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But over the intervening seven decades, Barbie has lived in a variety of Dreamhouse styles, including McMansions from the 1990s and 2000s, which grew ever larger and more elaborate; a house with an elevator (which couldn’t hold the 2019 first-ever wheelchair Barbie and had to be redesigned), and a pandemic-era Barbie with a work-from-home office. Everything about this house is aspirational, rather than realistic,” Quinn says. “It is an aspiration to have currency with what’s up-to-date,” she says. “They’re being very selective about what about 1959 appeals to them in terms of the visual styling of the film.” The Dreamhouse offer is also not a competition, the listing explicitly states; people merely need to log in to Airbnb at 10 a.m. PDT on July 17 to access the chance to book one of two stays on offer. The experience ended up being great, even working with the executives at Mattel, who have creative control over the doll fashion line. And if you're itching for an at-home "Barbenheimer" double feature, you'll have to wait a little longer on that: “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s true-life drama detailing the birth of the atomic bomb, is still in theaters only. Is the 'Barbie' movie suitable for kids?

And then there are the Kens. We all know Ryan Gosling is Ken, but so are Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Scott Evans, and Ncuti Gatwa. None of them have jobs. Their job is being Kens. “Up until that point, I only knew Ken from afar. I didn’t know Ken from within,” Ryan Gosling explained of his process at CinemaCon. If I’m being really honest, I doubted my Kenergy. I didn’t see it. Margot and Greta conjured this out of me. I was living my life and then, one day, I was bleaching my hair. Shaving my legs. And wearing bespoke neon outfits and Rollerblading down Venice Beach. It came on like a fever. Like a scarlet fever. Like a pink fever.” The wild cards in this bunch are Emerald Fennell as Midge (“She’s Midge”) and Michael Cera as Allan (“There’s only one Allan”). Ginger outcasts, our money is on these two underdogs turning evil and overthrowing Barbie society. The boudoir never stopped being current, It’s the most private, feminine space. The bedroom’s the space that no-one else is going to see.” If Barbie doesn't exactly look like a baby boomer, it might be because Barbie was meant to be 19 when she was released, and plastic dolls aren't usually subject to the aging process. The dream houses were adjusted to 23 percent smaller than human size. "The ceiling is actually quite close to one's head, and it only takes a few paces to cross the room," Gerwig told Architectural Digest. "It has the odd effect of making the actors seem big in the space but small overall."

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If you are willing to pay hundreds for a games console then this is comparable and a young child may get as much, if not more from it. Barbie is ideal for cooperative play and kids and their friends can act out stories in the dream house, it’s a powerful motivator for imagination.

Barbie” runs 1 hour and 54 minutes. Who is in the 'Barbie' cast with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling? Built at the iconic Warner Bros. Studios lot outside of London, the Barbie dream houses were inspired by the midcentury modern architecture and cul-de-sacs in Palm Springs. Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer specifically looked to Richard Neutra’s 1946 Kaufmann House, which happens to be one of the filming locations featured in Don’t Worry Darling. They landed on this design route early on in the process since they knew they weren't looking to replicate an existing Mattel Barbie dream house. The midcentury modern architecture lent itself nicely to the basic elements of the toy houses that the team focused on, like an open flow between rooms with no walls. Logistically, it was also important for the production to easily shoot from one house to another. Placing the houses in a circle allowed for this and ensured Barbie could see all of her friends. If you've already seen "Barbie" and want to read more, Gerwig took us on a spoiler-filled deep dive into the movie's brilliant last line, along with the real-life history of the doll's creator. Rob Thomas also opened up about Gosling's inspired cover of Matchbox Twenty in the film, and we took a look at Ferrera's powerful monologue that is resonating with viewers. Who created Barbie? Here’s everything you should know about the pink-saturated movie, which awards pundits have already tipped as an Academy Awards contender: When does the 'Barbie' movie come out to watch at home? Trending: Barbie mania gripped the world this summer so the timing of the deal couldn’t be better. This product would be an ideal Christmas gift, so it makes sense to take advantage of this sale and put it away.

Barbie’s 1950s origins inspired the Dream House aesthetic

Barbie is a massive star-studded production featuring multiple Barbies, Kens, and humans. After long keeping character details close to the vest, the film shared its full roster on social media. They definitely didn’t want to do it the way I wanted to do it, the only way I was interested in doing it,” Schumer told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this year, revealing the extent of their creative differences. Schumer wanted her Barbie to be an ambitious inventor, but the studio requested that her big invention be a high heel made of Jell-O. First, we know Gerwig and her husband, Marriage Story writer Noah Baumbach, are writing the screenplay and Gerwig is directing. Margot Robbie took on the starring role of the Mattel doll after Amy Schumer dropped out over creative differences, and Ryan Gosling will play Ken. Photos and posters with both the stars have been released, and if neither of them makes your heart flutter, you’re boring! The unabashed pinkness of the movie reclaims the colour from the way it has been used to trivialise femininity, Quinn says.

But only a bit. Modernist houses didn’t try to hide their “materiality”, or cover over what they were made with. The original Barbie Dreamhouse, a cardboard fold-out home, was bright blue and yellow, with wood-coloured furniture.People generally hear ‘Barbie’ and think, ‘I know what that movie is going to be,’ and then they hear that Greta Gerwig is writing and directing it, and they’re like, ‘Oh, well, maybe I don’t...,” Robbie told British Vogue. The movie Dreamhouse doesn’t have the indoor plants that were very popular at that time. And Barbie’s bedroom, with velvet headboard, glittery bedspread, side tables and lamps aren’t modernist, but push another button – that of the boudoir, the hankering for a private space of luxury, Quinn says. Even though the homes were scaled down, they were still large structures. "When people were on the top bedroom floor, they had to be wired off," Spencer tells House Beautiful. "It was high. It was real. There's no fakery there." Constructing the dream houses was an enormous engineering challenge. If you thought the Barbie Land lettering in the film was just a cute design introductory to the fantasy world, you didn't look close enough. "When you go into Barbie Land, you go into the dot of the 'i' of Barbie Land," production designer Sarah Greenwood tells House Beautiful. "So the streets are written as Barbie Land, and the 'i' is the circle that they live in." Barbie Land is layered with 3-D and 2-D elements. For a doll’s house, open plan makes sense. But as the set decorators make clear, the lines and look of the Barbie Dreamhouse are intentionally modernist, channelling a design style and aesthetic that was huge in postwar America (and Australia) at the time of the doll’s creation in 1959.

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