In reference to a scene in 'Barbie,' Gerwig noted that Oppenheimer, who inspired Christopher Nolan's film, 'Would have loved Proust Barbie.'
“In “Remembrance of Things Past,” in “Swann’s Way,” he is literally thrown back into his childhood through the taste of the madeleine,” she explained. “I thought, well, that’ll be a nice Easter egg for one person.”
The specific scene the director is referencing is when Margot Robbie’s Barbie steps inside her plastic packaging and makes a remark that the familiar smell is a Proustian memory. Will Ferrell’s Mattell CEO character then proceeds to say, “Remember Proust Barbie? That did not sell well.” But what Gerwig didn’t know is that this weekend’s competing film also has a connection to Proust. Nolan’s film is based on American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Oppenheimer, the man himself, reportedly had an
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