Beyond the Screenplay

Episode 164: Barbie

Jul 28, 2023

01:32:15

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The End of the Summer Season

2min

The Story of Greta Gerwig's Barbie

3min

Will Ferrell: A Movie That Changed My Life

1min

The Matrix: A Feminist Fable

2min

Greta Gerwig's Barbie Land

4min

Greta Gerwigg's Toy Movie

5min

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

2min

Beyond the Screenplay: A Review

3min

10.

Ken and Barbie: A Movie Review

2min

11.

The Inciting Incident

2min

12.

The Barbie Versus: A Mirror Reflection of the Real World

2min

13.

The Importance of Imagining Barbie as an Autonomous Person

2min

14.

The Innocence of Barbie Land

3min

15.

The End of the World

2min

16.

The Subversive Movie

4min

17.

Barbie's Adventures in the Real World

2min

18.

The Mattel Barbie Movie

2min

19.

The End of Barbie's Journey

2min

20.

Barbie's Journey to Being Human

2min

21.

The Impossible Image of Barbie

3min

22.

Mattel's Character Trashing Barbie in the Movie

3min

23.

The Mother Daughter Relationship in Barbie

3min

24.

The Importance of Women in the Movie

2min

25.

The Meta-Ness of Barbie

2min

26.

The Impossibility of Being a Woman

2min

27.

The Ken of It All and the Ken of It All

3min

28.

The Importance of Being Validated by Your Obsessed Girl

1min

29.

The Importance of Deepening Relationships

2min

30.

The Godfather and Universal City

2min

31.

The Importance of References in Movies

2min

32.

How to Make a Movie About a Thing

3min

33.

The Importance of a Narrator in a Movie

2min

34.

The Narrative Shortcut to Barbie

2min

35.

How to Tell a Movie

2min

36.

The Refusal of the Call Back

3min

37.

Past Lives

2min

38.

In the Cut by Meg Ryan Mark Ruffalo

2min

39.

The Slacker Detective Movie

2min

40.

Silo and Black Mirror

2min

41.

Black Mirror: A Meta Conversation

2min

42.

Oppenheimer: A Film Club Meeting

2min

In our season finale, the BTS team discusses the juxtaposition between Barbieland and the real world, the similar conflict between Barbie and Ken's character arcs, and how Greta Gerwig manages to take a movie about Barbie and make it as thematically rich as it is pink.

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