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Note: The title of the movie refers to old buses used for public transit, streetcars, what we now call "light rail" or "trams." They were usually named for the street they ran on, and one of New Orleans' streetcars ran along a street named "Desire." It probably sounds more exciting than "A Streetcar Named Broadway," "A Streetcar Named 42nd Street," or, for that matter, "A Tram in New Orleans."
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Note: The title of the movie refers to old buses used for public transit, streetcars, what we now call "light rail" or "trams." They were usually named for the street they ran on, and one of streetcar, as it is still known in New Orleans' streetcars ran along a street named "Desire." It probably sounds Orleans, is more exciting than "A commonly called the trolley or tram. The Desire Streetcar Named Broadway," "A Streetcar Named 42nd Street," or, for that matter, "A Tram in New Orleans." Line once ran through the French Quarter, downriver to the Bywater neighborhood, and along Desire Street. Its cars were emblazoned with "DESIRE" across the front.
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* AdaptationalKarma: In the play, Stanley wins Stella over Blanche, despite being an abusive husband and [[spoiler:raping Blanche and getting her sent to a mental institution.]] In the film, it cuts to the credits after he keeps crying "Stella," heavily implying that she was finally going to leave him. This was, of course, only done so as the [[UsefulNotes/HaysCode Hay's Code]] active at the time required an evil character receive karma.
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* AdaptationalKarma: In the play, Stanley wins Stella over Blanche, despite being an abusive husband and [[spoiler:raping Blanche and getting her sent to a mental institution.]] In the film, it cuts to the credits after he keeps crying "Stella," heavily implying that she was finally going to leave him. This was, of course, only done so as the [[UsefulNotes/HaysCode [[MediaNotes/TheHaysCode Hay's Code]] active at the time required an evil character receive karma.
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* AdaptionalKarma: In the play, Stanley wins Stella over Blanche, despite being an abusive husband and [[spoiler:raping Blanche and getting her sent to a mental institution.]] In the film, it cuts to the credits after he keeps crying "Stella," heavily implying that she was finally going to leave him. This was, of course, only done so as the [[UsefulNotes/HaysCode Hay's Code]] active at the time required an evil character receive karma.
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* ApplianceDefenstration: Stanley does this when he drunkenly throws a radio playing Blanche's music out the window. Apparently, it was still salvagable.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: Some current viewers might have raised an eyebrow at Mitch's line; "I thought you were straight!"
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* HaveAGayOldTime: Some current viewers might have raised an eyebrow at Mitch's line; "I thought you were was straight!"
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** Blanche's closeted husband was named Allen Grey. [[Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray Like a certain Oscar Wilde protagonist.]]
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* PrefersTheIllusion: Blanche (at first) is fully aware of her lies and that her fantasies are only 'make-believe'. Blanche has constructed an elaborate fantasy world for herself, in which she's a young, pretty, wealthy Southern belle. It's all to deny the harsh realities of her life--her first husband killed himself [[spoiler: after Blanche saw him having an affair with another man and [[DrivenToSuicide unthinkingly revealed she knew the secret in the middle of a crowded dance hall, terrifying him]]]] when they were both extremely young, and as a result, she spends all of her days at home having sex with every young man who comes her way in a desperate bid to replace him. She flees to her sister Stella's home after losing the family estate and being driven out of town as a social pariah...only to encounter [[ManChild Stanley]] [[TheBrute Kowalski]], Stella's husband and a crude, simple man. Much of the show's conflict centers on Blanche's increasingly-panicked attempts to maintain her fantasy and Stanley, who represents the "real world," attacking her illusions. [[spoiler: After Stanley [[RapeAsDrama rapes her]], Blanche completely loses her mind and permanently retreats into her fantasy world, and Stella is forced to institutionalize her.]]
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* AdaptionalKarma: In the play, Stanley wins Stella over Blanche, despite being an abusive husband and [[spoiler:raping Blanche and getting her sent to a mental institution.]] In the film, it cuts to the credits after he keeps crying "Stella," heavily implying that she was finally going to leave him. This was, of course, only done so as the [[UsefulNotes/HaysCode Hay's Code]] active at the time required an evil character receive karma.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Stella, who stays with her husband despite his bad behavior, [[spoiler:to the point where she denies that his rape of Blanche ever happened]].
* AuthorAppeal: An entire paragraph devoted to Stanley's handsome looks, great physique and animalistic drive? Young gay man struggling with his sexual identity in a repressive society that maligned any sign of cultural or sexual diversity to the point where it was taboo? [[spoiler:Young woman with mental illness issues who finally had to go to a mental institution?]] So we've got wish fulfillment, personal projection, and taking inspiration directly from your family. Yep, it's a Tennessee Williams play, all right.
* AuthorAppeal: An entire paragraph devoted to Stanley's handsome looks, great physique and animalistic drive? Young gay man struggling with his sexual identity in a repressive society that maligned any sign of cultural or sexual diversity to the point where it was taboo? [[spoiler:Young woman with mental illness issues who finally had to go to a mental institution?]] So we've got wish fulfillment, personal projection, and taking inspiration directly from your family. Yep, it's a Tennessee Williams play, all right.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Stella, who stays with her husband despite his bad behavior, [[spoiler:to the point where she denies that his rape of Blanche ever happened]].
happened]]. It is even implied that Blanche is attracted to Stanley, no matter how much she hates herself for it.
* ApplianceDefenstration: Stanley does this when he drunkenly throws a radio playing Blanche's music out the window. Apparently, it was still salvagable.
* AteHisGun: This is how Allen, Blanche's late husband, killed himself, and it haunts Blanche endlessly.
* AuthorAppeal: An entire paragraph devoted to Stanley's handsome looks, great physique and animalistic drive? Young gay man struggling with his sexual identity in a repressive society that maligned any sign of cultural or sexual diversity to the point where it was taboo? [[spoiler:Young woman with mental illness issues who finally had to go to a mental institution?]] So we've got wish fulfillment, personal projection, and taking inspiration directly from your family. Yep, it's aTennessee Williams Creator/TennesseeWilliams play, all right.right.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Viciously subverted - Stella's first and only stand against her animalistic husband is interrupted by her going into labor, reinforcing her dependence on Stanley. The baby makes nothing better - he's more likely to be another victim of Stanley's idea of domestic bliss. In the movie, after Stanley sends Stella's sister, Blanche, to an insane asylum (after he ''[[MoralEventHorizon raped her]]''), Stella eventually snaps and calls him out. The baby still didn't make anything better. In the play, however, she never believes Blanche, and it ends with Stanley caressing her breasts.
* BadBadActing: As a part of Blanche's SouthernBelle persona, she speaks in a high-pitched voice and is [[StepfordSmiler overly cheerful and talkative.]] Stanley can see right through her facade.
* ApplianceDefenstration: Stanley does this when he drunkenly throws a radio playing Blanche's music out the window. Apparently, it was still salvagable.
* AteHisGun: This is how Allen, Blanche's late husband, killed himself, and it haunts Blanche endlessly.
* AuthorAppeal: An entire paragraph devoted to Stanley's handsome looks, great physique and animalistic drive? Young gay man struggling with his sexual identity in a repressive society that maligned any sign of cultural or sexual diversity to the point where it was taboo? [[spoiler:Young woman with mental illness issues who finally had to go to a mental institution?]] So we've got wish fulfillment, personal projection, and taking inspiration directly from your family. Yep, it's a
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Viciously subverted - Stella's first and only stand against her animalistic husband is interrupted by her going into labor, reinforcing her dependence on Stanley. The baby makes nothing better - he's more likely to be another victim of Stanley's idea of domestic bliss. In the movie, after Stanley sends Stella's sister, Blanche, to an insane asylum (after he ''[[MoralEventHorizon raped her]]''), Stella eventually snaps and calls him out. The baby still didn't make anything better. In the play, however, she never believes Blanche, and it ends with Stanley caressing her breasts.
* BadBadActing: As a part of Blanche's SouthernBelle persona, she speaks in a high-pitched voice and is [[StepfordSmiler overly cheerful and talkative.]] Stanley can see right through her facade.
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* CastingGag: For the 1951 West End production of , Creator/TennesseeWilliams personally cast Creator/VivienLeigh--who was still best known for playing [[Film/GoneWiththeWind Scarlett O'Hara]] at the time--as the mentally damaged SouthernBelle Blanch Dubois, whose inability to cope with the loss of her family's ancestral plantation [[spoiler: tragically costs her her sanity]]. The casting choice carried over to [[Film/AStreetcarNamedDesire the well-known film adaptation]] released the same year
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* ComplimentFishing: Blanche outright states she is doing this to Stanley as she refers to herself as old and undesirable. He doesn't go in for it. Stella knows this about her sister, and repeatedly encourages everyone to comment on how well Blanche is looking.
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* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Blanche struggles with [[SouthernBelle becoming a relic of a bygone era]], and is LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces, hoping to prove she is still as desirable as she was in her youth, but she also fears this will make her DefiledForever.
* DissonantLaughter: Blanche does this a lot, as representation of her SanitySlippage.
* DissonantLaughter: Blanche does this a lot, as representation of her SanitySlippage.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Mitch is Blanche's last chance for a normal life. Just when their relationship is going steady, Stanley intervenes and reveals Blanche's promiscuous past, leading to Mitch denouncing Blanche.
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* TrivialTitle: It has very little to do with streetcars named Desire other than the fact that one of the main characters arrives on a streetcar named Desire.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Both Stanley and Blanche have legitimate reasons to dislike one another.
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* ANounReferredToAsX: ''A Streetcar Named Desire''.
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Most people are familiar with the 1951 film version directed by Creator/EliaKazan and starring Creator/VivienLeigh, Creator/MarlonBrando, Kim Hunter, and Creator/KarlMalden, which was of course [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]-tacular.[[note]]Although the best remembered performance -- Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski -- was passed over on Oscar night in favour of Creator/HumphreyBogart in ''Film/TheAfricanQueen''.[[/note]] But there have been many other adaptations, including a 1995 MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/AlecBaldwin and Creator/JessicaLange, an opera, and even a ballet. Stuffed full of imagery and complex characters, ''Streetcar'' is often considered Williams' greatest work, and the character of Blanche is regarded by many as the most difficult female role in all of English literature.
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Most people are familiar with the 1951 film version directed by Creator/EliaKazan and starring Creator/VivienLeigh, Creator/MarlonBrando, Kim Hunter, Creator/KimHunter, and Creator/KarlMalden, which was of course [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]-tacular.[[note]]Although the best remembered performance -- Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski -- was passed over on Oscar night in favour of Creator/HumphreyBogart in ''Film/TheAfricanQueen''.[[/note]] But there have been many other adaptations, including a 1995 MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/AlecBaldwin and Creator/JessicaLange, an opera, and even a ballet. Stuffed full of imagery and complex characters, ''Streetcar'' is often considered Williams' greatest work, and the character of Blanche is regarded by many as the most difficult female role in all of English literature.
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* RapeDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:The last scene we see of Blanche before her complete nervous breakdown and regression is Stanley hitting her and dragging her into the bedroom. In the film, it's Stanley striking her, causing a mirror to shatter and broken pieces reflecting Blanche's unconscious form]]
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* HotForStudent: [[spoiler:Blanche, in the backstory, had a fling with a student in her class. He reminded her of Allen.]]
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* HotForStudent: [[spoiler:Blanche, in the backstory, had a fling with a an underage student in her class. He class because he reminded her of Allen.Allen. This got her run out of town.]]
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-->'''Stanley:''' ''[drunk]'' And when he gets home he'll deposit [the five dollar bills] one by one in a piggy bank his mother gave him for Christmas.
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* BigWordShout: ''STELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!''''"STELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"''
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* AuthorAppeal: An entire paragraph devoted to Stanley's handsome looks, great physique and animalistic drive? Tick. Young gay man struggling with his sexual identity in a repressive society that maligned any sign of cultural or sexual diversity to the point where it was taboo? Tick. [[spoiler:Young woman with mental illness issues who finally had to go to a mental institution? Tick.]] So we've got wish fulfillment, personal projection, and taking inspiration directly from your family. Yep, it's a Tennessee Williams play, all right.
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* AuthorAppeal: An entire paragraph devoted to Stanley's handsome looks, great physique and animalistic drive? Tick. Young gay man struggling with his sexual identity in a repressive society that maligned any sign of cultural or sexual diversity to the point where it was taboo? Tick. [[spoiler:Young woman with mental illness issues who finally had to go to a mental institution? Tick.]] institution?]] So we've got wish fulfillment, personal projection, and taking inspiration directly from your family. Yep, it's a Tennessee Williams play, all right.
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* AgeInsecurity: Blanche [=DuBois=], a washed-up SouthernBelle, refuses to admit her true age as part of her compulsion to [[CompulsiveLiar deny anything which disrupts her fantasy of being no less young and desirable than she was years ago]]. She explains to her LoveInterest Mitch that she's [[BlatantLies actually younger than her little sister Stella]] and later, on her birthday, claims she stopped counting at twenty-five. Her actual age is never revealed.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: Blanche is the classical antebellum south that's dying away, and Stanley is the new, more industrial south that's emerged since the then-recent end of World War II. [[EvilVersusEvil Neither of them are exactly sympathetic]].
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: [[SouthernBelle Blanche]] has to move in with her sister Stella after the family home gets repossessed by the bank, [[spoiler: her husband was DrivenToSuicide by his shame of his homosexuality, and she gets fired from her teaching position after getting caught having relations with an underage student]]. Stella's husband Stanley [[DomesticAbuse abuses his wife]] and is [[TheAlcoholic an alcoholic]] who ends up [[spoiler: raping Blanche and leading to her ultimate [[DrivenToMadness mental breakdown]]]].
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* CreepyCircusMusic: Features a Varsouviana Polka that plays whenever Blanche reminisces about her late husband, Allen Grey; it's a sign that her [[SanitySlippage mind is gradually slipping]]. We eventually find out why: [[spoiler: The two were dancing to the Varsouviana when Blanche, in a fit of rage, told Allen that she'd seen him in bed with a man earlier that day. Allen was so ashamed and terrified of his true sexuality being revealed that he [[DrivenToSuicide ran out and shot himself]]. Blanche [[ItsAllMyFault blames herself for his death]], which was the catalyst to her own mental breakdown, and so the Varsouviana Polka has run endlessly through her head ever since.]]
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* GayngstInducedSuicide: [[spoiler:Blanche's husband killed himself after Blanche called him out for his affair with an older man, saying that he disgusted her. Note that Blanche didn't even confront Allen when she caught him in the act, she had to do it in front of everyone at a dance party]].
* GiftGivingGaffe: PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:Stanley's "present" to Blanche on her birthday is a bus ticket to Laurel, Mississippi, where she cannot go back to]].
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* InLoveWithYourCarnage: The reason Stella doesn't leave Stanley, as she quite clearly enjoys the thrill Stanley presents in their relationship, though violence toward other people crosses the line for her. [[spoiler: ot enough to side with her sister after Stanley rapes her in the play, [[DownerEnding unfortunately]]. [[AdaptationalAlternateEnding In the movie, however...]]]]
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* InLoveWithYourCarnage: The reason Stella doesn't leave Stanley, as she quite clearly enjoys the thrill Stanley presents in their relationship, though violence toward other people crosses the line for her. [[spoiler: ot Not enough to side with her sister after Stanley rapes her in the play, [[DownerEnding unfortunately]]. [[AdaptationalAlternateEnding In the movie, however...]]]]
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Note: The title of the movie refers to old buses used for public transit, streetcars, what we now call "light rail" or "trams." They were usually named for the street they ran on, and one of New Orleans' streetcars ran along a street named "Desire." It probably sounds more exciting than "A Streetcar Named Broadway," "A Streetcar Named 42nd Street," or, definitely, "A Tram in New Orleans."
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Note: The title of the movie refers to old buses used for public transit, streetcars, what we now call "light rail" or "trams." They were usually named for the street they ran on, and one of New Orleans' streetcars ran along a street named "Desire." It probably sounds more exciting than "A Streetcar Named Broadway," "A Streetcar Named 42nd Street," or, definitely, for that matter, "A Tram in New Orleans."
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The plot revolves around Blanche [=DuBois=] -- a beauty in her youth who has now begun to fade -- coming to stay with her pregnant sister Stella in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans. Blanche has lost the women's ancestral home, Belle Reve, due to the financial strain of caring for their dying relatives, and has quit her job as a school teacher due to her nerves. Blanche meets Stella's husband Stanley Kowalski, and the two develop an almost instant mutual dislike; Blanche finds Stanley vulgar and common, while Stanley hates Blanche's continual snobbery, despite the fact she is now just as poor as them. He is also suspicious of his sister-in-law, thinking that Blanche may have cheated Stella out of her share of the inheritance.
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The plot revolves around Blanche [=DuBois=] -- a beauty in her youth who has now begun to fade -- coming to stay with her pregnant sister Stella in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans. Blanche has lost the women's ancestral home, Belle Reve, due to the financial strain of caring for their dying relatives, and has quit her job as a school teacher due to her nerves. When Blanche meets Stella's husband husband, Stanley Kowalski, and the two develop an almost instant mutual dislike; Blanche finds Stanley vulgar and common, while Stanley hates Blanche's continual snobbery, despite the fact she is now just as poor as them.they are. He is also suspicious of his sister-in-law, thinking that Blanche may have cheated Stella out of her share of the inheritance.
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The plot revolves around Blanche [=DuBois=] -- a beauty in her youth who has now begun to fade -- coming to stay with her pregnant sister Stella in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans. Blanche has lost the women's ancestral home, Belle Reve, due to the financial strain of caring for their dying relatives, and has quit her job as a school teacher due to her nerves. Blanche meets Stella's husband Stanley and the two develop an almost instant disliking. Blanche finds Stanley vulgar and common, while Stanley hates Blanche's continual snobbery, despite the fact she is now just as poor as them. He is also suspicious of his sister-in-law, thinking that Blanche may have cheated Stella out of her share of the inheritance.
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The plot revolves around Blanche [=DuBois=] -- a beauty in her youth who has now begun to fade -- coming to stay with her pregnant sister Stella in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans. Blanche has lost the women's ancestral home, Belle Reve, due to the financial strain of caring for their dying relatives, and has quit her job as a school teacher due to her nerves. Blanche meets Stella's husband Stanley Kowalski, and the two develop an almost instant disliking. mutual dislike; Blanche finds Stanley vulgar and common, while Stanley hates Blanche's continual snobbery, despite the fact she is now just as poor as them. He is also suspicious of his sister-in-law, thinking that Blanche may have cheated Stella out of her share of the inheritance.
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Creator/TennesseeWilliams' ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning 1947 play about a hundred different things: reality versus the imaginary, the old U.S. versus the new, social class, insanity, abuse, violence, appearances, purity, etc.
Most people are familiar with the 1951 movie directed by Creator/EliaKazan and starring Creator/VivienLeigh, Creator/MarlonBrando, Kim Hunter, and Creator/KarlMalden, which was of course Oscar-tacular.[[note]]Although the best remembered performance -- Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski -- was passed over on Oscar night in favour of Creator/HumphreyBogart in ''Film/TheAfricanQueen''.[[/note]] But there have been many other adaptations, including a 1995 MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/AlecBaldwin and Creator/JessicaLange, an opera, and even a ballet. Stuffed full of imagery and complex characters, it may be considered Williams' best known work, and the character of Blanche has been considered the most difficult female role in all of English literature.
The plot revolves around Blanche [=DuBois=] -- a beauty in her youth who has now begun to fade -- coming to stay with her pregnant sister Stella in New Orleans. Blanche has lost the women's ancestral home, Belle Reve, due to the financial strain of caring for their dying relatives, and has quit her job as a school teacher due to her nerves. Blanche meets Stella's husband Stanley and the two develop an almost instant disliking. Blanche finds Stanley vulgar and common, while Stanley hates Blanche's continual snobbery, despite the fact she is now just as poor as them. He is also suspicious of his sister-in-law, thinking that Blanche may have cheated Stella out of her share of the inheritance.
Most people are familiar with the 1951 movie directed by Creator/EliaKazan and starring Creator/VivienLeigh, Creator/MarlonBrando, Kim Hunter, and Creator/KarlMalden, which was of course Oscar-tacular.[[note]]Although the best remembered performance -- Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski -- was passed over on Oscar night in favour of Creator/HumphreyBogart in ''Film/TheAfricanQueen''.[[/note]] But there have been many other adaptations, including a 1995 MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/AlecBaldwin and Creator/JessicaLange, an opera, and even a ballet. Stuffed full of imagery and complex characters, it may be considered Williams' best known work, and the character of Blanche has been considered the most difficult female role in all of English literature.
The plot revolves around Blanche [=DuBois=] -- a beauty in her youth who has now begun to fade -- coming to stay with her pregnant sister Stella in New Orleans. Blanche has lost the women's ancestral home, Belle Reve, due to the financial strain of caring for their dying relatives, and has quit her job as a school teacher due to her nerves. Blanche meets Stella's husband Stanley and the two develop an almost instant disliking. Blanche finds Stanley vulgar and common, while Stanley hates Blanche's continual snobbery, despite the fact she is now just as poor as them. He is also suspicious of his sister-in-law, thinking that Blanche may have cheated Stella out of her share of the inheritance.
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Creator/TennesseeWilliams' ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning 1947 play about a hundred different things: reality fantasy versus the imaginary, reality, the old U.S. versus the new, men and women, social class, insanity, abuse, violence, appearances, purity, sex, death, etc.
Most people are familiar with the 1951movie film version directed by Creator/EliaKazan and starring Creator/VivienLeigh, Creator/MarlonBrando, Kim Hunter, and Creator/KarlMalden, which was of course Oscar-tacular.[[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]-tacular.[[note]]Although the best remembered performance -- Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski -- was passed over on Oscar night in favour of Creator/HumphreyBogart in ''Film/TheAfricanQueen''.[[/note]] But there have been many other adaptations, including a 1995 MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/AlecBaldwin and Creator/JessicaLange, an opera, and even a ballet. Stuffed full of imagery and complex characters, it may be ''Streetcar'' is often considered Williams' best known greatest work, and the character of Blanche has been considered is regarded by many as the most difficult female role in all of English literature.
The plot revolves around Blanche [=DuBois=] -- a beauty in her youth who has now begun to fade -- coming to stay with her pregnant sister Stella inNew Orleans.UsefulNotes/NewOrleans. Blanche has lost the women's ancestral home, Belle Reve, due to the financial strain of caring for their dying relatives, and has quit her job as a school teacher due to her nerves. Blanche meets Stella's husband Stanley and the two develop an almost instant disliking. Blanche finds Stanley vulgar and common, while Stanley hates Blanche's continual snobbery, despite the fact she is now just as poor as them. He is also suspicious of his sister-in-law, thinking that Blanche may have cheated Stella out of her share of the inheritance.
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The plot revolves around Blanche [=DuBois=] -- a beauty in her youth who has now begun to fade -- coming to stay with her pregnant sister Stella in
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->''"In 1947, when Creator/MarlonBrando appeared on stage in a torn, sweaty T-shirt, there was an earthquake; and the male as sex object is still at our culture's center stage. In the age of Calvin Klein steaming hunks, it must be hard for'' [kids today] ''to realize that there was ever a time when a man was nothing but a suit of clothes, a shirt and tie, shined leather shoes, and a gray, felt hat."''
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->''"In 1947, when Creator/MarlonBrando appeared on stage in a torn, sweaty T-shirt, there was an earthquake; and the male as sex object is still at our culture's center stage. In the age of Calvin Klein Klein's steaming hunks, it must be hard for'' [kids today] ''to for [younger audiences] to realize that there was ever a time when a man was nothing but a suit of clothes, a shirt and tie, shined leather shoes, and a gray, felt hat.hat. [...] In 1947, when Marlon Brando appeared on stage in a torn sweaty T-shirt, there was an earthquake; and the male as sex object is still at our culture's center stage."''
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[-[[caption-width-right:350:Blanche disapproves of Stanley's manly shirt sweat.]]-]
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Stanley's whole investigation into Blanche's past (and general dislike of her) is provoked because, due to New Orleans being run under the "Napoleonic Code", he ''might'' have ''indirectly'' lost a little bit of money if Blanche made a bad deal when selling her childhood home.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Stanley's whole investigation into Blanche's past (and general dislike initial decision to question Blanche about the sale of her) Belle Reve, her family home, is provoked because, due to New Orleans being run under the "Napoleonic Code", he ''might'' have ''indirectly'' lost a little bit lot of money if since he believes that Blanche made a bad deal when selling wasted money on expensive jewelry and that was why she sold her childhood home.home (he’s wrong).
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Most people are familiar with the 1951 movie directed by Creator/EliaKazan and starring Creator/VivienLeigh, Creator/MarlonBrando, and Kim Hunter, which was of course Oscar-tacular.[[note]]Although the best remembered performance -- Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski -- was passed over on Oscar night in favour of Creator/HumphreyBogart in ''Film/TheAfricanQueen''.[[/note]] But there have been many other adaptations, including a 1995 MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/AlecBaldwin and Creator/JessicaLange, an opera, and even a ballet. Stuffed full of imagery and complex characters, it may be considered Williams' best known work, and the character of Blanche has been considered the most difficult female role in all of English literature.
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Most people are familiar with the 1951 movie directed by Creator/EliaKazan and starring Creator/VivienLeigh, Creator/MarlonBrando, and Kim Hunter, and Creator/KarlMalden, which was of course Oscar-tacular.[[note]]Although the best remembered performance -- Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski -- was passed over on Oscar night in favour of Creator/HumphreyBogart in ''Film/TheAfricanQueen''.[[/note]] But there have been many other adaptations, including a 1995 MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/AlecBaldwin and Creator/JessicaLange, an opera, and even a ballet. Stuffed full of imagery and complex characters, it may be considered Williams' best known work, and the character of Blanche has been considered the most difficult female role in all of English literature.
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* EverybodyHasStandards: While Pablo and Steve have no problems being friends with JerkAss Stanley, they do express disgust with some of his more heinous actions, such as hitting Stella or [[spoiler: having Blanche sent away to the insane asylum without any warning or notice.]] [[ApatheticCitizens However, it's never enough for them to break off their friendship with Stan.]]
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* EverybodyHasStandards: While Pablo and Steve have no problems being friends with JerkAss Stanley, they do express disgust with some of his more heinous actions, such as hitting Stella or [[spoiler: having [[spoiler:having Blanche sent away to the insane asylum without any warning or notice.]] [[ApatheticCitizens However, it's never enough for them to break off their friendship with Stan.]]
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%% * HappilyMarried: Stella insists she and Stanley are this. Blanche (and the audience) beg to differ.
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%% * TheIngenue: How Blanche tries to present herself.
%% * InLoveWithYourCarnage: The reason Stella doesn't leave Stanley, though violence toward other people crosses the line for her. [[spoiler: Not enough to side with her sister after Stanley rapes her in the play, [[DownerEnding unfortunately]]. [[AdaptationalAlternateEnding In the movie, however...]]]]
%% * InLoveWithYourCarnage: The reason Stella doesn't leave Stanley, though violence toward other people crosses the line for her. [[spoiler: Not enough to side with her sister after Stanley rapes her in the play, [[DownerEnding unfortunately]]. [[AdaptationalAlternateEnding In the movie, however...]]]]
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* InLoveWithYourCarnage: The reason Stella doesn't leave Stanley, as she quite clearly enjoys the thrill Stanley presents in their relationship, though violence toward other people crosses the line for her. [[spoiler:
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** At the end, [[spoiler: Mitch is the only one who looks angry about and refuses to look at Blanche as the asylum doctors come to take her away, implying that he feels at least partially responsible for the [[BreakTheHaughty chain]] [[BreakTheCutie of]] [[RapeLeadsToInsanity events]] that led to this.]]
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** At the end, [[spoiler: Mitch [[spoiler:Mitch is the only one who looks angry about and refuses to look at Blanche as the asylum doctors come to take her away, implying that he feels at least partially responsible for the [[BreakTheHaughty chain]] [[BreakTheCutie of]] [[RapeLeadsToInsanity events]] that led to this.]]
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%% * RapeLeadsToInsanity: [[spoiler:Blanche after Stanley rapes her (though she was pretty unstable already)]].
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