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Pacino also talked about his early experience with the playwright's work, mentioning an occasion when he watched Marlon Brando performing Shakespeare...
...important restoration is of a great film to contemporary consciousness. Indeed, comparing dimmed memories of the 1951 cut with this one, what strikes you is how resistant to censorship Tennessee Williams' work was. In the struggle between poetically yearning Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and brutally realistic Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) for the soul of her sister and his wife Stella (Kim Hunter), Williams personified what was for him the essential conflict of modern life. The newfound footage adds a touch of $ evil to Brando's work, makes Blanche a bit more vulnerable and stresses the genteel Stella's sexual thralldom...
What the rerelease does is re-establish Streetcar's historical value. You see anew how it opened theater and movies to new realms of psychology and language, gave Brando the showcase that established Stanislavskian subjectivity as the standard for serious American acting and offered director Elia Kazan the chance to develop a style that subtly, hypnotically serves conflicting demands, including the play's for claustrophobia, the actors' for ensemble playing, the movies' for sheer movement...
...Unexpectedly, it does not come from the star, five-time Tony Award winner Julie Harris. In the best tradition of off-Broadway as the place where actors get discovered, it is little-known William Fichtner, as her engaging yet explosive son-in-law, who finds a gesture worthy of Brando...
...DeLuise is absolutely hilarious as Don Giovanni, who is hired to kill Robin Hood. DeLuise does a great imitation of Marlon Brando's imitation of Brando's own Don Corleone. Think about that one for a while. Anyway, it's pretty funny. Dick Van Patten also tries to extend his career by doing a cameo as the Abbot. Haven't these guys heard of retirement and social security...