Censorship in A Streetcar Named Desire Author of A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams - stated that his plays are “Pleas for the understanding of delicate people”. A Streetcar Named Desire explores dysfunctional relationships and conflicts that arise in the breakdown. The 1930’s production code forced Kazan - director of A Streetcar Named Desire - to change the original text. The censors of the Breen Office forced Kazan to omit the film’s raw and candid portrayal of human behavior and relationships. Because the Breen Office controlled of the film industry, it definitely took away the audience’s understanding of the characters and their relationships especially in Stella’s descending of the staircase, dialogue between Blanche and Stella, …show more content…
The title of both the text and the film adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire is to represent both Blanche and Stella make that create their characters. While talking with Blanche the morning after the violent night with Stanley, Stella asks Blanche, “Haven’t you ever ridden on that street-car? ...It brought me here - where I am not wanted and where I’m ashamed to be…” (p.81) the streetcar is not an actual streetcar, but rather a decision they chose to make. Lust based decisions. As Blanche and Stella recall their past and present decisions, they reflect on whether they based their decisions upon lust or logic. The Breen Office forced Kazan to remove the metaphor made between Blanche and Stella comparing the streetcar named Desire to lust based decisions. The Breen Office’s removal of the metaphor, causes the audience to lose what created Stella and Blanche’s lives and what created their …show more content…
Movie censorship in the 40’s dramatically changed A Streetcar Named Desire by limiting what sexual content - both spoken and unspoken - could be used in the film. By the Code substantially making plot changing edits, it indefinitely changes the understanding of who the characters are and how they became that way. The content being eliminated caused the audience lost the meaning behind each character. And ultimately lead to crucial plot