My Week With Marilyn by Colin Clark http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/08/some-like-it-hot-written-by-billy.html 9 out of 10

My Week With Marilyn by Colin Clark http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/08/some-like-it-hot-written-by-billy.html

9 out of 10

 

 

My Week With Marilyn is a captivating, fabulous story, about one of the most dazzling, popular, complex performers in the world, the troubled Marilyn Monroe, looking at a week in her life, as the title makes clear, as she was filming (well, most of the time making life hell for Sir Laurence Olivier aka Kenneth Branagh) The Prince and The Showgirl, which is incidentally based on a narrative from our realm

 

It looks as if the Prince in that comedy, portrayed by Sir Laurence Olivier, has been inspired by King Carol, one who had played a rather negative role in the history of our land, installing a dictatorship, deposing his son, Michael, one of the greatest sovereigns we have had, who also has a part to play in the Prince and the Showgirl, which does not refer to Romania, but looks like the royals from here have served the story well

Marilyn Monroe was insecure, addicted, and she was extremely difficult to work with, at least on the set of this film, and she admits as much, asking for forgiveness at some point, albeit the script looks as if the author is on her side – perhaps influenced by new Woke conspectus and the truth that men have been worse than domineering, telling women what to do, and abusing their positions – and we hear her side

 

Nevertheless, Sir Laurence Olivier was a perfect professional, a wonderful human being, not just a supreme actor, we learn from a holy text about the movies that he was ready to sacrifice for his art, Adventures in The Screen Trade http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/02/adventures-in-screen-trade-by-william.html by William Goldman details what happened on the set of Marathon Man, wherein the British star had a supporting role

Sir Laurence Olivier had been invited to be a part of the cast, and he accepted, although he was very ill, and everyone could see that…Dustin Hoffman had the leading role, and acted with arrogance and carelessness, taking the co-star on long walks, probably trying to impose his position as more important in the structure of the film, and effort to get over the intimidation he must have felt, only his partner was in evident pain

 

Marilyn Monroe http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/06/bus-stop-based-on-play-by-william-inge.html had had a very disturbing childhood, she had been moved from one foster home to another – or is it from one orphanage to another – and this had had an impact on her – we have learned that from Sigmund Freud, although modern psychologists seem to reject his theories en masse, the notion that sex has such a paramount role for children, penis envy and the rest of it have fewer disciples – and we can see it in this narrative

 

She complains that she had been married three times already, and wonders why every man that she loves would eventually run from her…she is married to Arthur Miller, the playwright, and he had come with her to England, but their relationship does not work, she has found some of his notes, and he says that he regrets having married her, tells Laurence Olivier that he cannot work and would return to the USA eventually

We are to think that the star has had an intimacy with Colin Clark aka Eddie Redmayne - winner of the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/08/note-on-theory-of-everything-with-eddie.html for The Theory of Everything – however platonic, I think I get that he had only seen her naked, they have been fond of each other, but it was not sexual, as in ‘going all the way’, but I may be wrong

 

This has anyway reminded me of my own Week With Marilyn, and while scenes were shown on the screen, I might have missed it and reminisce about the intimacy I have had with our first Miss Romania, who was not exactly Marilyn Monroe, albeit an actress herself, but on the other hand, there were many more weeks – in a total of maybe nine months – and we got closer than just holding hands

It did not end well, I had to see a psychiatrist and Everything, Everywhere All At Once became vain, while in Sofia, I have even contemplated suicide – I had acted wrongly, perhaps pushed by her as well, maybe it was the only chance to be like Colin Clark, acting as a sort of ‘support’, or what they call today ‘emotional support animal’, a label that is abused these days, by people who take all sorts of creatures on planes, because they need their companions, and now they joke on Late Night Shows, once they end the writers’ strike

 

Just like Colin Clark, I took the job of ‘assistant’, for this local star – I realize now that I am not coming back to the purpose of the note, or maybe just to mention that Marilyn Monroe had adopted the ‘Method Acting’ technique, which has made some headlines recently, Cox was complaining about Jeremy Strong and his immersion into the role, on the set of Succession, and mentioned Daniel Day Lewis http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-left-foot-based-on-book-by-christy.html who was one of the best

From his role as the painter who can only use His Left Foot, Daniel Day Lewis has transformed himself – using his left foot and being the character – but the point Brian Cox is making is a valid one, for Laurence Olivier was aghast as the questions Monroe was asking, and then Daniel Day Lewis has burned out, and retired at a young age from the film business…in my case it worked and it did not, for there has been a ‘love story’ – it would have to be analyzed, but we arrived at the end of the space here – but with a rather sad ending

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world   – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html