The director of Blonde claims people want to 'reinvent Marilyn Monroe as an empowered woman'
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biopic during an appearance at Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia over the weekend, according toTalking about how American audiences reacted to the film, Dominik said, “He continued, “Now we’re living in a time where it’s important to present women as empowered, and they want to reinvent Marilyn Monroe as an empowered woman. That’s what they want to see.Which is kind of strange, because she’s dead. The movie doesn’t make any difference in one way or another.
Discussing accusations that “Blonde” exploited Monroe’s trauma, Dominik said, “What they really mean is that the film exploited their memory of her, their image of her, which is fair enough. But that’s the whole idea of the movie. It’s trying to take the iconography of her life and put it into service of something else, it’s trying to take things that you’re familiar with, and turning the meaning inside out. But that’s what they don’t want to see.
He added that growing up in the ’80s was a time when “offend[ing] your audience was a solemn duty, to wrench them out of a complacency about things,” and that he was “really pleased” that “Blonde” had “outraged so many people.”
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