![]() ![]() ![]() For one, it is directed by Greta Gerwig, a filmmaker and actress adored by movie buffs, who directed the critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated films Lady Bird and Little Women. It has taken until the summer of 2023 for the very first Barbie movie to come out – and the new release will not disappoint. The famous command "be pretty and shut up!" would have been everywhere − on-screen and in real life.Īll this is pure speculation since the few attempts at a film adaptation never came to fruition. As for the actress playing the famous doll, she would have been mocked, reduced to the plasticized persona of a brainless beauty and quickly forgotten, except perhaps by a few cult fans of bad movies who would have idolized her. The movie would have been a pure marketing product, designed to encourage viewers to buy a plastic figurine on their way out of the theater. We would have immediately pictured a slim, blond actress portraying the same attitudes on screen as the doll made by Mattel since 1959. Thirty years ago, 20 years ago, maybe even 10 years ago, this sentence would have conjured up an entirely different image than it does today. The 33-year-old actress, in the highly anticipated summer movie directed by Greta Gerwig, challenges patriarchy with biting irony in an atmosphere too pink to be banal.Īn actress is playing Barbie on the big screen. ![]() ProfileFrom plastic perfection to empowered icon. ![]() Margot Robbie, a new kind of Barbie By Clément Ghys Published on July 18, 2023, at 5:44 am (Paris), updated on July 19, 2023, at 3:58 pm ![]()
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