Marilyn Times Five

Marilyn Times Five
Starring	Marilyn Monroe
Release date(s)	1973
Running time	14 mins
Country	USA
Language	English

Marilyn Times Five (1973) is an experimental film by Bruce Conner, that is an exploration of how a film’s form can influence the way an audience perceives the film's content.

Conner took some footage that is a little over a minute, from a film that purportedly contains Marilyn Monroe dressed only in panties. Conner's intent, he has said, "was to take some parts of the found footage and rearrange them to see if the quintessential "Marilyn" could emerge". The film is "experimental" in both the scientific and artistic sense, the film being very avant-garde. The film is composed of loops of footage containing a supposedly naked Marilyn Monroe, black leader, and a continuous loop of the song "I'm Through With Love" from Some Like It Hot (1959), a film starring Monroe.

Other sources, including the Internet Movie Database, say the footage used by Conner is actually Apple Knockers and Coke, a famous porno loop from the late '40s featuring Monroe look-alike Arline Hunter.

References

• Chuck Kleinhans article Wanda and Marilyn Times Five Seeing through cinema verite. Retrieved 25 June 2006

External links

• Marilyn Times Five at the Internet Movie Database