“Blonde” director Andrew Dominik had robust opinions about cultural icon Marilyn Monroe as his NC-17-rated Netflix movie starring Ana de Armas because the golden-haired bombshell dropped on Wednesday.
Though Dominik, 54, created the film impressed by Joyce Carol Oates’ fictional guide of the identical identify, he’s not an enormous fan of the late actress’ movie profession.
Dominik spoke to Sight and Sound journal’s movie critic Christina Newland, who shared a portion of her interview that didn’t make the official profile on Twitter Tuesday.
“She’s any individual who’s turn out to be this large cultural factor in an entire load of films that no one actually watches, proper?” the New Zealand filmmaker mentioned. “Does anybody watch Marilyn Monroe motion pictures?”
Within the interview, he additionally mentioned Monroe’s well-known 1953 movie “Gents Favor Blondes,” noting how the characters Lorelei Lee (Monroe) and Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) are “well-dressed whores.”
As for Monroe’s well-known music “Diamonds Are a Woman’s Finest Buddy” from the movie, he puzzled: “It’s like, is that sisterly recommendation, ‘In the event you’re gonna f – – ok, be sure to receives a commission’? Or is it simply romanticized whoredom?”
The journalist additionally identified how Dominick appeared “genuinely gobsmacked” when she said how her associates adored the musical comedy — which he believed, amongst Monroe’s different motion pictures, are “cultural [artifacts].”
“He did discuss & reference lots of her movies,” Newland wrote in a reply tweet. “He clearly had studied and watched the whole lot: whether or not he favored it (bar ‘Some Prefer it Sizzling,’ which he loves) one other story, evidently.”
Whereas “Blonde” makes use of Oates’ 2000 guide as supply materials, the director mentioned he wasn’t within the novel itself, however wished to indicate a narrative about “how childhood drama shapes an grownup’s notion of the world.”
Dominik additionally mentioned it’s not meant to be traditionally correct. “It’s all fiction anyway, in my opinion,” he mentioned.
“I’ve learn the whole lot there may be to examine Marilyn Monroe,” he added. “I’ve met folks that knew her. I’ve completed an unlimited quantity of analysis. However in the long run, it’s in regards to the guide. And adapting the guide is absolutely about adapting the emotions that the guide gave me.”
He additional defined his intent was to go a lot deeper.
“I believe the movie is in regards to the that means of Marilyn Monroe,” Dominik mentioned. “Or a that means. She was symbolic of one thing. She was the Aphrodite of the twentieth century, the American goddess of affection. And he or she killed herself. So what does that imply?”
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