{"id":1763320,"date":"2022-12-05T11:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763320"},"modified":"2022-12-05T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:04:10","slug":"blonde-director-says-movie-got-slammed-because-marilyn-monroe-wasnt-shown-as-an-empowered-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blonde-director-says-movie-got-slammed-because-marilyn-monroe-wasnt-shown-as-an-empowered-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blonde\u2019 Director Says Movie Got Slammed Because Marilyn Monroe Wasn\u2019t Shown As An \u2018Empowered Woman\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblonde-director-says-movie-got-slammed-because-marilyn-monroe-wasnt-shown-as-an-empowered-woman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763320&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\">Blonde<\/a>\u201d director Andrew Dominik claims that American audiences didn\u2019t care for the Netflix biopic because it shattered their illusions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/marilyn-monroe\">Marilyn Monroe<\/a> as an \u201cempowered\u201d woman.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/entertainment\">filmmaker<\/a> made the comments during the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia. Dominik claimed Americans \u201chated\u201d his movie because of how he approached the subject matter.<\/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 he said, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/blonde-andrew-dominik-backlash-marilyn-monroe-1235274686\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. \u201cAnd if you\u2019re not showing them that, it upsets them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for accusations of exploiting and sensationalizing Monroe\u2019s story, Dominik said it wasn\u2019t possible because she\u2019s no longer alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich is kind of strange, because she\u2019s dead,\u201d Dominik said of the criticism. \u201cThe movie doesn\u2019t make any difference in one way or another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cWhat 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>Later, the Australian director claimed movies were becoming \u201cmore conservative.\u201d Dominik compared current offerings to bedtime stories that are predictable and therefore comfortable. \u201cBut I don\u2019t want to make bedtime stories,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlonde\u201d stirred up controversy not just for allegedly \u201cexploiting\u201d Monroe\u2019s legacy, but also for its portrayal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/planned-parenthood-fumes-over-abortion-scenes-in-marilyn-monroe-flick-blonde\">miscarriage and abortion<\/a>. Though Dominik insisted the Netflix project wasn\u2019t intended to push one particular point of view, many pro-abortion activists thought these emotional scenes had pro-life undertones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the movie is pretty nuanced actually, and I think it\u2019s very complex, but that doesn\u2019t fit \u2014\u00a0 people are obviously concerned with losses of freedoms, obviously they are,\u201d the filmmaker told The Wrap just after \u201cBlonde\u201d was released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, I mean, no one would have given a s*** about that if I\u2019d made the movie in 2008, and probably no one\u2019s going to care about it in four years\u2019 time. And the movie won\u2019t have changed. It\u2019s just what sort of going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dominik accused critics of looking at \u201cBlonde\u201d \u201cthrough this <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> lens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got a certain agenda where they feel like the freedoms of women are being compromised, and they look at \u2018Blonde\u2019 and they see a demon, but it\u2019s not really about that,\u201d he continued. \u201cI think it\u2019s very difficult for people to step outside of the stories they carry inside themselves and see things of their own volition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBlonde\u201d director Andrew Dominik claims that American audiences didn\u2019t care for the Netflix biopic because it shattered their illusions of Marilyn Monroe as an \u201cempowered\u201d woman. The filmmaker made the comments during the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia. 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