#Karen Gerwig

[chronophotographic-gun]

Desperate Living (1977)

[genevieveetguy]

. Every word I ever utter shall be considered a royal proclamation!

Desperate Living, John Waters (1977)

[killingfrankie]

might be getting a hamster. what do you guys think of the name Megan Thee Hamsturglar Reneé Laufey Tumblr Louderman Tina Wilbert Sawyer Janis Oscars Gerwig Hamilton Henningsen Woods World Burn Everything To Everyone Moana NYC Cravalho Grammy Gretchen Taylor Wieners Karen Shetty McAdams Pitch Perfect Gosling Lemonade Mouth Rebel Wilson Regina Lacrosse 8 Long Walks Raccoon Skateboarding Theatre Piano Snow Angel 00 Rapp UNO Evelyn Hugo Signed CD Fortnite Minecraft Tony Five Nights at Freddy’s R.I.P Twitter Coachella O2 Arena Broadway Sydney Madison Square Garden 1?

[cancmbyn]

An interesting read and reminder of Todd Haynes’ early work using Barbies; Very much in contrast with Greta’s recent film.

Trigger warning for anorexia and body images issues within.

Link to the film

[beaujagr]

complaints and spoilers for Barbie in tags

I feel SO confused about all the "the men are mad about Barbie" posts because I have seen an expected number of guys pulling the expected shit, but INFINITELY MORE cis white women both missing the point and complaining about basically everyone -- and no one at all pointing out their complaints.

[mangle-my-mind]

I've been waiting for Greta Gerwig and Todd Haynes to discuss the Superstar->Barbie legacy :)

[familyabolisher]

I've walked past the Barbie branded selfie booth, sat through the reel of old commercials that precede the previews, and watched Margot Robbie learn to cry, and I’m still not sure what “doing the thing and subverting the thing,” which Greta Gerwig claimed as the achievement of Barbie in a recent New York Times Magazine profile, could possibly mean. This was the second Gerwig profile the magazine has run. I wrote the first one, in 2017, which in hindsight appears like a warning shot in a publicity campaign that has cemented Gerwig’s reputation as so charming and pure of heart that any choice (we used to call them compromises) she makes is justified, a priori, by her innocence. This is a strange position for an adult to occupy, especially when the two-hour piece of branded content she is currently promoting hinges on a character who discovers that her own innocence is the false product of a fallen world. But—spoiler alert!—the point of Barbie’s “hero’s journey” is less to reconcile Barbie to death than to reconcile the viewer to culture in the age of IP.

“Doing the thing and subverting the thing”: I haven’t finished working out the details, but I think the rough translation would be Getting rich and not feeling feel bad about it. (Or, for the viewer: Having a good time and not feeling bad about it.) One must labor under a rather reduced sense of the word “subvert” to be impressed with poking loving fun at product misfires such as Midge (the pregnant Barbie), Tanner (the dog who poops), and the Ken with the earring, especially given that the value of all these collectors’ items has, presumably, not decreased since the film opened. Barbie may feature a sassy tween sternly informing Robbie’s Stereotypical Barbie that the tiny-waisted top-heavy billion-dollar business she represents has made girls “feel bad” about themselves, but if anyone uttered the word “anorexia,” I missed it. (There was a reason Todd Haynes told the story of Karen Carpenter’s life and death with Barbies, and it wasn’t because an uncanny piece of molded plastic has the magical power to resolve the contradictions of girlhood and global capitalism.) There’s a bit about Robbie going back into a box in the Mattel boardroom, but Barbies aren’t made in an executive suite; they come from factories in China. On the one hand, it’s weird for a film about a real-world commodity to unfold wholly in the realm of ideas and feelings, but then again, that’s pretty much the definition of branding. Mattel doesn’t care if we buy Barbie dolls—they’re happy to put the word “Barbie” on sunglasses and T-shirts, or license clips from the movie for an ad for Google. OK, here’s my review: When Gerwig first visited Mattel HQ in October 2019, the company’s stock was trading at less than twelve dollars a share. Today the price is $21.40. 

Christine Smallwood, Who Was Barbie?

[allsadnshit]

Losing your fav woman celebrities to a really bad girlbossified pixie cut to signify their new edgy era is so tragic and happens almost every time

It's never a cute little Winona Ryder style it's always some lopsided modern Karen made to look edgy and I can never see them the same afterwards

(Greta Gerwig)

The only one that was ever good was emma watson's after she finished Harry Potter....those teen vogue pixie cut debut pics SMACKED

[foxes-that-run]

Cartier Necklace

Taylor was first seen wearing a vintage Cartier Necklace on 31 May 2023. The necklace is a $27k USD 1980's necklace. As style bloggers commented at the time Cartier had not been part of her street style before. At the VMAs in late 2022 she commented that she does not buy expensive jewellery, then started wearing this very expensive piece, in what seems to be important occasions. Of 8 wears have been at two weddings, twice in a photo that refers to Harry and twice close to Haylor anniversary's.

8 May 2023 - Coincidentally the day before Taylor was first seen wearing the necklace a photo of Harry outside Cartier was shared. Harry had been wearing the same shirt in a fan photo on 8 May. After which he was MIA on a tour break. Between when this photo was taken and it appeared online both he and Taylor were MIA on a tour break.

Soon in June after a fan commented on a Haylor Tiktok (since deleted and reposted) that her father had driven Harry to Taylors RI house 'recently' which may be false, there were also media reports they were hanging out.

20 May - their anniversary, Taylor played Invisible and Question...? Before question she said: "I have just never been this happy in all my life. I just want to thank you for being part of that. It's not just he tour, I just feel like my life finally makes sense. So I want to play this song that brings back a lot of happy memories."

On the same day, their anniversary, and the anniversary of HH Harry posted "I've never been happier than making this album"

But - Matty Healy? IMHO it was over Maylor/Haylor timeline and the promotion for Waglor had not started.

Perhaps Taylor bought the necklace for herself, it's interesting that she wears it for special occasions and that it appeared after Harry was seen near the store and then near Taylor.

31 May 2023 - At Electric Lady Studios the day she is thought to have recorded Fresh Out the Slammer

4 July 2023 - At Rhode Island in her belated Independence Day post, reminiscent of a photo linked to Harry's Mermaid Tattoo.

19 August 2023 - Jack and Margarets Wedding

19 September 2023 - Laura Dern, Greta Gerwig & Zoe Kravitz for Dinner in NYC

3 December 2023 - Kansas City Chiefs versus Green Bay Packers (Harry's team) in Green Bay, where Taylor dressed in a way that looks like the As It Was Music Video

2 May 2024 - At the afterparty of the Mahome's Charity Gala

18 May 2024 - In the pap boat ride at Lake Como, the last time Travis was seen for 6 weeks.

8 September 2024 - Owner of Electric Lady Studios, Lee Foster's wedding with model Karen Elson.

[caputvulpinum]

I remember the movie basically making the old point about “and there’s no women CEO’s :c” and it was like, are you kidding me? The planet is dying and your solution is to make sure some of the CEO’s destroying it are girlbosses?

Loved the movie mostly, especially the set design, but it felt like the message was an afterthought because it was the weakest part of the movie.

I've walked past the Barbie branded selfie booth, sat through the reel of old commercials that precede the previews, and watched Margot Robbie learn to cry, and I’m still not sure what “doing the thing and subverting the thing,” which Greta Gerwig claimed as the achievement of Barbie in a recent New York Times Magazine profile, could possibly mean. This was the second Gerwig profile the magazine has run. I wrote the first one, in 2017, which in hindsight appears like a warning shot in a publicity campaign that has cemented Gerwig’s reputation as so charming and pure of heart that any choice (we used to call them compromises) she makes is justified, a priori, by her innocence. This is a strange position for an adult to occupy, especially when the two-hour piece of branded content she is currently promoting hinges on a character who discovers that her own innocence is the false product of a fallen world. But—spoiler alert!—the point of Barbie’s “hero’s journey” is less to reconcile Barbie to death than to reconcile the viewer to culture in the age of IP.

“Doing the thing and subverting the thing”: I haven’t finished working out the details, but I think the rough translation would be Getting rich and not feeling feel bad about it. (Or, for the viewer: Having a good time and not feeling bad about it.) One must labor under a rather reduced sense of the word “subvert” to be impressed with poking loving fun at product misfires such as Midge (the pregnant Barbie), Tanner (the dog who poops), and the Ken with the earring, especially given that the value of all these collectors’ items has, presumably, not decreased since the film opened. Barbie may feature a sassy tween sternly informing Robbie’s Stereotypical Barbie that the tiny-waisted top-heavy billion-dollar business she represents has made girls “feel bad” about themselves, but if anyone uttered the word “anorexia,” I missed it. (There was a reason Todd Haynes told the story of Karen Carpenter’s life and death with Barbies, and it wasn’t because an uncanny piece of molded plastic has the magical power to resolve the contradictions of girlhood and global capitalism.) There’s a bit about Robbie going back into a box in the Mattel boardroom, but Barbies aren’t made in an executive suite; they come from factories in China. On the one hand, it’s weird for a film about a real-world commodity to unfold wholly in the realm of ideas and feelings, but then again, that’s pretty much the definition of branding. Mattel doesn’t care if we buy Barbie dolls—they’re happy to put the word “Barbie” on sunglasses and T-shirts, or license clips from the movie for an ad for Google. OK, here’s my review: When Gerwig first visited Mattel HQ in October 2019, the company’s stock was trading at less than twelve dollars a share. Today the price is $21.40. 

Christine Smallwood, Who Was Barbie?

[pawsome-queerantaine]

Wether you like the Barbie movie or not... the guts it takes to make a movie like this while all of us can feel something is shifting in our society... wow!

The messages of this movie are right in your face and I have heard plenty of people complain about it but why? I don't see them complain when yet another creepy dude is chasing me down the streets. I don't see them complaining when yet another Karen is criticising my style. I don't see them complaining when yet another guy demands I date him and love him because if I don't I am a prude or cockblocker.

They are complaining about the movie being right in your face because in our society they can deny those things being out there. They can somehow pretend it's not happening. We even go so far to romanticise toxic behaviour by making it the most romantic story ever in whatever movie or book.

In the movie theatre while staring at a big screen they can't deny any message brought by Barbie. It's a wake-up call. It's a message they don't feel comfortable thinking about because they never had to or at least had the privilege to ignore it.

If you don't fit in the box you are the weird one. However this time the movie made those who do fit the box the toxic and/or weird ones. How about that? In this movie the cis men don't get away with their horrible behaviour. In this movie the people constantly critising your body are suddenly called out for being rude and dehumanising. We finally have a movie showing how disgusting it in fact is.

So thank you Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach for writing such an eye opening yet still hilarious screenplay. Thank you to every single person who worked on costumes, decor, filming, editing, catering, composing acting and so on. You all worked on a movie that will go into history, that's already breaking so many records. Wherever this shift will go, I already know it inspired plenty of people not to swallow whatever patriarchy is feeding us. We don't have to sit in a box. They can keep the box if they cherish it so much.

[cantstoptheimagines]

i don't think enough people are talking about that most of the barbie movies were directed by men. while the scripts were usually written by women (not always), the directors were overwhelmingly men.

apart from karen j. lloyd and cassandra mackay/cassi simonds, greta gerwig is the third woman to direct a barbie film. out of the line-up of 43, there are now only four barbie films that have been directed by women, two of which were directed by the same person.

barbie and the secret door (2014) and barbie in rock 'n royals (2015) were both directed by karen j. lloyd,

barbie & chelsea: the lost birthday (2021) was directed by cassandra mackay/cassi simonds,

and the barbie movie (2023) was directed by greta gerwig

let that sink in.

[multiverseofseries]

Mean Girls (2024)

Cady Heron è un'adolescente semplice e genuina, cresciuta in Kenya dalla madre ricercatrice che l'ha istruita in casa. Ora finalmente Cady riesce a frequentare un normale liceo, ma non è il paradiso che immaginava, bensì un microcosmo popolato da cricche rivali: gli atleti, i nerd (o "matleti"), e soprattutto le Plastic, tre ragazze iper popolari capitanate dalla "predatrice dominante" Regina George. Inizialmente Cody viene accolta dalle Plastic, ma quando Regina si accorge che la nuova arrivata è attratta (e forse anche ricambiata) da Aaron, l'ex della "predatrice", parte al contrattacco. Alle sue azioni ostili rispondono Cady e i suoi due amici "sfigati", la ribelle Janis e il gay Damian, che imbastiscono una vendetta nei confronti di Regina. Ma l'ascesa di Cady nei ranghi del microcosmo liceale avrà il suo lato oscuro e coinvolgerà l'intera scolaresca in una battaglia per la popolarità che ha molto a che fare con l'insicurezza dell'età adolescente e che riguarda, o quantomeno ha riguardato, quasi tutti noi.

Questo Mean Girls è il remake, a distanza di vent'anni esatti, della commedia omonima del 2004, diventata un cult in tutto il mondo e già oggetto di un sequel, Mean Girls 2, nel 2011.

La sceneggiatura, come quella originale, è firmata dall'attrice e autrice comica Tina Fey, che riprende anche il ruolo della professoressa Norbury, e segue esattamente la stessa trama, aggiungendo però alcune novità: molti numeri cantanti e ballati, dato che, oltre che al film originale, questo Mean Girls attinge anche al musical di Broadway che ne è scaturito nel 2017; una maggiore attenzione all'inclusività, rendendo ad esempio Janis ispanico-hawaiana, Damian afroamericano, e la Plastic Karen angloindiana; rinominando la cricca delle ragazze popolari Plastics, appunto, invece di Barbie, alla luce del successo planetario del film di Greta Gerwig; aggiungendo alcune guest star nei ruoli chiave dell'allenatore Carr (Jon Hamm), della madre di Cady (Jenna Fischer) e di quella di Regina (Busy Philipps); e inserendo i social media e le nuove tecnologie nella fibra della sceneggiatura e della cinematografia.

Il problema è proprio quello di aver voluto rimettere mano a un cult movie senza aggiungere molto altro che questi accorgimenti, dei quali gli unici interessanti sono l'introduzione delle canzoni e dei balletti, ben interpretati e coreografati, e la scelta di affidare il ruolo di Regina, nel film originale incarnata memorabilmente da Rachel McAdams con la perfida delle piccolette ambiziose, dalla giunonica Reneé Rapp, già protagonista in questo ruolo nel musical teatrale, che conferisce al suo personaggio un'aura da bulla fisicamente minacciosa, e contrasta lo stereotipo della bella della scuola filiforme, lanciando un'implicita frecciata al body shaming.

Ma non basta ricalcare la trama e alcune battute iconiche del film originale per giustificare questo remake che sembra la copia sbiadita del suo predecessore, perché ne edulcora la cattiveria del titolo e trasforma un archetipo cinematografico in un adattamento che sembra pronto per il piccolo schermo (infatti era inizialmente previsto come contenuto per la piattaforma, solo dopo si è deciso di mostrarlo anche nelle sale cinematografiche). Anche l'inserimento nel cast di alcuni volti televisivi (ad esempio Bebe Wood nel ruolo della fragile Gretchen e Christopher Briney in quello di Aaron) denuncia una vocazione da visione domestica più che da grande schermo.

Peccato, perché il senso di un'operazione del genere poteva essere quello di rivoluzionare l'originale rendendolo più aderente alla contemporaneità, non solo con piccoli accorgimenti di superficie ma con una vera riscrittura che includesse tutte le ambiguità di quella political correctness che l'originale allegramente ignorava: qualcosa come la commedia Bottoms, che davvero ha cercato di capovolgere i topos del genere.

[comfortcomes]

<3 how greta gerwig was considered like a pretentious karen for the last 5 years during her serious movie phase of the hype-backlash-comeback cycle and now she gets to be beloved again because she’s like omg i’m a girly girl who just loves pretty dolls and pink 🥰

[byneddiedingo]

Travis Fimmel and Greta Gerwig in Maggie's Plan (Rebecca Miller, 2015) Cast: Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Travis Fimmel. Screenplay: Rebecca Miller, based on a story by Karen Rinaldi. Cinematography: Sam Levy. Production design: Alexandra Schaller. Film editing: Sabine Hoffman. Music: Michael Rohatyn. Director-screenwriter Rebecca Miller keeps the comedy in Maggie's Plan in check, so that scenes that might have been hilarious wind up amusing, and scenes that might have been amusing take on an edge of melancholy. In the end, the film feels a bit overburdened by the necessity of working out the titular plan: a career woman who, in midlife crisis, decides to have a child with a sperm donor. That's the contemporary equivalent of the kind of formulaic dilemma that used to spin the plots of Doris Day's movies. As Maggie (Greta Gerwig) is going through her plan to inseminate herself with sperm donated by the agreeable, if somewhat oddball Guy (Travis Fimmel), she manages to fall for a married man, John (Ethan Hawke), who is at odds with his wife, Georgette (Julianne Moore). This leads to a comic scene that I don't think I've ever encountered in another film: Having just inseminated herself, Maggie hears the doorbell and crabwalks her way to answer it, only to have a rather messy accident when she stands up. It's John, of course, there to proclaim his love for her and to sleep with her. We jump ahead three years: John and Maggie are married and have a little girl. But as their marriage goes sour, and we realize that John and Georgette were really meant for each other after all, another plan is introduced: Georgette and Maggie plot to undo what has been done. Gerwig, Hawke, and Moore are marvelous performers, but there's something off about Miller's touch, so that the humor is lost in the mechanisms of the plot. The ending kicker, however, in which Maggie realizes that Guy, and not John, is the actual father of the child, is nicely done.

[sunnywestcoastrp]

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Wanted FC’s: Samara Weaving, Saoirse Ronan, Phoebe Tonkin, Emma Mackey, Greta Gerwig, Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, Will Smith, Leo DiCaprio, Jai Courtney, Karen Fukuhara, Cara Delevingne.. any of her costars!

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