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One of the most talked about movies this year has been blondestarring Ana de Armas and that shows part of the life of marilyn monroe in a fictional story, since it is based on the book of Joyce Carol Oates. Director Andrew Dominic He continues to promote the film, and has now made several comments about the impact his work has had on audiences.
During a question-and-answer series at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia, the director said he was “very pleased” that his film has outraged so many people after its premiere in Netflix in September: “Now we live in a time where it is important to present women as empowered, and they want to reinvent Marilyn Monroe as an empowered woman. That’s what they want to see. And if you don’t show them that bothers them, which is kind of weird, because she’s dead. The film doesn’t make any difference one way or the other.”
The Australian filmmaker, famous for films like “Chopper” Y “Killing them softly” He also focused on the negative reception that the public in the United States had to the film: “What they really mean is that the film exploded the memory of her, which is fair enough. But that’s the whole idea of the movie. It’s trying to take the iconography of your life and putting it at the service of something else, it’s trying to take things you’re familiar with and turn the meaning around. But that’s what they don’t want to see.” Since 2021 “Blonde” was a highly anticipated film, but after its premiere it received mixed reviews. Some praised the work of Ana de Armasbut others questioned Dominik’s treatment of the life of marilyn monroeone of the most famous icons in Hollywood history.
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