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Will Feminist BARBIE Movie Get Woke Go Broke? · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Now it seems as if Hollywood is increasingly losing its grip on what its audience
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  actually wants. We can just look at Disney. I mean Indiana Jones and
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  The Dial of Destiny, big time flop. And I guess Disney and the
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  producers who put this movie out assumed that people didn't really want a movie about
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  Indiana Jones. They wanted a movie where he's a sidekick to a strong,
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  don't need no man, feminist woman. And I guess audiences have decided that,
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  no, that's not actually what they want. You've got The Little Mermaid,
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  You've got Elemental, you've got light Year, you've got Strange World,
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  all movies that have been deemed by the audience to be woken some way and
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  unpalatable and have become failures. And I'm telling you, I can't wait to
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  see what happens with it. Not quite so snow White and the One Dwarf
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  and the Six Hipsters. That one looks like a get Woke, Go Broke
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  for the ages, And that's just Disney. Now Barbie is a Warner Brothers
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  movie, And yeah, they've got problems of their own, but it does
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  seem clear that audiences seem to be rejecting anything that smells like it might have
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  some sort of woe Hollywood agenda behind it. And look, I don't actually
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  care about the Barbie movie at all. I know it's not made for me,
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  like a lot of movies these days, but I'm just fascinated by the
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  slow motion train wreck that Hollywood has become. And this movie might be very
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  successful. We'll know within a couple of weeks. But it just seems like
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  they're constantly playing with fire and it's amazing to watch anyway. And that brings
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  us to the new Barbie movie. Here's the headline from Glamor magazine. I've
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  seen Barbie and it's a feminist masterpiece. Here are nine reasons why it is
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  really brilliant, so feminist masterpiece now Barbie. I would assume that the core
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  audience for a Barbie movie would be little girls who play with Barbie dolls.
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  And I'm not sure if you'd ask that audience what they most would like to
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  see in their Barbie movie, if they'd say feminism, and this movie might
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  be brilliant. It might be a great movie. I mean, it's got
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  an eighty nine percent critic score, though that actually doesn't mean anything. Usually
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  that's not a good sign. But apparently there's a hundred plus verified ratings from
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  the audience. It gives it a ninety four percent. Maybe it's a really
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  good movie, But from what I'm reading, it seems like this wasn't a
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  movie made for the core audience little girls. It seems like it was a
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  movie made for journalists and for woke film critics. And if they like it,
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  that's great, But how's it going to do with your core audience?
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  And how's that going to go over with parents who have learned an aversion to
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  movies aimed at their children that they think might be agenda driven. It seems
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  like you might be playing with fire here now. Apparently Barbie ends up going
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  into the real world and she is reduced to tears after being accused of setting
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  back feminism fifty years and making women feel bad about themselves with her unrealistic body
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  standards, and she was criticized for her roland rampant capitalist consumerism. Again,
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  I'm saying, who is this movie made for? Because it could be a
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  really well done movie, But if it's only going to appeal to woke journalists
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  and critics, then well, let's just say there won't be a Barbie too.
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  Let's see, Barbie, the movie exceeded all my expectations. Gender stereotypes
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  are debunked and flung on their heads, and she enjoyed this movie because she's
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  obsessed with the myth of the patriarchy. Let's just do a quick Google search
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  here at Greta Gerwigs. Barbie movie is a feminist bimbo classic. And no,
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  that's not an oxymoron. This Barbie is a feminist parable fighting to be
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  great in spite, in spite of Mattel's input. Let's see how about this
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  one Barbie declared a master's thesis sound feminism. Barbie review Greta Gerwig's funny feminist
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  Fantasia. So I just I can't help but think that they might be making
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  a slight mistake pushing all of this before the movie comes out. Now,
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  for a different perspective on this, let's go to Hollywood. In Toto Woke,
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  Barbie drowns in feminism and lectures Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling can't save story
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  captured by man hating agenda. So I think if parents see things like this,
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  and they have obviously sons and brothers and fathers and husbands, and they
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  may not be that down with the modern man hating feminist movement. That could
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  keep a sizable part of the audience, that would be giving money to the
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  people who made this movie. That could keep them from giving money to the
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  people who made this movie. Don't let barbies dreamy day glow visuals fool you.
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  The film runs on hate, not affection. Let's see, Barbie,
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  inspired by the Mattel toy, loathsmen to a degree that would a woman studies
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  major blush. It hates the Barbie toy itself, dubbing it fascist and worse.
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  Throughout the film. Barbie also hates women with sweet memories of the doll
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  just know you supported the patriarchy all those years ago and maybe even now.
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  So Ultimately, I don't care whether Barbie is a good movie or a bad
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  movie. But I am very interested to see whether this movie makes a lot
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  of money or not, because the promotion of this movie seems to be If
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  you take a look at other movie flops recently, it seems to be counterproductive.
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  I mean here, Margot Robbie bragged in Barbie pitch meetings that the movie
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  could make a billion dollars and then maybe I was overselling. I think You
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  just might have been a feminist, anti capitalist movie for little girls. It
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  just feels like a lot of parents might be put off by that, and
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  their children that they're taking to the movie are unlikely to demand to go see
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  it a second or a third time because the themes are probably not going to
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  appear to them. It's like if you made a G I. Joe movie
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  about pacifism. Oh jeez, I hope I didn't just give him an idea
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