The Very Best Twitter Reactions to ‘Blonde’ Now That It’s on Netflix
Blonde, Andrew Dominik’s film about Marilyn Monroe starring Ana de Armas, finally debuted on Netflix, and the reactions have been extreme. From the misogyny portrayed in the film (and coming from interviews with the filmmaker) to some wild-sounding scenes involving a fetus to the NC-17 rating, jokes about all of the above, and more positive things like how perfect Ana captures the actor, it has been a WILD week of discourse. Here are some of the best tweets about Blonde before you decide to watch (or skip) the film.
When the trailer for Blonde was released, people talked about how uncanny Ana was as Marilyn…except for her voice. That was the first sort of online chatter about the film. The actor played Marilyn with her natural Cuban accent—which honestly doesn’t bother me. There are so many World War II films where everyone has a British accent for no reason, it’s ridiculous! It helps me to distance myself, separate the performance from the real Marilyn Monroe, and remember that this is indeed a fictional film.
Anyway, then the movie came out.
People Realized That Blonde Is Long AF
It's been an hour since I paused blonde pic.twitter.com/n4bdCZM0Y4
— soapy🧃 (@soapyhadid) September 29, 2022
Blonde is three hours long? That’s what we call Joyce carol bloat
— Hillary Busis (@hillibusterr) September 28, 2022
At least you can pause Netflix. Still, yikes.
The Movie Is Also Brutal AF
it’s insane that a movie like NOPE came out just a month ago, creating a story depicting the horrors of spectacles and exploitation only for september to be filled with the dahmer series and blonde…
— not trin (@unknowntrin) September 28, 2022
Blonde (2022)pic.twitter.com/XBeJcnrYj2
— soapy🧃 (@soapyhadid) September 29, 2022
Help me out with this hilarious metaphor: Is the dinosaur the movie and is the girl us watching it, or is the dinosaur ~Hollywood~ and the girl Marilyn? Hmmmmm….
LOL.
There’s the Sexual Exploitation of It All
The Blonde writers making Ana de Armas strip nude and say “daddy” for the 238th time and calling it art pic.twitter.com/CJnWI7fLUA
— Neil Gillis (@NeilGillis18) September 28, 2022
How do you, as a man, make a movie about how men exploited a woman without also exploiting the woman? According to these tweets, Blonde did not crack it.
There’s Whatever This Take Is About the Book Blonde Is Based On
Joyce Carol Oates shouldn't have written Blonde. What could a literary non-hottie know about the exploitation of femme, highly sexualized women - women who look and act like Oates have no compassion or love for women like Marilyn. They're just as bad as men at writing them.
— Terese Marie (@TereseMarieM) September 28, 2022
Agree to disagree with SO much of this take. There are conversations to be had about who has the perspective necessary to tell certain stories. However, repeat after me: Sexual assault and abuse is about power, not attractiveness.
There’s Plenty of Praise for Ana
Ana de Armas truly deserves an Oscar for her performance in #Blonde pic.twitter.com/HXHHvk6N9l
— 𝒿 (@namelessforu) September 28, 2022
if there’s one thing that’s sure about ‘blonde’, is that ana de armas gave it all. the performance of a lifetime, just absolutely breathtaking and spectacular! pic.twitter.com/lIbc9xVpbL
— Ana de Armas Daily (@anadearmasdaily) September 28, 2022
You can't deny that Ana de Armas was committed and gave an excellent performance. Though I guess if you run the Ana De Armas daily account—not to be confused with Ana de Armas Updates—enthusiasm about her performance is to be expected. Still, they aren't the only ones that think de Armas's talents shine through. Hopefully Blonde leads to many more leading roles for her in the future.
There are these jokes *about* the reactions
— Ana de Armas Updates (@ArmasUpdates) September 28, 2022
kim kardashian watching marilyn monroe’s ghost get distracted by ana de armas’ performance in blonde pic.twitter.com/85zjoiKrUr
— wiLL (@willfulchaos) September 26, 2022
If there's anyone who stands to gain from someone else getting called out for abusing the memory of Marilyn Monroe, it's Kim Kardashian. She's off the hook for what she did or did not do to that dress now!
There's whatever this is just, like, in general
i felt really uncomfortable watching Blonde. it’s the most male-gazey movie i’ve ever seen and incredibly exploitative (mmm yes 3 rape scenes are necessary) also, gave me slight anti-abortion tone (they had a talking fetus commiserating with marilyn and they over-gorified it).
— Mariamante (@MiaLossen) September 24, 2022
there's a fcking fetus talking to her they want me to take blonde seriously pic.twitter.com/BXk5dEsSz8
— primadonna (@versaceschanel) September 28, 2022
I had the extreme misfortune of watching Blonde on Netflix last night and let me tell you that movie is so anti-abortion, so sexist, so exploitative. CanNOT recommend it LESS. Do not watch. The abortion scenes in particular are terrible, but so is the whole entire movie.
— Steph Herold (@StephHerold) September 29, 2022
She does *what* to a fetus? Talks to it? Anti-abortion messaging in this climate? No thank you!
And, of course, the most important thing to remember:
I’m going to attempt to watch BLONDE and not think about SMASH and how we fully deserved a season 3.
— Ayanna P. (@AyannaPrescod) September 28, 2022
We'll always have "Let Me Be Your Star". Why anyone's making Marilyn Monroe content that's not more seasons of Smash is beyond me.
Her words… #Blonde #BlondeNetflix 💔 pic.twitter.com/b5sibBD2oR
— Kourtnee Monroe (@thekourtmonroe) September 28, 2022
I’m sorry the fact that Blonde is based on a 738 pg fan fiction about Marilyn Monroe’s life by Joyce Carol Oates and yet everyone is viewing it as a depiction of Monroe’s actual life instead of JCO/Dominik’s warped version of her lol
— e taylor (@erinisaway) September 28, 2022
One silver lining to these extreme Blonde reactions is that the film never was and never will be the definitive interpretation of Marilyn Monroe's life. It's not a documentary. It's based on a novel, not a biography. There are other movies, television shows, songs, and books about Marilyn Monroe. There are the words and filmography of the woman herself. It's understandably difficult to keep in mind while watching or talking about Blonde when the film went through such meticulous detail to replicate moments and costumes from Marilyn's actual life, and frustrating that the end product has been so explosive.
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