‘Blonde’ Director Says ‘No person Actually Watches’ Marilyn Monroe Films

“Blonde” director Andrew Dominik has beforehand stated he was unfamiliar with Marilyn Monroe’s filmography earlier than adapting Joyce Carol Oates’ e book concerning the late actor. Now, Dominik says Monroe starred in a “entire lot of films that no person actually watches,” calling her well-known romance movie “Gents Favor Blondes” a film about “well-dressed whores.”

Dominik’s feedback had been a part of an outtake from an interview with the British Movie Institute’s Sight and Sound Journal. Journalist Christina Newland, who performed the interview, posted the transcript on Twitter, wherein Dominik requested, “Does anybody watch Marilyn Monroe motion pictures?” Newland added in a follow-up tweet: “I do wish to make certain I’m doing my due diligence right here: [Dominik] did discuss and reference lots of her movies. He clearly had studied and watched the whole lot: whether or not he preferred it (bar ‘Some Prefer it Sizzling,’ which he loves) one other story, evidently.”

Within the interview, Dominik additionally addressed criticisms over the movie’s NC-17 portrayals of abortion and sexual assault. The director, who beforehand boasted that the movie would “offend everybody,” responded: “I’m not involved with being tasteful.”

“Nicely, she was a wierd intercourse image as a result of she doesn’t must die on the finish [of her films] like a Barbara Stanwyck or a Rita Hayworth,” Dominik stated. “However she needed to be a bit child… I feel Marilyn was a man’s woman. I don’t assume she was a lady who had quite a lot of feminine mates. However then I feel she was a lady who didn’t have quite a lot of mates. There’s a sense that we wish to reinvent her in line with right this moment’s political considerations. However she was an individual who was terribly self-destructive.”

Dominik added: “I feel she was clearly an awfully highly effective particular person. However I don’t assume she was constructed for fulfillment in the way in which that folks see it right this moment. So with everybody there are moments of power, and folks wish to say that she took management of her life. However she wished to destroy her life. So I feel the movie is concerning the which means of Marilyn Monroe. Or a which means. She was symbolic of one thing. She was the Aphrodite of the twentieth century, the American goddess of affection. And she or he killed herself. So what does that imply?”

“Blonde,” starring Ana de Armas as Monroe, is at present in choose theaters and premieres on Netflix Wednesday, Sept. 28.