‘Gentleman Prefer Blondes’ is about ‘well-dressed wh – – es’: ‘Blonde’ director
nypost.com“Blonde” director Andrew Dominik has strong opinions about cultural icon Marilyn Monroe as his NC-17-rated Netflix film starring Ana de Armas as the golden-haired bombshell dropped on Wednesday.Although Dominik.
54, created the movie inspired by Joyce Carol Oates’ fictional book, he’s not a big fan of the late actress’ film career.Dominik spoke to Sight and Sound magazine’s film critic Christina Newland, who shared a portion of her interview that didn’t make the official profile on Twitter Tuesday.“She’s somebody who’s become this huge cultural thing in a whole load of movies that nobody really watches, right?” the New Zealand filmmaker said. “Does anyone watch Marilyn Monroe movies?”In the interview, he also discussed Monroe’s famous 1953 film “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” noting how the characters Lorelei Lee (Monroe) and Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) are “well-dressed wh – – es.”As for Monroe’s famous song “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” from the film, he wondered: “It’s like, is that sisterly advice, ‘If you’re gonna f—, make sure you get paid’?
Or is it just romanticized wh – – edom?”The journalist also pointed out how Dominick seemed “genuinely gobsmacked” when she stated how her friends adored the musical comedy — which he believed, among Monroe’s other movies, are “cultural [artifacts].”“He did talk about & reference many of her films,” Newland wrote in a reply tweet. “He clearly had studied and watched everything: whether he liked it (bar ‘Some Like it Hot,’ which he loves) another story, evidently.”While “Blonde” uses Oates’ 2000 book as source material, the director said he wasn’t interested in the novel itself, but want to show a story about “how childhood drama shapes an adult’s perception of the.
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