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...thugs into thinkers and louts into Lochinvars, and elevated their gutter parlance into a courtly elocution, full of flowery phrases scrupulously shorn of contractions. While time has been unkind to many landmark musicals, Guys and Dolls has sustained its glowing reputation despite a clumsy 1955 Hollywood rendition with Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra and a trendy, swingy all-black revival on Broadway...
LIFE IN THE PARAPLEGIC WARD HASN'T changed much since Marlon Brando and friends first showed us around in The Men 42 years ago. The guys are still alternately bitter and brave, and they ultimately learn to bond with one another. Sex remains for them, of course, a scary and tragic issue. But if THE WATERDANCE has nothing new to say about its subject, at least it speaks in an engaging voice: soft, literate, modest. Probably because Neal Jimenez, its writer (and co-director with Michael Steinberg), is writing autobiographically, he is less concerned with melodramatic invention than...
...then meet the King's court (or Marlon Brando's, as the case may be) dressed in business suits and equipped with guns as well as with daggers, who proceed to play out Shakespeare's story of greed, murder and revenge with an urgency heightened by the references made to modern times...
...Jessica Lange as the desperate, delusional Blanche DuBois and Alec Baldwin as her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski, the feral hunk who rapes her in body and mind. From the moment they meet, there should be a sense of yearning and of doom, as when Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando legendarily created the roles. Alas, there are no sparks between the current team...
...first version as a seduction, the second as a rape: the dialogue in both versions is identical, suggesting that the question of literal consent remains problematic. Raz contends that popular culture pretends that consent is not problematic: "Stanley is a big bad hero, infamously protrayed by Marlon Brando. But a lot of our literary heroes depend on power and sexual control...