Barbie Movie: Characters/Characterization
Barbie Movie: Song Lyrics and Plot
Barbie Movie Quotes, Plot, and Theories
"Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy
Barbie, Ruth, and Themes
100
This actress's name
Who is Margot Robbie?
10 seconds on a Whiteboard: Crikey, Robbie's home country is this island nation, mate!
100
This ubiquitous colorful symbol in the film is part of expository scene in which we might all of the Barbies, noting its various positive connotations.
What is pink?
100
These three "long-studied" theories have been at the forefront for our "Barbie" studies, dealing with the role of women vs. men, expectations for men and women, and the nature of life.
What are Feminism, Gender-Queer Theory, and Existentialism?
100
The poem ends with the girl doing *this*
What is committing suicide?
100
Ruth Handler notes, ironically, that no one in real life looks like ______.
Who is Barbie?
200
Will Ferrell plays a symbol of male patriarchy by trying to put Barbie back in a _____ literally; ironically, movie theaters around the country had setups like this
What is a box?
FHTU: The name of the company founded by Ruth Handler that produces Barbie.
200
This song, according to one film critic, is comedically misinterpreted by the Kens (and less comedically, by people in real life), as a call for *this "m" word in which a man would push a woman "around."
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAkHqYlqops
What is misogyny?
FHTU: The name of the band who sings this song or the lead singer's name
200
A ______ LT might most be interested in the symbolism of the color pink in the film and the Piercy poem, though they'd likely state you only need the film or poem alone to infer its meaning.
What is a New Critic?
200
Name any visual imagery in the poem that is symbolic of the girl's youth, unburdened by the bullying she experiences later.
What are "dolls that did pee-pee," "lipsticks the color of cherry candy," and miniature GE stoves"
*Daily Double* What color is used to symbolize the innocence of childhood?
200
Barbie seeks ______ to become _______, which Ruth does not grant because Barbie already is this.
What is permission; human.
30-second Whiteboard: "Mothers s____ s____ so daughters can look back and see how f____ t____ c____."
When Barbie calls Ruth the creator, she is making a religious reference, or *this* literary "shout out" device.
300
America Ferrera plays Gloria, a mother trying to . . .
What is *answers will vary*
*Trying to reconnect with her tween daughter, "make it" as a mother, create a more realistic version of Barbie, cope with existential ideas of life and death, etc.
300
Robbie's Barbie sings this song as she drives in Barbieland preparing to leave for the Real World. For many, it is an LGBTQIA+ anthem. One might say that Barbie was trying to get _______ ___ _____ by seeking out Real-World answers.
What is "Closer to Fine?"
FHTU: Name the band
300
This theorist might want us to compare the main ideas in the "Scary Reality . . . " article by Galia Slayen and the themes suggested by the film and poem. Meaning, this theorist might say, comes from "intertextuality" or comparison.
What is a Structuralist?
300
In the poem, the girl is finally seen as beautiful only in her casket; something she doesn't know but we do. We might loosely call this t_________ i_____________.
What is tragic irony?
Talk to Mr. B.: How did the girl, ironically, consummate her goal?
300
Open-Ended Whiteboard: By the end of the film, Barbie has become a symbol of . . . because . . .
What is *answers will vary*
400
She is the founder and creator of Barbie, naming Barbie and Ken after her children.
Who is Ruth Handler?
FHTU: Ruth Handler left her company after this legal issue.
400
The Kens try to "woo" the Barbies on the beach as they play "Push," which can be interpreted to mean that they were "pushing" m____ p____________ back on the Barbies.
What is male patriarchy?
30 seconds on Whiteboard: Ironically, the Barbies use this moment to s________, or flip (overthrow) these plans for male patriarchy
FHTU: What is the "silly" name of Ken's version of the Barbie Dream House (3 or 4 words)
FHTU: This scene's voice-over says that Barbies play on Ken's p_____ e_____, thus associating men with this trait, of interest perhaps to a GTQT.
400
Barbie wonders what will her e_____ be, though unlike "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy, this has nothing to do with death.
What is "ending?"
400
A type of irony that, ironically, doesn't use the word irony, accismus is pretending to not want something you really do, or to pretend not to be impacted by something/someone when you really are. In the poem, this is referred to as p_______ c____.
What is playing coy?
400
Ruth explicitly gives one possible film theme, which is that "_____ live forever, but ______ don't."
What are ideas, humans
30-second Whiteboard: "Humans make up things like patriarchy to deal with just how _________ life is."
500
We might view him as the Weird Barbie of the Kens.
Who is Allan?
500
Oscar-winning song "What was I ____ ____ by Billie Eilish asks the same rhetorical question that Barbie might be pondering in this scene
What is "Made For?"
FHTU: What group of Modernist thinkers frequently ask, "What was I made for?"
500
Most people mistakenly assume Ken is Barbie's boyfriend, a gender/relationship role the film purposely rejects. When Ken fails in his bid for Barbie's relationship, he might be reassured that he is still *this* portmanteau
What is Kenough?
500
This word in the poem means to "please others"; it is because the girl cannot please her bullies that she ends up dead.
What is wheedle?
500
Ruth notes that Barbie should be called "self-e______" Barbie because she (Barbie) rejects the praise Ruth heaps on her for saving Barbieland from patriarchy.
What is "effacing"
30 second Whiteboard: What does it mean to self-efface?