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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (film)

In Tennessee Williams’ Cat On A Hit Tin Roof produced by MGM in 1958, the gay subplot has been removed and the roof is more “steamy” than “hot.” Despite these alterations due to 1950s censorship, the film still embodies Williams’ main theme that most people are the walking wounded, in need of crutches to make their way through life.

The films could not be better cast. Elizabeth Taylor is perfectly suited as the “cat” Maggie, a beautiful sex-pot in love with Brick, a former athlete. Brick’s father, “Big Daddy” is rich, powerful, and dogmatic. His son Gooper attempts to win his favor and the family fortune via his wife Mae and their brood of brats meant to pacify Big Daddy. Brick, on the other hand, is not into commitment, marriage, and children with Maggie, despite her repeated efforts to the contrary. All of the characters in the film, despite their degree of success or psychological adjustment, appear as walking wounded. In other words, they are fragile, damaged, psyches, not quite whole and certainly not at peace. Maggie cannot live without the thought of marrying Brick. This inability to accept reality makes her lead a life of delusion which Brick’s remonstrations to the contrary cannot save her from. As she replies when he tells her to accept they will never have the type of relationship she wants “I CAN’T! CAN’T! CAN’T!” Big Mama is the long-suffering wife whose sacrifices for Big Daddy have always come before any needs of her own. Mae is scheming and conniving, a woman who wants to use her husband and children to help win Big Daddy’s fortune. Gooper is an efficient hack who has dutifully followed in the footsteps of Big Daddy in order to inherit his fortune and company. Spineless, wife-whipped, and gullible, Gooper is whipped and tossed by those around him. Big Daddy, successful and powerful, is wounded in that he is in

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