I in all honesty did not like the movie at all. The character of Blanch truly annoyed me with how she acted. I believe that movies do not need their actors or actresses to exaggerate their emotions with body language nearly as much as an actor or actress in a play. Yes this was originally a play and probably the acting would look much better on stage, but it wasn't.
I don’t remember everything about both versions but I do remember that
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I think that the exaggerated emotions were typical of the southern belle during this time period. I think that the ways that she overreacted were very much intended to be this way. I agree that she was annoying, with the ways that she reacted to her situations. This was all part of her character though; you were supposed to get the sense of her being annoying so that you could relate to the ways that Stanley was aggravated. Blanches exaggerated emotions very much related to the idea of the typical southern belle. She was craving any attention that she could receive, and the ways that she overreacted portrayed how badly she wanted this attention. Her body language also fell into this same category. If she did not act in these ways I don’t believe we could have based our conclusions about her very accurately.
I am sorry to hear that watching the movie did not make your experience with "A Streetcar Named Desire" any better. I do agree that the film was overacted. The character's emotions were clearly fake, and that was annoying to watch. However, we have to take into consideration that this film is quite old, and maybe that is just what people liked to watch back then.-who knows?
I felt that Stanley was more violent in the film, but maybe that is just because I could actually see the rage and the violence being acted out instead of just imagining it.
I did not think of Stella leaving Stanley as showing the advancement of women, but I think that is a really good point. It is also something we have not seen much of, other than from Chopin.
I thought that it was intresting that the producer chose to portray Stella as a stronger character. throughout the movie you saw her pushing and giving Stanley to some extent, the same amount of abuse and disrespect he gave her. I think it helped to make the ending stronger and gave the ability to sympathise with STella's character. I can understand a little more why she would want to cling to him rather than be a single mother in that part of town, or in that time period in the south. I thought that Stella was more of an equal counterpart to Stanley's fiercness, and roughness. the movie i thought was a much better portrayl of the charcters and how they should be.
I found Blanche to be SO annoying. The way she rambled on and on about completely nothing was irratating. I didn't really think that the actors and actresses over exaggerated their emotions. To me, this was part of the reason I liked the movie better. To see Blanche's eyes bugging out of her head, or to see Stanley's death grip on Stella's arm was what really hit it home that Stanley was a maniac, Stella was subserviant, and Blanche was a wacko.
See i really liked the movie though. I agree with you that Stanley was portrayed a little differenently but i think that they did a great job of it. He may have seemed a little bit more hot tempered reading the play but i think we got a lot of that in the movie as well. I agree with you though that Blanch annoyed me completely! I really hated her charachter in the movie and the play but she is what makes the play and movie interesting.
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