Public Static Final

Mendacity is the keyword that Tennesse Williams tries to rub in our faces, and truely the whole play can be reduced to a one-liner as simple as "Big Daddy is gonne die and everyone wants a piece of him. Some his money and some his affection..."
 
Wait, that wasn't a one-liner, was it? LOL, of course thats just me and my stale attempt to synopsize a script with so many facets, as well as a very bold display of the tragic dynamics within dysfunctional families: the yearning for love and recognition of those who never get it; The bitterness which is never professed; Instead they merely keep on punishing each other by shutting themselves down. 

So rightfully Williams named his male protagonist "Brick", who was brilliantly brought to the screen by Paul Newman. Indeed as stubborn as a brick, he's loaded with self-hatred and refused any sort of emotional infiltration from his wife. Whats worth mentioning, is that the movie production took some liberty in accentuating the sexual tension between the couple. When you look at Liz Taylor, who played the wife "Maggie", sauntering around in her underwear, talking about things like "your technique as a lover", you would imagine this had pushed the envelope at the time when Hays Code was still in effect. Even more so, an undertone of homosexuality, although generally averted, lurks in the air when trying to analyze the perhaps more than platonic relationship between Brick and his late friend Skipper. Williams has, on several occasions, admitted he intentionally left this part ambiguous. This doesn't quite bother me, as Brick, characteristically, is emotionally confused as he is.

The cast was more than a lovely one. You would remember Dame Judith Anderson from her legendarily eerie performance as Mrs Danvers in Rebecca. But all in all, this is Taylor and Newman's blockbuster collision. Both were rising superstars at the time of the shoot, and needed