Blonde is Not Worth Watching?

[Flopper]

In my opinion, it is a waste of 2:45 mins.
The creators of this movie took real or rumored incidents in Marilyn's life and enhanced it with fiction. Since the movie is not in chronological sequence, it is not a story of her life so there is nothing that holds the various scenes together. The only thing that is good in the movie is Ana de Armas the actress that played Marilyn but her hard work can not save this bundle of nothing.

 

[Stryder50]

That would be 2 hours and 45 minutes.

'Blonde' — How Much of Netflix's Controversial Marilyn Monroe Movie Is True?​

Blonde — How Much of Netflix's Controversial Marilyn Monroe Movie Is True?

Director Andrew Dominik said he 'used very little of' his research about Marilyn Monroe in Blonde, which is a fictionalized version of the icon's life

people.com

 

[1srelluc]

Hopefully next month's All Quiet On The Western Front makes up for it.

 

[Flopper]

It seems the best on Netflix are sleepers that Netflix ignores

 

[iamwhatiseem]

In my opinion, it is a waste of 2:45 mins.
The creators of this movie took real or rumored incidents in Marilyn's life and enhanced it with fiction. Since the movie is not in chronological sequence, it is not a story of her life so there is nothing that holds the various scenes together. The only thing that is good in the movie is Ana de Armas the actress that played Marilyn but her hard work can not save this bundle of nothing.

Unfortunately this is becoming all to common today.
Pick an event or significant occurrence... promote the movie as "based on a true story" - and then actually, and sometimes, completely change what happened entirely and not give any indication what is true and what is made up.

I gave a good example of this the other day - "The Aeronaughts" - opening screen "based on a true story".
The truth - two meteorologist are convinced that if they can take measurements within a weather system they can vastly improve weather prediction. The two men do just that, and saved untold number of lives and property for decades to come as they revolutionized weather forecasting.
The story told - They replaced one of the men with a woman that did exist at the time, and was a balloonist. In a circus company.
They make the story about her, and in fact show her not only saving the man's life - but it was HER that took the measurements.
I mean... what the hell?

 

[whitehall]

I wonder how they treated Marilyn's relationship with JFK and RFK if at all.

 

[Flopper]

Unfortunately this is becoming all to common today.
Pick an event or significant occurrence... promote the movie as "based on a true story" - and then actually, and sometimes, completely change what happened entirely and not give any indication what is true and what is made up.

I gave a good example of this the other day - "The Aeronaughts" - opening screen "based on a true story".
The truth - two meteorologist are convinced that if they can take measurements within a weather system they can vastly improve weather prediction. The two men do just that, and saved untold number of lives and property for decades to come as they revolutionized weather forecasting.
The story told - They replaced one of the men with a woman that did exist at the time, and was a balloonist. In a circus company.
They make the story about her, and in fact show her not only saving the man's life - but it was HER that took the measurements.
I mean... what the hell?

I have watched about 30 minutes. It's boring, even with mega hottie in it.

I really tried to like this movie because I knew some real facts about Marilyn's life. I was expecting some twists of the facts but not this concoction of fables that created a character that only resembled Marilyn Monroe.

There are just so many things in the movie that are are just plain wrong. For example there is no evidence that Marilyn had any abortions. She was pregnant 3 times while married to Arthur Miller. All 3 pregnancies ended in a misarrange caused by a condition known as endometriosis, a gynecological condition which the Mayo Clinic says causes the cells lining the interior of the uterus to grow outside of the uterus. The probability of miscarriages is about 80%. It very unlike Marilyn that had any abortions. Her life long ambition from her first marriage to her last marriage was to have children and a family, something she never had.

The problems of the real Marilyn was almost certainly the result of an unloved childhood, abandoned by her father, giving away by a crazy mother, passed to a dozen foster homes and at sexual assault when she was 8 years old, and a marriage at 16 to get out of the foster care system. The movie should have concentrated more about what lead to the creation of Marilyn instead creating a lot of porn of which there is no evidence that it every occurred.

Lastly, it was a huge mistake not to create a chronological series of scenes that told Marilyn's story. The result was the lack of continuity. There was no story. How in the world did the creator of this jumbled mess expect to to keep an audience's interest for 2 hours and 45 mins. To do this it would have taken a lot more porn.

 

[Flopper]

I wonder how they treated Marilyn's relationship with JFK and RFK if at all.

They created it out of nothing, just a blow job of JFK and that was it. They had only about 10 mins of porn so they needed a bit more to keep the audience watching.

 

[hjmick]

Blonde is based on the NOVEL by Joyce Carol Oates. It is not intended to be a truthful representation of her life. It is fiction.

'Blonde' Director Describes Movie As 'All Fiction': 'Nobody Really Knows'

Ana de Armas lead a cast that includes Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson in Andrew Dominik's latest film.

www.newsweek.com

If it matters, the author liked the movie:

Here’s What Joyce Carol Oates Thinks of Ana de Armas’ Performance in ‘Blonde’

And why we just can’t quit the myth of Marilyn Monroe.

www.netflix.com

 

[Flopper]

Blonde is based on the NOVEL by Joyce Carol Oates. It is not intended to be a truthful representation of her life. It is fiction.

'Blonde' Director Describes Movie As 'All Fiction': 'Nobody Really Knows'

Ana de Armas lead a cast that includes Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson in Andrew Dominik's latest film.

www.newsweek.com

If it matters, the author liked the movie:

Here’s What Joyce Carol Oates Thinks of Ana de Armas’ Performance in ‘Blonde’

And why we just can’t quit the myth of Marilyn Monroe.

www.netflix.com

No, since the author probably got serval million for the movie rights, I would expect she is very happy.

Had Marilyn had her lawyer setup a trust to manage her estate, it would have grown into many millions and this book and movie would probably have never been created. However, Marilyn left most of her here estate to Lee Strasberg someone she hoped to study acting under. There is no evidence that she had ever met him. After she died most of her estate passed to him and when he died a few years later it passed to his wife who sold Marilyn home and her belongs and her name and image became public domain. She became fair game for authors such as Oats.

 

[hjmick]

No, since the author probably got serval million for the movie rights, I would expect she is very happy.

Really? I've read many a report about authors who were none to happy with movies made from their books... but okay...

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I wonder how they treated Marilyn's relationship with JFK and RFK if at all.

Only one incident where the secret service dragged her off to give JFK a blow job then immediately threw her out. No singing happy birthday.

What I was looking for was what happened when Monroe made the Misfits with Clark Gable. Her behavior was horrible. The booze and pills kept her barely functioning. Gable died soon after and his widow blamed Marilyn Monroe and called her a murderer.

This movie was a pivotal point in her life. She became untrustworthy no telling what she would do or what she would tell. That's what started the rumor that RFK did the deed and killed her or had her killed.

 

[Flopper]

Only one incident where the secret service dragged her off to give JFK a blow job then immediately threw her out. No singing happy birthday.

What I was looking for was what happened when Monroe made the Misfits with Clark Gable. Her behavior was horrible. The booze and pills kept her barely functioning. Gable died soon after and his widow blamed Marilyn Monroe and called her a murderer.

This movie was a pivotal point in her life. She became untrustworthy no telling what she would do or what she would tell. That's what started the rumor that RFK did the deed and killed her or had her killed.

During the filming of the Misfits in 1960, Marilyn was having problems with her husband, Arthur Miller and they separated. She then had a 3rd miscarriage. Clark Gable became her mentor during the filming as she was completely falling apart on set. Just a few months before the premier of the Misfits in 1961, Gable died of a Heart Attack, which Marilyn took very hard. A few months latter Arthur Miller filed for divorce. In the months that followed the gossip columnists were attacking Marilyn with hints that she had an affair with Gable and that somehow she was connect to his death. There was then an announcement of a planned picture that she was to make had fallen through. The papers jump on this and claimed that she was no longer in shape to make a movie due to her failing health, inferring that she was losing her looks at age 35, on drugs, and was rapidly becoming a has been. The following year, she died of an overdose.

I think those events taken together touched off her suicide. However, she was such a mental mess, it would happen sooner or later.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I don't think Clark Gable was a mentor so much as trying to nudge Marilyn into working to move the film along. She would not show up or show up but not be in a condition to work. It was going to be her last movie even if she hadn't died.

She is interred in a vault in a mausoleum in Westwood. I've been to see where she was laid to rest. Hugh Hefner bought the space next to hers and that's where he was interred when he died.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Blonde is based on the NOVEL by Joyce Carol Oates. It is not intended to be a truthful representation of her life. It is fiction.

'Blonde' Director Describes Movie As 'All Fiction': 'Nobody Really Knows'

Ana de Armas lead a cast that includes Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson in Andrew Dominik's latest film.

www.newsweek.com

If it matters, the author liked the movie:

Here’s What Joyce Carol Oates Thinks of Ana de Armas’ Performance in ‘Blonde’

And why we just can’t quit the myth of Marilyn Monroe.

www.netflix.com

The author no doubt "liked" the movie because she obviously was paid royalties. The last thing she would do is trash it.

 

[hjmick]

The author no doubt "liked" the movie because she obviously was paid royalties. The last thing she would do is trash it.

Again...

Really? I've read many a report about authors who were none to happy with movies made from their books... but okay...

 

[g5000]

I recently read somewhere that Kim Kardashian showed up on the red carpet at some ceremony wearing the very dress Monroe wore when she sang Happy Birthday to JFK.

My immediate thought was, "How did Kim Kardashian squeeze her enormous ass into that dress?"

She had to have had it let out, right?

 

[g5000]

I guess I'm not the only one.

Kim Kardashian claims she did not damage Marilyn Monroe's dress​

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[iamwhatiseem]

I guess I'm not the only one.

Kim Kardashian claims she did not damage Marilyn Monroe's dress​

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That is disgusting.
Monroe was no saint, but she was not a amoral whore like KK
It is unfortunate whoever owns the dress to allow it to be shamed like this on that disgusting human being.

 

[Flopper]

I recently read somewhere that Kim Kardashian showed up on the red carpet at some ceremony wearing the very dress Monroe wore when she sang Happy Birthday to JFK.

My immediate thought was, "How did Kim Kardashian squeeze her enormous ass into that dress?"

She had to have had it let out, right?

I think read that Kardashian both a bunch Monroe stuff at an action some years back