This summer, “Barbie” has revived the box office, making nearly $500 million worldwide in its first week. Earlier this year, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” surpassed the bill…
, who wrote the screenplay. The movie is set against the backdrop of the rise in popularity of Beanie Babies in the 1990’s. But what the filmmakers are aiming to tell is a much deeper, human story about the American dream, capitalism, democracy, power, cracks in the system and sexism in business.. But when she read the book, she says was immediately captivated. “We both realized that within this incredibly wild story, it was full of really compelling people.
Banks, Snook and Viswanathan play characters based on the real women who helped Warner create a toy empire. The women they portray in the film are composites of the real-life people, but the directors took some liberties with adding in creative, fictionalized elements. “In their stories, we found fascinating underdog stories that helped us explore why we value what we value in our culture and what the female relationship to the American dream really is,” Gore says.
Gore says that in the book, Warner is portrayed as charismatic. “He’s warm and generous and interesting and Willy Wonka-ish, but also capable of great selfishness and cruelty,” she says. “He’s basically just an opportunist who’s given the opportunities that the women aren’t, and he’s able to take the fruits of their labor and continue his path forward.”
“It feels pretty universal to be pissed off right now,” Kulash adds. “There are few parts of society now that don’t feel fucked. Whether or not you’re on the left or the right, you’re pissed off right now. I think the ’90s is about as far back as people can look and go, ‘It wasn’t like this then.’ But part of our story is like, ‘Well, it was sort of always like this.'”
“We can’t ignore that there is a big pattern there, but we so did not mean to be part of it,” Kulash says. Theorizing about the recent trend in movies, he says, “Corporations have more power than governments do at this point. And, in the same way that we grew up on Cold War films, I’m not that surprised that we now have the same ‘us and them’ mentality, but based on corporations.”
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