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'Barbie' & Greta Gerwig

'Barbie' & Greta Gerwig

FromPop Fiction Women


'Barbie' & Greta Gerwig

FromPop Fiction Women

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Length:
104 minutes
Released:
Jan 7, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

It may be the start of 2024, but in our new episode we are discussing the highest grossing movie of 2023 - BARBIE - and Greta Gerwig, its history-making director and co-writer. For this episode we went a bit old school PFW and brought back some of our favorite segments: analyzing the scenes we loved, citing our favorite quotes and insights from Greta Gerwig in “what she said”, picking what won the movie for us, predicting Barbie’s future in our “crystal ball”, and sharing our “takeaways”. 
If you are one of the few people who didn’t see this in the theaters this summer, Barbie is now streaming on Max! Greta and her husband Noah Baumbach wrote a smart, truly original, and thought-provoking script. And of course the set, costumes, music and entire world created on screen is weirdly wonderful. We loved it and our conversation about it - check it out wherever you get your podcasts. 
(P.s. We both re-listened to our episode on Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, Ladybird, in preparation for this and if we do say so ourselves, it’s fantastic! Definitely worth revisiting if you missed in the first time around.)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Jan 7, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

In Pop Fiction Women we deep-dive into the complicated women of books, movies and TV shows, along with the women that bring them to life behind the scenes. Think Fleabag and Phoebe Waller Bridge, Normal People and Sally Rooney, and so much more. In each episode you can expect us to: * Break down the protagonist as we ask what makes her complicated? * Identify the best scenes, which can mean sweetest, funniest, or most badass. Anything we love. * Recount the cringiest scenes. The ones that make you squirm. Sometimes it’s self-sabotage, sometimes it’s growth, but it’s always part of the process of becoming our complicated selves. * Play arm-chair therapist in What’s Your Damage, Heather? An homage to the iconic line in Winona Rider’s Heathers, we discuss how these characters got to be the way they are. * “What She Said” - the segment where we scour every essay and interview with the women behind the scenes and share some of our favorite first person quotes. Real life is as interesting as fiction here. * Look into our crystal ball and ponder where these characters are six months later and five years later. Typically, Kate gets very real and Carinn gets buck wild. * Provide a takeaway, aka that part in the podcast where we try to sound deep. We leave you with some parting wisdom, challenge each other with thought-provoking questions inspired by the work, and urge you to “stay complicated.”