Wednesday, April 6, 2016

So You Want to Know About Marlon Brando and A Streetcar Named Desire...

In the short story "Who Am I This Time?" by Kurt Vonnegut, the fictional North Crawford Mask and Whig club performs the real play by Tennessee Williams' called A Streetcar Named Desire. Watch the original 1951 movie trailer below to learn more about the play/movie:




In the short story, fictional Harry Nash is cast as the "Marlon Brando character" from the play/movie. In the real life play and movie version, Brando played Stanley, a character that Vonnegut describes as "...huge and handsome and conceited and cruel," a man whom "...the sight of a weeping woman made him sneer."  In case you were wondering what that means, here are a few examples of Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire:






















No comments:

Post a Comment