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...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...
Other skits include two versions of Stanley Kowalski's rape of Stella DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, using different tones and body gestures. Conceivably, some might think one interpretation is rape and one is not. Raz said, "The scene is an interesting bend on what heroes are all about, on how society heroicizes...
...revival of recent years has been more eagerly anticipated than the pairing of movie stars 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...
...many, the choice is artistic. They want | to play classic roles, work with particular directors or co-stars, or demonstrate talent in a way films do not allow. Baldwin, for example, spurned a reported $1 million for a sequel to The Hunt for Red October to take on Stanley Kowalski, the role that made Marlon Brando. Says Baldwin: "It's thrilling...
Thompson has been fighting for custody since an auto accident left Kowalski brain damaged and quadriplegic eight years ago. Kowalski was in a nursing home under her parents' custody until 1989, when her father concluded that his heart trouble and the strain of the legal challenges prevented him from continuing as guardian. At that time Thompson was bypassed in favor of a close family friend...