Blonde director Andrew Dominique isn’t shy about trashing Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, one of the flagship features of Marilyn Monroe’s career, which he describes as a movie about “well-dressed whores.”
Despite filming a fake Marilyn Monroe biopic, Andrew Dominick is not kind to the Hollywood icon and her career. The filmmaker did explain that, according to him, the film “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” was entirely dedicated to “prostitutes”.
The shocking statements are taken from the magazine’s interview with journalist Christina Newland British Film Institute Sight and Sound. Before the Blonde adaptation of the fictional work of Joyce Carol Oates, Andrew Dominic admitted that he was not familiar with the filmography of Marilyn Monroe.
But he did his homework during the ten years of development of this project and caught up with the star’s films, as the journalist notes. Even for the director, Marilyn Monroe played “A lot of movies that nobody really watches”.
Andrew Dominique doesn’t really wear men prefer blondes at heart and limits the passage to the music “diamonds are a girl’s best friend”, which he describes as a sequence. “Sister’s Advice” to cowardly women. There is a message for him “If you’re going to have sex, make sure you’re paid, or is it just fancy prostitution?”.
New controversy for Blonde director
In the 1953 Howard Hawks musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Marilyn Monroe plays Lorelei Lee, a somewhat naïve woman interested in rich men. She arranges a trip to Paris for her and her best friend Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) at the expense of her wealthy future husband, Gus Esmond.
The sad reality of this cult classic in Marilyn Monroe’s filmography is that the actress was only paid $150 for the role, while her co-star Kane Russell received $150,000. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was critically acclaimed, particularly for Howard Hawks’ witty and clever handling of work and sex, but also for Marilyn Monroe’s performance as a diamond miner. But for Andrew Dominick, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a movie “On Well-Dressed Whores”.
Ana de Armas is preparing for the role of Marilyn Monroe in the movie “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”.
Regarding the image of Marilyn Monroe, Andrew Dominick sees it this way “It’s a weird sex symbol because she didn’t have to die at the end like Barbara Stanwyck or Rita Hayworth. But she had to act like a little child… I think Marilyn was a man’s woman. I think she was a woman who had a lot of friends.
But I think she was a woman who generally didn’t have many friends. We have a feeling that we want to reinvent it with today’s political concerns. But he was an extraordinarily self-destructive person.”
This self-destructive side is very much present in Blonde, and Andrew Dominique thinks that today’s mores and mentalities give the actress a different face that doesn’t fit the vision of the time:
“I think he was obviously an extraordinarily strong man. But I don’t think his success was built in the way that people see it today. Of course, everyone has moments of strength in their lives. And people like to say that he took control. His of life.
But he wanted to destroy her life. So I think the movie is about the importance of Marilyn Monroe. or its meaning. He represented something. She was the Aphrodite of the 20th century, the American goddess of love. And he killed himself. So what does that mean?”
The director’s shocking statements add to a long list of controversies surrounding Blondie after it finished filming and even more so after it was released on Netflix. Between violent scenes, abortion and sexual assault scenes, this fake biopic starring Ana de Armas shocked many viewers. Reactions that don’t faze Andrew Dominick, who “I don’t care about good taste”.
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