Movie adaptations of books and plays usually are very different in order to appeal to certain audiences and to not face criticism. In the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, a young woman named Maggie and her husband Brick are facing difficulties in their marriage due to Brick’s aloof behavior and not wanting to make love with Maggie. This behavior is due Brick believing that Maggie cheated on him with his best friend, Skipper, who committed suicide and Brick feels that caused his death. The play and the movie have many differences with the relationships between Maggie, Brick, and Skipper as well as the screenwriter adding in extra scenes that were not in the play in order to follow the Hays Code and to get a good reception.…show more content… Hays, is a set of guidelines made for major motion pictures in the United States which prevented the homosexual relations between Skipper and Brick to go on the big screen which greatly differed from the play’s original intention. In the play, Big Daddy, Brick’s father, confronted Brick about his relationship with Skipper and Brick becomes defensive saying, “You think so too? You think me an’ Skipper did, did, did!—sodomy!—together?” (Williams 119). Big Daddy never mentions that he thought Brick and Skipper had homosexual relations, yet Brick automatically believes that to be so by protecting himself without hesitation. Brick proves it by saying he had a ‘real deep’ and ‘exceptional’ friendship to cover up any accusations of it being anything else. Whereas in the movie, Brick did not even mention the word queer or him having sexual relations and instead the conversation is more directed towards him causing the death of Skipper. By changing this scene with Big Daddy and Brick it eliminates any idea of homosexuality between Brick and Skipper in order to be appealing. This part in the movie also strengthens the relationship between Maggie and Brick because she denies that she slept with Skipper and also gets rid of the notion of Brick being gay. Even though some dialogue was taken out of the movie, it made a huge difference to how the audience perceives Brick’s sexuality which differs from the
