recently happened miller also documented his relationship with marilyn in his final play finishing the picture which again was a completely obvious portrait of his time on set of the misfits finishing the picture opens with another maryland proxy in bed naked virtually comatose due to sleeping pills she takes every night as her screenwriter husband and her secretary try to rouse her she suddenly awakens and stumbles again naked and clearly unwell across the stage this vibe basically continues for the next couple of hours by the time of the play's premiere miller was NUMBER_TOKEN had been divorced from monroe not to mention married to marath for NUMBER_TOKEN years and would be dead in a few months this begs the question why why couldn't miller stop himself from writing yet another version of marilyn monroe into his work it occurred to me while writing this that marrying marilyn monroe was of interest to americans much longer than anything he ever wrote like as much as i want to believe americans have a deep abiding appreciation for the crucible we all know that on a pop culture level we'd much rather speculate on marilyn's love life and all of the things that happened to her and all of the scary things fame does to people we've resurrected her enough times to prove this so with marilyn so ever present in our culture it makes sense to me that he'd return to her again and again in his work how could he not be reminded how could he not reflect on the time he spent with someone who the world became so obsessed with that she essentially ceased being a real person and instead morphed into a symbol a costume for new celebrities to try on and signal their own fame and beauty i don't think miller necessarily intended to exploit her but the thing is we eat that PROFANITY_TOKEN up and often in a way that is exploitative the misfits is a very complex film to understand on a meta level there's more that i could say about marilyn and we didn't even get into what miller does with montgomery clifton clark gable i mean the fact that he wrote this line for clift oh no no no my face is fine it's all healed up it's just as good as new after he was in a major car accident that completely rearranged his face like arthur miller was not a subtle man i don't know but with everything being said i think the misfits is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on her legacy and a good reminder that it's not as flat and one-dimensional as pop culture often presents i encourage you to check it out if you haven't seen it thank you again to mubi for sponsoring this video movie is a curated streaming service showing exceptional films from around the globe all hand-picked by movies curators every day movie premieres a new film from iconic directors to emerging authors there's always something new to discover it's like your own personal film festival streaming anytime anywhere if you love movies and you're here so i assume you do i think you owe it to yourself to try movie out i've discovered so many filmmakers and films that i didn't know about before and probably wouldn't have learned about otherwise for example i recently learned about nuchka van brockel the
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN it thank you again to mubi for sponsoring this video movie is a curated streaming service showing exceptional films from around the globe all hand-picked by movies curators every day movie premieres a new film from iconic directors to emerging authors there's always something new to discover it's like your own personal film festival streaming anytime anywhere if you love movies and you're here so i assume you do i think you owe it to yourself to try movie out i've discovered so many filmmakers and films that i didn't know about before and probably wouldn't have learned about otherwise for example i recently learned about nuchka van brockel the END_SPONSOR_TOKEN