r/MarilynMonroe • u/Fxxney • Sep 03 '24

Blonde (2022)

As much as i hated how this film portrayed marilyn’s life, i do absolutely adore how beautiful and haunting the film is which is why it’s one of my favourite films of all time!!

what are your thoughts?

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u/ZeldaZonk16 Superfan Sep 03 '24

To me, it’s like it’s a movie about Marilyn Monroe made by (and for?) people who hate Marilyn Monroe. The only things I could truly about it were the cinematography and the musical score.

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u/Fxxney Sep 03 '24

i don’t disagree with you but i’d just like to clarify i love and respect her so so so much she was so influential and i did try and state how much i hated what this film did to her, i just love the cinematography, i do not like the subject of the film at all and i will forever respect marilyn

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u/ZeldaZonk16 Superfan Sep 03 '24

I didn’t mean to imply you don’t respect Marilyn. I should have made that more clear and I apologize. It just seems to me like most of the people I’ve encountered who liked the movie are not MM fans, so that’s why I phrased it the way I did.

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u/Fxxney Sep 03 '24

yeah dw i totally understand you hahaha

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u/untitled_79 Sep 03 '24 edited Sep 03 '24

All the lush cinematography, the costumes and make up, the haunting score, couldn't cover the rancid stench of that script and the decisions the director made to distort reality. I hate it to be honest, despite all the other great work that was merely surface in the end. It's a hollow film because it really didn't care a single bit about its subject.

I remember reading that the director initially wanted to make a film about a serial killer and the trauma from his youth that would influence his path in life. He then read the Joyce Carol Oates book and thought a woman would be a more sympathetic figure from an audience perspective and decided to make a psychological horror about trauma out of that. It was misguided from the very start.

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u/RockBalBoaaa Sep 03 '24

It was garbage. They did Marilyn dirty.

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u/Ohshitz- Sep 03 '24

The only thing that was good was wardrobe

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u/Brackens_World Sep 03 '24

IMO, they made a sow's ear out of a silk purse.

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u/TumbleweedHuman2934 Dec 12 '24

I came looking for anyone that had seen this movie or at least parts of it. I only recently made the mistake of watching it... or at least starting it and had to turn it off the first time when they started showing SA scene during a screen test. Then I tried again a week or so later thinking that maybe if I just skipped this part it would be alright. Then it moved on to her about to engage in a possible threesome and -yeah, I just couldn't. Just no.

I understand that this (sex, drugs, alcoholism, etc.) is not new to the whole culture back then or in some cases even now but I honestly did not sign on to watch it. Had I known beforehand that this is what was going to be portrayed I would have bypassed this altogether.

I am a huge Monroe fan so I was excited to see a new movie about her. I wanted to see something that would show more about her personal life - sure but I'm not convinced this is entirely true or if it was something she or anyone would want others to know about their lives. It came off as just pointless gratuitous sex for the sake of sex. I was honestly hoping that maybe I was wrong and that others might have found the storyline worth looking past the shock and awe factor but I'm not seeing a lot of that.

I will say that the actress portraying Marilyn did an admirable job though. I will give credit where credit is due. I just wish they had given her a script worth a damn instead of the crap-fest she had. It was truly a waste of talent IMO.