A classic

Since I’m a huge fan of Paul Newman, I was really eager to check this flick. I remember when I saw ‘A Streetcar named Desire’, I was quite blown away, and this movie is also a very successful adaptation of a play written by Tennessee Williams, even though, apparently, it wasn’t really faithful which was a disappointment for Paul Newman and Williams really disliked it (the biggest change their made was to remove all trace of homosexuality). Personally, I thought it was pretty good but I wasn’t completely convinced by the whole thing. I mean, I was really impressed by Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor who were both at the top of their game at the time (the fact that they were some of the most beautiful human-beings that ever lived was also quite fascinating). The first issue is that the other characters were hardly interesting, except maybe Big Daddy. Even though it didn’t bother me at all with ‘A Streetcar named Desire’, there was nothing much going on actually and what you have left is all these characters endlessly talking and, without Newman and Taylor, I'm afraid it would have been rather tedious to watch. To conclude, in spite of its flaws, it remains a solid classic and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10