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M&M and Streetcar: drinking game


If you know Streetcar Named Desire, both as a film and as a play, you can play this game.

Every time there's an echo of Streetcar Named Desire in the film, you shout 'Stella' and take a shot.

In the first 10 or 15 minutes you'll be over the legal limit.

The whole film feels like instead of writing a different spin on Streetcar, he wrote a film about someone thinking about writing a film spinning the Streetcar premise (unstable woman enters into the private life of a married couple and causes chaos).

The film is very much like a writing class exercise: Take the premise of a famous story and write it from a different perspective.

Or maybe, 'Take Streetcar Named Desire and rewrite it as a Woody Allen film.' This is what you will come up with.

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If you think this is a STREETCAR ripoff, you should check out BLUE JASMINE.

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