Top 10 Things Blonde Got Factually Right & Wrong
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- Being biographical fiction, "Blonde" got somethings factually right and wrong. For this list, we’ll be looking at what’s fact and what’s fantasy in this adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ biographical fiction novel about Marilyn Monroe, aka Norma Jeane Mortenson. Our countdown includes Joe DiMaggio was controlling, THAT scene with Monroe & JFK, Monroe’s father contacted her, and more! What did YOU think of "Blonde?" Let us know in the comments!
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What did YOU think of "Blonde?" Let us know below, and be sure to also check out our video of How Marilyn Monroe Has Been Portrayed Throughout the Years: czcams.com/video/tymNGV8d8N8/video.html
Girl like I said, it hasn’t even come out yet at the time of this video being posted 😭
It’s dope let the haters hate
Awful
Actors were amazing and I like that they dared to demonstrate mental illness and traumas through the movie.
Unfortunatly, how the movie was done, I am not able to like it.
First, the fact the movie was mostly black/white.
Secondly, it was so much concentrated on Norma's illness and struggles, that it feels there was not enough concret context, It left impression that it was chronogically off.
Lastly, it's based on a fictional novel and left impressions they did her only dirty, but hey, people who know a minimum psychology will understand a bit around all that.
Sorry for my english, french speaker here :)
Update, it was dog shit lmao
It was pretty irresponsible of the film makers NOT to start the film with a disclaimer about this basically being a fan fiction about her life.
The movie clearly states that it was based on a work of fiction by Joyce Carol Oates.
@@shellymars9961 but how many people know that the book Blonde was a biographical fiction?
It's based on a novel, I think that screams disclaimer
Lots of truth in BLONDE
Its a journey of how it feels to be like her .. its about the feels
A 3-hour film of rape, torture, abuse, drugs, abortion & fiction! Thank you Netflix for respecting Marilyn's Legacy!
The movie is based off a fictional book called "Blonde"
Exactly. It was trash 🗑
Which is disappointing because the book was written by a woman. You'd think she'd know better than to rinse and repeat the same old rape trope🙄
it was true.
Marilyn suffered abuse of all kinds since she was a child until she died, she was used by many men, she had mental problems until she decided to leave, she simply could not resist that double life of wonderful pose that she must have had when her life was not wonderful. So... She was Mother Theresa? Not She was abused and she was sick and she dead cause it. So we need the truth, not a false image of her and all that involved he. Stop double morality!
I was SHOCKED to hear that the movie label was only paying Marilyn a salary of $500 a week vs Jane's $100k per movie. So messed up!
500 is like 6,000 dollars today so technically speaking Marilyn would have been making around the same if not more, she was getting 6,000 a WEEK Jane was getting 100k per MOVIE meaning the sun total for her per MOVIE in total was 100k Marilyn was getting a weekly cut meaning if the movie took about 5-6 months to make at the minimum she would have been making 120,000-144000 per movie, and that’s IF the movie could be shot that quickly which is highly unlikely
@@user-se9qv9ze5s but you forgot to inflate Janes 100k which still is still wayyy more than Marilyn. 100k in 1953 would be about 1.1 million today. Which means Jane made 8x the amount of Marilyn.
Monroe worked for 10 percent of the gross in excess of $4 million, Curtis for 5 percent of the gross over $2 million, and Wilder for 17.5 percent of the first million after break-even and 20 percent thereafter. Filming took 3.5 months.
@@KateKosmo you're getting inflation backwards.
@@KateKosmo Jane was a well established movie star and Marilyn was a newbie. Idk why people expect her to be paid the same as Jane for GPB. Once Marilyn became a star her salary was upped. she got 300,000 plus 10% of profit for supporting role in some like it hot, while tony Curtis and John Lemmon got 100,000.
The actress was amazing...the way Marilyn was portrayed..not so much. I was intrigued the first 20-30 minutes and after that I was like "what is this?" This is proof no more Marilyn movies need to be made. To add; they made her look dumb, easy and extremely damaged, like she was insane. Seemed like an movie just to exploit rumors of who she was when she's was alive more than an actual movie about her and her life..just a mess. Unnecessarily Vulgar. just disrespectful.
Exactly 💯 I don't like the movie at all.
Couldn’t agree more … the part with the male twins took me I couldn’t finish it…
@@Titimuhammad yeah that was the part I officially decided the movie was disrespectful and off. I have yet to see a good portrayal of Marilyn that isn't she's this dramatic, too depressed to function, dumb or slow person
Totally agree
No they do this to every single 'based on a true story' movie they make. Look up the interview with Richie Valenz mother, they asked how much of the movie was reality and she said basically nothing was accurate other than the songs, locations, names and 'live' performances.
Same thing with Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas.
I think this movie was wrongly classified as a drama. It's a fantastic arthouse psychological horror.
I can agree. It wasn't just a drama
American media seriously needs to let this woman go. She is the biggest legend of cinema for sure, she's one of a kind, she's an icon, she is arguably the most well known person ever. But she's long gone now. Everything that can be told about her is told. The world needs to stop using her tragic life to make money. She is also definetely the most profitted person ever people used her when she was alive people keep using her to this day decades after. Idk if it's her out of the world beauty that makes ppl forget the fact that she's just another human being.
“Everything that can be told about her is told”
Is this a joke???? Please tell me this is a joke. Bc literally nothing about Marilyn has ever been “told” in any movie except her abandonment addiction and death. How can people watch a movie that repeats the same boring story over and over and think that is everything that was Monroe.
Oy…. Dios mio. Im so sorry Marilyn these male directors have reduced your life to this.
@@CharlizeQuin where exactly did i say everything can be told about her is told IN MOVIES??? Oh, you are the type of person they always wanted Marilyn to play in movies, aren't you? What i meant is every little detail about her life is told somewhere somehow. That's not fair, she's just another human being, not a mythological creature. Did it ever occur to you that maybe she wouldn't want her life to be known by the whole world generations after generations? People pity her "oh poor marilyn she lost her child she didn't know her father she wasn't respected by movie producers 🥺" As if their own life is perfect and they never experience tragic things in life. Everybody does. Marilyn is one of them. Why she just can't have privacy and respect, even if she's gone. She didn't get it when she was here so at least give it to her now. But you just fukin can't....Do you realize that people like you are the reason why celebrities lose their mental health. You are like "You a celeb? Then we shall take all your privacy away. You're not a human being anymore, you are people's property. And we shall know everything about you, even if you don't want us to" smh
Shes an important story to tell because hollywood is still very much like this, and we need to expose what that damage looks like
@@xasia_ why her tho, why? is there no one in hollywood industries who's went through similar stuff? Marilyn's story is already out there. If you want to expose something there are milions of untold stories of ppl in this biz
@@channe4558 um.. there are plenty of people who are legends and "American cinema" tells their stories constantly.. Different directors and writers tell her story in different ways and I love watching all of them BECAUSE Of how much I love her. I think people like her should be celebrated forever. She desrved that. I think it's silly to say that basically everything we need to know about her has already been said/done. There are so many different ways to create movies about famous people and tell their stories. It's a silly thing to complain about. 🤷🏻♀️😅
What Blonde showed me is how rare and hard to capture Marilyn's persona is. Ana de Armas is clearly a beautiful woman and a good actress. But she didn't quite capture Marilyn's essence. Marilyn was able to command the attention of a room while being soft spoken and very sweet. She was positive and calming while having a sadness to her. She was engaging and aloof, unconventional and conservative all at the same time. It is hard to recreate but Marilyn herself made it seem effortless.
The only person I've seen be able to capture Marilyn well is Lana Del Rey in my opinion
@@Olivia-bl8ez well alot of gemini women have these traits so probably why you think so
i think ana did a great job.
This is part fiction….you’ve made a mute point.
I think you are totally wrong. This is the first time Marylin's essence was truly captured.
I could not sit through blonde without stopping the film many times, it was incredibly tough watching it
Yeah I had to stop watching because it was too triggering for me
So true especially when you know so much about her and know what was shown was false and a poor attempt at portraying her life. Blonde honestly just exploited her legacy for some cheap cash!
I agree, I was in tears many times & actually fast forwarded through the last abortion scene - heartbreaking
Yes, I stopped a few times to.
It was incredibly depressing.
Marilyn was pregnant during Some Like it Hot and was trying to drink less and take less pills. That no doubt contributed to how difficult she was.
@@lewienew Naturally when a person is pregnant, their body rejects alcohol. Most women vomit, are digusted by alcohol and it smells horrible for them during pregnancy. Its a brains response inorder to protect the baby.
She had endometriosis
It was an ectopic pregnancy, not her fault…
@@Stella-xl3cs The ectopic pregnancy was the previous year in July 1957, prior she'd had a miscarriage in autumn 1956. Her 1958 pregnancy during Some Like it Hot lasted about 10-12 weeks before she miscarried again. It'd be her last pregnancy that's known of.
I'm still really annoyed about the fact they portrayed Charlie Chaplin Jr as dying just before she did. When in fact he died SIX YEARS after she did! How did they get away with that?!
right fr thats when i started to burst out laughing cuz wtf lmfao
@@helmutrosendal Did they really think we wouldn't figure it out?! Lol x
The movie was based of a book called blonde which was LOSELY based on marilyns story. The book was never supposed to be an accurate telling of her story
But the movie made a mistake by marketing it as an accurate Marilyn story
@@dione__fernnn I know! It should not have been made in the first place
I dont think Marilyn was anymore difficult than a man would have been when questioning on how to do a scene or if they have a different version of doing it. It's just when a woman, especially in that era, questions it, shes difficult.
I mean, showing up late and with alcohol on your breath is pretty unprofessional.
@@lex_rodriguez countless males in the industry do it and are still deemed professional.
This reminds me of Taylor's Swift song "The man"....double standards for decades
She would stop mid sentence to look at her acting coach. Ignore the Director. Take 20-30 takes for one line. Not care that everyone was waiting on her etc. According to Tony Curtis. I don’t think it matters if she was a man or woman, that was not normal.
@@AllenFreemanMediaGuru I do not recognise Tony Curtis as any kind of authority.
The guy was pretty weird!
It was her calling her husbands ‘daddy’ for me
Right?!?
The film missed so much of her sparkle and great comic wit . It made her out to be a total victim. There is no one that will ever replace Monroe. Her particular background, looks and the time she was a star, can never be duplicated. The film left her with no dignity. She was a troubled soul but she left us with such amazing films. Her work lives on and sparkles still, after many years.
I wouldn't be surprised if they got all wrong bc this isn't a biopic it's a fantasy
It traumatised me
@@Tshiamomosime bruh that shit was scary right ?
@@Tshiamomosime same I was watching with my mom thinking it was good. End up traumatized us both lol. This movie didn't do any justice to Marilyn tho
@@bearbears3047 Cmon people don’t be so sensitive. They literally warned all of you. 😅These things happen to women still to this day. If you think abortions becoming illegal would ever ever ever stop forced abortions, you are living in the true fantasy world. This film needed to be made. It even gave multiple perspectives on the dealings with termination. People are just as shallow as you think huh. The movie is much deeper than any of you can comprehend, obviously.
@@AS-rr9km lol did you watch the movie that shit was built to scare you that last Scene I mean wtf lol fuck the last 30 minutes went why the fuck of the rails lol
As traumatic as this film was, and whether or not these specific things are accurate, I’m pretty certain she dealt w/ this kind of abuse of men all the time + disrespect & jealousy from women - im sure we didn’t see even 1/2 of the abuse she endured because she thought she had to.
Like many women my age (50’s) we grew up being constantly treated this way - you didn’t need to be a movie star! But since she was I’m sure this movie doesn’t even come close to showing the amount of trauma this poor woman endured
This is the first time for me hearing who her father was, that’s a lot 😢 now her niece proudly proclaims it as though her grandfather wasn’t awful
So? Her niece didn’t have anything to do with that. Who wouldn’t proclaim it? It’s Marylin Monroe. To find that out is news
Tony Curtis’s Autobiography states that Marilyn would need many takes for one line of dialogue but if it was a page of dialogue, she could get it in one take, to his amazement.
Blonde is based on a fictional novel so its bound to get things wrong, thank god this is making clarifications and pointing out that its not all true.
Yes they are both based on interpretations of how she actually felt during events she had *recorded in her own journal* people. Both stories stemmed from Marilyn’s own words. People also tend to forget that. Artistic interpretation, exploiting, all these claims man….it’s just a movie about an icon. She would probably have loved it.
@@AS-rr9km I’m not so sure she would have as it tends to lean too heavily into the tragedy and she didn’t want to be defined by her tragedy and sad moments
Have you seen the comments here? Those without a thought are calling this fiction 'facts' as if it's a documentary. You are expecting angry feminists to be logical.
@@AS-rr9km mmmmm her own words and then a ton of speculation. Also I consider myself an “angry feminist” because this film claims to be feminist, but is not in the slightest. Marilyn was offered the role of Jean Harlow in a biopic at the time and turned it down saying “I hope they never do something like that to me” … sadly they have several times over.
please sign the petition to get this removed from Netflix! I'm horrified what they attached her name too. I was in tears. I couldn't finish this movie after the abortion part. and ppl are really walking away thinking this was factually her life.
I feel like if Hollywood treated her right like they did to the girls like Bette Davis , Katherine Hepburn Audrey Hepburn , and others she could of truly shined
i disagree, it was proved she had some kind of psychosis. Fame was bad for her, and with fame comes addiction to fill the void that only her gone father could fill, I don’t think that she could of truly succeeded.
She could have*
She'll be talked about for the next decades even after the 100th year of her death. Idk about Bette and Katherine coz I bet youngsters now don't even know them, but Marilyn for sure will be infamous in the years to come
@@mymidgetbae184 idk who those ladies are im 21 and I just know Marilyn
@@slenderman-tz6tm exactly my point. I'm sure those ladies are lovely but those who say that Marilyn could've shone brighter underestimate the fame she has. Marilyn didn't live very long but her impact is still here. To think she's been dead for mfin 60 years
Why they make a fictional story?
I would love to know the real Marilyn Monroe life story.
cause the director/writer is a pompous no talent. bore.
cause the director/writer is a pompous no talent. bore.
i don´t think we will ever really know the real story since she never wrote an autobiography , we will always get someone´s interpretation of what people think her life was like
edit: she did write an autobiography called "my story" it´s great i recommend anyone who wants to get to know her to give it a read
if people would know her actual life less would care about her, her whole image is still controlled by Hollywood, and Hollywood doesn’t want their piggy bank to break.
She did write a book with the help of an author but it wasn’t fully finished.. it’s called Marilyn Monroe My Story… also watch the unheard tapes that gives a lot of info
Ana de Armas wouldn't have been my first casting choice for Marilyn, but if the trailers are any indication, then she's pulled the role off exquisitely!
She did, just a sliiiiight accent but she really did. It's the only thing that saves this film honestly.
@@ISEEKSPACE true....watched the movie till the end only for Ana's brilliant performance...
@@ISEEKSPACE That was just lazy, in the best scenes it's barely their, throughout most of it's way too present, she's could have done a much better job, she did in some scenes. I don't put that on her, the director made the call.
She was 3rd choice after Naomi Watts and Jessica Chastain
She didn't do amazing imo. Also her accent was so strong
The movie was weird and bad but the actress was amazing image if she had a good Script she could have won big.
The weirdest part was the fetuses talking to her in the womb… and JFK getting head while he’s on the phone.
So wack.
Yup
Despite whatever her story truly was poor Norma Jean was never given the life she deserved it’s so sad she died so young and was so lonely 😢
i got a sick feeling in my stomach with all the nudity and all the assaults and violence they decided to focus on in this movie. does doing so make it a good movie? does it pay respect to Marilyn ? not if you ask me.
yes~
I second you on everything you said.
i was thinking the same, n how the whole movie was sad and based on her traumas or penitential trauma. i love her and the idea of her as a person id like to see at least some moments of where she was truly happy and in good care/company if it existed
She was topless for most of the movie
@@hollyobrien6907 the scene depicting the start of her marriage with Arthur Miller showed her being truly happy
I did not like the book very much. I felt the author exaggerated a lot of things and focused to much on Marilyn's mental health issues. Surely there were times when she was both smart, happy and not feeling miserable. She was intelligent in her own way I think and had depth to her personality but the author seemed jealous of Monroes beauty and success and wanted to paint her out as only a tragic and stupid figure because of that. I dont think she was though, not only. She was mysterious and had a vulnerable air to her that made people mezmerised, still are.
Exactly that would explain A LOT…. Jealousy
The book is fiction. A fictional account of the life of a real person. I think stuff like that shouldn't be allowed
@@jayerm It shouldn't at all unless if it was an alternative history then ok but not in this case of Ms. Marilyn Monroe
Он же признался, что это был заказ. Значит кто-то заказал такую историю, чтобы опорочить Мэрилин
Ana De Armas did an amazing job on this and I'd say she deserves an award or two.
The movie itself however isn't as good as The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes.
Adapting a novel that takes some drastic liberties probably wasn't the best choice. They would have been much better off doing something original and far more factual.
Then be criticized for that as well? You cannot win with the public. The director had control, he made his movie and made his point. Sooooo many people are going to “hate watch” this film. I enjoyed most of it really.
@@AS-rr9km Hate Watch? I was really excited to watch this movie?
Whenever you do a story about a real person there will always be criticisms, that's just a fact.
With the drastic departures and portrayals is where this movie just isn't good. Why the need for the focus on her father and unborn child? Then the other things that were only punched up for shock value.
Literally this movie's only saving grace is Ana, she was phenomenal but just happens to be in a bad movie. If they wanted to take that many artistic liberties, they would have been much better off just making a movie without the character names.
She nailed it yes ! She deserve it
This movie sucked and she couldn’t cover her accent worth a damn.
@Mazy Lee It's not original because it's based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates.
Another fantastic review!!! TY for your attention to details especially with historical documentation and backed up facts, w/ accounts. Keep up the important work!
Although the movie is mainly based on fiction - it comes down to the fact that Marilyn was broken from a young age and I think her career forced her to become a person she didn’t want to be and I can only imagine how misunderstood she felt her whole life and that’s why it tragically ended the way it did. Sad movie but I think the movie does show the ‘reality’ of what went on inside her head and Ana did an amazing job.
Exactly 💯💯💯
Marilyn went after her career with ambitious gusto. She was business savvy and even created her own production company. She wanted to be an actress but her untreated mental health and addiction issues ruined her life. She had a lot of trauma but she wasn't a perpetual victim.
@@AC-ze1nh She is a perpetual victim the fact is that she dead by suicide.
@@mls6734 not enough proof to state that she committed suicide.
YES. It was all from her perspective.
The consistency is everything keep it up Mojo
Thanks for the support Rosina!
If you've seen Andrew Dominik's other work you'll know "Blonde" isnt so much a biopic as it is a horror film about fame. (Love the channel, just making an observation 👍)
I felt like I watch a horror movie too the thought I was tripping lol
@@Jontheopp Lol you may enjoy more film noir movies then. The style is very picturesque of films between 1945-1961 called “Film noir” or “black films”. A good one to watch is “the woman in the window”. It’s on Amazon prime, and it’s a great classic. Thinking of watching it again too haha. This movie was well done, in that perspective. I enjoyed the watch. Ana did amazing
well, it's based on the novel, so it couldn't be a biopic.
True, but at a real person's expense. A person who was alive not THAT long ago.
Honestly he made a stupid movie. This was an absolute fail. He messed up. Idc what his style is or whatever it was tacky.
The performance by Ana de Armas, phew outstanding, she has to win an Oscar here. But this biopick is just a grab bag of what others say about Monroe weaved into well established facts. If only a fraction of the nasty stuff is true it highlights how ugly Hollywood is and the casting couch was just the norm to becoming a star.
I agree. Best actor of the decade with a complete and utter bs story. To suggest that two different conceptions contain tne same soul is an insult to intelligence and to, anybody who has ever suffered a lost pregnancy. I would have liked to get to the kennedy stuff but when my intelligence is assaulted with utter bullshit :- im out . What a waste pf acting talent and truthful document. Millions wasted!!!
@@Mike-tv9rk Calm down. It's based on a book that is a fictionalized version of her. It's not 100% accurate and a lot of things are meant as metaphors to convey things about her and her life. I'm sure your intelligence will get over the trauma. Perhaps you should watch it, like most people do with movies, with a suspension of disbelief. Good luck.
That ending actually made me cry with that sad revelation it was cruel. Hopefully the real Marilyn didn’t go through that. 😢
Yeah because blonde confuse the hell out of me. They didn't explain why or how she got into acting?
Half and half of it’s real
The real Cass died 6 years after Marilyn.
@@kenzieferg7884 I know it’s mostly fantasy but the story itself is still is sad and brings out that emotion.
Because it's based on a basically fictional book , not biopic. That's why it was dramatic and ridiculous like that
Wtf did I just watch ?this movie is the weirdest so called biography I’ve ever see. Why do I feel like I just watched a horror movie? let that woman rest why put more of this on her name.
Same I jus watched it now and it was like a weird porno. I don't get the direction at all.
@@lisa2cooltodance Same here. I think they wanted to denounce how sexualized Marylin had been but at the end that's all what they reduced her too.
I'm glad u post this video and shows what the real Marilyn Monroe was really like in real life.
Thank you ms mojo for another great video!!!!!
i like the actress and she really sold it as marilyn but the writing was so bad and made me uncomfortable. there were so many things they could have done and they did this and i didn't like it
Total agreement! The actress did a great job but the movie was poorly edited, tawdry, dark, melodramatic, upsetting. Maybe they need to stop it with the Marilyn movies already
The actress was disturbed with the movie outcome and aftermath after filming just to point that out and she hates how sexualized the film became when promoting
Aja, aja
thats really messed up poor ana
I doubt it-she goes out of her way to film porn in all her movies.
Well done liked it, it made you think and most likely was the way she thought of her own life even with the discrepancies.
3:14 I looked it up another one of Zanuck's possible victims was Jayne Mansfield, Mariska Hargitay's (Olivia Benson) mother.
Zanuck wasn’t working at Fox when Jayne was signed.
Well her name was listed when I looked him up
@@jerricablackcat4303 Well yeah, the internet also has sections that say the Beatles were all clones. Assuming it came up on Wikipedia, that’s traced to one blog that’s for some reason gaining traction atm.
Ana did an excellent job in acting
People completely forget how difficult Marilyn’s life was just cause she is seen as a glamorous icon . The movie is dark because her life was so incredibly dark . She was used and abused by men then killed by men . This movie shows how badly she actually was treated beneath all the glamour. I think it’s important story to be told . She was so brave and deserved so much better
Lets not forget that the movie is based on a fictional novel. Yes, her life was hard & she was abused, but people shouldn't believe everything that's been shown in the movie. Many of those things are just made up.
This is so…
Every one knows how hard life was for Marilyn. For every starlet of that era. I would like a film that explores every facet of this amazing lady, not a fictionalized crap that turns her into a moronic ditzy lunatic.
The movie was a sad bore! Boooo
Would not be surprised if she wasn't raped by that big wig man. Thing's like that certainly happened to allot of women, its most likely still going on.
@@SyntheticHalo a lot of it is metaphorical. And just because there is no evidence doesn't mean it didn't happen. This was the 50s. When men thought women were "hysterical" for having feelings
That was the golden years,
the men had the power and the women suffered all kinds of abuse. Marilyn was abused as a child leading to a dark karma that followed her. RIP Marilyn 🙏
❤️
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
- Marilyn Monroe
She was misquoted a lot. No evidence she said that.
I cringe so hard when people use these quotes that she never said.
@@shonaharris9328 Tell us then who said it ?
@@padraigmchugh1851 prove you ain't just another cringe Marilyn hater and enlighten us whos quote is it then... You can't cuz its her
@@FemaleCelebrityQuotes No. Twas not herself. Rather. And Marilyn Monroe Ji didst rather not enjoy being misquoted.
got this on my playlist. will watch this tomorrow. looks pretty good
A man should’ve never been able to make a movie about Marilyn. She’s been exploited by men enough.
A women could have just as easily exploited her and screw it up. lol
Well the movie was based on a book written by a woman.
Joyce Carol Oates is a woman.
Especially the man that did, in interviews and stuff it’s obvious he has no respect for Marilyn.
Agreed.
I cried for Norma jean
The first “fact” is wrong because in the movie, it ends up with her finding out it wasn’t her dad sending the letters. It was “Cass”
Thank you! I thought it was just me that noticed this glaring mistake in the video. I’m guessing because they padded out the video with references to other similar films, they got mixed up.
right! i dont know if can take anything from this video for fact now
I was looking for this comment! Apparently, they were not watching carefully.
I have just watched and really enjoyed the movie mixing fact and fiction,
She was the most famous actress and still the only one from her era who is still popular now ,not for the movies she made. A large portion of who know of marilyn have never watched any of her movies.
But nobody really knows or knew her private life what was true or conspiracy and I like that mystery about her.
I want more facts from her life, please
Horror Movie! Extremely humiliating! No one mentions how smart she was.
You can understand that she was smart when she talks about books/plays she had red and talked analytically about characters, but at the same time movie shows very well how men were very surprised that she is "smart" and can talk at such a deep level. They did not expect her to be smart. I think it is shown very well.
The events might not be completely accurate but it captured the essence of Norma tragic life; she was used, abused and in the end, "suicided".
It also shows the truth about Marilyn basically being a split personality of Norma ie. Stemming from MK Ultra.
The married president who was having sordid affairs with countless women including Marilyn, to the point of philandering while his wife gave birth to a stillborn daughter was far from a saint....yet people are pedestalizing him.
She didn't have an affair with Kennedy she met him 4 times do some real research
A good film, but needed background narrating in some sections as it felt like some of the characters were showing up or disappearing out of nowhere 😅
This is an obvious art film and I feel it had the intention of showing how Norma Jean was manufactured by the male gaze and abused by it, but in doing so I feel they abused and exploited the memory of the real person even more. It ultimately felt indulgent self-serving and disrespectful to her. Can we finally let this woman rest in peace? I don’t know why this movie was made but I wanted to watch it before I judged it. I don’t think it’s worth a watch.
Art, my ass.. it's a pretentious bore.
I just watched it and I agree with you
The irony being Ana de Armis was also exploited during this film. There’s really no reason to have her topless in as many scenes as there are. Some of it was very gratuitous, and I’m not sure it would have been so graphic under a female director.
Actually if you watch the whole movie, you would see that her father never contacted her & it was just Cas writing the letters the whole time.
She had terrible taste in husbands that's true. So that's all we see along with ignoring the Kennedy situation. The movie was a let down.
She didn't commit suicide!
I'm sure looking forward to this movie! Hopefully it's gonna come soon in Italy💛
Me too
This was the WORST!!! movie ever made about this legend, it was stupidly boring and made her out to be really bad.
The anticipation especially on NETFLIX don't bother!!! They hype up the movie and when you finally get to watch, it's S.H I.T.
I'd rather scratch my nails on a blackboard that's how bad it was lol....
Don't bother, there are other Marilyn based movies out there that were more enjoyable and to the T.
This one was created by Andrew Dominik.....he lost the plot with this one.
Degraded her in this movie so badly, it was sickening and Ana should have not bothered to portray her, it disgusted me.
I couldn't even watch it to the end.... complete SHIT!!!! 👎
ngl it's really boring
@@LilliR4116 Lol translation: I couldn’t stand seeing boobs on screen for over 15 minutes and it made me lose my mind. 😅
It was a great movie. People don’t like film noir. Fine. Don’t try to turn people away because of your bitterness at Ana. For who knows what reason, really. She did amazing, so the movie was good.
@@AS-rr9km much of all the acting was fantastic, too. Just…damn.
I liked the movie and how beautifully all the emotional aspects were captured in the movie, although it was uncomfortable and sad to watch but it also reflected brutally what a women can go through in a man's world. Without parental love and care anyone would be lost specially in an industry like this where barely anyone can be trusted. May her soul RIP.
The Netflix documentary the Marilyn tapes shows alot about her death and it appears it was suicide and they tried to revive her. It also seems from many tapes including Monroe herself she was in love with Bobby Kennedy and both Jack and bobby used her. It was rough.
See "The Missing Evidence"- The Death of Marilyn Monroe. She was murdered by RFK& Greenson.
None of those documentaries are true. Just another Kennedy member paying for more cover up coverage.
According to the Netflix Documentary..She kicked both Kennedy Men to the Curb...She was upset and angry...broke things off with both Men before she died...She felt both Men used her..of course they did...she was done with the both of them...One however would not leave her alone.... even came to visit her the day she died..he brought some one with him ..They argued...that someone he brought with him sedated her to calm her down..When the housekeeper was concerned that she left her light on and was unresponsive...She might have been still under the Sedation...They may have thought she was under the influence of whatever..tried to harm herself..so they tried to revive her. She had not taken anything...There was not even a Water glass in her room for her to have used to take such a large quantity of pills..She had no pills or alcohol in her system according to her Autopsy report..So how could she overdose..Whatever they gave her to revive her may have actually killed her..
She was not in love with the Kennedys she only met jack 4 times
The Netflix documentary contains a lot of bullshit infos
It’s funny how the Lifetime movie was centered around her mother and the Netflix movie is centered around her father.
good video
Ana De Armas was visually good but you can still hear her Spanish accent
In movie Blonde ,it shown that it was not the father writing , but chaplin jr.
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I had to fact check this movie because some of it was utterly ridiculous. I hate movies that use peoples real names and then gets the facts completely wrong. Not everyone fact checks and then starts rumors. Norma Jean was abused during her life and is still being abused during her death. There was more to her than the abuse.
That and they made JFK out to look like a sexual offender, when none of that was proven. The director and Netflix crapped all over their legacy’s. ): They made Marilyn a sad bore and a lunatic in the movie, when she was the opposite, She shined like the sun.
Just to put things into perspective, Marilyn would be 96 years old today.
It’s based on a fictional novel
I cried when she cried ,it was too much for me ,i have to take a loads of break inbetween to calm my nerves , to be honest i fast forwarded alot because some scene was extreme but Ana did so well ,i wonder how come she did it ? My stomach was turning with every graphic scene . The abortion scene , the scenes with her mother , the scene were she was abused by her husband , all those drugs scene , she being raped ,abused ,mistreated ,it was too , too much . Good luck to whoever wishing to watch it .
Thank you for the heads up.😢
and it was fake.
This movie was just an interpretation of her life and a book, a combination of both. It didn’t mean to be exactly as her life was, but it still was very good. And I thought that the last 30 minutes were the best. I admit, it could be traumatizing or terrifying for someone who hasn’t been through depression or other mental illness, but I think it was very accurate. Mental illness can take you to places that someone “mentally healthy” wouldn’t understand. It felt so real all her dissociation and how she lost herself in the end. It was an average state of mind of really sick people. In my experience and many others that I heard, been truly suicidal can distort reality, and you can literally go nuts. Nothing makes sense anymore and everything you thought it was you it’s gone and will never come back. These last scenes of her going through madness can rely on many people (although everybody experience it’s different). If you were scared by this movie I understand, but this it’s many peoples reality.
Blonde is the worst trashing of a person’s legacy of any movie I’ve even seen. And all just to make a buck. Researchers have delved into some of the sordid scenes they have Monroe involved in in this film. No historical facts or personal accounts of Norma Jean’s mother ever trying to drown her in a bathtub, no evidence of a three-some with two men and a subsequent abortion, or of the JFK bedroom scene. Everyone involved in making this abomination should be ashamed of themselves.
After how many movies/TV shows, documentaries, and memoirs, what is there to make a spoiler alert about her life for?
I've now seen it. I still think there really can't be much in the way of spoilers outside of the fact that it's all a big, sad mess, IMO. Ana de Armas is extraordinary, tho.
Probably because it isn’t really a biopic and that some things are made up
I thought Blonde was great. It showed how tragic her life was, no one seemed to treat her with love or respect. I do believe she had an affair with JFK and Bobby Kennedy and she was murdered for that. Ana de Armas is brilliant and Oscar worthy as Marilyn
The film is mostly based on nonsense and the director intentionally left out parts of her life where she fought for herself.
From my research Bobby was with her the night she died. There seemed to be a lot of attention paid to getting her diary which was never located after her death.
You got to be joking?! Blonde was horrible 😂 what the hell?!
@@AllenFreemanMediaGuru from what I've read, I think Peter Lawford, who was married to one of the Kennedy sisters at the time, was one of the few people who knew the truth, and he took that knowledge to his grave.
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I really liked it
Unpopular Opinion: As a fan of Marilyn Monroe, I actually enjoyed the movie. She wasn't a dumb blonde. She was beautiful, vibrant and traumatize. It showed another side of her life, no it wasn't the best aspects but it was the truth, no? It showed what she been through and why she was the way she was. It opens the door to give Monroe empathy from the audience that she didn't get when she was alive. The prettiest smile holds the darkest past. It was intriguing to get a sense of Marilyn Monroe's dark side. Even though it was fictional (They said it was fictional in the description )
Exactly my thoughts !! If anything this movie made empathize with Norma more!! It probably made me feel the closest to how she felt ! Probably less because god knows what she truly was going through back in her time .. I enjoyed the movie … even with the disturbing scenes they amplified how everyone wanted her to be and not truly seeing her …
@@ThemedInjection Exactly. Best way for society to become better is to show things like that. It can be uncomfortable to watch but imagine how uncomfortable it is to be the victim.
I watched this movie yesterday and I have watched other Marilyn bios and movies, I feel like this movie is a fifty shades of MARILYN MONROE in a nutshell. Nobody in this lifetime are any other I believe ever thought Marilyn Monroe had a great life but this movie takes it over the edge and beyond. I must say that if there is any amount of truth to Joyce C. OATES Book about Marilyn Monroe and what she endured against her will are so we see in this movie, should strongly be looked into by law enforcement. Titles of very important people of yesteryear that make way to rights of powerful people of today and the titles and riches the hold should be shitting bricks after the nation wide release of this movie. Maybe not enough people read Joyce C. Oates book about the late actress, but this movie is a "GATE OPENING" to a whole new resurgence of # me too. Maybe that's why this movie was made this way in all its extremely bold unfiltered accusations it creates, because I felt like I was watching a movie based on some sort of high profile court case turned into some sort of very extremely twisted Documentary about Marilyn Monroe only without the high profile court case. Maybe I'm missing something, are I just don't get it but I'm pretty sure, "I'm seeing the same movie everyone else is"!
ana is an amazing, beautiful, cute and humble woman. she is what every woman should be like! feminine, elegant and strong. people should leave her alone and stop destroying her! disgusting humanity!!
I saw the movie with a claim that it was the only place in Michigan to see it on the big screen. One part of the movie that is apparently baseless is that her mother tried to drown her in the bathtub when she was a little girl. The movie throughout has a surreal style that blurs the division between fact and fantasy.
Mmmmm it is said that her mother indeed tried to kill her and get rid of Marilyn. It was just “interpreted”, doesn’t mean anything was true or false. It was how someone imagined the words Marilyn said her experience was. That’s all we SHOULD be taking from it anyway.
the movie it's based on a novel that is considered fiction, everything outside the names and the recreation of movies is not to be trusted.
That was her life ..depressed and lonely. Dont know abt her affairs..but it did seem to have a huge effect on her
Anna was the right person..to play..she did sn amazing job
FOR THOSE CRITICIZING: I totally get it and see why many gave it a low score. However going into it I already knew that this was not meant to be a "by-the-numbers" biopic or docudrama. There have been at least a dozen or more of those about Monroe already, in addition to many documentaries. This was an art house character study inside the mind of Norma Jeane. The famous scenes from her films and life were peppered in to preserve a timeline, but it was not meant to be historic or a chronicle per se. As a character study (or actually an inner psychological identity struggle) it succeeded. And although many of the scenes were imagined or not fact (JFK rape, abortions, Chaplin/Robinson threesome, etc.), they are also not proven untrue either (in other words, knowing how her life was going they could have happened, so it wasn't like they were out of sync with the story). Note that they never mention Joe Dimaggio, Arthur Miller or JFK by name. They are simply known as the "the ex-athlete", "the playwright" and "the President" (even in the credits). I was a bit surprised however that there was no glimpse of the Happy Birthday, Mr. President scene & dress, or the issues on set with her final films "The Misfit" (Gable's last) and "Something's Got To Give" (Monroe's last).However the actor portraying "the President" is the same one to portray JFK in the Natalie Portman movie "Jackie".
Yes! It was view through her psyche and not through an objective lens. Actually, as an audience member I've never felt more inside of a characters tumultuous mind than I did here.
@@mrchrisliddell Yes, if you view it that way you won't be disappointed or shocked. We are in her head for almost three hours.
@@SWLinPHX yep and I think it's very well done.
then this movie should have stayed in the art houses!
@@SWLinPHX but it's not her head you enter. it's the minds of the writer and director giving you a fictional account of what was in the real Marilyn's head.
I absolutely love Marilyn Monroe and to be honest I don't mind this movie. I knew for a fact it wasn't a biopic, but rather a fictional movie with some real elements thrown in. Some of the more adult scenes weren't necessary (especially the whole thing with jfk) but I think it captured Monroe and her battle with her personal demons quite well even if some elements weren't entirely authentic
When I saw this film I felt bad for her she’s has suffering so much in her life and her Hollywood career bright on the outside but in the inside was depression
Marilyn was so photogenic. The camera just loved her.
Might be the most depressing movie I’ve ever watched.
Me too that soundtrack made it extra depressing
Oh boy, you should watch Bruce Willis’ “Tears of the sun”. God. I haven’t been able to rewatch it, but it is an amazing movie. Hard. Watch. Also the French movie “Raw”, took me 8 times of pausing it and coming back to it….days later. That took me almost a week to finish. This movie “Blonde”, after the first 20 minutes I paused it to collect myself. It was a harsh intro. After that, it was very good. Well done. Traumatic? Yes. Worth it? Yes. Watched it within 4 hours though, so only took a small pause. It was worth it for the story to come across. The light in which it were shown….eh could have been worked on more. The focus was Ana though, and that was near perfection at least in her efforts.
I had to stop and take a break half way into the movie. The actor did well in playing her. But I had high hopes for more facts, realistic....should of tweeked the ending for remembrance
I loved it I am a huge fan so it was only a what if thing
People don't get the movie. It wasn't based on complete facts, it was taken from the perspective of a person who suffers from BPD and Bipolar Disorder, two conditions she absolutely suffered from. The 3some itself wasn't accurate, but the way SHE perceived it was. She was in love with both men, and slept with them both. In her mind, it was all three of them together, when in reality the two men may have been in competition with each other. You could see a glimpse of jealousy when she tells one of the guys that she loves him right in front of the other guy. Sometimes Borderlines see relationships very differently from reality. As far as the affair with Kennedy, that was the truth. It's very well known. Jackie was aware of that affair and many others he's had. That particular scene may have been debatable, but the affair was accurate. They wanted to highlight the unromanticized truth about the affair.
okay this make sense, cause as i was watching i was like how come im just now knowing marylin had a 3 some? doesn’t even seem like something she’ll do
@@chiefsosaglorygirl they also didn't include her bisexuality. She had relationships with Joan Crawford and Bridgitte Bardot I believe. Crawford was a Narcissistic person she later completely hated.
It’s not that we don’t “get the movie”!!!! It sh*ts on Marilyn’s legacy. And the movie just flat out sucked!!! script was garbage!!
This absolutely what I view the movie as, as a person with BPD and depression, this is exactly how I took it, I had to pause a couple of times because I felt connected to much, the illness was really shown, I also have fantasized about meeting my father and hearing his voice, my mother is actually bi polar too so are my aunts, the abortion scenes 😢😢 the times I had too make decisions I didn't want, I have 4 beautiful children now but my past I still have to answer too. The abuse from men, I definitely went through it, I've never been married, but I was molested young by men, mistreated and not understood, still till this day I have to isolate myself because Im easliy a target, I can't trust no body, I'm super emotional inside and I have manic episodes, just like the movie showed.. I'm happy to say that I'm in therapy 4 years now and things are going good 😊. The movie I believe was supposed to highlight her BPD and bi polar disorder because she definitely suffered with both. I believe the book was also written that way because the author wanted to show the side of Marilyn we don't see, the dark side .
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@@andreasattic1830 Thank you for your comment. To clarify when I made the statement about it being the best book I was referring to feedback I constantly received several years ago when I was still able to do book signings and set up at conventions. The people who purchased the book years before always sought me out to tell me what big fans of Marilyn they were and how happy they were that my book was all Positive reflections of her dedication to being a great star and my book had no negativity. Marilyn would have definitely felt the same. Thanks again.
I know I have your book and it is excellent. And agree she deserves oscar
@@andreasattic1830 Thanks again and I have been trying for years to get Hollywood to finally recognize their greatest stars, these stars we’re Hollywood’s greatest assists. It started with my Errol Flynn book.For 7 straight years he made the most money for Warner Brothers Studio. Then came my book about Marilyn, when I had the privilege to meet Tony Curtis he echoed my sentiments about how great an actress Marilyn truly was. My next book was James Dean: The Quest for an Oscar. Jimmy was so dynamic he should have won an Oscar for all 3 of his only movies. This year my latest book was released Elvis: The Quest for an Oscar was released. Elvis Presley was basically a rock and roll idol who made his mark in motion pictures without any formal acting training. Yes some of his movies are bad, even he knew it but there were some roles that he nailed. His biggest enemies were the critics who never gave him an inch. I really appreciated the fact that you took time to reach out to me. I am serious about getting Hollywood to recognize these four icons as well as many other forgotten Hollywood movie stars.
I liked 'Blonde'. It was a pretty dark movie, horrific even. Sure it was a little too long. I couldn't tell why it switched from black and white to color. I read her father was identified in 2022. Ana De Armas is an excellent actress! I had no idea. I wonder how much truth there is that she was searching for her lost father in the men she saw. it was almost schizoid. The abortion scenes were too much. Blonde seems to criticize exploitation while engaging in it! If you like to think of Marilyn in a romanticized sense, I'd skip Blonde. I wonder if it's true that her mother, after all that time, acted as if she didn't know who her daughter was? The way they depict her relationship with Kennedy was a bad joke.
Agreed. I like the movie, as strange as it is, but I agree. It's an exploitation of an exploitation.
I don't think you have to have a romanticized vision of Marilyn to dislike this movie.
It is exploitive- overdoing the tragic aspects of her life. and looking at this board, it seems many people are taking it seriously enough to think it is an accurate depiction of Marilyn's real life.
I just watched the movie and i am shooked 😳
They should let her Rest In Peace rather than expose her privacy to the whole world.
I just watched it and it was amazing.
she isn't contacted by her father in the movie ! didn't you watch the end?
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Ana de Armas- perfection
Marilyn Monroe’s Male gaze warped presentation- less than perfection
I would describe this movie with two words: Torture Porn.
Let the poor woman rest!
Exactly!!!
I stopped at 19 some on minutes... that didn't need to be on screen... it was another slap in her face. And after Kim earlier this year.?! Leave her alone hollywood.
I really feel like NOBODY, I mean, NOBODY understands the movie correctly.
Good movie!