Diablo Cody Exited Sony's Failed Barbie Movie Because of Troubles with the Feminist Twist

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Original 'Barbie' Writer Exited Sony's Failed Movie Because 'They Wanted a Girl-Boss Feminist Twist on Barbie' and 'That's Not What Barbie Is' https://t.co/Wl4aJA0Ivu
- Variety (@Variety) July 7, 2023
Sony Pictures originally had the rights to Barbie and spent years trying to get a movie off the ground. Actors such as Amy Schumer and Anne Hathaway

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[puramierda]

eh, i don't see anything wrong with what she's saying.

[puramierda]

lol what's happening here. does the culture not remember what feminism was like during the early to mid 2010s? better yet, hollywood approved feminism? christ

[rubie_dubidoux]

god a Barbie movie in the age when every single female star was badgered about whether they were a feminist and then scrutinized for not having a sufficiently eloquent response would've been such a goddamn drag lol

[drunkard]

Poor reading comprehension is what's happening here. I don't think people are getting what Diablo is saying.

[icetypejim]

Eternally relevant in these sad, pathetic times:

Is [pop star] a feminist? Is MasterCard a queer ally? Is this tv show my friend?
- Anaïs Nyan :3 (@negaversace) July 3, 2015

[2_on]

i saw these at the store yesterday lol

[sandstorm]

I was like "why is it HER for SHE" and then I realized 😑

[sapphiredragon]

It took me a minute too

[ahkna]

Actually, I would like to get into some serious feminist critique about femininity, make up and "bimboification". We absolutely need to deconstruct the bullshit of choice feminism and how it is just the patriarchy with a a mild renovation.

[escalena]

Absolutely 100% agree. I'm just not sure a Barbie movie is the place to do that because so much of this topic relies on sexual aspects so it should be its own original story imo. Of which there are so few nowadays lol

[ahkna]

Totally agree, Barbie looks like it's self-aware fun, which tbh, is what I would want from a live action Barbie movie.

[icetypejim]

I remember being gobsmacked that an episode of that Degrassi Netflix show had literaly a scene of a bunch of conventionally feminine teen girls explaining to the lone kinda-butch-leaning teen girl in class that criticized make-up as a patriarchal pressure put on women and girls that she's the actual antifeminist for not respecting that they choose their choices and we were clearly meant to side with the pro-makeup girls.

[bttrsondaughter]

i mean. isn't that what Barbie is lol? she's a girlboss (affectionate). and saying she couldn't write something that was faithful to the iconography is so odd given how involved Mattel has been on every level of the WB version of the movie, like. you'd think they would've wanted faithfulness to the story.

i think Diablo Cody is talented but her stuff without Jason Reitman hasn't hit for me very much.

[doriiansz]

Just here to say that Jennifer's Body and Young Adult are both classics in my book 🤌

[magicpebble]

Young Adult destroyed me; it was such a perfect encapsulation of my feelings about my life at the time.

[corrykennedy]

she doesn't get enough credit for Young Adult!

[jojito]

Yep, neither does Charlize. Her performance was perfect.