Now that we’re in the midst of December, I believe we will safely say that Barbie was the film of the 12 months. The movie knocked it out of the proverbial park with a $1.4 billion field workplace take house that blew everybody away. The film adopted the basic doll, performed by Margot Robbie, who all of a sudden confronted emotions of existential dread, main her to the actual world the place she might kind out what it meant to be a girl. It was a lovely story that spoke to so many individuals, which of course means the studio needed to know if they may make a sequel out of it.
Robbie has spoken out beforehand about the chance, not ruling it out, however making it clear that a sequel was by no means thought of as they made the movie, which very a lot instructed a full story. Though nobody had actually been asking if that meant a Ken film was out of the query.
The movie’s director, Greta Gerwig, and her writing associate, Noah Baumbach, who co-authored the script, lately sat down with 60 Minutes at CBS, and they addressed simply that. First, Baumbach was requested what he thought of the thought of the Barbie film when Gerwig first approached him about it. He defined:
“I couldn’t even fathom it. And Greta wrote these pages…and I thought, ‘I can write this Barbie movie. I totally understand what this is.'”
Gerwig defined that the movie begins “very mechanically…like a clock” with Barbie and pals having fun with a picture-perfect day in Barbie Land. And then all of a sudden, there’s an existential disaster: Barbie asks, “Do you guys ever think about dying?”
That second in the film is the finish consequence of a writing course of that started with Gerwig penning a few early pages for the script and displaying them to Baumbach. In these early pages, Barbie meets an previous girl in her yard and is confronted by the thought of her personal mortality. Gerwig defined:
“Noah immediately understood what I was doing and was like, ‘You know, this is exciting and there’s a movie in here.'”
The writing duo additionally revealed how their writing course of informs their strategy to directing. Both Gerwig and Baumbach stated they like to stay to precisely what was written in the script with no substitutions on set when the film is filmed.
Gerwig stated that in the movies Lady Bird and Little Women, the whole lot was scripted, down to every “you know” and “um.” She says this degree of element is vital to retain the rhythm of a dialog that is been written and learn aloud a whole bunch of occasions earlier than the first body is shot.
“Once we have something that feels more like a script, then we start reading the whole thing out loud. We vetted the language ourselves, so we can hear if there’s a joke that’s repeated or a rhythm that’s off.”
Baumbach and Gerwig stated that when writing the Barbie script, they all the time had Ryan Gosling in thoughts to play Ken, even writing his full title subsequent to Ken’s strains in the first draft. When writing for the position of Ken, Baumbach and Gerwig got here up with a wealth of concepts they could not match into their last draft. In an earlier model of the script, they additional explored the “Ken effect” in the actual world and wrote a scene for the film through which Ryan Gosling performs himself.
“We had way too much material for Ken. We would write, and write, and write,” Gerwig defined. Baumbach interrupted and instructed Gerwig to not “give it away.” When requested by the CBS correspondent, “Would there ever be a Ken Movie?” Gerwig laughed and stated she could not touch upon that, however she did not rule it out utterly. “I mean, the truth is, you know…I guess we’ll see,” she stated with a smile.
Just like in Barbie, I don’t assume anybody had actually been serious about Ken! But his character has a lot he might nonetheless work via. If they find yourself making that film, I’ll completely be there for it.
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