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Blonde was released on Netflix just , but many film critics have already seemingly : If you have a strong moral compass, you probably won’t like it. The part-fact, part-fiction Marilyn Monroe biopic was written and directed by Andrew Dominik, best known for his work on thrillers like Chopper and Killing Them Softly. stars as Monroe, and her performance has garnered well-deserved awards buzz.

Michael Nordine author “There is no meaning to life apart from the movie story,” writes Joyce Carol Oates in the opening pages of “Blonde,” “and there is no movie story apart from the darkened movie theater.” If it was inevitable that Oates’ novel about Marilyn Monroe would be made into a movie, it’s also a little ironic that that movie was made by Netflix — suffice to say that few who see “Blonde” will do so in a darkened movie theater. How many potential viewers are scared off by its runtime of 167 minutes is impossible to say, but there is a good reason for its protracted length: The book is similarly imposing at 738 pages. A finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, Blonde was released in 2000 and adapted once before — not that the CBS miniseries starring Poppy Montgomery garnered nearly as much attention as this new version has.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor A photo shoot for the stills of Marilyn Monroe that would feature throughout Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde,” coming to Netflix Thursday, was essential to the hair and makeup team in transforming Ana de Armas into the celebrated icon. Jaime Leigh McIntosh, hair department head and makeup department head Tina Roesler Kerwin spent two and a half hours each morning applying hair and makeup to de Armas. “That photo shoot for stills gave us a chance to try out a lot of different colors and figure out what worked. It gave us a chance to figure out what worked better in black and white as opposed to color,” explains Kerwin.

“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.

Blonde‘s explicit scenes, claiming they’re harder for people to watch than they were for her to make.In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actress – who stars in the Netflix film as Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe – discussed some of the movie’s more uncomfortable moments.These range from sexual assault to abortion, as well as a scene in which Monroe performs oral sex on President John F. Kennedy. However, de Armas made it clear that she always felt safe on set with director and writer Andrew Dominik.“It’s harder for people to watch [those scenes] than for me to make them, because I understood what I was doing and I felt very protected and safe,’ she said.“I didn’t feel exploited because I was in control.

Elvis, Elton John and Freddie Mercury, unsuspecting viewers might think Blonde’s exploration of Marilyn Monroe’s life was a similar affair.Brace for impact, because this is a very different movie from a filmmaker who is known for not pulling his punches.Directed by Andrew Dominik, the filmmaker behind The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford and Killing Them Softly, his new film has been met with immediate backlash.Coming from critics and viewers alike, to call the Netflix film divisive would be an understatement,Ana de Armas takes on the larger-than-life role, with the project marketed as a fictionalised chronicle of Marilyn’s inner life.Since debuting at film festivals earlier this year, the hitback has been intense – here’s why.To set the record straight, this isn’t a biopic in the traditional sense, as it is actually based on a book that told a fictionalised take on Marilyn Monroe’s life - the 1999 novel Blonde, by Joyce Carol Oates.Some have argued adapting this to the big screen will create a misconception about the star’s life.On Twitter, one viewer made sure to make this clear to other fans, writing: “Blonde is heavily based on a FICTIONAL book about Marilyn Monroe that will go to feed the public more lies about her.

Ethan Shanfeld “Blonde” director Andrew Dominik has previously said he was unfamiliar with Marilyn Monroe’s filmography before adapting Joyce Carol Oates’ book about the late actor. Now, Dominik says Monroe starred in a “whole lot of movies that nobody really watches,” calling her famous romance film “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” a movie about “well-dressed whores.” Dominik’s comments were part of an outtake from an interview with the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound Magazine. Journalist Christina Newland, who conducted the interview, posted the transcript on Twitter, in which Dominik asked, “Does anyone watch Marilyn Monroe movies?” Newland added in a follow-up tweet: “I do want to make sure I’m doing my due diligence here: [Dominik] did talk about and reference many of her films. He clearly had studied and watched everything: whether he liked it (bar ‘Some Like it Hot,’ which he loves) another story, evidently.”

Netflix’s new Marilyn Monroe movie that hopes to be a major contender during awards season.Running time: 166 minutes. Rated NC-17 (some sexual content). Out Sept.

To say there’s a discourse on social media about Andrew Dominik’s latest film, “Blonde,” is a huge understatement. For years, since the film was announced, especially after the reports of Ana de Armas being cast in the lead, people have been speculating about the Marilyn Monroe biopic, based on the fictionalized history of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel of the same name.

Ana de Armas bares it all in the upcoming movie Blonde and she expects the clips to go viral online, which she says is “upsetting just to think about.”

Ana de Armas has said it is 'disgusting' that the nudity from her highly-anticipated Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde - which is rated NC-17 -  will go viral on the Internet.The  34-year-old Cuban and Spanish actress looked stunning on the cover of the latest edition of Variety magazine where she candidly discussed how she will react when clips of her nude body will circulate around the world.Ana was unprompted as she brought the subject up while stressing that context was important as she said: 'I know what's going to go viral. Wow factor: Ana de Armas looked stunning on the cover of the latest edition of Variety magazine where she candidly said it is 'disgusting' that the nudity from her highly-anticipated Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde - which is rated NC-17 - will go viral on the Internet'And it’s disgusting.

Blonde star Ana de Armas says she went to Marilyn Monroe’s grave to ask permission to play her.The actor plays the Hollywood icon in new Netflix biopic Blonde directed by Andrew Dominik, released in cinemas today (September 23) and streaming next week.In an interview with AnOther, Ana de Armas revealed that she and the Blonde crew visited Monroe’s grave in Los Angeles, at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery to ask permission to tell her story on film.“We got this big card and everyone in the crew wrote a message to her,” de Armas said. Then we went to the cemetery and put it on her grave.

Andrew Dominik‘s “Blonde” is one of the Fall’s biggest movies for several reasons. For one, it’s Dominik’s first feature film since 2012’s “Killing Them Softly.” “Blonde” is also a project long in the making, taking fourteen years of development to reach audiences finally.

Few movie dramas in recent years have generated as much fevered online speculation as Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde.

Ana de Armas has said it is 'disgusting' that the nudity from her highly-anticipated Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde - which is rated NC-17 -  will go viral on the Internet.The  34-year-old Cuban and Spanish actress looked stunning on the cover of the latest edition of Variety magazine where she candidly discussed how she will react when clips of her nude body will circulate around the world.Ana was unprompted as she brought the subject up while stressing that context was important as she said: 'I know what's going to go viral. Wow factor: Ana de Armas looked stunning on the cover of the latest edition of Variety magazine where she candidly said it is 'disgusting' that the nudity from her highly-anticipated Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde - which is rated NC-17 - will go viral on the Internet'And it’s disgusting.

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The world premiere of “Blonde” at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month confirmed that Andrew Dominik‘s film is everything critics expected it to be, and maybe more. After all, the film did receive a 14-minute standing ovation, the longest at the festival.

Ana de Armas finds it "disgusting" that her nude scenes from the highly anticipated Netflix film "Blonde" will most likely go viral on the internet. "Blonde," which is based on a fictional take the life of Marilyn Monroe, debuts on the streaming service Sept. 28.  Speaking to Variety, de Armas discussed candidly what her reaction will be once the nude scenes hit the internet. "I know what's going to go viral," the 34-year-old actress said, being the one to first address the scenes.

Ana de Armas has said it is 'disgusting' that the nudity from her highly-anticipated Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde - which is rated NC-17 -  will go viral on the Internet.The  34-year-old Cuban and Spanish actress looked stunning on the cover of the latest edition of Variety magazine where she candidly discussed how she will react when clips of her nude body will circulate around the world.Ana was unprompted as she brought the subject up while stressing that context was important as she said: 'I know what's going to go viral. Wow factor: Ana de Armas looked stunning on the cover of the latest edition of Variety magazine where she candidly said it is 'disgusting' that the nudity from her highly-anticipated Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde - which is rated NC-17 - will go viral on the Internet'And it’s disgusting.

Ana de Armas needed to convince Netflix that she could be Marilyn Monroe. She was already the first choice of director Andrew Dominik, whose film “Blonde,” a surrealist vision of the life and death of the screen legend, had been reportedly cast with various leading ladies before alighting on de Armas, but “Knives Out” — the hit film in which the previously little-known performer sat at the center of the mystery — hadn’t yet come out. In 2019, few knew her name. De Armas brought her accent coach to the in-person screen test with Netflix. “I hadn’t had the training and the voice and everything,” says de Armas, who was born and raised in Cuba. “So my coach was crouching on the floor, under the table.” The stakes were high. “I just knew that everything we did that day was going to be the definitive test of the movie to be greenlit or not.” The scene was one in which Monroe pleads with husband Joe DiMaggio to let her move to New York so that she can “start from zero, away from Hollywood,” de Armas recalls; passion had to enter Monroe’s voice, all as the woman under the table fed de Armas the proper pronunciations of the lines.

When it comes to biopics, they don’t get much more intensely intimate than Andrew Dominik‘s “Blonde.” And the film’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month confirmed that Ana de Armas expertly channels Marilyn Monroe in her performance. In fact, de Armas got so close to Monroe during the film’s production the actress attempted to contact the deceased starlet, in a way.