That’s to be expected from the filmmakers behind movies such as Frances Ha, Lady Bird, Marriage Story and multiple Wes Anderson collabs.īut Barbie fans will be watching closely in the hopes that the film also honors the tropes, jams and dramatic stakes of the animated Barbie canon. Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are suspected to have drawn inspiration from cinematic gems such as Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and the ‘80s fish-out-of-water rom-com Splash (among other films listed on Margot Robbie’s “Watch for Barbie” Letterboxd list, R.I.P.). (These were also the years when songwriting stalwarts Amy Powers and Rob Hudnet pumped out arguably the biggest Barbie jams.) But it’s another real-life couple who have penned the new live-action Barbie, which is rollerblading its way onto neon-soaked big screens this July.
Many Barbie stans argue the best of the animated Barbie films were made during the Elana Lesser and Cliff Ruby years of the early 2000s, with some fans even briefly petitioning Mattel to let the pair write again.
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