Andrew Dominik addresses U.S. Backlash In opposition to Monroe pic ‘Blonde’ – Deadline

Andrew Dominik shared his ideas on the sudden backlash towards his Marylin Monroe drama Blonde throughout an In-Dialog occasion on the Pink Sea Worldwide Movie Competition on Sunday.

The function, starring Ana de Armas because the tragic, iconic actress, divided critics when it world premiered on the Venice Movie Competition in September after which obtained an avalanche of criticism when it dropped on Netflix on September 28,  

He admitted he had been bowled over by the response at first.

“I used to be anticipating important success, after which that nobody would see the movie. That’s what I’m type of used to, movies which have a constructive important response, after which folks don’t see it.  Blonde was type of the alternative, not less than in America,” stated Dominik. 

“America was the place it was worse. They hated the film. They had been offended concerning the movie. They had been outraged by the movie, however lots of people noticed it, so, I used to be type of stunned by it.”

Dominik stated he had not let the criticism get to him.

“Criticism solely hurts in case you agree with it. And I didn’t actually agree with any of it I believe the movie is nice,” he stated.

“You possibly can’t actually do different folks’s considering for them however I believe in the case of an iconic American, what they need is hagiographies, they need the celebration of that particular person, and a celebration of that particular person in keeping with the mores of the time,” he stated. 

He urged his portrait of Monroe had not chimed with themes of feminine empowerment which can be common proper now.

“We’re residing at a time the place it’s crucial to current ladies as empowered, and so they need to reinvent Marilyn Monroe, as an empowered lady, you already know, that’s what they need to see,” he continued.

“And in case you’re not displaying them that then it upsets them,” he added.  “People don’t actually such as you to monkey with their myths an excessive amount of. They fairly often need to bounce to the answer with out really any of the trauma.”

Dominik batted again solutions by critics of the movie that he had exploited Monroe. 

“That is type of unusual as a result of she is lifeless. The film doesn’t make any distinction to her in a method or one other,” he stated.

“What they actually imply is that the movie exploited their reminiscence of her or the picture of her, which is honest sufficient with us. That’s the entire thought of the film, it’s attempting to take the iconography of her life and put it into service of one thing else. It’s attempting to take issues that you just’re conversant in and switch the that means of them inside out.