The film "Barbie" claimed the top spot at the box office, becoming the biggest opening of the year. America, you must be kidding.
What’s wrong with these images? What’s pink, explosive, and has a combined run-time of 4 hours and 54 minutes? It’s none other than the Hollywood odd-couple cinematic event that has been sweeping the nation: Barbenheimer. But seriously folks!!!
According to published reports, the Internet phenomenon began circulating on social media prior to the simultaneous theatrical release of two blockbuster films, Barbie and Oppenheimer, due to their greatly differing tones and subject matter. The films opened on July 21, 2023, in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and several other countries. The word is a portmanteau of the films' titles. The difference between Barbie—a fantasy comedy by Greta Gerwig about the fashion doll Barbie—and Oppenheimer—an epic biographical drama by Christopher Nolan about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first nuclear weapons during World War II—provoked a comedic response from Internet users. Polygon described the two films as "extreme opposites", and Variety called the phenomenon "the movie event of the year"
The fact that in 1959 Barbie was a fashion model. In 2023 the doll, which tries to stay ahead of the curve broke this opening weekend record for a movie about a fictitious doll over a film dealing with a very serious subject tells us more than meets the eye. On a positive note, trust in the press may be low, but in Barbie Land, the Fourth Estate is alive and doing well, thank you.
Dr. Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an atomic physicist who was the head of the Manhattan Project. The federal government launched the Manhattan Project eight months after the United States entered World War II. It was an all-out, but highly secret, effort to build an atomic bomb before the Germans did. The task was to translate the vast energy released by atomic fission into a weapon of unprecedented power. Oppenheimer is often credited as the "father of the atomic bomb." On the other hand, Barbie is just a doll.
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