Extended Reading
  • Deonte 2022-04-22 07:01:26

    The unique charm of black and white movies

    2017/9/11

  • Meggie 2022-04-19 09:01:55

    Confessions of Blanche

      Where am I from, where am I going, who am I? !

      Every New Year's bell urges me to be another year older. The older I get, the more I feel like I understand who I really am. But I often feel like I don't know who I am anymore.

      I used to feel that I was incomparably beautiful, like the flower that...

  • Jana 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    A rather depressing black and white film. A woman who is no longer young, living in the shadows of the past, she is romantic, sentimental, sensitive and fragile until she has a mental breakdown. It's not wrong to live in fantasy forever, no matter what, you have to find someone you can rely on. Vivien Leigh's acting is really good. The male protagonist is an impulsive, cruel and realistic Capricorn man. I have to say that Marlon Brando's figure is really perfect...

  • Tiara 2021-12-08 08:01:38

    Actually just watch this film now. Blanche is vain, greedy, on the verge of collapse and even self-destructed because of love, but I still can't hate such a woman. Movies similar to stage plays, Vivien Leigh's dramatic performances and Marlon Brando's natural performances appear in this movie at the same time, and there are many rival plays, but they are not abrupt at all, the peak of their respective performance styles.

A Streetcar Named Desire quotes

  • Stanley: [yells out] Hey, Mitch!

    Mitch: [turns to Stanley, yells] Coming!

    Blanche: Gracious! What lung power!

  • Blanche: [Meeting with Stella, shortly after she's arrived in New Orleans] I bought some nice clothes to meet all your lovely friends in. Well... I'm afraid you won't think they're lovely. Well, anyway, I bought nice clothes and I'll wear them. I guess you're hoping I'll say I'll put up at a hotel. I'm not going to put up at a hotel. I've got to be near you, Stella. I've got to be with people. I can't be alone because... Because as you must have noticed, I... I'm not very well.