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A Streetcar Named Desire - Scene One Analysis A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams that was released in 1947. The play mainly focuses on the character Blanche Dubois, who is visiting her sister in New Orleans. A few years after the play was released they decided to make it into a movie. The movie is very true to the original play, however there are some changes. Let’s take a closer look at those changes by analyzing the first scene in the play. In the play, scene one is about fifteen pages long and sets the tone for everything else that happens after. It begins with two characters talking on the stairs of an apartment building, which is already different from the movie. One of those two characters can not be seen in the movie. The whole written play takes place in the same apartment and other places are only mentioned, not shown. The first place we see in the movie is a train station, and later in the scene when Blanche and Stella reunites they are in a bowling alley. In the written play they meet in the apartment. The biggest surprise for me was how fast the scene was moving. While reading the scene I set the pace much slower and read out each line clearly, however they did not do that in the movie. At some points it was quite hard to hear what they were saying because of how fast and the way they were talking. They skipped some dialogue so that the pace was quicker and they got straight to the point. Every dialogue that was shown in the movie has been altered in some sort of way compared to the original play. The camera work in the movie is quite simple, which I think suits the movie. The camera usually showed the whole room and all the characters that are involved in the dialogue. Because of that, the movie is easy to follow. I did notice that they changed angles in some dialogues to whoever was talking so that the viewer could see who was talking and get a closer look at the character's emotion. The lighting in the film is mostly from above as it comes from the lights in the ceiling, or so it looks like. The lighting is therefore quite simple and natural. Since the movie is recorded, it is possible to add effects and music afterwards. In scene one I noticed that they used music a few times, to enhance the emotion that the characters were portraying and supposed to be feeling. In one instance romantic music was playing. Music was used in another sense as well. In the movie the viewer got to hear the polka music that was mentioned many times in the original play. It is a song that only Blanche hears in her head when a certain boy is mentioned. It makes you feel as though you are a part of the play when hearing that music, compared to only reading that the song is playing. Something I noticed as well was that they used an echo effect at the end to emphasize the fact that Blanche was feeling sick, which was not written in the play. In conclusion the play and the movie are different in many ways. The movie focuses on the visual elements, meanwhile the play focuses on the reading experience. Therefore, depending on if one watches the movie or reads the play, the experience and overall feeling will not be

the same. When reading the play the reader is able to use their imagination like when reading a book. In the movie however, what you see is what you get....