toskanews) – Photos, historic posters like the one from Niagarascenes from films like Men prefer blondesclothes. TO Paris an exhibition celebrates Marilyn Monroe almost 100 years since his birth (June 1, 1926), retracing his life and highlighting his role of artistin addition to that of sex symbol.
Marilyn Monroe actress: beyond the image of naivety
At the Cinémathèque française the exhibition focuses on Marilyn actress careful in choosing roles: From his rapid rise in Hollywood to the legends that accompanied his brief but impressive career. Monroe passed away at just 36 years old, according to the curator Florence Tissotit was a lot less naive than its portrayal on the screen.
«The usual discussions about Marilyn Monroe are more focused on her biography, her private life, we often talk about her divorces, her miscarriages, her difficulties in being a successful woman, you might say. And I think this can be a way to denigrate herto always see it through alleged emotional problems” he explained.
The fight for independence and the challenge to Fox
The exhibition does not hide the side glamour of the myth, but it portrays it independent and “combative” in his decisions. «It starts from the early 1950s, once he achieves fame and is in a relationship more favorable negotiation towards the film studios, he begins to state the fact that he wishes to have slightly more complex roles and above all a little more diversified. Then he launches into one fight with Fox to re-evaluate his contract and to access the possibility of choosing not only his roles, but also the directors with whom he shoots” declared Tissot, also highlighting another aspect.
A feminist symbol in the post-Me Too era
«It was of great beauty and at the same time symbolized a sort of resistance to a male-dominated environment and sometimes a little cruel, which is why it is often looked at, even after the Weinstein case and theit was post-Me Tooa bit like a feminist symbolthe one who would have denounced all the abuses in Hollywood first.”
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