I thought the movie was very similar to the book. I remember all the lines were exactly the same in the book and the movie. In the movie you really saw how aggressive Stanley was. He hit his wife very hard and was very aggressive with Blanche. I don't know how somebody could be so mean.
One thing that I didn't like was how Blanche sometimes just kept going on and on and didn't let any character get a word in edgewise. It was pretty annoying. I also thought it was weird how she kissed the boy that comes to the door. It was very strange that she would kiss a stranger on the lips. Then you see Mitch come to the door and what if he caught her kissing him. Mitch would not have been happy. I also don't understand why she leads Mitch on put never lets him touch her at all. What makes Mitch not desire her anymore and stand her up is that she lies to him. He finds out that she's not straight and has slept with many people in random hotels. He says, "You're not clean enough for me."
Also, Stan finds out that she got kicked out the school she was teaching in because she had an affair with a kid that was 17.
I thought the ending in the movie and the book were weird. I didn't really understand until someone told me that she was taken off to a hospital. It was weird how Blanche thought it was someone taking her on a cruise to an island. It's really sad that she got that messed up in the end.
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Blanche did lead Mitch on quite a bit, but always shied away from him when things got too intimate. You would think that her reputation as being promiscous would allow her to continue her actions with Mitch. But that got me thinking, maybe Blanche had actually fallen in love again, and was afraid that Mitch would hurt her, as her young husband had. The other men that she is accused of sleeping with just helped her to cover up her pain temporarily. It gave her a brief sense of being wanted and loved again.
But after Mitch realizes that almost everything Blanche said was a lie, he did just what she had hoped he wouldn't; broke her heart but declaring her unclean. Poor Blanche, all she wanted was true love again.
Many of the scenes in the movie were the same considering that the movie was an adaptation of the play. The scenes that were different were changed because of circumstances and for the fact that it would probably had made the movie ease to put to screen and for the auidences to enjoy.
The film and the book were very similiar, especially in the beginning. It seemed as though you could follow along in the book.
The film did show just how violent Stanley was. I think that this was really helpful in my understanding of the play. I did not get just how aggressive Stanley was just from reading the play, but when we watched the film, I was just disgusted with his character.
When Blanche was speaking in the film, it really annoyed me as well. I think that this did add to us really believing that she was absolutely crazy.
I think that when Blanche kissed the boy she was just so desperate to relive the past with her "young husband." This also just goes to prove that she is insane. Another good piece of evidence of this is the music that she hears. The film version really allows us to hear that and see her reactions first hand.
I think the end works to tie in Blanches crazy personality the best in the movie. you really see that she needs help, as she is on the floor spasaming, and convinced that this man is going to sweep in and saver her. i feel bad for her, she so desperatley just wants to be saved in the world, the movie makes you wish you could help her and have some one that would actually sweep in and save her from the world she so greatly misinterprets. It made me wonder in the play and the movie why no one felt pitty for Blanche when they found that she was so desperate at one point that she slept around with all these strangers. They outcast her and throw stones because the lowest point in her life was brought to light, when in reality most of them have done things just as bad, if not worse... for example rape.
You bring up an interesting scene, where the paper boy that Blanche just kissed exits past Mitch who is skipping up to her doorstep. I had not thought about this event much, but you are right that Mitch could have very easily caught her and would have much sooner been aware of her less than pure ways. This scene relates to what we discussed in class about Blanche being self-destructive. She knows that Mitch is about to pick her up for their date, yet she keeps the boy lingering. It is almost as though she wants her sinfulness to be discovered.
Also, this scene is a good example of how natural it is for Blanche to lie. A few seconds after she kissed the boy, Mitch arrives and she plunges into a conversation with him. She embarks on one of her rapid-paced speeches and seems completely unperturbed by the close call. I noticed that she always speaks rapidly when she lies or is story-telling dramatically, perhaps because she is nervous but probably because she is so well-versed in concocting stories on the spot. However, I also noticed that she speaks slowly when she is telling the truth. This is clearly hard for her to do, and she does not have much practice doing it. For example, when she told Mitch about Allan, her pace slowed and she was genuine for a few moments.
The film was very similar to the play, even if some of the long and slightly drawn out dialogues. Blanche's long speeches and talking about nothing in particular so that no one else could talk was very annoying. Watching her with the boy that came to the door was just uncomfortable. But I think this was the image of Blanche that they were trying to portray, she didn't fit in the way she was supposed to so she was awkward. She didn't know how to interact with people and talking about what she wanted to talk about kept them from wondering about her which is exactly what she didn't want.
You definitely could see that Stanley was very aggressive towards Stella, Blanche, and even his friends. While I got this impression from the play, it was definitely an eye opener to see exactly how violent he was. Blanche is definitely a weird character. With that rambling on and on it was very hard to even understand what her character was thinking. Everytime she opened her mouth the only thing I could think of was crazy, crazy, she's completely crazyyyyy.
When Blanche gets taken away at the end it is very sad, you can kind of see that she is coming out of her fantasy but then she seems to go right back into it.
I also thought that the movie was very similar to the play. The words were the same, and the movie followed the same structure as the play. A few of the scenes were changed in the movie, so there was some differences between the two. I think the director had to change some things in the movie because the people of that time wouldn't except it if he didn't.
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