The long-awaited “Barbie”, starring Margot Robbie in the title role and Ryan Gosling as Ken, is revealed in a brilliant first trailer, where a deluge of plastic and pink color succeeds a parody tribute to ” 2001, A Space Odyssey”.
Barbie with Margot Robbie, first images
By embarking on the first live-action film on the character of Barbie, Greta Gerwig could not approach the subject without a certain distance. The famous doll from the firm Mattel, which appeared in stores in 1959, is indeed one of the most iconic creations in pop culture and already has many adaptations in series and animated feature films. It also appears in Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3accompanied by her male counterpart Ken in the latter.
There is the toy and its history, its revolutionary and fantasized dimension, and its evolution which bears witness to the more global evolution of our societies. Thus, Greta Gerwig, accompanied by Noah Baumbach in writing, necessarily had to adopt a very marked bias.
From “2001” to the world of Barbie
Without giving a lot of details, the first trailer for Barbie fully assume a delightful second degree, and that in itself is quite enough. To introduce Barbie and pay homage to her imprint left in the culture, Greta Gerwig has indeed made a tribute to 2001, A Space Odyssey, repeating the famous introductory scene. Here, the monkeys are replaced by little girls. These, rather than discovering the black monolith of Stanley Kubrick’s film, admire a giant doll, the famous Barbie interpreted by Margot Robbie. Before grabbing their old dolls to smash them against each other.
This sequence precedes a few shots that are all seductive glimpses of Barbie and Ken in their world. Pink and neon, dance, strong interpretations… We can’t wait to discover more, which we hope won’t take too long when a tape is released. more extensive announcement. In the cast, around Robbie and Gosling, we notably find Michael Cera and Kate McKinnon, Will Ferrell, Emma Mackey, Issa Rae, America Ferrera and Hari Nef, Emerald Fennell, Rhea Perlman and Simu Liu.
