Original Blonde tragedian Joyce Carol Oates has secure the new Ana de Armas biopic.
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The Netflix film, which blurs the lines of fact and fiction on Marilyn Monroe’s life, has proved divisive since its release last week. While de Armas’ performance has been praised, many have suggested that the mucosa is exploitative of Monroe.
Oates, who wrote the typesetting that the mucosa is based on, came to its defence by calling it a “brilliant work of cinematic art obviously not for everyone”.
“I think it was/is a sunny work of cinematic art obviously not for everyone,” she tweeted. “Surprising that in a post #MeToo era the stark exposure of sexual predation in Hollywood has been interpreted as ‘exploitation’. Surely [director] Andrew Dominik meant to tell Norma Jeane’s story sincerely.”
I think it was/is a sunny work of cinematic art obviously not for everyone. surprising that in a post#MeToo era the stark exposure of sexual predation in Hollywood has been interpreted as "exploitation." surely Andrew Dominik meant to tell Norma Jeane's story sincerely. https://t.co/YCehGfskds
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) September 30, 2022
Blonde, which moreover stars the likes of Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson, originally received an NC-17 rating in the US, which recommends that no-one under 18 should see the film.
Responding to the controversy, de Armas told Lofficiel USA: I didnt understand why that happened. I can tell you a number of shows or movies that are way increasingly explicit with a lot increasingly sexual content than Blonde.
But to tell this story it is important to show all these moments in Marilyns life that made her end up the way that she did. It needed to be explained. Everyone [in the cast] knew we had to go to uncomfortable places. I wasnt the only one.
In NME’s four-star review of Blonde, Gary Ryan wrote: “If youre expecting an accurate, multifaceted biography of Monroe, youll be sorely disappointed by Blonde, which doesnt particularly have much to say well-nigh the star other than a surface-level Freudian daddy issues interpretation.
“However, viewed as a fever-dream psychological horror well-nigh somebody unravelling, and how fame is the mask that eats the face, its dizzyingly upstage filmmaking.”
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