Why does watching "Barbie" with 8.8 points break the defense? Cold knowledge and Easter eggs

Or give me the impression first, I give 9 points.

In fact, the movie is a bit preachy, and there are several scenes at the end that are a little awkward, although it does not affect the look and feel, but it disrupts the rhythm, and the overall is not so silky.

But such a daring movie also caused me to do a lot of thinking, the depth and topicality is even stronger than "Disappearing Her", I really think "Barbie" is rare.

This article is still a compilation of cold knowledge and Easter eggs, from which you can probably understand why the film is so good.

There are many spoilers, please watch carefully.

The film investment is as high as 100 million US dollars (it is also reported that it is 145 million)

Such a high cost is actually a bit of a mystery, after all, there are no traces of burning money in the places you can see, and the special effects part is also deliberately made into a cutout style.

The cost is set, art, costume design, soundtrack, salary... These general items.

And Warner shouldn't have to pay Mattel royalties, because Mattel Inc. is one of the production companies.

The most likely reason is that the film dragged on too long, resulting in many sunk costs.

The project was first officially announced in 2009, when the production company was Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures took over in 2014, and then Mattel withdrew the rights and chose to co-develop a live-action film with Warner.

The North American premiere exploded at the box office

Although released on the same day as "Oppenheimer", the two films had different audiences and did not cause box office diversion.

As early as last year, when the two films were set, some media predicted that this would be a week of blowout at the North American box office, an epic collision.

Considering that "The Flash", "Indiana Jones 5", "Crazy Element City" and other big productions have hit the street, the pre-screening expectation of "Barbie" is only 75 million US dollars, and "Oppenheimer" is 40 million.

Fortunately, although it caught up with the Hollywood screenwriters and actors strike, the publicity of the two films had been done almost before the actor strike, so the publicity did not have much impact.

The box office of both films in the first week should far exceed expectations, and with the contribution of the second week of "Mission Impossible 7", the North American box office this week may exceed 200 million US dollars, while the box office of "Barbie" is set to exceed 100 million.

The mainland has poor film scheduling and box office

The mainland was released on the same day and suffered the double blow of "The First Part of Fengsheng" and "Super Family", which can be regarded as a hellish opening, with only 2.4% of the film.

I went to see it on Friday, and I couldn't find a golden show in the whole of Suzhou, so I could only watch the midnight show at 23:20, and the three movie performances were already past 1 o'clock the next day.

The next day, "Super Power" quickly fell behind, "Chang'an 30,000 Li" returned to the single-day championship, and "Barbie" with excellent word of mouth, the ranking is gradually improving.

However, the final box office does not need to be expected to be too high, and the pre-screening media predicts 30 million to 90 million.

Song and dance movies, and women's movies, the audience is relatively narrow. Although the subject matter is also quite popular, in general, there is no big explosion gene in the mainland.

We can look at the arrangement and box office distribution, which are basically dominated by first-tier cities, and the sinking market is not interested in "Barbie" at all.

In contrast, we can look at the urban box office distribution of "Disappearing Her" today, which is very telling.

In addition, the fact that the single-day box office of "The First Part of Fengsheng" was surpassed by "Chang'an" shows that the recent cold of Hollywood blockbusters may not be a problem of "Hollywood", but a problem of "blockbusters".

Chinese audiences may really get tired of watching blockbusters.

Director Greta Gerwig, who directed "Miss Bird" and the 2019 version of "Little Women"

After watching two films, I know that Greta has two brushes, of which "Miss Bird" has been nominated for 2 Oscars, and "Little Women" is even mentioned in the Oscars.

And this time, in addition to being a director, she is also the screenwriter of "Barbie".

In addition, there are also many Oscar actors in "Barbie".

Narrator Helen Mirren won the 2007 Oscar for Best Actress for "The Queen".

Emerald Fennell, who plays a pregnant Barbie, is also an excellent screenwriter, and she won the 2021 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "The Girl with a Bright Future".

Commander Gao was nominated for the 2017 Oscar for Best Actor for "La La Land".

Margot was nominated for the 2018 Oscar for Best Actress for "I, Queen of Flowers" and nominated for the 2020 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for "Breaking News".

Such a lineup dooms "Barbie" to definitely not be simple.

Another screenwriter of the film, Noah Baumbach, is Greta's boyfriend, and the screenwriters' masterpieces include "Marriage Story" and "The Great Fox Dad".

Before watching the material of "Barbie", I always felt like a relatively young fairy tale color movie, referring to "Magic".

The middle section enters the real world and thinks that this is a feminist movie, although sharp, but there are also extreme places.

It was not until the end that it was discovered that "Barbie" was an affirmative action movie, and it was not right for women to become subordinate to men, and men should not be vassals of women.

So Korean male audiences don't understand how to watch "Barbie" break the defense, and the movie is far deeper than she seems.

Barbie's actor Margot Robbie is the soul of the film

She is not only the star, but also the producer, and Ken's actor, High Commander, was chosen by her.

She also revealed that when making the film, she turned over a "bucket list" written a long time ago, and one of the goals was to "get to know the high commander."

Margot is a long-time Barbie fan and received Barbie "Dreamhouse" as a Christmas present at a very young age.

She also asked Barbie's house to have a slide that led from her bedroom to the pool, which we also saw in the movie.

But she wasn't Barbie's first choice.

In December 2016, Sony announced that Amy Schumer would star Barbie, but it was attacked a lot because the image did not match Barbie. She withdrew from the project in March 2017, citing "scheduling conflicts."

In August, Sony confirmed that Anne Hathaway starred in Barbie, and it was scheduled to be released on August 8, 2018.

In January 2018, Sony extended the schedule to April 8, 2020, and a few months later Mattel withdrew the rights and chose Warner as the new production company.

In October 2018, the media broke that Margot would play Barbie, and in July 2019, the director and screenwriter confirmed that the project was finally on track.

The high commander took over Ken because of his daughter

According to Ryan Gosling on the show, he was very moved to see his daughter's Ken's doll lying face on the ground in the dirt, and felt that no one cared about Ken's character.

So he took a picture of Ken on the dirt and sent it to director Greta, saying, "I will be your Ken, and his story should be told."

The film also really justified Ken, borrowing Barbie's mouth to say that Ken should be himself, not Barbie's subordinate.

In addition, the performances of High Commander and Margot are very good, especially High Commander, very reductive, oily and cute, which can be regarded as capturing the essence of the character.

He participated in the recording of Disney's MMC show as a child, and when he played Ken, he borrowed some of his own performances from the time.

This is also the reason why Ken can only be played by High Commander, and throughout his resume, whether it is "Love Notebook", "La La Land" or "Blade Runner 2049", the performance has nothing to do with "oil".

This contrast is not objectionable.

This is the first Barbie live-action movie

Previously, Barbie characters also appeared in the "Toy Story" series.

Warner specially designed the logo of Death Barbie fans for the film

It is not so rare for film companies to make exclusive logos for films, such as "Zombie Land", which is often played with terriers. But it's not so common, and there is something to the film that can have this treatment.

Opening tribute to "2001: A Space Odyssey"

This scene is about the meaning and great influence of the birth of Barbie, inspiring generations of girls.

The film clearly has many homages to Barbie toys

For example, Barbie floated directly from the house to the ground because there were no stairs in the early "Dreamhouse".

And when playing Barbie, you move her directly from one point to another, and you don't need to obey any laws of physics.

And her feet off her shoes are also tiptoe, because this is how Barbie was designed in the early days. It wasn't until 2015 that Mattel launched a flat-footed Barbie, and since then Barbie can finally wear flat shoes.

Most of the characters in the film have corresponding doll archetypes, among which pregnant Barbie once caused great controversy

Because some thought it was encouraging teens to get pregnant and appear to be an unmarried single mother, Walmart removed the toy for this.

In fact, this doll named Midge is the "Happy Family" series launched by Mattel in 2003, Midge is an adult, and her husband is Ken's good friend Allen.

Mattel later redesigned the doll, stating in the packaging that Allen was the child's father, and made the wedding ring on Midge's hand more prominent.

Kate McKinnon's styling is a mockery of the Barbie doll who was treated roughly

Some children are very violent with dolls, and it is relatively common to apply and destroy Barbie's hair on their bodies.

Actress Kate is an "SNL" actor, and she co-starred in "Breaking News" with Margot in 2019, and there were many rival scenes at that time.

In that movie, she called Margot's character "anchor Barbie," which roughly translates to "anchor Barbie."

Actor Harley Neve, who plays Barbie the doctor, is transgender

And in 2022, Mattel also released Barbie, the first-ever transgender.

Deconstruct the real world through the Barbie world

Barbie and Ken enter the real world and discover that the status of men and women is completely reversed from the Barbie world.

The screenwriter and director use this contrast to deconstruct reality, and the status of men and women that we take for granted is very cleverly displayed through the contrast with the Barbie world.

And the real world in turn points out the abnormality of Barbie's world, and finally leads to the core of the movie, that is, everyone should be themselves and can be anyone you want to be, which raises the height of the movie a lot.

Ruth is the designer of Barbie and the co-founder of Mattel

Known as the "Mother of Barbie", she created the world's first Barbie doll in 1959 and died on April 27, 2002.

The meme of the guide version of "Justice League", I personally think there is actually no malice

First of all, both are Warner's works, and it is quite interesting to link them.

Secondly, the main creative team is mostly women, and has not participated in the resume of the DC series.

If it was instructed by Warner's top management to add it, I don't think this ridicule would be harmful. Because the whole "Barbie" satirizes too many things, including the top management of Mattel.

It can be considered that "self-blackening" is one of the DNA of this "Barbie", even if it satirizes "Justice League", it is Warner's self-blackening, not malicious to the movie or the director.

The ending song is the newly recorded "Barbie World"

The OST of "Barbie" is very, very good, and highly related to the plot.

Mark Rosen's "I'm Just Ken" was meant to be funny, and he didn't expect it to be included in the film when he created it.

As a result, the director liked the song, and coupled with the high commander's new interpretation based on the understanding of the mission, the song was greatly improved from the original version.

In addition, before I watched the movie, I wondered if "Barbie World" would appear in the film, and finally made me wait when the end credits came out.

This is a new rap version of Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj, and it sounds very sensible.

I have included the entire movie music in the playlist, and I guess I will listen to it for a long time.

Well, there is so much to talk about the movie "Barbie", there must be some cold knowledge that I have not mentioned, and friends are welcome to add.

Finally, to sum up, "Barbie" is definitely worth watching, especially the new generation of female audiences.

If the viewing base is large enough, the discussion will not be weaker than "Disappearing Her", and the level of film production is not at the same level.

Although there is still half a year, it is basically certain that "Barbie" is the first echelon movie in 2023, and even next year's Oscar is also very promising, especially in terms of costumes and art.

With the fermentation of word-of-mouth and the explosion of the North American box office, it may affect the mainland film arrangement and box office, but it is unlikely to be an exaggerated figure in the end.