Longest interview I've seen with Dominik. Kudos.

Blonde was truly a beautiful work of art. It's a shame so many people are misunderstanding it. Andrew Dominik is one of the all-time greats.

I love how he just straight up called Jesse James a great movie. I love that kind of confidence and it is, in fact, a great movie

Are we ever gonna get your review on Blonde you mentioned at the beginning?

I loved Jesse James and Killing Them Softy and did like this film quite a bit. I loved the visuals and Ana was amazing. It was interesting way to tell a story.

Will your review of Blonde be out today?

just four men on a panel speculating about a woman's personal life.. and agreeing on everything.

This movie is disrespectful and degrading, absolutely horrible

Do you know what I mean?

You know...

Interesting interview.. thanks for that guys! I have to say.. I think the movie is a bit of a mess. Some great things in it for sure.. but overall... sheesh. Looking forward to more in depth conversations on that.

Amazing movie....great acting and direction

There used to be a style of writing that the 50s Beat Generation would use, specifically William Buroughs. He would cut non-related sentences out of various newspapers to form a paragraph. He’d then read through it to see if it made “sense”; if he liked it. It then would be used as a final inclusion into his literature. That’s how Blonde kind of feels. I loved the movie. Couldn’t be a more happier movie-goer. 🤘

what did chopper say?

I really wish you had asked him if we will ever see the alternate cut of Jesse James, which Roger Deakins has mentioned

the god dominik

I'm quite shocked that there arent more interviews with Andrew Dominik online, yours is probably the best one ive watched, thanks for doing it. I think alot of the bad reviews for Blonde seem to be a symptom of a heavily infantalised mainstream cinema culture, audiences are basically wanting childrens stories, fairytales devoid of anything difficult. Blonde actually reminded me alot of David Lynch's Inland Empire, i found it to be fascinating and intensely emotional, also very dreamlike. I saw parallells with Julian Schnabels At Eternitys Gate, in the way psychological breakdown is portrayed. The film seemed to me a meditation on Marilyn Monroe, i kind of examination on the cultural ghost that exists, all these echoes of the person that eclipse the original human being that existed, so in that way, it was an examination of the idea of celebrity, and the fictional self.

This film is so ahead of its time that I suspect it won’t get the appreciation it truly deserves for many more years to come.

What I miss in the movie is the The Misfits movie part of the story

I would have liked it if you guys had talked about Anna's accent, and how the director and actress worked that.

This man seems very crude, non emotionally nuanced and devoid of empathy. All style over substance. Big ego.

Love the film ❤

All fiction and disgusting. It wasn’t served to celebrate an icon’s life.

Andrew is so underrated. Even his misses (Killing Them Softly) are better than 90% of the movies Hollywood releases every year. And I agree, The Assassination Of Jesse James is a masterpiece.

The movie "Blonde" is a fiction based on a fictional novel about Marilyn Monroe! Marilyn Monroe is much more than a pretty and photogenic face, mammary glands, vagina, cervix, induced or spontaneous abortions, rape (Mr. Z's is invented), run over, talking fetuses, mental imbalance and drug abuse! The woman who stood up to the powerful movie studios, demanding better scripts, better salaries and selection of directors. She supported civil rights for black people (look for Ella Fitzgerald's interviews and photos). She was not afraid to lie and show her sexuality and nudity in an era of conservatism in the 1950s. The woman who publicly denounced the "executive wolves" of the film companies who had a renewable "girl traffic" every few months, who came to try their luck from all over the world to see if they could get a permanent contract and thus become artists, movie stars! There they had to be complacent and there was no guarantee of anything! And that was done by men and women, look for the interviews with Tony Curtis on you tube where he included himself in that group and said that he also did it and that everyone did it!!!! although he does not clarify if he pleased men or women!!!She lived it, went through all the stages without a mom, dad or family to support her. She was hired and fired on more than one occasion but she took advantage of her opportunities, studied acting, singing, dancing and working as a craftswoman of her own character (Marilyn Monroe) waiting for the right moment! She had the courage to leave Hollywood, study acting in New York and create her own movie production company! They made fun of her, they even created a play with references to her, her person to humiliate her, looking for substitutes for her (Jayne Mansfield promoted and hired by La Fox, created a cartoon about Marilyn Monroe and lived on it until she died) and she resisted it all with perseverance and determination and kindness to the press, knowing that she was not respected and that much of what was published was gossip created by the studios to discredit her, scare her into desisting her demands and bowing to the studios! And Norma Jean won the battle against the studios, who called her, increased her salary and complied with her requests! This last change the course of Hollywood as other artists did the same after her! Norma Jean wanted to be an actress, she created Marilyn Monroe and became the most famous movie star in Hollywood as well as a good actress and after her early death she became the myth that is known all over the world! In a nutshell, the movie "Blonde" is a work of fiction, which takes elements from a fictional novel and uses some real facts about Marilyn Monroe/ Norma Jean (real character) and creates a fictional work based on a fictional novel, gossip press release, adding sexual threesomes that did not exist in real life with characters for whom there is no evidence that they were gay or bisexual! Norma Jean / Marilyn Monroe before she died, she beat the studios again because Mister Z (Darryl F. Zanuck, the Fox executive who did not like Marilyn Monroe) asks her to return to her job because the studios are in bankruptcy and he negotiates a new contract with Marilyn Monroe's lawyers increasing his salary again! Norma Jean won again before she died! In one of her last interviews with the press where she discusses what's going on with the studios, which last fired her, look her up on you tube, she asks journalists “guys don't make me a joke ”. The movie Rubia doesn't make her a joke, the movie Rubia makes her a shit! And everyone is still making money and talking about it! My humble opinion, no offense intended!

♥️Yes!! 🎬Loved the movie 🎬🎥 🏆🏆Movie and Ana ⭐️🏆🏆👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼♥️♥️♥️♥️

I predicted your movie in my tarot readings how’s that possible!!! 😮 Maybe I was really there during production 😊👻

wow. that was genuinely nonsensical. i was curious about this director for putting out such a senseless depiction. and the way he switches from saing the movie depicts a novel to being an emotional depiction of marilyn, depending on what the interviewer asks, shows he doesn't have a clue. watched none of her movies, ignored depicting the ppl around her accurately and not even getting her character right. furthermore, it's clear that he doesn't want to. rly expected at least something watchable. but this was just plain stupid. and what was up with that pro-life take and 3d shots on an embryo that couldve never looked as formed as that in such a short time lol

Blonde is stone cold masterpiece. In 20 years ppl will recognize the genius of dominik.

He looks a tad like an early David Cronenberg, just not as articulate. Or talented. Know what I mean.🙄

I enjoyed Blonde and I think Ana de Armas made an amazing job playing Merilyn Monroe. The one thing that many are misunderstanding is that this movie is not a biopic of the actresse's life but a movie based on a novel of the same name. Overall the movie had a very dark take of Monroe and that Andrew Dominik made it very compelling

He seem quite lost in his own fictional reality about her.

beautiful movie, people don’t like it because it turns the camera to the audience. makes people realize that they were in love with a version of a woman that she didn’t even feel was actually her. people don’t like that very much. again, beautiful movie.

LOL. This panel.

The movie blonde wants us to take a look in the inside of Marilyn Monroe but fails in this task by only giving us cliches after cliches. The psyche of Marilyn Monroe has more depth than the depiction of a traumatized emotional girl who has childish conversations with her fetus. The real Marilyn Monroe was more than the idea Dominik is showing us, she was full of depth, emotion, love, strength, intelligence, and resilience. Her fight for the same salary as her peers, especially as the men for instance, is something that is not mentioned that much. Or the way she criticized the power of the film executives about how they demanded her to work while she was sick. Or her own contribution in creating the image of Marilyn Monroe. These are also things that must have been an active inner occupation of hers, that we don’t see in Blonde. Then we have the depiction of daddy/mother issues that are so lame, without any nuance whatsoever. With childish scenes where she says ‘daddy’ a bit too much, very stereotypical. I have never seen anyone with daddy-issues doing that. While the movie feels like a horror movie with beautiful cinematography and score, it also sometimes looks like Andrew does the very same thing he criticizes: abuse and exploitation. There are multiple scenes where he shows a close-up shot of Ana’s but for instance, or scenes where Ana is topless for no reason, fetishizing her pain. The only thing Andrew did succeed at, is to give us a similar kind of trauma experience Marilyn must have gone through, with horror like effects. It’s for this very reason I think it’s unfortunate that Andrew didn’t dig deeper into Marilyn’s psyche and fell in the same trap so many others fell portraying her story.

I'm not sure if he meant to do this but he perfectly portrayed what it feels like to be borderline. I'm a previous mental health counselor and this is what the disorder looks like from the1st person point of view. Many psychologists feel Marilyn had borderline personality disorder. I disagree with using Marilyn's life and adding fictional things in that may not have occured but that is more on the author than the director because this was based on a book. But if somebody wants to have more compassion for borderline and see what it really is I suggest they watch this movie. In my opinion narcissist don't deserve my empathy as they are nothing but predators towards the vulnerable and especially borderlines. I refuse to work with narcissists ever again but I would always help borderlines. I'm sure some men will watch this enjoying enjoying the sadism towards Marilyn but I hope that many people in general who do have empathy will see this for what it is and have more compassion for the vulnerable Especially those with a very stigmatized disorder that has the highest rate of suicide. Goddess bless the vulnerable the Used the exploited... Prostitutes and actresses.. many women.. Often abused in the same way

I love how Andrew sounds like a guy who works in a fish and chip shop.

This was one of the worst movies I've ever seen

This movie was not it. The Movie is an insult to Marilyn What they did to her is disgusting. 3 hours of my life I will never get back. What a horrible movie. (The director openly admitted that he never watched any of Marilyn's films, further proof that this movie was only made to cash in on a Hollywood Starlet.) They continue to exploit and sexualize a dead person with made up things, as if she wasn't exploited and sexualized enough. As a massive fan this was a shot to the heart, worse than any book, documentary or biopic i have seen

Andrew Dominik look for another profession, you are not worthy as director

Why nobody stood up for the Judy film full of mistakes and over-interpretations and now everyone feels entitled to defend Norma Jean?

He says about Marilyn she was just this orphan child, she didn't take responsibility for herself. That's it, that's the problem. He victim blames Marilyn. Really sick. Also the movie has horror elements unfortunately it wasn't scary enough.

Yuck! The man & especially this movie 🤦🏾‍♂️ That *Jesse James* film is great tho.

Sad, pathetic and tragic.

He is a blatant misogynist

..your film is unwatchable...irritating...

Misogyny

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