Blond is an example of a controversial film early in its promotion. A director Andrew Dominik’s surprise , Blond was rated NC-17, which was the first to launch a streaming service. After the loosely based biopic was released, it received a lot of backlash with Andrew Dominik explaining why.
What also didn’t surprise the Australian director is this people would find something in Blond be offended by . According to people Dominik said at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia that he was actually “really excited” that the fictional biopic “outraged so many people”.
We now live in an age where it is important to portray women as empowered and they want to reinvent Marilyn Monroe as an empowered woman. This is what they want to see. And if you don’t show it to her, she annoys them.
Andrew Dominik’s statements are mixed for me. It’s absolutely true that when it comes to making a movie about a real person, you have to be respectful of who they really were. If someone has had a difficult life, you can’t sugarcoat their experiences for the public unless that’s what actually happened. With Marilyn Monroe’s life cut short after an overdose of barbiturates, many stories focus on the depression she went through in the public eye. At the time, it was difficult for women to have a say in Hollywood. While people are starting movements like the #MeToo movement today, women have the freedom to be more empowered today without fear of it affecting their careers in Hollywood.
Although kill them softly The director wasn’t surprised by the backlash, always talking about how strange it was for him to know that the film had offended people so much.
Which is kind of weird, because she’s dead. The film makes no difference one way or the other. What they really mean is that the film drew on her memory, her image of her, which is fair enough. But that’s the whole idea of the film. It’s trying to take the iconography of your life and using it for something else, it’s trying to take things that are familiar to you and turn them around. But that’s what they don’t want to see.
On the other hand, it makes sense that it would be difficult for audiences to watch. It shows that viewers want to see empowered women on screen instead of seeing them as victims. Trust me, I take it as a compliment that people want to see this rather than the latter. Twitter users have been sharing brutal tweets saying this Blond did a poor job of honoring Marilyn Monroe’s memory by calling her “sexist” and not telling her real story. There were even more negative reactions based on a scene that, according to the audience, went too far when John F. Kennedy forces Blonde Bombshell to perform oral sex on him while on the phone. Plenty said it sounded like “a sick horror movie” and even shut down the film after that scene. It’s probably scenes like this that caused Blond be be Extract from the top 10 Netflix movies in just one week. To use a cliché here, it’s about accepting that some movies aren’t everyone’s cup of tea.
What the public needs to understand is this Blond it should be seen more as an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ book who actually sent his praise to the film . The film could have received fewer reviews if the autobiography of Marilyn Monroe My story It was the book that fit even though it was short. After all, the only story that I think should matter should come from the mouth of the person concerned.
Andrew Dominik believed Blond received backlash based on audiences horrified at seeing Marilyn Monroe’s continued abuse. As difficult as it was to watch, films like these are perhaps needed to raise awareness that all women should be treated well and that people like the title character can still be mistreated in many different industries. Blond it is always available for viewing on your Netflix subscription .
Source: Cinemablend
