May I speak plainly?... If you'll forgive me, he's common... He's like an animal. He has...
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Blanche:
You're married to a madman. Stella:
I wish you'd stop taking it for granted that I'm in something I want to get out of. Blanche:
What you are talking about is desire - just brutal Desire. The name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another. Stella:
Haven't you ever ridden on that streetcar? Blanche:
It brought me here. Where I'm not wanted and where I'm ashamed to be. Stella:
Don't you think your superior attitude is a little out of place? Blanche:
May I speak plainly?... If you'll forgive me, he's common... He's like an animal. He has an animal's habits. There's even something subhuman about him. Thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is. Stanley Kowalski, survivor of the Stone Age, bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle. And you - you here waiting for him. Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you, that's if kisses have been discovered yet. His poker night you call it. This party of apes
You're married to a madman. Stella:
I wish you'd stop taking it for granted that I'm in something I want to get out of. Blanche:
What you are talking about is desire - just brutal Desire. The name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another. Stella:
Haven't you ever ridden on that streetcar? Blanche:
It brought me here. Where I'm not wanted and where I'm ashamed to be. Stella:
Don't you think your superior attitude is a little out of place? Blanche:
May I speak plainly?... If you'll forgive me, he's common... He's like an animal. He has an animal's habits. There's even something subhuman about him. Thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is. Stanley Kowalski, survivor of the Stone Age, bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle. And you - you here waiting for him. Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you, that's if kisses have been discovered yet. His poker night you call it. This party of apes
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You still scared of thunder
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What have you heard about me
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Huh
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What have people been telling you about me
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Telling You haven't heard
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any unkind gossip about me
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Why no Blanche Of course not
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Honey there was quite a lot of talk in Auriol
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People talk who cares
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I haven't been so awfully good the last year or so since
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Movie Summary
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Actors
Blanche
Stella
