Andrew Dominik shows the actress annihilated by fame in the new film, which debuts on Netflix on Wednesday 28
Fame has always fascinated Andrea Domenicoas shown in movies like Chopper – Memoirs of a criminal (2000), about a man who dreamed of being a criminal, e The Jesse James murder of the coward Robert Ford (2007), which tells of the famous Wild West outlaw, killed by one of his trusted men.
But in blondewhich will debut this Wednesday (28) on Netflixafter having participated in the competition of the last Venice Film Festival, the director ventures into one of the most famous and tragic stories on the subject: that of Marilyn Monroe.
“Fame is a very interesting thing,” he said in an interview with Estadio, to Venice. “Marilyn Monroe used to say that when you are famous, you are always in someone else’s unconscious.” Dominick knows what he was talking about. He has some very famous friends of Brad Pitt, one of the producers of blonde, to Nick Cave. “I see how people react to them. And then you realize that others are reacting to something they carry within them. The famous puts you in front of your desires, fears, wounds.”
At the same time, the director continued, you imagine that being famous means having an easier life. “Being wanted all the time seems to be very nice. But it seems that many of those who were always wanted ended up being destroyed in some way.”
Like Marilyn Monroe, killed at the age of 36 for an overdose of barbiturates. blonde it’s not exactly a biopic, as it’s based on a fictional work by Joyce Carol Oates. There’s no question that Bobby Cannavale plays the actress’s second husband, former baseball player Joe DiMaggio, in the film, but he’s only identified as “The Ex-Athlete”. Same with her third husband, Arthur Miller (Adrien Brody), here only “The Playwright”. And John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Caspar Phillipson) is “The President”.
mental instability
Dominik also had to make some cuts, as the novel is over 700 pages long. “I wanted to detail the childhood trauma and then show adult life from the perspective of that trauma,” said the director. In the film, Norma Jeane, played by Lily Fisher as a child and Ana de Armas as an adult, had a childhood marked by the mental instability of her mother, Gladys (Julianne Nicholson). She never knew who her father was, what marked her all her life … blonde highlights how she called her husbands “dad”, for example.
When the mother was hospitalized, she ended up in temporary homes and then in an orphanage. She was sexually and physically abused, she was seen as a mere object, with no action on her body.
The film is committed to showing every suffering in detail. “The film is about how she feels. The audience needs to hear what they feel,” explained Ana de Armas.
thinking public
“It was an incredible experience for me, a rare opportunity to take risks without fear,” said Ana. This explicit way of talking about pain has generated criticism ever since the film’s world premiere in Venice. Domenico defended himself. If you recognize the trauma, then you’re not exploring it, “she said.
Her desire is to make the public think about their responsibility for what happened to Marilyn Monroe. We then start with familiar images of the actress, in color and black and white. “It’s like she’s stuck inside them, trying to escape,” she said.
For the viewer there is something of déjà vu, of a dream, of something wrong. Because she is there, watching Marilyn’s dress stand up, showing off her panties, with hundreds of men around her, for example. When this is shown, “there is a finger pointing at the viewer,” Dominik said.
Not much has changed since then. “Look at Britney Spears,” she said she. Clickbait is part of our culture. “We might think it’s horrible, as the media can exploit it. But we actually click there. We have a responsibility.”
For Ana de Armas, celebrity today looks like something different. “There is a hunger for fame, without thinking about the consequences. Marilyn Monroe didn’t look for it,” said the actress.
Domenico did not agree. For him Norma Jean generated interest in herself, befriending photographers and becoming a model with a following that the industry could not ignore. “At some point, studies took over and Norma was swallowed. She just wanted to be respected, but she never was, at least not in her life.”
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