{"id":29490,"date":"2022-12-06T06:42:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/andrew-dominik-says-americans-hated-blonde-because-it-didnt-show-an-empowered-marilyn-monroe\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T06:42:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:42:15","slug":"andrew-dominik-says-americans-hated-blonde-because-it-didnt-show-an-empowered-marilyn-monroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/andrew-dominik-says-americans-hated-blonde-because-it-didnt-show-an-empowered-marilyn-monroe\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Dominik Says Americans \u201cHated\u201d \u2018Blonde\u2019 Because It Didn\u2019t Show An Empowered Marilyn Monroe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \">\n<\/aside>\n<p>There won&#8217;t be a extra polarizing movie this awards season than \u201c<strong>Blonde<\/strong>.\u201d <strong>Andrew Dominik\u2019s<\/strong> not-so-true biopic about <strong>Marilyn Monroe<\/strong> has been hailed as among the best movies of 2022 by some, whereas others assume it\u2019s one of many worst. Even with an acclaimed efficiency by <strong>Ana de Armas<\/strong> as Monroe, the movie is yet one more characteristic from Dominik that&#8217;s met with a really blended response. But the filmmaker thinks he is aware of why Americans, specifically, disliked \u201cBlonde.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/the-best-movie-posters-of-2022-20221201\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ MORE: The Best Movie Posters Of 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While on the Red Sea Film Festival (through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/blonde-andrew-dominik-backlash-marilyn-monroe-1235274686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THR<\/a>), Andrew Dominik mentioned \u201cBlonde\u201d and why he thinks his Marilyn Monroe movie has been criticized so closely by American audiences. Dominik readily admits that Americans \u201chated\u201d his movie. He believes the primary motive is that these audiences aren\u2019t prepared to simply accept a movie the place the lead girl isn\u2019t \u201cempowered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we\u2019re living in a time where it\u2019s important to present women as empowered, and they want to reinvent Marilyn Monroe as an empowered woman. That\u2019s what they want to see,\u201d stated Dominik. \u201cAnd if you\u2019re not showing them that, it upsets them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker additionally responded to criticisms that \u201cBlonde\u201d exploited Marilyn Monroe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/andrew-dominik-defends-the-visual-style-of-blonde-im-not-interested-in-reality-im-interested-in-the-images-20220927\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ MORE: Andrew Dominik Defends The Visual Style Of \u2018Blonde\u2019: \u2018I\u2019m Not Interested In Reality, I\u2019m Interested In The Images\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich is kind of strange, because she\u2019s dead,\u201d he added. \u201cThe movie doesn\u2019t make any difference in one way or another. What they really mean is that the film exploited their memory of her, their image of her, which is fair enough. But that\u2019s the whole idea of the movie. It\u2019s trying to take the iconography of her life and put it into service of something else, it\u2019s trying to take things that you\u2019re familiar with, and turning the meaning inside out. But that\u2019s what they don\u2019t want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of that is resulting in a world, Dominik believes, the place American movies have gotten \u201cmore conservative. He used the example of how audiences now want a bedtime story where the ending isn\u2019t meant to provoke a real reaction. \u201cBut I don\u2019t want to make bedtime stories,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s refreshing to see a filmmaker fully conscious of why his newest movie didn\u2019t translate properly with sure audiences, there\u2019s additionally a transparent understanding by his phrases that Andrew Dominik will not be prepared to vary the way in which he presents his tasks. He\u2019s going to proceed to make the movies he desires within the actual manner he desires, even when he&#8217;s going to piss off a big portion of the viewing public within the course of.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlonde\u201d is offered now on Netflix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.0\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] There won&#8217;t be a extra polarizing movie this awards season than \u201cBlonde.\u201d Andrew Dominik\u2019s not-so-true biopic about Marilyn Monroe has been hailed as among the best movies of 2022 by some, whereas others assume it\u2019s one of many worst. 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