Posted on 06/02/2022 4:24:42 PM PDT by BEJ
What do the movies "Street Car Named Desire" and "Gone with the Wind" have in common?
They both won an Academy Award for Vivian Leigh, the protagonist in both movies. But there are even more striking similarities. Vivian Leigh (an English actress) basically plays the same character in both movies: a coquette-like, love-smitten Southern Belle. The only real difference is that as Scarlet O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" stood up to a harsh world, Blanch Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" was brought down and crushed by the same world. Both characters revered landed property and the high manner of Southern society. Both movies center around the real but the illusory passion of romantic love that blossoms with youth. Where the spell of romantic love was eventually abandoned by Scarlet, after learning a harsh and important lesson in life, Blanch succumbed to its charms even to the point of madness. Avoiding the bitter realities of the world for the sake of make-believe, fairy tale love can put you in a nuthouse. This is where older damsels, who desperately cling to their amorous dreams and fading looks, can eventually end up.
There is a third movie that completes the Vivian Leigh theme and that is "Ship of Fools." Here she plays Mrs. Tredwell who is like Scarlet & Blanch at an even older age. Again the topic is romantic love and how older women despair and wish to be young again. It, too, has won awards but not an Academy Award.
The Vivian Leigh trilogy is a great lesson on life. I happened to stumble onto this actress, and I'm not sure how I did it -- possibly through another movie she was in. She has an amazing Southern accent for a British woman and plays her roles exquisitely. She, like Blanche Dubois, did suffer from mental illness. However, she has given an impressive performance and much to think about on the subject of romantic love.
They both were shown in a dark theater?
The main thing they have in common is that they are both great films.
Four words in both titles.
Despite both being movies neither we’re about cows.
I prefer Maureen O’Hara, not Scarlett.
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She played the role of a woman going made in Streetcar so well for a reason.
She was bipolar v
Both titles have an ‘e’ as the 4th character.
In my case, what they have in common is that I didn’t care for either one. On my 5 star rating system, they’d each get a 2.8.
Oh, fiddle dee dee, too much pearl clutching drama.
The are both based upon previously published works.
They were both set in the South?
At my age, 88, there are many wonderful real actresses and actors as well as movies that I remember...
Most of these actors and actresses would not make it into the movies these days... For the past 50-years, true acting has died out and has been replaced by violence, profanity, perversion, and death...
With the movies and the games of the past 50-years, it is no wonder that schools have been getting drugged up or shot up...
Isn’t Blanch DuBois supposed to be a stand in for Tennessee Williams?
Like, that’s just your opinion man.
GWTW. Won 9 Oscars
Streetcar. Only 4 Oscars.
Both had beautiful women with mental health issues. Hollywood is like dancing with the devil best I can determine.
No woke in both movies.
No woke in both movies.
Well, they don’t call them “dramas” for nothing. Nobody would go to the theater to see a “film ordinary”.
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