Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe biopic, “Blonde,” will carry the NC-17 rating – a first for the company. Here's why.
The NC-17 rating has historically been a film certification that’s bad for business due to its adults-only label and pornographic stigma.
Movies carrying the NC-17 rating were often difficult to screen and promote, as they were locked out of some movie theater chains and traditional advertising. The critically acclaimed, sexually graphic “Blue is the Warmest Color” in 2013 was the last serious film released with the rating. Despite making over $2.2 million on 142 screens, its relative success as an NC-17 film didn’t fuel the production of any more movies like it.
Even though the ‘X’ rating could simply acknowledge excessive violence or drug use, it came to be largely associated with pornographic films. Wikimedia Commons Instead, practically all distributors whose films were initially awarded an NC-17 by the Classification and Rating Administration chose one of three options: to re-edit their films down to an R rating, to release an R-rated and unrated version for home video or DVD, or simply to surrender the rating altogether and release the film theatrically without one.
Per the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ rules, to qualify for the Academy Awards, “Blonde” must have a theatrical run, even if that run is extremely short. In 2019, Netflix joined the Motion Picture Association – the first and only streaming service to do so. So if it decides to release its films theatrically, Netflix must do so with a rating, just like the legacy member companies: Disney, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros.
Nearly in the same proverbial breath, both director and star have also teased the salaciousness of the subject matter. In a streaming landscape littered with sexually explicit TV-MA television series like HBO’s “Euphoria” and “House of the Dragon,” Hulu’s “Minx” and “Pam & Tommy,” and even Netflix’s own “Sex/Life” and “How to Build a Sex Room,” it shouldn’t be.
Through stories that had never before been told, Steinem reveals the tortured feelings and intelligence often obscured behind the photos that made Monroe into the ultimate sex symbol. The most shocking line in the book might be Monroe’s prescient description of herself as “the kind of girl they found dead with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.”
That’s what Stanley Buchthal taps into with “Fragments,” which includes handwritten notebooks, notes, letters and poems written by Monroe.
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