A Streetcar Named Desire was released in 1951; it was originally a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by author Tennessee Williams, but director Elia Kazan took her own spin on the miraculous play by adapting it into a movie. The movie included wonderful actors and actresses such as Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden. The movie won numerous awards such as Oscars, Golden Globes, and a plethora of others. In short A Streetcar Named Desire is about a woman by the name of Blanche Dubois who finds herself in some trouble in her hometown and decides to visit her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley. After a short while moving into their small home Stanley begins to torment Blanche and eventually her profound reality crumbles around her. The setting and plot are heavily entwined; creating a movie that is revealing in its narrative. In the same way, the filmmaker created a beautiful setting which accompanies the plot very well. The setting of New Orleans depicts a perfect location for the feministic view of the movie. The point of view in this movie is not easily identified because it was originally meant to be a play. As a result there is no specific narrator who explains the plot line of the…show more content… While the mentioned camera techniques did not lower the overall value and affect the movie, they could have been improved. Any audiences of this film will defiantly take away a new appreciation of the way of life today as compared to life in the 1950’s when men were considered superior to women. As a final analysis, A Streetcar Named Desire is an immaculate film that portrays that one’s fantasies or desires will be unable to succumb to
