#barbie movie theory

[brainrot-hq]

Okay I mentioned having thoughts on Kate McKinnon Barbie and I want to talk about them.

I will say this is more pure speculation than theory, I don't really have anything to support this, and it was literally an idea I had in the shower lol

Okay, so Kate Barbie and Margot Barbie are the only only blonde Barbies (at least as far as we know), and I thought that that was an interesting choice.

Basically, I think that Kate Barbie may have been the main Barbie at some point, and found her way to the real world on her own, but it possibly was been a doll instead of a person? I'm not 100% sure on the way it would happen, but I think that she may have become something of an outcast, as we see, and then Margot Barbie (Bargot? Marbie?) either came into being/the universe created her or something and kind of took the place of main Barbie.

Or: maybe Kate Barbie was a doll that a child owned that somehow found its way into Barbieland, causing her to be the disheveled Barbie we see her as.

Idk this, again, is all speculation. It's basically me seeing one thing and taking in and running.

Let me know your thoughts!!

[awful-little-goose]

Wait- Barbie leaving Barbie land is literally the story of Adam

God’s first creation is left in paradise and given companionship through the form of the opposite gender (meant to assist and comply, like literally Eve was made for that after Lilith, the REAL first human female refused to submit to Adam), and after having eaten the fruit of knowledge (death thoughts) given to them by an external force, they’re forced to leave paradise accompanied by their companion and confront the harshness of the real world

And Barbie’s Apple is a greater understanding of existence /life + death thoughts, while Ken’s Apple is patriarchy and a complete reversal in power dynamics

[cluelessbird]

Barbie (2023) Plot Theory

Ok so the second trailer has come out for a couple of hours now. It still does not explicitly tell us the plot for the upcoming Barbie movie, but I have a theory about what it might be about:

So, when I was watching the movie, I got these weird "The Spongebob Squarepants movie (2004)" vibes, weird, I know. At first, I just thought it was because both had this self-aware humour but then I rewatched the trailer and it all made sense

(And no, this is not a Boss Baby tweet situation, I swear I have seen at least 2 more movies than Spongebob)

My theory starts here, where you can see a sign that says "Real World. This Way" Barbie and Ken are driving a car that seems to go towards the real world.

This is semi-confirmed by the official promo account for Barbie The Movie making a difference between Barbies and Kens and Humans. This means that Barbie's path crosses with humans, and it might not be too crazy to assume that through the "Real World" road.

This would contextualize the video of Margot Robbie and Ryan Gossling filming Barbie that became viral last year:

Here, all of the extras are wearing "real world" clothes, there is no color coordination or colorful outfits, and they stare at Barbie and Ken as if they'd seen an alien.

So by now, we have established that they go to the real world. The next question would be: why would Barbie go to the real world? Well, I did not need to look that far for that answer, because the new trailer's description gives us the answer:

"To live in a Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken."

So maybe the Barbie world with its colourful and gleeful cheer, and idyllic views becomes too stale for Barbie. Or maybe she has an identity crisis; as we see in the promos, all of the Barbies have a description: "This Barbie is a doctor", "This Barbie has a Pulitzer" What if Barbie wants to know who she is besides "just" Barbie?

OK OK but what about the Spongebob movie thing? I hear you say.

Well rewatching the second trailer for Barbie, it suddenly clicked. This movie, just like Spongebob, features two endearingly naive and charismatic characters going for a "big boy" adventure, where they go to the outside world, facing real-world problems and trying to overcome them to the best of their abilities.

Or maybe I just associated them because both of them have iconic cars idk

So in conclusion, Barbie the Movie will be a self-aware comedy about Barbie and Ken going to the real world, having comedy but also heartfelt moments between Barbie and the humans as they learn from each other and form a friendship for life.

But hey that's just a theory....a (MatPat if you're reading this please hire me) Barbie Theoryyyyyyy

Only one thing I am sure of, I smell a banger folks.

It's Barbin' Time!

[youngmasterwisdomperson]

In Barbie (2023), Barbie Land is presented in such a way as to suggest that it takes up a significant portion of Earth’s cognitive realm. And indeed, the various Barbies and Kens are in many ways similar in nature to Rosharan spren and other sentient idea-based splinters, including in their need for a powerful Connection with a human in order to take on more aspects of reality and manifest properly in the physical realm. This has numerous interesting implications in terms of the Barbie Movie’s otherwise unexplained magic system, not the least of which being that the ghost of Ruth is similar in numerous ways to a Nalthian Returned. In this essay I will-

[silvrnightingale]

The new Barbie movie convinced me that Legally Blonde takes place in the BCU (Barbie Cinematic Universe), with Elle Woods being a Barbie that somehow escaped into the Real World.

And she has no memory of her life as Barbie.

[pleading-the5th]

ALLAN CONSPIRACY: WHY CAN ALLAN HEAR THE NARRATOR?? DOES IT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH HIM GOING TO THE REAL WORLD??

(not spoilers, all from trailers)

[ghost-in-the-corner]

Okay. Okay I'll admit it:

I cried at Barbie.

And I have no shame.

[trashpandafeminism]

As someone with ADHD and chronic fatigue, I know what it's like to feel like two opposing forces are fighting for control. On one hand, ADHD craves constant movement and stimulation, making it hard to sit still for long periods of time. On the other hand, fatigue demands rest and stillness, leaving you feeling drained and exhausted. It's a constant battle between restlessness and exhaustion, and finding a balance can be a struggle.

Some days, my ADHD takes over and I can't sit still for more than a few minutes. Other days, my fatigue is so overwhelming that even getting out of bed feels like a struggle. It can be frustrating and demotivating, especially when you're trying to get work done or accomplish your goals.

If you're feeling this way, know that you're not alone. It's okay to take breaks when you need to, and it's okay to move your body when you can. Sometimes, going for a walk or doing some light exercise can help alleviate both restlessness and fatigue. And when all else fails, it's important to be gentle with yourself and remember that you're doing the best you can.

Remember, you don't have to choose between restlessness and exhaustion. With time, patience, and self-care, you can find a balance that works for you.

[librarygoth]

to preface I did enjoy Barbie, and I feel like I need to make that really obvious bc it’s the internet and some feminine presenting cis woman will call me a misogynist bc I’m butch lmfao, but I think the movie’s core messages are weakened by the way it handles manhood, masculinity, and queerness. Forgive the typos—I’m probably not gonna read this back:

In Barbie world, there is no room for meaningful gender variance. All gendering is idealized gender, with only feminine presenting women and masculine presenting men fitting into the paradigm—queerly gendered figures like Allen, Weird Barbie, Earring Magic Ken, and Sugar’s Daddy Ken are largely excluded from Barbie world society, both under the Barbies’ matriarchy and the Kens’ patriarchy, are regulated to the fringes and are either ridiculed or ignored. Allen, arguably the closest of these queerly gendered figures to the Ken’s idealized masculinity because his queerness is quieter but ultimately present, finds that under the Barbies’ supposedly utopian matriarchy, he is tolerated but not accepted, and that in the Kens’ patriarchy, he is fully terrified for his life.

Stereotypical Barbie’s narrative arc is a queerly gendered one, hinted at by everything from the Indigo Girls to her inability to fit in with the other Barbies. Ultimately, the movie wants us to understand that idealized expectations of gender are harmful, but simultaneously doesn’t provide any real source of liberation for its queerly gendered characters other than escaping their society for another one. The only reason the queerly gendered Weird Barbie is offered a cabinet position at the end is because she is a woman in a matriarchal society, and because the other Barbies feel guilt at not accepting her—but their feelings about her don’t change. They still think she’s not like them.

On the front of manhood and masculinity, something the movie glosses over is that before the Kens are introduced to the concept of patriarchy, they are marginalized people in the Barbie World society. They have no political, social, or economic power, and during the course of the movie it’s even revealed that they not only don’t have homes, but that the Barbies don’t even care enough to know that they don’t have homes. When the Kens discover patriarchy, their enthusiasm isn’t because they inherently think men deserve to rule the world, but because they were exposed, for the first time, to a system where they had power, and they decided they were sick of being subjected. But this point is undermined by a subtle through line of biological essentialism; early on, we see two Kens ready to fight over Stereotypical Barbie’s affections, suggesting that even here, men are inherently more prone to violence. And the society built in Barbie world is a society in which women are naturally intelligent and capable leaders, and where men are vapid and stupid. Interests and activities viewed as classically masculine are dismissed as frivolous and goofy—even ones without any moral or ethical association.

The only men who are exempt are those with queer genders, and even then, this ignores the well-documented misogyny many cis gay men express, and still positions them outside of society without any greener grass in sight. And in Barbie world, queerness for men equates femininity (just as Weird Barbie’s queerness is something more masculine than the other Barbies, even if not masculinity proper), which implied that masculinity, not manhood, is actually the crime, and that manhood and masculinity are inextricably linked (again, Weird Barbie isn’t masculine, per se. She just isn’t feminine).

So while the movie’s message seems to be rooted in the idea that idealized femininity and idealized masculinity are harmful, it seems to also believe that masculinity and manhood are bad, and femininity and womanhood are good, but only if performed in the right way. We are supposed to understand that even if Stereotypical Barbie needs to leave to truly understand herself, the other Barbies have concrete senses of self and purpose, and that even if idealized gender expectations are harmful, Barbie world is better when ruled by the femininity—even that under feminine rule, it’s a utopia. But it’s still a world where queer expressions of gender and sexuality don’t have the opportunity to exist (Barbies only date Kens after all, no matter how many young sapphics made their Barbies scissor). Weird Barbie is specifically an interesting representation of queerness—it is only masculine girls (masculine in this context just means sapphic; sapphicness is a divergence from femininity in any society that values idealized femininity above all other forms), who are believed to have destroyed their Barbies as children. It’s often a point of pride among women who “aren’t like the other girls,” or those who like to feel different. Of course the reality is different—I’m a butch who never destroyed my Barbies; I just made them help my Power Rangers save the day. But the discrepancy between Weird Barbie (who is queer coded in a way straight audiences will likely understand) and Stereotypical Barbie (who is queercoded in a way likely only more accessible to queers, but specifically lesbians, who isn’t attracted to any of the Kens who want her but can’t figure out why), is stark. Stereotypical Barbie isn’t cast out of society because she is still performing a degree of acceptable femininity, and has the privilege choosing to leave. Weird Barbie, on the other hand, is forced to the fringes of society because she is visibly queer.

It’s fascinating to me that feminine presenting cis women (or those like AFAB she/theys who may not be cis but essentially move through the world as if they are feminine presenting cis women), have universally labeled the Barbie movie “for the girls,” when in reality, it feels to me more of a movie for those who fail to perform gender correctly. But I understand why, because the movie still, loudly and clearly, sends the message that femininity is good, and masculinity is bad—and of course the people most harmed by this message, which is oh so prevalent in leftist spaces, queer spaces, feminist spaces, are trans fems (bc transmisogyny), trans mascs, butches, studs, people whose masculinity is racialized, and people who experience marginalized masculinities.

[yourfavehaskenergy]

Matpat has kenergy

Matpat from Game Theory has Kenergy!

[leixo-demo]

Not really here to request anything, I just want to say I love you art and your portrayal of the Sploon sillies! Ikkan and Wabi warms my heart ❤

(But if I were to request anything I'd like to see some Ink Theory content, they're so underrated, justice for the grills!)

It took a bunch to actually end these and post them, the old sketches were made like,,, in december?? (I had them inside a file full of xmas stuff)

sorry so much for the wait! I hope you enjoy these, I tried my best to make them fashionable but im terrible

the old sketches in question!

[brainrot-hq]

Okay okay okay Barbie 2023 theory:

It's been established at this point that Margot Barbie is the main Barbie in her world, whether she knows it or not. Obviously, she's the main character, but she's also the central Barbie. She's the one hosting the party, she's the one that's got a spotlight on her, and she's also the one who looks most like classic Barbie, hell, she's the only blonde Barbie other than Kate McKinnon Barbie (I may make a post about thoughts I have on that at somepoint) but I think that her leaving Barbieland will cause some kind of power conflict: and I think that the Kens will try and rise up to take power.

In this pic, we can see that when Barbie is leaving, it says Barbieland,

But here it says Kendom!

Also, it appears that Allen, Alexandra Shipp Barbie, and another Barbie that I can't tell the identity of are in the car, as opposed to Margot Barbie and Ryan Ken like I had thought, but I'll get back to that later.

(Also, as far as I'm aware, no one else has pointed out the Kendom thing! I may have just missed something though)

I think that the Kens will possibly succeed in taking over, leading to the previously seen Barbie flags:

To become the Ken banners seen here:

And I think this will somehow lead up to the big Ken beach fight, which I think will happen if Ryan Ken and Margot Barbie return to Barbieland, as we see him and Simu Ken fighting (doing some weird?? Glitter thing?? Idk) here:

And I think there may be some espionage here, with this scene showing Barbie and America Ferrara's character seemingly sneaking around with the other Barbies seen in the car (and Allen) headed towards the "Kendom" earlier (seemingly in Barbieland, if the colors are to be believed)

TLDR: I think that once Margot Barbie and Ryan Ken leave, there will be a Ken uprising.

Or maybe I'm losing my mind over the like 6 minutes of content we have idk

[maybelacrimosa]

How did preminger get so much power in the royal court, the man exudes malicious intent and has multiple musical numbers about how evil he is. Somehow he got enough influence to steal all the gold in the kingdom without the royal family (or the miners apparently) noticing. We know he didn’t have a noble family to fall back on (he explicitly states he’s the son of peasants) and he’s getting by on pure charisma and scheming alone. My theory is preminger seduced the king at some point, idk theres a potrait of him in the palace and thats as good a reason as any why thats there. When the king died, he realised he needed to find another way to secure his power, because the late king was the only reason no one sussed out this man was evil. Like the queen was probably a few days away from firing the feral little raptor man and his weird dog...And so he pulled off his convoluted gold scheme. The only reason he failed was because he made the mistake of facing of the barbie avatar in a movie where there wasn’t just one but two, barbie was just too powerful. 

[driven-to-abstraction]

So a theory I've developed that I surprisingly haven't seen anywhere else on the internet (by which I mean here on Tumblr bc I'm not actually anywhere else on the internet these days) is this:

Will Ferrell's character. The Mattel CEO.

This guy. This guy is a Ken who wandered into the real world and stayed there.

Think about it. Despite being framed as very much the villain of the story (at least the part in the Real World), the CEO never has any aggression toward Barbie. He wants her to go back to Barbieland because he's concerned for the ramifications to both realms if she doesn't. When they meet in person he is awed and respectful and-- dare I say it-- understanding of what she's been through since she came to the Real World. He isn't surprised when she doesn't know how to drink real water. He never threatens or commands her. He suggests she get back in the box so she can go home, but even when she evades and asks to go to the bathroom first, he lets her go without question. Because why would he ever question Barbie?

Even when Barbie escapes and the executives are chasing her through the building, the CEO comes face-to-face with her at one point, but does he grab her? No. She screams, and he screams, and they both keep running in opposite directions.

That feels like Kenergy, but maybe that's just me.

Also, he knows how to get to and from Barbieland. I can see how maybe, if it's something that can happen, Mattel executives might get briefed on the possibility of a Barbie entering the Real World and what to do if it happens, but I can't imagine the particulars of the journey itself are common knowledge. Yet this guy knows it immediately.

ALSO also, the bit that sticks out in my mind is his conversation with the other executives as they start making their way to Barbieland (which is now transforming into Kendomland). When they hear about the success of the Mojo Dojo Casa House playsets and the new Ken movie and everything that's changing, he's upset. The other executives even say, "what does it matter if we're still making money?" and he has his whole mini-rant about how that's not the point. He's not in this for the money, he's in it for the little girls, and the imagination, and the power that Barbie should have. Now, that doesn't sound like the opinion of an (admittedly bumbling) executive in the otherwise painfully accurate Real World. It sounds more like a holdover of a Ken's ingrained adoration of Barbie and everything she represents.

Not to mention that Allan explains to Gloria and Sasha (when he's trying to convince them to take him with them to the Real World) that others have left Barbieland and stayed in the Real World. At the time, he's referring specifically to Allans, but who's to say it couldn't happen to a Ken? In the original order of things, Kens aren't much more important than Allans, and might be equally unlikely to shift either world in a noticeable way. And if a Ken did manage to wander into the Real World, is it such a stretch to think he might have had a similar patriarchy awakening as the Ken we know, and also ended up at Mattel (like Barbie did), but instead of being captured, he could have talked his way into a position there (thanks, patriarchy) and worked his way up from there?

And he knows there are no real weapons in Barbieland. And I'm pretty sure he's the only man in the Real World (including Ken) we ever see wearing iconic Barbie pink. And, in the end, he's just happy things got back to normal and he's willing to give Barbie whatever ending she wants.

Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[lemonlinelights]

[12u3ie]

how did ted nivison spend so much time on monarchical politics but not a single breath on the actual fucking murder that happened in princess charm school