Streetcar Named Desire' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times
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- A. O. Scott looks back at the 1951 classic "A Streetcar Named Desire" and the moment when movie acting changed.
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Brando, himself, told..in his book that he has to fight like a tiger not to be overshadowed by Vivien,s acting. He admires so much that they stayed friends till she died. He always think Vivien was the BEST Blanche ever!!. I think Vivien,s Blanche one of the GEMS in acting. If u look at her eyes, her trembling, her voice....And even..in certain close ups..she never looked so beautiful. REMEMBER Vivien was the ONLY member of the cast outside Actor,s Studio. And she was PERFECT. Carlos
gwtwcarlos
gwtwcarlos absolutely
They said her acting was old-fashioned and it was compared to his but that was perfect for her part. She absolutely nailed it. My perfect movie.
@@gavinbrando8255 Her acting was not a "Method" acting. All the others actors in this film were from the "Method" including Kazan. So it's amazing how she could do such a perfomance with a different training. And the role of Blanche it's a "double" role.. Blanche is acting all the time in the play and film. She needs to "act" to survive. A very difficult role.
Brando and vivien they’re get along. And brando said used think want slept with her. But he respect her husband too much.
Vivien Leigh's talent is incomparable in this role. Powerhouse performance
@jemlucy Brando also said that he himself was miscast. He missed Stanley's 'gaiety' by which he meant Stanley's ability to enjoy life's moments and his own sensual appreciation of life. If you read Williams' description of Stanley he talks about his 'animal joy in his being.' What Brando had in spades were Stanley's contempt for phonys, anger and resentment of the upper classes and basic approach to sex as well as his being physically perfect for the part.
I'm thirteen and I saw this film a few months ago, it is such a marvelous masterpiece, it blew me away. Vivien Leigh at what I consider her best, Marlon Brando being his amazing self, an amazing Tennesse Williams screenplay and a beautiful directing job by Elia Kazan.
Today you are 24!!! Ah, as time goes by.
Omg ur 24 now
I totally agree with you yellowrose 32..... Karl Malden said,, all the actors felt a confidence doing the movie from Broadway to Hollywood because they knew the talent of Vivien Leigh could carry the cast.... and she surely did,,,, not taking away from their talent as well.
@LexiixoxRoxx Even Brando's mother was upset with the audiences' attraction to Stanley when she saw the play.
Brando is superb..movie is masterful.
Brando is the greatest actor because of his unmatched acting range. From 1950-60 he played a paraplegic in THE MEN, Stanley Kowalski in STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, Mexican revolutionary in VIVA ZAPATA, Mark Anthony in JULIUS CEASAR, a Hell's Angel in THE WILD ONE, Terry Malloy in ON THE WATERFRONT, Napoleon in DESIREE, sang and danced in GUYS AND DOLLS, a Japanese man, Sakini in TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON, a contrite nazi in YOUNG LIONS then directed ONE EYED JACKS.
Not to mention Don Vito Corleone and Col Kurtz.
I think he would have been great in a prison film, like Birdman or One flew over, and also, as a priest....hanging on to his God by a thread.
@LexiixoxRoxx I think Tennessee Williams himself struggled greatly with this while writing the play and found he was both Stanley and Blanch himself. In the end, I think it came down to survival being guaranteed by brutality more than by beauty.
@13hehe You are right. Vivien is loved and popular today cause she is an artist. One of a kind. She plays the 2 most important women roles in History: Scarlett and Blanche, and for both she was hightly praised, not only for the Oscars. She was a real trooper, an actress by heart. I like when somebody, like u did, think "twice"..and find something new, something better in a perfomance. I really admire your comment. Carlos
Marlon Brando, both off screen and the mannerism of some of his characters on screen, is one of my biggest inspirations. The best and simplest way to describe him is simply "Alpha Male".
And Magic.
The two greatest film performances ever: Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando.
I think Vivien Leig and Clark Gable did a little bid better
@@ClashGamerGTA Brando”s performance will go down in cinematic history. It is shameful that he didn’t review an Oscar.
I compare Brando's hollering for his wife to James Brown's "please, please, please!"
Great review!
Don’t overlook the tricky role of light in this play: sometimes dark, sometimes multicolored and spinning, sometimes dim (“come closer, I cant see you”), sometimes bright. Sometimes what lights up our life (beauty or beast) seduces us, and like a flying insect, we fly blindly too close and burn.
@yellowrose32 love Vivian but her style of acting is overshadowed by Brando here, Brando's comes off more natural and hers seem stage-y and goofy in comparison to Brando and Karl Malden, though maybe the staginess is appropriate for this character. I wouldn't say she's bad or anything that's just the background she comes from. People watch a film not thinking about Vivian the great legend, they get immersed into the characters and it just so happens that for many, Brando really shined.
Vivien Leigh is simply incredible!
Vivien Leigh's personal favorite performance was WATERLOO BRIDGE.
Elia Kazan directed both films.
@LexiixoxRoxx ya i agree that coincidentally her style of acting is appropriate for this role, don't get me wrong i'm not trying to bring her down lol i love vivian! and have seen quite a few of her films, so i can safely say i think that is her style of acting, it's certainly a contrast to Brando's, and in this film, the contrast worked nicely. But obviously people have preferences, this was my first Brando film so it introduced him to me and left a big impression :)
Aspect ratio ?
Brando top!
such a seductive man
@cek2592 the Godfather wasn't a terrible film either
ok cool out you guy Vivien Leigh's performance really wasn't too good. She overacted and most ppl thought her performance was tooo goofy. out of the other three actors Brando, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter, she had the worst. They should of kept Jessica Tandy as Stella. The only reason they used her was to make more money at the box office
I choose brutality ;)
Brando was good in this film, and in " On The Waterfront", but nothing else.
Godfather? Last tango in Paris? Apocalypse now?
That's certainly a minority point of view.
See him as the Godfather before saying that
This is fun. It's like saying chopin was good on his ballads and someone comes saying BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SCHERZOS, like bro, I know that art is the one famously objective practice out there but you gotta understand no one cares about name dropping
@@alondraperez-ramirez8363 A lot of these people are trolling. Everyone knows Godfather was one of the best pictures ever made.