12/28/2011

Old: A streetcar named desire


Le jizz!



Arguably one of the best acting performances of all time from Brando, in the claustrophobic, controversial play from Tennesee Williams. Yet in 1951, he had lost the Best Actor Oscar to Bogart , although the film won four other statuettes.

To put it simply, sweaty, violent, sexual animal Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski blows all our actors out the water in terms of charisma, and sex appeal. Vivien Leigh looks like a terrified, hairless cat and has lost much of the beauty that made her Scarlett O'Hara but displays a great case of the crazies. Why can't more recent films show the sexual tension and manipulation meant to happen before the actual sex the way Williams and Kazan did?