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...Scarlett is very different from the character that Vivien Leigh played," explains executive producer Robert Halmi Sr., who originated the project and put up the money for it. "This is a mature lady. At the end of Gone With the Wind, she winds up with no friends, just money. What kind of ending is that? I had to create somebody who starts there. Vivien Leigh started gorgeous and young and perky and ended up completely broken. I had to find somebody who could start out broken and end up being gorgeous and fulfilled and in love...
...Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter...
...director's cut brings "Streetcar' up to a standard more suitable for the modern palate. we see a richer portrayal of the sexuality of Blanche Dubois, played stupendously by Vivien Leigh, and Stella (Kim Hunter). Instead of a doting housewife and her lonely sister, we see full-bodied emotional an sexual characters. We understand the intensity of the battle over stella that happens between Blanche and Stella's husband, Stanley (played with a feverish pitch by Marlon Brando) because we are allowed to see the sexual attachment between Stella and Stanley...
...Cyril's aged mother. These are Thatcher's children, who display their politics and appalling snobbery when they tell their neighbors that "mercifully you people do have the opportunity to purchase your council properties these days." The other side of the social coin is represented by Cyril's sister Vivien and her nouveau-riche husband. While Vivien personifies the British obsession with upward social mobility, her husband's chat-up line, "Hurry up, I've only got ten minutes" was for me a nostalgic reminder of the romantic sensibility of men back home...
This will only be seen as a "feelgood" movie bythose who can thank their stars that they're notBritish. But Leigh somehow manages to steer clearof unmitigated pessimism. There are some greatone-liners, for example Vivien's classic blunder:"I would like to propose a toast to mum's birthday'cos it may be her last." There is also, inCyril's enduring idealism and his tenderness forboth Shirley and his mother, a reminder of theimportance of maintaining "high hopes...