“I think it was/is a brilliant work of cinematic art, obviously not for everyone,” the author wrote on Twitter after the film’s premiere. “Amazing that in a post#MeToo era, the stark exposure of sexual predation in Hollywood has been interpreted as ‘exploitation.’ Surely Andrew Dominik meant to tell Norma Jeane’s story truthfully.”
The director recently addressed some of the controversy in an interview with the magazine British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound explaining that his main concern was to tell a story “about how childhood drama shapes an adult’s perception of the world”.
“I’ve read everything there is to read about Marilyn Monroe,” Dominik said. “I met people who knew her. I did a lot of research. But in the end, it’s about the book. And adapting the book is really about adapting the feelings that the book conveyed to me.”
“So I think the movie is about the meaning of Marilyn Monroe. Or a meaning,” she added. “She was a symbol of something. She was the Aphrodite of the 20th century, the American goddess of love. And she killed herself. So what does that mean?” The interview ignited even more controversy, as Dominik called the film Gentlemen prefer blondes of Monroe as a film about “well dressed whores”.
Source: Ambito
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