00:00Hi, in this video, I will explain the ending of Blonde, 2022. So, let's start!
00:07Warning!
00:08This video contains spoilers for Netflix film Blonde, 2022.
00:14And key element in the new movie is Monroe's absence of a father figure.
00:18Blonde starring Marilyn Monroe eventually debuted on Netflix on September 28, 2022 after
00:24much anticipation the movie which blends fact and fiction to depict a very disturbed existence.
00:29What includes a number of deeply terrible experiences is not a standard biography, but
00:34rather a fictionalized adaptation of the same-named novel by Joyce Carol Oates you might be asking
00:39how much of this component of the movie is based on fact.
00:44Because it is a theme that the movie often returns to Norma Jean's relationship with
00:48her father or rather her lack of a relationship with her father what happened to the father
00:52of Marilyn Monroe in the movie Gladys, who is portrayed as a very disturbed woman who
00:57at one point even tries to drown her daughter in the bathtub raises Monroe at first.
01:01Although there is no proof that the bathtub event truly took place Monroe did grow up
01:06in a difficult family Gladys, lived in a number of orphanages and foster homes without a genuine
01:13parent after being given the paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis in the movies Monroe, expresses
01:18her absence of a father figure in a variety of ways including by calling a number of her
01:22partner's daddy and making repeated attempts to find her father she believes she is about
01:27to be reunited with her long-lost father in one scene where she is told there is a surprise
01:32waiting for her in her hotel room and at the end of the movie she thinks she has finally
01:36gotten a letter from him only to be disappointed once more in reality it is certainly true
01:42that Monroe's father was absent from her life and even if the specifics of some of the aforementioned
01:47incidents in the film don't match up to reality it also appears that she did indeed spend
01:52a long time trying to find him even the actual identity of her father has not always been
01:56certain officially her dad was listed as Martin Edward Mortensen the man to whom Gladys was
02:01previously married but it seems that he was not actually her real father and had in fact
02:07separated from Gladys long before Norma Jean was born for a long long time it has been
02:12widely believed that a real father was Charles Stanley Gifford a man who had worked alongside
02:16Gladys at Consolidated Film Industries where he was a shift foreman and indeed in 2022 the
02:23documentary Maryland her final secret involved DNA research that claimed to prove that this
02:28was the case with director Francois Poems telling Variety that the evidence was irrefutable
02:34James Doherty Monroe's first husband claimed that she had made an initial attempt to locate
02:38Gifford soon after their marriage but had been unsuccessful Doherty states in the film
02:43Maryland Monroe the mortal goddess that Charles Stanley Gifford was the mother's father before
02:48going on to become a producer and director he further stated she picked up the phone
02:52looked up his number and dialed his number he refused to acknowledge her saying no I
02:56don't know who you are see my attorney what's clear after watching Blonde which the filmmaker
03:02behind the assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford has spent a decade
03:07trying to make is that he doesn't really see any humanity and either based on the Pulitzer
03:11Prize winning novel by Joyce Carol Oates Blonde weaves together extravagant cinematic
03:16artifice with a grueling cruel portrayal of one of our most iconic movie stars known the
03:20world over for her platinum blonde hair siren eyes and breathy line delivery Maryland Monroe
03:25is one of pop culture's most enduring icons so much so that after her death her likeness
03:31has been merchandised capitalized imitated and repackaged so many times over it's easy
03:36to forget Maryland Monroe was ever a real person born Norma Jean Baker her rise from
03:41an impoverished childhood marked by abandonment to box office bombshell is the stuff that
03:46Hollywood dreams market themselves upon and her personal life has been the subject of
03:51much gossip and study both in her lifetime and after her death Blonde is unrelenting
03:57in its cruelty towards its subject fusing both Merrill and the real person and Merrill
04:01in the idea through stunningly accurate recreations of her looks pinup covers and iconic
04:06scenes from her films and then reveling in debasing both for our viewing pleasure in
04:11the book the author follows the broad strokes of Maryland's rags to riches life story from
04:15an internal point of view her agonizing love for her mentally unstable mother and stints
04:20and orphanages her trio of troubled marriages first to James Doherty then to baseball star
04:26Joe DiMaggio and lastly to playwright Arthur Miller her rise to box office bombshell and
04:31her untimely demise aged 36 of a barbiturate overdose Maryland's was a life of such extreme
04:37highs and lows embellishment would seem superfluous but Blonde sprinkles in a few fictional abuses
04:43to really emphasize the Hollywood contradiction of a superb talent with a troubled life in
04:48the movies they cut you up into pieces Maryland muses at one point which is ironic considering
04:54Blonde starts with a shot of her but surrounded by the leering men and photographers who were
04:59at the filming of the famous subway scene in the seven-year itch the real Maryland by
05:03many accounts was undeniably gifted and determined to be a good actress to better her craft we
05:08see glimpses of that in Blonde through her time at the actors studio in New York and
05:13her initial honestly intellectual connection with Miller played by Adrian Brody over their
05:17love of the work of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov Cuban Spanish actor Anna do Armas
05:23immerses herself in this role and her efforts to give this portrayal some humanity are admirable
05:28but Blonde doesn't lend her the room to do much other than weep none of the winking
05:32charm she demonstrated and knives out is here only briefly do we see her play Maryland as
05:37the movie star we know her to be for most of Blonde we're told that she's a movie star
05:40we're told that she's a symbol but we only really see glimpses of that that's all for
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