I laughed when Blanche was complaining to Stella and Stanley is on the phone and he turns around and goes WILL YOU SHUT UP?! I was like damn Stanley you're soo passionate when you shout, yell, and scream I've never been so excited in my LIFE about someone soo livid I think it's Stanley that does it to you 😂😳🤣
@@sehmuskaplan5235 yea! I can't explain it either it's like he's really frustrated but at the same time you can't get mad at him! 😂 lol like he's angry but it's like tender kind of as well.... Marlon was just ANOTHER level of acting GENIUS! 😱😳🔥😏
He was amazing!!! He definitely deserved an Oscar for this role. Funny the rest of the actors got an Oscar, only Marlon not. He was nothing like before in the movies, and never will be someone like him. Unique! Fantastic performance!
That's the thing though, I think in 1951 hollywood was still grasping onto that north atlantic accent stage-acting nonsense, and Marlon was the next thing - but part of the growing pains was not awarding him the Oscar, despite being the strongest performance in the movie, by an exponential degree.
I really feel sorry for Stella, being in between 2 abusive relationships, her old family and the new, not knowing which one to support, Stan and Blanche are intollerable for different reasons... Then again her own masochism keeps her in this situation, although she could be the catalyst to change it for all of them
Yes and there’s also this idea that society has never really changed for women. Like in the Darwinian society of 1940’s America - that Stanley is very much representative of (he’s what they need to “mix with their blood”) - that has this survival of the fittest mentality and also is largely built on the American dream, Women don’t have the same opportunities that men do and a pregnant single woman wouldn’t last that long she feels as if she needs that support. It’s the whole idea that Stella (much like Williams himself probably felt) is feeling conflicted and it raises the question is this modern America better than the old south? Or in a way has it really changed that much? There’s also a quote from around the poker scene where Stella says that “out of all of them Stanley is the only one who stands a chance of making it” to paraphrase- basically showing that the American dream is just that a dream. Literally could write whole essays on this play (and I mean I’m an English lit student so I do have to do that- it’s my fave text so far. And so many interesting themes to discuss)
And what about Stanley? How come none of u fucktards ever put urselves in his shoes. The man works all day every day, busts his ass comes home tired, in pain, exhausted knowing tomorrow will be just as today and continue for ever. His only solace, his only escape is those few hours he has with Stella. Those few hours were he can drop the weight of the world, and just relax, were he can for a few moments go out with friends. But instead he is treated like fuckin dirt, mocked and discriminated because he didn't grow up with a silver spoon up his ass. By some crazy bitch whose eating HIS FOOD, SLEEPING UNDER HIS ROOF, AND UNDER HIS PROTECTION!!! But no let's sit here and pretend like the scheming, fraud, parasite Blanche is the "victim" waaa my rich spoiled as now has to live LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!! I'll get her some coco, the other problem is people like you who enable this type of behavior. Well Stanley ain't perfect but I'll say this she got exactly what she deserved.
1:18 Marlon Brando was legitimately the best actor to grace the screen, but can we take a minute to appreciate this bit of acting by Vivien Leigh? i was genuinely worried for her mental health there.
Exactly!!! They were all amazing… But I couldn’t take my eyes off Vivien Leigh, the most intelligent performance in the movie… She chose to portray Blanche, unlike Jessica Tandy in the play… Maybe it were her offscreen mental health issues that helped her relate to the character and her condition worsened after doing this performance…
He just draws you in effortlessly. You feel like you are right there in the room witnessing the whole event. Nothing is forced or staged. Those are his words and his true feelings.
I remember the first time I watched this, I was around 13. I didn't understand a word of what Stanley was saying. I thought he had a speech impediment. Now I'm just in awe of Brando's acting.
actually most of marlon‘s lovers knew what he was ，they knew they would be heart-broken，but they couldn't resist. this be sound crazy but when i was reading these from his bio i kind of understand them…
If you were born in America and develop skin cancers from living in a hot place like Arizona i think its time to accept where you belong is Europe, not America.
That's not what he meant. There is an American ethnicity which was mainly of English protestant settlers. White Americans are their own ethnicity/race.
I've actually NEVER thought I'd see the day where I'd be soo happy to see anyone REALLY pointly put BEYOND LIVID but then Stanley came along and changed the whole DAMN game 😂🔥😱😏🥵😳 he was soo damn HAWT! 😍
Watching this scene, I feel nostalgia for the way immigrants and my parents included felt about the USA back in the day. It was uplifting and grandiose. Unlike now when it seems like every immigrant is whining about lack of social justice and this and that and how the white man is the cause of all their problems...yet they all want to come to the USA. Go figure....
Dude, she was portrayed as mentally ill throughout the entire play, just because someone is in the wrong does not mean they deserve cruelty, especially when you place that in the context of Stanley being abusive and temperamental, he is not the hero in this story and frankly, he was written as a depiction of how desire corrupts
Maybe for anyone who might be deaf? Yes there are auto-generated subtitles on RU-vid, but with the way Marlon Brando speaks, they would probably mistranslate every sentence.
This was a common situation that had developed in the poor white communities across the United States of America, between 1921 and 1951. Because of WWI, the United States Government passed the United States Immigration Act of 1921, that reduced European Immigration by 90%. There after, the Great Migration of blacks, gave reason for the United States Government to start allocating more resources towards the black communities. After 30 years, in 1951, the poor white communities were loosing resources, and starting to consolidate their families into more crowded living conditions. But, in 1951, the United States Government was constructing Federal Housing projects in every major city, across the Northern United States. So, from 1921 to 1951, the quality of life for the poor whites worsened, and the quality of life for the poor blacks improved. From 1951 to 1991 the black population in the United States doubled, and they propagated across every region of the United States of America. But, the poor whites continued consolidating into smaller regions. Today, in 2024, the same conditions exist for poor white communities across the United States of America. But, the black communities are still propagating, and still get preferential treatment from the United States Government.
