How to Make a Movie More Politically Viable

Meet your audience where they are, give them a surrogate. If you want to affect change, you got to reach some people who don't think like you. And this connects to the structure of Barbie, right? Barbie is a wild, ridiculous joyride in primary colors. But also because if you make Barbie serious, as opposed to goofy, the moment Barbie gets serious, you have lost a huge part of your audience. This movie needs to feel like a joyride, even though it's dealing with serious political stuff. Because it's a joyride,. they get to break a million rules. We get musical numbers. We get magical realism. We get expressionistic sequences. We get crazy