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Tennessee Williams a Streetcar Named Desire [DVD] [1995] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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The next morning, Blanche rushes to Stella and describes Stanley as subhuman, though Stella assures Blanche that she and Stanley are fine. Stanley overhears the conversation but keeps silent. When Stanley comes in, Stella hugs and kisses him, letting Blanche know that her low opinion of Stanley does not matter. The 1973 Woody Allen film Sleeper includes a late scene in which Miles (Woody) and Luna ( Diane Keaton) briefly take on the roles of Stanley (Luna) and Blanche (Miles). A highly publicized and acclaimed revival in 1992 starred Alec Baldwin as Stanley and Jessica Lange as Blanche. It was staged at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where the original production was staged. This production proved so successful that it was filmed for television. It featured Timothy Carhart as Mitch and Amy Madigan as Stella, as well as future Sopranos stars James Gandolfini and Aida Turturro. Gandolfini was Carhart's understudy. [15] Almodóvar’s film is a work “in which the characters’ fates keep on reflecting each other, producing a lively collage of women’s experiences.” (Mira 2019, 390). Manuela’s son, Esteban, can be connected intertextually to Tennesse Williams’s world of writing and poetry. One scene is especially powerful in this regards: when they are watching the classic movie All About Eve on the television and Manuela asks Esteban what he is writing, he answers “the future Pulitzer winners” (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999 00:03:23-00:03:25) which is an indirect reference to Tennessee Williams who won the Pulitzer prize in 1948 with Streetcar.

Stars, therefore, over the years became the key factors behind the success of a movie. Besides their talents, stars—especially from the 1950s when fan magazines such as Photoplay became increasingly popular—needed to have an ‘aura,’ a pleasing look that would attract the audience. A great example for this is Marlon Brando, who became a sex symbol of the 1950s with his charismatic presence and powerful method acting skills. With the appearance of these fan magazines, Barry King points out two important aspects of being a star by saying that “stardom is a quality that is plainly seen in the physical presence of stars” and that these magazines did not care about the stars’ inner qualities (King 2015, 156). In 1974, the People magazine launched its first issue which replaced the previously popular Photoplay magazine and became the first publication that started to display stars in a different manner than Photoplay. As King explains, theIn a 2016 episode of The Originals, titled "A Streetcar Named Desire", Klaus Mikaelson and Elijah Mikaelson are forced to face two siblings, Tristan and Aurora de Martel, once friends but now foes. For a good auteur several elements are needed to make a film successful. It is not enough to create a good narrative line and interesting dialogues but the characters of the movie are crucial part of the movie’s success. More precisely, the actors behind the characters are the core elements, too, because as an artist’s figure and aura can turn a dull narrative into an exciting one through bringing his or her own personality into the characters he or she is impersonating. This is one of the features of stardom.

Geis, Deborah. "Deconstructing (A Streetcar Named) Desire: Gender Recitation in Belle Reprieve". Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works. Ed. Sharon Friedman. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2009. 237-246. Print. National Theatre at Home: A Streetcar Named Desire". National Theatre. May 2020 . Retrieved May 28, 2020.

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Glenn Close starred in Trevor Nunn's 2002 production for the National Theatre at the Lyttleton Theatre, London. Pedro Almodóvar's 1999 Academy Award-winning film All About My Mother features a Spanish-language version of the play being performed by some of the supporting characters and the play plays an important role in the film. However, some of the film's dialogue is taken from the 1951 film version, not the original stage version. The first adaptation of Streetcar in Greece was performed in 1948 by Koun's Art Theater, two years before its film adaptation and one year before its London premiere, directed by Karolos Koun starring Melina Mercouri as Blanche and Vasilis Diamantopoulos as Stanley, with original music by Manos Hadjidakis.

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