“lol you realize Barbie is only a marketing movie, right? it’s just SELLING STUFF, you know that right? capitalism? lol?”
You’re too late.
Like, you’re not wrong, but you are wildly late on this one.
No one is under the impression that this movie isn’t marketing a toy line.
But that toy line? Has been on this earth longer than you’ve been. Barbie is old. Barbie is everywhere. We’ve all seen a commercial if not owned at least one Barbie doll in our lifetimes (or a knock-off you get emotionally attached to even if the weird mean girl down the street keeps making fun of it) (fuck you Christie that doll was a hero)
Advertising is everywhere. I can’t turn the TV on without ads, even on streaming services that used to brag how ad-free they were. I can’t browse social media without ads. I can’t see a movie or a show without products being “subtly” shown off.
We’re haunted by ads at every goddamn turn, we can’t even talk to an old friend from high school without them trying to sell us something.
If you think you’re making some radical grand statement by pointing out that Barbie is a toy line made by a big company that wants to sell more things… bud. We know that.
We know.
Greta Gerwig seems like she had a lot of fun with this movie, the actors had a lot of fun, the set design is fun.
No one is looking forward to Barbie because we think it’s some kind of beautiful radical anti-capitalist message just WAITING to break the world of its delusions of consumerism. God, could you imagine?
We’re looking forward to a bunch of actors dressed in pink having a lot of fun. We know the movie will make people want Barbie stuff, maybe they’ll go out and buy it, maybe they’re too broke because the world is expensive right now and we’ve got bills. But if “this movie will advertise things to you” was a dealbreaker we’d never see anything.
Because Barbie isn’t unique in this. A LOT of modern movies just want you to buy things, or admire/join the American military, etc etc. Money runs things here. Even capitalism stans know it runs everything (though they’re generally okay with it). Ads are our lives even when we use ad blockers and do our best to ignore the ones we see.
We’re seeing Barbie because it looks silly and fun, not because we’re putting it up on a pedestal expecting it to change the world. And we’re kidding and being silly when we DO act like that. Because goddammit, IT’S BARBIE. We’re acting like we acted when we played with dolls as kids, we’re PLAYING, we’re having fun. When I was a kid I absolutely pretended my Barbies could save the world and were magical and powerful. Didn’t mean she actually was.
These are toys. And we like to play. That doesn’t erase the capitalist motivations of Mattel, but it doesn’t have to mean we “support” their evils. We want to play, we want to enjoy play, even when we’re trapped in a capitalist hellscape where like 80% of our day to day fun is sold to us
#barbie (2023)#god i am so tired of seeing takes that provide the dichotomy of barbie being either#a) feminist anticapitalist manifesto vs b) consumerist capitalist propaganda#y'all i am just here to hear some jokes and watch ryan gosling be silly#also i will be admiring america ferrera in a lesbian way#that's literally it jesus
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I need Han to accidentally be force strong, mostly because HE WOULD HATE THAT SO MUCH “Wow so you’re basically a self-taught Jedi” “WHAT–ARE YOU–I’M THE BEST PILOT IN–” “That’s force shit” “I’M AN EXCELLENT SHOT” “Yeah, because of the force” “I’M INCREDIBLY PERSUASIVE” “That’s the force making people believe your terrible lies against all reason ” “I’LL SEE YOU IN HELL”
derdoktorsschnabel
Oh heck
George Lucas can pry Force Sensitive Han from my cold dead hands.
I love everything about this theory, but my favourite part of it by far is now utterly offended he’d be by the suggestion.
I live in the hope of Force-Ghost Han
God, he’d be SO MAD. Just hanging out with the other force ghosts and so goddamned bitter about it. And I want Anakin to be weirdly angry about Han breaking up with Leia, because she was the best thing that ever happened to him and Han still 100% not being over that he is VADER and tortured both of them. Oh oh no, I think I am developing Force Ghost headcanons.
I would watch and enjoy a movie about Han Solo leading a force ghost heist of some kind, complaining angrily the entire time. None of the movie characters who have become force ghosts were known for their ability to give a solitary fuck, and the bickering would be spectacular. Yoda making puns about how he can see right through people. Han claiming Obi Wan still owes him money. The fuck are you going to do with money in the afterlife, Solo? I’m gonna roll it up into A STICK AND BEAT YOU WITH IT SO HARD YOUR SON FEELS IT THROUGH THE FORCE, SKYWALKER. Obi Wan immediately hands him ten force ghost star wars dollars.
Stormtroopers constantly walking through them. At one point they recruit a force sensitive storm trooper they discover when she asks them if they can keep the petty bitching to a dull roar. She’s been there the whole time but hates her job so she just kept quiet about all the force yelling in the Death Star mark XXIV control room until now.
Always reblog salty Force Ghost Han.
She had taken her other daughters with her, but as one of Robb’s battle companions Dacey had chosen to remain by his side.
Modern!AU Ortus would write hockey rpf send tweet
Betrothal portrait (miniature) of Catelyn Tully commissioned by Brandon Stark in 282 AC, just a few months before the Rebellion. After Brandon's passing, she was quickly married to Eddard Stark to preserve the alliance.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Return of the King dir. Peter Jackson
You and me, 2 a.m. in our kitchen, singing and silly dancing through our favourite songs
When she opened the door to the garden, it was so lovely that she held her breath, unwilling to disturb such perfect beauty. The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. All color had fled the world outside. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought.
Sansa Month Day 30 - Your Favorite Sansa Trait: Sense of wonder
went to trader joe’s today and my cashier handed me my 2.55 in change and pointed at the clock which read 2:55 and said “look at that. that’s liquid time… serendipity… have a nice ride”
"We chose our life with eyes wide open." Yes, I love Orym. I play Lawful Good characters all the time and it's so nice to see one so beautifully understated. <3
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