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Stella. In Almodóvar’s scene, Blanche nervously rushes into the room asking “Where is my heart?” (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999, 48:19-48:21) and her sister Stella, when seeing the confusion on the face of Eunice (who is with them in the room), explains what Blanche meant by her heart, saying “She means her jewel-box, it’s heart-shaped” (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999, 48:2248:24). The next cut shows Manuela as she watches the actors on the stage and then closes her eyes in pain. The alteration, therefore, suggests that Manuela refers to her dead son, Esteban, whose heart was transplanted into someone else’s body after he died. The famous opening scene of the film shows Blanche arriving at Stella’s French Quarter apartment aboard a trolley car displaying the name “Desire,” on the front. This is referential to the Desire Streetcar line, which ceased operation before the film was released. One of the “Desire” cars was recalled from retirement by then Mayor Morrison and New Orleans Public Service for the shooting of the opening scene at the L&N station at the foot of Canal street. [2]In Europe, more specifically in Spain, director Pedro Almodóvar’s movie, All About my Mother (1999) became a great success despite the fact that Almodóvar treated the issue of homosexuality and transgender people in an explicit way. The Spanish director did not use as such the plot of Streetcar in his film but has referred in many cases, especially in crucial moments, to Williams’s play that connects, thus the drama in an intertextual manner with the film. The movie, which had multiple nominations and awards, among them six Goya Awards (Premios Goya) in Spain, won also the Golden Globe, BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Awards) and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film in 2000. All About my Mother is considered to be one of Almodóvar’s finest works which questioned and redefined the previous movie making system in Spain. The last film I am going to analyze is Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine, produced in 2013. The movie follows the life of a woman who, after losing her husband and all her fortune, has to move to her sister’s and cope up with the difficulties this new life brings. The film’s star, alongside Alec Baldwin, was Cate Blanchett, who played the protagonist, Jasmine. In fact, the critics liked her acting so much that she received the Academy Awards for The Best Leading Actress in 2013. The performance of the actors was praised by many critics, among them Mark Kermode, who described the movie as rather an average production but one in which “performances are [being] worthy of stand-up-and-cheer ovations all round” (2013, The Guardian). Production of A Streetcar Named Desire – Theatricalia". theatricalia.com . Retrieved January 28, 2019. Blair Underwood On Stanley, Stella And 'Streetcar' ". National Public Radio. May 1, 2012 . Retrieved May 2, 2012.

The next morning, Blanche rushes to Stella and describes Stanley as subhuman, though Stella assures Blanche that she and Stanley are fine. Stanley overhears the conversation but keeps silent. When Stanley comes in, Stella hugs and kisses him, letting Blanche know that her low opinion of Stanley does not matter. At the end of the play, Stella, distraught at Blanche's fate, mutely allows Stanley to console her. In the film, this is changed to Stella blaming Stanley for Blanche's fate, and resolving to leave him. [13] Besides, Kazan’s clever solution of covering Allan’s homosexuality for the censoring agency, the film has yet another important alteration: the ending. In Williams’s drama, Stella Kowalski remains in the same household with Stanley despite his brutish behaviour. However, the movie ends with Stella grabbing her newborn baby and running up the stairs to Eunice’s flat, leaving her husband screaming for her behind. Besides the moral message of the ending, it also suggests that Stella does not let Stanley get away with what he did (that is, the rape of Blanche). In other words, Stella leaving Stanley is a proof that the rape indeed happened in the movie adaptation as well. The play's themes were controversial, causing the screenplay to be modified to comply with the Hollywood Production Code. In the original play, Blanche's husband died by suicide after he was discovered having a homosexual affair. This reference was removed from the film; Blanche says instead that she showed scorn at her husband's sensitive nature, driving him to suicide. She does however make a vague reference to " his coming out", implying homosexuality without explicitly stating it. In his 2020 autobiography Apropos of Nothing, director Woody Allen praises every aspect of the production:

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In 1955, the television program Omnibus featured Jessica Tandy reviving her original Broadway performance as Blanche, with her husband, Hume Cronyn, as Mitch. It aired only portions of the play that featured the Blanche and Mitch characters. The first Broadway revival of the play was in 1973. It was produced by the Lincoln Center, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, and starred Rosemary Harris as Blanche, James Farentino as Stanley and Patricia Conolly as Stella. [11]