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The work itself being originally written for the stage, naturally, differences from the source to the screen are inevitable. Most notably, several settings within the play were able to be adapted further than what would’ve been possible in the Theatre. Similarly, a stark difference I noticed, going from reading to witnessing was language. In further research, I found that this is because censorship laws in the US to cleanse materials for the screen in order to appeal to a larger audience began in the year 1950, which in turn affected A Streetcar given its release was in 1951. Additionally, these laws nearly impacted the entire story as it was recommended that the r*pe scene be removed in its entirety until Williams himself argued that its presence was necessary for audiences to see the whole picture and the result is a compromised brief scene that yet manages to be very profound on the audience.

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