Tennessee Williams wrote a play called A Streetcar Named Desire which ultimately became the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. This play first premiered on December 3 1947 in New York. A Streetcar Named Desire, the second play produced by Williams, became a huge success, as did his first play titled The Glass Menagerie. Streetcar helped Williams solidify his position as one of the most skilled and respected playwrights in contemporary theater (Kolin 1993). For Tennessee Williams, this play proved to be his first work translated and produced into film form by Elia Kazan. Thanks to the high-intensity emotional plot and the subtle yet powerful acting of its main cast, the film became a blockbuster. Tennessee has woven a plot set in New Orleans around three characters Blanche, her brother-in-law Stanley and her sister Stella. The aim of the following essay is to compare the two, Williams' play with the film based on it, highlighting the similarities and differences between the two. Similarities After watching the film and going through the text of the drama, one cannot but agree with the fact that Elia Kazan keeps the main plot. and the originality of the piece written by Williams, perfectly. Williams was responsible for the work on the film's script, and this fact is clearly reflected in the screen version of the play, as his thinking and personality are clearly reflected in the film. Williams believed in the director and never interfered much in the film's creative input. Elia Kazan proved that Williams' confidence in him was correct and justified it through a film that retained the spirit and original thought of the play. Elia Kazan, unlike many other directors, showed ...... middle of paper ......anche seems to be more dramatic than the character in the text of the drama. Although the film censored many of the main themes that were depicted in William's original play. But the internal turmoil, struggle and chaos of emotions depicted by the characters in the film cause this deviation and allow the viewer to vividly feel the seriousness and scale of the situation as a whole. A common point that is similar in the film and in the film. The dramatic text is that he somehow sympathizes with powerless women by emphasizing how dependent they are on men. Blanche, who is presented more as an insecure woman in her thirties, hides her frustration and anger by disguising herself as a woman belonging to the rich and upper class of society. Similarly, Stella, although she has been mistreated by her husband, continues to rely on him because she has no other support in her life..