Blonde (Blonde) is one of the riskiest previews in Netflix history. For the size of his production, for the repulsive way of portraying the life of Marilyn Monroebecause its protagonist does not stop suffering, for having obtained the rating for over 17 years.
That it is not suitable for minors provides an extra curiosity. It’s not crazy to think that many have looked at it to find out why it got this strange rating.
Movies often get NC-17s for their violence, drug, or sex scenes. In Blonde there are three of them.
So let’s review some scenes for which the Andrea Domenico with Ana de Armas the vision is limited …
sexual assault
One of the strongest scenes in both novels by Joyce Carol Oates on which Blonde is based and in the film there is the rape she undergoes Norma Jane at the hands of the studio executive named in the story “Mr. Z” (played in the film by David Warshofsky).
“The way we handle (the rape scene) is to just skip over it,” Dominik told Decider in an interview.
the trio
In a Blonde moment that few will forget, Marilyn has sex Charles “Cass” Chaplin Jr. (Savier Samuel) e “Eddy” Robinson (Evan Williams), who are having an affair.
It’s a long, stylized sequence of blurry images that culminates in a scene where Marilyn masturbates at the premiere of one of her films.
forced abortion
Another thing that few will be able to get out of their minds after seeing Blonde is Jeane’s pain when she asks the doctors to stop while they are performing an abortion …
The scene of the cervix
Few movies have shown what it looks like inside a woman’s cervix, let alone Marilyn Monroe. If Dominik’s goal was to provoke, here he filled the cardboard.
oral sex
One of the sex scenes that undoubtedly forces Blonde to be rated 17+ is Marilyn being forced to oral sex on John F. Kennedy while on the phone.
the code hay
is popular voice that The last tango in Paris, Saló or the 120 days of Sodom and Irreversible have scandalized half the world with their sexual scenes.
In the history of cinema there have been directors who filmed very original and explicit sexual scenes, broke ethical barriers with incredible aggression and made porn films look like works that were believed to be “art cinema”. No terrain remained unexplored.
In Hollywood, things turned out to be very difficult for fans of nudism and passionate nights without sheets. From 1934 to 1967, the United States was ruled by a legal bloc known as Hays code who did everything possible to plunge the studio films into the most rigorous puritanism.
One of the Republican leaders of the time, William Hayes (hence the code name), established a series of restrictive rules for American productions linked to the protection of the lower classes and against war.
What began as a relatively “progressive” idea has gotten bogged down in total conservatism among other things, he did not admit nudity scenes of any kind.
In the long run, the Hays Code also ended up banning the screening of foreign films in the United States and those national films that were shown had to submit to representing what was intended as the “American way of life”.
By agreeing to those who ensure that the rules were made to destroy them, the welcome cinematic chaos begins in the 1960s.
While Hollywood and studio movies have rarely (even nowadays) pushed the boundaries of pornography, male and female directors have increasingly begun to show more. Since 1967, the excesses have been controlled by the well-known age classification that continues today.
Source: Clarin
