To create the real Barbie feel of "authentic artificiality," Gerwig and her team designed the house with a mix of 3D items and 2D decals to replicate the real-life toy's details. And although the sets are life-size, they're still 23 percent smaller than human size, because anyone who ...
2014: Barbie becomes entrepreneurial Mattel introduces, which the toy manufacturing company hopes will resonate in a woman-forward, entrepreneurial age. The doll comes with aprofile and is backed by 10 real-life female entrepreneurs called her chief inspiration officers (CIO)—including Reshma Saujani...
So when Barbie arrives on the scene, she assumes a woman is in charge. And she’s shocked to learn that none of Mattel’s top executives are female. (And Mattel’s current CEO blusters about two women who ran the company in the past.) Additionally, the lack of female leadership makes...
His task becomes even more vital when he finds out that his pretty friend Annie, the one he gave a cab ride to earlier and shared a conversation with during the opening scene, is on the hitman's list. Besides the Los Angeles cab, featured in many scenes, there’s a 2003 BMW and a ...
While filming the scene at California's Venice Boardwalk, life imitated art when spectators left Robbie feeling self-conscious. "People would go by Ryan, high-five him, and say, 'Awesome, Ryan, you look great!' And they wouldn't actually say anything to Margot," Gerwig toldRolling Stone....
With the help of Weird Barbie (Kate McKinnon) � comically styled as if a child �played with her too hard� � Stereotypical Barbie is tasked with entering the real world to find her human family and solve their problems. The filmopens with a parodyof a famous scene from Stanley ...
But beyond the surface level cool — even if his surface is very cool — what makes the performance resonate is how seamlessly Gosling transforms the unnamed driver from a blank slate, hollow man desensitized to his own misdeeds, into a human who cares for the people around him. Even at ...
For once Ken sees The Real World, and realizes that men, not women, actually hold all the power and privilege, the main plot of Barbie becomes a battle against his introduction of patriarchy to Barbieland. Ken becomes a hollow-headed supervillain, who has reshaped the world in his own vap...
(Kate McKinnon), a doll that was played with too roughly, that she’ll need to leave Barbieland if she wants things to go back to the way they were before. Thus, after agreeing to let Ken tag along, Robbie’s Barbie sets out on a mission to find the human girl responsible for ...
What’s most impressive aboutThe Fabelmansis you can tell that some 70 years after the real-life events that became its opening scene, Steven Spielberg remains just as besotted with movies as little Sammy Fabelman, the boy who goes toThe Greatest Show on Earthand becomes obsessed with recreat...