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“Barbie” is shaping as much as be the most well liked film of the summer time. The complete trailer was launched on Could 25 and has already given the Web plenty of immediately iconic moments to admire, from Barbie (Margot Robbie)’s “Matrix”-esque choice between a excessive heel and a Birkenstock to Ken (Ryan Gosling)’s exuberant mug shot. All including hype to the already very extremely anticipated movie.
However the brand new trailer additionally options some much less noticeable Easter eggs, too, that present simply how a lot the film’s artistic workforce — which incorporates the celebrated filmmaking duo Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach — paid consideration to element.
“Barbie” Easter Egg: Ruth and Barbara Handler
Close to the top of the movie preview, Barbie meets an previous girl who tells her, “People get one ending. Concepts dwell without end.” As TikToker Kirbie Johnson defined in a Could 25 put up, the previous girl is Barbara Handler, who really impressed the primary Barbie when she was only a younger lady. Barbara’s mom, Ruth Handler, invented the unique Barbie doll in 1959, per The New York Times, and named her creation after her daughter. Right this moment, Barbara is 82, however her function within the “Barbie” trailer is a transferring tribute to the doll’s origins.
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“Barbie” Easter Egg: “The Wizard of Oz”
“Barbie”‘s second teaser, launched on April 10, additionally options another popular culture references and symbols. Many followers shortly seen that the clip was chock-full of references to “The Wizard of Oz”: Film posters of the 1939 movie’s characters often pop up within the background, and the movie is even taking part in within the background of 1 body. At one level, Robbie can also be noticed sporting a checkered gown that is harking back to Dorothy’s basic blue frock.
Viewers have additionally inferred that “Barbie”‘s plot would possibly take some notes from “The Wizard of Oz.” We already know that the story includes Barbie (and Ken) leaving Barbie Land for the actual world. If “Barbie” finds its protagonist lastly assembly with the creator of Barbie Land — or maybe the corporate’s CEO — then it is simple to see how her disillusionment with that determine would possibly mirror Dorothy’s similar disappointment when she discovered who the Wizard actually was.
“Barbie” Easter Egg: “2001: A House Odyssey”
“Barbie”‘s first teaser, launched on Dec. 16, 2022, additionally immediately references one other basic movie. That teaser parodies the opening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A House Odyssey,” besides as an alternative of that includes apes in entrance of a black monolith as “2001”‘s first frames do, the “Barbie” trailer sees Barbie stepping out onto a barren panorama as younger ladies look on.
“2001: A House Odyssey” is famously existential and allegorical, but it surely primarily tells a extremely impressionistic story in regards to the origins of humanity and the extraterrestrial forces who, within the movie, appear to have led people towards consciousness. Whereas Kubrick at all times resisted definitive analyses of his sci-fi epic, in 1972, he instructed Rolling Stone that “on the deepest psychological stage the movie’s plot symbolizes the seek for God, and it lastly postulates what’s little lower than a scientific definition of God.”
Whereas that does not instantly align with what we all know of “Barbie,” which has been celebrated for the style pattern it is impressed to this point, Gerwig did just lately deliver non secular themes right into a Could dialog with Vogue. “Ken was invented after Barbie, to burnish Barbie’s place in our eyes and on the earth,” Gerwig stated. “That sort of creation delusion is the other of the creation delusion in Genesis.”
May “Barbie” be an try to mirror or rewrite Kubrick’s reflections on the origins of humanity, presumably by means of a feminist lens? Or maybe a mix of “2001: A House Odyssey” and “The Matrix,” proposing that all of us run on pre-programmed concepts about the right way to dwell till we change into acutely aware of them and go away them behind. Or possibly it will simply parody all these films with Barbie ending up again the place she began, simply extra content material to be one among many Barbies. Something is feasible at this level!
In fact, we cannot actually know what the extremely lauded “Barbie” script has in retailer for us till the film premieres on July 21. Till then, although, followers are positively free to overanalyze trailers, gown in Barbiecore style, make customized poster selfies, and bump all of the artists on the “Barbie” soundtrack to their hearts’ content material.
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