Margot Robbie Is Taking a Break From Acting After Barbie in Case People Are Sick of Her
Margot Robbie Is Taking a Break From Acting After Barbie in Case People Are 'Sick' of Her - IGN
Well good on Margot for taking some time off to focus on other things. Still being in the industry but avoiding the spotlight sounds like a good way to remain grounded.
You mean nude, don't you
I mean when you've been played with by millions of girls for decades, you'd worry people were sick of you too.
Kudos for her for still looking young despite being a teenager since 1959.
Also because she's sick of the people I bet. I wouldn't blame her. We can be a bunch of fuckers as a species.
Plus, I bet she made enough from that movie to basically disappear for a year or two.
Samara Weaving liked that.
Jaime King and Jaime Pressly be like "we still exist too"
I've got to say, I enjoyed Barbie more than I expected to. Maybe because I was jetlagged out of my brain on a 13-hour flight when I watched it, but I was probably disturbing my neighbors the amount I was giggling and trying not to burst out laughing. They did a great job of touching on serious issues in an informative and entertaining manner without being preachy or annoying, too. Fantastic movie!
"How can you do this to us Margie ? We've already written Barbie 3 !" - Warner exec
I know I didn't watch it or have any interest to do so. But... Were the assumptions I have about it true? In that just like the woke craze a few years back, its message backfired by essentially smacking the pendulum from where ever it was between masculism and feminism, to the extreme edge of feminism. This, to the point it becomes toxic, and making it what it seems now, the butt of a joke?
I also understand the primary purpose of the movie was likely for repopularizing the line of toys. It still had some form of message.
ETA: this was an honest question and in no way was implying any disrespect to women, the feminism movement, or the woke culture. I've just seen a bit of criticism and countless jokes that make fun of the film, that it becomes nearly impossible to to discern the truth.
Also with Mattel being the primary funding, I assumed that greed took over and they diverged from the original purpose of the product line and just created what seemed like a polarizing story on the outside to help sell.
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
Could you define woke?
Narrator: they can't
Opposite of slept.
Acceptance and popularizing of previously stigmatized groups of people and cultures who underwent many social injustices, such as people of a different race, neurodivergants, or LGBTQ to name a few.
A few years ago media really started to shoehorn the culture into script writing to the point a show or movie, rather than just telling a story, made it a platform for culture. While I appreciated that these groups were gaining acceptance, I felt it could too much too soon, and the more closed-minded people would just close off even more.
The messages got from it are:
"the patriarchy" is not a good thing, but even the idealized "the matriarchy" has problems too, and whatever we have going on right now isn't really working
a man's value is inherent to himself, it doesn't come from a job or a relationship. (I suppose this applies to women too, but it was Ken who had to learn this lesson).
Men need to support each other more rather than compete with each other
Societal expectations for women are impossible to attain
Unfortunately the movie for me was ruined in the end when they decided to make Barbieland a matriarchy once again.
After both systems failed it would have made sense for them to work and rule together. The sad part is that the movie seemed to work towards that outcome until the very end.
I stopped reading your comment with you used the word woke.
Your assumptions aren't true at all. It looks like it's heading that way part-way through the film, when Barbie and Ken are at odds with each other. And then it goes ahead and empowers all the men as well. It's certainly critical of toxic masculinity but I think it's empowering for both men and women overall. Obviously your Ben Shapiro types were offended by it because it's not trying to appeal to incels, and it is woke, but not in a bad, inauthentic way.
I don't think it's really supposed to re-popularise the line of toys either. Sure, people who liked the toys when they were young will probably find details they appreciate, but it's not meant to sell the toys. It's not aimed at the demographic (young girls, typically) who would want to buy dolls. It's not an R-rated film, of course, but I'd say anyone under 12 probably isn't going to get much out of it, and it's probably much more enjoyable for adults overall. It's pretty philosophical and thoughtful, and has quite a lot of metaphors and symbolism that would be lost on younger viewers.
Rather than aiming to sell toys, the film is the product; it's a way to make money with the Barbie brand from audiences outside of the toy-buying demographic. And it achieved that (by being a good film).
Awfully fully formed question-but-really-I-wasn't-interested-anway you got there.
It was more an honest question with an attempt to explain the reasoning behind the preconception and implying an expectation of answers supporting what I've heard.
My OCD tends to bleed over into my writing style. I've just had to grow to accept it.
Hrm, so taking your post serious for a second, you could not be more wrong if you tried.
Including the toy thing, the whole movie basically dunks modern Mattel every time it can, continuously, and only praises the original inventor of Barbie and her ideals for the toy. But specifically not what the modern C-suites made of it.
The movie is also extensively about learning to survive to insane and unachievable expectancies modern society has for women, and at the same time about men learning to define their self-worth from within instead of via competition and rivalry.
It's... damn smart, honestly. Far more so than the movie has any right to be. Left me utterly impressed.
(Oh and "woke" is just the past form of waking, you're using it wrong)
This movie captures the female experience better than any movie I've ever seen. The nuance was amazing. And for those who didn't get the nuance, there is a big speech at the end to bring you up to speed. Plus you get to look at Margo Robbie for 2 hours (if you are into that sort of thing). I recommend checking it out.
Your assumption could not be more wrong. The movie empowers men and women and is very entertaining at the same time. You should try watching it.
"Honest questions" don't use loaded language like "woke".
I was after her as Harley, but not barbie...
The press junket for Barbie seemed pretty nonstop for months.
Perhaps Ms Robbie is sick of us, too.
To tell you the truth, no Barbie shilling or character actress or any of my other running gags here.
Yeah, especially after the last weeks. I'm sorry.
I wish there was more