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The first film, A Streetcar Named Desire, has Marlin Brando playing Stanley Kowalski. He works in a factory and was active in WWII. Kowalski is a man who loves to drink, bowl, and play card with his friends. After having a few drinks Kowalski becomes violent. Some times he hits his wife who is turned on by his explosive temper. His wife, Stella, has a neurotic sister named Blanche. Blanch DuBois claims she is only going to be in town for a short stay. She ends up staying well over five months. Through the story Blanch tells everyone that she had lost the family plantation, Belle Reve. Kowalski has been very suspicious of Blanche ever since she arrived and started looking into what her motivations really were. He discovered a secret of Blanches that she would not want getting out: she seduced a seventeen-year-old boy in the English class she taught. When the secret is found out Blanch looses it, and in turn is taken to an institution. In The Godfather, Brando plays the title character, Don Vito Corleone. Don Corleone is the New York Mafia boss who is almost killed when he does not join another gangster’s drug business. Not only is he the head of the Mafia family, he is also the head of a large Sicilian family. H