[movie trailer] Barbie

[Arthur]

In cinemas Summer 2023

 

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If it's as tongue-in-cheek as it it looks then that could be quite good!

 

ETA - I may come to regret those words.

[LeMarchand]

If it's as tongue-in-cheek as it it looks then that could be quite good!

 

ETA - I may come to regret those words.

 

I have to admit that I wasn't particularly interested in the movie until that trailer, which makes it look more subversive than I was expecting.

 

Can't believe that they didn't go for this one for the music, though.

 

[Arthur]

Can't believe that they didn't go for this one for the music, though.

 

Aqua’s ‘Barbie Girl’ won’t be in the Barbie movie

 

... Ulrich Møller-Jørgensen, manager to Aqua’s lead singer Lene Nystrøm, said “the song will not be used in the movie.” Møller-Jørgensen did not expand on why “Barbie Girl” won't be in Barbie, but as Variety notes, it could have something to do with the 1997 lawsuit Mattel filed against the band for trademark violation. Along with its claims of copyright infringement, Mattel also argued that the sexual implications of Aqua’s song damaged the Barbie brand and the company’s marketing plans. Ultimately, Mattel’s initial suit was dismissed by a lower court, and its later appeal to the Supreme Court was rejected. It seems safe to say that the toy manufacturer’s feelings about the song have yet to change.

[LeMarchand]

Aqua’s ‘Barbie Girl’ won’t be in the Barbie movie

 

It doesn't look like the movie will be free of innuendo, though.

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[LeMarchand]

Sounds like they've buried the hatchet with Aqua!

[6Foot2]

Sounds like they've buried the hatchet with Aqua!

 

Link: ‘Barbie’ Soundtrack Announced: Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Nicki Minaj, Others – Rolling Stone

 

 

... Sadly, no sign of Aqua on the project. The previously unknown group from Denmark exploded when its cheeky track “Barbie Girl,” which included the unforgettable “life in plastic, it’s fantastic” bars, became a global sensation in 1997. The track was sampled in 2017’s “Not Your Barbie Girl” by Ava Max, who appears on Barbie: The Album ...

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Link: 'Barbie' production exacerbated a company's pink paint shortage - Los Angeles Times

 

If you’re going to make a Barbie movie, make it pink — very pink — so pink that it will wipe out an entire company’s global supply of pink paint.

 

That’s exactly what happened during production of the new Warner Bros. “Barbie” film, according to the company that supplied set designers.

 

“They used as much paint as we had,” Lauren Proud — vice president of global marketing at Rosco, which is known for its deep ties with Hollywood’s film and television industries — said Friday in an interview with The Times.

 

She was referring specifically to its supply of fluorescent pink paint, which was used for creating the sets for the film’s Barbieland.

 

The film’s production designer, Sarah Greenwood, spoke to Architectural Digest earlier this week about the immense amounts of pink that were required for the set. During the interview Greenwood, a six-time Oscar nominee, claimed the film had caused an international shortage.

 

“The world ran out of pink,” she told the magazine.

 

However, Proud said it’s not that simple. During “Barbie’s” production in 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic was jamming the global supply chain on a host of products and goods, including Rosco’s paint.

 

The company was also still recovering from the deep freeze that blanketed Texas in early 2021 and damaged vital materials used to create the paint. In short, Rosco was already operating with less paint than it was used to.

 

“There was this shortage,” Proud said, “and then we gave them everything we could — I don’t know they can claim credit.”

 

Proud acknowledged, though, that, “They did clean us out on paint.”

 

Even so, there was just enough to continue production on the film, which was mostly shot at at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the United Kingdom.

 

In the Architectural Digest interview, “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig said the pink paint was important in “maintaining the ‘kid-ness’” of the film’s aesthetic.

 

“I wanted the pinks to be very bright, and everything to be almost too much,” Gerwig said, emphasizing that she didn’t want to “forget what made me love Barbie when I was a little girl.”

 

Greenwood obliged, as evidenced in images seen in the film’s first full-length trailer, which reveal dollhouse-like mansions adorned with beds, a closet full of clothing accessories, stylish couches, dining tables, and a slide, all colored pink.

 

The cars that characters drive, the roads and the lamp posts that illuminate the way — all pink. The floors they dance on are, you guessed it, pink...

 

So, I guess it'll be (quite) pink, then...

 

[Arthur]

So, I guess it'll be (quite) pink, then...

 

Very!

 

Edited June 17, 2023 by Arthur

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"Barbie" is available to stream via Prime Video (included with Prime)