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      • Though the 166-minute film has the sweeping scope of a biopic, covering Monroe’s life from childhood to her ascent to stardom to her death, it does not purport to be historically accurate. Instead, like the fictionalized Oates novel it’s based on, Blonde seeks to be spiritually faithful to the image Monroe embodied.
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  2. Sep 26, 2022 · Is Blonde based on a true story? Very loosely. Though the 166-minute film has the sweeping scope of a biopic, covering Monroe’s life from childhood to her ascent to stardom to her death, it...

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  3. Sep 30, 2022 · Blonde: What is fact and what is fiction in Netflix’s controversial Marilyn Monroe film? The much-talked about Netflix film documenting Marilyn Monroe is based on Joyce Carol Oates’s...

  4. One writer stated it thus: ‘It is as if the Delphic Oracle had stepped down from her pedestal to give her opinion of the weather.’ This film was Blonde Venus, also based on a story of mine written swiftly to provide something other than the sob stories that were being submitted.

  5. Sep 28, 2022 · The NC-17-rated movie, directed by Andrew Dominik (Killing Them Softly), is based on the 2000 novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates and tells a fictionalized story of Monroe navigating a...

  6. Oct 4, 2022 · How true is the movie Blonde? While Blonde is a film about Marilyn Monroe, it is more based on the fictionalised story of her life in the novel of the same name, by Joyce Carol Oates. Oates described the book as a "radically distilled life in the form of fiction" in the Author's Note.

  7. Sep 23, 2022 · How to decipher what's fact and fiction in the new Marilyn Monroe movie based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel of the same name, Blonde.

  8. Oct 4, 2022 · Is Blonde based on a true story? Aside from the fact that Blonde is about Marilyn Monroe, it isn't really based on fact; Blonde is instead primarily based on the events that occurred in the fictional novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates .