Both the movie and book were completely disrespectful and inaccurate. This man is exploiting and degrading marilyn shamelessly, and doesn’t give a fuck about her life nor her talent. He was only interested in her pain. Disgusting.
I loved Jesse James and Killing Them Softy and did like this film quite a bit. I loved the visuals and Ana was amazing. It was interesting way to tell a story.
I think that might be the whole point of the movie is how kind of every reality about her is a fictional reality. Every story about her is told by someone else. Marilyn is never truly real. Never.
The movie is literally based on a novel that mixes fiction and reality. Even the interviewer says this in the first minute. I’m not even defending the movie, just defending the merits of paying attention.
There used to be a style of writing that the 50s Beat Generation would use, specifically William Buroughs. He would cut non-related sentences out of various newspapers to form a paragraph. He’d then read through it to see if it made “sense”; if he liked it. It then would be used as a final inclusion into his literature. That’s how Blonde kind of feels. I loved the movie. Couldn’t be a more happier movie-goer. 🤘
wow. that was genuinely nonsensical. i was curious about this director for putting out such a senseless depiction. and the way he switches from saing the movie depicts a novel to being an emotional depiction of marilyn, depending on what the interviewer asks, shows he doesn't have a clue. watched none of her movies, ignored depicting the ppl around her accurately and not even getting her character right. furthermore, it's clear that he doesn't want to. rly expected at least something watchable. but this was just plain stupid. and what was up with that pro-life take and 3d shots on an embryo that couldve never looked as formed as that in such a short time lol
@@Andrew_Dominik basically he had a part in the movie where an embryo is shown thats older than it should be at that stage (a common strategy by prolife activists to humanize a growth). Then M dreams of a child pleading with marilyn to live. And im not sure smt like that ever happened or was mentioned by marilyn
The movie "Blonde" is a fiction based on a fictional novel about Marilyn Monroe! Marilyn Monroe is much more than a pretty and photogenic face, mammary glands, vagina, cervix, induced or spontaneous abortions, rape (Mr. Z's is invented), run over, talking fetuses, mental imbalance and drug abuse! The woman who stood up to the powerful movie studios, demanding better scripts, better salaries and selection of directors. She supported civil rights for black people (look for Ella Fitzgerald's interviews and photos). She was not afraid to lie and show her sexuality and nudity in an era of conservatism in the 1950s. The woman who publicly denounced the "executive wolves" of the film companies who had a renewable "girl traffic" every few months, who came to try their luck from all over the world to see if they could get a permanent contract and thus become artists, movie stars! There they had to be complacent and there was no guarantee of anything! And that was done by men and women, look for the interviews with Tony Curtis on you tube where he included himself in that group and said that he also did it and that everyone did it!!!! although he does not clarify if he pleased men or women!!!She lived it, went through all the stages without a mom, dad or family to support her. She was hired and fired on more than one occasion but she took advantage of her opportunities, studied acting, singing, dancing and working as a craftswoman of her own character (Marilyn Monroe) waiting for the right moment! She had the courage to leave Hollywood, study acting in New York and create her own movie production company! They made fun of her, they even created a play with references to her, her person to humiliate her, looking for substitutes for her (Jayne Mansfield promoted and hired by La Fox, created a cartoon about Marilyn Monroe and lived on it until she died) and she resisted it all with perseverance and determination and kindness to the press, knowing that she was not respected and that much of what was published was gossip created by the studios to discredit her, scare her into desisting her demands and bowing to the studios! And Norma Jean won the battle against the studios, who called her, increased her salary and complied with her requests! This last change the course of Hollywood as other artists did the same after her! Norma Jean wanted to be an actress, she created Marilyn Monroe and became the most famous movie star in Hollywood as well as a good actress and after her early death she became the myth that is known all over the world! In a nutshell, the movie "Blonde" is a work of fiction, which takes elements from a fictional novel and uses some real facts about Marilyn Monroe/ Norma Jean (real character) and creates a fictional work based on a fictional novel, gossip press release, adding sexual threesomes that did not exist in real life with characters for whom there is no evidence that they were gay or bisexual! Norma Jean / Marilyn Monroe before she died, she beat the studios again because Mister Z (Darryl F. Zanuck, the Fox executive who did not like Marilyn Monroe) asks her to return to her job because the studios are in bankruptcy and he negotiates a new contract with Marilyn Monroe's lawyers increasing his salary again! Norma Jean won again before she died! In one of her last interviews with the press where she discusses what's going on with the studios, which last fired her, look her up on you tube, she asks journalists “guys don't make me a joke ”. The movie Rubia doesn't make her a joke, the movie Rubia makes her a shit! And everyone is still making money and talking about it! My humble opinion, no offense intended!
I'm not sure if he meant to do this but he perfectly portrayed what it feels like to be borderline. I'm a previous mental health counselor and this is what the disorder looks like from the1st person point of view. Many psychologists feel Marilyn had borderline personality disorder. I disagree with using Marilyn's life and adding fictional things in that may not have occured but that is more on the author than the director because this was based on a book. But if somebody wants to have more compassion for borderline and see what it really is I suggest they watch this movie. In my opinion narcissist don't deserve my empathy as they are nothing but predators towards the vulnerable and especially borderlines. I refuse to work with narcissists ever again but I would always help borderlines. I'm sure some men will watch this enjoying enjoying the sadism towards Marilyn but I hope that many people in general who do have empathy will see this for what it is and have more compassion for the vulnerable Especially those with a very stigmatized disorder that has the highest rate of suicide. Goddess bless the vulnerable the Used the exploited... Prostitutes and actresses.. many women.. Often abused in the same way
What a great comment. As someone who actually dated a woman with BPD, I agree with everything you said. It made the film even harder to watch for me, but it definitely does the disorder justice. I loved the film, but didn’t enjoy it, if that makes sense.
Interesting interview.. thanks for that guys! I have to say.. I think the movie is a bit of a mess. Some great things in it for sure.. but overall... sheesh. Looking forward to more in depth conversations on that.
@@minusp895 I was glued to the screen as well... it had some great cinematography and visuals for sure. The film looked amazing in many places. But it took me out when it jumped around so much between aspect ratios and color vs b&w. The director even admitted that there wasn't a real rhyme or reason to why they would change aspect ratio or go between color and b&w. Sometimes it had a campy/cheesy tone and other times super serious and realistic. By not picking a lane.. it was hard for me to get engaged into the story and the narrative aspects to the film. Certainly had some impressive stylistic things going on.. but just jumped around thematically and stylistically way too much for me.
I enjoyed Blonde and I think Ana de Armas made an amazing job playing Merilyn Monroe. The one thing that many are misunderstanding is that this movie is not a biopic of the actresse's life but a movie based on a novel of the same name. Overall the movie had a very dark take of Monroe and that Andrew Dominik made it very compelling
@@whoisu9757 your misunderstanding shes saying its a horror movie like Marilyn had a horrific life. A horror movie is not essentially horrible. A lot of horror movies are great.
I'm quite shocked that there arent more interviews with Andrew Dominik online, yours is probably the best one ive watched, thanks for doing it. I think alot of the bad reviews for Blonde seem to be a symptom of a heavily infantalised mainstream cinema culture, audiences are basically wanting childrens stories, fairytales devoid of anything difficult. Blonde actually reminded me alot of David Lynch's Inland Empire, i found it to be fascinating and intensely emotional, also very dreamlike. I saw parallells with Julian Schnabels At Eternitys Gate, in the way psychological breakdown is portrayed. The film seemed to me a meditation on Marilyn Monroe, i kind of examination on the cultural ghost that exists, all these echoes of the person that eclipse the original human being that existed, so in that way, it was an examination of the idea of celebrity, and the fictional self.
beautiful movie, people don’t like it because it turns the camera to the audience. makes people realize that they were in love with a version of a woman that she didn’t even feel was actually her. people don’t like that very much. again, beautiful movie.
It's a trend now that make expression and satire in peril see the reaction for : Don't Look Up , Triangle of Sadness most recently. People don't want to face there demon , they want to run from them and there accountability. They want to shut down there brain or get indulged in there fantasy.
Dude, more than half the movie is fictionalized... He didn't care to portray Marilyn as anything else than what he seems her to be: a grown woman with daddy issues and an object. Disgusting and disrespectful movie. I wish i could erase it from my head.
This movie was not it. The Movie is an insult to Marilyn What they did to her is disgusting. 3 hours of my life I will never get back. What a horrible movie. (The director openly admitted that he never watched any of Marilyn's films, further proof that this movie was only made to cash in on a Hollywood Starlet.) They continue to exploit and sexualize a dead person with made up things, as if she wasn't exploited and sexualized enough. As a massive fan this was a shot to the heart, worse than any book, documentary or biopic i have seen
Not even 2 minutes into the interview he's talking about watching Marilyn movies. Stop repeating the same arguments you read on some dumb twitter account
wow, you just gave away how little you understand movies. and that you're so attached to Marilyn's image you can't let go that a movie that didn't give you that didn't give you that.
@@rodicasandulescu6235 Haha since when do I give a fuck about film critics. How many films did the critics destroy when released but turned out to be a classic later. That means dick to me.
Andrew is so underrated. Even his misses (Killing Them Softly) are better than 90% of the movies Hollywood releases every year. And I agree, The Assassination Of Jesse James is a masterpiece.
The movie blonde wants us to take a look in the inside of Marilyn Monroe but fails in this task by only giving us cliches after cliches. The psyche of Marilyn Monroe has more depth than the depiction of a traumatized emotional girl who has childish conversations with her fetus. The real Marilyn Monroe was more than the idea Dominik is showing us, she was full of depth, emotion, love, strength, intelligence, and resilience. Her fight for the same salary as her peers, especially as the men for instance, is something that is not mentioned that much. Or the way she criticized the power of the film executives about how they demanded her to work while she was sick. Or her own contribution in creating the image of Marilyn Monroe. These are also things that must have been an active inner occupation of hers, that we don’t see in Blonde. Then we have the depiction of daddy/mother issues that are so lame, without any nuance whatsoever. With childish scenes where she says ‘daddy’ a bit too much, very stereotypical. I have never seen anyone with daddy-issues doing that. While the movie feels like a horror movie with beautiful cinematography and score, it also sometimes looks like Andrew does the very same thing he criticizes: abuse and exploitation. There are multiple scenes where he shows a close-up shot of Ana’s but for instance, or scenes where Ana is topless for no reason, fetishizing her pain. The only thing Andrew did succeed at, is to give us a similar kind of trauma experience Marilyn must have gone through, with horror like effects. It’s for this very reason I think it’s unfortunate that Andrew didn’t dig deeper into Marilyn’s psyche and fell in the same trap so many others fell portraying her story.
I loved the film. I think showing both how people sexualized her and the reality of that and confronting the viewer with that was a good move. It also don't show physical violence (it happens off screen) because that is irrelevant. It's kind of like in Django, Tarantino shows both over the top violence and "real" violence to emphasize a point.
@@movieace1295 What do you mean physical violence off screen in this context? I am not talking about the violence, I am talking about how he portrays her character. Which was really childish, and even stupid sometimes. Like when she asks the Italian women about pasta …
@@sadafhashemi752 I think she is portrayed how we as a whole view blondes like Marilyn, especially the media. I think it's obvious in the film. That's why it is called Blonde. Also Marilyn Monroe wasn't her it was a persona made up by the industry. It shows how one can lose oneself and taken advantage of. It was always said it wasn't a biopic. The outrage shows that audiences isn't ready for something challenging like that. People want Bohemian Rhapsody.
@@movieace1295 I totally agree with you on that! That’s why I love the movie and hate it at the same time. The way it shows the harsh world and her losing losing herself in it, and in her persona Marilyn. The thing I didn’t like was how she stays that blonde girl almost the whole time. It is as if Dominic himself couldn’t make the distinguish anymore between the two …
He says about Marilyn she was just this orphan child, she didn't take responsibility for herself. That's it, that's the problem. He victim blames Marilyn. Really sick. Also the movie has horror elements unfortunately it wasn't scary enough.
@@pencilslop during the make of the movie. I’m THE MUSE behind the scenes 🥹 so Ana de Armas knows what to do. She can’t sing though… And I have Marilyn Monroe VOICE btw… too bad for this movie 🥺
Longest interview I've seen with Dominik. Kudos.
Blonde was truly a beautiful work of art. It's a shame so many people are misunderstanding it. Andrew Dominik is one of the all-time greats.
Both the movie and book were completely disrespectful and inaccurate. This man is exploiting and degrading marilyn shamelessly, and doesn’t give a fuck about her life nor her talent. He was only interested in her pain. Disgusting.
@@CatharticCreation I totally agree with your opinion.
Only because people don't like what you like, doesn't mean that they don't understand it. You can understand something and you still don't like it.
@@shespeaks2441 of course you do. you're a woman.
@@CatharticCreation exactly
This film is so ahead of its time that I suspect it won’t get the appreciation it truly deserves for many more years to come.
I loved Jesse James and Killing Them Softy and did like this film quite a bit. I loved the visuals and Ana was amazing. It was interesting way to tell a story.
Seen chopper?
@@august6389 no i havent still need to get around to it
Stop using the word amazing
@@gmar7836 i will not ill use the word whenever i feel like it
I love how he just straight up called Jesse James a great movie. I love that kind of confidence and it is, in fact, a great movie
It’s called narcissism.
@@CatharticCreation whats wrong with liking your finished product and being proud of it.
There are a lot of people here from Twitter or wherever who clearly haven’t watched the film or even know anything about Marilyn Monroe.
Strongly agree, best film I have ever seen by a long distance
All fiction and disgusting. It wasn’t served to celebrate an icon’s life.
Ohh nooo. Lets have a cry...
This movie is disrespectful and degrading, absolutely horrible
This man seems very crude, non emotionally nuanced and devoid of empathy. All style over substance. Big ego.
I know the film is fictional and it doesn’t really capture Marilyn Monroe’s essence, but I think the film is definitely a filmmaker study book
Do you know what I mean?
Amazing movie....great acting and direction
Oh God there’s that damn word again
You know...
He seem quite lost in his own fictional reality about her.
I think that might be the whole point of the movie is how kind of every reality about her is a fictional reality. Every story about her is told by someone else. Marilyn is never truly real. Never.
He's been trying to making this movie happen for 10 years
The movie is literally based on a novel that mixes fiction and reality. Even the interviewer says this in the first minute. I’m not even defending the movie, just defending the merits of paying attention.
@@SturgusLipmonger the book is trash fiction, period.
you seem to be reaching.
There used to be a style of writing that the 50s Beat Generation would use, specifically William Buroughs. He would cut non-related sentences out of various newspapers to form a paragraph. He’d then read through it to see if it made “sense”; if he liked it. It then would be used as a final inclusion into his literature. That’s how Blonde kind of feels. I loved the movie. Couldn’t be a more happier movie-goer. 🤘
wow. that was genuinely nonsensical. i was curious about this director for putting out such a senseless depiction. and the way he switches from saing the movie depicts a novel to being an emotional depiction of marilyn, depending on what the interviewer asks, shows he doesn't have a clue. watched none of her movies, ignored depicting the ppl around her accurately and not even getting her character right. furthermore, it's clear that he doesn't want to. rly expected at least something watchable. but this was just plain stupid. and what was up with that pro-life take and 3d shots on an embryo that couldve never looked as formed as that in such a short time lol
What do you mean by pro life take specifically?
@@Andrew_Dominik basically he had a part in the movie where an embryo is shown thats older than it should be at that stage (a common strategy by prolife activists to humanize a growth). Then M dreams of a child pleading with marilyn to live. And im not sure smt like that ever happened or was mentioned by marilyn
The movie "Blonde" is a fiction based on a fictional novel about Marilyn Monroe! Marilyn Monroe is much more than a pretty and photogenic face, mammary glands, vagina, cervix, induced or spontaneous abortions, rape (Mr. Z's is invented), run over, talking fetuses, mental imbalance and drug abuse! The woman who stood up to the powerful movie studios, demanding better scripts, better salaries and selection of directors. She supported civil rights for black people (look for Ella Fitzgerald's interviews and photos). She was not afraid to lie and show her sexuality and nudity in an era of conservatism in the 1950s. The woman who publicly denounced the "executive wolves" of the film companies who had a renewable "girl traffic" every few months, who came to try their luck from all over the world to see if they could get a permanent contract and thus become artists, movie stars! There they had to be complacent and there was no guarantee of anything! And that was done by men and women, look for the interviews with Tony Curtis on you tube where he included himself in that group and said that he also did it and that everyone did it!!!! although he does not clarify if he pleased men or women!!!She lived it, went through all the stages without a mom, dad or family to support her. She was hired and fired on more than one occasion but she took advantage of her opportunities, studied acting, singing, dancing and working as a craftswoman of her own character (Marilyn Monroe) waiting for the right moment! She had the courage to leave Hollywood, study acting in New York and create her own movie production company! They made fun of her, they even created a play with references to her, her person to humiliate her, looking for substitutes for her (Jayne Mansfield promoted and hired by La Fox, created a cartoon about Marilyn Monroe and lived on it until she died) and she resisted it all with perseverance and determination and kindness to the press, knowing that she was not respected and that much of what was published was gossip created by the studios to discredit her, scare her into desisting her demands and bowing to the studios! And Norma Jean won the battle against the studios, who called her, increased her salary and complied with her requests! This last change the course of Hollywood as other artists did the same after her! Norma Jean wanted to be an actress, she created Marilyn Monroe and became the most famous movie star in Hollywood as well as a good actress and after her early death she became the myth that is known all over the world! In a nutshell, the movie "Blonde" is a work of fiction, which takes elements from a fictional novel and uses some real facts about Marilyn Monroe/ Norma Jean (real character) and creates a fictional work based on a fictional novel, gossip press release, adding sexual threesomes that did not exist in real life with characters for whom there is no evidence that they were gay or bisexual! Norma Jean / Marilyn Monroe before she died, she beat the studios again because Mister Z (Darryl F. Zanuck, the Fox executive who did not like Marilyn Monroe) asks her to return to her job because the studios are in bankruptcy and he negotiates a new contract with Marilyn Monroe's lawyers increasing his salary again! Norma Jean won again before she died! In one of her last interviews with the press where she discusses what's going on with the studios, which last fired her, look her up on you tube, she asks journalists “guys don't make me a joke ”. The movie Rubia doesn't make her a joke, the movie Rubia makes her a shit! And everyone is still making money and talking about it! My humble opinion, no offense intended!
Yes love your comment on her!
just four men on a panel speculating about a woman's personal life.. and agreeing on everything.
I take your point, but it is a purposely fictional version
I'm not sure if he meant to do this but he perfectly portrayed what it feels like to be borderline. I'm a previous mental health counselor and this is what the disorder looks like from the1st person point of view. Many psychologists feel Marilyn had borderline personality disorder. I disagree with using Marilyn's life and adding fictional things in that may not have occured but that is more on the author than the director because this was based on a book. But if somebody wants to have more compassion for borderline and see what it really is I suggest they watch this movie. In my opinion narcissist don't deserve my empathy as they are nothing but predators towards the vulnerable and especially borderlines. I refuse to work with narcissists ever again but I would always help borderlines.
I'm sure some men will watch this enjoying enjoying the sadism towards Marilyn but I hope that many people in general who do have empathy will see this for what it is and have more compassion for the vulnerable Especially those with a very stigmatized disorder that has the highest rate of suicide. Goddess bless the vulnerable the Used the exploited... Prostitutes and actresses.. many women.. Often abused in the same way
What a great comment. As someone who actually dated a woman with BPD, I agree with everything you said. It made the film even harder to watch for me, but it definitely does the disorder justice. I loved the film, but didn’t enjoy it, if that makes sense.
Are we ever gonna get your review on Blonde you mentioned at the beginning?
It's up
@@august6389 Where?
@@Han-fm7mo in the Bros video at around 1:04:00
@@august6389 Thank you! I completely missed it!
the god dominik
Interesting interview.. thanks for that guys! I have to say.. I think the movie is a bit of a mess. Some great things in it for sure.. but overall... sheesh. Looking forward to more in depth conversations on that.
I'm the complete opposite. I was glued to the screen. It was such a cohesive and engaging film .
@@minusp895 I was glued to the screen as well... it had some great cinematography and visuals for sure. The film looked amazing in many places. But it took me out when it jumped around so much between aspect ratios and color vs b&w. The director even admitted that there wasn't a real rhyme or reason to why they would change aspect ratio or go between color and b&w. Sometimes it had a campy/cheesy tone and other times super serious and realistic. By not picking a lane.. it was hard for me to get engaged into the story and the narrative aspects to the film. Certainly had some impressive stylistic things going on.. but just jumped around thematically and stylistically way too much for me.
@@prberg2 The changes added a dreamlike quality imo. And it captured all of her eras of film well.
He is a blatant misogynist
You are
You’re so lost it’s sad
How do you know??
I enjoyed Blonde and I think Ana de Armas made an amazing job playing Merilyn Monroe. The one thing that many are misunderstanding is that this movie is not a biopic of the actresse's life but a movie based on a novel of the same name. Overall the movie had a very dark take of Monroe and that Andrew Dominik made it very compelling
Will your review of Blonde be out today?
What I miss in the movie is the The Misfits movie part of the story
But I loved the movie so much! It's an horror movie about an Hollywood movie star!
@@alessandrabenedetti1 it's a horrible movie!! What r u saying?
@@whoisu9757 your misunderstanding shes saying its a horror movie like Marilyn had a horrific life. A horror movie is not essentially horrible. A lot of horror movies are great.
I really wish you had asked him if we will ever see the alternate cut of Jesse James, which Roger Deakins has mentioned
Not likely since he said criterion turned it down
I'm quite shocked that there arent more interviews with Andrew Dominik online, yours is probably the best one ive watched, thanks for doing it. I think alot of the bad reviews for Blonde seem to be a symptom of a heavily infantalised mainstream cinema culture, audiences are basically wanting childrens stories, fairytales devoid of anything difficult. Blonde actually reminded me alot of David Lynch's Inland Empire, i found it to be fascinating and intensely emotional, also very dreamlike. I saw parallells with Julian Schnabels At Eternitys Gate, in the way psychological breakdown is portrayed. The film seemed to me a meditation on Marilyn Monroe, i kind of examination on the cultural ghost that exists, all these echoes of the person that eclipse the original human being that existed, so in that way, it was an examination of the idea of celebrity, and the fictional self.
beautiful movie, people don’t like it because it turns the camera to the audience. makes people realize that they were in love with a version of a woman that she didn’t even feel was actually her. people don’t like that very much. again, beautiful movie.
No! It’s disgusting, inaccurate and pure misogyny. “Fantasy” as the interviewer stated.
this comment is so on point
It's a trend now that make expression and satire in peril see the reaction for : Don't Look Up , Triangle of Sadness most recently. People don't want to face there demon , they want to run from them and there accountability. They want to shut down there brain or get indulged in there fantasy.
Great point. Still want to see it anyway
Dude, more than half the movie is fictionalized... He didn't care to portray Marilyn as anything else than what he seems her to be: a grown woman with daddy issues and an object. Disgusting and disrespectful movie. I wish i could erase it from my head.
Blonde is stone cold masterpiece. In 20 years ppl will recognize the genius of dominik.
This movie was not it. The Movie is an insult to Marilyn What they did to her is disgusting. 3 hours of my life I will never get back. What a horrible movie. (The director openly admitted that he never watched any of Marilyn's films, further proof that this movie was only made to cash in on a Hollywood Starlet.) They continue to exploit and sexualize a dead person with made up things, as if she wasn't exploited and sexualized enough. As a massive fan this was a shot to the heart, worse than any book, documentary or biopic i have seen
Not even 2 minutes into the interview he's talking about watching Marilyn movies. Stop repeating the same arguments you read on some dumb twitter account
It's a great film
Andrew Dominik look for another profession, you are not worthy as director
Cry a river
wow, you just gave away how little you understand movies. and that you're so attached to Marilyn's image you can't let go that a movie that didn't give you that didn't give you that.
Nah, keep doing what you do Andrew. You’re one of the best!
@@cristoburn4778 film critics won t agree
@@rodicasandulescu6235 Haha since when do I give a fuck about film critics. How many films did the critics destroy when released but turned out to be a classic later. That means dick to me.
Andrew is so underrated. Even his misses (Killing Them Softly) are better than 90% of the movies Hollywood releases every year.
And I agree, The Assassination Of Jesse James is a masterpiece.
I liked Killing Them Softly quite a bit
Killing Them Softly was actually great
♥️Yes!! 🎬Loved the movie 🎬🎥 🏆🏆Movie and Ana ⭐️🏆🏆👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼♥️♥️♥️♥️
Love the film ❤
Jealous
@@ImTheBitchWitch don't be
Why?
@@august6389 Andrew is jealous of Marilyn yeah
The movie blonde wants us to take a look in the inside of Marilyn Monroe but fails in this task by only giving us cliches after cliches. The psyche of Marilyn Monroe has more depth than the depiction of a traumatized emotional girl who has childish conversations with her fetus. The real Marilyn Monroe was more than the idea Dominik is showing us, she was full of depth, emotion, love, strength, intelligence, and resilience. Her fight for the same salary as her peers, especially as the men for instance, is something that is not mentioned that much. Or the way she criticized the power of the film executives about how they demanded her to work while she was sick. Or her own contribution in creating the image of Marilyn Monroe. These are also things that must have been an active inner occupation of hers, that we don’t see in Blonde.
Then we have the depiction of daddy/mother issues that are so lame, without any nuance whatsoever. With childish scenes where she says ‘daddy’ a bit too much, very stereotypical. I have never seen anyone with daddy-issues doing that.
While the movie feels like a horror movie with beautiful cinematography and score, it also sometimes looks like Andrew does the very same thing he criticizes: abuse and exploitation. There are multiple scenes where he shows a close-up shot of Ana’s but for instance, or scenes where Ana is topless for no reason, fetishizing her pain.
The only thing Andrew did succeed at, is to give us a similar kind of trauma experience Marilyn must have gone through, with horror like effects. It’s for this very reason I think it’s unfortunate that Andrew didn’t dig deeper into Marilyn’s psyche and fell in the same trap so many others fell portraying her story.
I loved the film. I think showing both how people sexualized her and the reality of that and confronting the viewer with that was a good move. It also don't show physical violence (it happens off screen) because that is irrelevant. It's kind of like in Django, Tarantino shows both over the top violence and "real" violence to emphasize a point.
@@movieace1295 What do you mean physical violence off screen in this context? I am not talking about the violence, I am talking about how he portrays her character. Which was really childish, and even stupid sometimes. Like when she asks the Italian women about pasta …
@@sadafhashemi752 I think she is portrayed how we as a whole view blondes like Marilyn, especially the media. I think it's obvious in the film. That's why it is called Blonde. Also Marilyn Monroe wasn't her it was a persona made up by the industry. It shows how one can lose oneself and taken advantage of. It was always said it wasn't a biopic. The outrage shows that audiences isn't ready for something challenging like that. People want Bohemian Rhapsody.
Just look at Dominik's other movie Jesse James which looks at hero worshipping and the MYTHOLOGY of the west.
@@movieace1295 I totally agree with you on that! That’s why I love the movie and hate it at the same time. The way it shows the harsh world and her losing losing herself in it, and in her persona Marilyn. The thing I didn’t like was how she stays that blonde girl almost the whole time. It is as if Dominic himself couldn’t make the distinguish anymore between the two …
what did chopper say?
He looks a tad like an early David Cronenberg, just not as articulate. Or talented. Know what I mean.🙄
He is from Melbourne...he cannot help it.
stop being a hater. it's kind of pathetic.
Who cares? He’s a different person
I would have liked it if you guys had talked about Anna's accent, and how the director and actress worked that.
She talked about it in a recent interview for Variety. You can check it out here:
ua-cam.com/video/Ez6aKbi3UwU/v-deo.html
@@rocky8838 Thanks a lot, Kriss. Very kind! I'll check it right now.
This was one of the worst movies I've ever seen
..your film is unwatchable...irritating...
Why nobody stood up for the Judy film full of mistakes and over-interpretations and now everyone feels entitled to defend Norma Jean?
Yuck! The man & especially this movie 🤦🏾♂️
That *Jesse James* film is great tho.
He says about Marilyn she was just this orphan child, she didn't take responsibility for herself. That's it, that's the problem. He victim blames Marilyn. Really sick. Also the movie has horror elements unfortunately it wasn't scary enough.
I love how Andrew sounds like a guy who works in a fish and chip shop.
Hahaha
Well he is an aussie
Sad, pathetic and tragic.
LOL. This panel.
Misogyny
Quite the opposite.
100%
u just bitter. Dominik is a masterful filmmaker.
I predicted your movie in my tarot readings how’s that possible!!! 😮 Maybe I was really there during production 😊👻
Tarot cards lol
@@august6389 Lol that’s why tarot readers on UA-cam is a trend. Aja
@@ImTheBitchWitch everyone knows tarot cards are phoney
Abuser
Where the evidence. Stop spewing nonce
when did he abuse?
@@pencilslop during the make of the movie. I’m THE MUSE behind the scenes 🥹 so Ana de Armas knows what to do. She can’t sing though… And I have Marilyn Monroe VOICE btw… too bad for this movie 🥺
Marilyn Monroe chose me to tell her story and this abuser wanted to steal it from me. 😎 that part. 🥹
My goodness, I'm usually a very calm person but STFU