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Post by Jaga on Jan 22, 2006 10:13:02 GMT -7
I never watched this whole movie before (shame on me). We just bought a CD version. It is really a good movie. It starts a bit slow, from what I heard about it I expected Stan Kowalsky to be a main character and a negative but it is Blanche who is the main very complex character. For a half of the movie I really did not like her and the way how she was trying to be better, more sophisticated than anybody else, later I started to understand her problem and that there were other people who made her this way.
Stan Kowalsky - he is just a type of a handsome brutal that women are attracted to. I did not considered this movie as being anti-Polish really although it evokes some stereotypes of Poles being harsh and with no refined style. But he is not stupid or naive, just a typical man.
How did any of you like it?
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Post by sciwriter on Jan 22, 2006 10:43:57 GMT -7
Jaga, glad you enjoyed the movie. I liked the movie's main message, namely, the economic difficulties of the industrial working class. especially non-WASPS as personified by Kowalski, in South USA in 1940's-1950's. The South was still mainly a feudal-type agricultural society. Also keep in mind that Williams was homosexual, and positioned the woman: Stella as causing the difficulties for Kowalski. Carl
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Post by forza on Jan 22, 2006 10:50:00 GMT -7
Is this the one with "I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody" ?
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Post by Jaga on Jan 22, 2006 15:06:59 GMT -7
Carl, yes, this movie is very deep, it talks about many issues. Forza, I am not sure, sorry
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Post by suzanne on Jan 22, 2006 17:26:01 GMT -7
Is this the one with "I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody" ? No, but it's from another Marlon Brando movie - "On the Waterfront" I believe.
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Post by pieter on Feb 3, 2006 16:24:10 GMT -7
I saw two versions, and liked the oldest movie the best with Marlon Brando as Stan Kowalsky. Wonderful movie. A classic like "Brief encounter" and "Cassablanca".
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Post by forza on Feb 3, 2006 17:19:31 GMT -7
Speaking about Kowalski....I saw yesterday Vanishing Point (1971) with wild Kowalski driving across America. Splendid film. And of course Ray Kowalski from Altman's MASH the movie (not TV series).....
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