Leff, Leonard J. And Transfer to Cemetery: "The Streetcars Named Desire." Film Quarterly. 55(2002): 29-37.
Many people believe that a movie should be great the first time around and the second time not get all the credit. A Streetcar Named Desire had two releases: one in 1951 and one in 1993. The thesis was written throughout the article as the 1993 version being better because of censorship. The Legion of Decency states that the 1951s censorship took away from some of the most important things in the movie. Censorship disabled the viewers to get a full idea of the characters' personality and the relationships between the couples in the movie.
The Daily News found Blanche "a generous, loving accomodator of any yearning stranger who has been driven out". Others(like Variety) found Blanche to be a nymphomaniac who had been married to a degenerate who committed suicide."(Jeff,p.31) Due to the different versions of the movie, people's opinions of the main characters became different. One person thought that Blanche was a sweet loving woman who feigned for young boys and another found Blanche to be a psycho who has a dead husband who killed himself and those were her reasons of the way she acted.
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