1. The voice was really really off. She should have studied it more, it wasn't breathy or playful enough.
2. She wasn't plump enough. She still looked too slim to be Monroe, despite the padding.
3. She didn't walk like Marilyn walked at all.
4. She would randomly slip into a southern accent... WTF.
Thoughts?
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1. The voice was really really off. She should have studied it more, it wasn't breathy or playful enough.
that was very noticeable. I thought she would sound more like Marilyn.When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
Her singing voice was even worse.
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For the umpteenth time, Marilyn didn't talk in that breathy voice in her private life. That was part of the Marilyn act. You people are judging her on her Marilyn alter ego when Williams was playing the real Marilyn (or Norma Jean) for most of the film.
shareShe made an UGLY Marilyn, period! I do not understand
the awards she received for this garbage! Hopefully
Naomi Watts do justice.
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I totally agree with tina kimo. She was too ugly for this role. Finally someone that doesnt worship this overrated actress thank god.
shareI am not a fan of Michele Williams. She appears, to me, to be too into herself which takes away from the characters she portrays. I cannot separate her from her.
Silly, we're talking about the lovely Michelle, not Marilyn!
http://randumbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Michelle-Williams-bea utiful-faces.jpg very pretty, gamine, and feminine looking, a natural beauty.
http://cdn.motinetwork.net/demotivationalposters.net/image/demotivatio nal-poster/0805/face-it-lee-presson-marilyn-monroe-demotivational-post er-1211075021.jpg I respect fully that all women are beautiful... but not all need to be seen as attractive. Marilyn was very average looking, at best. The most overrated women in Hollywood history by far.
Sounds like the green monster is nipping your butt a little hard today.
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None of that bothered me. What I missed was an ounce of toughness mixed in with all that fragility and need. Monroe didn't get where she did by being a complete jellyfish. Sure she was plagued by low self-esteem, but she was also fiercely driven and ambitious. Michelle William's interpretation shows too much of the softness Monroe created for public consumption, and too little of her grit.
shareAgreed, there was a side missing. She didn't write nor direct the movie though. She should have been shown to have this side or at least directed to let it show.
shareThere were moments of strength and spunk ("Milty, the next time I step on set, Colin better be there.") but I wish they had dramatized this episode:
http://mostlymarilynmonroe.tumblr.com/post/24655109083/marilyn-got-one -up-on-olivier-when-she
The lack of toughness is dictated by the script... If they're not on the page, she can't summon up the lines from nowhere.
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I think that the people who pick apart Williams' performance are missing out on the pleasures and nuances of her work in the film. No, she doesn't have the body of a Marilyn (she said she tried to gain weight, but it went to her face), but this movie isn't about Marilyn's body. It's more of a character study.
What I appreciated most about Williams' performance is that she doesn't impersonate Monroe. She works from inside out and finds the real person behind the movie star facade. I think she perfectly captured Marilyn's glamour, vulnerability, ambition, and warmth.
It's a wonderful performance considering the limitations of the script and direction. As long as you're expecting good acting and not some on-the-nose impersonation.
shareCompared to Mira Sorvino's ridiculous, mentally challenged seeming interpretation in Norma Jean & Marilyn, Williams' was brilliant.
When you say she didn't do the voice, right, which voice are we talking about? Marilyn had many voices. Compare her speaking style in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Prince & the Showgirl, Some Like It Hot, the footage from Something's Gotta Give, interviews from the mid 50s, and interviews from 1960 til the end of her life. They're all different; so I think I'd say that Williams nailed Monroe's various speaking styles.
Agreed, she also failed to emulate Marilyn's otherworldly sexual appeal, BTW.
shareYou can not expect a good work in such poor story and movie, I did not care about her work, she does not much Marilyn, not even Monroe, she does not a mach a sexy star, maybe a star but definitely not a femme fatale. The lead character is the guy, actor and character are not charismatic enough to keep interest in the movie, the whole movie looks like Readers Theater with out emotion and sense.
shareTo be fair, there have been good acting in poorly written and/or directed movies before, like Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady for example.
So, although the screenwriter and director are definitely to blame, that shouldn't cover the fact Michelle Williams failed to emulate the magic of Marilyn Monroe.
Though, I do not mean I hate Michelle Williams, no. I know she is somewhat hated by a group of people for her connection to Heath Ledger, but I don't hate her. She's very talented and I really like her work in Incendiary.
The Iron Lady just didn't work for me at all. It was so choppy. I didn't think Streep was able to elevate it the way Williams did with Marilyn.
shareI think Streep did a better job than Williams in this case, but I'd agree to anyone saying Streep didn't actually give out an Academy Award winning performance in Iron Lady (as opposed to, say, in Doubt).
I think the Oscar for best female leading performance of 2011 should have gone to Takako Matsu for Confessions, which wasn't even nominated.
For me, she did enough to make it work.
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This http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/marilyn-monroe-4.jpg
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbcwr5LO131qg2eqso1_400.jpg is plump? Are you guys blind? Michelle is "plumper" than that petite little twig!
Why are her fans so obsessed with imagining her being as fattened up as she is here, as a PREGNANT AND DEPRESSED woman? http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u52/PBtypepad/May%202009/marilyn-mo nroe-swimsuit-1.jpg
You all should be insanely thankful they got someone as talented and attractive as Michelle to be the most over-hyped stars in Hollywood, whose looks and acting are so hideously overrated it's saddening. You guys act so ungrateful. They could have cast someone COMPLETELY miscast who looks, sounds, acts absolutely nothing like MM and still can't act, like Scarlett Johansson or Christina Hendricks.
and frankly, your reasons are pretty bad. you're nitpicking, as if you just dislike Michelle for some totally irrelevant reason(s) and are pretending these mean she was bad as MM.
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