his own howling conscious. Beautifully shot, acted and written, and so atmospheric you expect to open your own front door and take in the French Quarter in one big gasp of air. Elia Kazan's best film, bar none and Alex North's best score. Karl Malden and Kim Hunter were equally stunning in their respective portrayals of denigrated wife and unsophisticated momma's boy. Incidentally, also in my opinion, Mr. William's was the GREATEST dramatist this country's ever known. He understood the human psyche with all its horror and darkness better than Eugene O'Neill. Tennessee moved the human spirit almost imperceptibly, unlike Eugene O'Neill who bludgeoned your senses with an immovable sense of darkness.
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Summary: WHERE WAS BRANDO'S OSCAR??
Review: Although I thought Humphrey Bogart did a great job in THE AFRICAN QUEEN, he was nothing compared to Brando in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE!! This is a great movie, with a great story and beautiful setting behind it, but what made this such a spectactular movie, for me anyway, was Brando's INCREDIBLE performance. The man was a true genius, still is actually. Everyone else who acted in this won an Oscar (that was nominated for one I mean) so why was Brando left out? Who knows...either way, he gave one of his best performances ever in this absolutely brilliant film.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: This movie really got to me, i enjoyed every second. All the actors gave superb performances. Leigh was incredible, and Brando impressed me the first instant he appeared on screen. This is a great movie, i absulutely recommend it!
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Summary: The Greatest Film Ever Made!!!
Review: This is my absolute favorite film of all time. Every time I watch Streetcar, the fantastic performances completely blow me away. To say this is a stellar cast is a vast understatement! Marlon Brando is VERY sexy and VERY brilliant, and definitely should have won best actor! The storyline is haunting and incredibly beautiful. Whenever I watch Streetcar I become entirely enraptured, and cannot tear myself away from the screen. A definite must-own!!!
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Summary: Another Great classic
Review: I love this movie and I think that along with his performance in "The Godfather" this is Marlon Brando's best. I especially love the tension between him and Vivien Leigh. Definatly on my favorite movie list
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Summary: One of Marlon Brando's best work
Review: I only wished I could have seen the stage version of this movie. I would have loved to Brando's early work on the stage.
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Summary: This movie taught me what real acting was!
Review: I saw this movie during my third year of college. I couldn't even move my eyes from the screen. The dialogue is so incredible, writing such as I have never experienced. It is surpassed only by the phenomenal acting by Leigh, Hunter and Brando, whose other movies I have sought out after seeing Streetcar. No finer picture has ever been brought to the screen, and I doubt one ever will. Tennessee Williams was an incredibly gifted man, and I regret he is not alive today, writing films that would do away with all the high special effected and loosely written scripts that linger over today's box office. A Streetcar Named Desire should be mandatory for all screenwriting classes, to show how a perfect film can be written, directed, produced, acted and edited.
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Summary: As fresh today as ever
Review: It's hard to erase Marlon Brando's current image as a bloated, money-hungry hack from the mind, but one look at "A Streetcar Named Desire" ought to do it. Every superlative ever uttered about Brando's portrayal of Stanley Kowalski is richly deserved. This may very well be the single greatest performance by an actor in the history of the cinema. His every movement and utterance is so perfect in its honesty, one almost feels like a voyeur peeking into the life of a real person rather than a member of a film audience. Brando's performance is as fresh and natural today as it was when he first took the stage and screen by storm almost half a century ago. The rest of the cast is excellent, too, and the film as a whole (especially the version with additional footage) is a remarkably faithful adaptation of Tennessee Williams' explosive play.
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Summary: One of the greatest American films of all time
Review: For those who know Marlon Brando only from his recent fiascos, such as The Island Of Dr. Moreau, it might be hard to believe that not only was he the greatest actor of his generation, but his acting set the standard and style for many of his contemporaries and most of those who followed over the next 10-20 years. Take a look at Streetcar (and, while you're at it, his Terry Malloy in On The Waterfront), and there can be no question of his greatness. But what is most amazing is that, while this is one of the greatest performances in the history of cinema, it does not overshadow the other three leading performances. In fact, Vivien Leigh's Blanche du Bois is also arguably one of the greatest performances ever captured on screen, and Karl Malden and Kim Stanely are just as perfect in their supporting roles. Elia Kazan was always an actor's director, and this was never more apparent than in this film. Even the censors could not dilute the power of Tennessee Williams' play (as they would a few years later with the adaptation of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof), but it will always be the acting that will keep the viewer mezmerized.
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Summary: Brilliant, Depressing, Emotive
Review: I have yet to see the version of this film with the extra footage (I thought I was renting it, but I got the old version), but I've read the play and know what was omitted. However, even without some important things, this movie is incredible. Marlon Brando is incredibly sexy, albeit an immense jerk. Vivien Leigh is, as always, beautiful and radiant (even if her character was in mid-breakdown). The entire cast of this film was so amazing that my under-1000-word review cannot begin to do it justice.
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