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Ranking the Kens in Barbie based on overall ‘kenergy’
1. Ken
- little cowboy hat
- doctor who
- just misses his best friend barbie 🥹
8.5 out of Ken
2. Ken
- less fun lil cowboy hat
- gets to be douche bro president Ken
- related to Chris evans maybe?
- gives Ryan gosling a lil kiss
5 out of Ken
3. Ken
- back flipping Ken
- excellent dancer
- gives serious steal ur girl energy
- possibly the most sexually aggressive of all the Kens (I am referencing his interactions with Ryan Gosling Ken exclusively, the energy was palpable)
- served some mad cunt
9 out of Ken
4. Ken
- possibly my favourite Ken
- always has Ken’s back
- very goofy dancer 💜
- played drums when all the other Ken’s played guitar
- recipient of the holy pimp coat
- almost certainly in love with his best friend Ken
10 out of Ken
5. Ken
- THE Ken
- he’s kenough 🥲
- lost interest in the patriarchy when he found out it wasn’t about horses
- instigated the greatest out of nowhere dance number in a film I’ve ever seen
- buuuuuuuut also enslaved a bunch of women so…
-10 out of Ken (still love him tho)
We need an equivalent of legally blonde for every movie genre. Give us gritty police dramas with a new generations of Elle woods learning to batter drug lords with phone books. A murder mystery but the detective is an unsuspecting sorority girl who loves pink and think poroit is a kind of shampoo but turns out to be frighteningly adept at solving clues. Just an army of gorgeous women in cute little outfits proving to the world why barbie is an expert in every profession
Barbie being an eldritch terror wasn’t on my bingo card for 2023 but let’s fucking gooo
The Barbie movie has made me openly weep multiple times, and I'm all here for it. Greta Gerwig is an absolute genius.
i love the fact that Weird Barbie is weird.
And I mean this in the sense that, they show the impact the real world has had on this toy, this inanimate object that those playing with viewed as devoid of emotion, incomprehensibly inhuman.
But the alterations, the pain she’s endured has stuck with her, become a part of her. People label her by her struggles, by what she’s been through. Externally, she is different, and it doesn’t matter how she feels internally because she will forever be labeled by her struggles.
She’s embraced it and she’s accepted this piece of herself as a whole, even helping those who perceive themselves as “weird” or “malfunctioning”. She knows how it feels to be out of place, to be thought of in this negative light because you don’t adhere to how Barbie is meant to be — perfect.
She has struggled and her struggles make her wonderful, make her the person she is, that is her real beauty
Yet in the end, Weird Barbie is as much a Barbie as anyone else, as much an embodiment of perfect as one can hope to achieve.
Barbie is Barbie, and no matter her struggles, she is perfect as she is, because perfection is a state of mind. Perfection is what you make it. It is flaws, it is pain and tears. But it also love, it is light and it the happiness you feel knowing you are with flaw — but flaw is what makes you unapologetically yourself, it is what makes you Barbie.
Thank you Greta.
About to watch Barbie!!!
About to watch Barbie!!!
I also love how the Barbie movie takes back Barbie as a positive symbol from all the people who told us that playing with Barbie was such a weak and girly thing to do and that we weren’t strong enough if we did play with her. Basically making her a negative thing. Ruth Handler made Barbie to inspire us girls and to help us feel like we could accomplish anything. I’m so happy the Barbie movie has decided to highlight that as a part of the movie. 🥰
ok, like I get that casting Meryl Streep as Aslan is a weird choice and, perhaps, even a bit troubling, but I truly don’t believe that the most important qualification for an actor voicing Aslan is “have a penis”. Not overjoyed about it but also I know the movies will not stand or fall based on this one casting decision
Oppenheimer? More like open that movie theater I’m watching Barbie
barbie (2023) moodboard
Little Women (2019) v. Book: the Timelines
I knew before seeing Little Women (2019) that it was going to have a start in the middle approach, something like Jane Eyre (2011) did. Writer/Director Greta Gerwig said (in “A New Generation of Little Women”, the first special feature on the dvd) that she wanted to feature the characters as adults, that in the second part of the book, the chapters are "the adult answer to what happened in childhood", and the film flashes back and forth to line up the storylines, although in this interview, at 1:50 she describes it as two timelines that are both moving forward.
When is Little Women set?
Published 1868 (Book/Part 1, Chapters 1-23) & 1869 (Book/Part 2, Chapters 24-47)
Civil War took place April 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865
Here's a proposed book timeline for the whole series concerning the Marches.
For my book to movie comparison I watched the dvd with subtitles, and text searched lines in the Ebook on Project Gutenberg. You can also search the text in Apple Books and Kindle (and I assume whatever other ebook formats exist) which also have free editions.
I did not make notes of where changes to character or plot were made, just tracking the movie timelines in comparison to book timeline
Timeline 1 (because that's where the film starts) is the later years (Book Part 2)
Timeline 2 is the earlier years (mostly Book Part 1, but towards the ends it catches up with the beginning of Timeline 1, including content from Book Part 2)
Movie: the dvd "scenes" seem to cut in the middle of story scenes, so I've tried to indicate where there's overlap
Scene/Chapter 1 (00:00:00)
Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 34, 33 Jo
Scene/Chapter 2 (00:06:03)
Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 31 (references), 37 (quotes), 26 (references) Amy
00:08:40 -Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 28 Meg
00:09:40 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 (no particular reference except her sisters living away - home, Beth playing piano, .
00:10:11 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 33-34 (but no particular reference) Jo and Bhaer at theater and a dance.
Scene/Chapter 3 (00:12:05)
Timeline 2: "7 years earlier, Concord, Massachusetts" - Book Part 1 Chapters 4 (references), 3 (quotes), 1
00:17:53 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 33 (quotes), Jo (New York)
00:19:18 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 37 (ball), 39 (quoted) Amy (Paris)
00:21:26 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 34 (references) Jo (New York)
Scene/Chapter 4 (00:24:24)
Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 34 (references) Jo on her way home
Scene/Chapter 4, Scene/Chapter 5 (00:30:18)
00:25:10 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapters 2 (quotes), 1 (quotes), 13 (quotes), 6 (references), Part 2 - Ch 29 (references painting boots blue), Part 1 - Ch 7 (references), 5
Scene/Chapter 5
00:33:24 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 34 (references) Jo on her way home
Scene/Chapter 5, Scene/Chapter 6 (00:38:40)
00:34:04 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 Chapters 4 (quotes), 7 (quotes), 1 (references), 5 (quotes)
Scene/Chapter 6
Scene/Chapter: 6 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 34, Jo on her way home, post office/mail box
00:40:59 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapter 10 (quotes)
00:43:12 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 36
Scene/Chapter 6, Scene/Chapter 7 (00:47:07)
00:44:41 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapter 8
00:53:21 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 36
Scene/Chapter 7, Scene/Chapter 8 (00:57:36)
00:54:23 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapters 9 (quotes) Meg, 6 Beth (quotes)
01:01:24 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 28 Meg
Scene/Chapter 8, Scene/Chapter 9 (01:07:18)
01:03:15 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 39, Book Part 1 - Chapter 15 (references: making fortune, marrying for money) Amy
01:07:28 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapters 12 (references), 14 (quotes)
01:09:07 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 36, Jo and Beth
Scene/Chapter 9
01:10:05 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapters 4 (quotes), 15 (quotes)
01:13:36 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 39 (quotes), 41 (references)
Scene/Chapter 10 (01:16:25)
01:16:25 - Timeline 2: Book Part 2 - Chapter 26 (cast of Amy's foot), Book Part 1 - Chapters 16, 6 (quoted, Beth's slippers for Mr. Laurence, piano), 17 (quotes, scarlet fever)
Scene/Chapter 11 (01:20:08)
01:20:08 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 36 (quotes), Book Part 1 - Chapter 10 (quotes, Jo writing it), Book Part 2 - Chapters 42 (references) *costume trivia, I think Beth is wearing the same plaid top that Jo wore in the past and is wearing in the following flashback
01:24:34 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapter 18, Beth and Jo
01:22:03 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapters 19, 23 (referencing marrying well) Amy
01:23:39 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 41, Amy
01:24:29 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 40, 28
Scene/Chapter 12 (01:25:46)
01:25:46 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapter 18
01:26:02 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 40
01:26:09 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapter 20
01:26:40 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 40
01:28:00 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapter 22
Scene/Chapter 13 (01:29:37)
01:29:37 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 40
01:31:22 - Timeline 2: Book Part 2 - Chapters 25 (Meg's wedding), 23 (quotes), 29 (references), 30 (quotes)- *Amy still with her young hair and short dress, "free spinster and paddle my own canoe.” quote from an LMA journal.
01:36:04 - Timeline 2: Book Part 2 - Chapter 35 (quotes)
Scene/Chapter 14 (01:39:53)
01:39:54 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 42 (quotes), "all a woman is fit for" quote is from other LMA book, Rose in Bloom Jo
01:43:03 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 41, Amy
01:44:46 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2, Jo
01:45:12 - Timeline 2: Book Part 2 - Chapter 33, Jo (arrival in NY)
01:45:42 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 43
Scene/Chapter 15 (01:49:37)
01:49:38 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 43
01:50:47 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 42, 27 (writing)
01:54:23 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 47
01:56:04 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 34 (writing)
01:56:40 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 43
01:57:06 - Timeline 2: Book Part 2 - Chapter 33
01:57:39 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 43, 46, 44, mixed in with material drawn from Alcott's experience writing and publishing
Scene/Chapter 16 (02:06:22)
02:06:22 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 47, mixed in with material drawn from Alcott's experience writing and publishing
For reference, book chapter list:
PART 1 1 PLAYING PILGRIMS 2 A MERRY CHRISTMAS 3 THE LAURENCE BOY 4 BURDENS 5 BEING NEIGHBORLY 6 BETH FINDS THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL 7 AMY'S VALLEY OF HUMILIATION 8 JO MEETS APOLLYON 9 MEG GOES TO VANITY FAIR 10 THE P.C. AND P.O. 11 EXPERIMENTS 12 CAMP LAURENCE 13 CASTLES IN THE AIR 14 SECRETS 15 A TELEGRAM 16 LETTERS 17 LITTLE FAITHFUL 18 DARK DAYS 19 AMY'S WILL 20 CONFIDENTIAL 21 LAURIE MAKES MISCHIEF, AND JO MAKES PEACE 22 PLEASANT MEADOWS 23 AUNT MARCH SETTLES THE QUESTION PART 2 24 GOSSIP 25 THE FIRST WEDDING 26 ARTISTIC ATTEMPTS 27 LITERARY LESSONS 28 DOMESTIC EXPERIENCES 29 CALLS 30 CONSEQUENCES 31 OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT 32 TENDER TROUBLES 33 JO'S JOURNAL 34 FRIEND 35 HEARTACHE 36 BETH'S SECRET 37 NEW IMPRESSIONS 38 ON THE SHELF 39 LAZY LAURENCE 40 THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW 41 LEARNING TO FORGET 42 ALL ALONE 43 SURPRISES 44 MY LORD AND LADY 45 DAISY AND DEMI 46 UNDER THE UMBRELLA 47 HARVEST TIME
I will never be over the absolute irony of how this movie has been treated in the award shows. The golden globes, the critic choice awards...all we need is one more moment from the Oscars and we'll have a perfect trifecta of fuckass blindness.
Like seriously? "I'm Just Ken" was a song quite literally made to be an ironic incel anthem, and they gave that the spotlight? Don't get me wrong, Ryan Gosling gave an excellent performance but even the man himself was baffled.
Like look at his face. That is the look of a man who just realized he is quite literally living the reality of the movie he made and somehow everyone runs face first into the point, and right past it. He wants someone to say "You just got punked!" so bad.
RYAN GOSLING "I'm Just Ken" wins Best Original Song at the 29th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (January 14, 2024)
Barbie tem seu mundo perfeito em Barbieland, como todas as Barbies por lá. Mas um dia, em sua festa ela questiona sobre a morte, e coisas estranhas acontecem com ela.
Por isso ela vai precisar de ajuda, e vai atrás da Barbie estranha. Quando ela chega pra conversar com a Barbie estranha, ela diz: Que ela tem duas escolhas, continuar em Barbieland, ou ir para o mundo real e saber a verdade.
Aí começa a jornada da Barbie e Ken, que foi escondido no carro dela, para o nosso mundo, aonde eles vão descobrir diferenças entre a Barbieland e o mundo real.
O filme faz várias piadas e críticas sobre a Mattel, machismo, patriarcado e com a própria Barbie.
E teve um ponto que me chamou atenção e que muitos não entenderam, tem um certo exagero como muitos homens tratam a mulher, mas a própria diretora do filme disse que é de propósito mesmo.
Que muitos não entendem o que uma mulher passa na vida real e ficou escancarado, para que todo mundo entendesse, mas não quer disser que todos os homens são assim.
E trata-se também de mudança, porque só assim nós somos capazes de continuar buscando quem podemos ser.
Se não viveríamos eternamente numa caixinha a vida inteira como meros brinquedos realizando todos os dias as mesmas tarefas e acreditando que isso é felicidade.
Não só no mundo real, mas em Barbieland também, não é perfeito, tem que ter um equilíbrio em ambas as partes. Barbie mostra que a questão de gênero é muito mais que um problema social: é um problema existencial.
Não só coloca as mulheres numa caixinha que as impede de se tornar, de “ser”, como também impedem os homens do mesmo.
Barbie é sobre mudança e como lidamos com ela. É com a mudança que permite que nos tornemos, de fato, humanos.
Barbie contou com vários artistas da música para o CD, a minha favorita vocês podem ver aqui em baixo:
She makes me so happy
Like, she’s Lawyer Barbie. She isn’t fat Barbie or a Barbie that has anything to do with food. No, she’s smart and secure and a lawyer.
SHARON ROONEY as LAWYER BARBIE BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig
Anyone who wants to argue with anything said, leave my page. This is so fucking important and it isn’t okay for men to treat such influential female figures such as Barbie and the movie or Taylor Swift as objects to drag down.
jo koy was fucking awful at the golden globes.
Barbie was a movie that celebrated girlhood and womanhood while also managing to acknowledge the difficulties of being a woman. the rant by America Ferrera’s character says it best - to be a woman is to be everything all at once and never be good enough. and jo koy saw this movie and decided “nah fuck this shit” and declared it a movie based on a “plastic doll with big boobs!” after emphasising the importance of Oppenheimer? that completely undermines the statement that Barbie put out there, the relatability it found with its female audience and the hard work of everyone involved. it ignores all of that, and it is disgusting to see this blatant misogyny, especially towards a movie that tackles that very topic.
the Taylor Swift joke was unnecessary. you cannot deny that Taylor Swift is an incredibly influential woman, and it is so annoying seeing her still being dragged down for a low joke. all she did was attend the awards ceremony and her love life was dragged up - not to coo or celebrate - but to laugh at. to make fun of her. it’s been a repeating theme of her career - being asked about love when in fact she is, on her own, more influential than any of the men she’s dated. but it’s never about her, it’s always about them, because men can’t comprehend that women can and will exist without them. Taylor Swift deserves better, she had the right to be at this awards ceremony without being dragged into this misogynistic shit.
so fuck you, jo koy. you never deserved such a high-profile platform and should never have one again.
‘oscar nomination for ryan gosling but not for margot robbie or greta gerwig’ satire is dead and so is god
And on that note: happy international asexuality day!
barbie movie is releasing soon & i just remembered an anecdote from my childhood.
i grew up in a conservative town where gender roles & stereotypes were barely questioned. my neighbor was a boy. he was 5. i was 8. he walked into our living room as i was watching the beginning of barbie princess charm school. my grandmother came after a while & asked if he watched barbie & not ben 10.
"omg she's so cool she wiped the tables, cooked & served customers so fast in 10 seconds she's a superhuman!!" he exclaimed & continued watching as long as his attention span of a 5 y/o could take.
misogyny is not inherent. misogyny is taught. understand that.
greta gerwig really said. when this girl gets a little sad and confused by the weird and complicated and uncomfortable parts of being human and growing up, she meets god and sits at her kitchen table, drinks her tea, holds her hands. and she asks god if she’s allowed to be happy. and god tells her she doesn’t need her permission. she tells her she’s going to be okay.
All the animated Barbie movies made me what I am today🤌
What was I made for ? 💖🥺