Blonde is a biographical film written and directed by Andrew Dominik and is based on the 2000 novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates. The film is a fictionalized take on the life and career of Marilyn Monroe. Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Tracey Landon, Brad Pitt, and Scott Robertson produced the film. Note: Along with shifting aspect ratios, most of the film is presented in black and white. I thought I had seen all the movies I would want to see about Marilyn Monroe, but since Blonde was nominated for an Academy Award, I watched it with an open mind and really liked Dominik’s version of the iconic actress named Norma Jeane.
As a child, Norma Jeane Mortenson/Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas) was raised by her mentally unstable mother Gladys Pearl Baker (Julianne Nicholson). On her seventh birthday in 1933, Gladys shows her daughter a framed…
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