Out of all the characters I learned about in AP Lit, Blanche was the one I thought was most tragic. Hers sister betrayed her, and now she lives in a mental institution.
@blizganti you think the end of the play is happy? i think this ending is much "happier" than the play. the play leaves so much injustice and despair hanging unresolved. just my opinion.
I always think this movie is a sort of sequel to Gone with the Wind, in GWTW Scarlett is leaving at the end to go home to Tara, and at the beginning of Streetcar she has just left Belle Rive.
Probably the greatest performance by an actress....ever. Vivien put 100% of herself into this role. She suffered the same problems as Blanche and opened herself up completely for the role. Bravo!
The only reason Stella didn't go back to Stanley in the end of the MOVIE (not play), was because it was made in 1951, and the play written/set around 1946-47. In the 50's, the whole feminist regime started, and Elia Kazan (director) believed that the audience would be happier with a more feminine friendly ending, if that makes sense :)
@justicemcrae the reason she didnt go back to stanley is because she suspects he raped her sister...thats the whole point of the ending..you never really know...her sister finally "snapping" could be due to stress from raoe or from nothing at all.but you know that he hates her , and was alone with her and was interfering with stella....its all a mystery..personally i dont think he raped her..she just went nuts...its a great movie.
@redsmooch989 Yeah but I was talking about the end of the movie differing to the end of the play.. have you ever read the actual play? Stella goes back to Stanley..
the movie ending doesn't make any sense if she believed her sister was telling the truth and so walked out on Stan than she wouldn't have had her insitutionalised!
Why am I always reading that Vivien Leigh was a mediocre actress and yet she has won two oscars and is widely acknowledged as having given the greatest definitive performance of this extremely iconic and difficult role, every great actress has played this part and if you believe the reviews all of them fall somewhat short of Miss Leighs interpretation I've even read film critics saying that Viviens performance is one of the 5 greatest film performances of all time...hardly 'mediocre' acting
One of the great dramatic scenes of American cinema. Vivien Leigh, in my book, played two of the most memorable actress roles of the 20th century....in Scarlett O'Hara, and in Blanche Dubois. Tennessee Williams's conception of savagery, kindness, and human dignity was never more clearly presented. Thanks for the post.
never seen this movie, and have no idea whats going on, but it gives me an upsetting feeling...like an innocent lamp that trusts the wolves who plot to devour her
ive just finished the play in class. the film has a happier ending but the play's ending makes more sense i guess. i mean it would be boring if everything had a happy ending
@vampireravefan How is this, in any way, a happy ending? It's exactly the same as the play, she gets lead off by the doctor, who in Blanche's eyes, is a gentleman, as he removes his hat and takes her arm, and the final line she says is the same, and just as ironic.
@vampireravefan Yes but she will always go back.. It's supposed to be dubious but Stanley always has the deck in his hands; he's always the dealer when they play poker. She will always come back to him, especially now that she has chosen him over Blanche.
@vampireravefan The censors insisted on having a "moral" ending in which Stanley is punished. That said, I think this adaptation pleases the censors but maintains the play's grimness. I have never felt Stella really left Stanley; to me, it always seems like she'll just go right back to him, as she did in the famous "Stella!" scene. They'll just continue their cyclical love-hate feuds while poor Blanche suffers. Chilling.
@yellowrose32 Does Stella believe Blanche at the end? Is that why she leaves Stanley? In the original play there's a line in which she says to Eunice, "I couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley." She does not leave Stanley then because she chooses not to believe her sister's account of what happened.
@aMakola You are right; that is what happens at the end of the play. In the '50s, though, they would have expected some kind of morality to be portrayed, so Kazan had to make it at least seem like Stella was going to leave Stanley. Despite the changes, though, I think the movie still manages to get the main points across. I can only imagine what it would have been like to rewrite this play with the rampant censorship! Thanks for the comment.
Different ending from the book; gives Stella some hope of leaving her husband by. Beautiful film! The last scene always breaks my heart. Thanks for sharing.
This isn't quite the same as the written ending of the play... I don't remember Stella taking the baby upstairs and all that. This way seems to imply that Stella leaves Stanley.
they probably changed the end to appeal to a modern audience's desire for justice and to just appeal to a broader audience in general. I don't know why else they would have changed it....
you can read about it on wikipedia. "The play's themes were controversial causing the screenplay for the film to be watered down to comply with the Hollywood Production Code." A lot of plays that became films in that era faced similar "censoring".
yes, actually it was a condition. If they were to imply in the movie that Stanley was to rape Blanche, they had to change to ending to show that Stanley was punished for his deeds...
It's a shame they changed the ending because the real ending has a stronger impact. I've only seen clips of this film but it seems like a good adaptation of the play!
But if you think about it. The scene where he hits her and Blanche takes her to Eunice, she eventually went back to him. So, even though she went upstairs, there's a good chance that she went back to him, again.
eh she gets the baby and starts crying and stanley's like stella? but uncertainly and she keeps crying and stanley tries to comfort her and then steve says the game is seven-card stud showing nothing's really changed in their house
Oh woops I meant how was it happier? In the end she ran back to him symbolizing his deep control over her for the rest of her knownlife in the movie version.
oh yeah i don't how i missed that its a bit better in the play though how she never says anything about knowing about the rape but mainly me just being silly
i must disagree with lexiixoxroxx, vivien has never a mental ilness, she was bipolar, a physical disorder, not mentally disorder. and she fights like a tiger, all her life, to be as professional as an acress as never before or after her any other actress fight. she thought she was mad, but time provees she was bipolar. carlos
bipolar is NOT a physical disorder, it is a mental illness. It is also known as manic depressive disorder and the symptons are depression, mood swings, hallucinations and mania. Vivien Leigh did have this and it caused great rifts in her marriage with Laurence Olivier.
You're right to say she wasn't mad, she was ill, but ill in the mind not her physical body. Many people live with mental illnesses, some better than others; it's all relative.
No, I can imagine that didn't help at all. Its easy to assume that a person's mental illness is the sole cause of any relationship problems but that isn't the case. Other things could be going on and it also depends on how the other person responds to their partner's illness, as it would with any other type of problem situation they may be in other than a mental disorder
I read many vivien leigh bio's and none really said that Olivier had gay affairs,it said that vivien was very good at picking up on that type of thing and if anthing gay was about olivier,vivien would have mentioned it.
i agree. if i remember correctly, it even mentions at the end of the play in the stage notes how Stanley slid his hand into her shirt....something to that extent.
That was only in the film, and they did that to satisfy the censor. There was a rule in the Production Code which said that wickedness couldn't prevail, blah, blah, blah....
Yes. But Stanley is different ok? Stella found out what he did to Blanche and she'll never forgive him ever. Cause a woman has the rights to prevail all mankind who stand their grounds.
Blanche Dubois was a classic TEXTBOOK case of borderline personality disorder. I'm sure Vivian's dx and unstability allowed her to play the role well also.
This scene is so difficult to watch on its own. Then, knowing about the life of Vivien Leigh, and how it paralleled this film and GWTW with her bi polar disorder, what was called manic depression. If you ever have the chance, see this on stage as it is different on stage. I do not know how the actors do it every night. Now all 4 srats are gone, Karl Malden having died at 96 last week. Loved them all, love them all!
they changed the ending because of censorship in the 50s...
the censorship board or watevs wanted stanley to be punished for his actions, thats the only way they would allow it to continue. In order to do this Kazan made it so that stella wouldn't go back to stanley in order to punish him.... Only found out about this today, studying the play in English, so that's lucky.
but like everyone is saying Stella goes back to Stanley in the play because she won't let herself believe what he did, but deep down she really knows.
also--I don't know if you know the story--but her mental state was deteriorating and Stanley (Brando) rapes her, then has her committed. Naturally, no one believes her.
Here, she thought she was meeting a gentleman caller, but it turns out to be a doctor and a overbearing matron who pins her to the floor. But in a nice gesture, the doctor calls her Miss DuBois and offers her his arm, calming her and making her feel like the southern belle she wanted to be.
it's tragic because it's ironic in a really sad way. all the strangers Blanche has known have hurt her, so saying "I've always depended on the kindness of strangers" is so far from the truth, but she's finally become so delusional that she gets it mixed up.
A statement about pathetic and lonely her life was; for all her pretensions. She was isolated, and her loutish brother in law brutalized her, and then had her committed.
I second most that the others have said in reply and, not wanting to lower the tone, it's also *mildly* ironic if you consider that she had a lot of encounters with men she didn't know in her past life. At least that's what I got from it.
I wondered this too, it says on wiki that for the movie an alt ending to the play had to be added to the movie because of the 'Hollywood Production Code regulations in which characters who had committed crimes needed to be seen to have been punished by the movie's end.' so its different than the plays ending!
"Don't you touch me DON'T YOU EVER TOUCH ME AGAIN" "I'm never going back NEVER". If you follow the story to it's logical conclusion: Stella leaves Stanley, Blanche receives necessary treatment/rest and makes a full recovery, and Mitch goes and kicks Stanely's ass. Stanely has charges pressed against him based on information illicited by the social workers.......I like the movie ending.
I disagree. In the play, Stella's leaving Stanley never comes up, emphasizing one of the principal themes of the play: Stanley & Stella are so desperately in love, 'proper' upbringing can never change it. As for Blanche telling on Stanley, the end of 'Streetcar' inspired the end of 'Sunset Blvd.' and 'Brazil'; the main character has descended irretrievably into madness, and will live happily ever after in a world of pure fantasy. BTW, Mitch couldn't beat Stanley if his life depended on it.
I know what you mean. I thought the "Censored Happy Ending" of the movie was nowhere near as powerful as the original. Stella is too feverishly enchanted by Stanley and his coloured lights to ever consider leaving him.
Though I do remember reading somewhere that Williams said that he thought Blanche was a survivor, and did not doubt she would recover from the mental hospital. It is true, Blanche did take a lot of punches, it's hardly surprising her sanity came down like a house of cards.
Fabulous how Blanche finally escapes the madness! And yes, I love to imagine that characters lives continue to evolve... I've always felt Blanche was the strongest of the bunch and (eventually) a graceful survivor.
Maybe Stanley will drown in his own drunken vomit... :>)
I like the ending in the play better than the movie. However, the Film Association made them change the ending because they already thought the rae was too "morbid". Personally, though, I think it's too out of character for Stella to just leave. That's the thing about her; just like her sister, in ways, she's weak and vulnerable, and Stanley will always be able to exploit that. She doesn't just suddenly grow a spine.
Out of all the characters I learned about in AP Lit, Blanche was the one I thought was most tragic. Hers sister betrayed her, and now she lives in a mental institution.
I love literature <3
3lectroaddict 6 hours ago
what a great ending! and what a great line "I've always depended on the kindness of strangers."
AboSaud33 2 months ago
THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST MISS VIVIEN LEIGH forever and ever
kidman4ever 3 months ago 3
Modern family brought me here!!!
crunkpatts 3 months ago
@crunkpatts lol thats funny it brought me here too lol
Paniro02 3 months ago
@Paniro02 Isn't "hey,stella" more on target?
duckspaddling 2 weeks ago
At first by the title of this movie, i thought it was gonna be about car racing lol!
edia05 5 months ago
VIVIEN LEIGH AND MARLON BRANDO.what a legends <3
fanofmussic 6 months ago
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coco22mototo 6 months ago
this end in film is due to censorship, because the play originally has a happy ending. remember that it was released in brodway in 1951.
blizganti 8 months ago
@blizganti you think the end of the play is happy? i think this ending is much "happier" than the play. the play leaves so much injustice and despair hanging unresolved. just my opinion.
pckthooks133 2 months ago
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seisen44444 8 months ago
HI GUYS I'M BACK!
seisen44444 8 months ago
So was Blanche murder suicided?
nikkisixxual 8 months ago
I always think this movie is a sort of sequel to Gone with the Wind, in GWTW Scarlett is leaving at the end to go home to Tara, and at the beginning of Streetcar she has just left Belle Rive.
Buondelmonte123 9 months ago
Probably the greatest performance by an actress....ever. Vivien put 100% of herself into this role. She suffered the same problems as Blanche and opened herself up completely for the role. Bravo!
tickledpink2U 9 months ago 5
The only reason Stella didn't go back to Stanley in the end of the MOVIE (not play), was because it was made in 1951, and the play written/set around 1946-47. In the 50's, the whole feminist regime started, and Elia Kazan (director) believed that the audience would be happier with a more feminine friendly ending, if that makes sense :)
justicemcrae 10 months ago
@justicemcrae the reason she didnt go back to stanley is because she suspects he raped her sister...thats the whole point of the ending..you never really know...her sister finally "snapping" could be due to stress from raoe or from nothing at all.but you know that he hates her , and was alone with her and was interfering with stella....its all a mystery..personally i dont think he raped her..she just went nuts...its a great movie.
redsmooch989 9 months ago
@redsmooch989 Yeah but I was talking about the end of the movie differing to the end of the play.. have you ever read the actual play? Stella goes back to Stanley..
justicemcrae 9 months ago
@justicemcrae WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? I WISH YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT WORLD WAR 3
seisen44444 8 months ago
BEST MOVIE VIVIEN EVER DID OTHER THAN GONE WITH WIND...
sanyo51 10 months ago
this ending sucks, the play was a lot better
flectz 10 months ago
The acting in this is fantastic!
relonation 10 months ago
the movie ending doesn't make any sense if she believed her sister was telling the truth and so walked out on Stan than she wouldn't have had her insitutionalised!
su79er 10 months ago
grrrr it's so different! not as good!
emmactress1894 10 months ago
she's such a legendary icon and actress <3
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seisen44444 1 year ago
lamp you say? <3
seisen44444 1 year ago
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seisen44444 1 year ago
in the book he doesnt
seisen44444 1 year ago
in the book he doesn
seisen44444 1 year ago
You know Stella doesn't leave him in the original play right? It's so sad that they had to change it for the movie.
Emilyy182 1 year ago
He ruined her and stella let him
jmarie10993 1 year ago
HEY STELLA!!!!
iHateCarolinee 1 year ago
@iHateCarolinee HIYA STANLEY IM STELLA AND I HATE YOU... AND I HATE CAROLINEE AS WELL.... WHOEVER THAT IS LOLOLOLOL
seisen44444 1 year ago
I cried for ages when i read the ending of this play :(
beccaxglinda 1 year ago
... this isn't how the play ended.
hitppohiman 1 year ago 5
Why am I always reading that Vivien Leigh was a mediocre actress and yet she has won two oscars and is widely acknowledged as having given the greatest definitive performance of this extremely iconic and difficult role, every great actress has played this part and if you believe the reviews all of them fall somewhat short of Miss Leighs interpretation I've even read film critics saying that Viviens performance is one of the 5 greatest film performances of all time...hardly 'mediocre' acting
BigDeanoSyd 1 year ago
oh god damn it! you missed out the part where the paper lantern gets ripped off and she goes absolutely apeshit!
dysonshowtime 1 year ago 31
One of the great dramatic scenes of American cinema. Vivien Leigh, in my book, played two of the most memorable actress roles of the 20th century....in Scarlett O'Hara, and in Blanche Dubois. Tennessee Williams's conception of savagery, kindness, and human dignity was never more clearly presented. Thanks for the post.
followthefleet1 1 year ago
They don't make ' em like this anymore
melfinifrock 1 year ago
@melfinifrock HMMM
seisen44444 1 year ago
never seen this movie, and have no idea whats going on, but it gives me an upsetting feeling...like an innocent lamp that trusts the wolves who plot to devour her
longfootbuddy 1 year ago
@longfootbuddy lamp you say...? hmm
sellout1990 1 year ago
@sellout1990 haent you eer heard of lamp eating wolfs?
longfootbuddy 1 year ago
@longfootbuddy lol i have now thank you for clarifying...
sellout1990 1 year ago
@longfootbuddy stupid idiot lamp you say? ))))) lamps cannt be innocent you know...
seisen44444 1 year ago
ive just finished the play in class. the film has a happier ending but the play's ending makes more sense i guess. i mean it would be boring if everything had a happy ending
vampireravefan 1 year ago 19
@vampireravefan YOUR LIFE WILL NOT HAVE A HAPPY ENDING
seisen44444 1 year ago
@seisen44444 well no. because i will be dead at the end of it
vampireravefan 1 year ago
@vampireravefan
yeah stella stays with stanley, the dumbass.
molestlemurs91 10 months ago
@vampireravefan How is this, in any way, a happy ending? It's exactly the same as the play, she gets lead off by the doctor, who in Blanche's eyes, is a gentleman, as he removes his hat and takes her arm, and the final line she says is the same, and just as ironic.
vanillabear05 10 months ago
@vanillabear05 because stanley is left with nothing when stella leaves with the baby
vampireravefan 10 months ago
@vampireravefan Yes but she will always go back.. It's supposed to be dubious but Stanley always has the deck in his hands; he's always the dealer when they play poker. She will always come back to him, especially now that she has chosen him over Blanche.
vanillabear05 10 months ago
@vampireravefan How is the movie happier? The ending is the same in the play except Stella doesn't leave Stanley...
LexiixoxRoxx 7 months ago
@vampireravefan The censors insisted on having a "moral" ending in which Stanley is punished. That said, I think this adaptation pleases the censors but maintains the play's grimness. I have never felt Stella really left Stanley; to me, it always seems like she'll just go right back to him, as she did in the famous "Stella!" scene. They'll just continue their cyclical love-hate feuds while poor Blanche suffers. Chilling.
yellowrose32 7 months ago
@yellowrose32 Does Stella believe Blanche at the end? Is that why she leaves Stanley? In the original play there's a line in which she says to Eunice, "I couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley." She does not leave Stanley then because she chooses not to believe her sister's account of what happened.
aMakola 1 week ago
@aMakola You are right; that is what happens at the end of the play. In the '50s, though, they would have expected some kind of morality to be portrayed, so Kazan had to make it at least seem like Stella was going to leave Stanley. Despite the changes, though, I think the movie still manages to get the main points across. I can only imagine what it would have been like to rewrite this play with the rampant censorship! Thanks for the comment.
yellowrose32 1 week ago
Different ending from the book; gives Stella some hope of leaving her husband by. Beautiful film! The last scene always breaks my heart. Thanks for sharing.
desatormentandome 1 year ago
i like this ending.i hated the original one.
cracking609 1 year ago
@cracking609 REALLY? WELL I HATED YOU
seisen44444 1 year ago
CSO: GREAT METAPHORE
hansiopansio 1 year ago
Never saw the film, but this scene is eerie.
bassmzero 1 year ago
Vivien Leigh is one of the greatest actresses to have graced the industry.
CathyCoconut 1 year ago 4
This isn't quite the same as the written ending of the play... I don't remember Stella taking the baby upstairs and all that. This way seems to imply that Stella leaves Stanley.
GrlLeastLikelyTo 1 year ago
I love this part. And I was so mad at Mitch!!
alvastarr1 1 year ago
HEY STELLA!!!!!!!!!
SaverinoMusic 1 year ago
Why was Stanley calling Stella
Sneezlebob 1 year ago
BIG ass nose!!!!!
outlaw07307 1 year ago
they probably changed the end to appeal to a modern audience's desire for justice and to just appeal to a broader audience in general. I don't know why else they would have changed it....
SoftballPlayingFool 1 year ago
@SoftballPlayingFool
you can read about it on wikipedia. "The play's themes were controversial causing the screenplay for the film to be watered down to comply with the Hollywood Production Code." A lot of plays that became films in that era faced similar "censoring".
chelvispift 1 year ago
Well the movie ended different the the play... Stella still says with Stanley even after what he did to Blanche.
akjcbm 1 year ago
@akjcbm
yes, actually it was a condition. If they were to imply in the movie that Stanley was to rape Blanche, they had to change to ending to show that Stanley was punished for his deeds...
Rosamorrable 1 year ago
ummm her husband alan grey was gay and shot himself because she told him that he disgusted her,.
funkygirl59 1 year ago
There comming to take me away he he
There comming to take me away ho ho
To the funny farm.
Blanch went blblblblblblblblblblblblblblbl
clydespeed 1 year ago 3
Poor Blanche!I wish I could cut Stanleys wee-wee of and avenge her!
bawoman 2 years ago 3
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brando didnt have a penis. it was still in wally cox's mouth.
jfdhjgdh2010 2 years ago
@jfdhjgdh2010
I almost pitied you after reading that reply ,but ignorance is bliss,so never mind
bawoman 2 years ago 2
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fuck you bitch
jfdhjgdh2010 2 years ago
the 2010 saying is more appopriately.... "fuck you, you crazy black jaguar slaying truth saying bitch" : ) hhahahahah
DeathShamans 2 years ago
yikes have you seen the kenneth anger photo of brando
lloydsk 2 years ago
@jfdhjgdh2010
Wally Cox bit off Marlon Brando's penis?
Yo. That's not how oral sex works.
kives1985 1 year ago
` kinda mad tey changed the ending but its a good adaption
Alviesthunder 2 years ago
this is quite painful to watch given what happened to vivien leigh in the years after this film
wilco9971 2 years ago 4
It's a shame they changed the ending because the real ending has a stronger impact. I've only seen clips of this film but it seems like a good adaptation of the play!
tigereyes5 2 years ago 4
But if you think about it. The scene where he hits her and Blanche takes her to Eunice, she eventually went back to him. So, even though she went upstairs, there's a good chance that she went back to him, again.
spookygirl85 2 years ago
lol they totally changed the ending to make it happier, shes just goes back to stanley at the end of the play
venakew 2 years ago 3
I never saw that part in the play write book! YOu must tell meh more!
Gjkl345 2 years ago
eh she gets the baby and starts crying and stanley's like stella? but uncertainly and she keeps crying and stanley tries to comfort her and then steve says the game is seven-card stud showing nothing's really changed in their house
venakew 2 years ago
Oh woops I meant how was it happier? In the end she ran back to him symbolizing his deep control over her for the rest of her knownlife in the movie version.
Gjkl345 2 years ago
oh yeah i don't how i missed that its a bit better in the play though how she never says anything about knowing about the rape but mainly me just being silly
venakew 2 years ago
i must disagree with lexiixoxroxx, vivien has never a mental ilness, she was bipolar, a physical disorder, not mentally disorder. and she fights like a tiger, all her life, to be as professional as an acress as never before or after her any other actress fight. she thought she was mad, but time provees she was bipolar. carlos
gwtwcarlos 2 years ago
bipolar is NOT a physical disorder, it is a mental illness. It is also known as manic depressive disorder and the symptons are depression, mood swings, hallucinations and mania. Vivien Leigh did have this and it caused great rifts in her marriage with Laurence Olivier.
You're right to say she wasn't mad, she was ill, but ill in the mind not her physical body. Many people live with mental illnesses, some better than others; it's all relative.
tigereyes5 2 years ago 2
I dont think that oliviers homosexual affairs helped her any
lloydsk 2 years ago 4
Didn't know about that!
No, I can imagine that didn't help at all. Its easy to assume that a person's mental illness is the sole cause of any relationship problems but that isn't the case. Other things could be going on and it also depends on how the other person responds to their partner's illness, as it would with any other type of problem situation they may be in other than a mental disorder
tigereyes5 1 year ago
he didnt have homesexual affairs
LaDiaFerguson 1 year ago
He had several well-documented ones, he even admitted to his earlier bisexuality!
BigDeanoSyd 1 year ago
@BigDeanoSyd
I read many vivien leigh bio's and none really said that Olivier had gay affairs,it said that vivien was very good at picking up on that type of thing and if anthing gay was about olivier,vivien would have mentioned it.
LaDiaFerguson 1 year ago
@lloydsk
well wouldn't you just imagine? how she must have felt
SHE' WAS PERFECT
82558061 1 year ago
i agree. if i remember correctly, it even mentions at the end of the play in the stage notes how Stanley slid his hand into her shirt....something to that extent.
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They fucked up the whole play with this stupidest ending. Just like they always did in Hollywood, though.
poohoff 2 years ago
fuck me, they did, didn't they?
sammydaleo 2 years ago
Agreed this isn't as good.
sungiant218 2 years ago
DUMBASS American.
LickMyCuntMoFo 2 years ago
@LickMyCuntMoFo HMMMM
seisen44444 1 year ago
so went up those stairs fast
akilla4ever 2 years ago
@akilla4ever SO WENT DOWN THOSE STAIRS FAST
seisen44444 1 year ago
no they have sex after Stella came back to Stanley from the beating poker night.
Sarah276602 2 years ago
Looks like Stella and Stanley are history forever.
Sarah276602 2 years ago
not if you read the play
Shanethefilmmaker 2 years ago
Yes I did, in english class. Not this is different from the play.
Sarah276602 2 years ago
That was only in the film, and they did that to satisfy the censor. There was a rule in the Production Code which said that wickedness couldn't prevail, blah, blah, blah....
Cybele1986 2 years ago
Yes. But Stanley is different ok? Stella found out what he did to Blanche and she'll never forgive him ever. Cause a woman has the rights to prevail all mankind who stand their grounds.
Sarah276602 2 years ago
yeah something about rapists cant win
purpledino64 2 years ago 2
This was the best line Vivien Leigh ever delivered.
mbulseco 2 years ago
Vivien Leigh looks heartbreakingly fragile here. Can't have been healthy for her to play this part. What a great actress !
chislehurstbat 2 years ago
She wasn't healthy when she made this. She was in constant breakdowns and she later commented that playing Blanche "tipped her into madness".
LexiixoxRoxx 2 years ago 3
Blanche Dubois was a classic TEXTBOOK case of borderline personality disorder. I'm sure Vivian's dx and unstability allowed her to play the role well also.
xxx0Tiff0xxx 2 years ago
I litterally sob at this part of the movie
even though i have seen 100 times
just gets to me
Simpsonsfan0846 2 years ago 2
This scene is so difficult to watch on its own. Then, knowing about the life of Vivien Leigh, and how it paralleled this film and GWTW with her bi polar disorder, what was called manic depression. If you ever have the chance, see this on stage as it is different on stage. I do not know how the actors do it every night. Now all 4 srats are gone, Karl Malden having died at 96 last week. Loved them all, love them all!
ferrierepc 2 years ago 3
u would have to be pretty sick to go back with a man who rapes your sister
iloveclassics50 2 years ago 19
@iloveclassics50 YEAH I KNOW
seisen44444 1 year ago
Such a great movie.... such a great play. Poor Blanche :(
walkingtoNewOrleans 2 years ago 2
heartbreaking:(
righteousdevil 2 years ago 2
Yeah but it still jacks up the ending -_- I'm doing it in Lit class right now, hehe XD
Brklyn94 2 years ago
they changed the ending because of censorship in the 50s...
the censorship board or watevs wanted stanley to be punished for his actions, thats the only way they would allow it to continue. In order to do this Kazan made it so that stella wouldn't go back to stanley in order to punish him.... Only found out about this today, studying the play in English, so that's lucky.
nmeri3010 2 years ago
What the hell???? that's not the nding at ALL! LMAO!
youknowhow123 2 years ago
I just watched this the other day, and it just about killed me - such deep despair - what an amazing performance
celtica99 2 years ago
and she won her second oscar award.... very deserved!!!
VictorEmmanuell 2 years ago 35
Mi piace il tuo nome!! I like your screen name....King of Italia!
ferrierepc 2 years ago
OMG they totally changed the ending!!! Where did that come from!? O.O
godessinadream 2 years ago
"tone Beautiful, deep statement, strangers realize, in you, Naturally uplifting"
rock78778 2 years ago
Beautiful movie! In the play, Stella stays with Stanley... Maybe, that was a better ending, but anyway, this movie is great!
LeilaRevolutionary 3 years ago
this is so sad
but like everyone is saying Stella goes back to Stanley in the play because she won't let herself believe what he did, but deep down she really knows.
xxlivexlovexlaughxxx 3 years ago
i didnt realize she didnt go back to him in the end!!!
b1mfua33 3 years ago
in the book she doesnt
returnofbhavar99 3 years ago
what does she mean "always depended on the kindness of strangers"? and why is this tragic?
CesarMill498 3 years ago
I don't think it means much, except that she says it to a doctor who's taking her off to a loony bin. It's kind of bittersweet tragic.
Tennessee Williams' plays and movies usually end tragically but with some little uplifting, "chin up" line at the end.
Shamborn 3 years ago
also--I don't know if you know the story--but her mental state was deteriorating and Stanley (Brando) rapes her, then has her committed. Naturally, no one believes her.
Here, she thought she was meeting a gentleman caller, but it turns out to be a doctor and a overbearing matron who pins her to the floor. But in a nice gesture, the doctor calls her Miss DuBois and offers her his arm, calming her and making her feel like the southern belle she wanted to be.
Shamborn 3 years ago 2
it's tragic because it's ironic in a really sad way. all the strangers Blanche has known have hurt her, so saying "I've always depended on the kindness of strangers" is so far from the truth, but she's finally become so delusional that she gets it mixed up.
broadwayluvver 3 years ago 5
A statement about pathetic and lonely her life was; for all her pretensions. She was isolated, and her loutish brother in law brutalized her, and then had her committed.
bookkeeper57 3 years ago 3
I second most that the others have said in reply and, not wanting to lower the tone, it's also *mildly* ironic if you consider that she had a lot of encounters with men she didn't know in her past life. At least that's what I got from it.
Lamirroirmagique 2 years ago
@CesarMill498 CAUSE YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT YOU FOOL
seisen44444 1 year ago
the play ends differently... In the play she ends up going back to Stanley.
kingklick28 3 years ago 2
"I've always depended on the kindness of people who don't care about me at all"
heartsofspace 3 years ago
I had only ever read the book until today, and I wanted to say, this clip was so moving. Vivien makes you feel quite protective of Blanche.
ultrahiplibrarian 3 years ago 3
the only reason she leaves him ias hollywood moral code
Shanethefilmmaker 3 years ago
she really look crazy!!! What a great actress . I admir her! It does not exist actors like her today ^^
phili540 3 years ago 19
@phili540 2 bad vivien leigh actually did go nuts after that performance
ELMATO9 1 year ago
@ELMATO9 She was Bi-polar, she had depression but she still nailed it, maybe because of her illness.
joeles123 1 year ago
@joeles123 oh yeah,
ELMATO9 1 year ago
@ELMATO9 the pitfalls of method acting.
SupernaturalLover67 1 year ago
@SupernaturalLover67 yes quite,
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tigerlily1593 3 years ago
Vivien delivers that line so wonderfully! It's very creepy.
gapeachjessica 3 years ago 3
:S why did stella run away?? she's supposed to go back to him!
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago
I wondered this too, it says on wiki that for the movie an alt ending to the play had to be added to the movie because of the 'Hollywood Production Code regulations in which characters who had committed crimes needed to be seen to have been punished by the movie's end.' so its different than the plays ending!
ThisIsaTragedy 3 years ago
hey when was this shown on TCM? After the movie ends, there is the TCM thing. Was this shown on David O. Selznick's birthday or something?
nicolecleopatra 3 years ago
"Don't you touch me DON'T YOU EVER TOUCH ME AGAIN" "I'm never going back NEVER". If you follow the story to it's logical conclusion: Stella leaves Stanley, Blanche receives necessary treatment/rest and makes a full recovery, and Mitch goes and kicks Stanely's ass. Stanely has charges pressed against him based on information illicited by the social workers.......I like the movie ending.
Bugsobrite 3 years ago
I disagree. In the play, Stella's leaving Stanley never comes up, emphasizing one of the principal themes of the play: Stanley & Stella are so desperately in love, 'proper' upbringing can never change it. As for Blanche telling on Stanley, the end of 'Streetcar' inspired the end of 'Sunset Blvd.' and 'Brazil'; the main character has descended irretrievably into madness, and will live happily ever after in a world of pure fantasy. BTW, Mitch couldn't beat Stanley if his life depended on it.
johndcorr 3 years ago
I know what you mean. I thought the "Censored Happy Ending" of the movie was nowhere near as powerful as the original. Stella is too feverishly enchanted by Stanley and his coloured lights to ever consider leaving him.
Though I do remember reading somewhere that Williams said that he thought Blanche was a survivor, and did not doubt she would recover from the mental hospital. It is true, Blanche did take a lot of punches, it's hardly surprising her sanity came down like a house of cards.
CinnabonChan 3 years ago
this scean helped my songwriting wat a classic peice of art
jimmyblacktown 3 years ago
Fabulous how Blanche finally escapes the madness! And yes, I love to imagine that characters lives continue to evolve... I've always felt Blanche was the strongest of the bunch and (eventually) a graceful survivor.
Maybe Stanley will drown in his own drunken vomit... :>)
LittleDollykin 3 years ago 4
Me too:)
Bugsobrite 3 years ago
I don't think you've understood the play or the movie in the slightest.
Ozy182 3 years ago
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Westy91 3 years ago
I agree the ending in the play is way better. It's so dramatic and hysterical and it made me cry. This was just like, "what?"
Transatlantwiches 3 years ago 3
shiT i dont remember that scene on thsi movie at 2:56.
this movie makes me cry all the time
madrereus16 3 years ago
I like the ending in the play better than the movie. However, the Film Association made them change the ending because they already thought the rae was too "morbid". Personally, though, I think it's too out of character for Stella to just leave. That's the thing about her; just like her sister, in ways, she's weak and vulnerable, and Stanley will always be able to exploit that. She doesn't just suddenly grow a spine.
writer8788 3 years ago 8
she left in the movie? that kinda ruins it....i totally agree with you about stella. i think shes into deep with stanley to be able to leave....
quackersmcgooo 3 years ago 5
I know. Thanks, 50's American censorship. xD
It's one of those things where you read