"A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams

One can only agree that, "A movie based on a Tennessee Williams play is a Tennessee Williams film." (Forster Hirsch.) If the words in the play and in the movie of A Streetcar Named Desire are compared, anyone can realize that they are almost one and the same. The plot of the movie almost directly follows the structure of the play.
While reading the play, readers may have there own image of the main characters but because of the brilliance of Elia Kazan, the director of the movie A Streetcar Named Desire, in the choosing of the cast of the two most important parts, readers are now able to see the perfect group of actors and actresses representing these characters.
Marlon Brando gives an amazing rendition of Stanley Kowalski. Stanley is the epitome of an essential force. He is loyal to his friends, passionate to his wife, and heartlessly cruel to Blanche.…