Tennessee Williams
Richard Marx would agree that not only did this British actress, Vivien Leigh, seize the part of American Scarlett O'Hara, in "Gone With the Wind,"
But this British actress also defined her life and soul, actually, in "Streetcar," as one of the most tragic, tragic, tragic deeply American heroines of all time.
How ironic it would fall to a girl from England to heart wrench the American experience.
I've never seen anyone as utterly, hopelessly lost as Blanche DuBois.
I can barely watch it.
More on her later because she deserves ten posts.
Girl grasping at the last straws of sanity, losing her mind. I've never seen an honorable human being have marbles crushed like that, and I never hold within the deepest reserves of my heart, any wish to.
Author gave her no way out.
What made me think about this play to begin with?
A badge on a woman at a grocery store.
Stella.
Brought to mind unrelenting heat and humidity of New Orleans.
Not unlike Houston.
It is very hot here. Every single day.
But Stella's badge brought to mind a hotness about the film, Blanche first, but also Kim's character.
Stella: a woman in between, forced to choose. What choice did she really have?
If you read the play, no answers easy for anyone.
Let Richard Marx play out. You don't want to blog surf anywhere else. Then after five seconds of silence...
Cloud petals of thoughts, out of nowhere, from a simple reference by a badge from a woman in a grocery store, ushering up pain to make silly simple scant seances, small.
Blanche later. For now, give it up to Marlon Brando.
Or YouTube.
Comments
Hey Mr Mark!
Munch and I went to see it this afternoon...cheaper, and not as busy.
It was a great movie..I am a Batman fan,way back to the comics i would hoard as a child...so it is nice to share that with my son.
How's the Crown?
Posted by: kim | July 18, 2008 8:28 PM