dance the night away

ryan gosling + marylin monroe, ana de armas, margot robbie — the 96th annual academy awards / blade runner 2049 (2017) / gentlemen prefer blondes (1953) / blonde (2022) / birds of pray (2020) / barbie (2023)

"Ana de Armas deserves better"

celebrity worship is truly out of control. she signed up for the movie, filmed those scenes, got paid for it, and has said some seriously unhinged things while promoting and defending Blonde. everyone involved is responsible, from the producers to the director to the people at netflix who greenlit the release. get a fucking grip on reality.

I am so disgusted with that Blonde movie... is horrible that someone thought using the life of another human being and twist it to this shock value pretencious bullshit was a good idea.

I really wanted to give this movie the benefit of the doubt, but is clear to me now that the major people involved in the conception of this movie had no respect to Marylin Monroe whatsoever.

My blood is boiling. This is three hours of an erotic sensationalist fanficion showing Marilyn Monroe as nothing but a suffering piece of meat, a sexy victim and nothing else.

As if she wasn't a real person who lived and loved, and was loved, and who deserves to have her memory and the legacy she fought so hard to build respected.

BLONDE 2022 dir. Andrew Dominik

If you are one of the people who are going to watch Marilyn Monroe and is fan remember during her last interview she said “please don’t make me look like a joke”

If you're going to watch Blonde (2022)

Don't

BLONDE (2022) dir. Andrew Dominik

im kinda afraid to ask, but what was bad abt blonde?

glaring historical inaccuracies aside, it's horrible to Marilyn Monroe (there's maybe like two scenes where she isn't crying, being abused, depressed, or all of the above), it treats her like she was treated back when she was alive (Ana de Armas probably spends 75% of the movie naked to some extent, and maybe three of those scenes aren't used to sexualize Marilyn/Ana-as-Marilyn; even the scenes when she's dressed serve to sexualize her, to the point that the camera focuses on her butt while also having some male character openly lust after her), and is also just plain fucking bizarre (the talking fetus, as i mentioned in that other post; the shots of abortions from the POV of the vagina--not to mention the horrible accompanying suction sound in one of them that made me skip the rest from the word GO--a threesome sex scene shot like someone is tripping out on anesthesia inside Willy Wonka's tunnel of terror so it's hard to understand what's even happening; JFK being fucking JFK but the phone call in the background of his scene making it even worse; the father discourse in general bc it's really not handled well imo; EDITING TO ADD bc somehow i forgot the scene with the fucking animated sperm looking for the egg to tell us Marilyn is pregnant; also the horrifically bad CGI fetus).

there's also the fact that like one (1) man in the entire movie is a good person (her makeup artist Whitey, though Arthur Miller is fairly decent in the movie), and even the (many nameless) women who help Marilyn a little don't seem to care about her as either 1) a person or 2) a woman in serious need of some support. she had countless friends irl who cared about her, but the movie doesn't include them and thus makes it seem like she lived in constant isolation, even from this one delivery boy (nothing gross there, he's just delivering a package, but the scene is written to demean Marilyn/show just how deep of a spiral she was in at the time).

idk what the people behind the movie were hoping to achieve in the making of it, but if their goal was to make a movie about Marilyn that treats her posthumously and fictionally as terribly as she was treated irl while blatantly ignoring the many good things about her--including just how great of an actor she was in spite of her stage fright, to the point she sought out acting classes of many kinds to better her craft and fought tooth and nail to do away with the pay disparity she was forced to live with, and how she used her platform to help people of color--they certainly achieved it.

all in all, just don't watch it, even to experience the horrors yourself (and this isn't at you specifically, anon, but anyone who happens across this post/hears of the movie), bc netflix does not deserve the views to this nightmare.

screw andrew dominik! i hope he never has another successful film

omg no waaaaaaay the marilyn monroe movie directed by a man and based on a book that is a sensationalised/fictionalised version of a limited and unconfirmed series of events in her life ISN'T a respectful depiction of marilyn?????????????? you mean the advertising brand company that owns her life rights didn't entrust her image to people who actually give a shit about her as a person???????? omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!! who would have KNOWN this movie that recreates her suicide and speculated SAs distributed by a media company known for protecting abusers is lying when they say they care about marilyn???? what an unexpected series of events!

Why I Won’t Be Watching ‘Blonde’

...and if you care about Marilyn Monroe, you won’t either.

Let’s talk about the rape scene and the NC-17 rating. Director Andrew Dominik states, “It’s an NC-17 movie about Marilyn Monroe, it’s kind of what you want, right? I want to go and see the NC-17 version of the Marilyn Monroe story.”

What is an NC-17 rating? It is “the highest rating in Motion Picture Association film rating system assigned to films with content the MPA finds to be only suitable for ages 18 and older.” This rating is mainly reserved for incredibly explicit and graphic content. It was confirmed that there will be an explicit rape in the film. Although Monroe was sexually assaulted as a child, she was not in her adult years—there is no documentation or words from Marilyn herself.

Dominik even had to negotiate with Netflix how far the scene could go. He admits that the film is controversial, but says if the audience doesn’t like it, that’s their “fucking problem.”

Wanting to see an “NC-17 version” of Monroe’s life implies a threatening viewpoint, as if rape is entertaining. But as Dominik says himself, that’s the audience’s problem.

In an interview with Screen Daily Andrew Dominik said the film “wouldn’t have got done” without the MeToo movement. This is obviously ironic considering the rape scene—a rape that never actually happened in Monroe’s adult years.

The real issue with this rape scene is that Marilyn isn’t even able to give her consent. It’s violating, tasteless, and disrespectful. I don’t care that it’s from a fictional novel. The novel is based off a real human being, not an object.

Dominik doesn’t seem to care about the audience, and thinks the film is “one of the 10 best movies ever made.” This is sending signals that he only cares about the awards and attention.

Brad Pitt’s production company “Plan B” will be producing it. If you are not already aware, Pitt turned a blind eye to Harvey Weinstein’s crimes despite his previous partner, Angelina Jolie, being sexually harassed by him. However, you can try to separate the art from the artist.

There seems to be some involvement with JFK in the film and his poor treatment of Monroe. However, she was not mistreated by him, nor did she have sexual relations with him. (Monroe and JFK met on four occasions, three of them public events. The only time they supposedly slept together was on 24 March 1962, when they both stayed at Bing Crosby’s home in Palm Springs.)

If a filmmaker actually cared about Monroe’s legacy, they wouldn’t base their film off a fictional novel, period. To end, Andrew Dominik added about the film: “There’s something in it to offend everyone.”

Blonde (2022) Dir. Andrew Dominik

↳ Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe

Blonde (2022)

Maybe is only me, but with that BLONDE movie coming out I need yo say it. I'm kinda sick of this sensationalist deceased celebrity biopics.

I'm sick of people making an entire film focusing on "the downfall of an artist", on their tragedies and deaths like is the only interesting thing about them. It actually makes me mad.

This was a real person. A flawled person, with struggles and beauty and ugliness of their own, yes. But they also spend all their lives trying to move on from that, they also wanted to make a legacy of their own.

How used are we to percive them not as people but as some sort of character study or disscussion, or inspirational speach story? They were people, people worth of respect, people like you and I and they were worth more than what we think their lives can teach us.

I realize we do need to talk about how media and societal expectations can harm a person, and is implrtant that we become aware of that, but were is the line? Is there one?

I just know I would hate for my life struggles and battles to become this sensationalist story flashing on every rumor, trauma, or mental illness I had with dramatic music and sad dialogue, and artistic shots that will get them 5 academy awards to people that never knew who I really was.

And I would hate that for every single person I love.

Maybe people like Marilyn Monroe dont have anyone left to fight for their memory but I want to think we as an audience should know better. She was so much more than the "bomb shell" image and she was so much more than a tragic figure.

I dont know, it just leaves such a bitter taste on my mouth. If someone made that with the life of my sister, the life of my mother...

Incredible. Like clockwork