Marilyn Monroe Movie Blonde Is Like Raging Bull & Citizen Kane
Director Andrew Dominik has described his upcoming Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde as a combination of Hollywood classics Raging Bull and Citizen Kane. Dominik's new drama stars Ana de Armas as Monroe, the iconic actress who solidified herself as the «blonde bombshell» of the 1950s with hits such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch, and the Billy Wilder classic Some Like it Hot. Unfortunately, Monroe's life was cut short at the age of 36 due to a barbiturate overdose in an apparent suicide.
Completed in 2021, Dominik's Blonde is slated to be released on Netflix with an NC-17 rating. Bobby Cannavale also stars as New York Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio, Monroe's second husband. Meanwhile, Adrien Brody portrays the actress' third husband, Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Miller. Brody previously saw a cut of the film and had reportedly called it "powerful," specifically singling out de Armas' performance and calling her "outrageously good."
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Speaking with Collider, Dominik compares Blonde to two widely-acclaimed films that often stand among Hollywood's best. When it comes to how he views Blonde as a film, he compares it to Martin Scorsese's sports biopic Raging Bull and Orson Welles' pseudo-biopic Citizen Kane. Read what the director said below.
«Blonde is a movie for all the unloved children of the world. It’s like Citizen Kane and Raging Bull had a baby daughter. Well, the whole idea of Blonde was to detail a childhood drama and then show the way in which that drama splits the adults into a public and private self. And how the adult sees the world through the lens of that childhood drama, and it’s sort of a story of a person whose rational picture of the
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