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was confirmed to be taking on the lead role of Barbie. “It comes with a lot of baggage,” Robbie told in July 2023 of playing the iconic doll. “And a lot of nostalgic connections. But with that comes a lot of exciting ways to attack it. People generally hear 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.’”Gosling, meanwhile, got real about playing Ken at CinemaCon 2023 in April.
“To the Chinese, the nine-dash line signifies their legitimate claims to the South China Sea,” Peter Zinoman, a professor of history and Southeast Asian studies at UC Berkeley and author of The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940, told. “To the Vietnamese, it symbolizes a brazen act of imperialist bullying that elevates Chinese national interest over an older shared set of interests of socialist brotherhood.
While the Philippines has not banned the film as Vietnam has, the country’s Movie and Television Review Classification Board has asked the film distributor, Warner Bros., to blur the controversial dash lines on the fictitious world map. “The Review Committee is convinced that the contentious scene does not depict the ‘nine-dash line’.
In a statement released in response to Vietnam’s banning of the film, Warner Bros. said, “The map in Barbie Land is a whimsical, child-like crayon drawing. The doodles depict Barbie’s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the real world. It was not intended to make any type of statement.” The controversy hasn’t overshadowed the release of the film elsewhere, however, with many cinemas selling out well ahead of its release on July 21, 2023, with box office projections at a $80m to $100m opening weekend.
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