Recently launched Barbie had an exceptional marketing campaign before it got released on the big screens. Though the Barbie fever has gone down a bit, the director of the film Greta Gerwig is in the news due to a joke that was used in the movie.
The 40-year-old American director did receive a lot of praise for making such a masterpiece but poking a joke on Zack Snyder’s Justice League didn’t go that well among the fans. Greta Gerwig did acknowledge the fact that she didn’t expect that the joke would land her in controversy, but she did respond to it.
A Joke In Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Wasn’t Accepted Lightly
Many of the fans have come out in support of the Barbie Director, Greta Gerwig, and have called her a clever and witty director for her way of storytelling and making meta-humor. However, that isn’t the case with Zack Snyder fans, and they haven’t left a single stone unturned in showing her the power of wrath online.
The joke that held her to the controversy is a simple line said by the Author Barbie A.K.A Alexandra Shipp in the film which goes like this. “It’s like I’ve been in a dream where I was really invested in the Zack Snyder cut of Justice League.”. This dialogue came towards the end of the film in a subtle way when the Author Barbie woke up from being brainwashed by the Kens.
The joke takes a poke at Zack Snyder and his Snyderverse but the ones who enjoyed the film, Barbie agreed to the fact that it did make sense and there was nothing to be offended. But the Synder fans called it rude and a way of disparaging the Justice League director.
Greta Gerwig Saw The Joke On Zack Snyder’s Justice League As No Harm
While giving an interview to ComicBook Greta Gerwig responded to the wrath of Snyderfans she has been receiving online and stated that.
“I just didn’t even really realize that. I just, because I don’t have a dog in this fight, I didn’t really know, I mean… I knew it was a thing, I don’t know the contours of all the ins and outs. But… It’s the kind of thing that you, I vaguely know. If [Writer Barbie] had a vague knowledge of and then all of a sudden in a certain state, it meant a lot to her, and then it went away.”
The 40-year-old American director even said she still doesn’t get why people can’t take a joke lightly. The joke scene even circulated online before the release of the movie, which made a few of Zack Snyder fans so enraged that they went ahead to call a boycott on Barbie.
Despite all the controversies, the film launched, and since then Barbie hasn’t had to look back and achieved feats that looked impossible. It received heaps of praise from both audiences and critics, and everyone was surprised to see how it ventures the unrealistic body image of Mattel’s Barbie dolls and praised her as a feminist idol.
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Source: ComicBook
