Director Andrew Dominik blames 'Blonde' backlash on audiences wanting 'to reinvent Marilyn Monroe as an empowered woman' - Yahoo Entertainment

Andrew Dominik, the manager of the arguable Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde, is speaking retired astir the backlash against the Netflix film.

During an quality astatine the Red Sea International Film Festival successful Saudi Arabia, Dominik proclaimed that American audiences "hated the movie,” which starred Ana de Armas arsenic the iconic movie star. The Australian manager claimed this was due to the fact that the nationalist strictly wanted to spot Monroe look "empowered" connected screen.

“Now we’re surviving successful a clip wherever it’s important to contiguous women arsenic empowered, and they privation to reinvent Marilyn Monroe arsenic an empowered woman. That’s what they privation to see,” Dominik said of the beloved movie star, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “And if you’re not showing them that, it upsets them.”

Dominik went connected to accidental that those who criticized the film, based connected Joyce Carol Oates's 2000 caller of the aforesaid name, indispensable person felt it exploited their memories of the actress, who died of a cause overdose astatine property 36 successful 1962.

“Which is benignant of strange, due to the fact that she’s dead. The movie doesn’t marque immoderate quality successful 1 mode oregon another,” Dominik said. “What they truly mean is that the movie exploited their representation of her, their representation of her, which is just enough. But that’s the full thought of the movie. It’s trying to instrumentality the iconography of her beingness and enactment it into work of thing else, it’s trying to instrumentality things that you’re acquainted with, and turning the meaning wrong out. But that’s what they don’t privation to see.”

Despite the antagonistic feedback, Dominik clarified that helium was really “really pleased” the movie had “outraged truthful galore people,” due to the fact that helium considers it the work of the creator to evoke passionate responses from their work. He chalked that up to coming of property successful the 1980s, erstwhile to “offend your assemblage was a solemn duty, to wrench them retired of a complacency astir things."

Dominik, who claimed “tens of millions of people” watched the movie connected Netflix, concluded by stating that helium believes American movie is getting "more conservative." He compared the existent authorities of cinema to bedtime stories, explaining that radical privation a communicative with a predictable ending.

“I don’t privation to marque bedtime stories,” helium concluded.

Blonde has drummed up important contention implicit its NC-17 standing and its handling of rape, termination and miscarriage. Back successful October, exemplary and writer Emily Ratajkowski called retired the movie successful a TikTok post, saying it was liable for "fetishizing pistillate pain," Yahoo Entertainment antecedently reported.

"So I've been proceeding a batch astir this Marilyn Monroe movie, Blonde, which I haven't seen yet, but I'm not amazed to perceive it's yet different movie fetishizing pistillate pain, adjacent successful death," Ratajkowski explained to the camera. "We emotion to fetishize pistillate pain. Look astatine Amy Winehouse. Look astatine Britney Spears. Look astatine the mode we obsess implicit [Princess] Diana's death. Look astatine the mode we obsess implicit dormant girls and serial killers. Watch immoderate CSI episode, and it's this brainsick fetishization of pistillate symptom and death."