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Sexy simbl2/25/2023 ![]() ![]() She set up Marilyn Monroe Productions in 1955, becoming the second woman in the US, after Mary Pickford, to start her own production company. Signed to Twentieth Century Fox, she had grown weary of "dumb blonde" roles and wanted more say in the scripts and roles she took on. Way before Facebook boss Sheryl Sandberg rallied women to "lean in" and claim their rightful place at the executive table, Monroe had already warmed the seat. Originally held up as an example of why feminism was necessary to counter the sexual exploitation and objectification of women, she has since been recognized for her own demands for self-determination. In the decades since Monroe's death, she has been embraced as a feminist icon. I wasn’t the only one." An unlikely feminist icon Everyone knew we had to go to uncomfortable places. “I can tell you a number of shows or movies that are way more explicit with a lot more sexual content than 'Blonde'," she said. "But to tell this story it is important to show all these moments in Marilyn’s life that made her end up the way that she did. Such scenes are likely what led to the NC-17 rating, something actress de Armas told French fashion magazine L’Officiel, she disagreed with. US news site The Daily Beast called the sequence "the most horrifying scene of the film," having dubbed the biopic "a horror show filled with disturbing imagery." The film depicts the actress's fraught relationships with the men in her life Image: Netflix/Picturelux/IMAGO While there is no official record of this abuse, the scene works to highlight Monroe's victimization and debasement as a sex object. Kennedy, with whom she was said to have been having a consensual affair. One of the film's most shocking scenes implies that Monroe was raped by John F. Professionally, her come-hither looks, breathy voice - a strategy suggested by a speech therapist to overcome a stutter - and the sexuality-driven roles she landed, reduced her to a two dimensional character that pandered primarily to male fantasies. Monroe's troubled private life has been thoroughly dissected over the decades: Failed marriages, miscarriages and abortions, drug abuse, rumored liaisons with film studio bigwigs, as well as the Kennedy brothers. With her mother struggling with mental health issues and her father's identity unknown, Norma Jeane Mortenson grew up in foster homes where she was sexually abused. Writer and director Andrew Dominik ("Killing Them Softly") has said that he wanted "Blonde" to play out the tension between Monroe's interior life and the "collective memory" of her. The star's wardrobe was also faithfully recreated for the film.īut the film is mostly fictional, borrowing its title - and inspired by - the 2000 novel by US author Joyce Carol Oates. This Monroe story is an attempt to delve into the gap between the private Norma Jeane Mortenson (Monroe's birth name), and the Marilyn figure she created. "Blonde" recreated iconic Marilyn Monroe movie scenes - including the moment when the star stood over a subway ventilation shaft that whipped up her white dress. Actress Ana de Armas was lauded for her portrayal of Monroe Image: Netflix/Picturelux/IMAGO Fiction, not a biopic She becomes Marilyn Monroe." Meanwhile, the Guardian newspaper called the Cuban actress "simply extraordinary" in the role. US entertainment news outlet Variety wrote that she "gives us nothing less than what we came for. Other reviewers, including the Chicago Sun-Times, called it "overlong" and "overwrought" and lamented that the film "depicts Marilyn Monroe’s life as a joyless nightmare."īut Ana de Armas, the latest actor to embody the troubled Hollywood icon, was roundly lauded. Having premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival and been released in cinemas in the US on September 16 and in the UK on September 23, many critics have already celebrated the film, and especially the performance of the lead, Cuban-born Ana de Armas. On September 28, "Blonde," Netflix's Monroe biopic, is released on the streaming platform in Europe, Australia and beyond. ![]() More often labeled " blonde bombshell" or "sex symbol," she actually bucked some of the social trends of the mid-20th century that still strike a chord today - and that is 60 years after she succumbed to a barbiturate overdose on August 5, 1962. ![]() These adjectives weren't common in 1950s Hollywood during the peak of actor Marilyn Monroe's career. ![]()
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