His version of Brando’s famous “Stella”-yell (from “Streetcar”) is an essential part of this film’s cathartic climax, and it is a doozy. Like Brando’s early career characters, Rocky is a sensitive hulk whose inarticulateness expresses more than a dictionary’s worth of quotations.
Q. What is a famous line from A Streetcar Named Desire?
You will find iconic quotes here, such as the famous line, “they told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian fields!”, and the famous last line of the play: “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers, always depended.”
Q. What is the phrase Stella from?
A Streetcar Named Desire
It honours local boy Tennessee Williams and his A Streetcar Named Desire. The movie version is notorious for the scene where Stanley, Marlon Brando in a tight white vest, yells “Stella-a-a-a-a-!” up the tenement stairs to his wife, so memorably that Brando never needed to act again (except, he said, for the money).
Q. Why is Blanche’s name ironic?
What does Blanche’s name mean and why is it ironic? It means white woods. It’s ironic because white is pure and she is the farthest from pure.
Q. Who said I rely on the kindness of strangers?
Blanche DuBois
Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947. One of the play’s most famous lines — “I’ve always depended on the kindness of strangers” — is spoken by Blanche DuBois.
Q. Who Cried Stella?
The famous scene where Stanley, Marlon Brando, screams after wife Stella, Kim Hunter. The film is called “A Streetcar Named Desire”, directed by Elia Kazan.
Q. What does DuBois Mean A Streetcar Named Desire?
The name Blanche is French and means white or fair. Her last name DuBois is of French origin as well and translates as “made of wood”. The name suggests that Blanche is a very innocent and pure person.
Q. What did Stanley say to Blanche in Streetcar Named Desire?
Stanley : I never met a dame yet that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and there’s some of them that give themselves credit for more than they’ve got. Blanche : Please don’t get up. Stanley : Nobody’s going to get up, so don’t get worried.
Q. Who is Stella’s husband in A Streetcar Named Desire?
Stella’s husband, is full of raw strength, ferocity, violent masculinity, and animal magnetism. He wears lurid colors and parades his physicality, stripping off sweaty shirts and smashing objects throughout the play. His extreme virility is a direct contrast to Blanche’s homosexual husband who committed suicide.
Q. What was the name of the hotel in Streetcar Named Desire?
She is as famous in Laurel as if she was the President of the United States, only she is not respected by any party. She moved to the hotel called Flamingo which is a second class hotel that has the advantages of not interfering with the private and social life of the personalities there.
Q. How old was Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire?
Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando in “A Streetcar Named Desire”, which turns 70 years old. One of the curiosities of the film is precisely that nine actors and actresses from the theatrical cast also participated from the movie, something unusual then and even today.
